Smartphone Tech Explained Simply

If you are a smartphone user, this article will explain the most important, and frequently cited terms understandably. 

There is so much of information floating around that sometimes you wonder where all the jargon and technical terms sprung from. If you are a smartphone user, this article will explain the most important, and frequently cited terms understandably. 

Near field communication (NFC) 

It is this technology that is making several smartphone addicts switch to the latest Android phone with the Jelly Bean OS. Just touching your phone with another similar phone allows you to transfer data, photos and videos. That’s NFC. It works on any device that has the NFC receiver chip, like the Samsung Galaxy S3. You can also make payments using this same technology through gateways like Google Wallet.

Touchwiz (TW)
This is what Samsung calls its user interface (UI), so don’t be surprised when you see something like TW launcher on your device. It just means your local UI.

HTC Sense
Just like Samsung, HTC has a name for its user interface – HTC Sense. RIM (BlackBerry) is planning to call its OS10 user interface “BB Flow”.

Mobile High-Definition Link (MHL)

This technology turns your mobile phone into a portable set-top box. This means you can play photos, videos and games on your TV with just a low-cost, five-pin cable. Most of the new handsets have it,  the foremost being the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. In other words, MHL is the HDMI alternative, and it better be in this highly mobile world.

Long Term Evolution (LTE)

This is the best Internet speed you can hope for in today’s times. It’s a jargon term for mobile internet connections. It began with the lowly GPRS (General Packet Radio Service), and then went on to EDGE (Enhanced Data for Global Evolution), 3G (3rd Generation), HSPA (High Speed Packet Access) and now LTE, which is marketed as 4G LTE.

Tethering
By doing this, you create a wireless ‘hotspot’ with your phone’s internet connection, allowing you to connect your computer to the internet.

Bluetooth V1 – V4
You guessed it, 4 is the latest and the greatest wireless Bluetooth connection that is fast, energy efficient and compatible with most devices.

VPN (Virtual Private Network) 

It’s nothing but a private network access over public connections, and largely used by companies to make all office communication secure.

Samsung Galaxy S III Screenshot

Samsung Galaxy S III Screenshot

It’s new toy time for yours truly! Android was being poorly represented in my household, so I decided to get a Galaxy S III to round out the technology spectrum. That means I’m finally up to the latest version of Android and can take screenshots without rooting or jumping through hoops!

So how exactly DO I take a screenshot on a Samsung Galaxy S III?

Simple! Just hold the Power button and Home button at the same time! You’ll hear a shutter click and your image will be saved to your gallery!

This is a different method than other Android-powered phones that have you hold Volume Down and the Power button. Maybe it’s because the Galaxy S III is big enough to bake cookies on?

Give it a try today!

Laptop With HD Graphics? Don't Upgrade To Windows 8 (Yet)

Laptop With HD Graphics? Don't Upgrade To Windows 8 (Yet)

Recorded a 2 hour Windows 8 upgrade walk-through video of one of our Intel I5 series laptops. However, when the upgrade was finished I found an interesting bug in Windows 8 which rendered the PC virtually useless.

The below screen is what we saw once I typed my password into Windows and clicked sign in.

Yes, that’s right a black screen with a mouse cursor. Nothing else.

Currently the Intel HD graphics built into the Intel I3, I5 and I7 series processors (and included with most mainstream laptops in the last two years) produce a black screen after Windows 8 installed due to a bug with older driver software and Windows 8. In our case, this black screen required a driver and a bios update to get Windows 8 working. It’s important before upgrading that you check for any relevant driver, bios or software updates before proceeding with the upgrade.

Some reports indicate that you can work around this problem (if you have a dedicated graphics card) by disabling the Intel HD graphics in the bios of your computer or booting into safe mode and disabling the Intel HD graphics. This may be a bigger problem than you think, though, because Windows 8 has disabled the traditional safe mode by clicking F8 during boot up, and only rarely does holding down Shift + F8 (the new method) get you into the recovery mode – allowing for the advanced start-up menu to access safe mode.

If you’ve already run into this problem, the best solution I’ve found is to click the shut down button at the login screen and hold down the shift button as you click reset. This will bring up the troubleshooting menu and you can select Advanced Settings then Start Up Settings, making it so when your computer reboots you will be able to press 5 for safe mode with networking and install the drivers necessary to fix this problem.

Your computer has been hacked by the Anonymous hacker group, ransomware malware

Your computer has been hacked by the Anonymous hacker group, ransomware malware

Some unknown Cybercriminals group using the name of hacktivist group Anonymous to spreading ransomware malware. This new ransomware malware has been discovered by the Swiss security blog, Abuse.ch.

Your computer has been hacked by the Anonymous Hackers Group and locked for the moment.

Ransomware is a type of malware, which restricts access to the computer system and claims to breaking the law enforcement to scare victims (such as illegally downloaded file, found child pornography on their compute, violation of SOPA etc) and demands a ransom payment to remove restrictions as a fine.

But on this ransomware malware, hackers ask to pay a ransom of £100(approx. $160) within 24 hours to get back your computer to normal,

here is what they said:

We are Anonymous. We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us.
Tango down!
Your computer has been hacked by the Anonymous Hackers Group and locked for the moment. All files have been encrypted. You need to pay a ransom of £100 within 24 hours to restore the computer back to normal. If the ransom is not paid on time all the contents of your computer will be deleted and all your personal information such as your name, address, D.O.B., etc. will be published online, after this has been done the process, ram and motherboard will be fried. Any attempts to remove this virus will result in the consequences mentioned.

In the message hackers, used the Tango down, which is only used by Anonymous group when they take down a website,

F-Secure, chief research officer also tweeted about the ransomware, that anonymous is not behind this.

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free news,sports,technology,health,economy,politics: Apple has been rumored to be developing a smaller ...: Apple has been rumored to be developing a smaller version of its popular iPad tablet… With over 100 million iPad’s sold and Microsof...

Apple has been rumored to be developing a smaller version of its popular iPad tablet…

Apple has been rumored to be developing a smaller version of its popular iPad tablet…

With over 100 million iPad’s sold and Microsoft releasing their own tablet, Surface, this holiday season, Apple has been rumored to be developing a smaller version of its popular iPad tablet…

…and on October 23rd they announced it to the world.

The iPad mini’s tech specs include:

• 7.9″ IPS Display (1024 x 768 px)
• 16/32/64 GB Storage
• 7.87 x 5.3 x 0.28 inches (height/width/depth)
• 10.86 ounces
• A5 Dual Core Processor (Same as iPad 2/iPhone 4s)
• 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi & Bluetooth 4.0
• LTE 4g on Cellular Models
• New Lightning connector (replaces old dock connector)

You may be wondering why I titled this article “This apple fell far from the tree”, because the specs list seems pretty good (the processor and screen resolution are exactly the same as the iPad 2).

The reason is simple: relative price, and design.

Relative Price

If the iPad Mini was the first tablet to come out in this size you could argue that $329 for the base 16GB Wi-Fi model ($459 with cellular) was a reasonable price, but the Amazon Kindle HD 7″, Google Nexus 7″ and a host of other 7″ tablets are available for $199. Additionally, the screen resolution is lower than the competitors, the processor is slower and the device features less connectivity/expandability than the competitors. Normally the Apple premium price is rewarded by a device with some of the best specs, but this time you pay a lot more and get a lot less.

Design

When Steve Jobs introduced the original iPad he made it clear the bezel (the black space around the screen) was designed to perfectly fit the human thumb so you can hold the device easily. The iPad mini doesn’t appear to follow that design, with a very thin bezel meant to be held in a claw grip from behind. Why is this such a big problem? Well, the sides of the screen register touch so you’ll be flipping pages, accidentally clicking links and doing all other manner of annoying things if you try to hold the Mini like a full size iPad.

The picture to the left below shows the claw grip Apple expects you to hold this nearly 8″ by 5.5″ device in. I have large hands, and it was a challenge for me to hold it. The picture below to the right shows a person trying to hold the iPad Mini as you would hold other tablets, but clearly your thumb ends up over content and on the touch screen.

It’s not that the iPad Mini is the worst tablet ever made – it is amazingly thin, it’s made out of aluminum, has Apple’s fantastic app store and iOS operating system, which means it is sure to be a commercial success. But in my opinion, it has a serious design flaw and is too expensive. This is a rare miss on some pretty basic aspects from a company which redefined the tablet market from bulky, overpriced, hard-to-use devices into sleek simple and affordable tablets.

The iPad Mini will be available for pre-order on Friday October 26th, with retail availability starting on November 2nd. Expect long lines and the traditional camp outs at Apple stores to be one of the first to purchase, but I would consider one of the cheaper alternatives for a 7″ tablet – or if you want an Apple device, the full size iPad (refurbished iPad 3 available for only $379 right now at Apple’s online store and new iPad 2′s starting at $399)

P.S. Apple also announced the iPad 4, which is identical to the iPad 3 with an upgraded A6X processor featuring 2x the performance, new lightning connector and faster 4g LTE service on cellular models. Not an Earth-shattering upgrade, but just enough to upset everyone who bought the brand new iPad 3 which was released a little more than 6 months ago.

Google changes SEO forever with it’s Disavow Link Tool – What you Need to Do Right Now…

Google changes SEO forever with it’s Disavow Link Tool – What you Need to Do Right Now…(copyhttp://www.noblesamurai.com)

On April 24th Google unleashed the biggest change to its search engine algorithm in over 8 years – the dreaded “Penguin” update. In a nutshell, they began PENALIZING websites that obtained poor quality links, and websites that had too many “SEO Optimized” anchor text links.

For the first time ever, links can POISON your site, negatively impacting your rankings.  Because links are very difficult to remove once they’ve been built, Penguin makes it almost impossible for websites to recover from link-based penalties.

Yesterday, on October 17th, Google announced the much anticipated “Disavow Links” tool in Google Webmaster Tools.

This tool finally gives webmasters the much-needed ability to tell Google to “ignore” specific links and domains from poor quality link-sources.

Google’s new Disavow Links Tool allows any site owner to upload a list of URLs (or entire domains), with the promise that (in most cases) links from that site will be excluded from ranking algorithms within a matter of weeks.

Here’s what the interface looks like:

sexy woman in mutilation(mutilasi)

sexy woman in mutilation(mutilasi) තරුණියක් මරා මස් කන චීන්නූ 

http://toothfloat.blogspot.pt මෙය උපුටා ගත් ලිපියකි නොදුටු අයගේ දැනගැනීම පිණිස නැවත පලකලෙමි ,,,තොරතුරු සොයා මෙම ලිපිය සකස් කල http://toothfloat.blogspot.pt  බ්ලොගයේ හිමිකරුට මෙහි ගෞරවය ලැබිය යුතුය ,,

sexy woman in mutilation(mutilasi)

Meat eater cannibal society Women in China, a remote village in the country of China, every year before Chinese New Year, they will make cuts of meat on a large party-besaran.Karena for them, meat is a luxury food who inaccessible. So that they can only eat it once a year only and only on the day of Lunar tersebut.

Desa this secluded in the country of china. Although remote, but every tourist who wants to one of the tourist attractions in china, will pass through the village. If any single travelers who do travel, they will usually ride villagers staying at home page.

If they find a female traveler, they would arrest the woman was then tied and forbidden to leave the house. The woman will be given food and shelter free of charge by residents. If the woman is still virgin, they may approach other men ga. Because for them, the sensitive woman who will be more fragrant than not a virgin. So that should keep them in order not oppressed by other men.

When before the Chinese New Year, she will be killed and her body will be sacrificed by their citizens. Women who had been kidnapped by the residents would be washed clean prior to the fur dibadannya revoked.

Then the woman in the nude and feet tightly bound his hands and was taken to place their offerings, will then continue cutting ceremony. Here are some photos of the cutting process:

The village has a rule, if a man wants to marry, they must marry a woman from the village itself. Because women are just used to eat out alone. TSB assumption villagers, a woman from the outside should only be eaten in nikahin ga. Haram for them.

Women over this at the time will be cut, she just cried and cried and cried. Because he has no org know who will congratulate him. The woman would cut her throat earlier in order to stop breathing.

The woman who cut in his 20s. He apparently was an employee in the city. Since he quit his job and after 1 / 2 years still do not get a suitable job, so he intends to enjoy life while on vacation

Speech Recognizer කටින් කියනදේ ලියවෙන හැටි බලන්න

Speech Recognizer

Offline speech recognizer for chrome.

This app uses the new built in speech feature in chrome 11+ to create a useful powerful tool to use voice to do the normal typing jobs . 

The app is essentially an in the browser speech recognizer using which you can dictate sentences , edit the output and add them together to form paragraphs. 

This app is best used along with Voice In chrome extension [ also developed by me ]. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gjkogfbjkfchelfjonefnnenhfgglpnn

Please Note : 
Speech Recognition is a statistical model . You cant expect a 100% accuracy rate . But not to worry recognition is rate is good enough to use :) 

I'd appreciate if you'd rate it with ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ and tell your friends! :-) 

Use the new support interface to post your valuable comments/feature requests https://chrome.google.com/webstore/support/aomjekmpappghadlogpigifkghlmebjk

*** Change Log ***
Ver 3 : 
* Brand new design .  

Ver 4 : 
* Multiple language support
* Automatic edit box addition
* Edit box stretchable 
4.1 : 
* Add a g+ and fb like buttons

ඔයාල කැමතිද අතින් ටයිප් කරනවට වඩා වෙනසක් කරලා බලන්න .මම කිව්වේ මේ අපි කියන දේ නිකම්ම අපේ කොම්පියුටර් එකේ ලියවෙන විදිහේ වැඩක් කරලා බලන්න .අහා ,,,,,ආස  ඇති නේද ?මේකෙන්  ඔයාල කියනදේ නිකම්ම මේකේ  type වෙනවා හැබැයි එතින් දැනට ඉංග්‍රීසි විතරයි ,එත් මදිද  නේද ?ඒ වගේම මේක ගොඩක් වැදගත්  වෙයි ඉංග්‍රීසි ඉගෙනගන්න අයට ,මොකද තමන් කියන දේ හරියටම උච්චාරණය වෙනවද කියල බලාගන්න වගේම ,අපි කියනදේ සුද්දෙකුට  තේරෙනවද කියලත් බලාගන්න පුළුවනි . මේක තවම අත්හදා බලමින් පවතින එකක් ,එතින් අපිට නොමිලේ තමා  ලැබෙන්නේ.ඒ වගේම මේක ගූගල් ඇප් සෙන්ටර් එකෙන් අපිට දෙන වැඩසටහනක් නිසා බයවෙන්න දෙයක් නැහැ වැඩ කරන විදිහනම් හරිම ලේසි ,මුලින්ම මේක ඉන්ස්ටෝල් කරගන්න

 එතකොට ඔන්න ඔයවගේ එකක් එයි ,එතන ඔය මයික් එකක් වගේ එකක් තියන්නේ අන්න ඒක ක්ලික් කරලා ඔයාල කියන දෙයක් කියන්න ,,එයිට එහා තියන බාසාව තෝරාගන්න තැන ඔයාලට ඕන බාසාව තෝරලා දෙන්න සිංහල නැතුව අනිත් හැම එකක්ම තියනවා ...එයිට පස්සේ ඔයා කියපු දේ පහල තියන හිස් තැන වදිනවා ඔයාලට ඕනනම් ඒක කොපි කරලා ඕන තැනකට දමාගන්න    හරිනේ ,,,,,,,,,,එහෙනම්  ඔන්න කරලා ම බලන්නකෝ  ආආ,,,,, අමතක උනානේ කියන්න ,,මේක ඕෆ්ලයින් වැඩකරනවා හොදේ ....

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/speech-recognizer/aomjekmpappghadlogpigifkghlmebjk

ඔයාල හොදට බැලුවොත් හොයාගන්න පුළුවන් මේක ගූගල් එක්ස්ටෙන්ෂන් වල තියනවා කැමතිනම් මම ඔය දාල තියන ලින්ක් එකෙන් ගිහින් ගන්න launch app කියන ඒක ක්ලික් කලාම මේක  ගූගල් ක්‍රෝම් ඒකට එකතු වෙනවා

Password successfully changed skype email scam [Phishing Attack]

Password successfully changed skype email scam [Phishing Attack] Attacker find a smart trick to theft people's skype password, for this attackers send an email with this subject Password Successfully changed. Obviously, you can't prevent your self to open this email, while in actually, you can't changed your skype account password and you followed the emailrestore password link, which leads you to Skype Phishing Page and ask to submit your current details on the phishing page. Below is the Skype Password successfully Changed Phishing Email, The email looking very legitimate because attackers are using same formating with skype logos. But don't be trap on their attack, Skype never ask you to restore password on their password changed email, below isoriginal skype password successfully changed email. Check the differences between both original and fake emails and you can easily understand the intentions of attackers, means steal skype password. What to Do? Here, I am not saying ignore this email. By checking above screenshot you have enough idea that skype never asked you for your password via email. If you received this type of malicious email or want to change the password/restore password then go to direct skype website and then followed the necessary steps, instead of any other email link. For more information about the skype security you can check the skype Security page for Protecting your online safety, security and privacy. [via: Hoax-slayer]