Reflex-O-Mania - Windows Phone App

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http://www.windowsphone.com/en-in/store/app/reflex-o-mania/68dcbf0e-f94d-4ffd-af75-9bacc86ff503

1. Reflex-O-Mania is a head-to-head reflex game - simple, but always challenging. Think you have great reflexes?

                                                                
2.Two players battle simultaneously for the best reaction in 4 frantic stages.
                                               
3.Each stage offers a different platform to the players and the players have to press the 'Tap' button whenever required                              

4.Pressing the 'Tap' button at the right time wud give the respective player a +1 point and if he/she presses the button at the wrong time his/her score would be deducted by 1 point.                        

5.Before each stage there are instructions given for the players.It is advisable that the players read the instructions very carefully                         

6.Player scores will be added in each stage and will be displayed the end.The player with a higher score wins the game.                                     

7.The two player challenge mode enables endless fun – keep sharpening your skills by challenging different opponents.Get it now – challenge your friends !!!

HERE ARE THE SCREENSHOTS

GO AND CHALLENGE YOUR FRIENDS

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Organise your Desktop with FENCES

A program that helps you organize your desktop and can hide your icons when they are not in use. The key idea is that you can create shaded areas called containers where you can put your desktop icons and can give that container a name too. Just look at the picture below

Predator

Imagine when you have to leave your desk for some important work , what    you do to prevent someone from accessing your ongoing session. Well, you very well lock the computer by pressing window key plus L but there's a bettter way to that. Predator, a software which could blank your screen, disable the keyboard and mouse movement just by removing a flash drive. With just a USB Pen Drive, you could very well lock down your computer and to simply resume your work, insert it back. Incase you forgot your flash drive, simply punch in the password.

It's easier and faster than closing your Windows session, since you do not have to retype your password when you return. 

Dell Introduces XPS 15

Though Dell has revealed its XPS 14 Ultrabook 
We are soon going to see XPS 15 in Indian markets


It will be much thinner and faster as compared to the old XPS series laptops
The new XPS Series will follow Intel Third Generation Processors.


For starters, every variant of the XPS 15 lineup will have a 1080p display running off the NVIDIA GeForce GT630M chip (1GB on the base model, GT 640M - 2GB on the top end).


The RAM on the XPS 15 can be stepped up from 6GB to 8GB and if you’re planning on maxing things out, then there’s even a 16GB option for you. Sadly, there is no option to swap out the 500 or 750GB hard drives for SSDs. There are four flavors of the XPS 15 to choose from (non-configurable, but each offering something better than the previous one).

These are the models which Dell has introduced
The base model will be costing aroud $1299 which will go up to $1999


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WD completes Hitachi deal and is now world's largest HDD manufacturer

Western Digital (WD) have confirmed that they have completed all the procedures, and have finally acquired Hitachi. This acquisition has put WD at the top spot as the largest manufacturer of HDDs in the world, reports Verge. Although Hitachi wasn’t the first choice, as WD intended buying Seagate. The WD-Seagate deal maybe didn’t work out for good. The new merger is complete and inked in a deal worth $3.9 billion in cash and $25 million worth of shares, which were reportedly valued at 0.9 billion, early this week. The deal is also said to be funded by a $2.5 billion five year loan.


Reportedly, this move by Hitachi has brought it 10 percent stake in WD and the ability to appoint two members to the board of directors. Moreover, Hitachi has been struggling with the business for sometime now. For WD, it has enabled it to surpass Seagate, its competitor and take the first place in HDD manufacturing in the world. After this merger, WD stocks have risen by 16 per cent to surpass Seagate. Besides, the company has also been fighting out other players who’ve entered the digital market. 

The hard drive market hasn’t been at its best lately, with rising prices, due to the recent Thailand floods, which almost wiped out several factories. But manufacturers have been trying to put their best foot forward, despite all odds. We saw Hitachi released what it called the world’s slimmest hard drive, last month, which is a 2.5-inch notebook hard drive dubbed Travelstar Z7K500. However, there is no word on it making to the Indian store shelves. We also saw Hitachi Global Storage Technologies declare the Ultrastar enterprise-class solid state drive the industry’s first to use 25-nanometer (nm) single-level cell (SLC) NAND flash.

This new WD and Hitachi merger may just work for best interests of both companies.

Source:A Technical Site

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Norton 360 Version 6.0 Review

The war against viruses, trojans and malware has been one without an end. We’ve seen a crazy escalation in these unwanted elements in the recent past, but there have been a slew of antivirus products in the market, so you're convinced that if your PC has the right protection, then it’s safe from these problems. Norton recently released their new version, the V6 of their Norton 360 and 360 means all-round protection. 


The first roadblock that distinguishes a good antivirus from a great one is the interface. Imagine you having to pull your hair out just to find out where the infection is and how exactly to remove it. Yes, it should be as simple as a few clicks. With Norton 360 v6, Symantec have upped the ante on how simple a security suite should look like. Pop in the CD, enter the key and within minutes you’re into the matrix. 

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VLC 2.0 'Twoflower' Released

VideoLAN organisation has released the latest version of VLC media player, VLC 2.0. Apart from UI changes, the new version of the media player brings fixes for several hundred bugs, and has many other new features, including improved decoding support with a new rendering pipeline for different hardware, such as multi-core processors, mobile chipsets, and dedicated GPUs.

VLC 2.0, known as Twoflower, also brings support for a wide range of file formats, including experimental Blu-ray disc playback (full support expected soon). Other new features include a completely re-worked interfaces for the Mac and web platforms, Mac extensions support, improved Mac OS X 10.7 Lion integration, higher quality subtitles, new video filters, new resamplers for higher quality audio, new dynamic range compressor and karaoke filters, faster audio processing, as well as new video and audio outputs for Windows 7, Android, iOS and OS/2.

Professional users will be happy to know VLS 2.0 will feature support for ProRes 422 and 4444, AVC/Intra, Jpeg-2000 and DNxHD/VC-3 in 10bits, EBU subtitles (stl) and EIA-608, SDI and HD-SDI cards for Linux input, as well as faster Dirac/VC-2 encoders.

Developer features include updated LGPLv2.1+ for libVLC, libVLCcore and libcompat, new JSON requests on the web interface to control running VLC instances, and implementation of the MPRIS2 interface to control media players. VLC's web plugins have also been rewritten for better integration and stability in all browsers.

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AMD Trinity reference Ultrathins are a sight for sore eyes

If you thought Intel’s Ultrabooks were ubercool, then wait till you get a hold of AMD’s reference design for their Ultrathin notebooks. Engadget managed to get some good alone time with Compal’s reference design of AMD’s upcoming Trinity-based notebooks, that’s sure to give Ultrabooks a run for its money. For those who aren’t aware, Compal is the second largest ODM (Original Design Manufacturer) for notebooks in the world and basically, they come up with a bunch of reference designs for their clients and then pass it over to OEMs (like Dell, Acer, Toshiba, HP, etc) to manufacture. The one on the images was one of several designs to show manufacturers what AMD and Compal have planned for 2012.

This anorexic reference design is nothing short of stunning from every angle. It appears to be sporting a 14-inch screen, Chiclet keyboard and a generous trackpad. On the sides, we have a couple of USB 3.0 connectors, HDMI, mini-DisplayPort and a LAN jack. Notice the cool, lattice shaped exhaust vents. What’s really interesting is the new Trinity APU powering the notebook. This new APU is built on the same 32nm fabrication, but will feature four Piledriver cores, which is an enhanced and tweaked version of Bulldozer. The notebook will feature one of the low voltage Trinity APUs and a Radeon HD 7000M graphics chip. We still don’t have any model name or specifications of these chips right now, but we should know more in the coming months. The icing on the cake, however is the pricing. Unlike Intel’s elite Ultrabooks, which are mostly in the $1000 and above price range, AMD’s Ultrathins are targeted between $500 - $600, which make them more affordable and feature rich at the same time. Clearly, where these notebooks have cut cost is in the chassis, which from the reference design seems to be made out of plastic, instead of aluminium (which most Ultrabooks use). This is not necessarily a bad thing, though, as long as the plastics used are of good quality, I don’t see a problem with that.

Intel may have had a head start in this new segment that they created, but it seems AMD once again has the upper hand in the segment, where Intel just can’t seem to compete, and that’s value for money.

 Courtesy: Engadget

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Windows desktop client for Facebook Messenger (OFFICIAL RELEASE)

Facebook has released a desktop client for Facebook messenger

Downloadable from Facebook's Help Center, the desktop client for Facebook Messenger just needs a one-time setup, and all future updates will be automatically installed.

Essentially, Facebook Messenger for Windows, albeit still in its trial stages will allow users to access Facebook Chat, notifications and ticker even when they haven't logged onto their Facebook account.
For it is still in its trial stages,  the first version of this app is being tested on a small group of users. Facebook also clarifies that, "During this trial period, we plan on rolling out changes to the app and expect outages and periods of instability as we make improvements."

For more information please visit the link given below
https://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=140228902751098#What-is-Messenger-for-Windows?-

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Millions of Americans oppose SOPA and PIPA

Two bills before Congress, known as the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House, would censor the Web and impose harmful regulations on American business. Millions of Internet users and entrepreneurs already oppose SOPA and PIPA.
The Senate will begin voting on January 24th. Please let them know how you feel. Sign this petition urging Congress to vote NO on PIPA and SOPA before it is too late.

Source :www.google.com

For More information please visit: https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/

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Install OS X Lion on your ordinary PC

Today, it’s possible to take a small chunk of that Apple experience and use it on your own, outside the confines of the expensive ecosystem built specifically for it. The enjoyment won’t be the same, but the whole point is to expand users’ options and give them the choice. We’re referring, of course, to running Mac OS X on any ordinary PC, something that the Cupertino giant does not like, endorse or acknowledge in any way. Apple’s desktop OS is finely tuned to work with its own hardware, software and online services: an entire ecosystem.

Mac OS X has a lot of appeal: the graphics are rich, security is higher than Windows, it’s generally easier for beginners to get used to, and there’s some excellent software available for creative professionals. For most people though, just the “coolness” factor and thrill of getting it working without spending money on Apple hardware are reason enough to try. This is the “reality distortion field” effect that dozens of other companies have tried to emulate over the years, to varying degrees of success.

This has the disadvantage of limiting your choices (and budget range) when it comes to buying a new computer, but it has the advantage of eliminating the thousands of variables that tend to make Windows machines slow or unstable.

Apple has never expressly allowed other brands to sell machines with OS X preinstalled, so you’ll never find a Mac bogged down with “bloatware” added on by third-party manufacturers, and you won’t have to go hunting for a printer driver when you need one, because it’s already built in.

Be warned - Running OS X is a tricky proposition and it’s not endorsed by Apple in any way. You’ll be contravening their end-user license agreement and will not have access to any help or support from them. You also won’t have a Mac-specific keyboard, mouse or trackpad, which will make several shortcuts and gestures impossible to use. This process is not recommended for casual users, or anyone who isn’t familiar with the internal workings of a PC. You run the risk of erasing your hard drive and losing whatever’s on it, so make sure you have backups. Moreover, obtaining a legal copy of Lion, the latest version of OS X, is entirely your responsibility.

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Easily relocate your applications

Learn how you can safely relocate your installed programs from drive C to drive D or E without worrying about uninstalling and reinstalling.

Well you partitioned your hard drive initially and loaded the operating system and now realize that your C drive is running low on space while your D drive is a huge empty playground? You are now left with two options—first one is uninstalling huge and space-hogging applications and reinstalling them on the other drive and the second one is to resize your existing partitions using a partition management utility. The latter option is better in a way as you can allocate the space permanently to drive C, but the threat of losing all your data in one go is high in case you accidentally reset your PC or witness a power failure.

The first option is a faster one and would only affect the particular program it moves in case of any errors. No doubt, reinstalling the software on another location is the best option, but it is painstakingly slow, and what if you don’t find your installation disk? We shall show you a simple utility which can relocate the programs from one drive to another in a few minutes in three steps. Download the utility ‘Application mover’ from ‘http://www.funduc.com/app_mover.htm’ and install it. Run the program after installing.

Step 1
On the main screen, you need to specify the two paths to the programs which need to be moved. Choose the current and new path accordingly. Leave all other check boxes untouched. Click ‘OK’.

IIT Bombay Techfest 2012: All about Robotics

One of the highlights of the Techfest 2012, which held at IIT Bombay, was its international exhibitions arena. Evidently dominated by robots, the robotic section had covered several aspects - humanoid, surveillance, educational and industrial. The robotic platform at the Techfest 2012 showcased bots expressing emotions, playing intelligent games and serving as a model for military training, among others. With a great potential for applications in future in varying fields, lets look at these robots one by one.

10 devices to look forward to in 2012

  I’ve picked 10 devices that you can look forward to this year.

iPhone 5
This celebrated device is expected to come sometime this year. Whether it’s named iPhone 5 or not, the next generation of the iPhone is expected to release later this year in fall, the same time the iPhone 4S was released in 2011. The device is suggested to come in a tapering design, while some supposed design elements were revealed recently. Besides, we obviously expect some improvements over its key feature – Siri. So, if you're boggled over buying an iPhone 4S, especially owing to the hefty price that comes with unjustifiable upgrades (at least the price tag it attaches in India says so), we suggest you might as well wait for the newer version.

Images and specs of the Lumia 900 leak ahead of launch

Rumors surrounding Nokia's upcoming flagship handset, the Lumia 900 has been doing the rounds for quite some time now. It was first previewed in a video, which was taken down and later on images of the handset had surfaced displaying a front facing camera along with it being available in various colours. It was believed that the smartphone would run on the Tango build of Windows Phone 7, but now, according to a report by Pocketnow, Nokia will release the handset running on the Mango version of the OS, instead during the launch.

The report details that that it will be as thick as the Lumia 800, but will weigh 160g, which is 18g more. Here is a quick look at the specifications of what the Lumia 900 may have:

• Windows Phone 7 Mango
• 4.3-inch ClearBlack WVGA display
• 1.4GHz Qualcomm processor
• 512 MB RAM
• 12mm thick
• 1830mAh battery

These are all the specifications that are available at the moment, but if the report is anything to go by, then we should see the handset being unveiled at CES, which is scheduled to begin in a few days from now. The launch of the Nokia Lumia 900 is believed to be in March.

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