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Google Photos Launches on Android, iOS, and Web with Free Unlimited Storage This year’s Google I/O conference has kickstarted with a keynote full of many announcements, such as the unveiling of Android M and its special battery saving  feature, the introduction of Android Pay and Brillo for the Internet of Things, as well as HBO Now for Android and Chromecast. And, as it was pretty much expected , Google has also announced a brand new Google Photos storage service which is putting a huge pressure on its rivals. The new Google Photos service comes with unlimited storage of images and videos entirely for free, which is a very aggressive move meant to put huge pressure on the competition. At the moment the resolution is limited to 16 megapixels for photos and  1080p for videos, but this can be viewed as a drawback by professional photographers and users who are truly passionate when it comes to picture taking. What’s really cool is that Google isn’t r...

HOW TO AVOID ANDROID HEATING – BREAKTHROUGH We are becoming more and more dependent on our smartphones and tablets , as they seem to become an universal device that you can use to access the information that is so important nowadays. This isn’t a bad thing, but when you depend so much on a single piece, you have to be responsible with it, to take care of it. That’s why when your Android smartphone or tablet heats up, you start to worry and ask different questions: what have I done? should I buy another phone? does Android suck? what’s causing the heating? what can I do to prevent my device from heating? Though the article concentrates on Android devices, the logic should hold good with any smartphone/tablet. 1. What’s Causing The Over-Heating? Yes, I know, when you invest around $500 in your digital buddy, it’s quite hard to “let it go” just because you have over-heating problems. But, don’t worry, with modera...

How to Retrieve Deleted Text Messages from an iPhone using iCloud Here is the post on the steps to recover the deleted messages from an iPhone using the iCloud backup. Retrieving a deleted text message from your iPhone can be difficult, but it is possible. If you have a previous backup saved with your iCloud, you can use that. Otherwise, you will need to use a third party program and restore the deleted message from your iPhone to your computer. Let the following Method can be explained with the required steps. Steps for Retrieve deleted texts on iPhone from iCloud backup: The method by using iCloud backup is quite easier and best way of recovering the lost messages. Thus follow these steps one by one to recover the deleted messages easily. 1. Login to https://icloud.com with your Apple ID  and password (if you don’t have create new). 2. Click on Text Messages (if it isn’t there your messages haven’t been backed up). 3. If it is there search...

HOW TO BLOCK GAME REQUEST ON FACEBOOK ? I know how it will irritated, when you get game request from someone in your Facebook notification. Here we found solution for it – not to get any game request from your Facebook friends with a simple steps. For that you need to do is, just take a piece of paper and pen. Note it down the games which you are getting request from your friends do the following steps. STEPS TO BLOCK GAME REQUEST FROM YOUR FACEBOOK FRIENDS: Step1: Login to your Facebook account or click here to login . Step2: Go to facebook settings -> blocking. you can find lots blocking features as like block users, block app invites, block apps, block pages, block events. Step3: Choose block Apps in it and type list of games which you have been noted down in a paper. Step4: You can see the game app is been blocked and you will not get notification regarding that game. Stpe5: Only the game notification will be blocked...

Soma messenger vs Whatsapp – What Soma offers more? At this initial years of 21st century ,there are a lot of messaging app created in order to make life faster and funnier.But most of the times, these created apps can’t deliver you the utmost comfort of hasty chatting.In addition to this ,some of these apps demand you to pay price for your use of that.So what if you get an app with a high speed of action and it’s usage at free cost?Here I introduce a useful app named SOMA which delivers you the power of hasty chatting. This lightning app was created by developer Instanza and is now available at the home of apps – the google Play Store. As I said in the introductory part this app is constructed to have unlimited chatting at free cost with an ‘imaginary’ speed. This app is similar to FB messenger, whatsapp in a very wide angle, but the interesting stuff that differentiates SOMA from others is it’s high speed of output in chatting and video calling. While othe...

Crowd-sourcing versus Crowdfunding You can rally your online crowd to conquer your own part of the world. Crowdsourcing and crowdfunding are about connecting people at a local level to create businesses that will benefit communities. Although the world is operating more and more as one global community through social media, people rely on local communities for bare necessities. Crowdsourcing Crowdsourcing is the online gathering of a group of people to share knowledge and wisdom to build a better product. Crowdsourcing first gained prominence in the world of programming in what was called open source. Open-sourced programming was a way for companies to leverage the collective coding power of essentially freelance programmers so that they could deliver a great product (code). By opening it up to other programmers, people were allowed to clean up, fix, and/or improve the code. The theory was that opening up the proprietary code to the crowd wouldn’t ...

Wikipedia available as Printable format Imagine, You don’t have Internet connection but you require to review one of your favorite topic studied earlier !. what will you do, rush to the Internet center? Here is an easy way to learn offline. Exc1ited to know what it is? Yes! it is to have Wikipedia in the format of book. It is always good to have the data in a book format. You can turn the Wikipedia articles in the format of offline books,  there  is a new built  in tool in Wikipedia which helps to turn an article into PDF format. Steps to turn Wikipedia article as PDF book: Step 1: Please choose for the article you want it in the printable format in Wikipedia using the following link https://www.wikipedia.org/ . Step 2: Please click on the option Print/Export from the left side tab in the Wikipedia. Step 3: Under that tab you can see several option like Create a Book, Download as PDF, Printable Version . Choose Download as PDF option to ...

While there will always be a need for certain types of work to be done either onsite or in a global facility, the market is beginning to fatigue on offshore and outsourcing and looking for new alternatives. Evidence of that point is shown in new research figures released  from analyst company Ovum  revealing that in 2012 the global market for IT outsourcing services fell to its lowest point in over a decade.Outsourcing and offshoring are no longer regarded as models that deliver a competitive advantage.Corporations are now looking at Enterprise Crowdsourcing (ECS) as an innovative way to impact their business, now that they have realized there are limitations and downfalls with traditional outsourcing models.  Let’s look at a side by side comparison:   As you can see from our infographic, there are many differences between crowdsourcing and outsourcing. Here’s a bit more information about what ECS offers: Global Access – As companies ...

Image Credit: NASA Crowdsourcing is a hot topic right now. Well-known companies have been crowdsourcing for some time now, with the most active crowdsourcing adopters of the past ten years being Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, and Danone. More recently Procter & Gamble, Unilever, and Nestlé were named as the top three in 2013 and 2014 ( eYeka ). Brands are becoming less ashamed of looking to their own consumers for financial assistance. Recently, one of the most aspirational and inspirational brands in the world has looked to the crowd for help on a number of fronts. That out-of-this-world brand is NASA. Four weeks ago, NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI) , through the NASA Tournament Lab (NTL) , chose to partner with Freelancer.com to help design a number of CAD models for tools to be used in testing the Robonaut 2 (R2) robotic astronaut assistant. This partnership was a test to see if great 3D design work could be done quickly and...

Google makes it official via a blog post and by placing a statue of its mascot in front of its Android headquarters at Mountain View. — Dave Burke (@davey_burke) August 17, 2015 The time for guesses and speculations is now over. Android M is now officially Android 6.0 Marshmallow. If any of you managed to guess the right name, feel free to give yourself a pat on the back. Google made it official via a blog post on the Official Android Developers Blog as well as by placing its mascot holding a marshmallow in front of the Android headquarters at Mountain View, California. In addition to this, the tweet from Dave Burke, VP of Engineering (Android), Google, also confirms the same: Marshmallow!!! pic.twitter.com/3JYkCBWD1R Android M was first unveiled by Google at the Google I/O event earlier this year, and is expected to make its way to devices by the end of the year. Although Android M is quite similar to Android Lollipop in ter...

The new app search results layout shows apps in colorful grids with app ratings, directly accessible from Google Now and Chrome, only on Android as yet Google has rolled out a new layout for showing app results on Android devices. The new layout is available for app searches via Google's Chrome browser, and Google Now. To check the new layout, one simply needs to make a generalized app search query, like video apps, audio apps, racing games, etc. If the new layout has been rolled out for the device used to make the search, the user will see apps being listed in colorful grids. Although, as of now,  Google  also show a couple of apps on random occassions as advertisement at the top before the gridview starts showing up. For each of the apps, its name, icon, average rating and number of ratings are shown. Tapping on a particular app box takes the user to its corresponding page on Google Play Store from where the app can b...

Learn how you can upload and host your iTunes podcast files on Google Drive for free. You can host both audio and video podcasts. If you are looking to publish your own audio or video podcasts , you’ll need to rent space on a public web server to host the MP3 or MP4 files of your podcast. When someone subscribes to your podcast feed in iTunes, or another podcasting app, the podcast media files will download from this server to the user’s computer or mobile phone. Where do you host the podcast files? If you have signed up for a web hosting account, you can use the rented space to host the podcast files else you may consider using Google Drive – it is free, you can host both audio and video podcast files and there are no known bandwidth restrictions. Free Podcast Hosting on Google Drive Google Drive offers web hosting and you can make use of this feature to host to host your own podcast show in two minutes. Essentially, what we will do is create a new folder ...

The Best Wikipedia Tools and Resources Your guide to some of the best Wikipedia tools, resources and hacks. Save Wikipedia articles as ebooks, find pages that are linking to you and more. Since its launch in 2001, Wikipedians have created about 4.5 million articles on the English version of Wikipedia alone which is roughly equivalent to 2000+ print volumes of the Encyclopædia Britannica. If you are also interested in becoming a contributor, follow the Wikipedia tutorial or get the Missing Manual which is available online for free. Q: Can I download Wikipedia? Or maybe buy Wikipedia on a DVD just like Britannica? You can download Wikipedia through Kiwix . It is a single zip file that’s also available via BitTorrent. A children’s charity group in UK has created a Wikipedia DVD with some 6000+ articles for school children that you can download at schools-wikipedia.org . Q: How do I know which Wikipedia pages are linking to my website? A: Open the Link Sea...

If the entire Wikipedia Encyclopedia were available as a physical printed book, it would span 7500 volumes. And someone is just trying to make that happen. The English edition of Wikipedia Encyclopedia contains around 5 million articles and if someone were to print the entire Wikipedia encyclopedia into a book, the size of the printed book would roughly be equivalent to 2000+ volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica ( source ). Rob Matthews, a graphics design student from UK, converted 5000 pages of Wikipedia into a printed book in 2012. He downloaded few hundred featured articles from Wikipedia and bound them together in a physical book that was almost 1’7″ thick. Rob’s website (rob-matthews.com) has been taken over by domain squatters but the pictures of the printed Wikipedia book have survived. While Rob limited his printed book to the featured articles, Michael Mandiberg’s team has a more ambitious plan. They’re working on making the entire English-language...

Google Chrome supports a number of internal URLs to help you quickly access the various menu options and hidden settings of the browser. For instance, typing about:dns in the Chrome address bar would display a complete list of DNS related information while about:cache will show all the items that are in your browser’s cache. If you are using the developer version of Chrome, about:flags will help you enable or disable experimental features. Similarly, chrome://bookmarks will open the bookmarks folder while chrome://history will open the browser’s history. The list of internal Chrome URLs is long and difficult to remember. The Chrome Access add-on will provide quick access to all the available ‘about:’ and ‘chrome://’ pages in a dropdown menu accessible from the Chrome’s toolbar so you don’t have remember them.

OPEN(APP) When you install an extension or a web app inside Google Chrome, the .crx file is unpacked and stored inside the user’s profile folder. Anyone can view the content of this folder to understand how the corresponding extension works. The Extension Source locator add-on helps you quickly determine the folder where the files of any particular add-on is stored on your local disk. The add-on replaces the “New tab” screen of your Chrome with a list of all extension that are currently installed inside your copy of Chrome. Click the “Copy to Clipboard” button to copy the full path of the folder to the clipboard. It even lists the path details for extensions that are deactivated inside your copy of Chrome.

OPEN(APP) Chrome Remote Desktop adds screen sharing and remote desktop access facilities to your Google Chrome browser. Once the add-on is installed, you’ll be able to easily access other computers or allow another user access your computer securely over the Internet. Chrome Remote Desktop is works on Windows, Mac and Linux so you may use it to access your Mac machine from a Windows computer or your Linux box. It works on the Chromebook too so if an application is not available for Chrome OS, say Microsoft Office, you can at least run it remotely and access it from your Chromebook. To use Chrome Remote Desktop, the add-on must be installed on both computers. You may also use it for provide remote tech support to your friends by accessing their computer through the Chrome browser

The text-only web browser runs in the Google Cloud and helps you read even modern websites. It is powered by Google Apps Script and can also work as a proxy server. Text Browser is a Lynx-inspired browser that lets you read the web in text and strips all JavaScript, images, videos and other rich content that maybe embedded inside a web page. Unlike Lynx that require installation and run locally, Text Browser is a web app and runs in the Google cloud. To get started, click here and authorize the web app with your Google Account. It requires authorization to sign-in and also for fetching web pages on your behalf. It will neither track your browsing activity nor will have access to any of your Google Account data. Once a page loads inside the Text Browser, any of the internal links will also open inside the same browser automatically. Text Browser as a Proxy Server Why would anyone want a basic text browser? Well, you can also use the Text Browser as a pr...

Learn how to extract email addresses and names from your Gmail mailbox and export the CSV list into Google Contacts or maillist list services like MailChimp. The Gmail Extractor app will automatically extract the email addresses and names of senders from your Gmail account. You can choose to extract email addresses from every single message in your mailbox or from emails that are tagged with a particular Gmail label (or folder). The extracted email addresses are saved in a Google spreadsheet that you may either download as a CSV file for importing into your mailing list, like MailChimp or Aweber, or you can use that raw list as an input for sending personalized email messages through Mail Merge in Gmail . If you looking to create an email marketing campaign for your clients who are not in your Google Contacts yet but you have previously communicated with them over email, the email extractor program can help you quickly build such a mailing list. Email Extracto...

Learn how to archive tweets for any search term or Twitter hashtag in a Google spreadsheet. Use the archiver to save tweets from events or your brand mentions forever. Wouldn’t it be nice if Twitter had an Export button? You search for a trending #hashtag, an old tweet or your brand name, and all the matching tweets would get saved in an Excel or Google spreadsheet. And the archive would update itself as new tweets are added to Twitter. Well, Twitter is unlikely to provide an option to save search results directly but here’s a simple do-it-yourself solution that takes 5-minutes to implement and it will capture all tweets matching your search term(s) and hashtags in a Google Spreadsheet automatically. You can use the tool to monitor tweets around any hashtag, learn what people are saying about your brand, track popular search terms and more. The idea is simple. This Google Spreadsheet connects to Twitter through a Google Script and imports all the search ...