Tips on How to Use Your Android Phone – Part 1

One thing I know of Android Phones is that using it is real easy and works with just a slight touch. And one of the most interesting part is “THE LONG PRESS”.

If you are stuck somewhere while operating your phone or if you don't know where are the options you would like to see, just press and hold on the icon, tab or bar to see more functionality pop up. This function or option that pops up when long pressing an icon, word, or tab can help you decide what to do with the specific application or program. In short it is equivalent to the right click of a mouse.

Deleting Icon From the Home Screen

Your phone comes with some icons already in your home screen. When you want to put another in place of that icon, it will be a problem if you don't know how. It's easy. You just need to Press and Hold the icon until there is a slight vibration from the phone then you will be able to move the icon anywhere on the screen. The moment you start dragging the icon, there in the bottom of the screen will be shown an "bin" icon. Just drag the icon to that portion and release it. The icon is now removed.

You may now wonder, won't that affect the program? No, it doesn't. When you delete a shortcut icon from your computer home screen, does it have any effect to the program? No.

For more, visit back. In the meantime, you can visit the website of Oglacs, a software development company based in India providing all types of software solutions including Android applicationd evelopment.

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Intro to Various Android Versions

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These days, when people talk of smartphone, Android phones are what they refer to. We've been using Android phones and what do we know about them. If you are looking for what it really is, I'm providing you an introduction to each Android versions ranging from version 2.1 to 4.0.

Android 2.1

The first commercial version of Android i.e. V1.0 was released in 2008. But all phones comes with at least the 2.1 version. Version 2.1 was released by the end of 2009 and is code-named Eclair.

What's with this version?

V2.0 comes with the following features:

1. Revamped User Interface therefore supporting higher screen resolutions and screen sizes.

2. Users can set live wallpapers

3. Camera Flash Support

4. Exchange email support

5. Multiple account and contact synchronization

Android 2.2

Within six months of the release of v2.1, Google announced the next update v2.2 which is code-named Froyo. In addition to above version, this version includes the following:

1. Wi-Fi hotspot functionality

2. USB tethering

3. Improved multimedia management

4. Push Notifications and

5. Ability of installing applications on memory cards instead of phone memory.

Android 2.3

Some minor additions to the Operating System included improved performance, improved application launcher, automatic application update support in the apps market, Adobe Flash support, voice dialing using Bluetooth. Eventually, Froyo became the OS of choice for tablets owing to its compatibility of supporting larger displays and stability. These are just the features that any android application development company would look for in order to create the best of applications.

Then after another six months, v2.3 was launched with the Google Nexus S. v2.3 was also known as Gingerbread. The improvisations made in this one are:

1. Revamped UI

2. Improved keyboard with better accuracy

3. Simpler copy/paste functionality

4. Front or Secondary camera, gyroscope and barometer support on devices

5. Better power management thereby better battery life

Android 3.0

This one is specifically designed for tables keeping in view the larger screen of tables. It comes with new interface with 3D effects. It also solved the issue of Android button standardization. The need to have physical buttons on devices has been removed by adding a system bar at the bottom. This system bar displays one touch access to connectivity settings, notifications, navigation buttons, etc. Some of the other improvisations include improved onscreen keyboard, multi-core processor support, hardware acceleration, etc. Another feature worth mentioning is the support for external keyboard and joysticks.

Android 4.0

This is the newest version of Android operating system and ia code-named Ice Cream Sandwich. This will be the common OS for both Android Powered phones and tablets from now onwards. It puts in together the best features of v2.x and 3.x, has got new looks and is improved in functions.

Some new features exclusive to this version are:

1. Face recognition

2. Customizable apps launcher

3. Separation of widgets already installed

4. Tabbed browser

5. Built-in photo editor

6. Better camera performance

7. Auto synchronization (customizable) of contacts with social network integration.

That's it. To get more updates on Android Application Development and related topics, visit back.

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9 Quick Google+ tips and tricks

 Are you someone who uses Google+ everyday? If yes, here are some quick tips and tricks that will enhance your Google+ experience.

• While you are in Google+ stream (Google+ page), press J key to read next post (or move down)
• Press K key to read previous post (or move up)
• Clicking on the Google+ bar will scroll to the top of the stream irrespective of wherever you are reading
• Drag and drop any picture, link or video into Google+ share box
• Click on the drop down icon on the top right of a post to get the link for that post
• Don’t like  a post, click on the drop down on the right of  a post and choose Mute this post It’ll disappear from your stream
• Don’t understand the language or want translation of a post? Install the google+ translate plugin and it’ll translate to the language of your choice
• Interested in a topic and want to read posts as it arrives? Search for that keyword and save the search and it’ll appear in the middle left of your stream as a link, you can click on that link to read at anytime
• Don’t want to upload media from your mobile? Turn off Instant Upload in Google+ mobile

Google+ Android application is also available. You may get it from the apps store. For more tips and tricks and other updates alike Android Application Development, visit back.


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Comic Strips – Android App for Comic Lovers

“Comic Strips” is an Android application by the renowned Android apps developer Qwerty Apps. This is one perfect app for those people who love reading comics but have not the time to buy one or read them. With this application, users can read over 300,000 comic strips from over 120 comics on an easy to use UI on any Android device.

Some features of the application are also given below:

1.       Users can read any comic starting anywhere for the archive of the whole list of comics is also given.

2.       Strips can be added to favorites for easy access.

3.       Recently viewed strips can also be viewed.

4.       Strips viewer supports Double Tap Zooming, Pinch-To-Zoom as well as zoom buttons

5.       Easy navigation

6.       Options to share comic strips to Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, Tumblr, etc. and many more.

Comic Strips supported with this application are listed below.

1.       2 Cows and a Chicken

2.       9 Chickweed Lane

3.       9 to 5

4.       The Academia Waltz

5.       Adam@Home

6.       Agnes

7.       Alley Oop

8.       Andy Capp

9.       Animal Crackers

10.   The Argyle Sweater

11.   Arlo and Janis

12.   Ask Shagg

13.   B.C.

14.   Back in the Day

15.   Bad Reporter

16.   Baldo

17.   Ballard Street

18.   Barkeater Lake

19.   The Barn

20.   Barney & Clyde

21.   Basic Instructions

22.   Ben

23.   Betty

24.   Bewley

25.   Big Nate

26.   The Big Picture

27.   Big Top

28.   Biographic

29.   Birdbrains

30.   Bliss

31.   Bloom County

32.   Bo Nanas

33.   Bob the Squirrel

34.   Boomerangs

35.   The Boondocks

36.   The Born Loser

37.   Bottomliners

38.   Bound and Gagged

39.   Brainwaves

40.   Brevity

41.   Brewster Rockit

42.   Broom Hilda

43.   The Buckets

44.   Café con Leche

45.   Calvin and Hobbes

46.   Candorville

47.   Cathy

48.   C'est la Vie

49.   Cheap Thrills Cuisine

50.   Chuckle Bros

51.   Citizen Dog

52.   The City

53.   Cleats

54.   Close to Home

55.   Compu-toon

56.   Cornered

57.   Cow and Boy

58.   CowTown

59.   Cul de Sac

60.   Daddy's Home

61.   Dark Side of the Horse

62.   Deep Cover

63.   Diamond Lil

64.   Dick Tracy

65.   The Dinette Set

66.   Dog Eat Doug

67.   Dogs of C-Kennel

68.   Domestic Abuse

69.   Doodles

70.   Doonesbury

71.   The Doozies

72.   Drabble

73.   Dude and Dude

74.   The Duplex

75.   Eek!

76.   The Elderberries

77.   Endtown

78.   F Minus

79.   Family Tree

80.   Ferd'nand

81.   Flo and Friends

82.   The Flying McCoys

83.   For Better or For Worse

84.   For Heaven's Sake

85.   Fort Knox

86.   FoxTrot

87.   FoxTrot Classics

88.   Frank & Ernest

89.   Frazz

90.   Fred Basset

91.   Free Range

92.   Freshly Squeezed

93.   Frog Applause

94.   The Fusco Brothers

95.   Garfield

96.   Garfield Minus Garfield

97.   Gasoline Alley

98.   Get a Life

99.   Get Fuzzy

100.                        Gil Thorp

101.                        Ginger Meggs

102.                        Girls & Sports

103.                        Graffiti

104.                        Grand Avenue

105.                        The Grizzwells

106.                        Haiku Ewe

107.                        Heart of the City

108.                        Heathcliff

109.                        Herb and Jamaal

110.                        Herman

111.                        Home and Away

112.                        Hubert and Abby

113.                        Imagine This

114.                        In the Bleachers

115.                        In the Sticks

116.                        Incidental Comics

117.                        Ink Pen

118.                        It's All About You

119.                        Jane's World

120.                        Jim's Journal

121.                        Joe Vanilla

122.                        Jump Start

123.                        KidSpot

124.                        Kit 'N' Carlyle

125.                        The Knight Life

126.                        La Cucaracha

127.                        Last Kiss

128.                        The LeftyBosco Picture Show

129.                        Legend of Bill

130.                        Liberty Meadows

131.                        Lio

132.                        Little Dog Lost

133.                        Lola

134.                        Loose Parts

135.                        Lost Side of Suburbia

136.                        Love Is...

137.                        Luann

138.                        Lucky Cow

139.                        Maintaining

140.                        Marmaduke

141.                        The Meaning of Lila

142.                        The Middletons

143.                        Minimum Security

144.                        Moderately Confused

145.                        Molly and the Bear

146.                        Momma

147.                        Monty

148.                        Mutt & Jeff

149.                        My Cage

150.                        MythTickle

151.                        Nancy

152.                        Nest Heads

153.                        NEUROTICA

154.                        New Adventures of Queen Victoria

155.                        Non Sequitur

156.                        The Norm

157.                        Off the Mark

158.                        On A Claire Day

159.                        One Big Happy

160.                        The Other Coast

161.                        Out of the Gene Pool Re-Runs

162.                        Over the Hedge

163.                        Overboard

164.                        PC and Pixel

165.                        Peanuts

166.                        Pearls Before Swine

167.                        Pibgorn

168.                        Pibgorn Sketches

169.                        Pickles

170.                        Pinkerton

171.                        Pluggers

172.                        Pooch Café

173.                        PreTeena

174.                        Prickly City

175.                        Rabbits Against Magic

176.                        Raising Duncan

177.                        W.T. Duck

178.                        Yenny

179.                        Zack Hill

180.                        Ziggy

181.                        The DogHouse Diaries

182.                        xkcd

183.                        Dilbert

And the list goes on.

Some of the upcoming additions to this Android application are Oatmeal, SMBC and Comics that users requested to include.

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Product Development (Part 2)

In my last post, I wrote about Product Development and how it is proceeded in Oglacs, the Indian based software development company. As a continuation to that post, here is the next step to how product development in Oglacs is done. The next is "Screening The Idea".

Screening the Idea

We know that ideas is what that makes something which is considered impossible come to life. But the same idea coming from different people may have different perspective. Similarly there is also a need to sort out the best from the good ones. The harnessing of resources in any enterprise whether it is a web application development company or an iPhone application development company, resources are dependent to ideas. This is applicable only after eliminating unsound concepts which may be of minimal significance to clients and service providers. Clients may have specific plans and ideas whereas developers may have a totally different plans and ideas. Therefore, there are different questions associated with idea screening. Questions arise like should ideas of clients or developers be ignored?, Should developers go on with the clients' requirements without considering the feasibility of the product or service in current market trend?, etc. These questions makes the screening of ideas (both provider's and consumers') a necessity. Without it, the success of a certain product or service will be highly compromised.

At Oglacs, idea screening is done taking under consideration the client's requirements as well as the ongoing market trend. Our professional or developing team listens to and considers the customer suggestions and suggest them with what will be good and what not. This is helpful in size and growth forecasts. Idea screening gives a wider frame wherein both we and clients can foresee whether the product will be feasible or not in the market. This will ensure a positive impact to clients' businesses and it will also help us maintain our reputation of being a top software company in India and the world.

This is all for the day. I'll continue with "Concept Development and Testing". Visit back or take a look at Oglacs official website.

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Product Development

According to Oglacs, the software development company, what is Product Development? It is one service which demands endeavor to deal with design, creativity and commercializing of products. This is a method that requires developing organized method to usher all necessary process to bring a product successfully to the market. In order to make a service or a product go well in the market, there is a need to understand all the market and the consumer all together. Below is provided how Oglacs proceed with in regards to product development.

Generating Idea

Idea is what makes the world today a possibility. Cellphones, internet, the computer, etc. were just imaginations in the past. It is the idea, ideas of creating something which will benefit one and all is what makes the changes. Oglacs execute this step of generating ideas through SWOT analysis. SWOT also known as Strength, Weakness, Opportunities and Threats is one of the main components that define the viability of a particular product or service. SWOT along with market trends, consumers' choices, experts' suggestions, and many more factors comes withing idea generation. It is through these factors that products and services take their first form. If in case you own a web application development company and wanted an iPhone application developed, what you will need from us is a perfect iPhone application. To develop your perfect iPhone application, we will first consider your requirements, then gradually move on to SWOT analysis and bring out ideas keeping in mind that they meet your demands and also satisfy your clients.

Next is “Screening The Idea” and for that, you will have to visit back or visit Oglacs' official website by clicking here.

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Oglacs – Its Services

It's been a long time that I have swerved from the topic of what the company in which I work does. The company here I am talking about is Oglacs Software Pvt. Ltd. As you know that Oglacs is a software development company based in India and is considered one of the best since its establishment.

The company recently took up a Governmental project which is under the Ministry of Consumers Affairs, Food & Public Distribution, Gaya, Bihar and the project has been executed with grand success. As a part of the project, Oglacs is taking care of all technology related issues and problems such as the MIS. A specific iPhone application has also been developed by the company which will be of great help to the officials who are looking after the system while on the go. Visit PDS Gaya's site for more. Click here.

Oglacs is also at the moment carrying out numerous software related projects for various companies worldwide. The company is now served by 50+ professionals working in different fields of which it includes professionals working in Microsoft^® Technology, Adobe Technology^®, Web Technology, etc.

Some of the most remarkable services of Oglacs is its web application development, iPhone application development, iPad application development, etc.

Oglacs is the same it was before, things that changed is the quality of service and it is a positive change.

I'll henceforth write about all services provided by our company in details. Visit back for more.

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How are Emails Harvested by Spammers (Part 5)

It is indeed frustrating to have your email still filled up with hundreds of spam mails the next time you log in. I have given some methods on how to avoid them. I even posted about the techniques adopted by spammers in order to harvest emails. One more method of harvesting emails is from a web browser. Nowadays, web browsing is done both on mobile devices as well as computers.

Whether you are using a mobile device or a computer, there are sites that use tricks to extract users email address from the web browser and this at times happens without you even noticing it. Mobile technology developers and software developers are trying to bring out solutions that can stop it.

How can a site extract our emails? Here are the techniques they use:

• Making the browser transmit images of the page via a FTP connection to the site you are visiting
• There are browsers that would make your email itself the password of the email you have configured with the browser and in this way your email is leaked.
• These kind of browsers herein mentioned would even allow emails to be sent to anonymous users or spammers when the mouse passes over a particular part of a page.

All these can be avoided if you use a trusted browser or if you properly configure your account with the browser. And for mobile internet surfers, there are many applications by mobile apps development companies worldwide that provide trusted software. You should only have to make sure that you use only trusted software and applications. And when you are browsing, use secure connection most of the time.

Stop Spamming

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Protecting Your Website Content

Content is one of the main feature that makes your website valuable and if you have your web contents copied by some other people or company. You don't feel good since you have put a great effort in writing that content. Here are some ways you can adopt to protect your website content.

Website Content Copyrighting

The first thing you can do is to protect your content from content theft is to copyright your website content. If you do this you will be protected from those people who copy contents word-by-word and use it on their own website without giving you any credit. For example you have a software development company and you write about describing your services on your website and if the same content is being used by others without your knowledge, you will feel like killing the person. You need to copyright your website contents to avoid this.

To do this you need to register you website at the Copyright Office. The earlier you do the registration the better it is. Keep a back-up of your website contents with yourself and also insert the copyright meta tag on all of your web pages. When you registration or application for copyrighting is accepted you will be given the certificate of registration with which you will be able sue anyone or any company who steals your content and ask them for compensation.

Changing Website Code

This is a technique that can be helpful in saving your content from hacking amateurs. It may not however be effective in saving the same from professional hackers. To do this, you should remove all the unnecessary spaces in the HTML code of your site. This will make the reading of your code and finding individual text option difficult. Another option is to disable right click function on your website but this at times will be frustrating for regular and genuine visitors who would like to extract information for future use or reference. As for instance you are looking for very good web application development company and you found one and would like to copy some information from the site but you couldn't, wouldn't it be frustrating?

Change the Text Contents

To increase you web content protection, you can also change your website's text element into images. For that, you can use Photoshop or other image editing software. You just need to select the text you would like to change. Open a new image file and select a portion that will perfectly accommodate your website's text body and then sharpen the image. One thing to be noted is that you should upload only medium resolution image since high resolution image can hamper your site's loading time. This method is one that is employed by not only one IT outsourcing company but most companies so that their content is not stolen by others.

These are the easiest three ways you can protect your website's content.

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Getting Website Designing Services

Due to the advent of the internet and further internet marketing, there is a gradual rise in the numbers of internet marketing companies who provide sales and services online. Due to this, you are able to do certain things like getting movie tickets, flight tickets, ordering food, etc. from home without moving here and there and without involving yourself in the hassles of standing in queues for a long time.

Nowadays, each and every small or a large internet marketing company adopts website designing services from any software development company in order to improve their market in the online world. There are many website designing companies who provide affordable web designing along with web hosting. To get an effectively designed website, there are certain things you should keep in mind.

Things you should keep in mind before getting a website designing services are like, purpose of your website, the contents of the different pages of your website, how many pages to be included in your website, graphics, etc. If you keep these things in front of the web designing company you contacted, estimating the probable cost of the services can be easily determined and the cost may also be considerably lessened. Talking about affordable web designing or web application development getting yourself one company which provides the same is no more a problem since there are many web designing companies available in the market and who are competing in providing the best and the most affordable web design services. You can also request for online quotes for the services from different companies.

Enquire for the services the company will provide. When they say web designing, they may limit their services only to creating and designing your website. You should go for companies which provide website designing, search engine optimization, etc. since this will further improve the exposure of your internet marketing company in the online market thereby improving your business.

Apart from these things, the points you should keep in mind while getting your website designed are like the needs of the various customers, the compatibility of your site with the many web browsers, the speed of connections of each and every customers, their systems configuration etc. Accordingly, you should design your website which can be easily accessed by the various web users regardless of their system configuration and speed of internet connections. Only after keeping all these things in mind, you will be able to design a website which is not only affordable but also will positively affect your internet marketing company performance in the online world.

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3 Points to Consider Prior to Making Your Website Live

Here are the three major points you should consider before making your website live. These are the points if considered can make your website successfully live and optimized for web users.

Title and Meta Tags

While developing a website, it is often found that the web applicationdevelopment company you hired to include Title tags for the web pages or used the same Title for all pages. This deprives the valuable SEO benefits of the website. Title Tags usually inform the web crawlers what the web page is all about without actually going through the web content. The same goes for Meta Tags.

Cross Browser Compatibility

When creating a website you should make sure that the page works equally with all major browsers. At times it happens that even if a page opens properly in Internet Explorer it doesn't with Firefox. This may have you end up with less number of web traffic. Make sure that the software development company you hired have all these knowledge.

Error Free Web Contents

When writing contents for your website you should make sure that it is free from all kinds of spelling and grammatical errors. If the web visitors have seen any type of such errors in your website, it will create a negative impact to your professionalism. Even though you hired any IToutsourcing company for this work, you should read and re-check everything before finalizing the contents.

It is necessary for you to consider at least these three points to make your website successfully live on the internet.

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