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Sunday 22 July 2012

Google Drive's Six Substantial Slip-ups


Google Drive's Six Substantial Slip-ups


Google Drive

The dust on the Drive has settled — Google Drive, that is — and users finally have the chance to play around with the company's new cloud storage system, one that's designed to, "work seamlessly with your overall Google experience."
Seamless, perhaps. But perfect? Google's arrived a bit late to the cloud storage game and, like a pinch hitter facing a run deficit in the seventh inning, the company needs to knock one out of the park to pull people's loyalties away from their favorite cloud storage services.
It feels as if general reactions to Google Drive have been good, but not great: That Google's service is a fine player among its peers, but not noteworthy enough to generate a massive, digital rush to Google's servers. We've rounded up some of the larger criticisms that might be keeping Drive from dominating, all areas that Google could stand to work on if it wants the prettiest cloud in the sky.

1. Size
How many of you have ever run out of space on your Gmail account? We're willing to bet that it's a rare occurrence for all but the most popular of Gmail users, makes one wonder why Google is so generous with its email capacity (10GB) and so seemingly stingy with its Drive storage (5GB).
"For cheapskates or freebirds like me, you'll be better off turning to (or remaining with) Microsoft's SkyDrive, which offers 7GB of free storage; Google Drive offers five. (SugarSync, which I've also used, does as well.) Microsoft also gave existing SkyDrive users 25GB of free storage. Google, however, would like you to pay them for the privilege of mining your files," writes PCMag.com's Mark Hachman.

2. Cross-Platform Support
And the mobile war continues: Google Drive is fully supported on the Android platform with a native application (go figure). Windows, OS X, and Chrome OS systems can all download a dedicated Google Drive app as well — in fact, it's the only way you can access your cloud. As for iOS, Blackberry, and Windows Phone owners…
"GDrive, meanwhile, includes an app for Android. Everything else must use a browser to connect to Google Drive, although there are reports that Google will be releasing iOS apps for GDrive at some point. Other mobile devices will have to continue to use their respective browsers, but it's worth noting that not all browsers will work. According to Google's information for GDrive, some older versions of Android won't work with the Drive, even using the browser." — eWeek's Wayne Rash
Of course, it would also be nice to be able to edit non-Google-Docs files or move anything around in one's Google Drive via the corresponding mobile app, but step one is acquiring working mobile apps in the first place.

3. Offline Editing
Throw a typical Microsoft Word document into your Google Drive and you'll be able to edit it online, right? Wrong — you can only view it online. You have to convert the file to a Google Document in order to edit it via Google's Web app. But here's the rub: You can't edit Google Docs in your Drive cloud from an offline computer; you can only view them. For novice cloud users, the relationship between Google Documents and offline documents can be pretty confusing.
"There are a couple of ways to work around this issue. First, you can configure your Google Docs for offline access, and you can use Google Chrome browser extensions to enable you to edit Google Docs files offline. Another solution would be to save the file back to its original format after editing it online so that it will open locally in its native application as mentioned above.
That brings us to the other potential issue--file fidelity. Google has gone to great lengths to maintain formatting when converting from Microsoft Office formats to Google Docs and back again, but it still leaves a lot to be desired. For basic documents that just have text, with maybe some bold, italics, and underlining, or simple bullets, it may not be an issue. However complex documents that include things like a table of contents, footers, headers, and footnotes are likely to get mangled and require a lot of manual repair when switched back to their native format." — PCWorld's Tony Bradley.

4. File Hosting
"Files hosted publicly in Google Drive should be usable anywhere on the Web.
Anyone can already download the files manually. Google Drive could have a huge advantage over its competitors if you could permalink to those files. If Imgur can host images for other sites, why can't Google? And Google Drive can understand over 30 file types. Why not PDFs and audio files, too?" — ReadWriteWeb's Jon Mitchell
Makes sense to us!

5. More Security
As Discovery News' Rob Pegoraro points out, your files within Google Drive are only as secure as your Google password. That's not only a great plug for enabling two-way authentication on one's Google Account, but it also highlights a key difference between Google's cloud service and that of one of the company's chief cloud rivals.
"Like SkyDrive but unlike Dropbox, [Google Drive] doesn't encrypt files stored on its servers; you can use third-party tools like the open-source TrueCrypt to scramble files before uploading, but that's more work," Pegoraro writes.
That said, Google execs have said that encrypting files on Google's servers would prevent features like Google Drive's OCR engine from being able to scan them. Worse, users would also lose out on being able to preview files within Drive's Web app.

6. The Dreaded ToS
Much has been written about Google's Terms of Service for Drive. But you shouldn't be as concerned about Google "stealing" your information or displaying your publicly available content in a Google Drive advertisement (or what-have-you). Rather, you should be more annoyed if you're one of the users ponying up additional cash for expanded Drive storage.
"Google Drive creates a new relationship with users. As a service provider, Google should be my advocate, but a profile of me can be built from my data and sold to advertisers like it is with Gmail. A paid service should exclude users from this." — InformationWeek's Dino Londis

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SOURCE : PCMAG and Written by : DAVID MURPHY

Monday 16 July 2012

How to Install Whatsapp on PC


whatsapp messenger 300x300 How to Install Whatsapp on PC
Whatsapp is a great cross platform messaging service. However there is one device missing from the so called cross platforms. Its Computers. I don’t know why whatsapp is not considering about making a PC,Mac,Linux app now you might argue that its because whatsapp is using phone numbers to mark users and route messages. But its even using pc you can verify whatsapp using your mobile phone or landline ( with call verification method) or maybe whatsapp can have an exception and make Computer and mobile phone of same user to have one number which is not possible now because only one device can use the same number on whatsapp.
however for the fun and making it easier to use whatsapp you can follow some steps and install on your PC. However you have to note that you need to have different numbers for PC and your mobile device if you use whatsapp on your mobile device. Its not a problem and you don’t need to have 2 mobile phones to get verified since whatsapp gives you the ability to verify by call. So you can use regular landline number to verification and usage.

The guide

What you need
  • A working Internet connection
  • Youwave software ( 7 day trial is enough ) or any other alternatives like Bluestacks or iPadian etc.
  • Works on Windows 7,Vista, XP

This guide is using a software called youwave which is not free but you can trial it for 7 days for free. And if you dont mind after the trial period expires you can uninstall and reinstall the youwave software and it will work as fine for next 7 days. However for $14.99 it might be worthy to you because its a android emulator. You can try many apps  than whatsapp and also you can use it to design apps on android etc.
  • Installing youwave

You can download youwave here http://youwave.com/download.html and installing it is straightforward. After you run youwave it will present you a android interface which is Android 2.3 Gingerbread. You wont get android market here because of licensing problems between them and google. And to install whatsapp you can simply open the web browser of your emulated android and point it to www.whatsapp.com and there is option to download .apk file there and run it after downloading as you run .apk files on your android smartphone or tablet.

whatsapp on pc How to Install Whatsapp on PC


  • Get verified

Well here comes the tricky part. If you already have whatsapp installed on your mobile device you wont be able to use the same number here. So if you have another mobile device ( one time requirement to get verified ) you can use the number and receive the activation code. And if you dont have another mobile phone dont worry. you can use your landline. if you going to use the landline let it send the verification SMS to your landline ( you know it wont work icon biggrin How to Install Whatsapp on PC  ) and after the 5 minute timer finish. There is option to enter the code which you received via sms ( in this case you didnt because you used landline ) or the option to receive automated call to get your verification number. Use that thing. you will get a call and enter the number and voila you are verified. icon smile How to Install Whatsapp on PC
if you have any problems setting this up, let me know in the comments!
SOURCE: Ruchira Blog

Here are 3 Best Free Alternatives to YouWave.

YouWave is a Windows-based software application that allows users to run Android apps and app stores on their PC. It provides the fastest way to run Android on pc. It gives a high performance Android interface on your desktop.Here are free alternatives to YouWave that provide some of the similar features.

Bluestacks

Bluestacks is the best free alternative to YouWave. Bluestacks is a software program that can run Android OS and apps on Windows PCs. It gives an instant switch interface between Android and Windows, which does not require any reboot. You can view Android apps either in iconic form on your Windows desktop, or in a full-blown Android environment.
Application Home: Click Here      Review: Click Here
Works With: Windows        

Android-x86

Android-x86 is a good replacement for YouWave. Android-x86 is an open source project used toport Android open source project to x86 platform. It offers a patch hosting platform for Android that can run Android on PC.
Application Home: Click Here      Review: Click Here
Works With: Windows    Linux    Mac OS X
SOURCE: 3Alternatives



Thursday 3 May 2012

AWSOME APPS AND GAMES FOR SYMBIAN^3 PHONES FREE!!!!!!!!!

Guyz.. I was checking out the net for some nice apps for my sister's Nokia C6-01.She had actually updated her OS to the latest version (Nokia Belle).After the installation, most of her previous games were uninstalled.She had got the for free in some offer at Ovi Store ... which is now closed and she would have to buy them this time...But, I was surprised to see that the installation files of the games were still in the memory card....Of them, some are truly awsome and MUST TRY's but i guess they have to be bought now.But, i have found the following matter from websites like SYMBIAN WORLD ,KOOLMOBILES.These are a list of all the best apps and also FOR FREE!!!These apps include Music apps like Music stooper,Loop,Shazoom etc.,there are alos widgets and many other utilities.Games include Angrybirds Seasons (and other versions of it),Fruit Ninja,Asphalt and lots more FULL VERSIONS FOR FREE!!! Check these out!!

SW’s Recommended Apps and Games for Symbian^3: Nokia N8, Nokia C7, Nokia C6-01, Nokia E7
DIRECT DOWNLOAD BELOW! DIRECT DOWNLOAD BELOW! DIRECT DOWNLOAD BELOW!
THE IMAGES OF THE APPS AND GAMES ARE BELOW!!
Music Apps
  • Tune Wiki – Want lyrics on your songs? TuneWiki’s social media player shows subtitled lyrics as you listen to your music, watch music videos, or stream songs through our SHOUTcast ™ radio feature. Translated into 40+ languages, search for lyrics to over 2.5 Million songs. Use Music Maps or follow your friends to see what they are listening to and discover new music! Other features: Playlists, Song Search, Facebook and Twitter integration, Top 50 charts.
  • Shazam – Create music moments! Shazam can identify music anywhere: from TV, radio or in a bar. 30 Days trial
  • Music Stopper – There are many music timer or scheduler there you can find but the one I will review is different. Because MusicStopper is an app that lets you schedule or time the specific Music PlaybackRadio or an Application and terminate it depending on the time you prefer. Like it works as a terminator of your running program.
  • Loop – An app that lets you create sound or music and mix it with many different  baselines beats that are loaded in your app. You can also create and add your own baselines. Once you’re done with your created music loop, you can also make it as your ringtone, share on Facebook or upload it in the official loop app site for others to hear and votes.
  • Soundtrckr – Lets you control your own music. Plus you will get tons of free music access that you could discover using social based location system.
Web Browser
  • Opera Mobile 10.1 – The newest and advance web browser for Symbian^3. Always free.
Recommended Widgets for home screen
  • AccuWeather – Free weather updates in hourly, daily, and weekly scopes.
  • Bloomberg – Bloomberg Mobile delivers market and general news, stock prices and charts, a portfolio function, market data and analysis
  • Mangastream – Check the biggest manga updates on your phone
  • topApps – Get the listed top and recommended apps
Social, Sharing, Location Apps
  • Foursquare – Discover more places with this social network location app.
  • Gravity – Google Reader, facebook, twitter, foursquare all in one place. That’s Gravity. 10-day trial
  • Skype – It’s absolutely free to call and IM with Skype to your device provided you just have to connect your phone to 3G or Wi-Fi.
  • Nimbuzz – free IM and VOIP anywhere, anytime.
  • Gig Finder – Social + Music app of Ovi.
  • Here and Now - A location + weather updates for your needs. With Here and now offers easy-to-use web services related to your current location. Check the local weather at a glance and get other topical information while on the move.
  • Pixelpipe Share Online – With the increasing multimedia functionality of smartphones, Pixelpipe will ensure that you can upload and share your photos, videos and files to more than 100 social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Youtube.
  • Ovi Maps – It’s free navigation system by Nokia offering tons of cool features like lifetime voice guided navigation and real-time updates.
Web TV / Videos
  • Watch Now – WebTV app for Symbian^3 that lets you watch the latest episode of How I Met Your Mother and Gossip Girl.
  • E!, NatGeo, CNN – Exclusive to Symbian^3 devices with WEB TV application. It’s one of the default web TV widget for your Nokia N8, Nokia C6-01, Nokia C7 and Nokia E7.
  • SPB TV -Free live tv streaming for your Nokia devices.
  • Youtube – The updated version of social network, youtube, and now with enhance viewing experience for latest devices.
Utilities
  • Battery Monitor – Monitoring your phone’s batter life will be easy. And with good management and tracking of your battery life you could eventually save more energy and prolong the use for more works.
  • Nokia Bots –  Betalabs released the beta version of the Nokia Bots for Nokia N8Nokia C7, and Nokia C6-01. They’re the latest Symbian^3 devices that would benefit from the location awareness, battery, contacts, calendar monitoring and more features from the application.
  • Nokia Panorama – this app gives you the wide-angle shot that you always wanted. Perfect for landscape shooting.
  • Swype – Is an app that substitute your default QWERTY keyboard giving an easier and faster word typing. Provided that this don’t provide portrait mode.
  • Qtorch (N8 only)- A simple application that you could use as remedy to flashlights on your N8. With just simple tapping on the screen for off and on, then you’re good to go with white screen.
  • Nokia Situations - The app senses your current life and adapts and enables the most preferred profiles that would fit your life.
  • ScreenSnap – Screenshot your phone
HD Games
Puzzle / PvP / Fun Games
You can download these listed apps and games from Ovi Store for free and some are on trial and on promo. But you can also try to download the said apps and games directly to your PC or Mac by following this link.
Beta Labs App:
Symbian^3 Freeware: (Alphabetical)

 Symbian^3 Top Apps and Games
JoikuSpot Symbian^3 Top Apps and Games
Melon Advanced Pro Lock Symbian^3 Top Apps and Games
opera mobile 10.1 on Symbian 4 Symbian^3 Top Apps and Games
 Symbian^3 Top Apps and Games
nokia battery monitor Symbian^3 Top Apps and Games
picobrothers cracked screen Symbian^3 Top Apps and Games
podcatcher S^3 Symbian^3 Top Apps and Games
Skype Symbian^3 Top Apps and Games
thinkchange finger print Symbian^3 Top Apps and Games
ThinkChange MazeLock v1.00 S60v5 screenshoot Symbian^3 Top Apps and Games
ovi store Symbian^3 Top Apps and Games
nokia panorama Symbian^3 Top Apps and Games
ten by ten Symbian^3 Top Apps and Games
VitaminWidget vegetables Symbian^3 Top Apps and Games
Symbian^3 Freeware Games:
bounce Symbian^3 Top Apps and Games
Cannonball Nokia N8 Symbian^3 Top Apps and Games
fuzzies Symbian^3 Top Apps and Games
iron sight Symbian^3 Top Apps and Games
barclaycard rollercoaster for symbian Symbian^3 Top Apps and Games


that rabbit game for symbian and maemo Symbian^3 Top Apps and Games
decibel meter Symbian^3 Top Apps and Games
accuweather Symbian^3 Top Apps and Games
ebuddy Symbian^3 Top Apps and Games
galaxy on fire Symbian^3 Top Apps and Games

space impact Symbian^3 Top Apps and Games

UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE January 11, 2011! ( credit to link: nst )

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1) Angry Birds:
 Top 10 Games for Symbian^3 Nokia N8 C7 C6 01 and E7 Mobiles
If you have S^3 or S^1 Mobile, you must have Angry Birds played the #1st top most popular and downloaded ranked #1 game for the year which never let you bored anytime, anywhere. Seeing its popularity, this game also comes with latest symbian deviced with a demo.
Downloads:   Link 1 -  Link 2 – Link 3
2) Asphalt 5 HD
 Top 10 Games for Symbian^3 Nokia N8 C7 C6 01 and E7 MobilesAsphalt 5 HD #2nd Top and most played Symbian v5 Cars Racing Game with 3D Motion Sensor with more than 30 fastest and top model dream cars at worldwide cities re-tracked in high graphics with motion sensor which never let you bore.
Downloads:   Link 1 -  Link 2 – Link 3
3) Angry Birds Seasons Easter Eggs
 Top 10 Games for Symbian^3 Nokia N8 C7 C6 01 and E7 Mobiles Angry Birds Seasons latest Spring version Easter Eggs coded by RovioMobile Signed Retail for Symbian^1 and Symbian^3 Game. Updated episode of Angry Birds Game the most generous update with delicious chocolate eggs and easter bunnies.
Downloads:   Link 1 -  Link 2 -  Link 3
4) Fruit Ninja
 Top 10 Games for Symbian^3 Nokia N8 C7 C6 01 and E7 MobilesFruit Ninja Symbian Touch game a juice, squishy and fruit cutting / slashing, the Top Action Game on Symbian device, coded by Gameplay. This game make you a true ninja warrior on Symbian^3 Touch Device in three modes & unlockable blades to keep you entertained for hours.
Downloads:   Link 1 -  Link 2 -  Link 3
5) Spider Man Total Mayhem HD
 Top 10 Games for Symbian^3 Nokia N8 C7 C6 01 and E7 MobilesSpider Man Total Mayhem High Definition Touch Symbian^1 & Symbian^2 Action Game where you complete different long level missions to fight & defend New York against madness of enemies using spiderman’s all powers to save the city with eye catching graphics.
Downloads:   Link 1 -  Link 2 -  Link 3
6) Avatar HD
 Top 10 Games for Symbian^3 Nokia N8 C7 C6 01 and E7 MobilesAvatar HD one of the Top Adventure Symbian Touch Game with impressive or sensational graphics where you get a chance to go deeper into Avatar village and help them protecting their world from Humans by accepting different missions and fights.
Downloads: Link 1 -  Link 2 -  Link 3
7) Qvik Wooden Labyrinth 3D
     Top 10 Games for Symbian^3 Nokia N8 C7 C6 01 and E7 Mobiles
Qvik Wooden Labyrinth 3D Top Playing Puzzle Game for Symbian 5th edition OS 9.4 & 9.5 Touch Devices play by shacking & balancing mobiles to jump and pass the ball like Marble Maze game where a rolled marble around a maze need to exit to win different rounds.
Downloads: Link 1 -  Link 2 -  Link 3
icon cool Top 10 Games for Symbian^3 Nokia N8 C7 C6 01 and E7 Mobiles Need For Speed Shift HD
 Top 10 Games for Symbian^3 Nokia N8 C7 C6 01 and E7 MobilesNeed for Speed Shift HD Sensor Motion another S60v5 Top ranked best car racing game for touch devices free downloaded and drive with World’s top drivers inside dreaming, fastest & hottest cars on your sensor devices.
Downloads:   Link 1 -  Link 2 -  Link 3
9) UNO HD Cards Game
 Top 10 Games for Symbian^3 Nokia N8 C7 C6 01 and E7 MobilesUNO HD, the Top & World’s famous ranked playing Symbian S60v5 challenging multiplayer card game while your boring time on S^3 Smartphones where you have to follow the exciting new rules and even can play multiplayer mode via Wi-Fi with your friends and family. In UNO™ HD Game by Gameloft match colors or numbers with
Downloads:   Link 1 -  Link 2 -  Link 3
10) Hero of Sparta HD
 Top 10 Games for Symbian^3 Nokia N8 C7 C6 01 and E7 MobilesHero of Sparta HD King Warrior Legend game to defeat enemies and conquer their assets. HOS HD is a new but became very famous in short time and ranked Top Action Adventure Battle Mission Defending Game for Symbian S60v5 Devices can be found less in touchscreen mobiles up-till now.
Downloads:   Link 1 -  Link 2

SOURCE: SYMBIAN WORLD,KOOL MOBILES
Do comment if there are any issues with installation etc.