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Google has released a tool that allows users of the Plus network to merge different Google Accounts into one. After merging contacts from various Google accounts the users will only see the data from one integrated account.

The tool will make sure that users with different Google Accounts will have all their contacts in one central place. According to Google, an account can be set as the main account where all contacts on the Plus network can be forwarded. The tool is part of Google takeout, which allows users to export their data.

Google says that contacts from an account can be linked to the central account, but it is not possible to apply shared content such as status updates and photos to all of the accounts at the same time. Also profile information is not linked.

Users who choose to merge their various accounts on the Plus network must wait seven days before the transfer begins. As per Google, the process itself can take up to 48 hours, and during that period no status updates can be posted.

This is one of many strategies Google has to increase the user base for Google Plus. Even though Google Plus showed excellent growth in the beginning, its user base has been plateauing. It will be interesting to see how Google manages this integration.

Google has made some changes to Gmail that will integrate it more with Google+ The webmail service now provides easier access to details from Circle contacts and messages.

In a search for an e-mail in Gmail, Google now shows the details of contacts over the messages from that person, next to a picture and links to chat options and the phone number of the person. If the contact has a Google+ Account, the up to date details are automatically displayed.

Google announced late last year that they were planning to integrate Google+ Circles with Gmail. The search engine company now shows the profile pictures of contacts in a Circle in the top of the page in Gmail to see if the user selects one of its circles. With a click on a contact displays users have access to direct service such as messages, along with profile details of the person. Also, Gmail users can have direct access to contacts in specific circles with a feature that searches all mail from Circle contacts.

Recent studies show that Google+ has not increased in usage or popularity, with the term “ghost town” is often cited. Google is trying to use its services that are popular to promote the integration of the social networking service. Google considers it crucial that its Google+ strategy succeeds, to compete with the much more popular Facebook.

Developers have recently got S Voice, Voice Recognition System from Samsung, working on other Android smartphones. The system, which is very similar to Apple’s Siri, is intended for the Galaxy S III from Samsung.

The S Voice is easy to install, because it requires only one file installation in an apk format. It seems that Samsung has not integrated the voice control for Android with its own TouchWiz-skin. This quite different to HTC where a lot of HTC Sense apps do not work on other devices. Interestingly, the required apk file for S Voice was a leaked ROM for the Galaxy S III.

The S Voice system seems to work on many different devices: the only requirement would be that the device has an Android 4.0 operating system. However, the voice system software is sometimes unstable, as evidenced by several users first experiences using the program. Occasionally the S Voice crashed and you would have to restart the program.

By installing the apk file users will be accessing the S Voice software before the official release. The Samsung Galaxy S III will probably launch in various countries at the end of this month. Other than S Voice the next new Android flagship has other amazing features such as S Beam and WiFi for data transfer. For those of you that are more patient, just wait for the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S III to use the S Voice.

Sony has announced two new smartphones for the Japanese market. Both models feature a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor the S4, which is the more powerful successor of the S3 processor at currently powers Sony’s flagship Xperia S.

Although the devices are currently announced for the Japanese market, it is expected that these new Sony smartphones or variations of them will be seen in the market elsewhere in the world. The Xperia GX runs on a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 MSM8960 processor, a dual-core processor based on Qualcomm’s new Krait core. The S4’s new micro-architecture is faster than the S3 Snapdragon processors, which are in the current flagship Xperia S’s. It is unclear what GPU is in the device and Sony has not announced whether it is the S4 or S4 Pro, two variants of the same SOC with different GPUs.

The GX is the first Sony Xperia smartphone with a 13 MP camera and this is new technology developed by the manufacturer. The camera has a feature to make better videos in dark conditions by adding a white subpixel. Also, in January, Sony announced sensor that supports HDR technology for videos.

The GX has a 4.6-inch screen with a resolution of 1280×720 pixels and is released with Android 4.0 with Sony’s own skin. It is also the first Xperia smartphone to be entirely capacitive or without physical buttons below the screen. The GX has the model number LT29i and was temporarily known under the code name Hayabusa. The Xperia SX offers largely the same specifications and features but has a smaller 3.7 “screen.

People browsing through internet at some point of time or the other would have faced issue where they find websites loading slowly. Apart from network being slow there are also other factors why a particular website takes time to get loaded. Google apart from being a global search engine have taken up the task of improving the browsing experience by improving the website loading time as faster they could load using new software.

Google has introduced a new software mod_pagespeed which can be engineered on apache webservers which is commonly used software for operating websites. What this software mod_pagespeed dose is compress the images and change settings so that webpages are stored in customer’s cache so that customer faces no hassles in reloading the website. This software gets updated automatically.

Why Google provide this software is it doubles up the speed web browsing which would persuade people to use it more which in turn increases the likelihood of using Google services. This software is blessing in disguise for people who run small websites, people who are unable find time to increase the searchablity, performance of their website because this enhances the websites performance and also benefit the users without making any changes in their web server.

Google has been firing in all cylinders to speed up the web in order to take it forward. Apart from providing this service Google is also teaming up with web hosting companies to promote this software which in turn increase their web usage.

More details including steps to configure can be seen from Google Help

Definitely Linux is the one, most professionals prefer today than any other operating systems like Windows, Mac because Linux particularly Ubuntu have got more apps than any other operating system. Ask yourself what Linux can’t do and if you don’t know what Linux can do read some articles from internet and get some knowledge and you will appreciate installing Linux on your system.

We understand that most of Windows users can’t run out of windows life and install Linux as your main operating system. So, you may go for dual-boot option but learning things in Linux is not an easy task. Hmm so what you do now to run Ubuntu Linux apps on windows. You don‘t need any skills to do that but installing an application called “andLinux“ on your windows system can do that job for you. With this application you can run Ubuntu Linux Apps with Windows Apps side-by-side.

Before going to install andLinux you should know what andLinux is?

This version of Linux is a complete Ubuntu running on windows based systems like windows Xp, Vista, 2k, 2003 but all should be 32-bit operating systems. It will not run on 64-bit operating systems. AndLinux is free and this project started for Dynamism. Here I will not depict the history of andLinux. It is not only for development and it runs all Linux applications with out need of modification.

Requirements to run andLinux

• Operating system: Operating could be any of the Windows versions like Xp, Vista, 2k, 2003. Presently andLinux supports 32-bit operating systems only.
• Memory space: 128 MB is the least memory requirement and 192 MB is recommended and at least 256 MB should be allocated for Windows xp, 2k, 2003 and for vista it should be 512.
• Secondary hard drive space: 2.5/4.5 GB depending upon versions. For XFCE version 2.5 GB and for KDE version 4.5 GB. Another important point is your file system should be NTFS because you can not create files larger than 2 GB on a FAT system.
• If you want to install further application via apt-get/synaptic you need a good internet connection.
• To manage Linux some basic skills are required which you can gain by browsing through internet. Try to learn some basic commands of Linux searching through search engines like Google.

You will get the following things with andLinux

• A fully functional Linux system but you will not get usual Linux desktop because you already got windows Desktop.
• A second Panel/Start menu in the system tray next to the clock from which you can automatically Start Linux applications.
• Both Linux and Windows apps can be run simultaneously and you can cut/copy and paste text between them.
• For further installation of apps you will get apt/synaptic.

Installation of andLinux

Downloads:

Now stable version of andLinux is available and you can download it in various versions and from some important websites.
If you want to download andLinux through Torrent then go for LinuxTracker.

Minimal/XFCE Version :

SIZE – 131 MB

Link – sourceforge.net via http

md5 – 9b426a718570ef6b8755c830f8a1b25e

sha1 – 0a635956d265fa4fae505a0e6d41a3644b225f62

KDE Version :

SIZE – 653 MB

Link – sourceforge.net via http

md5 – 46e5298f27c29595fc145514931fdb4b

sha1 -53654bb6937e59fc4a7e6a62ea76052dc753bd27

Installation:

The installation goes through simple but effective steps and make no mistake In following these steps.

• This is the start up version window from KDE Version. Windows installer will configure andLinux automatically. andLinux comes with two options either run it in a command windows or as a NT service in background.

• I will explain these options and you choose according to your necessity and comfort.

1: If chosen option is command window then you have to start it via a shortcut.
2: If you choose NT service option, you have the choice of either starting it from control panel manually or have it utomatically  start as a Windows service.

• Start up version for minimalistic / XFCE version of andLinux is quite different and you can choose from XFCE panel or andLinux launcher to start the applications.
• There are two ways by which you can access files on windows using andLinux.

1: CoLinux File system (COFS)

{or}

2: Windows File Shares (Samba)

• Configuration of COFS is easy and the next option you have to follow extra steps. But if you involve special characters in filenames then you can choose this option.  Setting up Samba is explained in next step.
• Set up a shared folder/drive in windows. You can now configure Samba.

• Enter the name of File share you created in your system. If you assign username and password to file share then type in the preceding boxes. Click Next to continue and don’t care if you get a warning message. This message comes because WinTap driver is not Microsoft Certified

Note: While creating a windows share don’t use spaces in names

Starting andLinux

If you haven’t choose start andLinux automatically, start andLinux from Start menu or from Quick launch.

If you chose run andLinux from command window at setup then andLinux will run in a minimized window which is labeled andserver. Here is an important note for you, don’t close the window if you chose the option run andLinux automatically at the time of setup.

In case you need to restart andLinux manually then you can browse through installation folder and find srvstart.bat and execute it.

Once this Linux is completely running you can start application from XFCE panel.

Screenshots of andLinux running on Windows system

Linux applications on Windows desktop

              Many system users do not know how to update their system device drivers and even don’t know what a device driver is and what is the necessity of it. You need to install a device driver when you format the previous operating system and installed new operating system otherwise the device connected to your computer will not work properly. Some times the new drivers for your devices are released by the device manufacturers, then you have to update the device driver. Here i will teach you what a device drive is and what it is meant for and how to install a device driver for each external device and how to update it.

what is Device Driver?

                  A device driver is also a program that acts as a link between your computers operating system and any hardware you are trying to connect and run it.

                  Consider an example of a Network Adapter – When you install a Network Adapter to your PC/Laptop, the device driver acts as a medium between your pc operating system and the hardware device (Network Adapter) and interpret commands, routines to activate the device.

                  Drivers play an important role and with out them the operating system could not interpret and run all the devices attached to a computer.

 Many device vendors come with their own driver programs. These driver softwares are given by them in a CD or Floppy, Don’t lost them guys. For example, you have bought a printer or a new sound adapter they will come with device drivers in a CD or a floppy disk. you have to install them in your operating system after these devices are plugged to your system.

If you lost your device driver CD then you can search in internet or the device company official website and download them to your system and install it.

Here how you can install or update drivers for their respective device:

• You should have device driver with you either in your hard drive or an external storage media. With out them it is useless to follow this process. If you don’t have the driver with you then download the drivers from the device official website or any other websites. such a website i am mentioning here is driverssoftware .
• Now if you are using windows Vista follow the steps.      start + mycomputer + right click + manage + System Tools + Device Manager.
• You will be presented with list of devices installed on your computer.
• Select the device for which you have to install or update driver.                                                                                                    
• 
• Right click on the device and click on update driver.
  
• Then you are given with search options. Select “Browse my computer for Device software” if you know the location of the software other wise “search for device software on your computer”.
• Now you have installed/updated the device software.

Dell ADEMO ONYX

                 Dell have released its new laptop called ADAMO with a caption “Prepare To Fall In Love” and the meaning for ADAMO in latin is what the caption is. What a great caption from Dell for this ultra-slim laptop and yes Dell have introduce such kind of laptop and when you watch the design of the laptop, i am sure you will fall in love with this laptop. This laptop is engineered well and the design is awesom. I suggest to buy this laptop if you have passion towards the ultra-slim models and you love great designs.What matters in todays generation of laptops greater performance or awesome engineering and design. You will find both of them in a single laptop – Dell ADAMO.

                     ADAMO come in two Gorgeous Designs ONYX and PEARL competing your attention. The Backlit keyboard and tough single piece aluminum chasses will grab the attention of the world to ADAMO. ADAMO comes into the range of luxary products and it will grab the attention with is looks and engineering. High definition edge to edge glass display is striking feature in ADAMO. If  i go on continue with the description of design and looks then simply i can’t share in such a brief words. So, let us continue this post by moving towards technical details.

                            Measuring only 0.65 inches, this ultra slim laptop have powerful features with in it. So, it is not only slim but also powerful and so totally good performer. 

                             Coming to the screen of ADAMO, it is a 13.4 inch 16:9 HD display integrated with 1.3 mega pixel camera. Here you find some thing missing from you high end laptop i.e, 2.0 mega pixel camera. But don’t bother this will not put to you an end.

                             This Laptop have got stunning long lasting battery life of 5 hours upon full charge with battery made up of advanced lithium polymer technology. Experience the long lasting battery to play music and other office works.

                             keep in touch where you go by connecting to internet using Wireless N, one RJ-45 port and optional mobile broadband. Integrated Bluetooth provide us to transfer files from ADANO to other bluetooth devices

                              Now here ADANO is available in 2 varients each differ in processor, RAM and extra feature.

ADMIRE:-

•  1.2 GHZ Core 2 Duo Processor with Intel Centrino Technology.
•  2GB 800MHz DDR3 dual-channel memory.
• 128GB solid state drive.

DESIRE:

         Windows Vista lacks a feature which i like the most in windows XP. Its the turnoff button in Vista that actuall doesn’t make your system to shutdown rather it will go into sleep state. Many of the people who use Vista finds difficult when shutdown windows instantly because the button which looks like turnoff button in vista is not actually do that function, it will make your pc go into sleep mode.

windows sleep button

         If you want to turnoff your pc then you have to move to the button beside sleep button and then choose one from them. ok it is not a problem in normal situation where you are not in hurry but if you are in a situation which makes you turn off the pc quickly but you have to follow the steps in that hurry situation. So, here is a better solution  by which you can reprogram the “sleep button” and make it to function as a power button.

1. Open Control Panel and browse to Power Options.
2. Now go to Change Plan Settings for selected power plan.
3. Choose the option Change Advanced Power Settings.
4. Expand Lid and Power Buttons.
5. Expand Start Menu Power Button.
6. Change setting from Sleep to Shutdown.
7. The last step is to save the changes by clicking on OK button.

              You have done a great job now and the sleep button had turned down to power button. Microsoft have recognized this essential function and have enchanced the power options and customization of buttons in Windows7 and hope this will make our work easier.

            Finally the final version of IE8 is available for download and this new version overcome the flaws in previous release of beta version of IE8 and IE7. Now IE8 is more organized, secure and ergonomic. Beta release of IE8 is unstable but the new version is stable and have many features every web surfer needs.

            IE8 is compatible with Vista, xp, windows server 2003 and windows server 2008 . It is available for 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems. Download IE8 new version at Microsoft official website and install it safely.

             Compatibility:-

                                                IE8 is incorporated with 2 display engines first one meeting the standards i.e, css 2.1 and second one is the existing one. By default IE8 uses the new engine and you can shift from one engine to another with out rebooting.

                                                Some features:-

•                                                  If a web page seems to be poor in compatibility issues such as overlapping of text then you can view the page in correct format by clicking on icon Display Compatibility.
•                                                   This browser also remembers the web pages and sites when clicked on Icon Display Compatibility and displays the web page in compatibility mode in future visits.
•                                                    Till now all the web pages and sites are compatible with IE7 so therefore displays all the web pages in IE compatibility mode.

        Auto Suggestions:-

                        A new concept called self-suggestion is introduced in IE8 but the more surprising concept in IE8s auto-suggestion is a community based “suggested-sites”.

                        For having these page suggestions click on Favorites Pane and then move to see the sites suggested link.

                        To view the page suggestion given by the browser go to Favorites pane then click on link see the sites suggested. Then you will see the page with suggested sites.

                        Press [alt]+[x] and right click on suggested sites, then you can browse to the suggested sites.

Productivity Accelerator:

                         The greatest innovative part in this new broswer is the IE Accelerator. This is introduced to simplify the access to interactive webservices.

                          Here to better understand this concept, here i quote an example. you want to locate the address of a coffee bar using google maps or any thing else, you have to copy the site in google maps to locate it. But now this work becomes easy you don’t need to do such a work, you have to only select the address and click on the accelerator so that it display a tooltip with the map to locate that address.

                         you can access various types of web services using different accelerators. The web services may be geographical, stock information and news related to selected text or link, city whether for the selected city and not an exception for promotional offers on ebay, offers on travel etc,.

                         Using the Accelerator is simple and here how you can –  Select the text/word/url/address any thing, there appears an accelerator icon near by and select the accelerator you want and you will see the result displayed in a bubble.

                          By default accelerator in IE8 provides you with some basic services that are related to windows live and you can add more accelerators from other developers.

                          How to add more IE8 accelerators?

The procedure is simple and go for by browsing to PAGE menu then ALL ACCELERATORS and SEARCH FOR ACCELERATORS, the page is loaded with some exisiting accelerators Blogger,Google, Yahoo etc,. Select the accelerator you are interested in and click ADD TO INTERNET EXPLORER, then click on ADD to continue using this accelerator.

          Web Slices:      

Another innovative and exciting feature in IE8 is Web Slices. I will make the description simple and effective so that you can understand. Using Web Slices you can subscribe to a web slice in a webpage or website. Using this is simple, you see a webslice on a website which is freequently updating then simply point out on it and you will see a green icon which will appear on upper right of the slice.

Click on the green Icon to subscribe and add the webslice to your favorite bar so that when that slice updates then you will be notified by highlighting the webslice on the favorite bar. When you click that highleted webslice, it will display relevent content and you can go the page having the updated webslice by clicking on the preview.

Like Accelerators in IE8, webslices are platform-based approach. That means the website should be enabled with webslices by adding few lines of code. Ebay have built in web slices that enable users to monitor an auction. Microsoft is still working with partners to create more web slices available for most of the sites.

Private Navigation:

               Like Mozilla firefox and Apple Safari browsers, IE8 also comes with private Navigation which is also called Private Browsing. During Private Browsing, no traces are left on the user machine so that other person browing on the same machine can’t know what you browse.

                By browsing in private mode in IE8, any traces of cookies or history is not stored on user computer.

                You can enable safe browsing by following these steps:

•                 Browse to SECURITY MENU in IE8 
•                 Enable Browse on Private 
•                 To conform check the INPRIVATE logo on navigation bar.

                             TIP :

Want to Open Window Navigation, then here is the short cut [Ctrl] + [Shift] + [P].

Smart bar:

Most of you guys will visit the previously visited sites/pages. Smart bar in IE8 allows you to find a site already visited. The job is done by searching Rss feeds,history and in favorites.

This saves a lot of time by providing entire url of the site by making use of first few letters.

Place the cursor in the address bar of your browser, type a few letters and a menu is driven providing with hits from favorites,history and rss feeds.

some shortcuts

Access smart bar : [alt]+[d] and type couple of letters

Access search bar: [Ctrl] + [E] and first two letters of query.

Enhanced Protection:

Internet Explorer8 is added with two improved security features. They are listed below:

• SmartScreen Filter
• Domain Highlightning.

         SmartScreen Filter is enhanced version of phising filter in IE7. The features of phising filter in IE7 are extended such as malware downloads,programs that are dangerous and blocks that download code. It will also protect from “Rogues” which pose as antivirus but they are traps by hackers. Now This browser also detects favorite techniques of infilteration of cyber criminals – cross site scripting.

         The next feature incorporated into IE8 is Domain Filtering which detects phising attacks.

Browser anticrash:

IE8 features an innovative design to prevent browser crashes. It do so by using two mechanisms, the first one is by isolating the tabs from each other so that if a tab crashes other tabs will not be affected.In addition to this if one of more tabs are going to crash then browser starts automatically reloading the tabs.

                Another Innovative feature that prevents crash in IE8 is explained. If you thing one or more extensions in browser is causing crash, you can load the browser with out loading any extensions. This can be done in following way.

• Press [Windows] + [R] desktop.
• You will see list of process, enter iexplore.exe -extoff 
• Validate by pressing OK.