Author: San

When first time cellphone was developed in 1973, it was same as the size of a briefcase. But now we have thousands of models, very slim yet powerful. Here is an infograph showing the landmarks of evolution of mobile phones and how their functionality has changed from 1973 to 2011.

Google Chrome web browser can be used to remotely access another computer. The remote computer must have the Chrome browser installed and running. No matter whether the OS is Windows, Linux or Mac. So you can see and interact with your friend’s computer seating anywhere in the world.

ShareSafe is a Facebook app which can help you to protect your Facebook wall from spam and malicious links. The app has been launched in beta stage by a security software company F-Secure. It is free to use and works similar as any other Facebook app.

SMS text messaging is the most widely used data application in the world. The figure shows that there are 4.2 billion texters worldwide and 193,430 texts is being sent per second. Here are some more interesting fact-sheet that shows how SMS Messaging is Changing the World and our live.

Finally India has launched its own so claimed cheapest computer tablet in the world. It will come to the market in December with expected consumer end price of ₹1400-1700. Laced with many advance features such as touch-screen, Wi-Fi and HDMI, the tablet runs on Android 2.2 operating system.

Android based several HTC smartphones are exposed with another security flaw. The flaw could allow some net-enabled apps to access user’s personal information such as call history, user accounts, GPS data and SMS data. HTC admitted the risk but patch is still not provided.

Shahrukh Khan yesterday launched the digital avatar of his role played in his upcoming sci-fi movie ‘Ra.one’. The game code named ‘Ra.one Genesis’ is conceptualized by Mr. Khan himself. UTV Indiagames holds the copyright for the game. The game can be played at movie’s website as well as on social networks like Facebook and gaming…

For passenger convenience and for environment friendly transactions, Indian Railways will now accept virtual e-tickets. The printed e-ticket is also acceptable. This virtual e-ticket is called VRM (Virtual Reservation Message) and can be shown to ticket examiner through any withscreen electronic gadget such as laptops, palmtops, Mobile phone etc.

You might have thought how a computer updates its time even when it is fully powred off. It make sense that notebooks are always connected with its battery, but what about a desktop PC? Here internet availability is not a factor. But certainly there is something which helps the computer to know the current time.

Custom picture icons can be set to pen-drive and writable disks very similar to branded disks. For this you have to just include two extra files to the media. One file is the picture file and other file is a simple text file with mere two lines of code.