Advantages of rooting your Android device

Android development has opened the doors to various exciting opportunities. Android developers have come up with Android mobile applications whose functionality has grown vast in scope and range. For an Android phone user, rooting will give more control in customizing his phone to suit his needs.

What is rooting?

Rooting is similar to jail breaking on the iPhone. In Android devices, software like SU (switch user) exploits the vulnerability in the operating system code and gives the user complete control over his phone. The various advantages of rooting your Android device are listed below.

Android OS customization

Rooting allows you to customize your Android OS. You can alter system files, use themes, change boot images, remove unnecessary/stock apps, etc.

Backup and restore

Rooting allows you to backup an image of your Android-powered device onto an SD card. This allows you to install and run a new ROM (customized, after-market OS). If you are not satisfied with the new ROM, you can always restore the previous image from the SD card.

Save space

Rooting allows you to enable your Android apps to be moved onto an SD card even if the Android developers have not enabled this feature. This might be helpful in case you have reached the memory space bottleneck and need to shift some apps onto a removable media like an SD card.

Some apps require rooting

Some special Android apps specifically require rooting. For example ROM Manager requires rooting in order to flash ROMs from an SD card onto your phone. Another app that requires rooting is setCPU that is used to under/overclock the device.

A caution

Be thorough on instructions before rooting your phone. Improper execution will result in a bricked phone. A bricked phone is one that has a damaged firmware or software and the phone is rendered unusable.

Summary

 
Rooting is a great trick to get to use your phone's full power and functionality. Customized Android ROMs have today evolved to cover full advanced access controls. The best way to get started is to Google for information on rooting your phone by the search string “<phone name> custom ROM.”

Malicious Apps Can Disable Android OS Anti-Virus Software

ZDNet has reported a potential vulnerability in Android OS, which can be used by malicious software to disable the installed anti-virus software. The malware can even corrupt the anti-virus software and use it as a malicious app. The founder of security firm Privateer Labs, ReileyHassell highlighted this fact. The component that is vulnerable is not disclosed yet as Reiley is taking it up with Google.

According to Reiley, malicious Android developers can develop apps that look legitimate, but are actually malicious in intent. They claim to provide productive services like bank account authentications or virus-fighting enhancements. The users are tricked into downloading and installing these Trojanized apps lending themselves to malfeasance. The strategy, increasingly called “app phishing,” is an Android-based exploit where the app informs the Android developer whenever it is invoked. A banking app can, for example, show a fake login page and transmit the login details to a remove Web server, resulting in loss of financial and personal information.

It is a tough call to fix responsibility for ensuring the sanctity of Android development environment. Ideally, Google can follow a signature-based screening for Android mobile applications. Already, Google has removed over a 100 malware apps from the marketplace in the past year. Android development being open sourced lends itself to half-baked and malicious apps more than say Apple OS. These challenges are a tough call and needs to be addressed by the Android development community together. On the other hand, it has made Andorid mobile applications development the fastest growing platform in both range and scope.

The best ways users can mitigate risk from Android mobile applications are downloading and installing only from trusted sources that have known developer names and good rating, checking if the permissions requested by the app sticks to its stated objectives, and keeping an eye on unusual activities in the device.

The SVG Fit For Flexible Use

SVG in full stands for Scalable Vector Graphics which is a file format for storing vector graphics. SVG files and images can be used for illustrations in articles, magazines, and books besides being used for other things such as scalable icons. The problem with SGV is that the user is supposed to have different types of software depending on the requirement specifications of SVG file.

Viewing the SVG Files

Many modern web browsers such as Safari, Firefox, and Opera support viewing SVG files directly in the browser apart from Internet Explorer. For those using Mac OS and Windows, Adobe SVG Viewer is the best option.

Why SGV is considered

• The technologies used in creating the SVG images such as XML, XSL-FO, XSLT, and SGV are available in free implementations thus reducing the software license costs.
• SVG is flexible in style as it offers supreme flexibility. This implies that any reports or graphs can be generated in any style. The style can be swiftly and easily altered and updated through the support of the CSS.
• The XML format of SVG makes it possible to be altered to suit multiple outputs like HTML, PDF, web pages, among other graphic types.
• The SVG images are of very high quality at any size.
• Input data is not restricted to any particular software format but rather generated from any XML input. The data can originate from databases, office applications, spreadsheets, HTML tables, and any other data which provides the XML capabilities.
• All the SGV report templates have the ability to be used to create reports for various types of input data. Besides the template can be shared and adapted with a lot of ease.
• When designing the SVG, the iPhone developers never forget the idea of accessibility; shapes and groups can be assigned titles and descriptions, which are available to text-readers.
• Also, the SVG allows the text within an SVG image to be searched, copied and pasted.
• SVG supports animation as the objects and within SVG images can be animated and synchronized, providing extra visualization and presentation opportunities.

Due to all these features and many more that have been incorporated into SVG by the iPhone developers, this app has turned out to be the best.

Turning the paper documents into worthy Content!

OCR allows the user to change any of your paper documents into editable text. The app does not retype the text but rather sends the recognized document automatically into the user’s preferred application such as Word, Acrobat, Excel, and others. OCR has the ability to recognize and convert more than one hundred and twenty different languages. The iphone developers have made available other dedicated versions from Arabic, Asia, and Hebrew characters.

Why OCR?

Create and Convert the Article into searchable PDF files:
The OCR helps users to achieve creating and changing of documents or articles successfully into PDF and XPS files. There are basically four options available. These include Image over Text which is the most common, Text over Image, Text only, and Image only. In addition, OCR converts the articles and documents into completely searchable files to let the user easily and swiftly find the information that is required amongst all your documents and articles.

Compress the documents to achieve optimization:
OCR is able to the colored PDF and XPS files up to four hundred times smaller than the original size. This is actually perfect for achieving document optimization.

Innovatory High-Quality Compression technology (iHQC):
The new technology of OCR which enables reduction of the document size with no compromising the quality and eligibility of the color. Scanning of the document with the OCR helps to get rid of the paper folders and easily retrieve the required information.

Recognition of tables:

The OCR do recognizes the tables from the user’s expense listings, reports, invoices and many more. Also OCR is supported by the spreadsheet ML to help it achieve ideal table production. The use of OCR provides the simplest method to scan the paper documents and sends them by the email automatically.

Recognition of the Hand printed notes:

OCR has a unique feature called the IRS to recognize hand printed notes and transform the notes into editable text. Besides OCR app can separate the user’s batches of documents by the use of the Blank pages and recognizes and saves the documents into different output files.

Safari – Mobile Browsing Redefined

There’s some great news for all those people who keeping on complaining that web browsing on the iPhone isn’t as good as the desktop because the iPhone developers just made its Mobile Safari better than its Desktop Client.

Just check out all these new features and you will see for yourself why the new Safari browser for the iPhone has enhanced the complete experience of browsing:

Reading List Options
Very often something that we read and wish to read again gets lost in the file named history and we don’t have the time to hunt for it or maybe you intend to remove all the ads from a page you’re reading.  Well now with the new Safari all you need to do is select “ Add to the Reading List “ and Mobile Safari will clean it by stripping all those useless advertisements and save it on your Mobile.

You can also use iCloud Services to automatically update and sync your reading list to other iOS devices too.

Tabbed Browsing

Finally you can now free yourself from having to flip back and forth and creating havoc in the history to read 2 pieces of articles side by side.

With Tabbed Browsing all you got to do are switch pages and Safari will remember from where you tabbed so that when you tab back you will be on the same place where you left.

Deep Twitter Integration
Tweet anything you find on the web instantly on you iPhone with Twitter being integrated seamlessly into the iPhone application.

With the all-new Safari one touch Tweeting will be easier than ever as Apple will automatically send a notification to your friends and family, add your GPS location and obviously allow you to tweet easily.

Private Browsing

If you’re unhappy with all the third party apps but are still using them because there is no option for Private Browsing, then you need not worry anymore as the iPhone developers have come up with a great solution. The iPhone development teams now give you the option to set up private browsing from within your Mobile Safari browser itself.

iOS 5 – The Independent, PC Free Mobile Operating System

Gone are those days, when one needs a PC or Mac book for the functioning and backing up data of the iPhone. No more syncing or linking for data via iTunes. Exit iTunes and enter iCloud. iCloud is a virtual storage place where one can remotely store and access data from an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. iCloud is the latest feature of Apple that is integrated into the iOS 5 across all the other apps. The iPhone developers have seen to it that the operating of the iOS 5 is as simple as possible for the benefit of every iPhone user.

What you can achieve with the iOS5

If you have bought a new iPhone in addition to iMac, iPod Touch and iPad that you already own now you need to set up your iPhone. You should know that there are two options to do that. Either you can set it up as an individual working device or you can set it up from the backed up data in the iCloud. First login to your Apple account and authenticate your device. Then setup from one of the two above options. Backing up all data into iCloud is an easy one step process from a separate application called Backup. Apart from that, if you want to keep saving up data on the go then you have to go to settings and slide-on the iCloud option. It is easy to set-up, easy to use and easy to store. When the data (photos or documents or music files or mail) is accessed from any one of these networked devices, the required content is pushed on wirelessly to the device that asked for it. All the files are stored on the cloud as and when saved and updated. So one has continuous access to the files updated as per chronology.

The PC Free app a great utility

The PC Free app is a powerful feature of iOS 5 that makes it totally independent. And what’s more, it makes a person mobile and accessible from anywhere. This feature of the iOS 5 makes the iGadget an extremely reliable device and the person owning it, an independent, tech savvy and up-to-date individual. Next time you go out to get an iGadget, do check out the PC Free app.

The Airprint app meets all your needs

The iphone developers have come up with a new and exciting feature of the Airprint that allows it to work with any printer whether Airprint-compatible or not.

How to make an Airprint application work with non-Airprint compatible printers

The process of making the Airprint function with any printer is quite simple and straight forward. The user needs to follow the following steps and he/she is done!

• Ensure that the browser security is updated because the downloaded page for the required Airprint files is  rife with pop-ups
• On opening the command prompt, the user should ensure to run it as an administrator

Also the user can follow some tutorials offer by iphone developers and the printer manufacturers on how to use any printer with the airprinter. The user will found out after following the tutorials and watching videos on the same, that this is achieved by the use of Airprint Hacktivator.

How Airprint works with iphones

Airprint works in conjunction with third-party apps, iBooks, and photos. It prints a page in a very simple way for instance, the greatest feature is that this app automatically chooses the right kind of paper, so if your printer has a special tray for photo paper and you select photo printing then, automatically the right kind of paper is used. It can also manage to print multiple pages according to the way they are arranged.

With the new iPhone development, the ability to print to locally attached PC or Mac printers with the final versions of iTunes 10.1 and OS x10.06.5 has been removed.

Basically, using the Airprint on an iphone simple as the user simply taps the action icon, then the print button and finally configures the printer option and clicks the print.

The iPhone developers have managed to show how an Airprint works by the use of a beta version of iTunes 10.1 for windows, Wireshare, a rahi-discover among others.

Basically, Airprint uses the app for print management and listens to mDNS for printer discovery.

It requires a common subtype to exist in the IPP announcement as well as an additional TXT record listing the printer.

The Airprint daemon sends a TXT record “air= surname, password “in case a printer is protected by password by or username

The stalwarts of all iPad apps – AirPlay and Video Mirroring

Video Mirroring is a milestone app in the history of computer apps that allows its users to operate and also show the world what they are operating. This is done with the help of a cable called the Digital AV adapter. Plugging in this cable to the iPad and to your display device (projector or television), gives a bigger picture of your work and a better understanding of what you are communicating not to mention the respect that you would command with your iPad. Thanks to the creation of this feature by the iPhone developers you can download many useful apps from Pasture and use them on our iPad for educational, vocational, personal and presentational purposes. All of this is possible only with the use of the AV adapter. Also this app is embedded into the iOS in such a way that whenever we change the iPad to landscape or portrait mode, it reflects on our display device as well.

Airplay and its features

AirPlay is another similar app of iPad that transmits to our HDTV through AppleTV wirelessly. The content is a continuously streamed data such as a movie or a slideshow of photos or a music medley. Also it enables the user to sit among his/her audience and run the show, since it is wireless transmission. This feature too enables rotation from landscape to portrait and back to landscape. No matter what the demonstration is it can be stylishly and sleekly imparted.

The AirPlay app can also be used with iCloud which is another wonderful application of the iPad. iCloud stores all your data and acts like a doorway to your Apple storage device. Data from here is continuously streamed into your HDTV like a live TV broadcast. Apart from all the above, the other interesting accessories are the iPad cover that is a foldable yet a secure cover. Your iPad can have differently coloured rear covers as well and hence it looks really awesome. Hence the iPad and its apps are truly to be looked out for and experienced.

The iPhone 4 Gyroscope-Ushering in a New Era of Mobile Devices

The mobile gyroscope is probably one of the most talked about features of the iPhone 4. With this nifty feature, the iPhone developers have proved once again that it rules the roost when it comes to innovation. In simple terms, the gyroscope allows the mobile device to actually ‘sense’ motion on all six axes, similar to the equally innovative Wiimote. The only difference here is that the iPhone development teams have actually put this technology on a mobile phone.

The immediate benefit of the iPhone 4’s gyroscope technology is that it makes for some amazing game play. Even Steve Jobs had showed off the amazing gaming experience the iPhone 4 can deliver by playing a game similar to Jenga at his keynote address while launching the device. Even iPhone developers have been inspired by the idea behind this technology. An independent iPhone developer has successfully created software that can get your iPad or iPhone 3GS to work similarly in the manner the gyroscope of the iPhone 4 functions. This software, called the ‘Perspectiverse Engine’, is just the beginning of the vast field of motion sensing.

Apart from gaming, the gyroscope has the potential to completely revolutionize the way we use mobile devices and their importance in our day to day life. A small example of this would be the usage of the gyroscope to stabilize the tiny cameras on cell phones. While this may not sound like much, stabilization does count when you hold a 5MP or 8MP camera phone. In an age where it’s really easy to find such high resolution cameras capable of 720p recording, the gyroscope feature might just be what the doctor ordered.

The introduction of mobile gyroscopes has also given a new leash of life to the accelerometers that many phones carry. An accelerometer by itself is not able to distinguish between gravity and motion, which is why its use in mobile phones is severely restricted. However, with a combination of gyro and accelerometer, motion sensing can get a lot more responsive and useful.

At the end of the day, mobile gyroscope technology is still in its infancy- the iPhone 4 is the only one equipped with it as we speak. However, more iPhone developers are entering into the foray and motion sensing and control is getting bigger everyday.

Openears Speech Recognition Software For iPhone Developers

The iPhone developers would be delighted to know that they can now use and contribute to the future of the iOS thanks to OpenEars. Though speech recognition has been a dream for quite some time, but iPhone developers can live that dream by being a part of the OpenEars. This particular software is an open source library for the iOS that executes text-to-speech as well as speech recognition for the iPad and iPhone.

More about OpenEars

OpenEars uses MITLM, CMU Flite and CMU Pocketsphinx libraries and this downloadable application can be installed in a Cocoa static library project. Once the iPhone developers have configured the project they would be able to target any of the architectures or the SDKs supported by the libraries.

OpenEars is also executable in the Simulator, but outsource iPhone development team might find problems with the low latency audio driver since Simulator is not compatible with it. In order to tackle this issue, iPhone developers can utilize another Simulator compatible driver to debug the recognition logic. Nevertheless, it is best if you don’t run OpenEars on Simulator, and instead run it on the device itself.

OpenEars also comes with downloadable instructions that iPhone developers can use to configure the library. The current version of this library is 0.912, but the instructions are for Xcode 4. If you are looking for Xcode 3 instructions, you can download the older 0.902 version of OpenEars. The instructions for this version are also meant for Xcode 4, which is known to be a more stable version. However, the latest version of this library does provide some advantages:

What can OpenEars do?

It offers iPhone developers all the functions that usually gobble up iOS CPU usage within just 8 percent of its total capacity.

• Bluetooth audio devices are supported
• It supports JSGF grammar and also generates dynamic ARPA language models
• OpenEars comes along with a new low-latency audio driver that boosts response speed
• You can now switch from one ARPA language model to another while multitasking
• It offers configurability of pitch, variance, speed and quality of voice, along with 8 preset voices for speech (male and female)

iPhone Reminders An App For Everyone

It is simple to build but also not that easy to go about getting reminders right. Basically a reminder on your iPhone reminds you about what you need to do and when you actually need to do it, as long as you set it to do just that.  An iPhone application of this kind lets you organize your life in a to-do list, when to complete a given task.  All you need to do is just start these iPhone reminder applications developed by the iPhone developers and follow the instructions. It is extremely easy to use because the instructions on how to go about it will be displayed to your screen right away. A reminder comprises of a set of features in it which include action, time, notes and action details.

You are helped along the way

The feature action tells you what needs to be done or simply the task. Details of actions gives extra information about the task that you want to be reminded about, which maybe, for instance, a person you need to call, place you want to go, an email you are supposed to send among other things. Time attribute tells you when you want to be reminded to perform the given action. Finally notes provide any extra information to be linked to the action.

What next?

After you are through with creating your reminder, it will be displayed in the form of a meter which will show you how close you are to the reminder time that you set. The meter is displayed as a red bar, moving progressively towards the end as the date of reminder approaches. The tasks which have expired are displayed with “late” band across them. Usually, the notification button on the application icon is provided by reminders for due reminders as opposed to the reminder pop-ups which are where this iPhone application shines. The pop-ups on the application are specifically intended to speed up the completion of the task and are designed in a very smart way. If you set a reminder to email someone, for instance, the reminder pop-up offers an option to allow you to dial the number of the person you intend to take a call to or if it is an email you want to send, the option for entering the email address will be displayed to you.

Therefore the hard work put in by each of the iPhone developers who have worked towards this has been fruitful and thanks to them we can go about our daily routines without forgetting a thing.

iPhone Newsstand All Your Headlines Set Up

The iPhone development teams realizing that all of us are busy and on the move and therefore have created the newsstand feature. This unique feature allows users to get all the latest headlines on a single screen and if interested even read more about it too. This is truly a boon for the majority of people who have no time to go through the magazines they love or even read a newspaper.

The newsstand is a decent option that you need to consider giving a try. The newsstand actually allows you to read and access all the news, in just one place by letting you to easily and swiftly browse through your favorite publications. It is differentiated from other RSS readers through development of an inimitable UI component and its ability to organize the feeds into folders and sub-folders. Newsstand is, according to many users, probably the best news reader and has recently been updated to v2.0.

What the newsstand has to offer you?

The iPhone newsstand has the ability to quickly update a list of hundreds of the feeds. Compared to other news readers like Byline, navigation with newsstand is done per-feed and deletion and re-ordering the feeds is done in bulk. As soon as any new issue becomes present, Newsstand automatically updates them in the background. This can be compared to literally having the newspaper delivered to your front door.

The interesting iPhone applications shows you the read news as unread news as well; therefore if at any time you need to go back to previous headlines of the day you can do so with ease. The landscape view, which is offered by the newsstand is great as it mimics a bookshelf or magazine rack to display your list of feeds. This makes the scanning through really simple as we already are familiar with going through bookshelves. Whenever you interchange the mode from landscape to portrait or vice versa you will need to adjust the feeds to suit your view, because this is not an automated feature, as not everyone likes the mode of view changed. Therefore the newsstand is the best newspaper available to you day after day,

Twitter – The Wonder iPhone App

The Twitter app of iPhone is a very sleek tool that allows one to participate in social networking with the world. It is all because of the efforts put in by the iPhone developers to integrate twitter with your iPhone that one is able to use this application easily.  The word ‘tweet’ is inspired from birds that keep tweeting now and then. Today is the world of social networking, and twitter is the king of social networks.

It is extremely flexible and easy to start. Due to the lightweight nature of iPhone applications, the twitter app too is robust and well developed app by the iPhone development from around the world. While developing this app, it must have been top priority to keep in mind, customers’ comfort and hence offshore iPhone development teams have seen to it that this app is highly appealing and futuristic in terms of appearance. It gives us the feeling of tweeting via a laptop even though we use a phone; it’s much easier in fact.

The new enhanced features of twitter app are meant for you

• There is a concept called ‘follow’ in twitter that keeps us up to date about our friends and their activities. This has been added as one of the many functionality of the twitter app.
• Auto-fill is the next feature. When tweeting, we need to specify a recipient name (ideally our friends). Once we start typing their names, the auto-fill feature completes it for us. This enables faster tweeting.
• ‘A picture is worth a thousand words’. Tweeting a thousand words is uncool, Hence photo tweets. This is done through the camera feature after clicking the picture.
• Link optimization is the next feature. When we want to tweet a long link, the twitter app shows us an optimized link that reduces size and increases readability on the iPhone screen.
• Convenient view to have one-on-one conversations, adds ups as our next feature. The messages are easy to read once it is arranged based on their senders.

So, where ever you are or where ever your work takes you never lose touch with your friends. Keep tweeting with twitter on iPhone and feel wonderful with the wonder app.

Apple iPhone Camera - A Boon For The Civilization

The camera application is one of the most awaited iPhone applications, whenever iPhone developers release a new version, the world rushes in to know more about it. Such is the simplicity of these applications. This application typically embodies the previously mentioned saying. It contains none of the unnecessary options needed in a camera unlike many other phones that do. Most of the camera mobile phones have 'n' number of options that are too confusing and leave the phone in a complete deadlock (when operated fast and unknowingly).

There have been numerous instances where the speed of the camera application comes down due to the presence of a large volume of photos. Due to the vast memory of an iPhone, presence of many photos does not hinder the speed of this application. Some phones, boast of a high resolution camera incorporated into it, but have no memory to support it. Hence iPhone camera application is designed in such a way that both the phone memory and the camera resolution support each other.
One of the main attractive features is that this application provides minimal hindrance to the photo-capture screen thus utilizing the entire LCD display for the purpose of the photograph to be taken. Also there are two types of the click button. One, on the touch screen and the other (which is a physical one) on the side of the phone (which is also the volume-up button).  

The other touch screen features are

• FaceTime :- switching modes between the front and back side cameras
• Autofocus :- With a single touch on the touch screen the object on the screen can be focused
• Autoexposure :- There is a built in LED flash for evening time photos
• Gridlines :- For perfect composition and positioning of the photos before clicking
• Zoom :- For zooming in and zooming out (5x), the same way as scaling is done.
• Camera icon :- There is a special camera icon on the lock screen for faster access to the camera.

Overall this futuristic iPhone applications are most advanced as on today and is yet to be outdone.

The Notification Center - A Feather In Our Hats

Each and every one of us is busy trying to keep up with our lives. For most of us our professional life has the top priority, this isn't a bad thing; but along with a professional life it is very important to have a great personal life as well and spend some time with our family and friends. This may have been impossible for most of us, but due to the hard work put in by the iPhone developers into the creation of the Notification center we can now keep in contact with ease. The Notification Center iPhone application development is surely one of the greatest apps created to date, some of the advantages of the Notification Center are

 

• Due to the creation of the Notification Center iPhone appliation, you can now keep in contact with your family and friends as well as business partners with ease.
• Get updated on the latest happenings within your family and friend circles with the help of this customizable iPhone application - receive emails, text messages and invites regarding each and everything that you're interested in. 
• If your business needs you to continuously monitor emails and text messages you need not worry as this can now be achieved right through your iPhone even while you're on the move.
• Have you been missing out on various opportunities lately due to your work schedule? Now that's history as you can keep tabs on all aspects of your life with the great features implemented into the Notification Center by the iPhone developers.

Accessing the Notification Centre and controlling it

You can now access the notification Center anytime and with ease. Just scroll down to the bottom of any page and there's an option wherein you can enter the notification center. Once you're in you can adjust the settings of this iPhone application so as to receive notifications on the subjects that lure your interest.

 

Any new notifications appear instantly on the top of your screen for a short time without interrupting any work that you may be doing at that moment. Therefore the Notification Center is a boon and is a great iPhone application loaded with advantages and has no scope for negative reviews at all.