Wednesday 19 March 2014

Best Dialer Apps for Android

Rocketdial
With cell phones upgrades on the rise and being the most essential product among every user, it has made great impact and enhanced the various functions in our daily way of life. The little green or blue icon in the shape of old school headphone enables users to call friends and family, hear them and keep in touch with them. Android handsets are equipped with pre installed dialer app which is quite good, offering all the necessary functions and users can try something unusual if inclined to do so, with the flexibility of Android and replace it with a lighter, simpler and more powerful alternative, few of which are now available in the Google Play Store.

Capabilities to Download Plugins

With various types of dialer replacements for Android, most of them have the same function and while some are free, there are others that come with a price. The few and the most popular one that stand out is the GO Contacts which is free, incredibly customized and tweakable. Similar to GO Contacts is the aContact which is more of an address book with the exception of the default UI which is much sharper and intuitive. The best speed dialer which builds on the stock dialer’s features is the Dialer One which enables the user to download a number of plug ins and make the tool functional. Dialer app with interface built upon tabs is a well designed featured with integrated phone book together with messages list accompanied with swipe gestures for intuitive and easy navigation.

It supports contact groups for easy organization with capabilities to search within or across groups. It can also automatically connect to and organize Google contacts on installation. Besides this it also supports SMS and email on long pressing a contact and `send contact’ to transfer contact information to the recipient and replaces dialer enabling the user to filter, based on incoming, outgoing, missed or answered together with voicemail calls or even set up own call filters. Moreover it can also download contacts picture from Facebook and Google and send reminders about birthdays and other important events.

More Apps – KitKat/RocketDial/PixelPhone

Another app based on the official Android 4.4 is the KitKat Dialer offering a sleek interface together with beautiful animations and transitions. Besides this, there is a built in predictive search, voice mail support and call log with capabilities to change the phone ringtone, to set it on vibration or dial pad touch tones and voice input. RocketDial, is another powerful dialer app of advanced features with focus on contacts and event management wherein users can create and delete groups, or send SMS, emails, set a group ringtone as well as view all shared events like meetings and birthdays. 

It also supports gestures inclusive of handwriting, offered with four dial pad styles accompanied with ten skins to customize the interface. The PixelPhone is another powerful phone app offering customization options of interesting features with integrated phone book and favorites. It also has group tabs and T9 based dialer supporting various gestures and is smooth and fast which opens quickly with the ability to browse call history.

Tuesday 18 March 2014

The Cockpit Of The Future

Cockpit ODICIS
Recently Thales has organized a great show of new technologies in Paris last week. The French group has exhibited there their latest research in innovation and in particular a concept called Avionics cockpit of the future in 2020, which was presented previously for the first time at the Paris Air Show in June 2013.

 The airline will undergo changes that will change the sector in the next ten years; the air traffic will explode, constraints in emissions of carbon dioxide will harden and those of noise pollution, also the mobility needs of people will increase the cost optimization research. To operate in this uncertain future and anticipate challenges, the answers are found on the side of innovation and research.

Avionics 2020 program is one such program to meet the future needs and demands in the aviation field. Natural evolution demonstrator ODICIS acronym for One Display for a Cockpit Interactive Solution, started by Thales in 2009, it is a concept of new generation cockpit dedicated to commercial aviation. The Avionics 2020 incorporates the latest technologies for interaction and steering assistance functions.

This ultra modern cockpit could be implemented operationally in the next few years. In an aircraft equipped with this Thales ODICIS cockpit, the pilot will be able to operate the device in a natural and intuitive way through man-machine interface designed to serve in this field. Recent technologies such as touch screen, widescreen, reconfigurable control systems, high head and low duotone head for better organization and discrimination data digital display.

The crew will also have access to touch-screen technology to manage certain camera functions. Thales devotes 20% of its turnover in research. The company has 25,000 including 3,000 engineers dedicated to R & T. So what are researchers, scientific organizations and global specialists in human-machine interface that work together to produce a cockpit that manages to merge data from different systems - avionics and others - and present the pilot seamlessly. The cockpit of the future will help the humans in decision making, especially in stressful situations.

Adobe Revel For Android

Adobe Revel
Adobe has made provision for Android users, its Revel photo app enabling them to share as well as edit photos on their Android devices. It is an app wherein users can now share, store, manage photos and videos, and create albums, sharing them via social media, edit pictures, adding captions and comments to photos. Revel enables the user to have all memories wherever they go, a photo app for Mac, iPad and Iphone and Android users can now subscribe to Revel (Carousel) which is Apple’s only photo collaboration service and with its new Revel importer, Android app enables the user to upload images from Android device into the Carousels.

Users can also set it on auto upload as well as upload straight from the camera and when the photos are selected, the app indicates whether they are transferred or not. By importing photos into Revel, one can access them anywhere. You can organize the photos using captions and albums, by cropping and applying looks to create excellent photos while at the same time the option to share albums privately on Adobe Revel.com or even post photos to Twitter, Facebook etc.

Revel is free and can be downloaded for iPhone and iPad from the iTunes App stores while Revel downloads for Mac can be done from Mac App Stores. Users can also access Revel browser based version at AdobeRevel.com which includes all the features of Revel excluding the ability to edit photos. In case of editing photos, the Revel app is essential. With Revel, one can import as many photos as possible for the first thirty days and thereafter the user is limited to fifty photo imports every month.

If more photos need to be imported, users can upgrade to Revel Premium which enables them to import as many photos of their choice for a cost of Indian Rs. 350 per month and this upgrade can be done as an in app purchase within the Revel app. The files are stored for two years after using the service and the photos can be removed anytime by deleting them with the help of the Revel app. Adobe Revel presently supports JPEG files and the Revel team has more plans to add support for additional file formats in the near future.

With technology upgrading and great progress being done, Revel which works like email has all the photos securely stored in the cloud that can be accessed using the Revel app on your Android device and whatever is done in Revel, is automatically synced across the device enabling the user with the latest photos as well as the photo edits irrespective of which device is used.

The app can also be utilized to create group library where certain photos can be shared with family or friends of their choice with control over the viewing, adding, editing and organizing the images within the group, it was stated. Revel is available all over the world and supports languages like French, English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Brazilian, Japanese and Korean.

Sunday 16 March 2014

iPhone 6 Air, A Concept Phone With A 4.7-Inch Screen


iPhone 6 Air
The iPhone 6 Air was conceived in a rather realistic concept by Sam Beckett. This iPhone 6 Air would first and foremost a larger 4.7-inch screen. Sam Beckett has not established a crazy concept but takes advantage of realism. 6 The iPhone 6 air remains the great mystery of time and that a possible declination. That's why Sam Beckett has decided to share his vision of the iPhone 6 Air with a larger 4.7-inch screen.

It is not an outgoing concept entirely from the imagination of Sam Beckett. It has rightly taken into account all the rumors about this Smartphone. For example Sam Beckett said that even with a larger screen, the size of the Smartphone will not change. A patent had just recently revived rumors about iPhone 6 without edge and a curved screen. The latter concept is realistic with features that fit into the previous Apple models.

In addition to a larger 4.7-inch screen, this concept also provides a better definition of full HD (1920 × 1080) for the iPhone 6 Air. Furthermore, according to Sam Beckett this Smartphone also possess a larger surface than the previous 17 % display.

As for the camera of the iPhone 6 Air will also be improved with a sensor of 10 megapixels and a dual LED flash. Sam Beckett does not just reveal to us a simple picture of the concept, but the stages in a video showing us the product. Before Sam Beckett, Joseph Farahi was also mounted his own colorful and fun iPhone 6C concept. Everyone loves interpret and try to anticipate Apple projects.

Saturday 15 March 2014

Google Brings Cloud Prices Down to Earth

Google Drive
Google has announced prices for the use of its cloud storage Google Drive massively reduced and sets Dropbox, Microsoft, Amazon and Apple under strong pressure. Comparing with Google cloud’s present price their prices now seem astronomically high. Google's cloud storage solution is significantly cheaper now after two years.

100 GB of monthly cost is now $ 1.99 compared to $ 4.99 previously. Also 1TB monthly costs only $ 9.99 instead of the previous $ 49.99. For 10 terabytes of disk space on the Google Drive the search engine provider takes 99.99 U.S. dollars a month.

Who uses less memory than 15 GB, still going to pays nothing. Due to the price reduction of Google the competitor’s rates are quite high and more expensive than Google Drive. In Microsoft Onedrive 50 GB cost 4.49 U.S. dollars per month, 7.49 U.S. dollars for 100 GB and 200 GB for 11.49 dollars.

Apple's iCloud is particularly expensive. That is 10 GB cost 1.67 U.S. dollars, 20 GB $ 3.33 and 50 GB 8.33 U.S. dollars. Dropbox charges a fee for 100 GB a month $ 9.99, 200 GB for $ 19.99 and for 500 GB for 49.99 U.S. dollars. Amazon charges a fee for 100 GB of 4.17 U.S. dollars and for 200 GB 8.33 U.S. dollars and for 1 TB of 41.67 U.S. dollars per month.

Who are already a paying customer for Google Drive need not worry about anything, but is automatically switched to the lower prices. Despite security concerns, the majority of users are using cloud offerings. Particularly important to them is the ability to access at any time and from any location on their data. Four out of ten users of internet also store backup copies of important data in the cloud.