Facebook buys WhatsApp for $19 billion

More than 450 million active users, and adding a million more every day, WhatsApp has become the largest messaging app. Now WhatsApp will come under FACEBOOK.

WhatsApp has been aquired by Facebook over a deal of $19 Billion.
After few time the employee of whatsapp will work with facebook, and they will work from the same place Mountain View.

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10 Features In Android Developer Options

1. Enable And Disabling USB Debugging

When you try to run Android-related tools on your PC, most of them require you to enable USB debugging. This can be done by the following method.

- Open Settings -> Developer Options.
- Put a check mark on the USB debugging option.
- This will prompt you with a message to allow USB debugging, select ‘Ok’.

2. Desktop Backup Password

The Android developer options allows you to create a password for your desktop backup.

- Settings -> Developer Options.
- Select Desktop Backup Password.
- Follow the steps to create the password.

3. Tweak Animation Settings

The animation that appears when you’re moving from one screen to the other can be tweaked using the developer options. You can speed up the animation or completely switch it off.

- Settings -> Developer Options.
- Find Window animation scale, Animator duration scale and Transition animation scale.
- Adjust the scale. Smaller the number you choose, faster the animation.

4. Enable MSAA For OpenGL Games

Force enabling MSAA gives you higher graphics in your games. This drain’s your device’s battery much faster though.

- Settings -> Developer Options.
- Choose ‘Force 4x MSAA’.

5. Allow Mock Location

Faking GPS location requires an app, but using that app required you to enable ‘Mock Location’ from Developer Options.

- Settings - > Developer Options.
- Open ‘Allow Mock Location’.

6. Stay Awake While Charging

It is always better for the screen to turn off while charging, but in case you want it on, here’s how.

- Settings -> Developer Options.
- Click Stay Awake

7. Display CPU Usage Overlay

If you keep this feature on all the time, then it encroaches on the space available on your screen for other activities. This is because the number of processes going on keep increasing over time.

- Settings > Developer Options.
- Choose ‘Show CPU Usage’.
- The overlay appears on the right side of your screen.

8. Don’t Keep App Activities

Your activities on an app are usually saved on your device, but there are some apps perform a lot of activities. This you could avoid.

- Settings -> Developer Options.
- Choose ‘Don’t keep activities’.

9. Switch Dalvik To ART

This is an experimental runtime that has been designed by Google. You need a device that runs Android KitKat in order to test this one though.

- Settings -> Developer options.
- Choose ‘Select Runtime’ and switch to ART.

ART may make the device slower since it is an experimental runtime and not many apps support it at the moment.

10. Enable Wireless Display Certifications

This option is useful for Miracast-enabled devices and other similar technologies. To do this,

- Settings -> Developer options.
- Choose the ‘Wireless Display Certification’ option.

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HP Launched Slate 6 and Slate 7.

 

HP Slate 6 VoiceTab

Display: 6-inch 1280x720p HD
Processor: Marvell PXA1088 quad-core, 1.2GHz
OS: Android 4.2.2
Network/ SIM support: HSPA+, Dual-SIM (3G + 2G)
Size: 165×82.6×8.98mm, 160grams
Memory: 1GB of RAM, 16GB of internal storage, microSD card slot
Cameras: 5MP rear, 2MP front
Battery: 3,000 mAh

HP Slate 7 VoiceTab

Display: 7-inch 1280x800p HD
Processor: Marvell PXA1088 quad-core, 1.2GHz
OS: Android 4.2.2
Network/ SIM support: HSPA+, Dual-SIM (3G + 2G)
Size: 9.5mm thick 325 grams
Memory: 1GB of RAM, 16GB of internal storage, microSD card slot
Cameras: 5MP rear, 2MP front
Battery: 4,100 mAh

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Nokia will release its first Android phone this month

According to The Wall Street Journal, Nokia will release its first Android smartphone this month. Known as Nokia Normandy, the low-cost handset will reportedly be showcased during MWC in Barcelona.

The smartphone is said to be  launch without Google Play support. Instead, it will be focused on services provided by Microsoft and Nokia. In line with recent leaks, the UI of the upcoming smartphone is also said to be closely related to Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8.

Rumored specs of the Nokia X include dual-core Snapdragon 200 SoC, dual-SIM, 4” WVGA display, 4GB of built-in memory, and 512MB of RAM. The handset will reportedly be priced in line with Nokia Asha devices.

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Airtel Double the post speed.

Bharti Airtel a well known broadband service provider company has doubled the internet speed.
Suppose you are using a plan of 2mbps of speed for the free usage, and then you have to suffer a speed of 256kbps but now you they are providing with a speed of 512kbps after the post usage.

Enjoy the increased in speed of broadband customers.

Airtel has also made a huge change in its broadband plan, Airtel has reduced the price of the Broadband plan also, which is also a fantastic gift from airtel.
For all airtel Broadband user's its a great news. Airtel is going to increase the speed but now they had increased the speed from TODAY.

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Sony To Shutdown Manufacturing Of Personal Computers

Leading technical products manufacturer company SONY is having a loss of 1.08 arab$ yearly. So the company has decided to stop manufacturing personal computers and to terminate 5000 employes. There is a news that sony is selling its personal computer business to a investor company of japan called Japan Industrial Partner. It is estimated that the deal would be about 40 crore$.

Company will terminate 1500 employe from japan and rest 3500 employees from rest of the countries, as it will reduce there expense to 1arab$ . As it is also said that employees related to vaio laptops will be shifted to different sectors as it is not confirm.

Due to the decrease in the sales of playstation and television, would be the cause of shutdown of manufacturing of personal computers from sony.

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Some Best Windows 8 Themes

Bored of Your Windows 8 Computer Desktop screen ? Try these best Windows 8 Themes and change the look of your dekstop. Microsoft has made many design changes by introducing Metro UI and Start Screen in Windows 8. But the desktop side of Windows 8 has not seen any dramatic changes except the removal of Start Menu and Aero Glass Transparency feature.

Here are some of them......

1. Base for Windows 8

Download Base

2. Snowy V 3.0

Download Snowy V3.0

3. WhiteDior

 Download WhiteDior

4. Space Blueberries 4.8

Download Space blueberries

 

5. Glow Dark

 Download Glow Dark

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How to make a bootable pendrive using command prompt.

Making a pen drive bootable is possible in Windows7 & Windows8 operating system. Formatting a computer to install fresh Windows OS with a CD/DVD drive is not very good because it takes too much time to install fresh Windows operating system. There can also be a problem for many people that CD/DVD drive doesn’t work properly. So this can be a problem for them. Today laptop or desktop comes many USB ports. So there is no need of CD/DVD drive to format a system. Formatting is very fast and easy with flash drive/pen drive and also no software is required for this method. Windows7 or Windows8 command prompt can do the work with few lines of command. Just follow this tutorial.
Start your command prompt.

For windows 8 users:
Press “Windows key” and type "cmd". You will see the command prompt icon. “Right click” on the command prompt icon and click “Run as administrator” from the bottom bar.

Type “diskpart” inside the command prompt and hit “ENTER”.

After last step type “list disk” inside the command prompt and hit “ENTER”.

 In this tutorial Disk 1 is the pen drive (3855MB=4GB). This pen drive is going to be a bootable pen drive.
Type “select disk 1” inside the command prompt and hit “ENTER”. It will select the disk 1 (pen drive) for all coming steps. 

Type “clean” and hit “ENTER”. It will erase all the data from the pen drive.

Type “create partition primary” and hit “ENTER”. It will create a primary partition in pen drive.

Type “select partition 1” and hit “ENTER”. It will select the partition created in the last step.

Type “format=fs ntfs quick” and hit “ENTER”. It will format the pen drive quickly with NTFS file type.

Type “active” and hit “ENTER”. It will make partition as active for booting after restarting the computer. If this is step is missed then computer will not boot from the pen drive.

Type “exit ” and hit “ENTER” to close the diskpart and close the command prompt window.

Now  the pendrive is bootable.
 

After complete copy, the pen drive will be a bootable for Windows 7 and Windows 8 OS completely. You just need to “Restart” your computer. “Restart” your computer. When BIOS screen appears then press “F12” key. It will show the options to boot from CD/DVD drive, hard disk and pen drive. Just scroll down to pen drive and hit “Enter”. Your system will boot from pen drive. Now you can install windows OS.

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Something NEW from GOOGLE just in your gmail

This is a new feature added by google now you can use the keyboard designed by google.
It would be found on the upper right corner of of your gmail and you can use it in various languages.


             

You can write by using a pencil as we do in our childhood to draw PAINT .
Just create whatever you want to add to your mail and just send it. But there is no choice of chossing the color to write your text. You have to stick to the default color added by google that is BLUE.

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Apps that turn your Android into a Webcam

Due to the increase in craze over social media websites and increased speed of internet connection, video chatting and video conferences are a common way to communicate with friends and family. If you have a smartphone with a good camera and you are facing a problem with your laptops inbuilt camera, then this would be the best apps for you. Use your android mobile as webcam by connecting it to your laptop via, Bluetooth,WiFi or using USB.
Firstly you need to install any of these app on our mobile and then you need to install the client for your laptop os, instruction is describe in that app.

 DroidCamX Wireless Webcam Pro

This application is one of the most complete Android webcam apps with so many features. The main advantage of DroidCamX is that it gives you the option to connect your phone to PC over Wi-Fi, with USB cable or via a Bluetooth connection. After installing the software on your PC and identifying your device as a webcam, you can change the Audio and Video settings, change the video quality based on your connection speed, use the Flash LED as a light source, and use your device as a surveillance camera via an internet browser.



 SmartCam webcam
Like DroidCamX, this webcam application supports both Windows and Linux operating systems and supports Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connections (What about USB???). After installing the related software, you can easily start video chats using Google Talk, Yahoo! Messenger, Skype and etc. There are no noticeable lags or delay when using low quality videos and we had some difficulties connecting the phone via Bluetooth.


IP Webcam
IP Webcam, other than its feature to use the phone as a webcam on Skype, provides some more features like: Set a password for increasing the security, Use the camera as an IP webcam, stream video in a network without the need to use internet, Use VLC Player or a Web browser to view the camera, change the quality and resolution of the video.

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