Lava Iris 504Q specification review

Iris 504Q

Lava Mobiles has introduced its brand new smartphone Iris 504Q. This smartphone comes with gesture controls feature and will be available in the market starting last week of June for Rs. 13,499. Lava Iris 504Q sports a 5-inch display with a resolution of 720x1280 pixels. The smartphone packs in 1.2GHz quad-core processor with 1GB of RAM. The smartphone packs in 4GB of internal storage, which can be expanded by up to 32GB via microSD card. Lava Iris 504Q runs on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean).

For camera, there is an 8-megapixel auto focus rear camera with BSI sensor. The smartphone also has 2-megapixel front snapper on-board and is powered by a 2000mAh battery. The gesture motion feature on the Lava Iris 504Q allows users to interact with the phone with just a swipe of the hand in the air. The gesture control feature can be used for clicking photos, changing tracks on the music player and video player, tuning FM channels and browsing entertainment gallery on the smartphone.

Iris 504Q

The USP of the phone is the gesture sensor, and in the little time we had with the phone, it looked like Lava has done a nice job with the gesture-based controls which can be operated without tapping on the display of the phone. The gesture controls are applicable on various features like clicking photos and checking them in the gallery, browse through the music player – for switching tracks and for changing videos, and for changing the FM channels. You simply need to move your hand in to and fro motion on the front of the screen. The camera of the phone will then understand your gestures and thus guide the related features to operate accordingly. On trying it, the gesture-motion while changing images in the gallery worked smoothly most of the times, though there were instances when we would instruct it multiple times to operate; this could possibly be due to the position of hand or the lighting conditions as the camera did not recognize our actions.

FACEBOOK GRAPH SEARCH:YOU CANNOT HIDE

The latest to arrive from the popular social network is the Graph Search. The Graph Search results focus on four core points-People, Places, Photos and Interests. Facebook can easily collate these results after having spent quite a few years urging users to upload information, interests and photographs to their profiles online. While some may jump around indelight as if 'stalking' has been legalized, most of us need to be worried. The so-called magic of Graph Search is that you can end up on that search any which way - if a person is directly trying to dig your profile (Photos of XYZ from paris). or even if they are randomly searching for anything remotelylinked to you(Friends who like BBc Top Gear). There is really no hiding from it.
    Now let's put this into perspective. Ever checked out a feature on your Facebook profile called Activity Log? This has a search log of every single click of yours on Facebook - every photograph you've checked out, every profile you've visited and everything you've been linked to. While all this data thankfully not shows on the profile or timeline(yet!), it may be petrifying to realizer that Facebook has all that data. And with Graph Search only set to evolve further and go deeper than it is now, stalking someone with an attractive profile picture might lead to repercussional.

Messenger Apps for Android | iOS | Windows | BlackBerry

Smart phone penetration is increasing by leaps and bounds in India thanks to handsets available at cheaper rates by the day. You can get a smart phone for as low as Rs :- 5000 nowadays . Short messaging service is slowly but surely on its way out as far as smart phone users as concerned. Blackberry users that have taken care of with the BlackBerry Messenger service which is preferred chice of messaging between two BlackBerry users. But for non-BlackBerry users that are many apps out there which can be used for messaging so long as you have a working data connection.

HIKE

 
This is an indigenious apps developed by Airtel’s apps making arm – Bharti SoftBank Holdings (BSB). While it is similar to most mobile messaging apps allowing transfer of text, video and audio based messages over the internet connection, what is unique about the apps is that it allows you to send upto 100 free SMSes to non-Hike users. If any of your friend accepts your invitation to join Hike you get 50 free SMSes. While you can send messages to friends who are using Hike world wide, the free SMS option is only open to Indian members. Incidentally the apps works better than Whatsapp on windows phone 8.
Website  : http://get.hike.in/ 
Platform: Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Symbian, Blackberry OS.



KIK
 
This is another free to use mobile messaging apps which works across platforms. Kik can work with either the phone number or with a Kik ID. It has an interesting feature in the form of cards. YouTube , Raditt pics, Sketch and image search. These cards can take you to the respective sites and you can share videos  or pictures from this sites within Kik and they will appear as cards. Apart from this it has the regular messaging chops including the send, delivered, read and typing notifications.
 Website  : http://kik.com/
Platform  : Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Symbian, Blackberry OS.


Samsung ChatON

 
As expected, this apps comes in preloaded on all Samsung smartphones and allows you to send text, image, video, audio, share location, maps, calendar and contact information as well. You can create animated messages which is just like Kik’s Sketch feature. There is a slight amount of gamification with a feature like Interaction Rank  which ranks you contact according to the frequency of your interaction. It works across platforms and requires your phone number to register just like other messaging apps. You form your own groups,
Website  : http://web.samsungchaton.com
Platform: Android, iOS, Symbian, Blackberry OS, Bada, PC. 

 
WeChat
 
This apps from chinees company Tencent is creating a lot waves offlate thanks to its option to video chat and make voice calls in addition to mobile messaging. It available on all the major platforms and you can even login using your Facebook credentials. You do have to register you phone number with WeChat. You can add photos, send locations, make video calls or send across a voice message if you are too bored to type. You have option to customize your backgroung while group chatting. It also come with differentiating features such as Moments: which is like social photo sharing which allows users to like or comment your photo; LookAround: which allow you to see far your friends are from you based on their locations; Shake: you shake your phone and you will come to know who else using WeChat has shook his or her phone and you can start a conversion with them and so on.
 Website  : http://wechat.com/en/
Platform  : Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Symbian, Blackberry OS, PC.

Facebook Messenger 

 
There were rumours last year that Facebook was planning to acquire WhatsApp, but they were just that. Facebook went ahead and launched Facebook messenger which allow you to login with you Facebook account as well as your phone number. Even non-Facebook can use this app by giving their number. You can send text or voice messages as well as share your photographs. It has free calling feature as well but it inly works on iPhones and for the users in Canada and US.
Website  : http://www.facebook.com/mobile/messenger
Platform: Android, iOS,Blackberry OS.




WhatsApp

This is the de-facto messaging apps that most smartphone users have as it is a cross platform app. So an Android user can communicate with a blackberry user and vice-versa. Actually most of apps we have listed are cross-platform, but WhatsApp can safely be said to have started the trend. You can send text messages, videos, images as well as audio files. You can create groups or friends as well. This apps even works on feature phones as Nokia S40 ones which is a big plus favor. Another plus is that there is no advertising in this app, despit or being free of cost. Although WatsApp saying that the apps is free only for a tear and after they charge $0.99 pay per year(around Rs:55), we have to still come across too many users who  have actually paid for using WhatsApp.
Website  : http://www.whatsapp.com
Platform:. Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Symbian S40, Blackberry OS.

Google Maps starts virtual tours Famous mountains and Everest

Google Maps going to starting a new feature that people can explore some the most famous mountains and Everest[Aconcagua, Kilimanjaro, Mount Elbrus and Everest Base Camp].

Google Maps now starts a virtual tours of the world's most popular mountains including Kilimanjaro and Aconcagua. The views from the snow-capped Everest Base Camp and Mount Elbrus in Europe have also been added to Google Maps.

Users can drop into various camps and check out locations along the mountains to have 360-degree panoramas and even trace the paths of some mountains’ trails via Google Maps. The mountains photographed by Google's Street View team were among peaks often dubbed as the 'Seven Summits', the seven highest peaks on the Earth.

“While there’s nothing quite like standing on the mountain, with Google Maps you can instantly transport yourself to the top of these peaks and enjoy the sights without all of the avalanches, rock slides, crevasses, and dangers from altitude and weather that mountaineers face,” Google adventurer Dan Fredinburg said in a blog post.

Google team used simple tripod-mounted digital camera loaded with a fisheye lens to take the popular 360-degree views. Google has also published a behind-the-scenes look at its latest addition to its special collection.

"Whether you're scoping out the mountain for your next big adventure or exploring it from the comfort and warmth of your home, we hope you enjoy these views from the top of the world," added Dan Fredinburg in the blog post.

"With Google Maps, you can instantly transport yourself to the top of these peaks and enjoy the sights without all the avalanches, rock slides, crevasses, and dangers from altitude and weather that mountaineers face."

Women use mobile apps to assure secutity

Women use mobile apps to assure secutity

After the crucial gang rape of Delhi most of girls students and women are started to using mobile apps to ensure their safety and to give info about current location to their family and friends. Women who very care about the latest smartphones and downloaded apps which provide location to family and friends with a single touch manner.

        Sakshi Munjal, a university student in Chandigarh, told IANS: "With the help of smartphones, security for women is just a click away. Whenever I am out somewhere, I keep updating and sharing my locations with applications like Latitude and Facebook." and also she siad that "now-a-days increasing women crimes and they shuld be bauther about self protection women who travel themselves should take some predecitions that mat downloading the apps in smartphones ".
        

        A whole range of mobile apps are now available and can be downloaded for women to provide their location to someone known. The apps, Life360 is a family locator which connects all the family members, allowing them to communicate instantly and track the GPS location of any family member in real time. It also helps in sending panic alerts via text, email and phone call if help is needed urgently. A college student told that  "I have installed Life360 application on my phone so that whenever I am out of my house and a clear idea about the location, if any trouble then just need to send a message to tyheir family and friends".
 

        Fightback is another apps to this purpose and GPRS, SMS, GPS, maps, email and linked Facebook account to send SOS messages when needed. he application also updates the Facebook status page with emergency messages and current location to inform the user's Facebook network. Swati Sahni, a B.Ed. student here, said: "I always take a video of surroundings and any potential threats. I share it with friends and family using leading social networking sites or email and generally keep some family member on call to update them of my location. I always keep my father's number on immediate calling so that I am saved from wasting time in case of trouble."

        Another application helps to add six friends who will be informed in times of need or crisis. It sends an SMS to friends with the GPS location and a message. Other apps offer GPS location and realtime alerts.

How to Recover Media files in Minutes

        Stellar Photo Recovery 5 is a multi-media file recovery tool that can recover up to 35 image file formats, 21 audio file formats and 22 video file formats. This includes proprietary file formats for all digital cameras. It is very simple and easy to use as it doesn't restrict recovery in any individual manner but allows you to recover 'as you like it' with options like advance recovery, resume recovery or create back-up. We installed the software on a 32-bit Windows 7 based machine and used an 8 GB USB drive for recovering photos, videos and audio files.

        To use it, insert the storage device from which the files were deleted to your PC and open the recovery tool. All drives are  instantly detected on the interface. Just select the drive/storage device and go to advance scan at the bottom of the interface. This will open a page with photo, audio and video on the right. Select photo/video/audio and the interface will show the file formats that can be recovered. Unselect all files and then select the specific file format, if you can remember it. Without wasting time on searching irrelevant files the tool will narrow down the search to the specified format. Click on the right arrow to start the scan.

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THE INTERNET IS WATCHING YOU

Everything you do online is being used to track you and guess what you’ll want to do next

 Online shops such as Amazon swear by one rule: get to know everything about our customers. The more information it has, the more specific its user profiles will be, and the more effective its advertisements. Thus, products that one has viewed on Amazon influence the display of others. For instance, if someone buys a Wii game console, he will be offered accessories for it in the future.

Many find this invasive and Amazon has had to face criticism from individuals, activists, and even the media. German TV host Günther Jauch famously called out the store after he once received a package with something he called “erotic”, which had not been meant for him. Since then he has constantly received pornographic recommendations. Though Jauch’s surprise has given rise to plenty of jokes about his supposed gifting ideas, it also exposes the weaknesses of this system. Amazon does not know that the erotic product was not supposed to match with Jauch’s profile.

Amazon also often displays products that are not of interest to the customer—a waste of advertising space. In one such example, Amazon displayed two different types of refill packs for a coffee machine it was selling, in the advertising module titled “Customers who bought this product also bought…..” The packs did not work with this machine at all! This is annoying for those who see an opportunity and quickly buy what looks like a good product, assuming it matches.

 Analyzing surfing habits 

 Behavioral Targeting techniques are an evolution of this idea, which many marketing professionals consider a wonder weapon. Behavior-based advertisement displays take into account where the user comes from, which websites he has visited previously, and what he has clicked on.

For a long time, Google’s AdWords service has been displaying advertisements after detecting keywords on a web page. However since March 2009, the search giant has also been offering behavioral targeting and can display specific advertisements to groups of people. For instance, if a user has been browsing through a sportswear website for a football shirt in August, he might be shown ads for another website with Christmas offers on similar products in December.  Google itself describes its technique as using cookies which save tracking information on users' computers.

The possibilities available to a shop through behavior-based display are as endless as the creativity of search and marketing providers. If a customer only clicks on special offers, the online shop can even discourage him by directing him to a slow server in the future and spoiling the fun of bargain shopping. In addition, the dealer puts the customer at a disadvantage by not displaying advertisements related to special offers. These will be shown only to customers they want to reward!

Online shops also apply marketing tips from the real world. For instance, if a retailer wants to attract only well-to-do customers, leaflets with attractive offers are only put in mailboxes in upmarket areas with well-situated residents. Similarly, one can use geolocation information to analyze the place of origin of a surfer and recommend specific offers to him or her.  The coordinates obtained through IP address identification on the Internet are very fine-grained, but  modern cellphones and certain desktop browsers now supply precise GPS locations, which can even be used to guess the financial behavioral pattern of any surfer. 

LAPTOP as Wi-Fi Hotspot in Xp/Vista

 

 

You need following to set a HotSpot

1. Active Cable Internet
2. Laptop
3. Wi-Fi on Laptop
4. Wired net connection

Setup a HotSpot in Windows Vista

1. Got to Control Panel
2. Click on “Network and Sharing Centre”
3. Under Tasks choose “Setup New Connection”
4. Wireless “Ad-hoc network”
5. Now type in a “Network Name”
6. Choose “WEP” password if you don’t want to share the connection with the entire world
7. Click “Internet connection sharing”
8. Done!

setup a HotSpot in Windows XP

1. Go into Control panel
2. Open “Network Connections”
3. Right click on "Wireless Connection" and click on "Properties"
4. Click on the "Wireless Networks" tab and select the check-box which says “Use Windows to configure my wireless network settings”
5. Under “Prefered networks” click “Add”
6. Type a name in “Network name” text box
7. Select “Shared” from the options under “Network Authentication”
8. Under Data encryption select “WEP” and type in your password in “Network Key” field and now click "OK"
9. Now the new HotSpot should show in the list of preferred networks.
10. Click on the “Advance” button and select “Computer-to-computer (ad hoc) networks only" and press close
11. Hit “OK”, we are done with the wireless connection properties

we have to change something in the wired connection setting so that it knows that it has to share connection with the computers accessing our HotSpot.

1. Go to local Area Connections, right click it and select properties
2. Go to the “Advanced” tab and under Internet Connection Sharing check the box which says “Allow other network users to connect through this computer’s internet connection” and make sure the box under that is NOT selected so that no one can disable the network remotely.
3. Hit “OK”

Just check it and have fun !!
 

JBL Micro Wireless

         The JBL Micro Wireless is the first ultra-portable speaker featuring a Li-ion rechargeable battery, built-in bass port and wireless Bluetooth® connection. With a 1-5/8-inch (40-millimeter) driver, it delivers full-range JBL® sound with exceptional bass – yet it fits easily in backpacks or clips onto clothing. You can wirelessly stream audio to the speaker from any Bluetooth-equipped mobile phone or tablet, or use the included audio cable to connect the speaker to any mobile device or MP3 player. You can even daisy-chain with other JBL Micro Wireless speakers for a powerful sonic experience.

MRP: 3490

Bluetooth technology 

The JBL Micro Wireless portable speaker streams music wirelessly from any Bluetooth-equipped mobile phone or tablet, making JBL sound available for a wide range of portable devices. It’s a wireless wonder. 

Built-in bass port

JBL speakers are famous for powerful bass. But it might surprise you to hear JBL bass this strong from a speaker this small. A built-in bass port enables the JBL Micro Wireless to generate bass that’s superior to comparable portable products.

Five-hour, Li-ion rechargeable battery

The JBL Micro Wireless portable speaker has a built-in Li-ion battery that provides up to 5 hours of playback time. You can easily recharge the battery using a micro USB port, which saves you battery hassles and money.

Portable design

It’s easy to get attached to JBL sound. The lightweight, compact JBL Micro Wireless fits easily into backpacks or pockets.

Smart-cable design

The JBL Micro Wireless portable speaker is always ready to connect and play. And when your source device isn’t connected, the built-in 11-13/16-inch (30-centimeter) audio cable stores in the bottom of the speaker to prevent tangling.

LED indicator

 A clearly visible LED lets you know when the built-in Li-ion rechargeable battery is low, so you know when the JBL Micro Wireless needs charging. We don’t want you to miss a moment of your music.