Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Gmail Introduces New “Suspicious Account Activity” FeatureGmail Introduces New “Suspicious Account Activity” Feature

Google added a new feature, suspicious account activity, in Gmail which notifies the user if any suspicious login activity took place on his account.
The new feature when enabled will show an alert if they notice that something unusual is going on with your account.

There is good news for all the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad fans. Geohot confirmed that he is working on a tool which can jailbreak iPhone, iPod Touch running 3.1.3 firmware with latest baseband and most probably the upcoming iPad as well. He also announced that the software is under development and will be available for download soon.

Asphalt 5 for Android Released by Gameloft

One of the leading game developers for mobile phone, Gameloft, has released Asphalt 5 for Android. Many people who played the game suggest that its one of the best 3D games for Android. Even if we look at the screenshots and videos, the graphics are outstanding considering the fact that it’s a mobile game. However, if you visit their official website, all you will find is games for iPhone and iPod. But if you want to install Asphalt 5 on your Android smartphone, just go the Android Market and purchase the game.

Safari, the default web-browser on iPhone and iPod Touch is no doubt the best browser available for iPhone, but there is no harm in trying out others if they provide better features. Opera Mini for iPhone is already submitted to Apple, but the question is, will it or will it not be accepted to the App Store. iSurf Browser is another cool web browser for the iPhone and iPod Touch witch features like tabs with preview etc.

Windows Phone 7 Series Running On HTC HD2

There is a big surprise for all the Windows Phone 7 Series users. Some developer named tom_codon along with some Russian guys successfully managed to port Windows Phone 7 Series to HTC HD2. He has posted some screenshots of HTC HD2 running Windows Phone 7 series. He mentioned that all the features like WiFi, Bluetooth etc are working absolutely fine. The only problem is with the graphics driver, which is not working properly and causes the device to lag.

Resize Images with VSO Image Resizer

VSO Image Resizer is a freeware that organizes your photos by changing their resolution or moving them within your hard drive. It is the perfect photo management tool for those who store their digital pictures and images on their PC and who want to resize, compress, convert, create copies, import or organize photos.

Looks like the next week will be an interesting one for all the Android fans as two much awaited Android-based smartphones, Motorola Milestone (Droid) and Sony Ericsson XPERIA x10, will be launched in India. Motorola announced that they will be launching Motorola Milestone in India on March 22. Milestone will be the first Motorola smartphone running Android 2.1 OS. And people expect that the price of the smartphone will be around 30,000 INR, similar to that of XPERIA X10. Motorola Milestone features a 3.7 inch capacitive touchscreen display, full QWERTY keyboard, 256MB RAM, 5 megapixels camera with dual-LED flash and much more.

The much awaited Sony Ericsson Android-based smartphone, XPERIA X10, will be released in India on 26 March. The new XPERIA X10 runs Android 1.6 operating system and features a 4-inch capacitive touchscreen display, 1 GB RAM, 8 megapixels camera with LED flash and a Qualcomm QSD8250 Snapdragon 1 GHz processor. Sony Ericsson also announced that at the moment, the phone will run Android 1.6 OS but they will launch an update, Android 2.1, for the phone in the near future. Rumors suggest that the price of the phone will be around 30,000 INR. Click here for XPERIA X10 official unboxing video.

Google Buzz widget for Android devices has also been released today along with several other updates that Google Mobile team has made today. They seem to be on a roll with updates for Android phones. Google has released a major update for Google Maps today and also launched the new Orkut for Android app.

Samsung Star S5233T Released with Analog TV

Samsung has announced that they will be launching a new handset, Samsung Star S5233T, which will have a TV receiver analog as well. This will enable users to watch all the free TV channels on their mobile. Samsung Star has already been released in Southeast Asia and looks like they will be releasing the phone in other parts of the world as well. The analog TV is provided by Telegent System and Samsung has just upgraded the UI to provide rich graphic controls. Rest of the specifications are almost the same.

The phone comes with a resistive touch screen, users can change channel by flicking the screen, one click screen capture and recording, on-screen keypad, receive message without interruption in viewing TV

Rumors has it that the search engine giant, Google, plans to close it operations in Chinae as early as today. Some people who are familiar with the situation revealed that Google will leave China by March 22. The main issue started when few other large companies in the Internet, finance, technology, media and chemical sectors, were targeted in a cyber-attack earlier in January. The cyber-attack resulted in a theft of intellectual property. And from that time onwards, Google informed the Chinese government that they will not censor Chinese search engine results and are willing to close its operations in the country if no solution is found.

How to Upgrade Ubuntu 9.10 to Ubuntu 10.04 Beta 1

Ubuntu 10.04 Beta 1 was released yesterday which brings some new and exciting features that Ubuntu users are going to love for sure. New features include the latest GNOME desktop environment, new drivers and improved support for nVidia cards, built-in Twitter/Facebook integration, new themes and notifications etc.

Good news for all the HTC fans, T-Mobile will be releasing HTC Desire in UK on March 26, 2010. And thats not all, T-Mobile is giving one HTC Desire to any T-Mobile user who enters its online lucky draw. In order to be eligible for the draw, all you have to do is sign up for T-Mobile UK forums and email the following information to address given on the forums.

Download Windows Live Messenger 2010 Beta1 Wave 4

Just got the news that Windows Live Wave 4 is coming and has been released to a limited number of people for beta testing. Fortunately an Italian site has got a patch for Windows Live Messenger 2010 which will allow everyone to use at least Windows Live Messenger 2010 Beta.

According to windowsette.com, here are few of the features that are included in Windows Live Messenger 2010:

Download Latest Yahoo Messenger 10 Full Offline Setup

After a long time I wanted to install Yahoo messenger because one of my contacts was only on Yahoo IM. The biggest problem I face when downloading Yahoo messenger and all other messengers is that I have to download their web installer first and then the web installer will download the real Yahoo messenger installer.

Download Yahoo Messenger 10

What I have done is extracted the original setup URL from the Yahoo download stream and have uploaded Yahoo Messenger 10 to Technize servers. Now you can easily download the full version of Yahoo Messenger 10 so that it’s easier for you to install the messenger if you want to re-install it anyway.

How To Select Default Internet Connection From Multiple Connections

There are times when we have multiple internet connections and multiple gateways to browse the internet. In this situation, we don’t know which internet connection is being used right now. All this can be seen with a built-in command in Windows. Issue the following command and you’ll get the full routing table of Windows:
C:\>route print –4

Look for the row which specifies Network destination as 0.0.0.0 and netmask as 0.0.0.0. In this row, you’ll find a default gateway section which will be your gateway. If you have multiple internet connections, you will find multiple entries with the above properties. Now that you have seen the gateways, note down the Metric for each gateway.
The default gateway that is being used for the internet connection is the one with the smallest metric value. If you want to make another internet connection default, you have to change its metric to the lowest.
There is no easy way to edit the routing table and lower the metric value for the default gateway of your choice. NetRouteView is one utility from Nirsoft which can be used to edit these values.

Download NetRouteView from the following link and start it. First select the route you want to make default and then selct File –> Modify Selected Route or simply press Ctrl-M. Now make the Metric value the lowest from all the other default routes we identified previously.

7Customizer to customize your Windows 7

7Customizer is made to customize Windows 7 setup.
With 7cusotmizer you can add your wallpapers, Icons, themes,you can also integrate updates, drivers and remove components from the setup. It is claimed to replace vLite.
It is can customize both 32-bit & 64-bit version of Windows 7 with English and non English sources.
At this stage it is in development and in near future it will be finaled.

Shipping Of iPad Accessories Delayed

Apple started receiving pre-orders for the newly announced iPad on March 12, with the promise to start shipping iPad and its accessories by April 3. However, in the past few days, Apple has amended some of the shipping schedules of their branded iPad accessories. The revised schedule of some of these accessories can be seen in the screenshot below.

Apple has just released yet another update to iPhone 3.2 SDK for iPad. This Beta 5 of iPhone OS 3.2 SDK for iPad has been released only a week after Beta 4 was released. This release will most probably be the last Beta release as the devices are scheduled to ship with the final version on April 3.

Developer of GreenPois0n – p0sixninja has just posted a long detailed post, clearing out the confusions that many of you may be having regarding GreenPois0n, Chronic Dev Team and their authenticity. According to him, they have have found an exploit in the latest iPhone 3.1.3 firmware which will be able to unlock and jailbreak iPhone 3GS (new bootrom), and iPod touch 3G untethered. All they are now waiting is for the iPad with iPhone 3.2 to hit shelves on April 3rd.

Jailbreak iPad 3.2 Tool – Greenpois0n Coming Soon

Greenpois0n is an iPad 3.2 jailbreak tool which help you in jailbreaking your iPad, which will be running on the iPad 3.2 firmware.
Apple started taking orders for the iPad on March 15, and will be delivering them on April 5, but hackers are trying to get their jailbreaking tools working before the iPad comes into the market.

Download Internet Explorer 9 Preview Platform

Few months back, at the PDC 2009 in November, Microsoft announced that they will be releasing a newer version of their browser i.e. Internet Explorer 9. As the second day of MIX10 kicks off, Microsoft unveiled the Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview build for developers to try and experience how fast is the next IE
The platform preview release of Internet Explorer 9 can be downloaded from the link given below.
Download Internet Explorer 9 Preview

Silverlight 4 RC Available for Download

Microsoft released the beta version of Silverlight 4 at PDC in November, 2009. On the 2^nd day of Mix10, Microsoft announced the availability of the release candidate version of Silverlight 4 which comes with many new features which include better out-of-browser capability, powerful media and better tools to support Visual Studio and Express Blend.
As many people speculated, Microsoft declared Silverlight 4 as the functionality platform for Windows Phone 7 Series. Microsoft also unveiled Express Blend 4 beta which also adds support for Silverlight 4, .NET Framework 4 and Visual Studio 2010.

HTC HD3 will be the successor to HTC HD2 which was released in October last year. Though not announced or unveiled officially, some unofficial concept images of the HTC HD3 have been surfacing on the Internet.
Two months ago, HTC HD3 specifications were leaked which unveiled that it will be powered by the Qualcomm’s 1.5Ghz Snapdragon processor.

Apple to Ban More Apps from App Store

Another batch of iPhone apps are, apparently, about to get the axe. Reports are popping up around the net, that “cookie cutter” type apps are starting to be pulled from the App Store. This would include RSS apps, and photo gallery type apps. Any app that just packages an online service, and doesn’t offer any other functionality.

It was just a while ago the Apple was bragging about 100K apps in the App Store, but the past few weeks seem to contradict that, with all the cuts. First we heard about the so called "explicit" apps being pulled, then WiFi stumbling apps were purged, and now the "cookie cutter" apps are starting to go.

You can easily import phone numbers of your Facebook contacts to Google Contacts with the help of a Greasemonkey script.
This could be useful for people using Google Sync to sync their Android devices or iPhone with Google Contacts and want their Facebook phone numbers too in the Contacts list.

Guess what will come next after the iPad? Yep, we’ll get to see the iBoard and the iMat. Apple launches a new product every two years which is powered by the iPhone OS.
And it won’t be long before we actually see an iBoard and an iMat running on the iPhone OS.

HTC Supersonic has been briefly caught on cam and boy, that 4.3 inches screen looks awesome! Not much was shown in the video accept the HTC boot screen on the HTC Supersonic and showed the backside of the deive which had HTC Supersonic printed.

Street Fighter IV Released for iPhone

Capcom’s much anticipated iPhone port of Street Fighter IV was just released last night. This classic franchise is perfect for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Many have been on the edge of their seats, since it was announced.
Here are the details form the App Store:
Street Fighter 4 delivers the first true fighting game on iPhone. This uncompromising fighter features all the visceral thrills, fantastic graphics and brilliant gameplay that are hallmarks of the series.

HTC Legend has been reviewed by Gizmodo, and according to them, it is not just a “HTC Hero sequel”.
Every feature and hardware specification that has received an upgrade as compared to the Hero shows what beautiful device HTC has come up with this time!
Gizmodo says the Legend is way more responsive, super fast and HTC Sense (on Android 2.1) is said to be at its best. Now this all adds up how the HTC Desire would be when it is released.
Check out the full review of HTC Legend at Gizmodo here.

Lightscreen: Screenshot App for Windows

Taking screenshots in Windows require you to hit the Print Screen key and then open an image processing app like paint to save the screenshot taken. If done with a simple freeware, it would take a lot less time.
Lightscreen is a simple tool to automate the tedious process of saving and cataloging screenshots.

Opera Mini 5 for Android beta was released a couple of hours ago today and since then I have been playing with the app, and trust me, I’m finding it even way faster than the Opera Mini 5 for Symbian.
This is just the first beta release, which means more improvements and bug fixes will render it into the fastest and the best browser on Android platform.

Nexus One Emergency Charger

Nexus One is currently the most powerful Android phone available in the market right now. There other cools ones coming too, like the HTC Desire, but for now, Nexus One is the one to go for if you want to experience Android OS.
Even with so many features, the Nexus One is powered with a 1400 mAh battery which hardly gives around 6-7 hours for full-time users. Battery timing was improved a lot in the last software update, but still 1400mAh is not enough.

An awesome new theme, for jailbroken iPhones has been announced, over at the iPodTouchFans forums. It is a full UI theme, mimicking that of Apple’s newest device, the iPad. It is currently in public beta, and is close to being released.
I recently released an iPad theme, myself, called "Simple iPad Theme", that Redmond Pie has reviewed. This complete iPad UI will be the perfect compliment to this theme. As you can see from the screenshots above, the theme will include skins for Safari, Calendar, Music Player, the App Store, and more.

iPad is all set to launch in US on April 3rd, with pre-orders starting from March 12th onwards. There is growing hype about queries and inquest about this new device among the public in general, and the potential buyers in particular. Everyone wants to know, confirm and reaffirm everything before booking one on March 12th.

Discovery Channel LIFE Theme for Windows 7

Microsoft today has released a fresh a new theme for Windows 7 – LIFE by Discovery Channel. The said theme packs 5 amazing high-resolution wallpapers from nature to decorate your

desktop with a resolution of up to 1920 × 1200.

Apple has made it to the victory stand of the Fortune’s “World’s Most Admired Companies”, and that too consecutively for the third year in a row. According to Fortune’s report, in the 2010 edition of their annual ranking of “World’s Most Admired Companies”, Apple Inc. is at the top of the list for the third year in a row, and by the highest margin ever in the ten-year history. Other giants like Google, Berkshire Hathaway, Johnson & Johnson, and Amazon are in the tow of Apple as per the rankings given in the survey. Microsoft could only manage 11th spot.

iPad to Make Emergency Phone Calls like iPhone?

Well it looks like iPad will allow you to make emergency phone calls in the time of need. According to GumballTech’s finding using the latest iPhone 3.2 SDK for iPad, if you incorrectly enter your passcode for 5 times consecutively, iPad brings up a screen with slide to emergency call just like the one found on the iPhone.
Apple may have included this functionality for 3G iPad models only to get it complaint with FCC regulations which requires “wireless "phones" be able to make emergency calls, even if the phones aren’t currently active or even assigned a number”.

In January this year, Steve Jobs unveiled the much hyped iPad to the world. He, however, was somewhat ambiguous about the shipping date which he mentioned as “late March” for the Wi-Fi version of the device. Since then, no further information about a specific shipping date or pre-order options were given. For the last few days though, strong rumors were buzzing the web-world that iPad launch has been delayed by a month or so. This unspecified production problem was attributed to bottle-necks at the manufacturer’s end. Everyone was worried why Apple was keeping so mum on the subject.

Nokia unveiled a new device today, the Nokia C5, which is an affordable smartphone optimized for social networking and sharing.
Along with this, they also launched a new naming convention, Nokia Cseries. More details on that will follow later as more devices in the Cseries are announced.

Watch Oscars 2010 Live Online

Oscars 2010, 82nd Annual Academy awards, are almost here which will go live on 7th March 2010 (8PM ET) and will be held at the Kodak Theater (Hollywood), Los Angeles, California.
Oscars will be aired on TV, but just in case you miss it there or are not able to watch, you can always watch them online for free.

I have collected a few links from where you can watch Oscars 2010 live online and that also for free without having to move yourself to TV to watch them.

Nokia today unveiled a new Cseries of its Nokia phones with the announcement of the first phone in the Cseries, the Nokia C5, which is an affordable smartphone optimized for social networking and sharing.
What will we have in Cseries? Well, Nokia posted a blog post explaining what exactly is Cseries and why they chose to launch this next.

FarmVille on Nexus One – Flash 10.1 Demo on Android

I have been extensively testing the new HTC Sense from HTC Desire ROM on Nexus One and so far has been very impressed with what HTC has to offer with this new version of Sense experience for Android phones. This ROM with Sense also packs Flash Player 10.1 for Android which is officially slated for Android 2.x release sometime this year.

The biggest barrier to iPhone adoption has always been the cost of the hardware, along with the service charges that comes from the carrier’s plan. According to Katy Huberty from Morgan Stanley – an industrial analyst, the hardware cost stops about 85% of people from buying the iPhone while the service plan stops about 66%. But all this is said to change come this June, when Apple is expected to unveil the next-gen iPhone.
"We expect Apple to launch new iPhones in June that offer both a lower total cost of ownership and new functionality, potentially including gesture-based technology," she wrote.

Chinese Mastermind Behind Google Attacks Found, Government was Involved

It was December last year, Google human rights activists accounts in China were hacked by hackers who originated from mainland China. Few days later, Google-China debacle took a new turn when Google in a secret counter-offensive encounter managed to hack these Chinese hackers. It was successful in breaking into the source computer in Taiwan which was involved in these attacks. Google engineers also found out some evidence which indicated that the attacks were originally originated from mainland China and were possibly orchestrated by the Chinese government.

Adobe has been demonstrated Flash several times on Android devices. The first time was two years ago on the G1, but everytime the release of Flash 10.1 has been delayed due to some or the other performance issues.Most of these issues are because of the first generation of Android devices, i.e G1, myTouch 3G etc. and for that, Adobe has decided to drop out Flash support for these devices.

The trackball LED on Google Nexus One has the ability to show different colored lights but Google for some reason has programmed it in a way, so that it can only flash one white color. This seems as a step backwards specially when some other Android phones have this ability to flash one or more colors for use with different phone notifications such as missed calls, new mail, SMS and so on.

The recent announcement of Windows Phone 7 Series at the MWC 2010 in Barcelona, Spain, created big waves among the mobile phone business community . The new OS is impressive, and has generally been received well by those who got a hands-on the preview devices at MWC.

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