Google announces 'KitKat' as next Android version as platform crosses 1 billion activations

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Hot on the heels of Apple's announcement of its Sept. 10 iPhone event, Google has revealed some major news of its own. Sundar Pichai, head of Chrome and Android, has announced that the Android 4.4 will officially be known as "KitKat." A landing page on the official Android website has confirmed KitKat as the "K" dessert, as well as the fact that the next version of Android will be 4.4 rather than 5.0.

To go along with its new dessert, Google has revealed that specially-wrapped KitKat bars with Android branding will soon begin appearing in stores. Buyers will have the chance to win a new Nexus 7 tablet or Google Play credit.

It's long been rumored that "Key Lime Pie" would be the nickname for the next major version of Android. That's part of the reason why this "KitKat" name comes as a surprise, with the other part being that Google has chosen a trademarked name to represent its new software. John Lagerling, Google's director of Android partnerships, has told BBC News that neither side is paying one another for the deal. Instead, Lagerling explainsthat the driving force behind the decision was to do something "fun and unexpected."

As for the "Key Lime Pie" name, it's said that Google's Android team had referred to the new software by that moniker internally. However, Lagerling says that because few people know what a key lime pie tastes like, Google decided to go in another direction. KitKats were suggested as a possibility because Google keeps them stocked in its kitchens for late night snacking, and 24 hours after making a cold call to Nestle in November 2012 to inquire about a partnership, a deal between the two companies was struck.

Unfortunately for Android fans hungry for more KitKat, there's no word yet on exactly what features the new OS will include. Google does promise on its landing page that its goal with KitKat is to "make an amazing Android experience available for everybody." Only El Goog knows for sure what that means, but it could suggest that the company plans to improve Android to work on lower-end hardware, both for entry-level devices and for products like smartwatches.

Pichai also announced today that Android has officially crossed the 1 billion device activation mark. This milestone comes around 3 1/2 months after the total number of activations hit 900 million.

Via  Android KitKat, BBC News

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Remote Access Any Computer Using Chrome

There are many free and Open Source software that is very good for Remote Access. Do you know that remote access is also possible in Google Chrome. Here is the procedure to use Google Chrome to remote access any PC. Check it out.

Chrome Remote Desktop

Download this free extension HERE.

After installation click on the ICON which can be found in the Startup page of Chrome.

Click continue and you will asked to allow access to your data. proceed with allowing access.

You will be asked whether you want to share your own computer to some other system or connect to a shared computer.

If you have clicked “share this computer“, then it will generate automatic sharing code.

 

Just send this code to your partner and ask him to enter into the app. After he has entered, he will be able to view your screen

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Use Google as an Proxy

If you are working at an office, you might have experienced that most of the sites may not be accessible. A proxy helps you to access these blocked websites. There are many free and open source proxies available but many of them are also blocked. I was searching for a new proxy and found this.

Google Translate, Mobilizer, Modules can be used as an Proxy.

Google translate

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ja&tl=en&u=http://example.com/

Google Mibilizer

http://www.google.ie/gwt/x?u=http://example.com/

Google Modules

http://www.gmodules.com/ig/proxy?url=http://example.com/

Instead of “http://example.com/” replace with the URL of the site you want to open. Google can’t be blocked by your ISP, So I hope this proxy will last for a long time.

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Create a Bootable Pendrive of any OS

Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool is a free tool from Microsoft to make an Bootable pendrive form ISO files. But how to make a bootable pendrive from the .img files or copy some other OS to the pendrive? We need some other tools. Here I have discussed about an free tool that allows you to create an bootable pendrive from any OS.

Win32 Disk Imager

As I already mentioned, it is an free tool for windows and it reads the disk image of any format and writes it in an Pendrive. It could also write it in the Memory Card and make it bootable.

The software is about 12.8MB and can be downloaded from here

Steps to create an Bootable Pendrive

Just download the package and open the Win32DiskImager.exe

Select the Image file which you want to copy.

Select the Removable disk which you want to make it as bootable.

Click the Write Button.

Wait for the process to be completed. Your bootable pendrive is READY..!!!

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Create Undeletable And Unrenamable Folders In Windows

We have already discussed about creating nameless and invisible folder. Here is another trick. Here are the step by step instructions to create Undeletable And Unrenamable Folders In Windows. Check it out and create one.

 

How To Create Undeletable And Unrenamable Folders ?

Goto Run and Type cmd & hit enter.

 

Note: Remember you cannot create Undeletable & unrenamable folder in your root directory. That means you can’t create these folders in C:/

Type D: or E: and hit enter

 

Type md con\ and hit enter (md – make directory)

 

You may use other words such as aux, lpt1, lpt2, lpt3 up to lpt9 instead of con in above step.

Try to delete that folder or rename that folder windows, it will show an error message.

How to delete that folder ?

It is not possible to delete that folder manually. It can be deleted by repeating the steps to create the directory but instead of md con\ use rd con

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:How to RUN/Play Latest Games without a Graphics Card:

How to RUN/Play Latest Games without a Graphics Card

Most of the latest games released to day needs a powerful graphics card in order to run properly. As PC components have become very cheaper most of the computer users today will buy a graphics card together with their new pc. But many people who have bought their PC’s some years back will not be able to invest in for a new graphics card; most probably their mother boards wont support it. So if they need to play the latest games the only choice is to invest in a new mother board and graphics card. The same is my case too. But there is some outstanding news for you guys. Yes you can now play these graphics intensive games without a graphics card! Read it again to get the full impact……
When you try to run graphics demanding games like Farcry etc. you will be met with errors like Pixel Shader 2.0 not supported, graphics card not supported like that. So here comes a software that can use the power of the Central Processing Unit; the CPU for these purposes. It will emulate the CPU to do the work of the graphics card, there by enabling old pc users to play latest games on their pc.
3d analyze is a Graphics Card Emulator that can emulate all the feature of a 3d graphics card like pixel shader 1.1, 1.4, 2.0, bump maps and many other features.
You need not worry when a game stops working on your system, 3D Analyze will come to your rescue. This software is very useful to people whose graphics requirements are higher than the configuration that they have now.
3D analyzer can simulate options like TnL caps,Enable Pixel shader 1.4,etc.
It additionally allows you to simulate your graphics card.

How you can use 3D analyzer to Run/ Play the new Games on your PC

1. Download the latest version of 3D Analyzer from here.
   
2. Now you need to extract the files to a folder by running the file you have just downloaded. Now Run 3DAnalyze.exe file.
3. Press “SELECT” button, locate and open the main executable program of the game. You need the select the main executable file itself not the shortcut i.e the select the executable file of the game from the directory where it is installed on.
4. Emulating missing hardware features with 3D-Analyze:If your graphics card features won’t support DirectX based favourite game’s minimal system requirements – then look for the corresponding reference on game box or in the game readme.txt file and simulate those settings by “moving” your graphics card into minimal category if necessary. Here are some of the main 3D-Analyze settings to check if you want emulate a DirectX version starting from previous one.
   
5. The VendorID and DeviceID boxe’s could be useful if the game doesn’t work again and it show a error message saying unsupported Video Card / Graphics Card.It could emulate both the video cards of that NVidia or AMD Radeon.
   
6. Filling up these blank fields with values written in group box saying DirectX Device ID’s, it will compel your game to use your video card like a different one.So if you want to your graphic’s card to be of that of Nvidia just change the DeviceID from 0 to 1 thats all.
   
7. Finally Press the “RUN” button, to start the game; it is not guaranteed that you will get the exact performance that you could get on using a real graphics card!. But, higher success chances are of that from DirectX. Atleast you could play the games which wished to play before on your PC

Yes thats it go ahead and play the games that you was not able to play before. Start Gaming!

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