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The Hatred For Captcha (An Infographic)
How to Get Google Now on Your Android Phone
8Cookies: Saves Your Browsing Session To The Cloud On Chrome

Posted: 04 Aug 2012 10:34 AM PDT

You all must have noticed that when you go about registering on a new website they present to you a captcha or in simpler terms weird looking letters and alphabets which you just cannot for the love of anything guess what it is. no wonder, captcha has been one of the most important factors that drivers users away from a particular site. the reason for using captcha is that they make sure that your site is not accessed and falsely registered upon by bots. Or at least that is what their purpose was, however, of late these captchas have become more and more complicated and on occasions I find myself making mistakes after mistakes in guessing them. So where exactly did these captchas start off from and how did they evolve? Here is an extremely interesting Infographic that I am sure you would enjoy reading about Captchas.

Via: Visual.ly

How to Get Google Now on Your Android Phone

Posted: 04 Aug 2012 09:18 AM PDT

Google Now has to be one of the many cherry picked updates that have been brought about by Google in it's latest version of Android i.e. Jelly Bean. With Google Now, Google has finally come up with a competitor for Siri – the virtual assistant that is available on Apple's iPhone 4S. Ever since Google Now's release, there have been a number of comparisons that are being drawn between Google Now and it's Apple counterpart.

We do know many of you are waiting to try your hands on the voice search by Google but if you are someone who doesn't have a Nexus 7/ Galaxy Nexus/ Nexus S/ Motorolla Xoom, you might well have to wait for the Android 4.1 update to reach your device to officially try out Google Now. Having said that, the open source nature of Android allows us to do anything with our device and so here we are to tell you about this interesting tweak that will allow you to install Google Now on your Ice Cream Sandwich Device.

There are a couple of pre-requisites to installing Google Now on your device:

1. Your device should be running Ice Cream Sandwich and Ice Cream Sandwich only. This tweak wouldn't work for previous generations of Android.

2. Your device should be rooted with root explorer installed on it.

To install Google Now on your Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) device, head over to the XDA thread here.

There are a number of methods that can be used to install Google Now and all of them have been clearly mentioned in the thread itself. Here is the one that worked for us while trying to port Google Now on our HTC One X:

1. Rename GoogleQuickSearchBox.apk in system/app to GoogleQuickSearchBox.bak. You can rename to anything else as well. That doesn't really matter. It worked for us even when we renamed the application to GoogleQuickSearchBox.apk1

2. Install the apk that you downloaded from the download link in the XDA thread mentioned above just like you install any other normal application.

3. Reboot your device.

4. Google Now should pop up as soon as you click on the search bar on the home screen.

Another thing to note is that Voice Search wouldn't work and you will have to type in the queries. For being able to download and use the voice search, download the application's apk from this thread which is also mentioned in the xda thread above.

Even though this has been tested on AOSP ROMs only but users of other ROMs have also had success in making Google Now working on their ICS devices using this technique. If it doesn't work for you, we recommend you to flash an AOSP ROM. CM9 will be our safest bet.

8Cookies: Saves Your Browsing Session To The Cloud On Chrome

Posted: 04 Aug 2012 05:28 AM PDT

Today's world is a smart world. In fact we live in a period where everyone has multiple devices where they work on and internet is one thing that most of the people use during work. Mostly during work it's not the documents that are important but the information that is displayed on the browser that is more important. If we have to move from one laptop to another, there is a very good chance that we may lose all the tabs and how we had all the information organised in the the browser.

However, with cloud computing now on the rise, it is rather wonderful that we can sync our sessions and tabs with the cloud and access all the info, just like we were using it on our primary devices. 8 cookies is an awesome extension to Google chrome that lets you to save your session. All you have to do on a remote computer is enter your Gmail id and password and you have your session as it is. It is a wonderful feature for all the real time techies who have like 10 different tabs open and working on lots of articles simultaneously. I have been using this extension very extensively since I found out about it and makes working so simple and effortless.

Here is the extension description from the webstore:

"The extension enables you to browse from the cloud. The extensions lets you start your browsing session on one computer and continue it from another. When you login to the extension it saves all your browser information in a secure server so you can move to another computer, login through the extension and you can continue your session where you left off.

Say you have a few windows open on your laptop, with you email and your favorite social networking site, and you want to move to your desktop. 8cookies makes it extremely simple to so. All you need to do is login to the extension from your desktop and voilà you have all the windows and cookies you had on your laptop.

All communication between the server and the client are encrypted using advanced techniques such that without your password it would virtually impossible to produce any sort of information from this data."

You can download the extension from here

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