The app is useful only if you have a Glass device; however, you can still install the app and get stuck where it tries to setup your Glass unit. There’s also a Glass Setup Page launched with a wizard that helps setup your Glass for the first time. The setup requires you to scan a QR code with the Glass to link the hardware unit with your account. While Android users are in for a treat, it’s not clear whether Google is planning to release a similar companion app for other platforms or not.

Google has already exposed the Mirror API for the developers to start getting their hands dirty and contribute to the Glass ecosystem. While many still don’t have the privilege to get their hands on the glass yet, the launch of the companion app and the setup page is a hope that things will move fast from here on.

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Zagg Folio Keyboard case

Most of you must be aware of Zagg and how they make almost the perfect cases and screen protectors for your phone. Well, they make a perfect keyboard case for the iPad as well. Created with a sleek and stylish design, the case is impressively thin and easy to carry. The case will fit right in for your iPad 3 and the latest iPad. The keyboard connect to the iPad with bluetooth. If you are done using the keyboard, you can snap it out to make a perfect folio case for your iPad.

The case comes in multiple color’s as well. And you can even choose the color for your brand new chiclet keyboard.

Price:$99

Logitech Ultrathin Keyboard

The logitech keyboard is perfect for those who don’t want to carry arround extra bulk with their iPad. The add on is simply perfect and the sleek looks actually compliments the iPad. Like the Zagg keyboard, the Logitech one can be paired with Bluetooth as well. the battery will last you around 6 months, yes, you read it right.

To continue with the specification list, the keyboard has a stunning appeal and comes in black, pure white and red colors. You can even  get your keyboard engraved for that “yours” feeling.

Price: $99

Clam case for iPad 1,2,3,4 and mini

Another contender is the clam case. Availble for all the iPad versions, the clam case fits your iPad and turn’s it into a mac book air. One thing common in the list is that all of them are very smart keyboards, but this add on is a fully detailed one. Lot’s of color options are available and above all, you can have different types of shells. The prices vary from the options you pick, but all shall be great for your device.

The hinges on the Case moves about 360 degrees, which essentially means that you could use your tablet as a tablet – That didn’t exactly sound right, did it? Anyways, the clam shell keyboard is perfect for productivity and protection as well as it wraps it self around your iPad completely.

Price: $149-$169

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Zagg Folio Keyboard case

Most of you must be aware of Zagg and how they make almost the perfect cases and screen protectors for your phone. Well, they make a perfect keyboard case for the iPad as well. Created with a sleek and stylish design, the case is impressively thin and easy to carry. The case will fit right in for your iPad 3 and the latest iPad. The keyboard connect to the iPad with bluetooth. If you are done using the keyboard, you can snap it out to make a perfect folio case for your iPad.

The case comes in multiple color’s as well. And you can even choose the color for your brand new chiclet keyboard.

Price:$99

Logitech Ultrathin Keyboard

The logitech keyboard is perfect for those who don’t want to carry arround extra bulk with their iPad. The add on is simply perfect and the sleek looks actually compliments the iPad. Like the Zagg keyboard, the Logitech one can be paired with Bluetooth as well. the battery will last you around 6 months, yes, you read it right.

To continue with the specification list, the keyboard has a stunning appeal and comes in black, pure white and red colors. You can even get your keyboard engraved for that “yours” feeling.

Price: $99

Clam case for iPad 1,2,3,4 and mini

Another contender is the clam case. Availble for all the iPad versions, the clam case fits your iPad and turn’s it into a mac book air. One thing common in the list is that all of them are very smart keyboards, but this add on is a fully detailed one. Lot’s of color options are available and above all, you can have different types of shells. The prices vary from the options you pick, but all shall be great for your device.

The hinges on the Case moves about 360 degrees, which essentially means that you could use your tablet as a tablet – That didn’t exactly sound right, did it? Anyways, the clam shell keyboard is perfect for productivity and protection as well as it wraps it self around your iPad completely.

Price: $149-$169

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What the business wants

Email is the most common means of business communication, and our ever-increasing reliance upon it presents to any organisation a set of inherent risks. Planned or unplanned downtime, viruses, malware attacks, loss of critical data, and data leakage are just some of the challenges faced by IT administrators. Therefore, rigorous and robust email management is now a business imperative.

A hosted Exchange solution is becoming an increasingly attractive option for many organisations due to its ability tooffer greater flexibility and freedom for the end user, alongside reduced overhead.

Common Challenges Posed by Migration to Hosted Exchange

Outsourcing to a third party may be a straightforward decision and a cost-efficient solution, but businesses need to be confident that the transition itself does not impinge upon day-to-day operations, and that off-premise hosting will deliver on its promise of continuity, accessibility and security.

Hosted Exchange services ensure that administrators are largely freed from the shackles of onerous and time-consuming support, but IT departments still retain responsibility should any outages occur. Consequently, reliability is arguably the most critical facet of any hosted service, and strong SLAs (service level agreements) should always be established.

IN addition, while the evolution of email has proved a boon for business communications, its exponential growth has added layers of complexity to any large scale data migration – particularly with data stored in multiple, disparate locations.

An integrated solution

Any viable and effective email management solution needs to give your organisation the confidence and, moreover, the tools to meet these challenges. It must reduce the administrative burden as well as future-proofing your investment.

The best cloud-based email management solutions can not only safeguard your investment in hosted Exchange services, but also greatly enhance the benefits they promise. An effective solution should integrate seamlessly with the hosted Exchange server, delivering enhanced service availability and a long term archive offering self-service and real time searches, as well ascentralised email retention andsecurity policy management.

Jerry Hook, Manager of Windows Systems at the University of Tennessee Medical Centre, believes he has found the perfect solution in Mimecast’s cloud-based Unified Email Management system:

“At the very beginning, there was uncertainty about placing all of our email management off-site. But the feature set won us over. With one service, we could get not only anti-spam and anti-virus, but also email retention and retrieval, disaster recovery and policy management. I have been dealing with IT vendors for years and it’s very rare for me to find a vendor that I completely trust.Mimecast’s attention to detail, their support and the quality of their people are outstanding. Mimecast does exactly what they said it would do.

“In the past, I’d estimate we spent at least 40 hours a month on administration of email management, with much of that on anti-spam. Since moving to Mimecast, our administrative

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How to use Simple ADB Backup

The application is fairly simple to use, and you don’t have to be an expert to make it work properly. I cannot stress enough that how important it is to back your phone up, and this app will do the job for you. To begin using Simple ADB Backup, you must be running android 4.0 or + on your device. If you clear that criteria then follow the steps below:

Step 1: Enable USB debugging mode on your deice.

Step 2: Connect your phone with USB cable while the application is on.

Step 3: Choose the method of backup you want.

Yes, it is that simple. The procedure time depends on what sort of backup you made. If you made a simple apps backup, the process would be brisk. The application is known to have run into issues with several HTC phones, nonetheless, anything that saves you the time to reinstall you application’s after a format is a blessing.

Simple ADB Backup would particularly be useful for when you are in the process of unlocking your boot loader. As many of you would know that unlocking the boot loader requires your device to be formatted. For that case, just plug your device in and back your apps up.

The Application is available to download for Linux and Windows environment. For now, the developer has kept the app at beta level and is free to download.

Download: Simple ADB Backup, XDA

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What is Usenet?

What Usenet does is that it provides you with newsgroups. In essence newsgroups are hierarchies or ‘Categories’ created by different users, collectively these ‘Categories’ care called as articles and all articles contain specific software’s. Usenet collect’s  the database of these articles from other Usenet users and broadcasts them with the information and downloadable files. One of the advantages of Using Usenet is that it’s pretty fast, since the files are in binary – the transfer rates are extremely high. There are many Usenet clients out there – but unlike torrents, the Usenet service will cost you a bit.

Why would you want it?

Well, this is one good question. Usenet is home to the latest downloads. Unlike Torrents’ where download’s show up after a few hours, Usenet will provide them in a jiffy. Unlike torrent’s you don’t even have to wait for seeds to go up, if the file is there you can get it at your normal broadband speed, unless of course your broadband provider is absolutely crap.

Where can i get Usenet?

There are many clients out there which can provide you with their services. Most of them charge around $15 per month. Since Usenet is not P2P, somebody somewhere is paying for the server’s to run and paying to keep them alive for you. But, having said that, the service is completely worth it. One of my favorites is the en.usenet.nl which provides blazing fast downloads – the prices aren’t to shabby as well, at 8 euro subscription per month it is a steal. The service provider also provides a trial version, you can take it out for a spin as soon as you sign – up.

Usenet is a download junkies heaven. Not only it is faster than torrent service, it also provides more download options to the users and you get all of your software’s at one place. If you would like to find more about this service – just check out the features page of usenet.nl.

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Tegra 4 is set to be the fastest Mobile processor and undoubtedly it will feature in the future smart phones, and believe when we say that those smartphones will be the star’s of 2013. With the Tegra 4, NVIDIA also introduced a new photography architecture, thanks to it, the image processing time has significantly improved and is up to 10 times faster than current platforms. NVIDIA pushed the processor to limits and showed off the processor’s capabilities by shooting HDR burst shots with LED flash, their ambition is to make image processing so accurate and fast that you wont need your DSLR to shoot those gorgeous pictures.

The Tegra 4 will also enable 4K ultra-high-definition video playback, along with that, NVIDIA has utilized PRISM 2 tech that will reduce the power used by the backlight. Thanks to the new technology, the power consumption has noticeably decreased by 45 % when compared to the Tegra 3.

Wrapping it up; another announcement was the i500 Soft Modem, which is a reprogrammable baseband solution that is capable of utilizing a wide range of Networks. The chip can handle a whopping 1.2 trillion operations per second and is 40 % the size of a conventional baseband chip. The availability and price of Tegra 4 chip hadn’t been made public yet, but we hope to soon find it out.

Tegra 4 Key Features

· – GeForce GPU with 72 custom cores
· – Quad-core ARM Cortex-A15 CPU, plus a 2nd Generation Battery Saver Core
· – Computational Photography Architecture
· – LTE capability with optional Icera i500 chipset
· – 4K ultra-high-def video support

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To begin with, Ubuntu OS makes heavy use of gesture based navigation. Youcould use all four screen corners to invoke different commands. For instance, if i wanted to see my last used apps, i would just swipe from left to right a bit, and if i wanted to see the whole list of apps you just do the same with a long swipe. There is a menu as well, and like other features, you have to invoke with a swipe gesture i.e. swipe from bottom.

Now talking about applications. As we know that Apple and Android are the leaders when it comes to availability of apps. Ubuntu is based on the same kernel as Android, but, Ubuntu OS does not utilize the Dalvik virtual machine, which is a pre-requisite to run android applications, which is a little strange as both of the operating systems share the same roots. But, having said that, this could be the winning point for Ubuntu, perhaps the native support will increase the stability of apps on it.

Searching through your system had always been easy in Ubuntu, the priorities haven’t changes much in the mobile platform and you cn wasily navigate to it by swiping down and search as you may on Ubuntu desktop version. The searched element could be anything from content on the device, online sessions or even Google the items. The lockscreen has been re-invented as well, and it’s not even called a lockscreen. the Canonical has decided to call it the welcome screen.

As with the desktop version of Ubuntu, search has been given high priority. You can search by swiping down from the top of the screen and as you type the relevant content appears on the screen, which could be content stored on the device or even available online from various sources, such as Wikipedia, for example.

Canonical has also reinvented the lockscreen on Ubuntu for phones. They like to call it the welcome screen instead. All your slide gestures will be available from this screen so there is no “unlock” procedure, just call it the home desktop for phones.

Last but not least the docking feature of the OS. Motorola were the first company to visualize this with the Atrix, they called it the webtop, Ubuntu have decided to give it a shot as well. Once docked, you will be able to utilize the full operating system on a screen, that’s brilliant.

The OS is expected to make appearance in early 2014 and the only current dedvice that has been seen running it is the Galaxy Nexus. We are hoping  for more screenshots and more demo’s from the company, till then, you can enjoy this video teaser.

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7. 3D TV’s

3D TV’s were supposed to generate a lot of stir in the year 2012, but they didn’t. What could be the reason? Perhaps people don’t watch TV’s anymore, ‘hmm’ i don’t think so. Or perhaps a better technology rounded up before 3D ever got a chance? Yes, sounds about right. Samsung and LG work tirelessly to improve the displays and their quality, which resulted in the production of OLED technology which produces amazing colors and impressively thing design. I say RIP 3D TV’s.

6. Nexus 4

Next up the list is Nexus 4. Now, by no means it is a bad device, but the reason for it’s nomination is it’s lack of availability. It becomes available once in a while on Google play store, and then it’s gone within hours, or even minutes. This is an alarming sign. Google either has to get a move on from LG or they need to think of a better supplier than LG.

5. iPhone 5

I recently bought an iPhone 5, to be honest i didn’t want it here on this list. but fact are facts. it isn’t a let down if you are just switching to iDevice from, say Android. It is fast, more responsive, better screen. But, if you are upgrading from in iphone 4s to iphone 5, you wont find a lot of a difference. yes, it would be lighter, yes it would be faster, yes it packs in a better camera, but in a nutshell, it just adds an extra row for icons.

4. Apple Maps

Oh yes, the infamous Apple maps. Apple decided for iOS 6 that they don’t really need Google Maps for their bright and shiny new OS. The move went out quite well for one of the OS giant’s and a hint, it isn’t Apple. Google launched Google Maps for iOS in December, and it received a lot of love. Google maps alone generated 10 million downloads in just 48 hours of it’s launch, this boosted Google reputation and thus leading to Google’s devotion to apple devices.

3. Sony PlayStation Vita

Note to self: figure out if i need a hand held console. The thing is that Smartphone’s are getting powerful day by day and although Vita is great but there is no need for a specific handheld console anymore. The reason is simple, development support. Smartphone’s these days receive a lot of attention and all the arcade gaming needs are fulfilled by them and that is what PS Vita cannot achieve.

2. Microsoft Surface RT

Yes, the windows 8 is gorgeous, but that hardly counts when a product for which the world was waiting for since 2010 fail to win hearts. There are two main reasons for it’s failure. One being the lack of Apps at it’s arsenal and the second is the smoothness it delivers from them. Some people have reported occasional hangs and blackout’s as well. that’s that, but what about the other reason. When we heard the there are going to be two version of the surface, i.e. the RT and the PRO we thought ‘great’ there must be a budget one included in the pack. at $499 the surface barely makes an impression, and perhaps the reason for its “not so impressive” sales.

1. Nexus Q

Last but not least. Aimed to overtake Apple’s airplay and Apple TV, the Nexus Q barely even made it out to it’s launch. The gadget was so over priced for the specifications it delivered that Google offered it for free to those who “pre-ordered” it. Google promised that they will bump the specifications up and re-launch Nexus-Q, we are still waiting for it to happen. Lack of specification’s was not the only disappointment, the price was hefty as well. At $300, it would have been equal to Nexus 4 (8GB). Get a grip on new devices Google.

Nexus Q was the biggest failure when it comes to gadgets, we expected much and din’t even get the final result. We are sure that 2013 will be a fun year, some companies will try t fix these bloopers while some will come up with something.

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Toshiba seemed to have noticed it as well and has decided that it will launch one of it’s own. But the difference comes in the form factor. While we mentioned that Lytro is as big as your palm, the Toshiba lens is designed to fit right into your cellphone. This means that this could be the next big thing to be introduced in your cellphone. It is good actually; we haven’t seen much innovation in camera’s lately (smartphones) all we get is enhanced mega pixels, and that only tell half the story.

While the idea between lytro and Toshiba’s camera might be similar, the approach is different. As mentioned, toshiba’s camera is small, square shape that measures just 0.4 of an inch per side. Packed inside are no less than 500,000 individual lenses, each just 0.001 inch in diameter. the idea of these lenses are much similar to how insects see the world. Take a normal housefly as an example, it has hundreds of different optical units, the brain captures all the images and sequences them into one. Toshiba lens is going to work on a rather similar logic. Lytro on the other hand, is different. The Lytro uses an elaborate single lens along with a special image sensor that can capture the direction data of light rays in addition to their color and intensity, a technology it calls light-field photography. That data is fed into a proprietary image processor to create images you can later refocus or change the perspective. The image on your right explains how the technology is designed to work.

The technology is simply fascinating, and if it really makes it through to the world of Smartphone’s, be prepared as instagram would flood with ‘photographer’. There is no word on if Toshiba plans to execute the technology in the cell phone department, but one thing is for sure, the need of carrying an extra camera would eventually end.

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