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Samsung has launched Galaxy Tab 7.7 for the Indian market. It was released in September 2011 at gadget show IFA in Germany but after 6 months Samsung has made it available for the Indian Customers.It will be facing major competition from Apple's iPad2. Have a look on its features- As the name indicates it is having a 7.7 inches Super AMOLED Plus capacitive touch screen. The Tab is having 1280x800 pixels resolution which is better than iPad2. The tab is running on Android 3.2 Honeycomb powered by a 1.4 GHz dual core processor.The tab is upgradable to ICS. With 7.89 mm thickness, it is weighing 340 gms, So quite easy to handle. This tablet is dual camera. The front camera is 3.0 MP with LED flash which can record videos at 720p.The secondary camera for video calling is 2.0 MP. iPad 2 is having just 0.7 MP camera so Galaxy Tab proves to be a better buy in this regard also. It comes with 1GB of RAM and 16 GB of internal storage allowing you

The popular addicted multi-platform angry-birds game is now available on Facebook   ahead of the official launch in Jakarta at 12AM EST. This game was first launched for iOS in December 2009 and till now it has been downloaded over 700 million times which clearly shows its worldwide fan following. "With the great success of the Angry Birds game on smartphone platforms, Rovio intends to reach more fans and be on every screen and every platform," Rovio Asia senior vice president Henri Holm said in a statement. "Therefore, the company developed Angry Birds on Facebook to reach more than 800 million Facebook users worldwide." Angry birds is Rovio’s 51th game. The previous successful games include the mobile version of Burnout and NFS. Because of the great success of Angry Birds, Rovio now is worth more than $1 billion and the company will soon become public. In the game, players fling colorful and grumpy wingless birds from a slingshot into smarmy egg-stealing pi

If you are a romantic Mathematics geek then your girl-friend will surely like this gift on Valentine’s day. All you have to do is to type this equation in Google- sqrt(cos(x))*cos(300x)+sqrt(abs(x))-0.7)*(4-x*x)^0.01, sqrt(6-x^2), -sqrt(6-x^2) from -4.5 to 4.5 I found that trick on Mashable .This trick was given to Mashable by Twitter user   @Huckberry .T yping in the algebraic equation plots several different functions on a graph that forms the shape of a heart. The series includes various square roots, absolute values and cosine functions — mathematical functions often taught in high school math courses. The plotted lines change direction due to the absolute value function flipping the sign of the x-coordinate, creating a mirror image across the y-axis. The “cos(300x)” part of the formula was also written to make the line go quickly up and down as it traces out the interior of the heart. This creates the colored-in effect. Meanwhile, if you change the “300 ″ number in the equation

Cloud Computing is probably the hottest trend today and Google has trying its hands on it also. Google will soon be launching Drive which will go head to head with the famous Dropbox. Dropbox currently gives 2GB storage space to its users and for more space they will have to pay. Drive will offer more space than Dropbox. According to Wall Street Journal, "Drive allows people to store photos, documents and videos on Google's servers so that they could be accessible from any Web-connected device and allows them to easily share the files with others, these people said. If a person wants to email a video shot from a Smartphone, for instance, he can upload it to the Web through the Drive mobile app and email people a link to the video rather than a bulky file." Drive, which is expected to be launched in the coming months, will be free for most consumers and business, with a premium service offered to those who want to store a large amoun

Wait for the Microsoft’s most anticipated OS is over now. Microsoft yesterday announced the launch date for its consumer preview version of Windows 8.Microsoft will be launching this beta version on February 29 in Barcelona during Mobile World Congress (MWC) and Windows 8 will have its separate event in a local hotel. Windows is the most used OS and Windows7 was a success for Microsoft. Windows 8 will be having some changes like ‘START’ button will be missing. In place of it there will be ‘HOT CORNER’ button. The UI will be gorgeous. The existing features have been improved a lot. Along with the launch of Windows8 Microsoft will also be opening its first “app store” having mini-programs for this version of Windows. In December, Microsoft began wooing developers for a February opening of its first Windows Store intended to feature third-party applications crafted for computers powered by the Redmond, Washington-based firm's software. Earlier th

It’s bad news. A Trojan is active on Facebook. It infects the computers by tricking the users. It tricks the users to download malware by asking them to open a fake CNN report about World War III. The story, using CNN logos, offer video footage of a breaking news story, but says users need to upgrade their Flash video software to watch. The fake news page says that US attacks Iran and Saudi Arabia, and begins of World War III. When users 'upgrade', their PC gets infected with a Trojan. Videos are often used as 'bait', because computer users are used to upgrading video software such as Flash, so installing software does not set off alarm bells. Security experts Sophos reported at least 60,000 people have already fallen victim, The Daily Mail reports. "Naked Security has seen a worrying number of Facebook users posting the same status messages today, claiming that the United States has attacked Iran and Saudi A

Google has finally released Google chrome for Android users. But don’t get excited if you are not an ICS user. Yes, Chrome is available for IceCream Sandwich users only and that also in specific countries. This Android Browser is in BETA stage and available for the ICS users residing in U.S., Canada, the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Australia, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Argentina and Brazil can download this browser from the Android Market. The browser, first unveiled in 2008, will be available on tablets and mobile phones using the company's "Ice Cream Sandwich" Android software, Sundar Pichai, a senior vice president in charge of Chrome and applications, said in a blog posting. Google hasn’t compromised with this browser and it is having all the features of its desktop version. The company aims to improve the speed of mobile browsing by preloading top search results and enabling users to get the same tabs and bookmarks they have on the

First Megaupload and now it’s Btjunkie. Yes, one of the biggest torrent search engine has been shut down. When you visit Btjunkie now then there is just a message from the founders of this popular torrent search engine-"This is the end of the line my friends. The decision does not come easy, but we've decided to voluntarily shut down," they wrote. "We've been fighting for years for your right to communicate, but it's time to move on. It's been an experience of a lifetime, we wish you all the best!" This news also came as a shock to Internet community. Plenty of sites are facing this trouble due to illegal trading of copy righted content. The founders of Megaupload may get imprisonment for 50 years. The Megaupload case is said to have major impact on Btjunkie which was reported to U.S. Trade Representation (USTR) in November over piracy concerns. Btjunkie has to take this decision otherwise legal action could

Do you think mobiles can be made of Bamboo? Have you ever seen such a phone? It’s not possible, right? Well, let me tell you there is a phone made of bamboo. It is called ADzero and is designed by a 23 year old British student Kieron-Scott. The phone is powered by IceCream Sandwich(ICS) so it is a Smart bamboo phone. The phone will launch later this year. The story behind the phone is interesting. Kieron was frustrated due to similar design of most of the smartphone which was obviously due to same material used in making them. So he just made the design and posted it online. After that a technology entrepreneur contacted him and they hired a hardware engineer and formed their company. This phone was on display at London Design Week. The phone does have access to Google’s Android market and one special feature of the phone is its camera. It’s flash is different from other phones. The phone is using built-in ring flash. . Instead of a single light n

Are your Facebook friends decreasing? You don’t know who unfriended you because your long list of friends. I used to think there is no way to find who unfriended you on FB other than to keep an eye on your friend list. But today while surfing I found this site-userscripts.org. It is having a script called unfriend finder. This script is really very useful.It will notify you when someone unfriends you or someone from your friend list deactivate his/her account. That’s not all, It will notify you when someone decline your friend list. Unfriend Finder makes identifying unfriends easy by displaying a red counter in the menubar with the amount of unfriends you have. It also uses Facebook notification to alert you on these events. All you have to do is just to install the script. The script will work with Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera and Safari. So if you are also a Facebook addict like me then you must have this script installed on your b

I don’t know how many blogs are there because their number is increasing continuously. More than 200,000 blogs are being created everyday. Every third person I meet is having a blog. Why do people blog? I think there are two possible reasons for it. Either people love blogging that is they are passionate about it or they love money and want to earn money blogging. I am just trying to differentiate between these two kinds of bloggers- Blogging for money- We all know you can earn decent money by blogging. There are number of ways which can help you to earn from your blog. Adsense of course the most widely used source to monetize your blog. Affiliate marketing through your blog can earn you even more if you are good at it and know how to be a successful affiliate. But there is no easy money here. Some people think that they can earn by setting up a blog, put ads on it and copy content from other blogs. Most of the people who set up blog just for the s

More than half of the total smart-phone users are using Android. But all the Android devices face one common problem-poor battery life. Due to this flaw, most of the people are not been able to enjoy their Android to full extent especially when they are outdoor. So here are some basic yet very helpful tips to get the most of your android device- 1. Don’t use live wallpapers- Being an Android user, I know it’s very hard to stay away from these eye catching live wallpapers. But these wallpapers eat your droid’s battery fast. So better don’t apply them especially when you are outdoor. 2. Turn-off Wi-Fi and data connection- While not using Internet, turn off wi-fi or data connection. Your battery life will improve dramatically. 3. Keep widgets minimum- Some of the widgets are really needed but Lower the number of widgets on your home screen, better is the battery life. So keep only the useful widgets to enhance your Android’s battery life. 4. Arrange icons in folders- I know your Android

Google has made a significant change in blogger. Previously all blogger blogs were having a domain name as abc.blogspot.com like this blog was having domain name www.gadgetsmaniac4u.blogspot.com but now users visiting blogger blogs will be automatically redirected to their country specific domain for example if you are visiting this blog from India, you will see blog address as www.gadgetsmaniac4u.blogspot.in and if you are visiting it from UK then you will see the address as www.gadgetsmaniac4u.blogspot.co.uk. But Don’t worry if you are hosting your custom blog on blogger then you won’t be affected by it.   Now the question is why is Google doing this? According to a recently added help page to “continue promoting free expression and responsible publishing while providing greater flexibility in complying with valid removal requests pursuant to local law”. Google explains the move with greater content removal f