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The Pirate Bay Moves to .AC

Pirate Bay users were shocked to discover that their favorite torrent site was no longer loading.

Without warning the nameservers were removed from thepiratebay.sx domain, making it impossible to load the site in places where DNS entries were not cached.
Following pressure from the entertainment industry the domain registry of Sint Maarten appears to have seized The Pirate Bay’s .SX domain name. The torrent site itself hasn’t been taken down and has quickly relocated to a new address on Ascension Island’s .AC ccTLD. The Pirate Bay team informs that this UK-controlled domain isn’t their final destination and they will sail to a safer haven in the near future.
The Pirate Bay website itself remains online, however, as the site’s operators quickly relocated to thepiratebay.ac, which uses Ascension Island’s ccTLD.
Without warning the nameservers were removed from thepiratebay.sx domain, making it impossible to load the site in places where DNS entries were not cached.

The Pirate Bay, meanwhile, continues to be accessible through the new .AC domain, although only briefly since the ccTLD is UK controlled.

But there may be switch to .pe soon !

“The AC domain is directly connected to the UK, so it’s just a quick stop there,” a Pirate Bay insider told us. After solving some technical issues the infamous torrent site plans to move to the Peruvian .PE ccTLD.

ThePirateBay.pe will be the fifth domain name for The Pirate Bay in 2013.

Dec 10, 2013
Jay-z leads Grammys 2014 Nomination list

The Grammys nominations for 2014 have arrived.

The Grammys awards ceremony will air on CBS on Jan. 26, 2014. The full Grammy nominations list is available at the show’s website. A list of nominees is below.
RECORD OF THE YEAR
“Get Lucky” – Daft Punk & Pharrell Williams
“Royals” – Lorde
“Locked Out Of Heaven” – Bruno Mars
“Blurred Lines” – Robin Thicke Featuring T.I. & Pharrell

ALBUM OF THE YEAR
“The Blessed Unrest” – Sara Bareilles
“Random Access Memories” – Daft Punk
“Good Kid, M.A.A.D City” – Kendrick Lamar
“The Heist” – Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
“Red” – Taylor Swift

SONG OF THE YEAR
“Just Give Me A Reason” – Jeff Bhasker, Pink & Nate Ruess, songwriters
(Pink Featuring Nate Ruess)
“Locked Out Of Heaven” – Philip Lawrence, Ari Levine & Bruno Mars,
songwriters (Bruno Mars)
“Roar” – Lukasz Gottwald, Max Martin, Bonnie McKee, Katy Perry & Henry
Walter, songwriters (Katy Perry)
“Royals” – Joel Little & Ella Yelich O’Connor, songwriters (Lorde)
“Same Love” – Ben Haggerty, Mary Lambert & Ryan Lewis, songwriters
(Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Featuring Mary Lambert)

BEST NEW ARTIST
James Blake
Kendrick Lamar
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Kacey Musgraves
Ed Sheeran

BEST POP SOLO PERFORMANCE
“Brave” – Sara Bareilles
“Royals” – Lorde
“When I Was Your Man” – Bruno Mars
“Roar” – Katy Perry
“Mirrors” – Justin Timberlake

BEST POP DUO/GROUP PERFORMANCE
“Get Lucky” – Daft Punk & Pharrell Williams
“Just Give Me A Reason” – Pink Featuring Nate Ruess
“Stay” – Rihanna Featuring Mikky Ekko
“Blurred Lines” – Robin Thicke Featuring T.I. & Pharrell
“Suit & Tie” – Justin Timberlake & Jay Z

BEST POP INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM
“Steppin’ Out” – Herb Alpert
“The Beat” – Boney James
“Handpicked” – Earl Klugh
“Summer Horns” – Dave Koz, Gerald Albright, Mindi Abair & Richard Elliot
“Hacienda” – Jeff Lorber Fusion

BEST POP VOCAL ALBUM
“Paradise” – Lana Del Rey
“Pure Heroine” – Lorde
“Unorthodox Jukebox” – Bruno Mars
“Blurred Lines” – Robin Thicke
“The 20/20 Experience – The Complete Experience” – Justin Timberlake

BEST DANCE RECORDING
“Need U (100%)” – Duke Dumont Featuring A*M*E & MNEK
“Sweet Nothing” – Calvin Harris Featuring Florence Welch
“Atmosphere” – Kaskade
“This Is What It Feels Like” – Armin Van Buuren Featuring Trevor Guthrie
“Clarity” – Zedd Featuring Foxes

BEST DANCE/ELECTRONICA ALBUM
“Random Access Memories” – Daft Punk
“Settle” – Disclosure
“18 Months” – Calvin Harris
“Atmosphere” – Kaskade
“A Color Map Of The Sun” – Pretty Lights

BEST TRADITIONAL POP VOCAL ALBUM
“Viva Duets” – Tony Bennett & Various Artists
“To Be Loved” – Michael Bublé
“The Standards” – Gloria Estefan
“Cee Lo’s Magic Moment” – Cee Lo Green
“Now” – Dionne Warwick

BEST ROCK PERFORMANCE
“Always Alright” – Alabama Shakes
“The Stars (Are Out Tonight)” – David Bowie
“Radioactive” – Imagine Dragons
“Kashmir” – Led Zeppelin
“My God Is The Sun” – Queens Of The Stone Age
“I’m Shakin’” – Jack White

BEST METAL PERFORMANCE
“T.N.T.” – Anthrax
“God Is Dead?” – Black Sabbath
“The Enemy Inside” – Dream Theater
“In Due Time” – Killswitch Engage
“Room 24” – Volbeat Featuring King Diamond

BEST ROCK SONG
“Ain’t Messin ‘Round” – Gary Clark Jr., songwriter (Gary Clark Jr.)
“Cut Me Some Slack” – Dave Grohl, Paul McCartney, Krist Novoselic &
Pat Smear, songwriters (Paul McCartney, Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic,
Pat Smear)
“Doom And Gloom” – Mick Jagger & Keith Richards, songwriters (The
Rolling Stones)
“God Is Dead?” – Geezer Butler, Tony Iommi & Ozzy Osbourne,
songwriters (Black Sabbath)
“Panic Station” – Matthew Bellamy, songwriter (Muse)

BEST ROCK ALBUM
“13” – Black Sabbath
“The Next Day” – David Bowie
“Mechanical Bull” – Kings Of Leon
“Celebration Day” – Led Zeppelin
“…Like Clockwork” – Queens Of The Stone Age
“Psychedelic Pill” – Neil Young With Crazy Horse

BEST ALTERNATIVE MUSIC ALBUM
“The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The
More I Love You” – Neko Case
“Trouble Will Find Me” – The National
“Hesitation Marks” – Nine Inch Nails
“Lonerism” – Tame Impala
“Modern Vampires Of The City” – Vampire Weekend

BEST R&B PERFORMANCE
“Love And War” – Tamar Braxton
“Best Of Me” – Anthony Hamilton
“Nakamarra” – Hiatus Kaiyote Featuring Q-Tip
“How Many Drinks?” – Miguel Featuring Kendrick Lamar
“Something” – Snarky Puppy With Lalah Hathaway

BEST TRADITIONAL R&B PERFORMANCE
“Please Come Home” – Gary Clark Jr.
“Get It Right” – Fantasia
“Quiet Fire” – Maysa
“Hey Laura” – Gregory Porter
“Yesterday” – Ryan Shaw

BEST R&B SONG
“Best Of Me” – Anthony Hamilton & Jairus Mozee, songwriters (Anthony Hamilton)
“Love And War” – Tamar Braxton, Darhyl Camper, Jr., LaShawn Daniels &
Makeba Riddick, songwriters (Tamar Braxton)
“Only One” – PJ Morton, songwriter (PJ Morton Featuring Stevie Wonder)
“Pusher Love Girl” – James Fauntleroy, Jerome Harmon, Timothy Mosley &
Justin Timberlake, songwriters (Justin Timberlake)
“Without Me” – Fantasia Barrino, Missy Elliott, Al Sherrod Lambert,
Harmony Samuels & Kyle Stewart, songwriters (Fantasia Featuring Kelly
Rowland & Missy Elliot)

BEST URBAN CONTEMPORARY ALBUM
“Love And War” – Tamar Braxton
“Side Effects Of You” – Fantasia
“One: In The Chamber” – Salaam Remi
“Unapologetic” – Rihanna
“New York: A Love Story” – Mack Wilds

BEST R&B ALBUM
“R&B Divas” – Faith Evans
“Girl On Fire” – Alicia Keys
“Love In The Future” – John Legend
“Better” – Chrisette Michele
“Three Kings” – TGT

BEST RAP PERFORMANCE
“Started From The Bottom” – Drake
“Berzerk” – Eminem
“Tom Ford” – Jay Z
“Swimming Pools (Drank)” – Kendrick Lamar
“Thrift Shop” – Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Featuring Wanz

BEST RAP/SUNG COLLABORATION
“Power Trip” – J. Cole Featuring Miguel
“Part II (On The Run)” – Jay Z Featuring Beyoncé
“Holy Grail” – Jay Z Featuring Justin Timberlake
“Now Or Never” – Kendrick Lamar Featuring Mary J. Blige
“Remember You” – Wiz Khalifa Featuring The Weeknd

BEST RAP SONG
“F***in’ Problems” – Tauheed Epps, Aubrey Graham, Kendrick Lamar,
Rakim Mayers & Noah Shebib, songwriters (ASAP Rocky Featuring Drake, 2
Chainz & Kendrick Lamar)
“Holy Grail” – Shawn Carter, Terius Nash, J. Harmon, Timothy Mosley,
Justin Timberlake & Ernest Wilson, songwriters (Kurt Cobain, Dave
Grohl & Krist Novoselic, songwriters) (Jay Z Featuring Justin
Timberlake)
“New Slaves” – Christopher Breaux, Ben Bronfman, Mike Dean, Louis
Johnson, Malik Jones, Elon Rutberg, Sakiya Sandifer, Che Smith, Kanye
West & Cydell Young, songwriters (Anna Adamis & Gabor Presser,
songwriters) (Kanye West)
“Started From The Bottom” – W. Coleman, Aubrey Graham & Noah Shebib,
songwriters (Bruno Sanfilippo, songwriter) (Drake)
“Thrift Shop” – Ben Haggerty & Ryan Lewis, songwriters (Macklemore &
Ryan Lewis Featuring Wanz)

BEST RAP ALBUM
“Nothing Was The Same” – Drake
“Magna Carta…Holy Grail” – Jay Z
“Good Kid, M.A.A.D City” – Kendrick Lamar
“The Heist” – Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
“Yeezus” – Kanye West

BEST COUNTRY SOLO PERFORMANCE
“I Drive Your Truck” – Lee Brice
“I Want Crazy” – Hunter Hayes
“Mama’s Broken Heart” – Miranda Lambert
“Wagon Wheel” – Darius Rucker
“Mine Would Be You” – Blake Shelton

BEST COUNTRY DUO/GROUP PERFORMANCE
“From This Valley” – The Civil Wars
“Don’t Rush” – Kelly Clarkson Featuring Vince Gill
“Your Side Of The Bed” – Little Big Town
“Highway Don’t Care” – Tim McGraw, Taylor Swift & Keith Urban
“You Can’t Make Old Friends” – Kenny Rogers With Dolly Parton

BEST COUNTRY SONG
“Begin Again” – Taylor Swift, songwriter (Taylor Swift)
“I Drive Your Truck” – Jessi Alexander, Connie Harrington & Jimmy
Yeary, songwriters (Lee Brice)
“Mama’s Broken Heart” – Brandy Clark, Shane McAnally & Kacey
Musgraves, songwriters (Miranda Lambert)
“Merry Go ‘Round” – Shane McAnally, Kacey Musgraves & Josh Osborne,
songwriters (Kacey Musgraves)
“Mine Would Be You” – Jessi Alexander, Connie Harrington & Deric
Ruttan, songwriters (Blake Shelton)

BEST COUNTRY ALBUM
“Night Train” – Jason Aldean
“Two Lanes Of Freedom” – Tim McGraw
“Same Trailer Different Park” – Kacey Musgraves
“Based On A True Story” – Blake Shelton
“Red” – Taylor Swift

BEST NEW AGE ALBUM
“Lux” – Brian Eno
“Illumination” – Peter Kater
“Final Call” – Kitaro
“Awakening The Fire” – R. Carlos Nakai & Will Clipman
“Love’s River” – Laura Sullivan

BEST IMPROVISED JAZZ SOLO
“Don’t Run” – Terence Blanchard, soloist
“Song For Maura” – Paquito D’Rivera, soloist
“Song Without Words #4: Duet” – Fred Hersch, soloist
“Stadium Jazz” – Donny McCaslin, soloist
“Orbits” – Wayne Shorter

BEST JAZZ VOCAL ALBUM
“The World According To Andy Bey” – Andy Bey
“Attachments” – Lorraine Feather
“Liquid Spirit” – Gregory Porter
“WomanChild” – Cécile McLorin Salvant
“After Blue” – Tierney Sutton

Dec 8, 2013
Mobile Apps and the Connected Future

When Apple launched iPhone in 2007, two things stood out in this phone from all the other mobile devices those days- touchscreen and an intuitive OS allowing it’s expandability via apps. Six years later, apps have becoming a booming business creating an app economy. You must’ve heard the phrase- “there’s an app for that” which signifies more than 700,000 apps available for leading mobile platforms- iOS and Android. Other mobile OS like Blackberry (BB OS 10) and Windows Phone (WP 8) are also growing rapidly in terms of apps. They’ve truly become a global phenomenon with Apple’s App Store crossing 50 billion app downloads recently, and Android’s Play Store also reaching this benchmark soon.

But interesting thing to note is that the mobile apps have grown beyond the usual games and apps for email, weather, to-do lists, etc. For years, we wanted to have a perfect technological convergence offering the flexibility to perform various tasks from a single device rather than owning multiple devices for different tasks. Mobile Apps has given way to ‘Internet of Things’ referring to the mobile phone connected to world around us. Let’s see few examples of how it’s transforming the way we interact with other modern day tools-

Bridging Offline and Online World

With the help of mobile apps, our smartphones has become our personal identity, personal wallet for making payments, loyalty card for accumulating points and much more. Retailers like Starbucks are offering mobile apps which lets one pay for a coffee through mobile and also gain reward points. In emerging countries like Africa, mobile and mobile apps work like a full-fledged bank account for depositing/ withdrawing/ transferring the money. Startups like Square and Payleven helps retailers and customers to use the mobiles for credit card payments.

Technologies like QR codes and NFC further enhances the mobile phone by enabling it to scan the codes or tags and initiate action which was programmed in them.

Health and Fitness

In this busy world, it’s essential to keep a check on one’s health and rightly so this is one of the biggest categories of apps and accessory. From tracking sleep to calories to daily running and even measuring one’s sweat and heart rate, the fitness trackers do all this and much more. Being connected with mobile apps, these trackers share all these details to the apps, so that users know their progress and even share it over social networks keeping them motivated. Some popular example of such trackers include wrist bands like Fitbit Flex, Jawbone Up, watches like Moto Actv and even Nike+ Lunar Shoes.

There are also accessories and compatible apps such as Diabeto which measures the patient’s glucose levels for keeping their diabetes in check.

Home Automation

All of us want to control our homes with a click of button, and the apps in our mobile enables us to do just that with the help of special hardware. The apps can be integrated with several home automation systems for keeping our homes secure, control its temperature or switch on/ off its lights. Lockitron is a smart deadbolt access system to door locking/ unlocking via mobile app, NFC or even SMS. Nest is an advanced thermostat system that can control the home’s temperature by connecting to home’s heating and air conditioning solution. For controlling the lights remotely, there’s Belkin WeMo accessory which converts existing light sockets to smart sockets and Philips Hue lightning system allowing one to control the whole lightning of the home.

All these example gives us a glimpse of the future where a single mobile app will be able to do even the most complex thing with the click of a button.

– Guest article by 91mobiles.com

Dec 6, 2013
World’s First Helium HDD

Today the story is extremely completely different indeed; Hitachi discover our media upon all varieties of devices, from commonplace desktop SATA HDD’s to SSD’s and USB Flash Media and every one things in between. Storage medialooks to be forever increasing in volume and in technological advances, because the latest providing from HGST (formerly called Hitachi world Storage Technologies) shows. they need unveiled the primary 6TB drive, claiming it because the world’s highest capability disk with low operative prices for information centre applications like cloud storage and large scale-out environments.

The 6TB Ultrastar He6 drives ar atomic number 2 stuffed units supported HGST’s HelioSeal technology.HelioSeal sees the air within the drive replaced with atomic number 2, that is a smaller amount dense and then reduces the turbulence caused by the spinning disks, cuts power consumption and results in reduced resistance heating,consistent with HGST. A facet impact of this can be that the drive is hermetically sealed, gap up the chance of the Ultrastar He6 drives having the ability to support being submerged in non-conductive fluid for liquid cooling applications. The Ultrastar He6 line is out there in versions with either a 6Gbps SATA or 6Gbps SAS host interface, with a quoted unit of time before failure (MTBF) of two million hours, consistent with HGST.

Nov 27, 2013
Say goodbye to your favorite ‘Winamp’ : Shutting Down in Dec.

It’s been a good 15 years, but Winamp, our go-to desktop media player, is shutting down on December 20th but the reasons are yet to be disclosed.

AOL announced the decision in a brief statement on the official Winamp.com website, saying that the webpage and the downloadable media player will be removed on December 20.

“Winamp.com and associated web services will no longer be available past December 20, 2013. Additionally, Winamp Media players will no longer be available for download. Please download the latest version before that date. See release notes for latest improvements to this last release. Thanks for supporting the Winamp community for over 15 years,” the notification reads.

Winamp, which was developed by Justin Frankel and Dmitry Boldyrev for Nullsoft, was purchased by AOL in June 1999 for no less than $80 million (€59.4 million) in stock.
In June 2000, Winamp reached a record 25 million registered users, but started a dramatic decline soon after that.

In the last few years, Winamp launched several new versions, including a Mac port and an Android version that’s experiencing quite a terrific success among smartphone owners.

Even though development of new versions continued, and both Winamp 3 and Windows 5 reached the market in the next years, some users decided to stick to the original WInamp 2.95 version thanks to the impressive audio quality and its reduced footprint on system resources.

Nov 21, 2013

Moto G : The Budget Smartphone review

The Motorola Moto G is an important phone, for Motorola at least. It’s the first new Motorola phone to be released in the UK in ages, and the first we’ve seen since Google bought Motorola back in 2012. It’s also superb. Thanks to its 720p screen and solid Snapdragon 400 processor, it offers far better specs than any other big-name a phone selling for under £150. If you want a sub-£150 or $179 phone, get this one. It’s that simple.

Design

The design on the Moto G doesn’t, by any means, follow the current smartphone trend of the straightest possible form and thinner-is-better chassis approach. Its thickest side is the curved back which is almost 1.2 cm thick, while the thinnest part is just over 6 mm.

Its kinship with the Moto X is quite evident: both have the same exchangeable back side made from a slightly rubberized polycarbonate, built with the headphone jack at the top side as well as a cut out for the camera, an LED flash and finally a Motorola logo. Just like the Moto X, there’s a whole rainbow of colors from which to choose.
The interface is largely vanilla, which is good, but there are a handful of Motorola flavoured additions. Motorola Migrate helps you bring all your content such as photos, videos and text message history – as long your old phone was Android. Motorola Assist helps to avoid disruptions when you’re in a meeting or asleep which we’ve found extremely handy.

Display

The Motorola Moto G’s most impressive feature is its screen. This is the first time we’ve seen a 720p screen on a phone that costs less than £140.
This gives the phone the sort of ultra-sharp text and images that we’ve only seen in much more expensive phones to date. 720p resolution stretched across a 4.5-inch display gives a pixel density rating of 329 pixels per inch (ppi). Higher-end Androids may offer 1080p screens these days, but that’s still higher than the ppi rating of the iPhone 5S (326ppi).

Design your smartphone : Moto x

Processor

The processor on the Moto G is a Snapdragon 400 with four cores, a clock speed of 1.2 GHz and 1 GB of RAM.

Battery

Motorola touts ‘all day’ battery life for the Moto G and this is certainly the case in our testing. The Moto G will last a day and if you are a light user then you’ll probably even get a couple of days from the handset.

Tech Specs and Price

The technical aspects that come with the Moto G aren’t in the class of superior smartphones, but sit somewhere in the middle ground. The quad-core processor with 1 GB of RAM and Android 4.3 operating system ensure that the system runs smoothly at all times. The 5 MP camera is in tune with the price class, while the battery for the device is actually quite good. Considering the price of 199 USD for the 16 GB version, the Moto G offers a great price-performance ratio.


Processor	Qualcomm Snapdragon 400, Quad-Core, 1.2 GHz
Display	4.5-inch, 1,280 x 720 Pixel, 329 ppi, LCD
RAM	1 GB
Internal storage	8/16 GB
Dimensions	129.9 x 65.9 x 6-11.6 mm (curved back side)
Weight	143 grams
Battery	2,070 mAh
Camera	5 MP (back), 1.3 (front)
Connectivity	GSM/GPRS/EDGE/UMTS/HSPA+, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS, GLONASS
Android version	Android 4.3 Jelly Bean
Price	179 USD (8 GB), 199 USD (16 GB)

The Motorola Moto G is one of the best phones of the year, and the first time we’ve seen a phone of this calibre launch at under £200 SIM-free. That it’s so much cheaper than £200 is a minor miracle. This phone deserves to sell by the bucketload.

Nov 18, 2013

Design your own smartphone with Moto X

The Motorola Moto X comes with some interesting customizations, allowing customers to alter the color scheme of the device as well as engrave whatever they like on the back, among other things. Normally only available through AT&T in the US, Motorola has announced that the customization options can now be had through Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon.

There are thousands of possible combinations available through the Moto Maker online customization tool, and now customers across all the major US carriers will be able to use it. There are thousands of possible combinations here, users can change the color of the back, front piece and various accents, as well as add-on matching colored peripherals like headphones. After a Moto Maker ad appeared on Verizon over the weekend, reports are now saying Motorola will be shipping the device in the US within the next 4 days or so.

Following last month’s price drop, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile customers will now see the 50% is savings as well as the Moto Maker support. Moto X phones will start at $100 for a 16GB model on a two year agreement from all four carriers.
Design your own smartphone with Moto X Announcement

Beyond that, Motorola said today that Android 4.4 KitKat would be rolling out for the Moto X soon and we also expect to see the reveal of the lower cost Moto G on Wednesday. Leaks suggest it’s a quad-core smartphone with a 4.5-inch display going on sale November 14, with customizations options like the Moto X it was based on.

Nov 12, 2013
Google Introducing Helpouts: Help when you need over live video

What if feat serve for a computer fault, a tattling tube, or a prep job was as casual as clicking a fasten? What if you could interact via real-time recording to a penalization educator or a yoga pedagogue from the succour of your interior? What if you could get someone knowledgeable to get you “unstuck” when you real need it?

Today, google announcing Helpouts-a new way to get and render meliorate over elastic recording. Our end is hastate: supply group serve apiece else. google requirement to use the lav and efficiency of the web to enable everyone, no weigh where they are or what example it is, to easily infix with someone who can improve.

Provide mightiness be a excitable work to a difficulty you’re having correct now, suchlike how to fix your garage door, or how to shift a computer virus; or it power be content completing a cast, similar construction a coldcock. It might be learning a new accomplishment, equivalent how to mouth conversational Country or how to pulling cartoons; or it mightiness be systemic advice on how to ameliorate your suitableness or your composition (I could use this reactionary now).

With Helpouts, you can select who you get forbear from supported on their qualifications, their availability, their soprano, their ratings and reviews. You can join directly or assemblage in suggest. You can get forbear from individuals or from brands you already copulate and trait, equivalent Sephora, One Examination, Weight Watchers, Redbeacon (a Domestic Depot complement), and Rosetta Architect. Erstwhile you’re in a Helpout, you can do author than fair talk-you can distribute your computer door, collaboratively alter a informing, or record your Helpout. And if the experience doesn’t experience your expectations, google furnish a brimfull money posterior the root. google turn bittie and in a few categories. The determine of group sharing cater on Helpouts and the identify of amend visible present grow over time. Helpouts may not be fit for every happening, and it will tolerate dimension to get old to interactions via historical period video. google expectation that the efficiency, can and spheric hit of Helpouts gift create people’s lives easier in the elongate.

Nov 5, 2013
All you need to know about Nexus 5
After weeks of speculation, Google and LG have officially announced the Google LG Nexus 5.

LG-Google Nexus 5’s technical specifications –
4.95-inch 1920×1080 display (445 PPI) – Corning Gorilla Glass 3 – Android 4.4
KitKat – Qualcomm Snapdragon 800, 2.3GHz quad-core processor – Adreno 330,
450MHz GPU – 8 megapixel rear camera with optical image stabilisation – 1.3
megapixel front camera – 16GB or 32GB internal storage (actual formatted
capacity will be less) – 2GB RAM – 130 grams weight – 69.17×137.84×8.59 mm –
Dual-band WiFi (24G/5G), 3G/4G LTE – NFC (Android Beam) – Wireless charging –
2300 mAh battery – Standby time up to 300 hours – 16GB for Rs 28,999, 32GB for
Rs 32,999

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Google Nexus 5 is the first to run Android 4.4, which brings a new dialer that automatically suggests people the most likely call while Caller ID by Google matches an incoming phone number to a business even if that number isn’t stored in the contact list. Users can send and receive text messages directly from Hangouts, and Hangouts for Android now supports location sharing.
The 5-inch display makes it suitable to fit in the palm of your hands, but while carrying it in my pocket while walking through San Francisco, it sort of felt like it was out of place — perhaps I’ve grown too accustomed to the fact that I’ve had 3- to 4-inch phones for the past few years. Although you can hold the device in one hand, it doesn’t immediately feel comfortable enough size to manage all your affairs as such. Trying to type out emails or using certain apps required the use of both hands.
Price tag of Rs. 28,999 for the 16GB variant ($349 in the US) and Rs. 32,999 for the 32GB variant ($399 in the US).

Google Nexus 5 technical specifications
Processor: Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 with 2.26GHz Quad-Core Krait CPU
Operating System: Android 4.4, KitKat
Display: 4.95-inch full-ID IPS (1920 x 1080 pixels)
Network: CDMA/1xRTT/EVDO, GSM/GPRS/EDGE, WCDMA/HSPA+, LTE
Internal storage: 32GB / 16GB
RAM: 2GB
Camera: Rear 8.0-megapixel with OIS / Front 1.3-megapixel HD
Battery: 2,300mAh Li-Polymer (embedded)
Size: 137.84 x 69.17 x 8.59mm
Weight: 130g
Others: Wireless charging, NFC
- The soft touch backside gets fingerprint-tastic, and fast. I had to wipe it almost constantly for our hands on photos. For reference, I’m using the black device and don’t have particularly oily hands.
- With Android 4.4, Google Search is now automatically integrated into every single page of homescreen launcher, and can be triggered by voice through an “Okay, Google” hot keyword. Search is always just there. It’s quite nice.
- Google Now is now always the left-most screen on your homescreen, which is a smart move on Google’s part.
- It’s smooth. Really smooth. Every transition, every fade in – it’s like butter.
- The camera seems above average, but not mind blowing.
- Android 4.4 overhauls the dialer, with the main feature being a knowledge of nearby businesses. Just type a business name into the same field where you’d normally type the first few letters of your friends name, and it pulls up the details for nearby locations. In my early tests, this feature works very well. Typing “Starbucks” pulled up 8+ locations near me (hey, it’s San Francisco), broken down by their location, each offering their phone number at a click. It works in reverse, too; I had one of those Starbucks locations call me, and the phone identified the caller as such. Google says all this data is piped in from Google Maps
- In Google’s HDR+ mode (which takes photos in rapid succession and combines the best parts of each into one photo), the camera can be slow.
- While Android 4.4 is largely focused on optimizations that allows it to run on lower-end devices, there are a number of lil’ subtle changes that really spruce up the place. The top bar and bottom nav bar are both translucent now, allowing the homescreen background to go fullbleed across the screen . The widgets drawer has been moved out from the pop-up app drawer (which always seemed like a weird location), and back to being behind a long press on the home screen (like it was in Android of yesteryear).
Nov 2, 2013
Google+ starts offering custom URLs to accounts

Google has announced custom URLs now rolling out to almost everyone. If you don’t see the option yet on your Google+ profile or Google+ Page, don’t worry: Google says it is expanding availability throughout the week.
For those who don’t know what custom URLs (also called vanity URLs) are, here’s quick example. Currently, my Google+ profile is located at https://plus.google.com/u/0/111529176503588224632/. If I were to get a custom URL, I could maybe changed it to plus.google.com/+<myownname> swapping out the string of numbers for something that is much easier to share.

If your profile meets the following criteria, you’ll now be able to claim a custom URL:
– Has a profile photo, and
– Has at least 10 followers, and
– Has an account that’s at least 30 days old
Meanwhile, any brand or business that has a linked website or is a verified local business can claim a custom URL for their Google+ page. Link and verification info is available in the Google+ Help Center: http://goo.gl/RMpxP.
Once you meet the eligibility criteria, just visit your profile or page to begin the claiming process. If you don’t see the option yet, don’t worry: we’re expanding availability throughout the week, and you’ll see the in-product notice as soon as your custom URL is ready.

Oct 30, 2013

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