Flower blooms on international space station for the first time 0

A bright orange zinnia has blossomed aboard the International Space Station, marking a first in space.

Zinnias grow easily on Earth and blossom in abundance in summer. But on the ISS, where they were taken to carry out experiments, they have had trouble adapting to microgravity.

Orange Zinnia blooms on International Space Station

Several were doing poorly back in December as mold grew on some of their their leaves because of high humidity, NASA said.

"First flower even grown in space makes its debut," US astronaut Scott Kelly wrote on Twitter, with a photo of the flower. 

Growing such flowers -- zinnias are edible -- is part of a long term NASA project known as Veggie.

It is designed to produce food with an eye to long, manned missions to Mars. Such autonomy is key to astronauts' survival in space, NASA says.

Crew on the ISS have already grown and eaten lettuce last year aboard the orbiting craft and hope to produce tomatoes by next year.

Growing vegetables on the space station began in mid-2014. They are grown aeroponically -- without soil, in an air or mist environment. The system requires much less water and fertilizer, and plants grow three times faster than on Earth, NASA says.

How Glide Bomb differ from other conventional Bombs? 0

We all know what happens in a conventional Bomb. When a conventional bomb is dropped from an aircraft, it has a free flight and hit the destination. But the accuracy will not be high. A bomb dropped from an aircraft depends on speed and direction of wind, direction of aircraft etc. Is it possible for a bomb to control its path, navigate and reach its destination with 100 % accuracy?

The answer is Yes and that bomb is named as Glide Bomb. Glide bomb or Stand Off bomb is provided with flight control surfaces which helps in its journey towards destination. It is also supported by navigation system, which helps in tracking the destination. It can be released from much distance from target while a conventional bomb can be released right above the destination. This type of bomb with radio guidance was used in World war II .

Glide Bomb

A 1000-kg “glide bomb”, designed and developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO),India, was successfully tested in december 2014.

Apple unveils two new iPhones- Faster 5S and Cheaper 5C 0

Hoping to take another big bite in global Smart Phone Market, Apple on tuesday unveiled two iPhones with smart design. One is the traditional upgraded version and other is a cheaper and simpler version. According to Apple CEO Tim Cook, iPhone 5S and 5C are the answers to changing reactions of Smartphone market.

"Business has become so large that this year we are going to replace the iPhone 5 and we're going to replace it with not one, but two new designs," Cook said. "This allows us to serve even more customers."

 Eventhough iPhone 5C is cheaper, it has got Apple's latest iOS 7 at a price tag of $99. Moreover 5C is available in 5 colours such as green, white, blue, pink, yellow and these variants of iPhone 5C were exhibited in Cupertino Headquarters. Apple used polycarbonate translucent plastic for this model. It is expected that both these iPhones will hit simultaneously the Smartphone market on September 20, this year. iPhone 5C is priced at $99 for 16 GB version and $199 for the 32 GB version.

The cheaper iPhone is powered by older A6 processor and has 8 MP camera.

Apples flagship smartphone, iPhone 5S comes with a much faster processor and fingerprint scanner. Interestingly, it will be available in 3 colours such as black, gold and silver. iPhone 5 was built over A6 processor while the 5S is powered by A7 processor. Apple claims that A7 is packed with twice the number of transistors as in A6 and it can deliver twice the speed than A6. Apple includes a so called M7 motion co-processor in iPhone 5S which keeps tab on accelerometer, gyroscope and compass to enable mostly healthness apps like Nike +. This M7 motion technology will send data from sensors to various Apps to track motion while we are running, walking or driving.

The touch ID fingerprint sensor is associated with home button which avoids PIN and it will enable you to directly purchase from iTunes. Apple claims that it will scan fingerprint as well as subdermal layers and data is stored in highly encrypted mode inside A7 chip. Moreover these pieces of data are not accessible for any software. So it is safe and secure.

iPhone 5S is available in three price tags with 2 year cellular contract such as $199 for 16 GB, $299 for 32 GB or $399 for 64 GB. New iOS will have much better features than its previous version. Siri will be available in both male and female voices. Also, the App for creating documents, spreadsheet etc called iWalk will be available as free App for new devices.

Apple is very much curious about the growing Market share of Android OS and its customer base. So the realised that it would be difficult for them to remain as a trendsetter unless some new products are introduced. It is said that Apple holds only 14% of Smartphone share globally. While Google already passed its 1 billionth Android activation, Apple will make its 700 millionth shipment next month. I think it may be the reason for the introduction of these two iPhones in a single day. Moreover many Android devices are readily available in Smartphone market below $100. So we have to wait for some days and watch whether Apple succeeds in taking THE BIG BITE or not.

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.

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 to Delete or remove DigiNotar CA certificate? 1

Dutch certificate authority Diginotar issued a certificate which caused problems to Gmail users. Here you can find steps to remove or delete DigiNotar CA certificate and avoid attack in Mozilla firefox.

1.    In the Tools menu click on Options.

2.    From that select Advanced

3.    Then select Encryption.

4.    Now you can see Certificate Tab and click on that.

5.    In the certificate manager box click on Authorities tab
6.    Scroll down and stop when you reach DigiNotar.

7.    On that select DigiNotar Root CA

8.    Click on Distrust or Delete button.

9.    Finally click on OK

Stay safe

Difference between Wi-Fi and WiMAX 0

Usual ways of Internet access are Dial up, broad band and Wi-Fi. Dial up access may be used for very low speed and data access. They are nowadays not commonly used. Broadband access is commonly used and it is comparatively faster than dial-up. Here the connection is through wires. In Wi-Fi the connection is wireless. Wi-Fi can be used using wifi router or using wifi hotspots.

There are some problems with these internet access technologies. Dial up is very slow and broadband is based on wires.Also, broadband is costly and unreachable in many places.  In wifi the range is very small and it makes limited internet access. So we go for a new technology in internet access  which solves the above problems. That technology is termed as WiMAX.




WiMAX provide high speed internet access without wires and modems. Instead of small wifi coverage, WiMAX provides broad coverage like a mobile phone network. WiMAX is short form of worldwide interoperability for Microwave access. WiMAX could definitely replace cable and DSL services. It will provide internet connection everywhere. When you switch on your Laptops, it will connect to the nearest WiMAX antenna.
WiMAX is similar to Wi-Fi, but the former has high speed, better coverage and can provide service to many people. Wi-Fi access is limited to about 30 m while the WiMAX coverage extends upto 50 km. Wi-Fi have a maximum speed of about 54 megabits per sec. But WiMAX can provide about 70 Megabits per sec.

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Images of HTC Bliss Leaked 0

XDA.cn got some images of the Android based HTC bliss and also the pictures of the Sense 3.5 UI. After May, we have only blurry pictures of bliss and now we have clear crisp pictures which are added below. It is said that the HTC Bliss is mainly for women and it will be launched by the end of the September.

It is expected to have deep facebook integration and apps for beauty, shopping and similar tasks.  The new HTC product comes with 3.7 inch display, an 800Mhz processor and a front camera. It will be based on Android 2.3 Gingerbread.

Convert Any File into Another Format Online:Go2convert 0

Go2convert is a handy site to convert any file of any format to compatible format without much delay. The site supports various image formats and also other formats. If you got a file and you have no way to open it and use it, you can simply upload the file to this online converter and get compatible output file. Uploading is easy in this site and it support standard uploader too.



More than 100 different formats can be uploaded and get converted. After uploading the unknown file, the site outputs a list of compatible formats. You can select one from this list and finish the process.




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Gmail launched new features to customise 0

Google has recently introduced some new features to enhance its attractiveness and performance. One among the many features is the customisable theme.

Using this feature you can add a background image according to your wish and thus personalise your inbox. There are some other features which are adopted from Gmail labs. 'Don't forget bob' and 'got the wrong bob'?


These features are for reducing some mistakes similar to reminders for subjects and attachments. If you have forgotten to mark a person on a email or marked incorrect person, the new feature will cross check. They are surely needed during rush hour working.

Will iPad 3 include Retina Display? 0

Some pictures in the software development kit for the new iOS 5 kicked the rumour that new ipad may include retina display. The tech site TechUnwrapped reported that the images in the Twitter integrating framework for the new mobile OS of Apple have double of 1,024 x 768. That is, the images are of 2,048 x 1536 resolution. It is double the resolution used in current iPad.

By analyzing the images, the site says that this change in resolution may indicate the incorporation of retina display. Apple’s retina display was introduced in the last summer with iPhone 4. It have pixel density of 326 pixels per inch. This makes the display smooth and crisper.


There is also confusion among tech commentators like TechRadar and 9tomac. 9tomac says that the images are strong evidence for the inclusion of retina display in the new iPad. But TechRadar comments that similar images where also released in previous ipad. iPad 2 failed to have retina display.



Tech world believes that Apple will release two different iPad models. One Wi-Fi only version and another version with either CDMA or GSM.

HTC Relases the Desire S in India 0

HTC announced the release of Desire S in Indian market. Some of the main features of this smartphone are given below.

HTC Desire S is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 1 GHz processor. The Desire S comes with Google Android 2.3 Gingerbread with 768 MB RAM. The Graphical User interface developed by HTC, HTC Sense UI is also integrated in this smartphone.

The HTC Desire S is also equiped with WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP + EDR, DLNA, HSDPA 14.4Mbps and HSUPA 5.76Mbps. HTC is also presenting 5MP camera with LED Flash and auto focus. There is also a secondary camera which is VGA. This HTC smartphone has 1.1 GB internal memory and can be extended upto 32 GB.

HTC Desire S has a price of about Rs. 25,490 or about 500 USD