Current Reported Problems With The iPad 3

The iPad 3 was released last Friday on the 16th March 2012 and since its release, there have been some claims surrounding possible design flaws in the device. There are two major flaws reported, and a few minor ones. We’ll go through these one at a time. Apple is no stranger to sometimes finding flaws in their products post-release. An example of this was with the iPhone 4 and the antenna positioning being too close to the edge of the phone, meaning users could cut out the connection if they held it a certain way. This was remedied by simply putting the phone in a slim case.

 

Overheating Problems

A number of users have complained that the bottom-right corner of the iPad gets too hot. Some have stated that it gets ‘too hot to hold’. The second claim is unlikely, because at the measured temperatures of around 35-38C, the device certainly is running warm, but this is certainly not a problem to hold. Perhaps a little uncomfortable at most. Apple has claimed that the iPad does not get hot and it is functioning as intended. Measured temperatures of 35 degrees and above are considered to be normal operating temperatures for the device. They have suggested that the new retina display and extra power of the device have contributed to the device producing more heat than its predecessor, the iPad 2.

There have also been a number of users who claim to have experienced no overheating issues with their iPads, so it is hard to tell what is going on in the mess of internet noise.

 

Download Limit Exceeded By New Retina Display

Apple have placed a 20Mb 3G file download limit on their device. What this means, is that applications that are over 20Mb packaged are not able to be downloaded on to the iPad. This previously hasn’t been a big problem for the software developers, but since the resolution of the screen was improved roughly four times, scaling the applications to the new resolution makes them too large.

For example, an application that is 18Mb in size for the iPad 2 wishes to improve all its images to the beyond HD quality of the iPad 3. This could typically push the packaged application size to 33Mb, which is a problem for the developer and consumer alike. It is not yet known how Apple intends to deal with this problem but possibly a mass update to fix the 20Mb limit seems like the best way out of the problem.

 

Charge Times

Reports are varied, but the new device takes a long time to charge. Some say it only gains around 1% charge in 20 minutes. The truth of these claims is not verified, but hopefully Apple will address this with a better charger in the future.

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Automatically encrypt Browsing

 

We’re often told to check that online bank and store use web address that start with ‘https//’. It means that all communication between you and the website are encrypted ,so no one can view ,access, or change it while it’s in transit. This adds a powerful layer of security and privacy to your browsing.

Readers may not be aware that you can use this same security with lots of other websites, including Twitter,facebook and Google.The only downside is that you have to type the full address,such as ‘https://www.twitter.com’, which is a bit of pain.

If you don’t want all this hassle there are firefox and chrome add-ons that automatically use ‘https://’ where ever it’s available , without you having to type it. Get HTTPS Everywhere for firefox . or KB SSL Enforcer if you use Chrome.

When you type Twitter.com, this add-ons will add https://.

HOW TO ENABLE THE FEATURE

Firefox users can turn on this setting from theTools->HTTPS Everywhere->SSL Observatory Preferences menu, or from the HTTPS Everywhere toolbar button, which looks like this:

 Note: There is Beta version of Https everywhere for Chrome

Windows 8 Consumer Preview with Download

Windows 8 Consumer Preview Setup will verify to see if your PC can run Windows 8 Consumer Preview and select the right download. Setup also features a compatibility details and upgrade support. Built-in tools for creating an ISO or bootable flash drive are offered for some previous versions of Windows (excluding Windows XP and earlier). You can find system requirements and extra information in the FAQ and in the links on this page.

A reimagined Windows

With Windows 8, the whole experience of Windows has been reimagined. It’s designed to work on a wide range of devices , from touch-enabled tablets, to laptops, to desktops and all-in-ones. We’ve designed Windows 8 to give you instant access to your apps, your files, and the information you care about most so you can spend less time navigating and more time doing what you actually want to do. You can move between Windows 8 PCs easily and access your files and settings from virtually anywhere. We’ve made touch a first-class experience and navigating with a mouse and keyboard fast and fluid. And just like Windows 7, reliability and security features are built in. It’s the best of Windows 7, made even better.

The Windows 8 Consumer Preview is just that: a preview of what’s to come. It represents a work in progress, and some things will change before the final release. This means you’ll encounter some hiccups and bugs. One of the great things about widely releasing a preview like this is that it gives us a chance to get a lot of feedback through telemetry, forums, and blog posts on where we can smooth out some of the rough edges.

Note before you download: Windows 8 Consumer Preview is prerelease software that may be significantly modified before it’s commercially released. Microsoft makes no warranties, articulate or implied, with respect to the information provided here. Some product features and functionality may require extra hardware or software. If you decide to go back to your previous operating system, you'll need to reinstall it from the recovery or installation media that came with your PC.

And finally, you’ll need the right hardware

Windows 8 Consumer Preview should run on the same hardware that powers Windows 7 today. In general, you can expect Windows 8 Consumer Preview to run on a PC with the following:

• 1 GHz or faster processor
• 1 GB RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
• 16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
• DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver
• 1024 x 768 minimum screen resolution

Download Windows 8Consumer Preview

Article Was Originally Posted @ WindowsTeamBlog

Google Salutes Gioachino Rossini's birthday with leaping frogs

Google pulled an additional one out of their magic doodle bag, with this one having the added advantage of commemorating two events together. The leap year frogs (who have featured in doodles on two prior occasions) make a recurrence, and we see them perform to the “Barber of Seville” composed by Gioachino Rossini. Because, of course, it is also the 220th anniversary of Rossini’s birth.

While the leap years and leap days are usually linked with frogs, the leaping ambhibians, the Google doodle on February 29 has a number of frogs, all four of them.

The doodle is motivated by Gioachino Antonio Rossini's famous 1816 comic opera The Barber of Seville (Il barbiere di Siviglia), one of the most performed operas. Of the four frogs in the scene, one is at the piano and the soprano is the only one leaping. The barber frog is Figaro and the frog getting a shear is Count Almaviva (Characters created by French playright Pierre Beaumarchais and The Barber of Seville is one of the three Figaro plays penned by him).

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Rossini’s other famous operas include William Tell (1829), Semiramide (1823) and Cinderella (1817). Rossini was born on 29 February 1792 in Pesaro, Italy, and died on Nov. 13, 1868.

Facebook uses Twitter Like Verifying Services

Social networks are a hub of fake profiles. If you go and search a name of any celebrity on a social networking site, I am sure you will find 100’s of profiles in the name of that particular celebrity. I had once given a try on Facebook & found numerous profiles in the name of the founder of the site, Mr. Mark Zuckerberg.

Looking into the matter of fake profile, way back in 2009, Twitter was the 1st social networking site, who launched a feature which verified the accounts. From then Twitter has got famous as it has a single & a verified profile of the celebrities. Last year, soon after the launch of Google+, even Google+ launched the feature to get the profiles verified.

So now, in the social network cold war, Facebook was lagging behind a bit because of this feature. But from today Facebook has said that it will get the profile verified which have got many subscribers. These verified profiles will be given an option to display their nick names in place of their birth names & would be given a lofty place in “People to subscribe to” suggestions. As per the naming policy of Facebook, you will be allowed to use your nick name as your profile name but your birth name will be appeared on your “About” section of your profile.

 

To get yourself verified, you need to get selected by Facebook. There is no way to get you voluntarily verified. If Facebook feels that your profiles needs to get verified then only you will have to verify your profile.

If Facebook would choose you, then you will get an option to submit a snap of any of your identity proof which is been verified by the government. After the verification, Facebook will delete the proof from its database.

So now, Facebook might surely try to get verified profiles of Stefani Germanotta aka Lady Gaga & Marshall Bruce Mathers II aka Eminem. If they are the real identities, then soon their profiles will show their real birth names or at least their birth names would be shown in the “About” section of their profiles.

Finally, I would say that this is a nice step taken by Facebook. May be this could impact Facebook a bit as all the updates from fake profiles will stop. Thus overall interaction on Facebook might reduce. But the 750 million users using Facebook will be surely benefited as they will start getting updates from all verified profiles.

Originally posted @ techtricksworld

Why Blue Actually works on the Social Web !

Why is Facebook so blue? why is Twitter bird also blue? as a matter of fact,so are orkut,LinkedIn ,MySpace and the blogging platform,WordPress like many.

Although Facebook has gone through major redesigns in the last few years,the blue color has remained more or less the same all through.From the sign up page to their logo,the buttons,popups and even their mobile apps have sahases of blue. Ask the face of Facebook himself ,Mark Zuckerberg would reply "Blue is the riches color for me.I can see all of blue." According to Zuckerberg's Interview in the New Yorker by Jose Antonio Vargas,Colors doesnot matter Much to him. A few Year ago he took an online test and realized that he was red-green color-blind.

According to Colour Lovers Blue is the Top Choice amongst Popular Web Brands

Earlier Colour Lovers released a report on the colors of the social web. According to the data analyzed by their Twitter theme tool(Themeleon ),blue was a Dominant Color in people's profile design. Unlike most social networking sites,Twitter allows its users to select a theme to represent themselves,thus projecting their digital persona with colors. Color Lovers decided to study this color preference by analyzing choices made by over 1 million people who used 'Themeleon' over a period of 3 months. Interestingly a majority of people didn't wander that far off from Twitter's Default light blue Colors.

Colours Lovers also discovered that blue is the ruling color among the top 100 sites in the world ,Followed by the Red Color.

FULL REPORT OF COLOURS LOVER


According to Wired Magazine

Companies spend millions trying to differentiate from others. Yet a quick look at the logos of major corporations reveals that in color as in real estate, it's all about location, location, location. The result is an ever more frantic competition for the best neighborhood. Here's a look at the new blue bloods.

The Psychology of its Audience Drives the way a website is designed and Laid out Visually, in the Attempt to strike an emotional chord with its users .Social media has not only Revolutionized how people use the internet ,but even how its appears to them as well. Catering to a multicultural generation, targeting 18 to 40-years old, these websites need to appeal to a wide rather very wide genre of People .The social web can no longer carry off the primitive 'one way' deign,where designers create a website and push it to audience .Not only are users generating most on the content in the Social arena, they are given the freedom to choose which and how sets of feature should appear on their page. Personalization is the core.

Thus the degin must offer a diverse audience individualistic content and elements , without undermining the Power of social validation, a phenomenon in which peoples actions are influenced by others around them.


Source: Articles was already Published on CHip.in Magazine

Facebook tips for a Successful Business in 7 STEPS

 Facebook is the website with the second highest traffic rank on the internet. That means that only,Google receives more visitors. Their website has grown at an incredible rate since it was created. It is said that every fifth person on this planet is a member of Facebook.

It would be insane not to make use of this incredible source of traffic. You could miss out on potential customers for your business and many many sales.

Part One: An introduction to Facebook

 

Facebook isn't the only social networking site out there. Before the site was established, websites like MySpace had already been around for a while. The only difference is that Facebook took things to a whole new level.They made it easier to communicate with your friends and family, find new contacts and interact.Sharing your life with others had never been as easy as with Facebook. They introduced a new Social Networking Era.

This also gave Internet Marketers more than a hand full of new opportunities. They were able to reach millions of potential customers all around the world, with almost deadly precision.

This is also an amazing opportunity for you, since Facebook continues to grow every single day there are always new customers to reach.

What can you expect?

Not only did the number of users on Facebook increase, but also the number of applications that became available. You could chat with your friends and family, play games, share photos and even more!

People like you and me started to look for methods to make money using Facebook, and quite a few ended up making some good money.

With Facebook having over five 800 million users by now, it simply can't be ignored! If you haven't jumped onto this amazing opportunity yet, then you are missing out on something big here...

Part 2 : Facebook Marketing

Using Facebook to grow your business, get more leads or traffic is basically defined as Facebook Marketing. It's a form of social media marketing where you use Facebook as a method of communication between you and your customers, offering your goods or services.

Facebook has an incredibly useful feature called Facebook Fan Pages, where you create little sites which can be used to get followers, similar to growing your email list. This is very useful and you should be using it to grow your business.

After a while you will have quite a few followers, so that you will be able to promote your business to them. You have a lot of ways to do that. You can post on your fanpage “Wall”, post photos, videos or anything else that's relevant to your niche market.

When you post something on your wall, everyone who “liked” your fanpage will automatically get it, so you can reach everyone with a single click.

Part 3: Facebook FanPages

What you will want to do now is create your first fanpage. To do this you will have to be logged in to Facebook. Once you have done that just scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on “Create a Page”.

You will now be able to choose between a couple of different types of pages to create. Once you select one you will have to enter some necessary details to continue.

Increasing your number of fans

A great way to increase your fanbase is to your Facebooks own Ad platform. You can send visitors directly to your offer or to your fanpage. The last option is clearly the one I would recommend since it's cheaper and more effective. Remember, you want to build a following to be able to promote to in the future. Quick money is good, but it's gone just about as quick as it came.

If you are not comfortable with using Facebook ads, there are two more way to get quick followers to jump-start your fanpage.

The first one is through FIVERR

What is fiverr?

Fiverr is a website that allows just about anyone with a PayPal account to sign up and offer their services. By default, each service must be offered for five dollars per gig.

The website has gone viral like few other websites has, mainly because it somewhat revolutionized the way people could make quick profit online. It’s great for people who are just starting to make money online and it will for sure help you pay for that domain name, web hosting and everything you need to get started with your real business.

There is a FREE alternative to get Facebook likes. You will need to sign up on YouLIKEHITS

Part 4: Build your List with Facebook

How about being able to build your list through your Facebook fanpage. Wouldn't that be great?

Almost every serious marketer out there has an email list. If you don't then you should consider this option.

You will first have to search for “facebook landing page app”. When you find it, just install it on your fanpage through the settings tab.

After that, you will have to add a html code into your “before liking” and “after liking” box. What you want to achieve through a Facebook landing page is to make people want to sign up, or “like” your page in exchange for a free gift or bonus.

It can be a free ebook or even a video course. You can be creative here. Creating a product isn't even as difficult as it may seem at first. You can write a little guide about anything you like or search for a PLR product with give-away rights.

If you combine this with Facebook advertising, it's almost as if you were paying for leads. This is an excellent and effective way to build your list.

BELOW IS THE EXAMPLE 

Part 5: Let it spread

The reason that Facebook was able to grow at such an incredible rate is that it's VIRAL in nature. Stuff on Facebook spreads like wildfire. This is even more evident than on other social networking platforms because of the vast amount of possibilities they offer. Many people get adicted to Facebook for this exact same reason. You can spend hours on there doing everything and basically nothing at the same time!

This is something that you can use to your advantage.

How can you go viral yourself?

People on Facebook are connected to their friends through a large network. Status updates of each and every one such as “Liking” a page or writing on someone elses wall will be shown on that person’s news feed.

The point here is. Whenever you get your followers to interact on your fanpage, it will show on their friends news feed as well. This way many of those friends will want to check out your fan page as well and possibly “like” it as well.

You could see your fanpage grow at an insane speed it you get enough people to join and interact on it.

That's why buying “likes” can help to start that process for you.

Part 6: How to use Facebook Ads

Facebook now has it's very own Ad platform, allowing you to reach out to users worldwide and present what you have to offer. It's similar to Google adwords, but a lot cheaper if you know how to use it correctly.

First of all you will have to log in to Facebook and scroll down to the bottom of the page. Then click on “Advertising”.

After that you will click on “Create an Ad” in the top right corner.

Now you will be able to to enter the details for your ad. A little tip from me...When selecting your ad image, take your time to create a small red frame around your image. Nobody ever does that and it makes your ads really stand out.

After clicking on “continue” you will now be able to further target your Ad. The possibilities here are almost endless. You can be as specific as you wish.

And the best thing is, you will always be able to see the estimated reach of your ad on the right hand side.

Part 7:What not to do on Facebook

It's a big mistake to believe that people on Facebook are there to buy something. If they sense you are trying to sell something to them, then things are probably not going to work for you.

You need to build a strong relationship with your Facebook fans, offering value and giving without expecting anything in return. That's when you will start to see the success rolling in.

Another mistake would be not to split-test your Facebook ads. You will never know which ad converts better if you don't try different versions. You could be missing out on a lot of money it you don't do this.

If you avoid these two mistakes, then you can't really go wrong.

Conclusion

Facebook offers a great opportunity for every internet marketer who knows how to use it correctly. Don't waste your time and put there methods to practice right now!