Tech Updates

WeChat – The New way to Chat

October 22, 2012 by Sajith Leave a Comment

Chatting is the most commonly used feature of Internet by the youth and common people. It allows us to comment with our colleagues and relatives or even can make new friends over internet. And, there are many Internet and Software companies provides online chatting facility.

Now, We are going to familiar to you a new chatting software ‘WeChat‘ developed by ‘Tencent’ which is suitable for all most all smartphones including Android, iOS, Symbian ( V3 & V5 ), and Windows ( Blackberry version is coming soon). It supports currently 17 languages including English, Hindi, Spanish etc.. and supports Wi-Fi, 2G, 3G and 4G data. The main feature of new Wechat 4.3 ( Latest version ) is, it supports voice and video calling, Group voice messaging, Moments( sharing including text, photo, video & URL ).

Few Words About Tencent Company.

‘Tencent’ is the largest Internet Company in APAC with almost 800 million active users. Its the third largest Internet Company globally in terms of investment Capitalization. They launched WeChat Internationaly (iPhone) on October 27, 2011.

WeChat

As we said earlier, WeChat is a free mobile communication and social networking app for smartphones with features like Video/Audio calling, Push-To-Talk Voice Messaging, Group Chat-Text & voice ( upto 40 people ) and location based friend discovery social features ( shake). It can download and install from Google Play Store, Nokia store and Windows market place at free of cost.

We chat also provides a Rock-paper-Scissors mini game, customizable backgrounds, and engaging one-on-one and group session with an extensive range of Animated and custom emoticon and emoji art. Also provides to apply artistic filters to photos and share with your friends on Chat and Moments wall.

WeChat provides a fast and secure social networking access. Protects your data by on-demand data backup and retrieval to/from its cloud based server. And also user registration is much simple by SMS/Voice messaging service. The above mentioned features are the key benefits of WeChat App from other leading chatting apps such as Nimbuzz etc.. They donot provide such fastest and secure user experience.

Shake : Exchange contact information with nearby WeChat users, or connect with WeChat users worldwide and to be friends with them.

Look Around : Discovers WeChat users near you.

One of the upcoming feature of WeChat is, Powerful Open API. with this feature, users will be able to allow share photo, music, video, games, new and other kind of social network from other third party Application plugins.

Apple Siri 101: All About To Know

September 26, 2012 by Sajith V Leave a Comment

Siri stole everyone’s hearts when she – it – was introduced to the world together with the iPhone 4S. Fast forward a year later and Apple has given Siri a rather cool makeover for the iOS 6. Most analysts expect the new operating system to be launched together with the upcoming iPhone 5. If you are excited about the newest addition to Apple’s smartphone family, you can try sating your excitement a little by learning more about the all-new Siri. She will likely be your best friend once you have the iPhone 5 in your hands.

Sports

Siri is the perfect date for any sport game. It knows everything about hockey, soccer, football, basketball, and baseball. It can provide you everything from player stats to game schedules to real-time scores of the games playing this very minute.

Movies

Siri is your ultimate guide to the silver screen. Aside from screening times and theatre lists, it can also provide you links to movie reviews and trailers as well as interesting tidbits like the awards won by a movie or the total filmography of your favorite actor!

Restaurants

A way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. If there’s a guy you want to impress, Siri can show you the best way to do so. It can provide a list of the perfect places to eat based on factors like location, seating preferences, cuisine, and your budget of course. You will also get links to reviews, photos of the restaurant, and Siri can even book you a table through OpenTable.

Get connected!

It used to be that Siri was only capable of typing your emails and SMS. However, Apple made sure to extend Siri’s capabilities with the iOS 6. This time, Siri can also type on your behalf your tweets and wall posts on your Facebook.

Open up, apps!

It used to be that Siri can also “collaborate” with certain built-in applications installed in your iPhone. This time, Siri’s capabilities extend to downloaded third-party applications as well. Just call on Siri and it can open whichever application you have indicated.

Siri merges with your car.

Apple is currently working out a deal with various automobile manufacturers which – if it does push through – will allow you to ask help from Siri with a push-button system integrated with your vehicle’s steering wheel. This way, you will be able to keep your eyes on the road – as it should be – while getting Siri to help you out.

Siri becomes a polyglot.

Well, okay, Siri was already multilingual in the iOS 5 but it knows more languages thanks to its update from iOS 6. Aside from English, Siri also speaks Spanish, French, Italian, Mandarin and Cantonese, Japanese, and Korean – among others!

To enjoy nonstop conversation with the all-new Siri from iOS 6, you may want to check if your wireless broadband connection is up to speed. It would be a good idea to check if the 3G service from your mobile phone is also fast enough to get Siri to working seamlessly for you 24/7.

Apple’s Unveiling of the iPhone 5: What Audiences Found Out

September 25, 2012 by Sajith V Leave a Comment

Wednesday, September 12, 2012 is perhaps another remarkable date in Apple’s history. It is during this day when the iPhone 5 is finally unveiled during a media event held at San Francisco. Before this occasion even up to the last day, iPhone 5 rumours which doesn’t seem so for being so accurate, were so prevalent but all of these has finally reached their end now that the creator of iPhone 5 themselves has revealed the said iOS phone.

Apple’s iPhone 5 launch: What the audiences found out

Perhaps, a more appropriate title for this article would be, ‘What Audiences Has Confirmed’. Considering the wide array of reliable 5 rumours covering almost every aspect of the iPhone 5, people already have a lot of ideas about the new iOS smart phone that Apple will launch next.

But one benefit that the audiences got at the September 12 media event at San Francisco is that they were able to witness Apple’s presentation of the iPhone 5 where the iOS 6 functions and the new features were demonstrated. During the presentation, a lot of amazing features were announced by Apple.

Among these are the improved dimensions making the iPhone 5 18 percent thinner and 20 percent lighter than its predecessor, the iPhone 4S. The iPhone 5’s improved dimensions are 123.8 x 58.6 x 7.6 mm and 112 grams. Although the iPhone increased its height a bit, it should not get in the way of being more comfortable in one’s hand after the reduction in thickness and weight.

And of course, people weren’t disappointed with their hopes for a bigger screen for the iPhone 5. Apple has finally broken what seems to be their pledge to maintain a 3.5-inch screen for all their iPhone devices and let the iPhone 5 sport a bigger diagonal screen size at 4-inches. Still far from its fierce competitor’s screen size such as the Nokia Lumia 920’s 4.5-inch screen or Samsung Galaxy S III’s 4.8-inch screen but coming from a consistent 3.5-inch screen size for a very long time, people will certainly appreciate the new 4-inch screen size.

Further to the 4-inch screen, Apple also mentioned in the presentation that they were able to add a 5^th row of icons in the home screen. Additionally, they increased the pixels up to 640 x 1136 to maintain the crystal clear quality of the display having 326ppi pixel density.

Wireless technology is also updated with the iPhone 5. People can now experience real high speed internet with the LTE technology and faster WiFi reaching up to 150 mbps.

Apple also prepared the battery life for all these improvements, particularly the bigger display and the LTE technology. The iPhone 5’s battery can carry on with 8 hours continuous web browsing through the LTE, 40 hours music playback, 10 hours video streaming, and 225 standby hours.

Amazing features that are also announced during the event, among others are, the FaceTime camera in HD, the improved audio system with microphones at front, bottom and back, Passbook, smarter Siri, and much, much more.

Other than the iPhone 5 features, Apple also divulged other information such as the price range ($199 to $399), the September 14 pre-order date and September 21 shipping date in US, UK, Canada, Germany, Australia, France, Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore and free upgrade of iPhone 3GS, to iPhone 4s, iPad 2 and new iPad, iPod touch fourth generation on September 19.

Fix “USB Device Not Recognized” in Windows

September 1, 2012 by Sajith Leave a Comment

USB flash drives and USB devices are very much popular today. Every computer devices like, Mouse,Keyboard, Printer, Webcam etc. comes with USB standard. But sometimes while trying to connect your USB devices or drives to computer ( Assumes windows OS ), you may found an error message “USB Device Not Recognized“. Here we are discussing some ways to troubleshoot this error.

Shut down and Restart

In some cases, just turn off your computer system may resolve your issue. Just shut down and remove and re plug your power supply pin. After a few minutes, Restart computer and re connect your device. It may resolve the issue.

Uninstall and Reconnect USB Device.

If the above method doesn’t works, try this method.
a) Click Start -> Run
b) Type devmgmt.msc and press enter. Device managent window will be open.
c) Find Universal Serial Bus Controller. Expand by clicking (+) button.
d) Right click on USB device and click Uninstall.

Windows Device Manager

e) After the driver is uninstalled, unplug the device
f) Restart you Computer.
g) Plug your USB device.
Yeah! You are Done 🙂

Re install USB Controllers

If above two method doesn’t work, try this method.
a. Click start > Run
b. Type ” devmgmt.msc ” and hit Enter
c. Right click on device and uninstall. Then Uninstall each USB driver.
d. Restart your computer

Use Microsoft USB Fix Tool

Microsoft provides a software which can automatically diagnoses and repairs USB related common issues. It will be helpful if download and install this tool.
Download Now.

If you have any doubts/comments on above post, Feel free to add it as comment below 🙂

Thanks for reading and sharing 🙂

Android Jelly Bean To Land On Galaxy SIII

August 31, 2012 by Sajith V Leave a Comment

Right now, people are already feasting on the new Samsung Galaxy SIII with its amazing features such as the 2GB RAM, 16GB or 32GB storage through the micro SD card, dual-core 1.5 GHz Krait processor, 4.8-inch SuperAMOLED HD panel enhanced with a 1280 x 720 pixels, 8mp rear camera and 1.9 front camera, to name a few.

However, what most Galaxy SIII owners and spectators should realize is, there is another enhancement that is to come with this remarkable unit, particularly with the operating system. The Samsung Galaxy S III will soon be upgraded to the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean operating system. The Galaxy S III will be the first device that does not belong to the Nexus line of devices that will be receiving this Android operating system update.

The Jelly Bean update was launched on August 29^th. However, this launch is only for the international versions which include the UK among the other countries. Although the Jelly Bean updates for the US and Canada devices are yet to be announced, people can expect this to happen soon.

While the Samsung Galaxy SIII is already functional and as we have mentioned earlier, packed with amazing features, people should be excited as to how this unit will be further improved. Below are among the notable features of the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean that people should fantasize on how it will be executed on the Samsung Galaxy SIII:

· Improved notifications framework – Those drop down notifications are certainly effective in giving the user a quick information of new updates in the device. But with the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update, people can get more than just quick information. Rich media and different types of content can now be seen such as photos. Users can also perform more actions from the notifications framework.

· Improved app widgets – Users can now customize the look of their interface by resizing the widgets. As long as there are enough space in the menu where the widget is placed, users can resize it for better accessibility.

· More efficient app updates – Updates will no longer take much time to finish. With the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, people will only have to receive the bits that are changed, instead of the whole APK. This way, updates are faster and easier consuming less time, bandwidth usage and battery life.

· Enhancements to Google Beam – Wireless connection can now happen not only between two Android devices but with Android and Bluetooth devices as well.

· Additions to the TouchWIZ features –Users can manage their device even better with the addition of the dormant mode which will allow the user to change the alerts and notifications settings easier. The Easy mode setting is also an addition to the TouchWIZ feature which will make the operation of the home screen much simpler.

Final Words

The Samsung Galaxy SIII has been sensational due to the amazing features that came with it during its launch. During this status of this unit, it has been compared with other flagship devices by other leading manufacturers. But by having the capability to be upgraded to the latest Android operating system, Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, other smart phones should have a harder time beating the Galaxy SIII in the market.

How to Delete Files Permanently From Computer

August 13, 2012 by Sajith Leave a Comment

We all are familiar with files and folder’s on computer. We probably saves relevant files in folder’s, Drives, or even in desktop. And also every OS including windows and Linux versions provides the facility to remove/delete unwanted files.
While taking Windows, the deleted files should not be deleted permanently from the hard disk. Actually it’s a fecility provided by the widows ( other OS too ) to protect users missing their important files by careless. But unfortunately many of people not care such things or have no idea about it. And it leads to many problems such as misusing confidential files, recollecting personal files while servicing etc.
So today we are discussing about the ways to delete such files permanently. It can do with four simple steps.

Step 1

Go to Start > Programs > Accessories > Run.

Or simple press ” Win + R” key combination.

Step 2

Type CMD on it.

Step 3

Type cipher /W:C/ on the command window.

Step 4

!!Yeah!! you have done almost!. Close all applications you have opened and press enter.

If you have any doubts/comments on above post, Feel free to add it as comment below 🙂

Thanks for reading and sharing 🙂

What to do if Accidentally clicked on my own Adsense Ad?

June 9, 2012 by Sajith Leave a Comment

I have used a laptop log back and try to avoid it! because I clicked my own adsense ads twice a day while am moving courser through by blog using touch pad. As our agreement with Google as a publisher I have dug up their rules.

If you don’t Know.

Clicking on your own ads is a violation of Google Adsense terms and conditions. It is also a violation if you coerce friends and families to do the same. Mean while, Google cannot find who the people are but their servers can verify whole clicks received on your ads and smell if there are too many clicks from a relatively small area ( Remember, world is a big place). Google gives importance and value to both Adsense publishers and Advertisers. So, Your Adsense account will disapproved and you/your address should be banned from Google Adsense that means, you cannot create another account.

Invalid Clicks.

This is is term defined excluding accidental clicks. As Google states :

Although publishers are not permitted to click on their own ads for any reason, we do understand that accidental clicks may occur. We there for don’t require that you contact us every time clicks on your own ad slots. Rest Assured that your account is being properly credited for all clicks and impressions we consider to be valid.

If you’d like to read the complete document, found it here. Google keeps a record of wheres clicks came and flags if same activity occurs too often.

If found an Unusual Activity on your Adsense Ad.

If you happen to notice that some unusual click activities on your Adsense Ad, you must notify Google (Adsense) immediately. the notification form can be found here. It is currenlty not possible for Google to block IP addresses. But they have an Adsense preview tool if you would like to check out an ad without clicking it. Found it here.

Own Page views.

Google will not seriously care about this. Its clicking on the ad ads they care about. But Adsense only counts normal page views as their Ad impression. Thats why, Techie Feeds allows its authors to post their ads too and views by our other authors and users will be count normal impression as their.
signup on Techie Feeds here as an author.

Surges in traffic

Google is a smart company and it treat its users brilliantly. So they don’t need if you expect a surge As previously said they know how and when impressions came from.and are more happy if its look normal.

Thanks for Reading this Post.:) If you have any questions or comments, feel free to let me know!

Create High Resolution Photo Colleges.

May 28, 2012 by Sajith Leave a Comment

Today We are discussing about an online tool which helps us to create photo collages using our photos photos.

Vincent Cheung, Who has previously worked at Microsoft Research and Google, Developed an automatic photo college software that can create extremism impressive collages using your pictures. Here is some snap shots of collages created using Vincent’s software.

Called ShapeCollage.com. Its light weighted (~ 300 kb) and written in JAVA. So it works same Microsoft, Mac OS and Linux with same package.

You can either select individual snaps, or folder containing photo can select for creating the collage or poster. Then you select a snap from your college – Its could be a drawing, pile scattered images, or you could draw some shapes using mouse and Shape Collage will match the layout of your collage with that shape.

Shape Collage can save your collages / posters as high resolution JPEG or layered PSD files. So your are free to edit the college / poster after using professional image processing software such as Adobe Photoshop or GIMP.

This Photo Collage Software let you crate Text photo Collages – You can simply write text using installed fonts and Shape Collage will arrange pictures by the layouts of your Text.

Also Read our post about creating Photo Collage using photos on web such as from your Website, Facebook, Twitter, or even from Google Image Search Here.

Feel Free to post your Comments, Questions, Feedback etc. .as Comment below 🙂 We are eagerly waiting for your response 🙂

How to Create A Photo College Using your Pictures on Web.

May 28, 2012 by Sajith Leave a Comment

On last post, We have discussed how to create Photo Collages using photos on our hard-disc. That was a software called Shape Collage. Now We are posting a new service from the Team of Shape Collage called GetLoup.com.

Loups helps Us to Create Photo Colleges from Social Network Sites such as, Faceook, Twitter, Google + etc.. and and even from Search results and your own URL’s.

While you are entered to the Loup website, You need Add your Photos first. It may be from Facebook, Search, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, or even from your own url.

Here We have selected pictures from our Blog and selected All images. Now We need to Add photos.

The Next very simple Process is Click the green Add Photos on the previous box itself. And Select Shape you your college want to be.

Yeah! Your Photo Collage is Ready to save. Click on The Green Save button and give, Title and description for your collage.

The Image should be saved on your Facebook profile. You can save to your hard disc by right click on the image and save.

Feel Free to Post your Feedback, Doubts etc.. As comments. We are eagerly waiting 🙂

BLOGGER SEO MADE EASY WITH SEARCH PREFERENCE OPTIONS ON NEW UI.

May 21, 2012 by Sajith Leave a Comment

Good news for all Bloggers..! Blogger has been introduced a new search preference option. Now bloggers can easily add meta tags, customize Robots.txt, Redirects, 404 Error page, and alt and title for images.

SEO is a majot part of any website / blog to list on search results of search engines. Before, during the old UI, blogger had not supported SEO. But now, in new UI of blogger, the SEO fuctions are fully functional and dynamic. Now you can set meta tags for each posts and Robots tag separately.

BLOGGER ADDED THE FOLLOWING ON NEW UI

1. Search Meta description.

2. Custom post meta description.

3. Coustom 404 Error.

4. Coustom Robots.txt

5. Redirects.

6. Couston Robots header Tags.

7. Alt and Title tags for Images.

ENABLE SEARCH PREFERENCE OPTION.

This option is only available in New blogger UI. to Enable Search preference option,

Go to New Blogger Dashboard > Select the blog and select settings Tab > Search preference.

SEARCH DESCRIPTION

This is the general description of Home page to optimize the Home page / Blog. And visible on the seach results. Search Description should be a short description about your blog and max. 150 characters in English.

The search description may disabled in default. You need to click on the Edit button > the Yes. hence description can written on the white box. max. of 150 letters.

CUSTOM POST META DESCRIPTION

This is the custom Post Meta description for each and every individual post.You can easily set and customize the Each post while creating it or editing the post area. It is placed on the left side of the post editor.

custom post meta description on new blogger UI.

CUSTOM 404 ERROR PAGE

This is also a new option from blogger.

Say Good bye to blogger default 404 page not found error page. Now you can customize your 404 error page. This redirect is 302 temporary and redirection is send through HTTP Headers..

CUSTOM ‘ROBOTS.TXT’

Blogger has provided to edit and customize the robots.txt file. This is the key file for seach engine bots.

Using this Robots.txt, you can allow or Block search engines from indexing the pages. Usually, every blog has a robots.txt file.You can find your robots.txt file using the url,

http://yourblogname.blogspot.com.robots.txt.

Robot.txt file for Techie Feeds is : http://techiefeeds.blogspot.com/robot.txt.

customize robots txt on blogger SEO made easy

Warning : Changing or Modifying the Robot.txt file wrongly may effect visibility of blog on Search Engines.

You can set the Robots tags to home page, Archive/label pages, Post pages on Crawlers and indexing Searching on search preference tab.

ALT AND TITLE TAGS FOR IMAGES

Alt and Title tags for images helps for indexing images. Your images are easily indexed by image bots like Google Image bots.

To set Alt and Title tags for Images,

1. Upload and Add the Image.

2. Click on the Image.

3. A small menu bar will be displayed, and choose Properties option

4. On the popup prompt, Enter the Alt and Title tags for your Image.

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