Tech giant Amazon has devised an innovative technology to protect your smart phones and tablets. They have developed a mini airbag to protect your precious gadget, if you accidentally drop it. This is realized using motion sensors, already in use in many smart phones,  to detect when the potential damage to your device exceeds the threshold and consequently activates the mini air bag to protect your phone and air jets to change the trajectory of fall. So, even if you drop your device, it would be safe and sound.



The patent which was granted this week says “Prior to impact between a surface and a device, a determination of a risk of damage to the device is made. If the risk of damage to the device exceeds a threshold, a protection system is activated to reduce or eliminate damage to the device.” The patent explains the use of gyroscope, accelerometer, camera and other in-built sensors to sense any potential threat.

This solution may take the mobile devices to the next level. It would save a millions of consumer from running to repair shop and hence save money. Experts are apprehensive of extent to which it would protect the device. No matter whatever you innovate, customer will always find a way to bang and break his device. Well this might be true, but surely airbags would drastically reduce such cases.

While end consumers are enthusiastic about such product and say they have been looking for such a solution for a while, mobile experts have expressed their concern about integrating this technology into smart phones and tablets. One will have to hide these airbags within the device, hence making it bulky and heavier. So implementing this to iphones or ipads without compromising with its design is the next big challenge. We will have to wait for a while to get any such gadget in the market. 

Planning to buy the new iphone5!!!
Well here is a list of 10 iphone/ipad/ipod apps that you must install, once you login to your itune account. And as an icing on the cake, these apps are absolutely free.


#1.Youtube App(Google Inc):
With Apple iOS6 making its way, its time to say good-bye to the iphone's built in youtube app. In September this month, Google launched a  youtube app for iphone and ipod touch. This add is claimed to be cleaner,  faster,more  user friendly and ad free. Once you install this youtube app, your old youtube icon would be replaced by this one. Given our dependency on youtube, this undoubtedly should be the first installed app on your iphone.

#2 Find My Friend (Apple):

This free app helps you locate your family and friend, given that they have iphone, ipad or ipod touch and have this app installed and have agreed to share their location with you. Install this app in your device supporting iOS 5 or later, sign in with your Apple ID and add your friends and family members into your list, similar to google+ circle or facebook friend list. Once your request is accepted, you can get notifications on the location of your friend 24*7.



#3  iTunes U (Apple)
This educational app is an entire course at one touch. From the iTunes U app, students can play video or audio lectures and take notes that are synchronized with the lecture. They can read books and view presentations, see a list of all the assignments for the course and check them off as they’re completed. And when you send a message or create a new assignment, students receive a push notification with the new information. If it has been ages since you left the school or have read anything apart from newspaper, this app is surely not for you.

#4 Instagram
80 million users love Instagram!
Instagram has been making people prettier and slimmer since 2010. Its not a pill or cosmetic solution but a powerful yet simple photo editing tool 
to share gorgeous photos on your iPhone. Choose one from plethora of effects available, blend it with your creativity to create epic pictures. Share your photo with your friend with a single click and check who among your friend is most photogenic. Since Facebook acquired Instagram, this app has only become better and sharing pictures across social networking platforms has been simplified.



#5 Note Anytime
Note Anytime is one of the coolest note taking and sketching application for ipad. Though this application is not for ipod touch or iphones, still it makes into the top ten list because of awesome user experience.
Write stylish noted with onscreen key-board or freely handwritten notes. Mix these typed text or hand written notes with photos, graphics,PDFs etc.
Use sticky notes, paint brush to add flavors to ur notes  It is *free for now*. So install it before they start charging you for this.
Evernote is much robust and reliable though less fancy substitute of Note Anytime and can be used with iphones as well.

#6 Find My iPhone (Apple)
#9 Songza (Songza Media, Inc.)
Right music at right time!!
This is a boon for pandora users. Now categorize and play your favorite song on the move. It has also made it possible to share songs and purchase from iTune stores possible at one touch. An integrated Alarm, greets you early in the morning.
 If you are one of those crazy music lover, you must have this; if if you aren't one, you must try this app, and you would start loving songs.

#10 Flashlight(iHandy Inc)
Simple and Bright- best describes this app.


Struck in the middle alone in a dark night, this app will guide you to your destination because added to flashlight it has a compass to help you navigate through your way.


Some of these apps like Find My iPhone and Instagram require internet connectivity to work. We would soon come up with Top 10 iphone apps that work offline.

Tricks do work an so do apps!!!

When Google announced its new smart phone and nexus tablet series, the writing was on the wall for the entry of new version of Jelly Bean: Android 4.2. With the new tablet series from Microsoft,Google etc; Android has tried to maintain its monopoly in the tablet sphere as well with this new version. Android 4.2 retains the name of Jelly Bean, as this version is not drastically different from its predecessors.It is more of an extension of Android 4.1, wherein many features have been updated. Moreover, there are some cool add on features which would not only redefine the user experience but would also open new avenues for android developers. Most of these features like 'panoramic' camera and gesture typing were already being provided by third party, google has tried to bring the entire package together under the umbrella of Android.

Top 8 Features to look out for in Android 4.2

Multiple-User Tablets: As discussed earlier, android 4.2 clearly focuses on Tablets with surface from Microsoft and nexus4 from Google to hit the stands soon. Jelly Bean 4.2 makes it possible for multiple users to use the same tablet and customize it as per their requirements, such as Google Play account, home screens, preferences and access control. The ability to add multiple user accounts just on the lines of PC was due since long. This is more of an attempt to project tablets as a replacement of traditional PCs

Photo Sphere Camera: Following the footsteps of Apple  iOS 6, Anadroid 4.2 has upgraded its  "panorama" function."Panorama" image was first introduced in Ice Cream Sandwich, photo sphere camera is just an extension of this.Photo sphere Camera creates huge mutli-shot scrollable image similar to Google Maps street view. In simple terms, it is the ability to take larger photos by moving the camera, these multiple snapshots are then digitally added together to create a 360o panoramic image which can be shared across social networking platforms.

Gesture Typing: A popular and powerful third party Android typing feature, now comes inbuilt with Android 4.2. It is more of a smart on-screen keyboard where you glide around your screen keyboard from letter to letter without lifting your finger. It is powered by refined and powerful dictionary, word recommendor and robust speech-text, thus redefining your typing experience.

Wireless Display: Just on the lines of  Apple's AirPlay, wireless display helps you watch movies, stream games wirelessly on your HDTV. So you get the best of both the worlds.

Daydream: Android's daydream is basically a smart screen saver which lets you display slideshows, news feeds, google currents etc on your display screen when your Android device is idle or docked.This feature again is to bridge the gap between the tablets and PCs.

Execute Notifications: Jelly Bean 4.1 ibtroduced the feature of expanding and contracting notification. This feature has logically been extended so that now users can also perform actions as per those notification simply by tapping on them.

Google Now refined: Google Now aims to empower users by providing them right information at right time. It could be customized to provide you traffic information of the route you regularly ply and could provide you alternate routes to your destination. It can provide you flight details, weather conditions or scores of your favorite team. This powerful tool has further been refined in the latest Android version.

  Android Beam: A lot of effort has been put  into making Android smoother and faster. What distinctly differentiates Android 4.2 from Apple's iOS6 is Android Beam, the Near Field Communications (NFC) function which empowers users to share photos, websites, music, directions or videos with a single touch,
an improvement of its initial introduction in 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.

In nutshell, Android 4.2 is being seen as a stepping stone for more drastic changes that are to follow in coming Android versions. The first device to use this OS is expected to be Google's own Nexus 4 which is scheduled to hit the stands this November.

There are so many online portals on the similar niche of blogging tips and making money online, so why this new kid on the floor?? Well the main reason being paucity of Indian perspective in this field. If you look around, you find incomes and costs in dollars and not in rupees(INR). This can mostly be due to the fact that most of the bloggers tend to replicate the already available content on the web. So be it, what's the harm?

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