BEING DIGITAL DNA: October 2011

SPEAK TO IT ANDROID VESRSION GIR APPLE SIRI SOFTWARE

A day back Apple updated iOS 5 operating system with Siri a virtual speaking assistance for you to answers your questions and perform various tasks on your phone. Also earlier it was rumored by Google that it would release the same application for the Ice Cream Sandwich. But in competition with Apple, Google launches it just a day after when the Siri is announced by Apple.

MUST HAVE GEEK GADGETS

HERE ARE SOME MUST HAVE GADGETS TO PIMP UP YOUR LIFE

We're all excited about Android but unfortunately, not all the Android devices are powered by blazing quick hardware. This means that it only makes sense to tweak and push the existing hardware to its limits. Here a quick tutorial on how to overclock your Android phone.

We have been seeing these devices for the last couple of years, promising an immersive experience to users. In January 2010, at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, this category got the boost that was needed to put it onto the consumer market. This category is now ready to enter our homes and not just be a promise for the upcoming future. We are talking about 3D TVs.

The next time you look at all the lines and blips on a circuit board, don’t think all of it is there for a reason. There are loads of ICs with small, invisible designs on them, ranging from fi re breathing Godzilla’s to really tiny Rams. If you want to discover these on ICs that you find, you will have to look using a really powerful magnifying glass. Just make sure that the sun is not behind you when you are hunting though. Microchip art does serve a purpose however; they are there to make sure that no one copies the design, as copied designs will have a flag in the form of the chip art as well.

This makes sure that piracy in the silicon manufacturing industry is sure to be caught. We just wonder if manufacturers of all kinds of silicone products mark them in some way.

BROWSE FASTER ON SLOW INTERNET CONNECTION

If your current Internet speed is very slow and you are living in an area where broadband connections are still not available, here are some ideas to help you download web pages faster on your computer. You may use the same tips to improve your web browsing experience on a sluggish USB modem.

This is not an uncommon problem. Your cell-phone is running out of battery, you need to make an urgent call but left the charger at home. What do you do next?

Do you want somebody to read out your emails while driving? One step ahead, you may wish to send out emails too while driving. Some of you may live on Twitter and Facebook and feel suffocated the one hour break from your dear ones waiting in the net. So you would have wished to tweet and reply to Facebook friends while driving. All these are possible safely without touching your smart phone !

In this post, I will discuss some of the interesting gadgets which are very useful for your car. Gadgets are selected in an Indian context. So do not expect any mention of radar detectors or apps for searching fuel pumps offering lowest fuel rate etc…

AN AVERAGE FONT MADE OF ALL TYPESFACES OF COMPUTER

There are thousands upon thousands of fonts and everyday, a multitude of new fonts are born. There are times when you like a letter of a certain typeface and another letter from some other typeface and then wish for a typeface with the best of the both worlds. But have you ever imagined what an average font would look like? By average, I mean what would a font look with all the typefaces installed in your computer combined together? Moritz Resl has done an experiment by creating a set of alphabets by combining all the fonts installed in his system.

Just bought ipad?what else you must have to pimp your ipad.

TUTORIAL HOW TO SPEED UP YOUR FIREFOX

Firefox has got good tweaking for increasing the speed of your internet especially on broadband.Follow the rules which I'm mentioning below and it will increase the speed of your internet.

HOW TO RUN MULTIPLE INSTANCES ON YAHOO MESSENGER

No need of downloading one more messenger named Yahoo multi messenger now for running multiple instances of Yahoo messenger so that you can sign in with your different accounts at the same time.Here is some simple solution I have for you.Just follow the following steps.

KNOW THE CALLER'S LOCATION WITH THIS ANDROID APP

When you get a call from someone, your phone screen displays the caller’s phone number but wouldn’t it be useful if the screen could also show some additional information about the caller – like where they are calling from?

3D here... 3D there.... everywhere. If you have been following the happenings in the tech/gadget world recently, you must be knowing that more and more manufacturers are pushing 3D devices and gadgets like never before. 3D TVs, 3D Blu Rays, 3D Game consoles, 3D laptops and what not. A very exciting area, this whole 3D thing is, but there are a lot of issues with 3D right now.

In this post, we will see how to extend the reach of a wi-fi network. We will discuss in details the main issues you may face when you start building the wireless network at home. You will soon realize that your dream wireless network is plagued with various issues of blind spots, limited range and limited speed. There are various devices to address these issues. Some of them are listed below.

In your daily driving you would have wished to have the ability to see around the corners. NXP and Cohda Networks promise this ability in the coming years.

By 2014 cars will be able to talk to each other in such a way that they can alert other cars on the road of impending traffic, accidents or merely that an ambulance is on its way. That’s the vision of NXP, a semiconductor company.

IE9 is a major enhancement to IE to bring back people who strayed to other browsers like Chrome, FireFox, Opera, Safari etc.. After months use of IE9 beta and RC I can very well say Microsoft once again proves that if they set eyes on something they can do it. IE9 is as good as the latest Chrome or better (faster!!!) or Safari 5.x. Firefox needs to do lot of catch up, but I think they lost the steam once Chrome entered the browser space.

HOW TO INCREASE INTERNET SPEED

Open Notepad and paste the below code in it.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\ Parameters]
"SackOpts"=dword:00000001
"TcpWindowSize"=dword:0005ae4c
"Tcp1323Opts"=dword:00000003
"DefaultTTL"=dword:00000040
"EnablePMTUBHDetect"=dword:00000000
"EnablePMTUDiscovery"=dword:00000001
"GlobalMaxTcpWindowSize"=dword:0005ae4c]

Now save this file as speed.reg. Execute it and observe the change

HOW TO OPEN FIREFOX WITH IN FIREFOX

This enables you to open multiple Firefox's inside a Firefox.May be it's not useful for something , but its a simple tweak that looks kool.

Just paste the text below in you address bar and press Enter.
chrome://browser/content/browser.xul

WHAT TECHNOLOGY HAS TO OFFER IN FUTURE

In this post, lets look at current concepts and prototypes peek at which devices we will be drooling over in the not too distant future.

Pocket Technologies

Touchscreens will go a long way on portable devices, as the technology is getting increasingly cheaper. The keypad might be replaced even on lower-end candy bars, and the back surface of the device is an untapped area for further interfacing. This will allow for versatile devices for a wide spectrum of activities, from gaming to communication. Modularity may be another trend, with gaming pads or high quality video recorder plug-ins available for your hardware. The processing power will soon reach that of desktops in the beginning of the millennium, and being online won't be a problem at all. If all you want is a functional mobile phone, you may get it as a ring, an earpiece, a bracelet, or even a disposable one where the sim, circuitry, and buttons are all printed on in vending machines.

Earlier I posted about monetizing your apps through Intel App Center. In this post, I will review one of my favorite App on Intel App Up which can be used to develop mobile software compatible with all types of mobile phones quickly and that to without any coding knowledge.

Before we start with that app, let’s dig a bit and know about Intel App Up!

After a trickle of Windows 8-related information, Microsoft officially opened up the floodgates during the keynote of its 2011 "Build" conference. Here are images of the recently-revealed Windows 8 user interface and features.

Downloading files has surely become the most important part of surfing the internet; it is more or less like our hobby. Thousands of files with different size and format are downloaded by us from various sources of web. If we choose to download files from our browser we encounter slow speeds, unfinished downloads, no resume etc.; this leads us to take help from tools called Download Managers.

Here we are going to talk about the best available download manager till date which is called Internet Download Manager. It is a shareware which means you need to buy it to keep using it, but if you download often and can afford to pay for the license, every penny is worth what you paid.

VALIDATE YOUR PIRATED WINDOWS TO GENUINE ONE

Check weather your your windows version is genuine,if not just follow these instructions.

HOW TO TEST YOUR EYES ONLINE

They say that you should get your eyes checked every two years but if haven’t had the chance to see a doctor all this time, you can test your vision on your computer as well.

CREATE A MOSAIC OUT OF ANY IMAGE

Create a mosaic image out of any of your pictures from your own collection of images using AndreaMosaic. In the below picture, is an example of The Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh that is created using dozens of other images and is an example of what this program is cable of doing. This is a free program and is available for all versions of Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, and Linux.

TOP 10 FREE ONLINE SERVICES YOU SHOULD AVAIL

Have you been missing free online services and applications,dont let that anymore checkout online freebies.

10 FREE PROGRAMS YOU SHOULD HAVE

There are millions of free and open source projects available, many of them better than any commercially available product. Below is a short listing of what we think is the best out there, broken down into ten categories.

BEST WAY TO SEND IMPORTANT FILES QUICKLY

When you need to send an important file to a contact, you can either send it as an email attachment or, if the file size is too big for an email message, you can upload it to any of the file hosting services and share the download link with your contact over email.

SECURE FILES AND FOLDER IN WINDOWS

Now secure your files and folder in window platform with few basic tips.

THE WORLDS MOST BLOCKED WEBSITES

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Have you noticed that your computer runs slower than before. Or just slow in general? Read on to learn some tips to make it go faster.

HOW TO MAKE A QR CODE FOR YOUR WEBSITE

QR Codes, in simple English, make it convenient for people to open webpages in their mobile phone browser but without having to write those long URLs. They can just point the mobile camera to the printed QR code and the corresponding website will automatically open in their phone’s browser.

I THINK GOOGLE GONNA TAKE OVER OUR VIRTUAL LIFE WITH SO MANY SERVICES

Now keep track of your visited web pages in new feature of google search.

NOW LOG IN WITH TWO GOOGLE ACCOUNTS IN SAME BROWSER

Multiple sign-in will let you open Gmail in multiple tabs, log in using different accounts and read the messages from all your accounts without opening another browser. Right now, you have to log out before logging in to a different account.

HOW TO EXPERIENCE WINDOWS 7 ON WINDOWS XP/VISTA

If you are still using an older version of Windows (like Windows XP or Vista), you don't have to feel left behind because, with some simple tricks, you can enjoy all or part of what these Windows 7 themes have to offer.

MAN BUILDS HIS OWN IPHONE 5/4S PROTOTYPE

Oh, you think you’re a hardcore Apple fan? Sure, you might have plastered the back window of your hybrid with Apple stickers. Yeah, you’ve got something MG Jobs said painted on the wall above your bed. Hell, you even named your first daughter McKenzie, just so you could call her “Mac”.