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Popular Browsers For The iPhone

Samrat P — Sun, 19 May 2013 03:20:22 +0000

Browsing the net on the move is one of the most common uses of the iPhone and to do that you need a web browser that’s up to the mark. The stock iOS browser, though capable of rendering most websites beautifully on the device’s small screen, it does fall short in several areas. All the browsers listed below attempt to address one or more of these issues and are popular for that very reason.

SkyFire – The app that the world uses to gain access to flash based videos across the web. Safari does not natively support watching videos online and the iPhone’s video access is limited only to YouTube. Though the app is advertised as being primarily targeted to view videos on the web, many users wrongly assume that it can handle flash games and animations. Sites like South Park and Justin TV, which stream episodes through Flash work flawlessly in SkyFire. The browser works by rendering a requested website on a proprietary server and delivering the content to the user’s device. Currently available for Android and iOS.
Opera Mini – This free browser claims to speed up your net browsing experience by as much as six times. It achieves this by compressing the website’s data on the Opera server and then downloading that compressed data to the users device. The pre-processing increases compatibility with web pages not designed for mobile phones. This also reduces the amount of data transmitted to phones thereby reducing data charges. This is especially useful while on data roaming and on crowded mobile networks. In November 2011, Opera reported 144.6 million unique Opera Mini active users and 88.5 billion page views served during that month. The latest version also features a speed dial feature allowing one click access to your most frequently visited websites and also tabbed browsing.
Atomic Web Browser Full Screen – This paid ($0.99) browser aims to simplify the layout of the iPhone browsing experience. It incorporates tabbed browsing to easily switch between windows and it works well, even on the iPhone’s small screen. It also features several full browser features like AdBlock, multi touch gestures, downloads and much more. It features a full screen mode with fully customizable buttons for 30 features. Multiple downloads are also supported along with the ability to download a specific image from a page. Atomic Web Browser boasts excellent full screen reading mode that minimizes navigational clutter, user agent switching, built-in Adblock, Facebook and Twitter integration, support for any search engine you care to throw at it, rotation lock, offline page viewing, adjustable fonts, bookmarks with folder support, automatic tab restoration, image block, a large library of bookmark scripts, source viewing, and the ability to assign your own multi-touch gestures.
Mercury Web Browser – One of the most advanced browsers for the iOS, downloading, printing, fullscreen browsing, file sharing, adblock, tabs, multi touch gestures, user agent switcher, private browsing, passcode lock, save page, Facebook/Twitter integration and a lot more. It also supports Firefox bookmarks sync and can save files to your Dropbox account. Aside from maximizing the screen for browsing, Mercury also makes the address bar disappear to allow a full display. the Settings menu shows you Bookmarks in springboard-style icons, a history list condensed by date, a download list, and often-desired Private Browsing that disables cookies and history.
Cloud Browse – Nominated for About.com’s best iPad browsers of 2012, this browser brings a remote Firefox browsing session to your iOS device. By anonymously rendering a webpage on a server, it can deliver full access to flash and Java based content on your iPhone. You have full multitouch pinch capabilities to zoom in and out of sites as well as flick scrolling as you would with mobile Safari. The only difference is you now have that coveted access to flash enabled sites to view animation and play games. Though the interface is not among the best around, it is offset by the fact that brings a true desktop browsing experience to the mobile.
Dolphin Browser – Developed for Android and iOS by MotoTap, this free app was among the most downloaded in 2011. Dolphin HD uses the Webkit engine and the native platform rendering capabilities, which allows for a small disk footprint. It is capable of running Adobe Flash, but it can have problems with video streaming. Dolphin Browser also comes pre-programmed with Gestures for many popular websites. Ex: Draw a “T” with your finger to visit Twitter.com or an “F” for Facebook.com. Featuring Webzine, an innovative way to keep up with your favorite news, blogs and feeds in addition to One Click share to Twitter and Facebook and tabbed browsing, this is one browser that packs a lot into a small package.

Photon Browser – Photon Browser is a browser that is designed for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. It is also a powerful browser that supports Flash player for iPad and the browsing of Flash websites by streaming these sites from servers in the cloud. It does this by streaming a remote desktop session from a computer that runs Flash to your iPhone. Needless to say, this can sometimes be a little slow or cause some interface problems but works on the whole. Other minor problems include video pixilation increasing, however, the audio stays in sync.
Offline Pages Pro – This app comes in handy for those who are on the road often, typically out of the reach of a WiFi network and beyond the fringes of the 3G signal. It allows you to save individual web pages and even entire websites for viewing later. Sites are saved with all the formatting and images intact. Plus, it even works with sites that require you to log in. The present version automatically detects multi page articles and loads all pages when asked to save. You can even force the app to update the saved copy when a network connection is available and even set up auto updates. You can add pages to be saved from the app, MobileSafari, and any other browser. In the app, you just press the button. You save it from MobileSafari using the bookmarklet (which is paired to your device) and from a bookmarklet in any browser which is paired to either your Offline Pages account or app.
iCab Mobile – The mobile version of the Mac based browser is optimized for both the iPhone and iPad. It attempts to bring a more desktop-like browsing experience to the iPhone bringing in many features of the OS X browser in. Highlights include in-page searching, full screen mode, ad blocking via filters, desktop style tabs and a download manager. iCab mobile gets around the file system limitation of iOS for downloads, using a built-in download manager with hooks into Dropbox. This means that you can download any type of file and upload it to your Dropbox, right from the browser. It also includes password protected access and guest access to the browser for more privacy.
Perfect Browser – Extraordinary Browser – Don’t be misled by the ‘screaming’ app name. This app has quite a few nifty tricks up its sleeves. It supports unlimited tabs and can load and render all tabs simultaneously, so you don’t waste time for the content of a previously unopened tab to load. You can even choose which browser’s rendering engine to mimic.

You can pick from Firefox, Chrome, Opera or Safari. It also features automated smooth scrolling and can even channel the present, full screen view to a TV or other external display using HDMI and AirPlay.

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iOS Apps To Better Manage Your Financial Affairs

Samrat P — Sat, 18 May 2013 12:18:54 +0000

Money is a necessity for today’s life and financial services have already moved to the digital and cyber world. Other than using the Apps you can Signup for Gmail account and keep track of all your financials at a single place. Here’s a list of the top iOS apps that can help you keep track and keep up with your financials:

PayPal: PayPal is a global e-commerce business allowing payments and money transfers to be made through the Internet. This multilingual app allows you to transact using your PayPal account on your iOS device. PayPal allows you to link your bank or credit card accounts to your PayPal account and allows for transfer to other Paypal accounts or for bank credit via cheque.
MyTaxRefund by TurboTax – If you’ve filed your tax returns with the IRS this year and are due a refund, this handy app will let you know when the money will be in your pocket. Version 2.0 has been updated for the new financial year and also allows you to check the status of your e-filed state return. All you’ll need to tell the app is your social security number. With tax day approaching fast, this app should make the experience a tad easier.
Mint.com Personal Finance – This widely acclaimed app (named Best Financial App in the First App Awards) is hailed as the best free way to manage your money. It automatically pulls in data from all your financial accounts including your bank accounts and your credit card accounts allowing you to easily and safely track your income and expenditure. All your financial data is displayed across the entire range of devices that the app is available for: phone, tablet and browser. The app is password protected, allowing you to deactivate access to your account if your device is misplaced.
Yahoo! Finance – This free app brings all the stock market news from Yahoo! To your iOS device. Featuring the latest news including graphs, currency trackers, real time and after hours trackers, you’ll never be behind the market data, wherever you are. Get the high, low, market cap, volume, or P/E, at-a-glance, then scroll through to get market coverage from top analysts and leading news sources. Access your Yahoo! Finance portfolios from your phone and see where you stand throughout the trading day.

Western Union App – This app gives you access to all of Western Union’s money transfer services, right in the palm of your hand. Features include money transfers, transfer tracking, nearby agent finders and the ability to set up a cash transaction at an agent. Also included is a price estimation feature.
CNBC Real-Time App – The only app that delivers real time quotes before, during and after market hours. The app also offers you interactive historical charts ranging from one day to five years worth of data. All this plus interactive charts, US and World indexes (Dow Jones, S&P 500, NASDAQ and more), commodities, currencies, pre-markets, and video-on-demand. You can even create your own stocks watchlists. The in-app videos offer over 150 new video clips produced each day, featuring top business news videos, global market analysis, and CEO interviews.
Expensify: Consistently rated as the numero uno app for business travellers, Expensify automates your entire expense reporting process. The app syncs with your bank and credit card accounts and tracks purchases as they happen. It even allows you to take photos of paper receipts for cash transactions. Photos of receipts taken with the phone’s camera can be used to create an expense from the image, or have it matched directly to an imported credit card transaction. It even tracks your movement for road travel to estimate fares. Generated reports can be sent to anyone with an email address or be exported to PDF.
Mortgage Calculator & Mortgage Rates – Zillow Mortgage Marketplace – This elegantly designed mortgage app provides real-time rates, easy-to-use calculators, and the ability to shop for mortgages on the spot. Calculate how much home you can afford, what your mortgage payment will be and whether it makes sense to refinance. This new release features the ability to email a link to your custom loan search for later use. The app also includes built in GPS to show you other homes nearby and also similarly priced homes. You can also share homes via Facebook and Twitter. To access a database of 100 million + homes, this is one free app you can’t beat.
Pageonce – Money & Bills – This November 2011 Staff Favourite is trusted by millions to manage and pay their bills from one location. Although more a record-keeper than a true assistant, Pageonce’s ad-supported Personal Assistant app gives you the tools to view all your online accounts in one centralized location. The app allows you to track your bank accounts, credit card expenses and bills from one location. It also allows you to track your investment portfolio, frequent flier miles, mobile minutes, and text and data usage. It also allows you to view a convenient summary of all your money and bills on one screen in addition to a calendar view showing you what bills you paid and when. You’re also able to view a history of your banking transactions, stock portfolio, social commitments, and friends’ status updates from social networks, e-mail accounts, and shopping services, like Netflix, Amazon, and eBay.
Coupon Clipper – Local Coupons and DoubleTake Deals – Presenting free, redeemable savings coupons from Clipper Magazine and CouponClipper.com. Featuring discounts from Clipper, Mint Magazine, Savvy Shopper and Rewards Magazine in 29 states, 750 towns, reaching over 80 million people to give you the best local coupons and deals. Categories include Restaurants, Entertainment, Health and Beauty, Medical & Dental, Retail, Home Improvement, Professional Services, Automotive Services to name a few. Using the device’s GPS (or alternatively, search) the app allows you to find, browse and redeem local savings quickly and easily. You can then use the apps recommendations for a place to eat or shop and even get driving directions quickly using Google Maps.

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Psy ‘Gentleman’ On YouTube

Samrat P — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 06:35:12 +0000

If you are a music buff then you would have defintely heard of Psy and his Gangnam Style video which was made very popular by Chris Gayle at the IPL. After the success of PSY GANGNAM STYLE (강남스타일), Psy has released his next Album – PSY Gentleman. Psy “Gangnam Style” video is still on the top lists of YouTube and PSY has already released another video, “Gentleman” early Saturday morning. Psy ‘Gentleman’ (싸이-젠틀맨) is attributed with the song’s catchy beat, charismatic dancing and humorous video production similar to the earlier ‘Gangnam Style’.

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iOS 6.0.2 Untethered Jailbreak

Samrat P — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 15:58:36 +0000

Here is a little good news for iOS 6.0.2 users who are looking for an untethered jailbreak. Planetbeing reveals that he already has an iOS 6.0.2 untethered jailbreak on his device. He explains that he is interested in releasing his untethered jailbreak for iOS 6.1 instead of wasting for iOS 6.0.2.

Planetbeing says – “Yeah, I’m not really sure what all the doom and gloom is about. The fact is, I have an untethered iOS 6.0.2 JB running on my iPhone 5 right now. The reasons it’s not released are because 1. releasing it would burn an exploit we want to save for ourselves so we can always get in to look at new firmware and help JB in the future, 2. iOS 6.1 is coming very soon and will likely break a small part of it anyway, there’s no point in sacrificing the many bugs it won’t break.

Anyway, where there are 4+ bugs (that it took to get this to work), there’s gotta be one or two more so while jailbreaking is getting harder, reports of its death are highly exaggerated”.

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Apple iWatch

Samrat P — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 15:12:21 +0000

Apple is currently collaborating with Intel on the design of an Apple branded Smart Watch – iWatch. Apple and Intel are currently working together on a Bluetooth enabled iWatch. Report says that watch would connect to the iPhone, allow you to remotely operate the phone from your wrist. It means users could send out text messages, answer calls, or can even update Facebook status on the device while iPhone is in a pocket or charging nearby. An iPhone compatible Smart Watch is certainly in a high demand. According to insiders, through Apple’s Siri voice assistant Smart Watches will be able to answer the phone, directly with the iPhone interconnection.

Smart Watch is designed to look more like traditional watches, adding a small LED screen, 1.5-inch display, with users can see texts, as well as notifications from Facebook, Twitter, Gmail. It features Low power Bluetooth 4.0 standard, so it can instantly pair with an iPhone or iPad. Other aspects of the supply chain, with a rhenium ocean of OGS encore indium tin oxide transparent conductive (ITO) glass. Retina multi touch display, 8 mega pixel I sight camera, built-in rechargeable lithium ion battery, 16 GB memory, I tunes/app store, air play, charging and synching via Wi-Fi expected to release in first half of 2013.

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Nokia Lumia 920

Samrat P — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 15:05:52 +0000

Nokia has officially announced that the Lumia 920 would be available from January. The device would be available from other carriers in the country as well, including Three UK and Vodafone UK. The phone will be available through The Carphone Warehouse, in addition to the independent retailers from Micro-P. At the same time, the smartphone will continue to be sold through EE and Orange and T-Mobile UK, as well as through Phones4U. Starting with February next year, users will get chance to buy Nokia Lumia 620 which is also set to arrive on shelves in early 2013, Nokia confirmed. Visually, the Lumia 920 looks almost identical to the Lumia 800 and the Lumia 900.

The Nokia Lumia 920 features a 4.5 inch screen with 1280×768 pixel resolution, it is made of polycarbonate plastic for the unibody design, which has a glossy finish that looks and feels great. It has PureMotion HD+ screen, a 1.5GHz Snapdragon S4 processor, 1GB of RAM, 32GB of internal memory, support for 4G LTE networks, 8.7 megapixel rear-facing camera with a 1.3 megapixel front facing camera. Nokia PureView Camera, 11.43 cm Display size, 10.8 h Talk time (3G), 460 h Standby time (3G), 74 h Music playback time, Wireless charger plate, wireless stereo headset, Luna Bluetooth headset with wireless charging are most attracting features of Lumia 920.

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Apple Expected To Ship 8 Million iPad Mini’s In Q4’12

Samrat P — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 16:59:51 +0000

iPad Mini shipments in the fourth quarter of 2012 are estimated at 8 million units. It appears that Apple will ship significantly less iPad mini tablets in Q4 than initially predicted. According to component suppliers in Taiwan, the Cupertino giant will ship an estimated 8 million tablets in the last quarter of 2012. It seems that earlier projections about the iPad Mini selling in between 10 and 12 million units in the Holiday Q4 2012 will come true because touch panel supply could not catch up.

Apple’s iPad Mini is expected to come with 7.9 inch display. The iPad Mini display uses the same LED backlight technology as iPad to give users plenty of Zing per square inch. It is perfectly sized to work with hundreds of thousands of apps made for iPad. Users can view web pages in Safari. Users can flick through photos and can watch videos in vivid detail. It has fraction of the size at just 7.2 mm, it is pencil thin and unbelievably light. It has many built- in apps. The App store is home to over 275,000 iPad apps and counting and right from the start, they work on iPad Mini.

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Nokia 10.1-Inch Windows RT Tablet Comes With Surface Like Cover

Samrat P — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 16:56:23 +0000

Nokia’s Windows Tablet comes with 10.1 inch display that is said to be similar to the panel on Microsoft’s own Surface RT tablet. According to the Verge, Nokia’s Windows RT tablet might hit the shelves in early 2013, and is rumored to be pretty standard. It will reportedly also feature HDMI and USB ports. The highlight of the Nokia Windows RT tablet, the nomenclature for which yet remains a mystery, is going to be its Surface like keyboard cover with an embedded battery back. This additional battery will allow you to charge your device on the go, extending the mileage that you will get on the move from your tablet PC.

Digitimes last week reports that Nokia delayed its tablet due to Microsoft’s surprise announcement of the Surface. The company apparently decided it would be best to focus more on smartphones based on the Windows Phone 8 platform. The sources have revealed that the Finnish company is planning to build a small number of the tablets initially, with a view to potentially building a Windows 8 device later. Nokia’s first tablet will run on an ARM chip with Microsoft’s new Windows RT operating system. Recent reports have suggested that Nokia may unveil its tablet at Mobile World Congress.

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Google Apps Challenges Microsoft For Business Software

Samrat P — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 16:44:11 +0000

Businesses are adopting Google’s idea of using cloud-based software, which presents a challenge to Microsoft. It has taken more than 6 years, but Google seems to be cutting into Microsoft’s stronghold businesses. Previously Google apps were going to appeal mostly to small businesses and tech start-ups, but it’s now catching large enterprises. Most of the companies preferring Google apps over Microsoft, price seems to be the main reason. Jim Nielsen, of Shaw Industries calculated that using Google instead of similar Microsoft products would cost, over seven years, about one-thirteenth Microsoft’s price. Though Google has added features, charges $50 a year for each person using its product, a price that has not changed since it made its commercial debut.

Microsoft’s Office suite of software, in 2013, the list price for businesses will be $400 per computer, at the same time, raising prices for extra features and services. The 2013 version of Office, for example, costs up to $50 more than its predecessor. In addition to the lower price, Google has simplicity in pricing. According to the General Services Administration, out of 42 federal government contracts for which Google and Microsoft competed in 2012, Google won 23 deals, and Microsoft 10, and others 9, statistics supporting Melissa Webster views that “Google is getting traction” on Microsoft.

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Download CameraPro for Windows Phone 8

Samrat P — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 16:37:51 +0000

CameraPro is one of the smart applications that the owners of Symbian devices have had the chance to enjoy. But it is now available for Windows Phone 8 handsets as well. The app can be found in the Windows Phone Store with a price tag of $2.49. CameraPro enables users to choose custom image filenames, while providing them with overlays such as virtual horizon/level meter, compass, and grid. Camera Pro is a Professional Photography App and is highly customizable, includes different designs and menu arrangements. It features different Camera Modes: Front and Back Camera supports, Self-timer, ISO up to 3200, Burst: shoots a set of pictures as fast as the phone supports.

Camera Pro also has some additional features like, Anti-shake: users can take pictures exactly in the moment when the phone is not moving, Disable shutter sound, Picture controls: It has control over Focus, autofocus, macro, infinity, continuous autofocus, face detection, White balance, exposure locking and more. Effects such as mono, negative, solarize, aqua, Users can set scene modes to night, landscape, portrait, beach, snow, fireworks, sports, party, candlelight, text. Camera Pro also sports Windows Phone 8 Lens integration, while offering the possibility to easily share photos on social networking destinations, including Facebook, Flickr, Picasa, and Twitter.

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