Which Is Best-Android or Iphone or Windows Phone? 0

Mobile phone Industry has been getting extreme boom after the successful introduction of iPhone by Apple Computers which is the most luxurious phone. After the launch of Iphone, Google came up with its Android Operating System. Googles Android Operating System is most popular among Smartphone users because of its Android Market. Android OS is an open Source Operating System. So this attracts many developers and also mobile phone manufacturers like Samsung,HTC,LG,Motorola etc. After Google's android OS, Microsoft Corporation entered Smartphone market by launching Window Operating System Phones.

Android Phones are cheaper than iPhones. But there are High price Android Phones like Samsung galaxy Still phone with Android ice cream sandwich operating system version. Nokia and Microsoft jointly launched Nokia Lumia Series in 2011. Nokia was using its own Symbian operating system till the launch of Lumia Series. Symbian Operating System is about to wind up. Now Nokia is about to launch Windows 8 Smartphones.


Android live wallpapers,android widget,flash for android,android flash player,android tethering,facebook for android,twitter for android,frequent android updates,google maps in android,swype in android etc are some of the features of Android.

Mobile Phone manufactures like Android because of high popularity and good market place. Among the Android versions, Gingerbread and Icecream Sandwich are most popular. Android Icecream Sandwich is available for Tablets too. Androids merits are listed below

Opensource

Lots of Apps for Android than any other OS

Can Third party Apps too

Good user interface and it can be customised

Anything having some merits will definitly have some demerits too. Almost every Android Phone has Battery Backup Problem. Even in highly configured Android phones, processing is slow and it is also a demerit of Android.

Now we can check different features in details

Widgets: Android Widget is similar to shortcut of an app. It is located in home screen and can do some functions of the original App with out opening that app directly. Users can customize the size,position and identity of these Widgets. In my Sony Xperia Neo V, i have weather widget and some Shortcuts. It is shown here.

Navigation:Androids Map is integrated with Turn by turn Navigation with Spoken direction, "Layers" to see traffic and terrain of a location. Android users can also see satellite photographs of places and it is a plus point for Android.

Text Input/Correction:In my opinion, Android has much effective Text Input/Correction scheme than Windows OS and iOS. Swype Keyboard, which comes with Android IceCream Sandwich is an exciting feature for an one hand typist.

'Back' And 'Menu' Button: Apple's iPhone has only one button, which brings to Home screen. Android comes with Three Buttons. They are Back button,Home Button and App Switcher Button. Windows OS also provides Three Buttons such as Back Button,Search Button and a Camera Launch Button.

Google Services: Do u love Google and its Services? Android OS is integrated with Gmail, Google Reader, Gchat, Google Talk, Google Calendar and every other Google service. So Android is a best option for Google Lovers.

Integration with Other Apps: Android can import contacts from Facebook,Gmail etc. It can also connect to twitter, Google+, Tumblr etc.

Google Play Store/Market:Google has spent huge time and money for establishing its App market, Google Play Store. But it is not superior or equal to iTunes Store, which is higly secure for users. Google Play store is always susceptible to Malwares and other unwanted Apps. Windows phone marketplace is very secure and has many good apps too.
Beauty: Many users say that Android phones are ugly and among Android phones, HTC have much good design. In my opinion Sony Ericson(now Sony) also have good design Smartphones.

Touch: iPhones and Windows Phone have good touch screens compared to Android phones. But in highly configured Android phone, the difference is invisible

Disk Image Software-Creating and Extracting ISO Files ,Cue files,NRG files etc 1

Many users are eager to know what is a bin file and how to open bin file,what is a cue file?,how to mount iso image, how to create windows xp or windows 7 iso image?. Some game and software uploaders create iso image, bin file or cue file to convert multiple files into a single file.A lot of Disk Image Softwares like Windows disk image burner, active disk image and Daemon tools are available.
In this article i am explaining how to deal with these files.

Iso files and Bin files are commonly used Formats to Create Disk Image File.  ISO in ISO Image stands for International Organization for Standardization. Bin is commonly, a binary file. Software and game downloaders may also come across a file with extension .cue. Cue file is actually a meta file which contains data related to layout of tracks in CD or DVD.

All Disk Image Files contain all written sectors of an Optical device or any other Storage Devices. From this single Image Disk we can easily extract contents by using a Disk Image Mounter. Disk Image Mounters are used for Extracting ISO Files  or Extracting BIN files by Mounting Disk Image on to them. Disk Image Softwares can create any number of Virtual Drives which can work similar to physical drives.

Windows also provide a Disk Image Software called Windows Disk Image Burner by using which you can burn .img and .iso Image Files.

Active disk image  is a similar software popularly used.

List of Free Mounting Softwares for Image Files like ISO Image and Bin File.
These Free Disk Image Software helps to Create,Edit,Mount and Burn Image Files.
Capabilities of each Disk Image Software is shown in brackets.



1.Daemon Tools Lite(Mount)

2.StarBurn (Burn)

3.AVS Disc Creator (Create, Edit, and Burn)

4.VirtualCloneDrive (Mount)

5. WinCDEmu (Mount)

6.Pismo File Mount (Mount)

7.MagicDisc (Create and Mount)

8.ImgBurn (Burn)

9.ImageMaster (Create, Read, Extract, and Burn)

10.InfraRecorder (Burn)

I commonly use Daemon tool(short for Disk And Execution MONitor tools). Now we can move on to Extracting Iso Files and Extracting Bin Files. Daemon tools for Linux and Windows are available.

Daemon tools Functionality

Daemon tools can Mount *.mdx, *.mds/*.mdf, *.iso, *.b5t, *.b6t, *.bwt, *.ccd, *.cdi, *.bin/*.cue, *.ape/*.cue, *.flac/*.cue, *.nrg, *.isz disc images to a virtual drive

Convert images from all above formats to *.mdf/*.mds, *.mdx, *.iso

Make .iso, *.mds/*.mdf and *.mdx images of CD, DVD, Blu-ray discs

Make a compressed disc image or split the image to several files

Protect images with password

Step 1.

Open Daemon tools

Step 2.

Click on ADD FILE button. A new window pop up.

Step 3

Select Image File For Extraction and click ok.

Step 4

That Image file will be added to Daemon tools

Step5

Click on Mount Button

Step6

Wait until mounting process completes

Step7

Symbol on the drive changes

Step8

To view Extracted files, Right click on the drive and select Open in file explorer.

Step9

Folder and files open up

Step10

To unmount,Right click on drive and Click UNMOUNT

Android 4.1, Jelly Bean: 16 changes from ICS 0

If you have ICS in your smartphone or android devices, then you can see sweet changes in latest Jelly Bean. If you are using old android versions, then jelly Bean will show you some big changes. Actually Android 4.1 or Jelly Bean is a polished, sweeter and performance enhanced version with mix of new features too.
Some important changes are listed below......

1. Notification pulldown has a novel look with large font size.

2.There are many new effects and transitions distributed throughout.
    a.When you move finger to unlock, circle of small dots follow your finger.
    b. Opening an app from home will also show some zooming effect.

3.New "Share" menu system with "open with" dialog box.

4.Initial phone setup task is more simpler than previous version.

5.Jelly Bean is Faster than ICS
    Why faster?
        Speed is increased by altering system frame-rate and display refresh signal.
        Also by implementing a new touch input system that anticipates where you will touch and it will give an extra power to CPU when you actually touches screen.

6. A new search system which will give you Informational cards instead of web results.

7.The voice search system is really good one. It will show you results in the form of cards.


8. From notification pulldown screen, you can expand notifications and get additional information and options related to that notification.

9. It is easier to arrange and add widgets and shortcuts in homescreen.

10. A new Sound Search widget which can tell you name of song and artist after listening to song for a few seconds.

11. An updated Camera app which will allow you to swipe to jump into gallery directly.

12. System keyboard is now updated with good dictionaries, intelligent word predictor and text to speech functionality.

13.NFC sharing of photos,videos etc

14.Now you can update essential parts of an app instead of installing the complete one with"Smart app update".

15.Updated and improved Face unlock security.

16.Gesture based navigation commands for visually impaired android users.

What is 4FF and 3FF in SIM? 0

3FF is also called Microsim. It is most commonly used in mobile devices. The microsim was introduced in 2003. This form is called Third Form factor or 3FF.

Various SIM cards are,

First Form – Credit Card Sized cards

Second Form – Stamp Sized SIM cards

Third Form – microSIM

Now ETSI accepted new standard named nano sim which is also called 4FF or forth Form Factor. 3FF has a dimension of 12mm x 15mm.

Various Sim sizes and dimensions are showed in the image shown above.

Mobile Phone makers for a new,smaller SIM card Standard 0

Cell phone manufacturers decided to adopt a new standard for smaller SIM cards. Nokia Oyj and Apple presented competing proposals. Apple's proposal was selected for the novel SIM standard. The new standard was selected by ETSI(European Telecommunications Standards Institute). 




This standard is compatible with the existing SIM card design too. The new SIM size will be 40% smaller than existing version. 

Alert:Internet may shutdown on July 9 0

While searching using Google, if you get a message like "Your computer appears to be infected", dont get frightened. Google has issued this warning to millions of users which also says that they could lose internet connectivity after july 9. This is due to a computer virus or a malware named DNSChanger. Google displays the warning message to help users whose systems are infected with the above malware. Most people are unaware about the situation. So before clicking on links make sure it is secure. Do not try to open suspicious web pages.

How DNSChanger works?


DNSChanger is a Trojan horse which is assumed to be infected about 4 million Computers globally. Out of this 500,000 is in USA and 20,000 is in India. This malware will change the DNS server settings to some rogue DNS network created by malware developers.
The concept behind this malware is to interfere IP address lookup and give a false IP address to computer. The result is that, when you try to open your favorite website, it will be redirected to some fake webpage.

This is really a threat to internet users. So be carefull and if you are infected, do necessary steps to change or restore DNS setting. I will explain step by step procedure in my next post.

How Live CD/DVD differs from OS? 0

Screenshot of the Live CD of Mandriva Linux Free 2010.2 RUS with KDE 4

 
Live CD/DVD is a complete operating system which can run in computers memory instead of loading from hard drive. There are many Live CD/DVD available in internet like Black track, Hirens boot cd etc. An interesting feature of this Live CD/DVD is that, users can evaluate and analyse OS without installing it. These are really a boon if computer is running out of storage space. Users can use OS without making changes in present Operating system.


Commonly, the Live CD/DVD do not change hard drive files. But in certain situations it is necessary to change hard drive files for removing virus or malwares and for system restore. So special applications and mechanisms are used here.


Its uses include,
    * quick and simple clustering of computers
    * installing a Linux distribution to a hard drive
    * testing new versions of software
    * cracking/stealing passwords
    * network security testing
    * listing & testing hardware
    * system repair and restoration
    * high security/non-invasive environment for a guest
    * computer forensics
    * playing video games
    * providing a secure server platform where crucial files cannot be permanently altered
    * providing a secure, reliable platform for the performance of high-vulnerability tasks such as internet banking;
    * Internet kiosks, which can be brought back to their original state by a reboot