Download iOS 8.2 Final For iPhone, iPad features

Download iOS 8.2 Final For iPhone, iPad [Direct Links]

Apple releases final iOS 8.2 download links for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. If you’ve been following the coverage hitherto, you’ll already be aware of its features, the most notable being the support for the forthcoming Apple Watch, and below, we’ll cover the finer details as well as how and where you can get your hands on this latest piece of software.
The Apple Watch app will be a necessary go-between for owners of the wearable, bridging the gap between iPhone and the device itself. iOS 8.2 includes this, and so when Apple Watch is made available to retail, users should be well prepared to dive straight in.

As ever, you get your usual dose of bug fixes and performance enhancements, and as per the changelog, there are plenty of them. The Health app, which was among the earlier features of iOS 8, gets its fair share of improvements, including the ability for users to select desired units of measurement for body temperature, weight, height, distance, and blood glucose. iOS Health should also be more stable as a result of updating to this latest piece of software, and notably, enjoys better integration with third-party, fitness-centric apps.
Stability really is the atop Apple’s list of priorities here, with apps like Mail and Music all enjoying a more fluid experience on iOS 8.2, while features like VoiceOver and Flyover in Maps should also feel a lot more comfortable.
iOS 8.2 also features brand new Apple Watch and Activity apps for the Apple Watch.


The list of bug fixes and tweaks goes on, and here’s a quick run-down of everything Apple has added to this release:

If you want to download and install iOS 8.2 on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, you can do so using the Software Update feature on your device (Settings > General), or alternatively, you can take the old-fashioned route and update via iTunes.

Update Latest CyanogenMod Android 5.0.2 Lollipop CM12 Custom ROM on Google Nexus 7

Update Latest CyanogenMod Android 5.0.2 Lollipop CM12 Custom ROM on Google Nexus 7  [How to Install]

Prolific custom ROM developers Cyanogen have released the new Android 5.02Lollipop

Nexus 7 tablet 

This new CM12 milestone software is a nightly version of the AOSP (Android Open Project) 5.0.2 Lollipop update. As this nightly version is unstable and has some un-tested bugs in it readers are advised to go through the whole tutorial article before going ahead with the installation.

Some of features that are missing in the nightly version are:

1.  Theme Engine

2.  Quick Settings reorganization and customization

3.  Quick Settings Ribbon mode

4.  Navigation bar reorganization and customization

5.  Sound panel customization

6.  Lock-screen quick unlock

It has been learnt that Cyanogen team have completed 85% development of the stable firmware and would soon roll-out in few days time. Until then users can upgrade their device with nightly update to explore all new features of Lollipop and also the custom features of the CyanogenMod.

Prerequisites (Things to remember before installing the CyanogenMod CM12 Nightly):

1.  Users are advised to update their third party add-ons to ensure compatibility

2.  The CM backupscript.sh in recovery will ignore and remove incompatible applications from your system partition (these are usually non-CM apps that users have opted to install). You must install a compatible app (or app pack) to regain that functionality

3.  You can flash CM12 nightlies directly from CM11 M12 or CM 11 nightlies (no need to wipe), provided you read and followed items 1 and 2

4.  Once on CM12 nightlies, you cannot downgrade back to CM11 without wiping – if you are thinking of just exploring the release, then take a backup of your existing installation if you want to go back to it.

5.  Users must install Lollipop OS compatible recovery before installing the new CM12 custom ROM.

6.  Make sure the device is rooted before going forward for custom ROM installation

7.  This new CyanogenMod CM12 Android 5.0.2 Lollipop firmware has to be installed on the Nexus 7 (2013) models only; if tried on other devices, it might get bricked [To check your device model: Go to Settings >> About phone >> model number]

8.  Installation of custom ROM requires clearing of memory in the smartphone, so make sure to back all the data by installing Clockwork Mod (CWM) Recovery/ TWRP in the smartphone.

9.  Users make sure you have installed USB drivers on the PC, or else your smartphone (Google Nexus 7) will not be recognized by the computer.

10.          Make sure your device has more than 80 percent battery, or else there is a chance of smartphone getting temporarily bricked if the installation process is interrupted mid-way.

[Disclaimer: This procedure is very technical and should be performed by a person with sound knowledge of rooting (or manual software installation) Android devices. If the step-by-step installation process is not followed properly, there are chances of the smartphone getting bricked or being permanently irreparable. International Business Times, India Edition cannot be held responsible for any damage or claims from readers if the procedure does not yield the required results or if the smartphone is bricked. Hence, users are advised to proceed with caution.]

Downloadable files:

Latest CM12 Custom ROM for Google-Asus Nexus 7 2013(Wi-Fi only) aka flo: HERE

CM12 Custom ROM for Google-Asus Nexus 7 2013(4G-LTE) aka deb: HERE

Google Apps: HERE

Tutorial: Step-by-step installation procedure of CyanogenMod [official] Android 5.0.2 Lollipop CM12 custom ROM Nightly on Google-Asus Nexus 7 (2013)-

Step 1: After downloading the Android 5.0.2 Lollipop CM12 custom ROM and Google Apps files in to your PC; connect Nexus 7 to PC via USB cord.

[Note: Before plugging the phone to the computer, be sure that you have installed USB driver software, if not, click HERE to download the firmware]

Step 2:  Place Android 5.0.2 Lollipop Custom ROM zip file and Google Apps .zip file into the device's SD memory.

[Note: Before users begin installing the custom software, make sure the device is already rooted and must have installed ClockworkMod Recovery.]

Step 3: Now turn-off the device and disconnect from the PC.

Step 4: Then perform the regular 'Bootloader Mode' sortie by press holding 'Volume (up)', 'Volume (down)' and 'Power' buttons.

Step 5: After entering the 'Bootloader mode', go to ClockworkMod Recovery mode, then clear the device memory, by choosing 'wipe data/factory reset' [Note: use Volume keys to navigate and power button to select options, while operating under Recovery Mode]

Step 6: Now, clear the cache memory by selecting 'wipe cache partition'

Step 7: Then to go back to ClockworkMod recovery, and select 'advanced' and tap 'wipe dalvik cache' [Note: This step is optional, but many recommend this procedure so that user will not face boot loops or any other errors in the middle of custom ROM installation]

Step 8: Come back to main recovery screen and then tap 'install zip from SD card'

Step 9: Then tap 'choose zip from sdcard' and go to Android 5.0.2 Lollipop ROM .zip file in SD card and enter the installation process. Repeat the same procedure to install Google Apps [Note: use Volume keys to navigate and power button to select options]

Step 10: Once done with the installation process, navigate to '+++++Go Back+++++' and re-start the device by opting 'reboot system now' seen in the recovery menu.

Now, your device (Google Nexus 7 2013 4G and Wi-Fi model) will take a few minutes to complete the booting process.

Head to Settings >> select About device to confirm the installation of CyanogenMod Android v5.0.2 Lollipop CM12 custom ROM.

Which mobile apps drain your battery the most?

Which mobile apps drain your battery the most?

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The anti-virus company AVG Technologies has released its latest report on which Android applications are the most likely to chew through your phone’s data storage, battery life, and data plan. The combined data set is quite interesting, particularly since some of the worst offenders aren’t necessarily applications you’d think of.

AVG collected data on users in the United States, Australia, and the UK and found it was statistically significant enough to draw conclusions from. Data-plan traffic only included transfers over cellular networks, and the storage evaluation included data that the app downloaded after install — not just the listed size in the Google Play store.

First, the high-level overview:

This table doesn’t include games, which are broken out in their own separate category. The Candy Crush games are particular offenders, in terms of performance impact and battery drain. But there are some notable oddities — the New Words With Friends, for example, chew through far more data traffic than a game like Clash of Clans.

The fact that Solitaire shows up on this list might seem curious, but I think we can explain it. Several years ago, a group of researchers from Purdue University and Microsoft built a fine-grained energy profiling tool and used it to evaluate multiple free applications. What they found is that 65 to 75 percent of the energy expenditure of free apps was spent loading third-party advertising modules — mostly due to data transfers. Solitaire may not put much load on the battery, but its high data use suggests the application is continuously transferring advertising data.

Categorical discussions

The AVG report also documents the top applications that impact performance, drain battery life, and consume device storage. The report then breaks these into two separate categories — applications that run on startup and those that the user runs manually. Ironically, some of the worst battery life offenders are OEM-created applications — Beaming Service for Samsung Mobile, Samsung’s Security Policy Updates (aka Samsung KNOX), and Samsung WatchON are all top offenders in the battery life department.

Samsung’s new Security Policy Update software comes in for particular criticism in the report — apparently some users have been reporting a 30 to 40 percent battery life hit, thanks to a security requirement that the company added with Android 4.4.2.

Meanwhile, applications like Netflix, which you’d expect to suck down enormous amounts of bandwidth, weigh in at #10 on the overall list, while the Daily Mail Online, Tumblr, Facebook, Instagram, and Spotify take the top five spots. It’s not clear if AVG normalized its list to account for bandwidth consumption per hour, or if it strictly went with total bandwidth consumed. But it’s still noteworthy that a video streaming app slips in well behind Spotify’s radio service.

The last section of the report deals with optimizing your device’s bandwidth usage, storage consumption, and battery life. If you’re well-versed in managing these areas on a per-app basis, there’s not much new information, but it’s a convenient document to hand someone who needs some pointers.

Optimizing software is key to extending battery life

If device manufacturers like Samsung want to continue winning new customers or encouraging old ones to upgrade, they’re going to have to start paying attention to every aspect of the device experience. With Moore’s law scaling nearly moribund, and lithium-ion chemistry improving at a snail’s pace, future gains will be eked out from software just as much as hardware.

No single company can monitor the entire Android or iOS ecosystems to ensure that every application follows best practices. But companies can at least make certain that their own applications are best-in-class when it comes to data use and battery conservation. Samsung happens to be the vendor caught out in this report, but the issue isn’t unique to it. Google has made improving battery life under Android a major focus of late, but many companies have had problems with applications or devices burning more power than they should, thanks to improperly implemented drivers or poor software.

FACEBOOK TRICKS

Facebook tricks

At this point, you are all probably pretty familiar with Facebook, and some of the more common features like updating statuses, checking-in, browsing profiles, pages, and apps, and many more day to day actions.
However, most people are not aware of a number of interesting, but mostly useless, tricks and hacks, which you can perform on Facebook today.
Here are five of our favorite useless, but interesting, Facebook tricks and hacks for you try:

Removing Your Last Name in Your Facebook Profile

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The Trick:

As part of Facebook’s security checks, you are required to completely fill out your account details to successfully create an account. By default, Facebook requires every user to enter their full name prior to saving their profile settings.
With this trick, you will be able to bypass Facebook’s restrictions and drop your last name.

How to Do it:

1) Open Mozilla Firefox (Firefox is required for this hack to work)
2) Go to Options -> Advanced -> Network -> Settings -> Connection Settings -> Manual Proxy Configuration
3) In the HTTP Proxy Field, enter 103.10.62.30, port 8080, or use any Indonesian Proxy.


4) On your facebook profile, go to Account settings — > Change Language to BAHASA INDONESIA
5) Remove your middle name & last name.

Adding Animated Custom Tabs

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The Trick:

Facebook doesn’t allow users to upload animated GIFs anywhere on the site, so if you wanted to have an animated GIF somewhere, you’re out of luck, unless…
There is a trick that allows anyone, who has the following resources, to bypass this limitation in uploading animated GIFs for custom tabs.

How to Do it:

1)       You must have Adobe Photoshop C5 & Quicktime Player.
2)       Select the animate GIF you want to upload.
3)       Open Adobe Photoshop CS5 and go to File > Import > Video frames to layers. In the File Name box, just enter *.* as your filename and choose your GIF image.
4)       Resize your GIF to 111 x 74 pixels to fit the custom tab image .
5)       Save your file in a PSD format. Check the save option, ‘LAYERS’

Creating Your Own Emoticon on Facebook Chat

 

The Trick:

While this is not actually new, many people have no idea about this feature. Since 2011, Facebook has allowed users to chat with their friends using custom emoticons, and now you can too. Just by getting a page’s or a profile’s ID or username, Facebook will let you use their profile pictures as your chat emoticon in thumbnails…
*note this only works in the Facebook Chat and not in updates. 

How to Do it:

1)       Go to any profile, official Page, or event that you want to use as an emoticon.
2)       Look for the profile ID at the end of the URL, such as “Mcdonalds” from: facebook
3)       Place that username or number in double brackets like [[Mcdonalds]]
Note: Pages with no username /vanity URL  e.g : facebook/ mcdonalds
have default ID numbers displayed on their URLs (http://www.ibidworld.com/iron-and-steel-suppliers.html).  So when you cannot find  a profile or a page’s username, just refer to the numbers at the end of the URL, instead. 
4)       Enter that into a Facebook Chat or Message field.
Rage Faces IDs:
Here is a collection of a few rage faces courtesy of Reddit.
Using Profile IDs
Troll face: [[171108522930776]]
Are you f****** kidding me : [[143220739082110]]
Not bad Obama: [[169919399735055]]
Me G usta: [[211782832186415]]
Mother of God: [[142670085793927]]
Cereal Guy: [[170815706323196]]
LOL Face: [[168456309878025]]
NO Guy: [[167359756658519]]
Yao Ming: [[218595638164996]]
Derp: [[224812970902314]]
Derpina: [[192644604154319]]
Forever Alone: [[177903015598419]]
F yeah: [[105387672833401]]
Challenge accepted: [[100002727365206]]
Okay face: [[100002752520227]]
Poker face: [[129627277060203]]
Okay face: [[224812970902314]]
Socially awkward penguin: [[98438140742]]
No: [[167359756658519]]
MOG: [[142670085793927]]
Like a sir: [[168040846586189]]
Using Usernames / Vanity URL
Not Bad: [[NotBaad]]
Rage face: [[FUUUOFFICIAL]]

Making Your Profile Photo Un-clickable

The Trick:

Not everyone really wants to have their header image clickable, but yet that’s the way Facebook header images work, or do they? Well, if you’re curious, you should give this one a try:

How to Do it:

1)       Go to your Albums – > Profile Pictures
2)       Select your current profile picture.
3)       Adjust privacy setting to “Only Me”

Selecting / Inviting All Friends

The Trick:

Selecting and inviting all of your friends in an event can be a tedious task, especially if you have more than 1,000 friends to send invitations to.
Luckily, this trick that allows users to select/invite all of their friends in an event or an app – with just one click.

How to Do it:

1)       Open Firefox and go to your Facebook page to invite all friends to like your page.
2)       Select “All Friends” instead of “Recent Interaction” so that you can invite all friends to your page. Scroll down till all of your friends are shown in the page.
3)       Press Ctrl+Shift+K and a small window will appear at bottom.
4)       Paste the below code in it and click enter.
javascript:elms=document.getElementsByName(“checkableitems[]”);for (i=0;i < elms.length;i++){if (elms[i].type=”checkbox” )elms[i].click()};
Hacks and Tricks like the above, should always be attempted using caution. We are not aware of anyone ever getting in trouble for using the above tricks, but in some cases they do bypass the intended functionality of Facebook, so be careful.
Which of these tricks is your favorite? If you have any new Facebook tricks you would like to share, please let us know in the comments!

Ranveer, Deepika, YouTube, AIB All Named in New Complaint: Police

Ranveer, Deepika, YouTube, AIB 

All Named in New Complaint: Police

The AIB Roast of actors Ranveer Singh (R) and Arjun Kapoor

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NEW DELHI:  Bollywood stars Deepika Padukone, Ranveer Singh, Sonakshi Sinha, Arjun Kapoor and director Karan Johar have been named in a new police case in Pune that accuses them and comedy collective AIB of obscene behaviour in a public place. YouTube is named for distributing the offensive content according to the First Information Report or FIR filed by a police inspector.

The case is based on December's roast of Ranveer Singh and Arjun Kapoor at a stadium in Mumbai with an audience of 4000. The event got eight million views on YouTube before it was removed on Tuesday by AIB, who hosted the roast.

At the roast, the complainant Wazir Shaikh claims "Ranveer Singh publicly kissed Deepika Padukone and she responded. Both behaved obscenely." The FIR in Pune finds fault with this for indecent behaviour.
"We have registered an FIR. As per the complaint, it is also against Deepika Padukone and Sonakshi Sinha," DCP Sudhakar Pathare said.

The Maharashtra government has said it is determining whether the comedy event was held with the required clearances; chief minister Devendra Fadnavis has pledged action "if any law was broken." Cultural affairs minister Vinod Tawde initially said he would call for an inquiry to determine if the content of the show, filled with expletives and jokes about sex, was obscene.

In a statement yesterday, AIB said it had tried to "push the envelope of comedy in this country. But then the envelope pushed back." The group also said it was voluntarily removing the show from YouTube.

The controversy has provoked a fierce debate, especially on Twitter, about the freedom of expression and moral policing by officials in Maharashtra.

Back To The Future?

Technology Trends 2015: Back To The Future?

Over the holidays I watched ‘Back to the Future II’ (or ‘Back to the Future Eleven’ as my son thought) with my children. I forgot  the 1989 film sends Marty McFly and Doc Brown back (or is it forward?) to the year 2015.  As we look ahead to 2015, let’s examine some of the predictions that were made in the movie:

Wall-mounted widescreen television that hangs over the fireplace in the McFly’s living room looks just like any one found in our homes today.

The flying car (who can forget that DeLorean?) is not a reality but as Doc Brown pointed out “This sucker’s electrical”, and today, we are  seeing a huge rise in electric cars.

Mr. Fusion, the “home energy reactor,” which enables Doc Brown to convert rubbish into power would fit perfectly into today’s sustainable and green environment. It was also the precursor to alternative sources of energy that is a hot topic.

Video Telephone was a normal method of communication in the movie. This has surely been surpassed by tools such as Skype and Face Time, which are now everywhere.

They also had glasses phones which could possibly be the forerunner toaugmented reality devices such as google glasses.

The Master-cook was mounted on a wall in the McFly’s kitchen and had a visual display for recipes to assist with cooking. But who needs that now that we have a muti-purpose tablet devices.

In fact, the handheld tablet devices used in the movie are now a reality and most people would say, “How did we live without them?”

A video simulacrum was an artificial-intelligence computer programmed to track human’s likeness and behavior patterns to interact with any individual they were in contact could be the 1sts signs of the :Internet of Things which will be a continue to be a huge trend as we move into 2015.

Computers that take orders via voice controls are already a reality and so 2014!

Wireless video games were part of the Christmas list in our house. As was stated in the movie, “You mean you have to use your hands? That’s like a baby’s toy!”

Drones filming news footage was shown, but they didn’t go as far as drones being used in logistics processes as we are starting to see.

Self-lacing trainers have not been a big hit but Nike is working on the innovation and are hoping to release the Nike MAG shoes at some point in 2015.