India's top 5 bestsellers

Hey Readers!!

I know you want to play the top games every time so i am providing you with the India's top 5 bestselling games of the month so get ready to loose your wallet. 

Well these games are not for every system(some for PS3,some for PC, some for both) so you can also play the PS3 games on PC through emulator.

so here the lists.

1.God of war : Ascension

Developers of God of War Ascension, SCE Santa Monica Studio, have released a new downloadable content (DLC), accompanied by a trailer for their action-adventure third person video game titled The Mythological Heroes Co-Op Weapons.

The new DLC will contain a series of new weapons that have been made to help co-operative (co-op) play. The game will also feature more than ten possible co-op moves and will also be adding a bonus of 24-hours double XP boost. The new weapons that have been announced in PlayStation 

 

System : PS3

2.Tomb Raider(2013)

 The story of Square Enix's Tomb Raider reboot will continue next year in a new Dark Horse comic series, which will set up a sequel to the recent Crystal Dynamics game.Due to launch on 26th February 2014, Lara Croft's next adventures will see the heroine go globetrotting and eventually "lead directly into the sequel", acclaimed comics writer Gail Simone told Kotaku.

 

System : PS3,PC,XBOX360

3. FIFA 13

Manchester United fans will be getting a little tetchy. The Red Devils are yet to conduct significant transfer business across a summer that has seen their Premier League rivals spend big money on world-class talents.

Despite continued interest from Real Madrid, the Daily Mail reports Manchester United have a decent chance of landing Gareth Bale's explosive firepower. Sky Sports confirms David Moyes has also tabled a second bid for Barcelona midfielder Cesc Fabregas, suggesting United fans could have a couple of new heroes to salute before the 2013-14 season starts.

Would Bale and Fabregas propel the Premier League champions to another English crown? Let the simulation begin.

System : PC,PS3, XBOX 360, PS2,PS Vita, PSP

4. Sports Champions 2

Sports Champions 2 is some of the most fun you can have with a PlayStation Move controller in your hand. The title is accessible enough to make it a perfect fit for parties, but it boasts enough depth to keep enthusiastic gamers occupied long after everyone's gone home. The activities are largely well selected, and the calibration improvements are technologically impressive. It's just a shame that online multiplayer's still absent, otherwise this would have been an unmissable release.

System : PS3

5.Max Payne 3

 Max Payne 3: The Complete Series delves deep into Max’s tormented past to bring his story full circle, completing the narrative thread that binds the events of Max Payne, Max Payne 2 and Max Payne 3 together: from his troubled childhood, to his successes as a young police cadet, to the brutal murder of his wife and child, to the death of his partner, to his ignominious dismissal from the NYPD, to the chance encounter in a Hoboken dive bar that propels him on an ill-fated journey to the streets of São Paulo.

No word currently on whether the game will receive STEAMPLAY compatibilty on Steam - allowing PC players to play it on Mac also, without an additional purchase - or whether the game will be available via the Mac App Store. Chances are it will join fellow Rockstar games GTA: San Andreas (currently the #8 Top Paid in the Mac App Store), GTA: Vice City and GTA III in both the Mac App Store and Steam at the same time.

System : PC,PS3,XBOX 360

Change lock screen background in windows 7

Hey guys!!

I know you want to change your lock screen wallpaper in windows 7 like in windows 8 you can do that by following these simple steps.

NOTE: THESE STEPS ARE NOT TRIED IN THE WINDOWS XP(SP1,SP2,SP3),WINDOWS VISTA


 FIRSTLY CHOOSE PICTURE THAT MATCHES WITH THE RESOLUTION OF YOUR MONITOR



Step 1.

Open "Regedit" by typing regedit in the search bar provided in the start menu

 Step 2.

Go to the path
"computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\windows\currentversion\authentication\logonUI\background"

 Step 3.

You will see "OEMBackground" if not there you can create it. so create it.

 CREATING OEMBackground:
Right click the surface then     New→DWORD (32-bit) value
and name it OEMBackground

 Step 4.

After having OEMBackground double click on it and set the Value data as "1" and base as "Hexadecimal"

 Step 5.

Now you have done with Regedit now close it and hit refresh. Now got to your windows drive then windows\system32\oobe then create a new folder and then rename it as "info"

 Step 6.

Now open the "info" folder and then again create a new folder and rename it as "backgrounds"(CAREFUL WHILE TYPING SPELLINGS)

 
 Step 7.

Now rename your selected picture, which you want to apply as lock screen background with "backgroundDefault"

 REMEMBER THE PICTURE YOU CHOOSE MUST NOT BE MORE THAN "244KB"

 Step 8.

Lock your system

 And here it's done

Enjoy and comment!!!!!!

Apple's Fusion Drive

When Apple updated the iMac and Mac mini in late 2012, it introduced a new storage option called Fusion Drive. Despite the name, it's actually two drives working in a special arrangement.
It pairs 128GB of flash storage with either a 1TB or a 3TB hard drive. Apple bills it as providing the high capacity of a hard drive with the performance of flash storage, in a way that has no impact on how you work and store things.

Pure SSD configurations remain an option on some Macs, but they're still costly for their capacities. Replacing a Mac mini's 1TB hard drive with a 256GB SSD costs £240, and a 768GB SSD on the 27-inch iMac is an eyewatering £720. Hence Apple's attempt to find a compromise between speed and capacity.

Fusion Drives cost £200 and £320 for the 1TB and 3TB versions respectively, though the latter is only available on the 27-inch iMac. In fact, Apple sells Fusion Drive short by listing only the hard drive component's capacity and omitting that of the SSD.
In terms of hardware, all that's added is a 128GB SSD. A substantial amount of what you're paying covers the fitting of the SSD, and the configuration of the two drives to work together.

There's no setup process on your part. The two drives that make up a Fusion Drive don't operate like a striped RAID array to spread the load between them. Nor do they work like hybrid drives, available on PCs for several years, despite their similar makeup. A hybrid drive's flash portion acts as a cache, but that's all it is: a cache. A copy of everything is on the hard drive.

 

 

 How does Fusion Drive work?

A Fusion Drive's components appear as a single volume in the Finder, with their capacities merged. No adjustment needs to be made to how you work, as decisions about which of the two components is used to store a given piece of information are made for you.
Neither of the drives holds a complete copy of everything. When something needs to be stored, it's always first written to the flash storage. As long as plenty of free flash storage is available, OS X doesn't touch the hard drive, and the Mac will operate solely from its flash storage.

Behind the scenes, OS X silently monitors how your Mac is used. When free flash storage dwindles to only 4GB, OS X's long-term observations are used to decide what you're least likely to need from day to day, and it moves some of it to the hard drive. This keeps plenty of flash storage available so that high performance is maintained.


Relegation to the hard drive isn't a one-way or irreversible. OS X continues to monitor your activity, and if it discerns you're using something enough to warrant moving it back to the faster storage, it will do so. Something else will end up relegated to the slower drive instead.
The operating system stays on the SSD, but pre-installed apps such as iMovie and GarageBand don't enjoy this privilege. Very large files, such as videos or an iPhoto library aren't treated as monolithic. That would be inefficient, so Fusion Drive doesn't have to shift the whole of a file.

A developer, Patrick Stein, has published blog posts examining the working of Apple's technology. He discovered Fusion Drive works at a lower level, instead moving the blocks that make up files, and only some of them. Stein discovered if he read the first megabyte of a large file enough to warrant storing it on the flash storage, only that portion of the file was moved. The rest remained on the hard drive. The effect of splitting data between two drives is that both need to be connected to a Mac (which must be running OS X 10.8.2) in order to read it.


 Under any circumstances, it's wise to keep an up-to-date backup of your Mac's contents. OS X's Time Machine feature will back up a Fusion Drive just the same as it would a hard drive, and it's a good idea to use it because the contents are more susceptible to loss due to the increased risk that either of the two pieces of hardware fails.

In our testing of two 21.5-inch iMacs - one with a hard drive and the other with a Fusion Drive - OS X's System Information app revealed that the hard drives in both had the same model number and rotational speed. The smaller iMac uses a 2.5-inch, 5400rpm drive. However, Apple has stuck with 3.5-inch, 7200rpm drives in the 27-inch iMac, which are capable of faster transfer rates. However, they fall far short of flash storage's capabilities.

Our benchmarks show the speeds reached by a hard drive and a Fusion Drive in two 21.5-inch iMacs. The gap in their performance is really quite significant.

Fusion Drive and Boot Camp

Since Fusion Drive depends on software technology built into OS X, Windows doesn't support it. This doesn't mean Windows can't be installed on a Mac with a Fusion Drive, but Boot Camp Assistant will only create a partition on the hard drive.

However, there is an issue with installing on a 3TB drive, whether that's a Fusion Drive or a garden-variety hard drive. Apple acknowledges that Boot Camp Assistant won't work with drives of this capacity. The maker of WinClone, an app which backs up Boot Camp partitions from within OS X, detailed the reason for this and how to overcome it.

Some commenters on the blog entry report stumbling at the final step, and even if it works for you, there's a side effect that might discourage you from trying it. It splits the hard drive portion of your Fusion Drive into three partitions. OS X continues to see the first one as part of the Fusion Drive, Windows can be installed on the second one, and the last 1TB of the drive becomes a separate volume. It's usable, but OS X no longer sees it as part of the Fusion Drive, so it loses the ability to include that capacity in its shifting around of data.
There's no word as yet about an update to Boot Camp Assistant, or if an improved version will ship with the next version of OS X.

 

Get ready for Fusion Drive

Some essential steps before you start to build your own Fusion Drive

1. Back up your Mac

Open the Mac App Store. You'll need to purchase and install Mountain Lion if you don't already have it. Otherwise, click Purchases at the top of the window, locate Mountain Lion in the list and click its Download button.

Once complete, the Applications folder will contain a file named 'Install OS X Mountain Lion'. If you already use Time Machine, open its System Preferences pane, click the Options button and check that you haven't excluded system files, your user account, or any other folders from the top level of the hard drive from its backups.

If you don't already use Time Machine, connect a Mac-formatted drive, flick the switch in Time Machine's preferences to On and choose the drive. Click the Time Machine icon in the menu bar, choose Back Up Now and wait until the backup is complete.

2. Prepare a USB flash drive

You'll need a USB flash drive with a capacity of at least 8GB, whose contents can be erased. Connect it and open Disk Utility. Select the drive in the left pane - that's the row that shows its capacity and model, not a partition already on the drive - then click the Partition tab. Set the Partition Layout item to '1 Partition'.

If the drive is bigger than 8GB, you can create more to use for other purposes, but there needs to be a partition that's at least 5GB large on which to create an install disk. It doesn't matter what you call this partition. Click the Options button below the partition layout. From the three options presented, choose 'GUID Partition Table', then click OK. Click Apply towards the bottom right of the window and wait for the drive to be repartitioned and mounted.



3. Create a Mountain Lion install disk

Browse to the Applications folder and -click the Mountain Lion installer. Choose Show Package Contents, then browse to Contents/SharedSupport and double-click InstallESD.dmg. Wait for the integrity of the disk image to be verified.

In Disk Utility, click the Restore tab. Drag 'Mac OS X Install ESD' from the left pane into the Source box, and the partition on the USB flash drive into the Destination box. Click the Restore button. You might be asked for your account credentials to proceed. It takes a while for the OS X installer to be copied to the flash drive.

In System Preferences, click Startup Disk at the far right of the row labelled System. Among the available startup disks you should see 'Mac OS X Install ESD' with 'OS X, 10.8.2' below it. Click it, then click the Restart button.

Google Authenticator

 

How to move Google Authenticator to a new device?

Two-step verification can help thwart malicious attacks against your online accounts. Anyone trying to break into your account would need both your password and the mobile device that authentication codes are sent to in order to gain access.

 

Google has done a splendid job of providing options for those who are interested in setting up this extra security measure: you can get text alerts, or you can use Google's authenticator app, available for Android, BlackBerry, and iOS.

When using the app as your method of authentication code delivery, you may wonder what happens when you want to retire an old phone for a new one. Or, you may have misplaced your device and want to disable the service as a precautionary measure. Here's how to move the authenticator app to a new device, or disable it completely:

 1. First you'll want to uninstall the authenticator app from the device you will no longer be using. Just in case you decide to sell the device, or if it's going to become a toy for one of your kids, you want to make sure there isn't an app on it that grants access your sensitive information.

 

2. Now you'll want to install the app on the new device where you want to receive authentication codes.
Next, head to Google's two-step verification Web page using a browser on your computer. You may need to log in to your Google account to access the security settings.
Click the link that says "Move to a different phone." If you're disabling the feature completely, you can just click "Remove."

Fortunately, moving your authenticator to a new device will not invalidate any of your existing application-specific passwords, and does not require any backup codes to complete the transition.
Scan the QR code that appears, or enter it manually by clicking, "Can't scan the bar code?"

Finally, enter the authentication code that appears on the screen to verify the device. This is just like the log-in process when using two-step verification.
Now you can keep using the authenticator app just like before, on your new device!

Bonus info: If you're doing a factory reset on a device, just disable two-step verification first, then reinstall it on your device. This is much faster than doing a restore.

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Microsoft's Windows 8.1

As Windows 8.1 Milestone Preview testers push and prod their way into the dark corners of Windows 8.1 "Blue," they're finding a bunch of things that go bump in the night. From new and likely unwelcome features, to nudges into the Microsoft data tracking sphere, to entire lopped-off pieces of Windows 8, it looks like Microsoft is changing Windows to further its own agenda.

I'm not talking about the well-documented gotchas with the Win 8.1 Preview -- Microsoft makes no bones about the fact that you won't be able to upgrade directly from the Preview to the final, shipping version of Windows 8.1, for example, and it warns repeatedly that you can't uninstall the Milestone Preview. I'm also not talking about typical beta blues -- clicking on a Metro app button and getting dumped back on the Metro Start screen kind of comes with the beta testing ride. Nor am I talking about the updates to the Preview that have already shipped: I count 10 installed on my 64-bit test machine through Windows Update. Not bad for a beta that's only been out for a couple of weeks.

The changes I'm seeing are a bit more... inscrutable. Some people think they're sinister. Few of them have even a wisp of documentation. So we potential Windows 8.1 customers are left trying to figure out what Microsoft intends to do and how the changes will affect the way we work.

 
Microsoft Accounts bare its fangs

With Windows 8, you're encouraged to set up every new Windows user with a Microsoft Account -- which is to say, it's easy to set up a new user by employing an email address that's been registered with Microsoft. It's possible to create a new Win8 user without providing a Microsoft Account, but you need to click a few rather obscure links in the setup routine to get around the restriction.
On the other hand, it's very difficult to install Windows 8.1 "Blue" Preview without using a Microsoft Account. While there are some clever workarounds to bypass the forced Microsoft Account login, you have to be quite persistent to get the Preview installed without linking your installation -- your computer's unique ID -- to your Microsoft Account.

Microsoft says that the Microsoft Account requirement will be lifted for the final release:



Microsoft can track your local searches

If you use Microsoft Bing or Google search -- or almost any other search engine -- you already know that Microsoft and/or Google can and do keep track of your searches. That's why a casual Web search for "flugelhorn" will result in you seeing targeted ads for flugelhorns on almost every site you visit for the following month.

But running a search on your computer for "flugelhorn" through the Windows 8 Search charm doesn't increase your chances of seeing online ads for flugelhorns. I think. Although I can't find a suitable legalistic disclaimer anywhere, Microsoft doesn't appear to be scraping, storing, and regurgitating local computer search strings to, uh, enhance your shopping experience.

 That's changing by default in Windows 8.1. The new Win8.1 "Smart Search" -- invoked by default through the Windows 8.1 Search charm -- not only searches your computer for the string you specify. It also, all by itself, gathers up the term(s) and runs them through a Bing search. Making this cool new feature all the more lovable, Microsoft has officially announced that advertisers will be able to dish up advertising to your computer, based on the searches you perform on your computer.


Unless you make "Smart Search" dumb, you not only hand Microsoft a complete history of all of your local computer search terms, you open your machine up to even more lovely ads, doled out on the Search results pane. So if you search for "flugelhorn" on your local computer --  not on the Web, mind you, but on your own computer -- the results that Windows 8.1 shows you will include advertisements for flugelhorns on eBay and Amazon (no, I'm not joking -- try it), local flugelhorn manufacturers, flugelhorn party consultants, and no doubt some day flugelhorn addiction services.
You can turn Smart Search off by bringing up the Settings charm, clicking or tapping Change PC Settings, then choosing Search and Apps, and moving the Use Bing to Search Online slider off.



The Metro Photos app loses its connections

The Windows 8.1 Metro Photos app that's circulating at the moment is a mess. While it sports a few new features -- crop, rotate, auto slideshows, redeye, all the features you would've expected from a photo app 10 years ago -- the current app can't even access photos stored on a network share or on SkyDrive. Clearly, it was rushed out the door.

The reason for the trampled release appears to be Microsoft's canning of its Facebook and Flickr links.
Windows 8 had automatic connections to your local pictures library, network shares, SkyDrive, Facebook, and Flickr; Win8 combines photos from all of those sources and offers them up with one, unified view. The Windows 8.1 "Blue" Preview can only get at local pictures. It uses the cumbersome-but-finger-friendly "file picker" metaphor for selecting files and folders. Barb Bowman, community moderator for Microsoft's Answers forum and a Microsoft MVP, took Microsoft to task:

 You can download the Microsoft's Windows 8.1 by clicking the link below:


 CD Key :  NTTX3-RV7VB-T7X7F-WQYYY-9Y92F

                                                             


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Acer Iconia 6120

Acer's inventive Iconia laptop falls into that exclusive category we sometimes call executive laptops. These are typically high-priced, highly designed systems that look great on a CEO's desk or in the first-class airline lounge. But they're also usually underpowered, overpriced, and too reliant on gimmicks that offer little in the way of actual utility.

The high-concept feature that sets the Iconia apart is actually two: two 14-inch touch screens. Instead of a screen and a keyboard, the Iconia ditches the keyboard for a second screen, which can be used either as an extended desktop or for a virtual keyboard. (We've seen a similar concept before, but with dual 7-inch screens, in the Toshiba Libetto W100.)

In practice, it works better than you might expect. Onscreen typing is still nowhere near as intuitive as the real thing, but a few generations of iPhones and iPads have trained us to tap-type without too much trouble, at least for short writing tasks. The experience is much closer to typing on an iPad than typing on one of the many Windows tablets we've tried over the years--and that's a good thing.

There were still frustrations with the Iconia, however. The onscreen keyboard had a hint of a lag, although it would probably only affect the fastest of touch typists. The onscreen touch pad is too small, and it lacks the kind of touch gestures a purely software touch pad could easily offer. And, most annoyingly, the CPU is one of Intel's last-generation Core i5 processors. By moving up to the current generation of CPUs, the Iconia could have faster performance, longer battery life, and better graphics.

One final positive note: unlike other so-called executive laptops we've seen, such as Dell's Adamo XPS, the Iconia is arguably reasonably priced, at $1,199; it's not a budget system by any means, but it's less than we'd expect to pay for two 14-inch touch screens.



The Acer Iconia packs its dual screens into an unassuming package. The thick, heavy chassis has a light bronze lid with black accents, and is not nearly as sleek as this week's other high-end laptop, the Samsung Series 9. Boxy to a fault, we can only imagine the engineering required to fit the two 14-inch displays in safely. The Iconia feels sturdy enough, but it's also too heavy and bulky to easily tote around.
Flipping the clamshell open, it's almost like looking at two iPads joined together at the center hinge. Both screens have glossy edge-to-edge glass with black bezels and no other buttons, controls, or accessories (except for a tiny pinhole-style Webcam above the top screen). The hinge folds all the way to 180 degrees, so both screens can lie flat against the table, although that does block the bottom-mounted speakers. From our experience, there's no difference between the two displays, but only the bottom one uses a 10-finger input gesture to pop up the onscreen keyboard.

To get to that keyboard, either touch all10 fingers lightly on the bottom screen, rest your palms on where the palm-rest would normally be, or hit the dedicated physical keyboard button located on the side of the left hinge. The pop-up keyboard that results is similar to what you'd see on a horizontal iPad, but it is bigger, with generous letter keys and large Enter, Shift, and arrow keys. A few customization options are available, including larger or smaller F-keys and the overall key pitch.

It will never be as intuitive as typing on a physical keyboard, but with a little practice, we found it to be about as easy as an iPad keyboard, which is to say that it works for basic interactions and writing blocks of text up to about 500 words. There's an audio cue for typing that clicks with each keystroke if you turn it on, but there is nothing resembling haptic feedback, which would be very useful in this situation.
While the keyboard doesn't autocorrect or autoformat on the fly like the iPad does, there is a "smart input" feature, which behaves like T9 predictive text--but it was incredibly annoying to use, literally covering up whatever you're typing with a huge list of possible words. We quickly turned it back off.

 
The virtual touch pad that sits underneath the virtual keyboard also could have been better. It functions well for controlling the cursor on the top screen, but lacks multitouch gestures, and is surprisingly small. You'd think with a software-driven virtual touch pad, it could be as big as you wanted. The top screen allows for Windows tablet gestures, such as swiping down as a page-down command, but it's not as smooth as the tap-and-drag controls on an iPad (which is the large touch surface the Iconia is most likely to be compared to).

With that in mind, Acer has still done a decent job of crafting a touch-control ecosystem within the limitations of the tablet support built into Windows 7. Tapping with five fingers on the bottom screen brings up a jog wheel that launches touch-friendly photo and video apps, a social media aggregator, as well as a two-screen custom Web browser and access to some systems tools, including power options and the capability to turn off the backlight for either screen. The bundled software seems well made, but the learning curve for using these proprietary apps instead of the standard apps and Web sites most of us already use make us unlikely to use them regularly.

	Acer Iconia	Average for category [mainstream]
Video	VGA plus HDMI	VGA plus HDMI or DisplayPort
Audio	Stereo speakers, headphone/microphone jacks	Stereo speakers, headphone/microphone jacks
Data	2 USB 2.0, 1 USB 3.0	4 USB 2.0, SD card reader, eSATA
Expansion	None	ExpressCard/54
Networking	Ethernet, 802.11n Wi-Fi	Ethernet, 802.11n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, optional mobile broadband
Optical drive	None	DVD burner

Price as reviewed	$1,199
Processor	2.6GHz Intel Core i5-M480
Memory	4GB, 667MHz DDR3
Hard drive	640GB 5,400rpm
Chipset	Intel HM65
Graphics	Intel GMA HD
Operating system	Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit)
Dimensions (WD)	13.5 x 9.7 inches
Height	0.74-1.24 - 1.5 inches
Screen size (diagonal)	14.0/14.0 inches
System weight / Weight with AC adapter	6.0/6.7 pounds
Category	Mid-size

Yahoo Axis web browser

Axis provides search and browsing features that allow you to view Yahoo! Search results from any page and continue your browsing experience across multiple devices. Axis is offered as a browser plugin for desktops or an application for mobile devices. In order to use Axis, you must download and install free software but you do not need to be a registered Yahoo! user in order to use it. In order to leverage the continuous browsing experience across multiple devices, you must be a registered Yahoo! user and logged in to your Yahoo! account within each Axis experience.

 
Web and Application Usage

• By logging into your Yahoo! account in Axis, Yahoo! will be able to provide you a continuous browsing experience across multiple devices. To do this, Axis will transmit your web browsing activity to Yahoo! servers, including the complete web site addresses (URLs) from all the websites you visit, referring and redirect URLs, your Yahoo! identifiers, and preferences you set.
• Yahoo! Axis only collects information for the purpose of serving and syncing your search history and bookmarks across devices.
• Yahoo! collects your web usage to provide you with a continuous search experience across devices. In particular, by collecting your web history, Yahoo! allows you to perform a search for a restaurant on your desktop computer, and continue browsing the restaurants menu and location on your mobile device as you’re in route to the restaurant.
• Yahoo! will automatically send crash details back to our servers for further assessment and debugging if your application stops working for an unexpected reason.

 Location

• Axis can optionally use your current location to provide more relevant search results where possible. To do this, you must first provide permission through your device before Yahoo! obtains pinpointed physical location details.
• You are able to withdraw your permission for Yahoo! to access pinpointed location information through your mobile operating system or by uninstalling the Axis application. Please refer to the instructions from your operating system for the most up-to-date instructions for your version.
• Please visit the Location Opt-Out help page to learn more about withdrawing location permissions on your device, and the Location Privacy Policy to learn more about how Yahoo! treats location information.

Private Browsing

• Axis offers a privacy browsing mode on the iPhone and iPad which you can control through settings.
• While in this mode:
  • Web pages that you open and files downloaded aren't recorded in your browsing and download histories (alternatively you can also simply sign out of your Yahoo! account within Axis).
  • Changes made to your Y! Axis bookmarks and general settings while in incognito mode are always saved.
• To stop having your bookmarks synced across devices, you can either delete all bookmarks or sign out of your Yahoo! Account.

Search

• Axis provides you the ability to use Yahoo! Search features on any page you visit and provides visually rich search results.

Bookmarks

• Axis provides you the ability to bookmark websites to allow you to easily visit that page again. If you are signed into your Yahoo! account when using Axis, your bookmarks will be available to you across devices. 

Microsoft's SO.CL

First created purely as a research project, Microsoft’s social network site So.cl has now launched with a new user interface offering beefed-up features, in a sign that the company is keen to keep the cogs turning on its social experiment.

Based on daily feedback from So.Cl’s global community, the site has updated its collage feature, added in the option to create dynamic media via an app called BLINK and is allowing users to make their own memes and share videos. (All of these links are clearly visible at the top of the So.Cl website.)

So.Cl is incorporating an imaging app called BLINK, a project from Microsoft Research Redmond, that allows users to take a burst of images - 16 shots that start from before you press the shutter to about a second afterward – and creates a photo flipbook, known as a “BLINK.”

The BLINK app can be used with Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 devices. The original app, which debuted in early February, didn’t have the feature of a flipbook. The current BLINK also comes with what is called “Cliplets” for Windows 8 devices, in which you can overlay a dynamic, videolike animation atop a static background – like a photograph, but with the object in the foreground in motion. Cliplets are created from bits of video – 10 seconds or less.



In a bid to appeal to the younger crowd (after all when it started, So.Cl was touted as being targeted at students), the social network has also incorporated a meme-generator called Picotale. All you have to do is type a few words – kind of like a status update – then click Go within Picotale, and an image is generated to match your words.


The ability to create collages came from the original So.Cl, but with the new interface users can upload personal images from a device to mix and match them with content from the Web.
So.Cl is also moving into video sharing by allowing users to create video playlists. Content can be grabbed from sites such as Bing, YouTube and Vimeo to be assembled into a collection that can be viewed, discussed, and shared with people you know and people you might like to meet.


The So.Cl project came out of Microsoft’s FUSE Labs, a division of the company that is working on other research tools that compliment social networking sites like Facebook. It was opened to the public late last year.

The first addition is a Blink feature that uses an app for Windows 8 or Windows Phone to create short animated GIFs. The GIFs, or Cliplets as Microsoft calls them, can then be shared on Socl. Microsoft has a dedicated section for Blink, alongside three other creation tools. The Collage tool has been updated with a method to collage together images, links, and videos from the web or those uploaded directly to the service. Pictotale is another addition to the service, acting as a meme-generator to overlay text on popular images. 

The final addition is Video Party, which simply creates a playlist of videos to share with other Socl users.

Microsoft doesn't appear to have any ambitious plans for Socl, instead it's clearly using the service as a test bed for individual social-related research projects. The new Blink feature originally debuted on Windows Phone after the Microsoft Research projected created an app to take multiple photos and create an animated GIF. If the individual features prove to be popular then it's possible we'll see them more tightly integrated into Microsoft's devices and services in the future.

 

Shortcuts to Windows 7

Hey there!!

I know that you want to run windows like experts but using your mouse will make you a bit slower.

I am providing some of the useful shortcuts to windows 7 so you can get your hand over it.

• win+home                  Clear all but the active window
• win+space                  Make  windows transparent so you can see through to the desktop
• win+↑                         Maximize the active windows
• win+↓                         Minimize the windows/restore the window if it is maximized
• shift+win+↑                 Maximize the active window vertically
• win+→/←                  Dock the window to the each side of the monitor
• shift+win→/←            Move the windows to the monitor on the left or right
• win+num(1-9)             Start the application pinned to the taskbar in that position
• shift+win+num(1-9)     Start the new instance of the application pinned in the taskbar
• ctrl+win+num(1-9)      Cycle though open windows to the application pinned to the taskbar
• alt+win+num(1-9)       Open the jump list for the application pinned to the taskbar
• win+t                          Focus and scroll through the items on the taskbar
• win+b                         Focus the system tray icons
• shift+click on a tskbar Open a program or quickly open another instance of a programe
• ctrl+shift+n                  Creates a new folder in the explorer
• alt+↑                            Goes up a folder level in the explorer
• alt+p                            Toggle the preview pane in the explorer        

Try out these shortcuts and we will found some of the other shortcuts of another application.

6 Apps you must try

1. Google Goggles

Google eventually wants the app to be a universal visual search tool. But Goggles is still in development (a fact that Google stresses), and identifying all sorts of stuff by snapshot alone is a major challenge.
For now, Google emphasizes that Goggles works its magic best on iconic sights, such as landmarks, book covers, bar codes, wine bottle labels, corporate logos and artwork. But the company is working on increasing the accuracy of Goggles. Keep reading to learn more about how Goggles might help you see -- and search -- your world with a fresh set of eyes.

Platform: Android, iOS 4.0
Price: Free

 2. Acrossair

This is the app for you whether you are interested in brushing up on your general knowledge or are keen to learn about your surroundings in a fun interactive way.

Ever walked past a building and wanted to know more? Diminish your unknown with the nearest wiki!

Holding the phone vertically gives you an AR view, with a synopsis against points of interest near you. Tapping on the place you wish to learn more about will give you more in-depth information on the location with images.

Platform: iOS
Price: Free

 3. iOnRoad Augmented driving lite

Bringing to the Android Market what I consider one of the only useful augmented reality apps in existence, iOnRoad has introduced iOnRoad Augmented Driving. This app utilizes your Android device's rear camera to have a look at traffic in front of you, and, using complex visual algorithms, it determines headway, speed, direction, and potential traffic threats.

 What's more, the app still keeps watching, and keeps you abreast of any potential dangers while running in the background, meaning you can switch to your music player, messaging app, or phone, and still get alerts from iOnRoad.

On top of its incredible safety features, the apps also offers social integration, allowing you to unlock (and compete for) driving achievements (which seem to be geared toward safe driving), and upload snapshots of interesting sights, reckless drivers, etc. to Facebook.

One last thing - you can set iOnRoad to automatically detect when you start driving, thereby starting the video feed and your augmented driving experience

Platform: Android, iOS
Price: Free

 4. Theodolite

Theodolite is a multi-function augmented reality app that combines a compass, GPS, map, photo/movie camera, rangefinder, and two-axis inclinometer. Theodolite overlays real time information about position, altitude, bearing, range, and inclination on the iPhone’s live camera image, like an electronic viewfinder.

Uses are endless, and Theodolite is great for outdoor sports, hiking, boating, hunting, golf, sightseeing, photography, and navigation. The app is used in the field every day by surveyors, geologists, architects, engineers, military personnel, competitive sportsmen, and search and rescue workers.

Theodolite set a new standard for augmented reality navigation apps when it debuted in 2009. It has been featured numerous times in iTunes (including honors as a "Rewind 2010" app), and has been the #1 selling Navigation app in iTunes stores around the world.

Platform: iOS
Price: $ 3.99

 5. TagWhat

Tagwhat is the most comprehensive feed of hyperlocal content in the world. Its award-winning mobile apps instantly find and deliver actionable content about the places around you. Tagwhat delivers the right content to the right people at the right time so that you never miss what’s happening nearby again.
Tagwhat makes it extremely easy for businesses to tether their digital content to real-world locations and deliver it to nearby mobile users.

 Platform: iOS, Android
 Price: Free

6. Color blindness simulator

So you have a friend who is colorblind... how does the world look to him/her? With this app, you can see what it is like to be red, green or blue color blind. If you are colorblind yourself, you can also correct it - but first check which type of colorblindness you have by seeing whether you can tell the difference to the normal view.
This application simulates and corrects color blindness in real-time using the integrated camera of your phone - so it is also a simple augmented reality application. All common colorblindness types are supported, it is also possible to compare with normal vision.So if you have a friend with color blindness so help him see the
world with your smartphone.

Platform:Android
Price: Free

 

Sony Bravia XBR65x900a

64.5" Screen Size / 4K 3840x2160 / Passive 3D / TRILUMINOS Display / Motionflow XR 960 / Built-in Wi-Fi / Internet Streaming / 65W Speakers with Subwoofer

Enhance the quality of everything you watch with a picture that's four times clearer than regular HD, plus more depth and shades of Color than you've ever seen on a TV before. Add in 65 Watts of powerful, cinematic Sound plus Wi-Fi Connectivity and it's the highest resolution, most immersive experience Sony has ever created. See the world in 4K Ultra HD and never look back.

 

 

 

 

 

Features

 

4K Ultra HD - four times the clarity of Full HD 1080p (4K image will vary based on source content)

Everything you watch is enhanced for 4K Ultra HD viewing

More brilliant color than ever with TRILUMINOS display

Front-facing speakers with 65 watts of powerful sound

Built-in Wi-Fi for Streaming HD entertainment

Dynamic Edge LED backlight for amazing contrast

Experience precise motion clarity with Motionflow XR 960

Your Smartphone screen on TV with NFC screen mirroring (requires smartphone with NFC)

Movies, Music & APPS on Sony Entertainment Network (requires Broadband connection)

RS-232 and IR in for custom control installs

Enjoy Full HD 3D with 4 pairs of passive glasses (requires 3D content)

SimulView technology presents twice the fun - 2 player games with no split screen

TV SideView app to control your TV and Channel guide

See more details in your DSLR photos (8MP+) with 4K resolution

Specifications 

Screen Size (measured diagonally): 65.0" (64.5")

Aspect Ratio: 16:9

Display Resolution: 4K (3840x2160)

Dynamic Contrast Ratio: over 1 million

Viewing Angle: 178 (89/89)

Backlight Type: LED

Dimming Type: Local Dimming

Display Device: LCD

OptiContrast Panel: Yes

Triluminos Display: Yes

3D: Passive & Simulated 3D

Illumination LED: Yes

Sense of QUARTZ: Yes

Motionflow Technology: Motionflow XR 960

Video Processing: 4K X-Reality PRO

LightSensor Technology: Yes

Dynamic Backlight Control: Yes

Stand Design: Circle / Chrome Plating

Speaker Configuration: 2.2ch, Two way speaker[Tweeter(18mm)x2, Woofer(Magnetic Fluid Speaker, 80mm)x2] + Sub Woofer(70mm)x2

Speaker Power: 12.5W+12.5W+20W+20W

TV System: M, Clear QAM, ATSC

Network: BIVL, DLNA Content, Google TV Sync, Opera Browser, Screen Mirroring, Seamless Streaming, Skype Ready, Sony Entertainment Network, TV SideView, TV Tweet, X2 Widget, Wi-Fi Direct, Integrated Wireless LAN

Connectors: 2 x Analog Audio In, Audio Out (Side/Hybrid w/HP), Component Video In, 2 x Composite Video In, Digital Audio Out, Ethernet (RJ-45), 4 x HDMI, Headphone, MHL (yes), RF Connection, RS-232C, 3 x USB 2.0

Dimensions (Approx.): TV Only: 66 1/4 x 34 1/2 x 4(2 3/8) inch / TV with Stand: 66 1/4 x 35 5/8 x 16 inch

Weight: TV only: 99.2 lbs. / TV with Stand: 102.3 lbs.

Google Chromebook Pixel

Earlier this year, Google did something almost ground-breaking when it introduced the Chromebook Pixel. Sure, the Chromebook line as a whole has existed for a few years, but the entire premise of such a range of notebooks revolved around only a couple of design goals. One of those was accessibility, and almost by default, the other was affordability. The original Chromebooks were priced at $500 or less -- in some cases, far less. The reason seemed obvious: Chrome OS was a great operating system for those who did little more than browse the Web and connect to cloud-based services such as Evernote, but it served less of a purpose in the productivity-minded "real world."

The Chromebook Pixel on the other hand, is perhaps the most curious gadget launch of the year. It's an extreme combination of premium parts and design coupled with a fledgling operating system. It's an odd melding of premium and basic features rolled into a single device. And this time around, Google priced out an expensive offering to be sure. Much like other Chromebooks, it's also difficult to categorize versus other products in the market. Before we begin to break down the pros and cons of owning such a marvel, let's take a look at what's under the hood.
 
 The Pixel is about as far away from cut and dry as one will find in the notebook arena. It's built to set a precedent perhaps, but it's a machine that many will have a hard time justifying its price tag. In many ways, the Pixel feels like it exists simply because it can, and while Google must know that too few of these will be sold, it's the concept that counts. This is proof that technology companies can still produce extraordinary things that may not necessarily be adopted by the masses, yet the masses will still no doubt pause to appreciate, while the industry could very well take a few cues from a product like the Chromebook Pixel.

 For those who have not been following the lineage of the Chromebook, here's a brief refresher: the Pixel, like all Chromebooks, runs Chrome OS. This is a homegrown operating system out of Google's own labs, and it's a cloud-based system. In other words, few of the important elements work offline. This operating system needs to be connected to a broadband network for most of the functionality to shine through. It's a radically different view on what an OS should be, and it's largely based around the Chrome Web browser.


The Chromebook Pixel ships with Chrome OS v26, but new versions of Chrome are introduced every couple of weeks. In fact, v27 is hitting the stable channel right now, which adds a slew of improvements. Each of these updates are pushed to the machine automatically, and each are free. Google has long since said that the Chromebook will get better with age as new updates are pushed, and it has largely made good on that promise.

It's important to note that Chrome OS has evolved significantly since we reviewed the Samsung Series 5 Chromebook in 2011. Back then, Chrome OS was nothing more than a browser. No desktop, no file management system per se. Today, Google has begun to cater to demands to make Chrome OS at least somewhat similar to more conventional operating systems. Now you're greeted with a menu bar at the bottom, the ability to have multiple windows / panes in use, and the ability to re-size windows in order to have multiple applications running at once.

 Most of Chrome OS' functionality still remains in the browser. For example, you cannot install an Evernote app, but you can install the Chrome Web app and keep that pinned at all times. In effect, it's just like using an app, but you access it via a Chrome browser tab. That said, there are a couple of dedicated programs, one of which is Scratchpad -- a cloud-based, syncable note taking program that looks a lot like Notepad on OS X. There's also a dedicated file explorer now, allowing you to save items (PDFs, downloads, etc.) onto the unit's SSD or onto your connected Google Drive account. Ph

Speaking of Google Drive, it's obvious that Google would prefer you to use that as your main means of storage. Each Pixel owner is gifted with 1TB of Drive space for three full years. That's a huge amount of space, and it's a perk that would cost hundreds of dollars per year if buying it outright. The only trouble is that for those who really do take advantage, you'll be forced to pay Google to keep those files accessible at the end of three years. Of course, three years is a long time from now. It's likely that storage prices will sink to the point where Google can offer 1TB of Drive storage at lower rates than we're seeing today, but of course, none of that is promised.

photos imported via SD card can now also be stored directly on the Pixel's SSD. It's not a fully open system providing access to local storage, but it's a great improvement from earlier builds of Chrome OS.