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Saturday, August 3, 2013

Facebook App Launched by Truecaller lets you look up Phone Numbers

Facebook App Launches by Truecaller

A new app has been launched by Truecaller to users on the platform of Facebook. Users can now access Truecaller without having to install the app on their phones. With the Facebook app one can enter phone numbers and get the user’s name easily. The app also has the concept of “True” score that depends on the number of friends one has who use Truecaller.

The app sends them a request every time someone asks for their contact details.Users now also have the option of name lookup where they can decide their level of privacy and select whether they want to share their contact details on a case-by-case basis. 

The app has become immensely popular in India especially with the surge of telemarketing calls and it now tells users whether an incoming call is a telemarketing call, which is marked as spam.

Truecaller was also in the news recently when its website was hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army but the company maintains no information was lost in the process.

Truecaller added a few privacy features including the option where users can select whether they wanted their details to be a part of the database or not.

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Friday, August 2, 2013

Google To Bring Android Device Manager To Provide "Find My Phone" Service To Android Officially

There are plenty of third party apps available on Google Play store that provide 'Find My Phone' services, but Larry Page and company have decided to bring official version of the Android Device Manager later this month

Have you ever lost your phone at marketplace or forgot it in a restaurant? There are plenty of third party apps available on Google Play store that helps you in finding your lost expensive and costly phone. But you can't trust these third party apps fully as their background process might copy your important data and as you connect to the internet that app transmit that data to somewhere else.

one of the available untrusted third party mobile device manager app

But now you don't need to worry about it. Later this month, the new Android Device Manager can help you out. It's one of a few simple features you can use to keep your device (Android phone running 2.2 Froyo or above)—and the data you store inside—safe and secure.

Larry Page and company decided to bring Android Device Manager to android devices officially for "Find My Phone" Service so that you can trust this feature.

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Working Of the Android Device Manager

If your phone is lost somewhere at home, wedged inconspicuously between couch cushions perhaps, you can have your phone automatically ring on maximum volume. Why not just call it, you say? Well, that's another option you can do today, but if your phone is silenced or set to ring on low volume, you might not hear it. Android Device Manager lets you quickly ring your phone at maximum volume so you can find it, even it's been silenced. 

If the situation is a bit more serious, and your phone has been lost or stolen farther from home, then you'll be able to see its real-time location on a map. Android Device Manager can help you keep your data from ending up in the wrong hands. If your phone can’t be recovered, or has been stolen, you can quickly and securely erase all of the data on your device.

As Google Play store is said to be the home of all apps therefore Android Device Manager will be downloadable from Google Play. Google says that you'll need to be signed in to your Google account to use it, and there will also be an Android app to allow you to easily find and manage your devices.

Many of us have been using some of the great third party tools for this for a while now, but we're still excited to see an official offering. We'll have a good look when it becomes official.


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Artificial Earthquake Creation By Scientists

Artificial Earthquake Creation By Scientists

Earthquakes never occur when you need one, so US Scientists are in the process of creating artificial earthquakes just to study the ground level capacity and also the quality of high rise building because of the huge destruction it has been causing over years.


A team led by Johns Hopkins structural engineers is shaking up a building themselves in the name of science and safety. Using massive moving platforms and an array of sensors and cameras, the researchers are trying to find out how well a two-story building made of cold-formed steel can stand up to a lab-generated Southern California quake.

A team led by Johns Hopkins structural engineer is creating artificial earthquake

The testing in New York, marks the culmination of a three-year, USD 1-million research project involving scientists from six universities and design consultants from the steel industry.

The work is taking place in the only facility in the US that is capable of replicating an earthquake in three directions beneath a building measuring 50 feet long, 20 feet wide and 20 feet tall. The trials will wrap up in mid-August when the researchers will shake the unoccupied structure with forces comparable to those at the epicentre of the catastrophic 1994 Northridge earthquake in Los Angeles, which claimed dozens of lives and caused billions of dollars in damage, researchers said.

The results are expected to lead to improved building codes that will make future cold-formed steel buildings less expensive to construct than current ones. The new codes could, in certain cases, make lightweight cold-formed steel buildings less costly to construct than those made of materials such as timber, or hot-rolled steel.


In earthquake-prone regions, these code updates should help structural designers and builders reduce the likelihood of a costly and life-threatening building collapse. The research could lead to broader use of building components made of environmentally friendly cold-formed steel, made of 100 per cent recycled steel. Cold-formed steel pieces, commonly used to frame low- and mid-rise buildings, are made by bending sheet metal, roughly one- millimetre-thick, into structural shapes without using heat.

"This is the first time a full building of cold-formed steel framing has ever been tested in this way, so even the small things we're learning could have a huge impact," said Schafer, professor and chair of the Department of Civil Engineering.
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Get Ready To 3D Print With A Kinect Sensor And A Web Browser

Get Ready To 3D Print With A Kinect Sensor And A Web Browser, here your grandfather

Typically scanning and 3D printing an object is a complex process but this could be made simpler if 3D printing company Volumental is successful in crowdfunding the development of a web app which would allow users to scan and print 3D objects using nothing more than a Kinect sensor and a web browser.

Volumental's 3D Scan-to-Print web app will finally make this fantasy a reality as they are creating the world's first browser-based 3D printable model creator.

Though the company already has a web service that allows people to upload scanned 3D models, Volumental says that it needs to refine an app which is better able to differentiate a thing (toys, pets, family members are among the suggestions) from its surroundings in order to be able to print the object in isolation. Though this is a tricky problem to solve, the company claims it knows how to do it, and simply needs to hire a developer to get it done.


This amazing technology is the world's first that allows users to create usable, shareable 3D models of their living room sofa, grandfather, or a kitchen appliance all without leaving your browser window. This new app will be perfect for those objects that you’ve always wanted to 3D print but were inaccessible due to either 3D modeling difficulties or the restrictions of desktop 3D scanners.

If funded, the app raises the exciting prospect of being able to scan more or less anything. Connect your Kinect sensor to a laptop tethered to a smartphone and you theoretically have yourself a portable 3D scanner with which to snap a quick model of anything you fancy a 3D print of, which would arrive soon after on your doorstep. The team claims the process will be as easy as streaming a movie using Netflix.

Volumental claims that the web app will be able to 3D print more or less anything

Volumental claims that the web app will be able to 3D print more or less anything, even your pet

Volumental is aiming to develop the app inside of three months. Though the delivery date for pledges is January 2014, the company says this represents a "worse case scenario."

Volumental is aiming to develop the app inside of three months

The available pledges get interesting at the US$50 mark, which will net you a 3D print of any model you scan and upload. Other pledges make 3D models available to downloading for people with access to 3D printers.

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Google Unveils "Touchless" Moto X Android Phone At Exclusive New York Event

Google Unveils "Touchless" Moto X  Android Phone At Exclusive New York Event

We have discussed about Google's "the Motorola X phone" a month back. The Motorola’s next big device "the Motorola X phone" is Google's superphone that would compete with the iPhone and Galaxy S series.

Motorola on Thursday unveiled its much-awaited Moto X smartphone at a media event in New York.

Motorola on Thursday unveiled its much-awaited Moto X smartphone

Touchless control via voice commands is a key pillar of Motorola's pitch for the Moto X. There's nothing really new here to people familiar with using Google Now, except that it's more deeply integrated into the Moto X, which can be operated by voice-only from as far away as 12 feet, and even when stowed in a pocket, said Rick Osterloh, Motorola product head.

Active noise cancelling on the always-on microphones inside the phone also allow it to tolerate a certain amount of background noise. Web searches, dictating texts, playing a favorite song and opening third-party apps are all possible without ever laying a finger on the Moto X, opening up all sorts of possibilities for certain activities like driving or exercising.


Taking photos has also been streamlined in the Moto X, which goes straight from sleep to camera mode with a special gesture that's basically just a couple twists of the wrist. Motorola calls it "quick capture," and it taps into the company's camera technology dubbed "Clear Pixel" that uses an RGBC sensor (the 'C' is for clear), which Motorola claims can capture up to 75 percent more light, translating to more detail and less blurring of images.

Taking photos has also been streamlined in the Moto X

As with Google's Nexus 4, the Moto X has no hardware buttons, so in many instances, part of the screen real estate is given up for on-screen buttons.

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Moreover, The new phone comes with a Quick-Capture camera feature, wherein a user can launch the camera in a matter of few seconds by just flipping the device twice horizontally. Moto X houses a 10.0-megapixel camera with 'Clear Pixel' (RGBC) sensor, LED flash support, full HD1080p video recording. On the front side, it features a 2.0-megapixel camera which also has the ability to take full HD videos.

Another interesting feature of Moto X is that user can customise their Moto X with close to 2,000 possible combinations. They can engrave a personalised message on the phone's back panel, choose colours for panels (18) including default wallpapers and many more options. In order to customise it, buyers need to log into the Motorola website. [This offer is currently available for US citizens only].

Different colored examples of Motorola's new Moto X phone

New users can choose a custom color, accent color and even add a text phrase to the back plate of the Moto X via a program called "Moto Maker" which will be available initially online, or at AT&T store outlets.

From some reports, it is also found that The Moto X also comes in wood.

The Moto X also comes in wood

Motorola has confirmed that Moto X will hit stores in the US ($199 -16GB, $249-32GB), Canada and Latin American markets by Late August or by early September. There is no news of when the smartphone will be made available in other global markets.

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Bloodline App aims to find Blood donors for Patients

Bloodline App aims to find Blood donors for Patients

An app Bloodline has been developed by a team from the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras , which aims to find blood donors for patients when they need it.

Android app bloodlines encourages people to sign up with their location, blood type and phone number, and choose how often they want to be reminded to donate. The app then connects with Facebook and Google to determine "the people closest to you, both physically and socially". The idea is that your friends are more likely to donate money to you if you need it, and vice versa.
As we know, India has a blood deficit of between 30 and 35 percent each year, which means that many patients die because they can't get a transfusion. 

If smart phones and internet can help us share photographs and videos instantly with our friends, why not use that connectivity for saving lives? Can we create a social group of people who can help each other during an emergency?

When a person needs blood, a doctor or a patient can enter the blood type they need, their location and the number of units they need up to a maximum of 10. This sends out a callout to people who have signed up in that area, who are then encouraged to donate via SMS. Meanwhile you can also see the live requests for your type of blood.

It's a great idea, but it seems as though it depends enormously on scale.
You can download the app from Google Play and appears to be currently available to users worldwide.

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NAD Viso HP50 Headphones


NAD Viso HP50 Headphones

The new Viso HP50 is NAD's first attempt at making high-end headphones. It contain unique i.e.  Room Feel technology, which is designed to reproduce an expansive soundstage. In fact, the effect is said to be similar to listening to a good pair of stereo speakers in an acoustically neutral room.

It has an extended 10Hz to 20kHz frequency with a pair of sizeable 40mm drivers, you can also expect the HP50 to deliver rich sound with adequate bass. For enhancing comfort and a closer fit, the Canada-based company has included ultra-soft ear pads and a manganese steel head band with pivoting hinges. This allows the headphone to be folded flat for storage and easier transportation.

Another interesting feature is the dual-input connection, which gives users a freedom to attach the cable to either the left or right cup. 

Other specifications of NAD Viso HP50 Headphones are :- 



  • 1.5m tangle-free flat cable
  • 1.5m secondary cable with in-line remote and microphone
  • 210 x 200 x 71mm
  • 283.5g
  • Comes with travel case and 6.3mm stereo adapter
The NAD Viso HP50 available in black, red and white and is now available in Singapore for S$399 (US$320.58). 

It is also retailing at US$299 for the following countries in Asia..
  • Malaysia
  • Thailand
  • Indonesia
  • Hong Kong
  • China
  • Taiwan
  • Korea
  • Japan
  • Vietnam
  • The Philippines
  • India
  • Sri Lanka
  • Cambodia



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