TukTuk Meter: Save yourself from being overcharged

It is often seen in the metro cities of India, that you get an auto rickshaw or a cab to reach an unknown destination and you get exploited by a round-about trip by your rickshaw-wala just to overcharge you. Sometimes the tuktuk’s meter may be tampered to deceive you into paying more.. This does happen. But now with this new Tuk Tuk Meter, an application for your android/symbian/blackberry smartphone, you can save yourself some extra bucks.

Mindhelix Technologies has brought this new interesting app, called Tuk Tuk Meter which uses GPS to give you the route you’re being taken by. All you need to do is when you get on the auto, you have to press start. The Tuk Tuk Meter will start monitoring the route and display you the same. Once you reach the destination you can just stop it.

The Tuk Tuk meter will give you a summary on the route, distance and time. It also allows user to feed in the local fare charges. Once you set it, the application will also show you the fare of your total journey. This is similar to having your own meter while you board an auto rickshaw or cab.

Tuk Tuk meter is available free and can be downloaded from their website. The following snapshots will pretty much summarize the whole concept.












Hope this application just doesn’t die as like the previous ones that came in the market.

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Adobe photoshop lightroom-3

Photoshop lightroom 3 is Adobe’s high-end digital photography editing application. More specifically, Lightroom 3 is Adobe’s solution to Apple’s release of the Aperture 3 software

Lightroom is specifically designed for photographers, photo journalists and the extreme digital image enthusiasts. The main purpose of Lightroom is to allow users the option to organize, process and digitally enhance image files (with RAW support).

Of course, Adobe upgraded the previous version of Lightroom by adding new features and functions but they also aimed to provide a generally accessible and more intuitive user interface with Lightroom 3.

Adobe lightroom review

The Adobe Lightroom 3 interface is split into “modules”, which are designed to break up the main functions of the software. The Lightroom 3 modules or modes are categorized as follows: Library, Develop, Slideshow, Print and Web. Each module allows users to take advantage of different features, which together comprise the core functions of Lightroom’s style (“organize, develop and produce”).

Lightroom 3 is currently the most expensive professional editing software available when compared to related products in the same price range. As an initial breakdown of the review we would like to state that Lightroom 3 is the best available, and it is the only worthy solution in its product range for professionals using a PC.

The only competition for Adobe’s Lightroom 3 software, worth mentioning, is Apple's aperture 3 application which is only available to Mac OSX users. Obviously Windows 7 and PC users are deterred from using Mac software (because it’s incompatible), so the only option is something like Adobe lightroom 3. That’s not to say however, that the PC and Windows users are left out when it comes to reliable and well designed professional photo editing software.

Adobe Lightroom – Software Overview

Adobe Lightroom 3 has it all, custom organization and categorization options, photo editing and enhancement features, visually stunning slideshow support, and ofcourse individual print and web publishing options.

Lightroom 3 includes several new features that make older versions deserving of the upgrade. Those new features include a fresh RAW processing engine, photo enhancement presets (with options to socially share them), Flickr plugins (integrated upload), a unique Lens correction tool tailored to high end lenses, and increased tethering and video support.

Adobe photoshop lightroom-3

To conclude, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 is one of the best professional photo editing options on the market. With it’s quick develop functions, easy production options, and social media integration, Lightroom 3 offers more than enough for industry professionals.

The Lightroom 3 trial is available free for anyone looking to try out the software, and provides a complete 30 day access with absolutely no restrictions (complete use of the software and features are permitted).

Thank you for reading our Adobe Lightroom review. After trying it out, we feel you’ll agree the software is one of the best currently available on the market. Click here to order a copy on Amazon, which is the cheapest place we found to buy Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3.

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3D Specs-free monitor by LG

The technology of 3D introduced 3D televisons, 3D movies, 3D cameras, 3D printers and etc...  For watching television or movies, we need to wear 3D glasses which is quite frustrating. For the computer users, the technology of 3D didn't impress to maximum extent because of monitors.

But the LG(Life's Good) company gave a thought on this and has come up with 3D specs free monitor named LG DX2000. This monitor tracks our eyeballs to provide a 3D view. Monitor has a capability to change from 2D to 3D and vice versa.

LG DX2000 will be soon available in korea at a price of about $1250.

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Move Facebook albums to Google+

Here is a interesting stuff which you will surely like. We all know that Picasa is the most used photo sharing app by everyone. Introduction of Facebook reduced the usage of Picasa. As the time went, Facebook became popular and all started to upload photos in Facebook rather than Picasa. Now Google came up with a classy Google+ and has given a revolutionary change to the users because of simplicity and ease of use with eyecandy look and feel.

But we, the users have a problem here. Th problem is the Photo albums. We have uploaded photos in facebook but Google+ uses Picasa. So the problem is how to move albums from facebook to picasa. For this problem, here is a simple solution.

Note: Works only with Google Chrome browser.

Steps to follow :-

• Open this link. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/idiebfmmkhaffedkhjhapmagabcadjhc#

• Click on "Install" button.

• Now in top right corner, you can see a small yellow coloured icon names "Move your photos". Click on that icon.

• Now you can "Login with Facebook" button. Click on this button.

• Select the photos which you want to transfer and scroll down to end og the page and click on Upload.

That's it. Ins't this interesting? Please do comment if you have any problems with this and also like us on facebook.

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Get the new Android Market for your phone

Google has just announced the release of its new version of Android Market which is the version 3.0.26. Google said the new Android market will be rolled out with the new devices that are going to come. If you are an android owner and still waiting for the new version to hit your phone, then you’re probably missing all the fun. You can right away download this Android market from here and install it like any other application. The new android market has lot more applications and a whole new look. Here’s the video released by the Google -

New Android Market for Phones

<<Download link>>

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Get Gmail's new look and feel

We all know that Gmail is the project of  Google and yesterday Google kept one more step ahead in the world of technology. "Google+" was the revolutionary change which has initiated a feel of tension in the minds of FACEBOOK developers. We are sure that very soon, FACEBOOK has to REST IN PEACE because of Google1+ introduction. Google+ has a mind blowing interface which will surely gonna rule and improve as time goes.

This was all about Google+ and now the Gmail has come up with same interface for Gmail users too. The interface is too good and helps the user to finish the task in just one or two clicks. The design of new look is pretty awesome.

Before showin how to enable this, will show you a picture of new look and feel :) After seeing if you like, you can go ahead and see the steps which is given below and enable.

Steps to enable:-

• Go to Options-->Mail Settings.

• Search and click on Themes tab.

• Click on Preview(Dense) or Preview theme image and you are done.

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Google Swiffy - Flash to HTML5 Converter

Google has launched its new service called Google Swiffy in the labs. Google was constantly involved in development of HTML5. HTML5 was revolutionary and has so many new capabilities that the flash contents are no longer needed as these can be coded using HTML5 tags along with some JavaScript. HTML5 enabled animations and interactivity in browsers and devices that did not support flash. Even the iPhone's iOS doesn't support Flash and hence HTML5 is a sigh of relief for the iPhone users.

If you have a website with lot of Flash objects and if you're worried of the new HTML5 invasion, then you don't have to worry anymore. Answer is Google Swiffy. Google Swiffy is a flash to HTML5 converter. It is still in its early version and hence not yet ready to convert complicated SWFs (flash files) to HTML5 and it may take some time for it to convert flash games and programs. But you can easily convert simple banners and animations that you have in SWF formats. Just upload the SWF file and get the HTML code. By converting SWF to HTML5, you can make your website view-able on any browser that supports SVG, JavaScript and CSS3.

The link to Swiffy is -

http://swiffy.googlelabs.com/

I just wish this comes out of the labs as a fully fledged SWF-to-HTML5 converter.

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Google+ released today! Can it beat Facebook?

The much anticipated Google + has been finally released today. Having received invite, the first thing I felt was, Wow!

Google+ is the latest social networking from Google. It is hard to believe that it is from the 'makers of orkut' which has repeatedly failed (in a perpetual fail mode) in the past few years. It has all the features I wanted. It connects your Internet life. Be it Gmail, Google Reader, Picasa, Blogger or the Google Docs, you have it all at one place.

The interface totally rocks. It supports features like Circles, Hangouts, Sparks and much more. Circles are to arrange your contacts, keep your friends stay away from your bosses. You have complete and easy control over what you share, who can view it and what you want comments on. Sparks ignite a spark in you. It makes available to you, thousands of articles and other web stuff for you to read on. Once you fill your topic of interest, the google will pick up stuff from the web and spark your page content to read and share.

Google hangouts are the next coolest thing. They're like the groups on facebook. You can start a hangout and invite people to join it. You can have video conferencing with multiple people at a time, if you wish to. This probably makes it the only social network that allows video chat (of course next to orkut, haunted now). Photo uploading and sharing is very simple and very fast.

Google + has notifications, way of sharing things, the home page and most of other things similar to facebook that people have already tagged Google + as 'facebookish'. But it is still beautifully presented. The way things have been spread around are neat. Nothing has been overdone like they did with the Orkut ( the like thing of facebook imitated in orkut is an example of overdoing things ).

Here are some screenshots -

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Well google has still give a green signal to the Google apps and other applications like that on facebook. Once they're out, it is sure to beat facebook. What is your view?

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HTC upcoming with LADIES phone- HTC GLAMOR

Ladies, here is a good news :)  HTC planning to release phone especially for ladies. Android bases phone with super look which will be liked by all ladies.

HTC Glamor will be having variety of "hot" colors, including pink, yellow and light blue.

What do you think ladies?

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XBOX 360 games can be played by IOS and Android very soon

XBOX 360 is a most popular  video game console product of microsoft. IPhones IOS and Android will be soon able to play XBOX 360 games in their smart phones. All credit goes to "Andrew Russell" a open source software developer. This software will port their Xbox 360 and Windows 7 Phone games to IOS and Android devices.

We have to wait and see till we get to see the most exciting feature will will be added to ISO and Android phones :)  Thanks to "Andrew Russell"

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