How to Bring Back the Sidebar in iTunes 11

Apple made a lot of changes in their latest major update to iTunes, opting for an overall simpler and cleaner interface – but not everyone is thrilled with the changes, or the interface elements that Apple disabled in the update. One such element is the iTunes Sidebar, which lists all the devices you have connected, as well as providing easy access to your songs, videos, iBooks, and more with a single click. Call me a Luddite, but I missed the sidebar immensely. Fortunately, for people who feel the same way I do, there’s a simple way to bring the sidebar back! Restoring the sidebar is a simple matter of clicking the View option from the menu bar, then selecting “Show Sidebar.” With just a couple of clicks, you can bring back some of the familiar features that Apple cast aside with their new release!!

Best Jailbreak Apps And Tweaks For Your iPhone.

If you’ve successfully jailbroken your iPhone and wondering what next, then here are our best jailbreak tweaks and apps that are available in Cydia that you must check out. We’ve picked jailbreak apps and tweaks that will allow you to customize your iPhone in your own unique way and also add functionality to your iPhone that is currently not available in iOS.


• Activator: Activator allows you to invoke actions using shortcuts from anywhere in the iOS. You would be surprised by the number of shortcuts you can use such as double tap on the status bar, triple tap the Home button, double press the sleep button to trigger stock actions or launch an app or go to the Settings toggle. It offers almost limitless shortcuts to make it easier to use your iPhone. Activator is a must-have jailbreak tweak for advanced users.

Cost: Free


• SBSettings: SBSettings offers a faster way to access iPhone Settings from any app without going through the hassle of exiting the app and launching the Settings app. Jailbreak app developers can also create custom toggles for SBSettings that can be installed from Cydia, which can then be quickly accessed by users via SBSettings. You can access SBSettings either by swiping on the Status bar or via the Notification Center.

Cost: Free


• WinterBoard: WinterBoard is one of the most popular jailbreak apps that allows you to download custom themes from Cydia, that can be applied to change the look and feel of your iOS device. WinterBoard allows you change the icons, modify`the look and feel of status bar, dock, lock screen, change the font and lots more. You can also customize all kinds of system sound with Winterboard. Another great feature of WinterBoard is that there is no limit on the themes you can install and you can also mix & match several themes together.

Cost: Free


• Springtomize 2: Springtomize allows you to customize every aspect of the iOS but it uses a differ%nt approach compared to Winterboard, which is why the two jailbreak tweaks compliment each other quite well (with some overlap). With Springtomize you can do things such as increase the number of apps in the dock to 10, give the dock a cool coverflow effect, change the duration of the system-wide animations, remove the page limits, customize the default animations, the lock screen, enable app switcher in landscape mode, hide icons of stock apps, resize icons and lots more.

Cost: $2.99


• IntelliScreenX: Notification Center is easily one of the best features of iOS 5, but IntelliScreenX makes it even better by adding tons of features such as the ability to access it from the Lock screen, allows you to access the full text of the email and Calendar items directly within Notification Center, access Facebook news
feed, Twitter timeline, RSS feed from anywhere in the iOS from the Notification Center. It also adds useful badges for missed email, SMS, phone calls, and silent status in the status bar. Messages+ which enhances the Messages app also comes built into IntelliScreenX.

Cost: $9.99

-> Alternative: You can also check out LockInfo, which adds tons of features to your Lock screen.


• iFile: One of the things badly missing in iOS is a file manager. iFile fills that gap by offering a complete file manager and viewer for the iPhone. It even gives access to device files like Finder on the Mac. It also allows you to edit text files and property lists, which can be quite useful occasionally.

Cost: $7.99


• My3G: My3G is a jailbreak tweak that will make “Wi-Fi only” iPhone apps “believe” that they are running over a Wi-Fi network even though your iPhone is connect to the 3G network thus allowing you to use such “Wi-Fi only” apps over a 3G network.

Cost: $3.99

->Alternative: 3G Unrestrictor 5 ($3.99)


• MyWi: MyWi turns your iPhone into a Wi-Fi hotspot. Share your WiFi signal via your own WiFi Hotspot or via USB. This allows your iPhone to be connected to a WiFi hotspot, and share that connection to other devices via it’s own Wi-Fi Hotspot. However, please be careful as jailbreak apps such as MyWi can get you in trouble with your carrier.

Cost: $19.99


• biteSMS: biteSMS is one of the best alternatives for the Messages app. It includes number of features like Quick Reply, Quick Compose from Notification Center, scheduled messages, delivery reports, signatures, displays Contact photos etc. that are not available in the native app.

Cost: Ad free version $8.99

->Alternative: Messages+ ($7.99) is another good alternative, which enhances the native Messages app. As we mentioned earlier, it comes built into IntelliScreenX so you don’t have to buy it or biteSMS if you’ve already purchased IntelliScreenX.


iCaughtU Pro: iCaughtU is a nifty little jailbreak app that takes a picture with the front-facing camera when someone enters the wrong passcode or tries to turn off your iPhone. It emails the photo along with information such as location by email. The jailbreak app also prevents someone from turning off your iPhone when it is locked. You can also configure it to perform actions based on SMS commands such as playing an alarm etc.

Cost: $2.50


• PkgBackup: If you want to save the trouble of reinstalling jailbreak apps and tweaks after upgrading to the latest iOS software update, then PkgBackup is a must-have. The jailbreak app takes a backup of all the packages in addition to preferences and SpringBoard files on the device or on Dropbox. You can also schedule the backups.

Cost: $9.99


• Zephyr: Zephyr brings cool multitasking gestures to the iPhone. It allows you to swipe up from the bottom of the screen to close apps, switch between apps simply by swiping left or right from the edge, smoothly swipe up to see the app switcher and swipe down on the status bar to take a peak at the Notifications and widgets.

Cost: $2.99


• F.lux: We’ve all been there – a notification arrives on your iPhone late at night, and the screen brightness nearly blinds you for the first few seconds after unlocking. F.lux aims to solve exactly this problem by adjusting the color of your iPhone’s display to better adapt to the time of the day. You’d be amazed to realize how relaxed your eyes feel after installing this tweak, especially if you`tend to use your iPhone just before sleeping. In addition to this, it also helps you get rid of that eerie glow on your face when using a phone at night.

Cost: Free


• InfiniFolders: As the name suggests the jailbreak tweak removes the limitation of 12 iPhone apps in a folder so you don’t have to end up creating multiple folders for games and utilities, which defeats the purpose of creating a folder to quickly find an iPhone app. With InfiniFolders and Infinidock (another jailbreak tweak by the same developer), you can place all your apps in just one Home screen.

Cost: $0.99





Some other noteworthy jailbreak apps and tweaks:

• iBlacklist ($12): It allows you to block`calls, FaceTime, SMS and MMS on your iPhone. You can also configure it to redirect calls to your voicemail and lots more.


• Action Menu Plus Pack ($2.99): It enhances the copy/paste menu. It allows you to quickly tweet highlighted text or lookup highlighted text on Google Search, Wikipedia, Dictionary and Google Translate. It also maintains the history of items added to the clipboard.


• Curiosa (Free): The jailbreak tweak enables Notifications for Cydia updates. It can be found on Ryan’s beta repository (http://rpetri.ch/repo/).


• CleverPin ($1.99): It makes passcode protection smarter. CleverPin automatically disables the passcode when you’re connected to your Home Wi-Fi network. (Warning: We observed an issue with mails downloading with no content after installing it).


• CallBar ($3.99): The jailbreak tweak prevents calls from interrupting you while you’re playing an iPhone game or writing an important email or message by displaying a banner notification when you get an incoming call. It also gives you an option to answer, decline or dismiss the call from the banner notification.


• Reveal ($1.99): The jailbreak tweak allows you to scroll through text in the banner notification or the notification on the Lock screen, so you don’t have to waste time launching the app to check the notification.


• PasswordPilot Pro ($1.99): It auto-fills your password while downloading apps and updates from the App Store.


• DashboardX ($1.99): This tweak brings widgets to your iPhone’s Home Screen. We’ve also started seeing custom widgets created for it.


• Zeppelin (Free): Zeppelin allows you to change the carrier logo on your iPhone’s status bar.


• NCSettings (Free): This jailbreak tweak adds popular Settings toggles to Notification Center. While it is no SBSettings killer, we really like the sleek look.


• Barrel ($2.99): It brings cool 3D-effect while swiping between your iPhone’s Home screen. (Warning: SpringBoard crashed once after installing it in iOS 5.1.1)


• Unfold (Free): It brings the cool “fold-to-unlock” concept to life. (Warning: It seems to have some compatibility issues in iOS 5.1.1) We hope you liked our top picks of jailbreak apps and tweak. If you have any suggestions or feel we have missed a must-have jailbreak tweak or app, then please don’t hesitate to let us know in the comments.


• Ac!d Siri(Free): It brings Siri for your non 4S iDevices.Add WordJelly Siri Portal for the perfectly working Siri

Update: Added My3G, MyWi, Zeppelin and NCSettings to the list.

 

Here's How You Can Jailbreak iOS 6.0.1

Jailbreak iOS 6.0.1


   

As expected, Apple recently send iOS 6.0.1 out to the general public. The software update makes a number of small, albeit useful changes to our iDevices, but the one thing jailbreakers will be most interested in is the answer to the inevitable question: is iOS 6.0.1 jailbreakable?
Fortunately, the answer is “yes” – read on, and we’ll tell you everything you need to know about jailbreaking under the recently released iOS 6.0.1. Fortunately, the current version of redsn0w (0.9.5b2) can jailbreak the iPhone 4, iPod touch (fourth-gen), and the iPhone 3GS, providing what we call a “tethered” jailbreak solution. Furthermore, if your iPhone 3GS has an old bootrom, you’ll be able to enjoy an untethered jailbreak under iOS 6.0.1. Our friends at Jailbreak Nation have all the details and a video walkthrough, both of which we’ve included below:

1. Download and Install RedSn0w 0.9.15B2 or higher.

2. Download a copy of your device’s
iOS 6.0 firmware.

3. Invoke DFU mode on your device, if
you don’t know how to do
this RedSn0w will walk you through
it when needed.

4. Open Redsn0w, navigate to:
Extras>Select IPSW and select
your iOS 6.0 firmware that you
downloaded in step 2.

5. Now navigate back to the home
page of RedSn0w and click the
‘Jailbreak’ button. Leave this to
continue until boxes come up and
check ‘Install Cydia’.

6. Once done, your device will appear as if it has just booted. However Cydia will not be on your homepage. You now need to
perform a tethered boot.

7. Connect your device back up to your computer if you have disconnected it, and reopen RedSn0w if you closed it. Now place your device one again into DFU mode, and  go to Extras>Select IPSW and select the same firmware that we did in the first step, it’s essentially the same process. Once RedSn0w has done it’s thing, select ‘Just Boot’ and when your device reloads it will have Cydia on it! If you can’t see the above video, please click this link. For download links for redsn0w 0.9.15b2 an iOS 6.0, head over to Jailbreak Nation.

And if you decide to jailbreak your iDevice under iOS 6.0.1, good luck!

 

Will RIM stop selling Wi-Fi products because of Nokia ??

It looks like Nokia wants to prevent RIM from selling Wi-Fi products through a U.S. court, by enforcing its arbitration award. RIM will be able to continue selling BlackBerries equipped with Wi-Fi only when it reaches an agreement with Nokia as far as royalties go. The arbitration has taken place in September in the Swedish Stockholm Chamber of Commerce. Apparently, the court has reached a conclusion that RIM "is not entitled to manufacture or sell products compatible with the WLAN standard without first agreeing with Nokia on the royalty to be paid for its manufacture and/or sale of subscriber terminals compatible with such standards". But since such an agreement has not been reached yet, and RIM is continuing to market its devices, Nokia is asking a California court to make the Canadian manufacturer stop manufacturing and/or selling its Wi-Fi-enabled devices, or start making moves towards coming up with a decent royalty fee. it remains to be seen how this story is going to end.

Android's New Jellybean Flavor.

What’s New in Android 4.2 JellyBean.

                      
                                         


Android 4.1, known as Jelly Bean, debuted only five months ago. But Google’s already back with 4.2, which will be called … Jelly Bean.
But while the name remains the same and the overall user experience sees only minor tweaks, there are still plenty of changes you should know about. Android 4.2 is making its debut on Google’s new Nexus 4 smartphone and the Nexus 10 tablet, both of which begin shipping in November. But older Nexus devices — such as the Nexus 7 tablet, and the Galaxy Nexus and Nexus S phones — will get the update shortly thereafter.

So what can Nexus phone and tablet owners expect in Android 4.2? Here’s a rundown of our favorite new features of Android JB

• Google Now Updates The Predictive Future.

Google Now, which presents information before you even look for it, feels like the future of Google. In previous incarnations, a simple swipe up from the bottom of the display on any Nexus device running Jelly Bean delivered tips for nearby restaurants and directions and time estimates for our morning commutes. Calendar appointments would pop up, too. Now, if you give Google Now permission to do so, the app will pull package tracking, hotel and flight details, restaurant reservations and other tidbits of timely information straight from your Gmail. If you’re the sort of person who’s bothered by how much information Google has on its users, Google Now has never been for you. But if you’re OK with all this, then the updates to Google Now make the experience even more useful. There is nothing else on any other device that works like Google Now. It’s one of the biggest differentiators found on Android and it keeps getting better.

• Gesture Typing

"Gesture Typing in Android 4.2 works smoothly and does a great job of predicting words you’re typing…er swiping out."

If you’ve ever used the Swype keyboard app, or if you’ve seen video of the upcoming SwiftKey Flow, then you know what to expect from Android 4.2’s gesture typing. Just glide your fingers across the keyboard, hitting each letter in the word you’d like to spell, and Android will present guesses as to the word you want, just above your finger, as you type. If you see the word you’re typing, just lift to choose it. The feature shows up anywhere you can use a keyboard. In our testing, it worked very well, oftentimes suggesting the words we wanted much earlier than anticipated.

• Miracast

Android finally has an answer to Apple’s AirPlay. Sort of. Android 4.2 brings Miracast compatibility to Google’s mobile OS, allowing phones and tablets to wirelessly connect to Mircast-equipped TVs, Blu-ray players and other set-top boxes to mirror what’s on your mobile device on the big screen. The technology was developed by the Wi-Fi alliance and is an open standard that any hardware maker can use, but so far there are only a handful of Miracast products available. If the technology takes off, this could be a real plus for Android users. But right now that’s just an if.

• Quick Settings

"With a two-finger swipe down, or a tap of a button on Android 4.2′s notification shade, quick settings appear."

Here’s another feature that gives Android an edge over its rivals. When you slide down the notification shade, there is a new button in the top right corner that will take you to quick settings — Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, display brightness, battery life, airplane mode, and a button to take you into the full settings menu. If you want to get to quick settings even faster, swipe down from the top of your display with two fingers. It’s a simple, unobtrusive idea that makes a ton of sense.

• HDR Mode

For the first time, Android’s camera app has a built-in HDR (High Dynamic Range) mode. This involves having the camera take two or more photos of the same scene, at different exposures, and stitch them together to create a single image that has ideal exposure levels for all the bright and dark areas. The point here is to deliver a photo that looks good when there are variances in light quality — say a really bright sunlit background and a darker in- the-shade foreground. As is that case on any camera, HDR mode can be bit hit or miss. But when it works, it works well.

• Photo Sphere

Like Google Now, Photo Sphere is a feature you’ll find built into Android and nowhere else. Google’s Maps team worked with the Android team to build Photo Sphere, which is essentially a simplified version of the Street View software Google uses to build the 360- degree panoramas we see on
Google Maps. When you launch Photo Sphere, you see a gray grid. As you move your phone around, a blue dot appears telling you where to hold your phone. As you align your phone with the blue dots, the app snaps a photo. After you’ve captured enough shots to cover the scene around you, Photo Sphere stitches them together to deliver a 360-degree panorama you can view on your phone. The results are remarkably free of visible seams, though if you move the camera too quickly, or if people in your panorama are moving around a lot while you’re snapping photos, there will be a bit of blurriness. Regardless, the whole process is a lot of fun and works well. If you’re happy with the panorama you’ve created, you can easily share it on Google+ and even submit it to Google Maps.

• Photo Filters

"Android 4.2 Jelly Bean adds Instagram-like photo filters right into the camera app."

Google is introducing Instagram-like photo filters built into its camera app. The filters look great, allowing you to tweak the tone, add some graininess, or create a vintage look. And it’s all non-destructive editing, since the app saves a new image every time you add a filter, meaning your original photo is always preserved.

• New Camera Controls

Android 4.2’s camera app gets a whole new gesture-based control scheme (see the photo at the top of this article) that is largely hidden until you need it. There’s a large blue button at the bottom for snapping a photo and a thin white circle that hovers over whatever you’re focusing on at the moment. Tap that circle to bring up photo options appear — flash controls, a toggle to switch between front and rear cameras, a white balance button, an HDR mode button, and a button to launch into
deeper settings too. The scheme works really well, allowing you to focus on the photo you’re trying to take with as little distraction as possible. When you want more options, they’re there with a simple tap and swipe.

• Lockscreen Widgets

This feature is supposed to come with an update scheduled for Nov. 13, when the new Nexus devices start shipping, so we haven’t had a chance to try it out yet. But we expect it to be a new favorite.
Lockscreen widgets work just like they sound. You can place them on the lockscreen of a handset an view them by swiping either from the left or right when a phone is locked. This allows quick access to a lineup of calendar events, for example, or your most recent e-mails or maybe weather information, all without having to unlock your phone. Of course, to get into the app the widget leads to, you’ll have to unlock your handset, so you’ll still need a passcode or gesture.

• Multiple User Profiles on Tablets

This is another feature scheduled for the Nov. 13 update for the Nexus 10, and shortly thereafter the Nexus 7. From the demos we’ve seen, Android 4.2 tablets will allow for multiple user profiles so a family, a group of roommates, or a workplace team can share a single device without getting into each other’s settings, apps and data. Profile switching takes place on the lockscreen. It’s a great idea that, hopefully, will spread to competing tablets as well.

 

How to Root Samsung Galaxy Y S5360

Rooting Your Samsung Y.

Samsung has finally launched its low end Smartphone in order to compete with Smartphone having very low cost and supporting android operating system. This Smartphone by Samsung is named as Samsung Galaxy Y S5360.This Smartphone has 2MP camera, Android 2.3 OS, 832 MHz processor and 3.0 inch TFT capacitive touch screen. However as this Samsung Galaxy Y S5360 was at low cost it has got some less features as well as low optimization on Operating System all in order to come to its low price. In order to remove the limited functionality of this device the rooting of the Smartphone is necessary.

Rooting process is known to be quite RISKY , but yes if followed properly you will be completely safe. Rooting is very compulsory step required for low end Smartphones. So let’s get started. But remember to completely charge your device as this is the starting requirement.

Safety First : As you are going to do a risky job follow these safety measures before starting. Your Smartphone should be fully charged or at least with 70% charged, in order to get ready for rootin. If you try on low battery your Device will crash and hence will get Jammed. Backup all your Data like Images, Contacts etc before rooting because all files will get removed during rooting of the device.

Intel spent $50 million to acquire ZiiLABS' 100-core Android processor tech from Creative

Intel has been strongarmed by ARM Holdings, the British RISC processor architecture company that is behind the design of CPUs and GPUs currently
delivering the performance of our smartphones and tablets on a fraction of Intel processors' power consumption. The chip giant knows it missed the boat so far, and is aiming to quickly catch up. CEO Paul Otellini already announced retirement plans, which many argue had to do with the new mobile realities that Intel is completely missing out on,
and now Intel is buying ARM-based designs outright. The company just spent $50 million in total to acquire engineers, assets an intellectual property from ZiiLABS, a wholly owned subsidiary of Creative, the guys behind the famous SoundBlaster cards of recent memory. The interesting thing about ZiiLABS is that they are an ARM licensee, and have a ZMX-40 creation based on a 1.5 GHz quad-core Cortex-A9 CPU for Android, like the one we have in the Snapdragon S4 Pro, but combined with 96 of ZiiLABS' patented StemCell media processing cores. The company went as far as calling a 100-core mobile processor earlier this year when introduced, and the chip design was fully optimized with Android 4.0 ICS in mind at
the time. This 96-core GPU tech is what Intel is apparently interested in, and we fully expect the move to boost Chipzilla's
mobile processors in the graphics department going forward, so the next edition of Motorola RAZR i might shape up to be pretty interesting

Samsung sold 5 million Galaxy Note II in just 2 months

Samsung Galaxy Note II Hits A 5 Million Mark And Counting ...

At the beginning of November Samsung announced they've sold more than 3 million Galaxy Note II phablets and now, merely a couple of weeks later, we get word that this number has grown to north of 5 million.It took the Galaxy Note II just two months to achieve this impressive milestone. Part of the device's success is due to its wide availability, as Samsung has made the Note II available in 128 countries.Nevertheless, 5 million units in just 2 months is mightily impressive.

In comparison, it took the original Galaxy Note 5 months to reach the 5 million sold units mark. The company's flagship, the Galaxy S III, is selling like hot cakes as well and recently hit 30 million shipped units since its launch back in May. Everything points out to another strong quarter for Sammy.

 

Google to be working on an AirPlay alternative for Android Devices andGoogle TV.

Apple’s AirPlay is a fantastic feature. You connect your Apple TV and then you just beam content from your iOS and OS X device wirelessly with no setup required. It just works. Unfortunately, it just works on Apple’s devices. Google is now said to be working on a similar feature for it’s own set of products, namely, Android and Google TV.

Unlike Apple’s version, however, Google’s service will be open and will allow other software and hardware vendors to implement it in their products. There is not much known about it at this point but once launched you should be able to beam content from your Android device to, say, your Google TV or a standard TV connected to something like Nexus Q. I’m not sure why Google is bothering with this, though, as they recently included Miracast support in Android 4.2, which pretty much does the same.

How to use Google Wallet without a NFC enabled handset ?

Google Wallet Trick

Google have just announced their new Google Wallet and Google Offers services, this then dropped them straight into a lawsuit with PayPal, but that’s not going to stop them from rolling out their new service. Google Wallet hopes to make use of the NFC infrastructure as a mobile based payment system.

There are a small, but growing number of handsets with NFC capabilities, such as the Google Nexus S, the Samsung Galaxy S II, Blackberry Torch 2 and the Nokia C7, all of which effectively allow you to transfer data and in the case of Google Wallet, pay for items simply by swiping your handset against a special reader. Of course NFC technology is very new and adoption will naturally be slow to start off with, as it will take a few years for NFC handsets to become widespread enough, (even with strong support from mobile manufacturers). Google have however established an alternative way to make use of their new payment method, without the need for a fancy NFC enabled chip in your handset. The solution, a sticker. A special barcode-like sticker that users can stick to the back of their phone. The sticker would then be registered to a single credit card and should apparently be able to communicate with the Google Wallet app on the users phone, one assumes via the cloud. Osama Bedier, VP of Payments at Google, said the experience with the Google Wallet sticker would differ from that of an NFC handset and users should come to expect limited functionality by comparison.

Google are keen to expand Google Wallet to other sectors as well, so it’s not entirely unlikely that we see the Google Wallet
payment stickers cropping up elsewhere, we shall see.

Big Loss For Nokia

Damian Dinning
has decided to leave Nokia This November 30.

As if the poor market performance as of late wasn't enough, Nokia just took another hit. Damian Dinning has decided to leave the company effective November 30. Dinning started working at Nokia in April 2004 and took the role as the company's lead program manager for Imaging Experience and worked closely on devices like the Nokia 808 PureView and Lumia 920.

Reportedly, the news of his leaving came as a shock to Nokia's execs. Here's what Nokia UK have responded to AmateurPhotographer's request for additional information. Following the relocation of key strategic roles to Finland, and with great reluctance, Damian Dinning has made a personal decision to leave the company effective 30 November 2012.
During the past nine years, [Damian] has made many innovative and valuable contributions to Nokia, most recently as a lead program manager in our Smart Devices business.

We thank him for his service to the company and certainly wish him the best. Dinning hasn't revealed what path he'll take and whether he already has an offer to join another company. However, here's his tweet from couple of days ago giving some clues.

" I'm incredibly excited about the 10th Dec, can't say more than that right now other than to say it's nothing to do with Nokia directly... " <- data-blogger-escaped-br="br" data-blogger-escaped-twitter="twitter" data-blogger-escaped-via="via">

Nexus 4's Got Some LTE Under it's Sleeves

Nexus 4 shown working with LTE
after simple tweak !!

Some enterprising tinkerers on the XDA Developers forums are demonstrating that despite the lack of a working signal amplifier and filter in LG’s Nexus 4, it’s still possible to force the phone onto an LTE network from the phone’s debugging menu — at least on LTE band 4 (1700MHz and 2100MHz) on Canadian carriers Telus and Rogers.

Last week, Anandtech reported that "Band 4 (AWS) could essentially be supported with the power amplifiers and transceiver that already are onboard the Nexus 4, but again it ultimately comes down to a particular OEM choice whether these get supported." As we've written previously, getting LTE support across multiple carriers across the US and internationally is a minefield, which is why Google chose not to include support for multiple LTE bands on the Nexus 4. Turning back to the US, AT&T is licensed to operate on Band 4 (Verizon uses the incompatible Band 13), which holds some promise for getting things to work south of the border — eventually. While we are able to activate the LTE option on our AT&T Nexus 4, it's unable to acquire the network, albeit in a market almost certainly covered by Band 17. There's also a whole separate issue — just because the phone "works" on LTE there are no guarantees about performance or reliability without optimization on the carrier side, which the Nexus 4 presumably hasn't received. The story is evolving, and we'll keep you updated as soon as we hear something
new.

Source: XDA Developers (Forums)

 

Googles Project Glass Lookalike ??

Microsoft Also Working On Its Own Project Glass Type Glasses:

Patent Reveals By Oliver Haslam | November 23rd, 2012 Advertisements Like the idea of Project Glass but prefer a little more Redmond in your toys? If a patent filing is to be believed, you may well be in luck. Google’s Project Glass is undoubtedly a typically Google affair. Proposing to turn our glasses into full on video recorders and heads-up displays, Project Glass is the brainchild of a company that prides itself in thinking not just outside the box, but also outside the box that houses that, err, box. The problem though, is that when any company comes up with something so mind bendingly awesome as Project Glass, it’s inevitable that the competition will also begin working towards something similar, if not just a carbon copy.

With Project Glass potentially propelling us all into a future where our digital lives are laid out right in front of our eyes, it was an inevitability that Google
wouldn’t be the only tech company to plough money into it. Sure enough, there’s another filing patents on something that looks very, very similar. And it’s not Apple. In fact, we’re talking about Microsoft, the same company that made the Zune. Excited yet? No, didn’t think so.

A patent application for “a system and method to present a user wearing a head mounted display
with supplemental information when viewing a live event,” has been uncovered, and it’s got Microsoft’s fingerprints all over it. Looking suspiciously like a pear of Oakley sunglasses, the concept sounds eerily similar to what Google has already shown off under the Project Glass moniker. In fact, Google is selling Project Glass right now, though only to developers and it’s not shipping yet. Still, it’s proof these things are working their way toward a proper release. We doubt Microsoft is so close. The problem with both Project Glass and Microsoft’s own version is a rather simple one, and that’s weather people will really walk around wearing these things. As cool as they sound, and as awesome as they seem to us techy types, we’re not sure even we fancy the idea, let alone the general public at large. Regardless, the fact both Microsoft and Google are on the same wavelength suggests others may be too.

Get ready to become glassy ..

How to bring Adobe Flash back to your Android devices including theNexus 4 and Nexus 10

Flash Player Support For Your Android Device:

Full Adobe Flash support has been nixed with the arrival of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, and often even ICS handsets now ship without the controversial piece of software. The need for it, however, hasn't gone away, as many more obscure video sites, as well as online game hubs still require Adobe Flash support, so kudos to those Android manufacturers like HTC, which still load it as an option with their phones in the default browser, even if the handset is running JB, like with the One X+. Most makers ship their Android phones now with their own browser versions, often flanked by Chrome if the handset is with or updated to Jelly Bean. Sometimes even those overlay browsers don't support Flash, like with the Optimus G, despite that the handset might be running ICS, and you can't get it from the Play Store either. For those cases, you can follow a few very simple steps to restore Adobe Flash to your phone, despite that is is no longer present in the Google Play Store:

1. Run Google search in your phone/tablet browser, and type in "archived flash player versions" - if you have the automatic suggestions turned on, it actually appears as the first or one of the first results when you type "archived."

2. Click on the first link that appears in Google's results afterwards, and it will take you to Adobe's developers page for Flash below, which has all the older versions for different platforms.

3. Scroll down almost to the bottom, and choose the latest mobile Flash player version for Android, depending on the version you are running. For Jelly Bean handsets, that would still be the latest
edition for 4.0.

4. Click on the link, it will download the .APK file automatically, and prompt you to install it in the notification bar. Tap "install" and you are done. If for some reason it doesn't work right away, try
rebooting the device first. This way Android phones or tablets with Adobe Flash left out of the equation from the manufacturer, can sideload it easily back to their devices to enjoy in the default browser - we ran Flash on our office Galaxy Nexus and Galaxy S III with the 4.1 Jelly Bean update, for instance. This won't bring Flash to mobile Chrome in the new Nexus devices that come with JB, of course, but you will have it as an option on the eventual other browser(s) installed on your handset, provided that you have enabled plugins in their settings. A Nexus 10 tablet with the sideloaded APK above is reportedly able to display Flash in Dolphin, Skyfire and other 3rd party browsers, for instance. For a Nexus 4, you can sideload the AOSP 4.2 browser from the XDA-Devs thread below, and have Adobe Flash on Google's latest Nexus phone, too.

www.xda-developers.com

Apple iPhone 5

The biggest thing happen to iPhone since iPhone.

->ALL NEW DESIGN

It doesn’t seem possible.That an iPhone with so much—a larger display,a faster chip, ultrafast wireless technology, an 8MP iSight camera—could be so thin and so light.But it is.In fact,iPhone 5 is the thinnest and lightest iPhone ever.

->RETINA DISPLAY

The 4-inch Retina display lets you see more of everything.And everything you see is vivid and life like.It’s a larger,more beautiful canvas made the right way. Because even though the display is bigger,iPhone 5 is the same width as iPhone 4S.So it’s just as easy to use with one hand.

->ULTRAFAST WIRELESS

With support for the latest wireless technologies,iPhone 5 connects to more networks allover the world.And Wi-Fi is faster,too.So you can browse,download, and stream content at remarkable speeds,wherever you happen to be.

->POWERFUL A6 CHIP

The all-new Apple-designed A6 chip in iPhone5 is powerful but not power hungry.CPU performance and graphics performance are up to twice as fast as on the A5 chip.But even with all that speed,iPhone 5 gives you out standing battery life.

www.apple.com/iphone/