Facebook App for iPhone.iPad gets updated

Yes, it is finally out, the Facebook app for the iPad is finally out, along with a heavily updated version of the iPhone app. This by far is the best looking social network app ever. The design looks soft and sexy, the new update includes a new sidebar that peeks out and shows the options that one would find in the left pane of the Facebook page. This looks nice despite the one that goes back and forth in the previous apps. Whats cool is that video is also now viewable on the iPhone/iPad. The sidebar also has options for apps, which might now be able work together with apps on the iOS device. This major upgrade has almost brought all the stuff that you could do on your computer to your mobile phone, I have my doubts whether I would be logging into my Facebook account from my laptop!

MTS MBLAZE Data Card - Crashing on Mac

If you have a MacBook or a Pro, and you are using the MTS Mblaze data card to connect to the Internet, you might have faced the problem of your mac crashing in the few minutes of your data card being connected to the Internet. This is because your mac might be in the 64 bit OS mode and this causes problem with the MTS card which works well on the 32 bit mode. This doesn't seem to be a problem with the 64 bit and 32  bit windows, but the mac catches cold here. To make the card work properly you need to boot your mac in a 32 bit mode. To do this just simply hold the buttons "3" and "2" together when the grey screen comes up until the desktop loads. This helps in clearing the cold. If you have a problem in checking your balance as the software crashes when you hit "check my balance", try installing the older software that is available on the MTS MBlaze website. Comment about the other problems that you have experienced.

Steve Jobs ( 1955 - 2011 )

The world has lost a great visionary today. Throughout all his years, he was a man who hasn't feared to follow what his heart said. He had lived his life the way he wanted to live it. A great visionary, a great inspiration to everyone. His inspiring stevenotes will always be remembered and watched again and again by generations to come. His work will be continued. For all the effort he has put in  his life, may his soul rest in peace. Offering my condolences to his family.

Apple iPhone Event - Lets talk iPhone - 2011

The apple's next most hyped event is just on going and I am here to bring you updates regarding some of the great announcements:
iOS 5 - The usual updates were told in brief about the new iOS. To know more about it click: iOS 5 .
Another announcement regarding the iOS 5 is that it will be available from October 12th.
iCloud - Apple's cloud backup service. Nothing new here other than iTunes match ( matching the library of your iTunes with the library on the iCloud ) and that it will also be available from October 12th.
iPhone 4S - The next new box of amazingness and awesomeness? Take a guess from the new features of this iPhone:
    -Nothing new design wise, both CDMA and GSM models are available
    -New A5 chip, which is the first dual core processor to come to the iPhone family, thus making this model 7 times faster than the iPhone 4
    -New and better graphics due to the enhanced speed, more visual candy in games.
    -Antena switching between receiving and transmitting antennas gives more speed, along with the new processor, the speed can reach the 4G speeds
    -New 8MP camera which can shoot 1080p video ( man , 32 GB model might not just be enough...!!!), also more sensors and stabilizer to give great videos and photos
    -New voice assistant named SIRI, which can do almost anything on the iPhone for you, including setting reminders, finding routes and sending texts.
    -Comes in black and white, and also in 16,32 and 64 GB models
    -Release date? Its oct 14th...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
iPhone 4 has been reduced to $99 and iPhone 3GS has some free offers. That's it for the event updates. News courtesy of Gizmodo.com and Telegraph.co.uk

Apple's October 5 Event - Get ready

Hey guys, get ready for the next big hyped event which has all sorts of rumors going around, I will be monitoring almost all the information sources available on the net and updating this blog. The event starts at 10:30 PM IST. Keep your eyes open and check out blog for updates regarding the event.

Facebook rolling out more new features

Facebook is bringing out more features recently. Since yesterday, I noticed the following new stuff that showed up on my Facebook page:
- the right end of the Facebook bar at the top has been redesigned
- News feed has been redesigned
- Posts with more popularity are shown with a blue bar at the top left corner at the post
- Friend's status updates are shown live at the top section of the new chat panel at the right side of the window.
These are the changes thy catches my eye. Check out future posts for new improvements.

Google+ Opened to all: Get +ed

Google+ , the already famous social network by Google is now open to everyone. Until a few days ago, anyone who wished to join it would have to get an invitation from an already registered member, or in another words, one could only join in an invitation basis.
Now, when you open up google, you will find an arrow pointing to a new tab at the top named You+. Click it and you will know what to do. The invitation based registration has made almost everyone in this world try google+. A different strategy in google's own words to describe how big it can get among the masses. Now, as it is open to all, all we have to do is wait for some statistics to show up and see how it is doing with it's rival , Facebook.

Facebook's new smart lists

Google+ has really stirred up Facebook to bring new advancements to keep itself in the market as a tough competitor. We had got video calling and improved privacy features. The next cannon ball that Facebook throws is smart lists. In other words the circle's competitors and you know whose circle I am talking about. Smart list automatically organizes lists of friends based on current work/study information and also location information. You can also organize close friends and acquaintances and also organize whose news feed shows up on your feed page. Pretty cool? or Pretty same? Let us know what you think about it in the comments.

Glassless 3D - The next step or the next leap?

3D was a technology that was lying around for a long time. 3D movies have been around since 1980 but it is until recently that its roaring on top of its feet. Almost every action sic fi flick is coming out in 3D , with some of them gaining popularity just because of the great usage of 3D technology.
In its initial days, the only place where we could enjoy 3D content was in cinemas. But now due to advances in technology, 3D is now available right at our home. We can all play games, watch movies in beautiful 3D. Todays technology has made 3D come right to our hands. Now a days we even have special cameras that can shoot both depth filled photos and videos. We were restricted to view eye popping content only through special glasses. But now we can do more than that. Special glassless 3D tech have emerged that makes it possible to view them straight away. This has made it possible to view 3D content on phones and handheld gaming devices. This is where we are today. But 3D tech for home entertainment systems where quite a rage and before it could reach everyones home, we saw the emergence of the glassless tech. Will something with a much more immersive entertainment experience emerge before everyone can get their hands on this glassless tech, or will it be a runner for a long time as smartphones did for a decade..? Only the future can answer us.

Bloggers new look

It has been a long time since I had logged into my blogger profile and it is today that I have noticed that blogger had changed its look and feel. It seems great to use, but people with a slower internet connections would have to wait for a few seconds or even a few minutes for the interface to load. If this had a HTML view just as gmail had, they would feel a little relaxed.
There a few new settings such as location that is available at the sidebar of the posting page. We will have to see if these new changes bring blogger back up to its feet or make it a good competitor of wordpress.

iCloud - Think Cloud

WWDC 2011 is happening right as I blog and after talking about iOS 5, Steve gets on stage and gets his speech on iCloud stirring up people. The word iCloud might make your imagination think that it is something like MobileMe, but it is more than that. You can not restrict yourselves to just mail and contacts, you can take up documents, books and photo streams. The best part is that it is all free. You will have a free 5GB storage for everything except photo streams and books. What about them, photo streams and books are free. So now you can buy a song in you iTunes and you don't need to sync to get it on your iDevice. This is also a part of the iTunes matching service. And with that announcement, the keynote ends up. There wasn't any hard concentration on hardware I guess

Busting New Features of iOS 5 at WWDC 2011

The WWDC is happening at San Fransisco right now as I am blogging now, and I am here to tell you about the new features of the iOS 5 announced at the conference. According to the announcement, the new iOS will contain about more than 200 new features and they have discussed about 10 of them in detail, which include:

1. Notifications: The new iOS will contain a new notification system which will be less ineruptive than the previous notification system i.e. will show messages and other notifications in the top of the screen, not disturbing what you are doing.
2. News stand: You can consider this as the iBooks app for reading newspapers and magazines.
3. Twitter: Twitter on iPhone has made a major remodel for the new iOS, it will be integrated into the basic apps, such as camera, contacts etc.
4. Safari: Safari includes new features such as story mode and better tabbed browsing. Tabbed browsing also has quicker tab switching mechanism.
5. Reminders: You know what the name says, a reminder app, which is juiced up to remind you even if you leave a place by setting up a geographic wall, along with lots of other features.
6. Camera: This old time favorite baby now includes automatic enhancements and a load of smart features such as using the volume up button for taking a picture. You can also go the camera app quicker than ever directly from the lock screen.
7. Mail: Mail has recieved more features such as rich text formatting and MIME.
8. Game Center: More game center updates include better way of finding friends and downloading games directly from game center.
9. iMessage: Similar to iChat but far more better iPhone and iPad buddy connecting device.
10. PC-Free: This is one of the most awesome features. They claimed that PC is going out of existence and that people prefer only an iPhone or an iPad in their hand. So, the new iOS is bringing an PC free system. You have no need to setup your iPhone initially. It will be unlocked without even connecting to the PC.

Other new exciting features include a new and improved UI, Airplay mirroring and much awaited WIFI syncing. The iOS 5 will be available for iPhone 3gs and onwards. According to the announcement, it will be available this fall.

Witcher 2 Problem Fixes - Patch error, Slow FPS, Crash

Witcher 2 is a recent game that is really hitting the trends off by giving us brilliant visuals. The game is simply awesome on even the lowest settings. You will definitely kiss your PC when you see the sun rays passing through you and other objects. But this freakishly awesome game is getting many number of errors which are almost all easy to fix.

Patch Errors: Once the game is installed you might have to download a patch that is done automatically, but the real problem starts when the patch is installed. It might rise some Appdata errors or incomplete and invalid game errors. First of all locate the downloaded patch file, it is in the "The Witcher 2" folder in you "My Documents". The fix: try installing the patch in a user account that is not password protected but also has administrator rights, try installing the patch from within the game folder. If all fails, try re-installing the game under the directory name "Witcher 2" and then running the patch setup.

Low FPS: This is most common among Nvidia card users. It seems that the Nvidia 3D vision drivers are interfering with the games performance heavily thus resulting in a very low FPS. I was only able to get about 5 FPS even in the lowest settings and lowest resolution. But after uninstalling my 3D vision drivers, I was able to get about 20-30 FPS even in the highest settings, more than enough for playing this beautiful game. Also disable ubersampling if you want to get even more FPS, remember ubersampling reduces the FPS to half of what you get without it. The game rocks well on my core2quad, GTS 250 with 1440x900 resolution, so I guess an average card is enough to play the game with the high settings.

Crash: If your game gets random crashes to the desktop and your running a 32 bit Windows 7 or Windows Vista, and having around or above 3 GB RAM, you will need to enable 3GB switch to fix it. To enable the 3GB fix, open command prompt in the administrator mode and type the following command, " bcdedit /set IncreaseUserVa 3072 " and hit enter. Then restart your computer and start the game to see it run without any crashes. To turn the 3GB switch back off, type, " bcdedit /deletevalue IncreaseUserVa " and restart the computer.

As for the game, the game is really wonderful game, so enjoy it....!!!

Windows 7 - Software Installation Problem

It's common all over, some of your older programs have trouble running on windows 7. Even some of the newer driver may show installation errors in your windows 7 machine when you try to install them on an account which is password protected. The reason behind this is some of the software installation procedure utilizes a folder known as AppData. Since your account is password protected, it cannot be easily accessed by the running program. All you need is another account which has administrative privileges and not password protected. This might sound a little odd, but its what worked for me and everywhere around. The newer software don't have these problems, it's majorly found among the older software.

iTunes 10.2.2 - Jaibreak Safe

Apple had released iTunes version 10.2.2, with some of the minor improvements. For all the jailbreakers outside it is safe for you to upgrade to this version i.e. it is jailbreak safe. As for iPhone 4 users, who are waiting for the iOS 4.3.2 untethered jailbreak, redsn0w version 0.9.6 rc14 has been released, which fixes the problem of jailbreaking the iPhone 4 on iOS 4.3.2. Happy jailbreaking.

Crysis fans go Dull

Crysis 2 had been really creating the hype that it was supposed to, even the beta build that was released, with directx 9, the visuals was amazing. But the fans were shocked to see that the release of the game was also with directx 9. The fans were all expecting to the stunning visuals of cryengine 3 in the latest directx 11, but all that was left with them was the same good old directx 9. Even with it, the game looks great, but still, the mind knows that it is directx 9, thus refuses to accept the stunningness. The company has announced that it would release a directx 11 patch soon enough, but by the looks of it, there might be a gap of 2-3 weeks before it comes out.

iPad 2........!!!!!

iPad 2 had been recently announced as the next largest product by apple. Even before it was released, they hype about it was circling around the Internet. It also came with a blasting range of new features. Here are some of them:

*.Thinner and lighter than the original iPad.
*.Two cameras with a front camera to use with FaceTime.
*.A dual core A-5 chip, which means faster processing and faster gaming.
*.A smart cover with magnetic attachment that makes it to be used as a cover and a stand.
*.Other features include software updates along with FindMyiPad.
For more details visit: www.apple.com/ipad/

Photos are coming in soon, keep on reading.........!!!!

Fans Win Over Piracy

One of the highest anticipated game of 2011 "CRYSIS 2" is just around the corner, and just as it was creating the hype about it, some guy released a beta test version of the game online about a month ago. Apart from movies, games are the largest downloaded files in the torrent database. But then, this game , which was feared to become the largest pirated game by beating the record created by the call of duty series, didn't become so  The fans of the game didn't even support the pirated version. Even the persons who downloaded it have commented that they will purchase the original version of the game. This game has set s new standard in digital rights by not even setting heavy and idiotic DRM as other current games do.. Crysis 2 has again set a standard in anti-piracy, a feat no other game has ever achieved.

Know the founders

Do you know who founded facebook? No....?? Then you are already lagging and unfit for a job in the IT industry. Here is a list of founders/CEOs and other important personnel that you would need to know:

• Facebook -  Mark Zuckerberg (Founder)
• Twitter - Jack Dorsey (Founder)
• Foursquare - Dennis Crowley (Founder)
• LinkedIn - Reid Hoffman (Founder/Greylock partner)
• Orkut - Google Inc.(Owner) ,  Orkut Büyükkökten (Creator) 
• Flickr - Ludicorp (Creator), Yahoo! Inc. (Current Owner)
• Microsoft - Bill Gates, Paul Allen (Founders)
• Current Key personnel:
• Steve Ballmer (CEO)
• Bill Gates (Chairman)
• Apple Inc. - Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Ronald Wayne (Founders)
• Current Key Personnel:
• Steve Jobs (Co-founder, Chairman, CEO)
• Tim Cook (COO)

You have unsuccessfully logged out !!

Are you always in a habit of leaving your social network accounts logged in? This would be okay at your home, but at an internet centre or a friend's house, it is the most dangerous thing to do. In most of the internet center's that I have been to, the first thing that I would notice is not Google's new doodle but the e-mail ID of the previuos user flashing at the top right corner of the page. There are only few people in this whole planet who want to directly log the account off. The others are just intelligent to fondle with that account. So, to who ever who is reading this, please learn to log off your accounts, expecially at public centers.
The most hilarious situation where an unlogged off account was very useful is discussed as follows. A burglar, near Berkeley county, while robbing a house wanted to check his facebook account and leave. But his mistake was leaving his account online. This lead to the direct arrest of the burglar. This is the irony, it is happy to know that technology has reached almost everyone and sad to know that there are people so dumb in this world..!!

Mac App Store

The iPhone was a revolutionary device and it became even more popular than ever with the introduction of the App store. This blasted out thousands and thousands of both paid and free applications for the iPhone which was also extended to be used on  the iPad.

Image courtesy: www.gadgetoz.com

Now apple has let out its new store for mac called Mac App Store. It is all easy to install, just update your Mac software and when you restart after the update, the App store icon is displayed on the dock.

So, the app stores magic has been bought to the mac. This means that there will be no more need to buy software on compact discs. All the software can be easily updated and organized. An app can also be re downloaded once purchased.

It is always stuff like this that makes apple the master in innovations. Not to mention the amount of piracy that can be reduced.