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An April Fool Prank App For Android

Apr

2013

While searching for some app (couldn’t remember) I came across this app called ‘eye’ – Eye Tracking Prank App’. Though the app name includes the word ‘prank app’ instead of loosing interest, it actually kindles my fire of temptation to see what it is, what actually it does and how? Immediately before hitting the “Install” ...

Apr

2013

Round Up: All of Google’s jokes for April Fools 2013 Have A Look At The Following Articles Google’s New Cloud Storage – Google Drive IPv4 Is Running Out and Soon To Be Gone, This Is Time For IPv6 Enable Themes in Google Apps for Gmail Apple’s iPad Was An Original Idea Of Bill Gates

List of Android Apps To Increase Your Productivity 1

Apr

2013

Once again a post on android apps. Now I came up with a list of apps that increases your overall productivity. Just the name of the app is suffice, as the ‘Play Store’ has all the description, review, comments for the each app. I have been using most of these apps for long time. Here’s ...

Few Apps For Android Automation

Apr

2013

In your daily life, you have to do many repeated things with your android phone from changing your ringer to vibration mode when entering in to office, switching on wi-fi when you came back to home, switch on your GPS when you need to open a map, while somebody calls, you have to send a ...

IBM’s 5 in 5–Giving Senses To Computers 1

Jan

2013

‘”5 in 5”, does it make any sense? No??. Actually it gives sense. Recently IBM announced the future of cognitive computing, i.e. equipping computers/smart-phones with 5 senses with in 5 years from now. In short 5 in 5. Those 5 senses were obviously Sight Touch Hearing Smell Taste What would happen if the computers can ...

Windows 8 – Tweaking Tools

Nov

2012

It’s been quite a while since I’ve started enjoying Windows 8 on my PC. Plethora of Windows 8 reviews by many critics and reviewers are available on web, so I think there’s no need of yet another review here. But I want to tell one thing here. Reviews are always a view of a person, ...

What Else You Can Do In GMail? 3

Sep

2012

World’s largest email service provider GMail has many more intriguing things around it which you might not heard before. These are experimental new features of GMail brought you through ‘GMail Labs‘. This post might not suit for people who access their mail through ‘e-mail clients’. As already said, these are experimental features, but works good (at ...

4 Ways To Enhance Your Browsing Speed In Google Chrome 2

Jul

2012

Google’s Chrome, the browser which has the largest market share in browser usage. Here are some suggestions that makes browsing even faster for you in fastest browser. 1. Omni Bar search, Shortcuts, Gesture Control Using the Omni bar (URL Bar) for searching, saves few seconds took by the search page to load. Using Keyboard Shortcuts and ...

Try Windows Phone 7 Online – Interactive Demo/Emulator 1

Jul

2012

After hearing lots of talk over internet on Microsoft’s latest astonishing mobile OS called Windows Phone 7 named ‘Mango’, many of them were just curious to try it, especially its Metro UI (user Interface). It’s new, We don’t have any idea how it feels when we use it, We don’t know how it will do, ...

Facebook Magically Resolves Numbers To Names 1

Jul

2012

Recently I found an interesting thing in facebook. While commenting on posts or writing on wall post, type any number in a below given format, you can see that number part changes to some name randomly after posting it. For example, if I type-in @[4:0] on the comment box of any post or in my ...