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15+ Resources to Learn Programming Online for Free

Posted May 17, 2013 By Ganesh Babu
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Computer programming isn’t an easy task and it isn’t something like MS Word, which you can learn by trial and error. You need a guide to learn programming. There are many institutions that teach you programming. You can join anyone of them and start learning, but most of them are very expensive and if you are trying to learn a programming just for fun, then these can be out of your reach. The Internet provides us with everything. We share with you 15 great resources to learn programming online for free !

We’ve classified this list into two categories:

  1. Interactive Type resources which let you try out the code online and provide you with exercises as you learn. These can be fun filled and make programming easier to understand and the learning experience, a joyful thing.
  2. Theory Type resources are more like ebooks, where you’ll get to read everything about the programming language and the learning experience depends on your interest and how you take the course.

Each tool let you learn a different programming language. We’ve made the programming language bold to make it easier for you to find the one you are looking for. Take a look below.

7 Interactive Tools to Learn Programming Online

#1 Codecademy

Codecademy is the de-facto place for interactive programming online. Codecademy has lessons on Ruby, Python and JavaScript that is very much to fun to learn, because they use a different approach to teach. Learning at Codecademy is like learning with the help of a personal tutor. You’ll have an online code editor, so that you need not download and install anything.  You’ll be awarded points and batches for completing exercises if you’ve registered at Codecademy.

#2 HacketyHack

Hackety Hack is the only odd man out in this list, because it is a downloadable program, unlike other online services. Hackety will teach you programming right from the very basic. You can learn the Ruby programming language using Hackety. You can download it for Windows, Mac and Linux platforms.

#3 RubyMonk

RubyMonk is another site that’ll teach you Ruby. RubyMonk also comes with an online editor for coding and you can register and create an account with them to track your progress. The lessons and easy and beginner friendly.

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#4 Programr

Programr is more like an online code editor. Using Programr you can write code on many languages including, but not limited to PHP, Java, Python, C, C++, Ruby and more. You can even code for Android and iOS apps. Though Programr doesn’t teach you programming from ground up, it lets you check the source code of other user created programs, so that you can learn it on your own. Programr is recommended if you have a basic programming knowledge.

#5 jQuery Air

jQuery is the most used JavaScript framework in the world. You’ve to register before using jQuery Air. The course has several levels at each level, you’ll be shown a webcast explaining you stuff, after which you’ll be given code challenges with an online console for solving it. When you complete each challenge, you’ll be awarded with points and batches. This is by far the best way to learn jQuery online.

#6 CodeAvengers

The theme of CodeAvengers is based on the blockbuster hollywood movie, The Avengers. At CodeAvengers, they have courses for JavaScript as of now. You can create an account to track your process. There are 10 lessons in total and you’ll be provided with points when you complete each task. You’ll have an online console to take out the exercises. It is fun filled and totally cool.

#7 W3Schools

W3Schools is one of the most standard web resources. It has courses for HTML, CSS, JS, XML, PHP, ASP, SQL and many other web oriented languages. They have an online code editor for a few tutorials like CSS and HTML. But for others, you can use Programr listed above. When you complete a course, you can take up a paid exam and get certified.

8 Free Resources to Learn Programming Online

The resources listed below are mostly like ebooks which you can read to enrich your programming knowledge.

#1 MIT OpenCourseWare

MIT OpenCourseWare consists of not only computer programming, but also the same syllabus used by the brilliant minds in MIT on various disciples of science, engineering and others. MIT OCW is the most reputed free resource available online. You can browse through the various courses available there and use it to learn better coding.

#2 Google Code University

Google Code University is Google’s contribution for the developers community. You can find various courses for various levels of audience. You can ask for support in the forums and with the help of other Google products like Google Code and App Engine, this will help you take your developer carrier to the next level.

#3 WikiBooks

WikiBooks has an extensive collection of free books on computing and programming. It has books on programming for almost all languages. Browse through the list and choose the one you need and start reading right away.

#4  Free-ed

Freed-ed has many free resources on a variety of topics and the computing section has enough material to keep you occupied for months. It is beginner friendly and easy to understand.

#5 Berkeley Webcast

University of Berkeley has a huge compilation of webcasts on various disciples of engineering. Under the computing section, they have loads of useful information. It’ll be highly useful, if you want to enrich your technical knowledge and reach newer and better standards.

#6 School of Webcraft

The school of webcraft is funded by Mozilla and it is one of the P2PU (peer to peer university) schools. It has tutorials on various languages. The tutorials are not vast, but the project is crowd sourced, so we can expect it to grow faster.

#7 WebMonkey

WebMonkey is a web developer blog and a Condé Nast property. They also have various cheat sheets and simple tutorials to help you at the beginning. Take a look at it to know more.

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#8 LandofCode

LandofCode is another free site that let’s you learn programming for free. They have free programming tutorials on various languages though, they does not go deep into any language, they help you get started.

That’s all folks. This list is huge and it can keep you busy coding for months. Though there are hundreds of resources available online, we’ve handpicked only a few so that you can learn programming online only from the most trusted people. But, there are high chances that we might’ve missed a good resource or tool. Let us know and we’ll add it to this list, so that it’ll help others.

Update 1: I don’t know how I left this. YouTube is the home of all free webcasts online. Just search for the programming language you are looking to learn and you’ll get hundreds of videos to guide you through.

Update 2: Our fellow reader, Prashanth has mentioned in the comments about forums. Yup, forums like coderanch and stackoverflow can help you with programming when you are struck somewhere. Quora is a good resource too.

If you have any doubts while using this, or need to ask something related to programming, don’t feel shy, drop a comment and we’ll help you out. Don’t forget to share this highly helpful article with your aspiring-developer friends. Subscribe to the newsletter for more developer resources.

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5 Best iPhone 5 Games for Your Gaming Pleasure

Posted January 16, 2013 By Ganesh Babu
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When you have a Smartphone as extravagant as iPhone 5, it is quite natural to expect great gaming experience. But you also need to download and install the very best games to get the best out of your phone. Speed, graphics, plot- all of these contribute to the overall experience of gaming. So here are five carefully selected games that can be considered best in all respects.

Magic 2013

Originally released for iPad, iPhone 5 will also be supporting Magic 2013. Magic: The Gathering – Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013 may not have an entirely innovative story behind it, but as a card game, it certainly is quite novel. It has statistics-tracking for your game play. There are 3 decks of 5 unlockable cards each, 4 deadly opponents like Planeswalker Garruck Wildspeaker and the opportunity to test your skills against preset AI strategies.

SQUIDS Wild West

You know a $0.99 game is special when Gamezebo says it “could sell for $35 on the 3DS and it wouldn’t be out of place…” It consists of a brand new chapter of the quirky and entertaining SQUIDS saga. A unique mix of RPG and turn-based tactics, it has caught interest of users of all ages. The controls are absurdly simple and you can recruit and army of over 12 playable characters.

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WarGames: WOPR

While playing WOPR, you’ll often have to remind yourself that it is indeed a game and not a movie of the 1980s. With voiceovers, references the movie-based games has recaptured fancy of old fans and amassed new fan base for itself. There are four tile types- you have to drag your finger through tiles of same type and make a chain. Tactics are items you can deploy in your fight with the enemy. There are 12 unique tactics and all of them have 6 upgradable levels.

Autumn Dynasty

This is one of those games that will interest you by its surprisingly well thought out storyline. The publishers have given a detailed summary of the plot involving the Autumn Empire, barbarians, the legend of the Thousand Sun Weapon and sorts of royal

complexities. A traditional Chinese painting becomes your battleground as you paint battle plans on the map, using simple but engaging gesture control.

Asphalt 7: Heat

Improved graphics, multiplayer gameplay with an array of 60 different cars and 15 tracks- the latest edition of our favorite mobile racing game is a treat. The multi-player compatibility has helped the game rise to different heights as media and players all across the world gave it raving reviews.

Apart from these, some games like Little Things Forever, Mega Run: Redford’s Adventure, Zombie Carnaval and Dungeon Village are close contenders for the top spots of any good iPhone games list. Author Bio – Glen Hardwin is a financial specialist who writes about binary options platforms and other trading instruments.

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How To: Change Admin Roles in Facebook Pages

Posted July 12, 2012 By Ganesh Babu
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Facebook silently introduced a new feature some time ago, that will let you change admin roles in Facebook Pages. Previously, when you add extra admins to your page, all of them would have complete control over the page. There were many cases in which the person added second, removed the first person and claimed owenership of the page. This new addition will preent all those and will help in effectively managing your facebook pages.

With the availability of different admin roles, you can add your whole team to your Facebook page and each and everyone one of them can contribute to it.

There are 5 different roles availables. They are Manager, Content creator, Moderator, Advertiser and Insights Analyst. The names are self-explanatory. Manager is the ultimate role, who can do almost anything with the page. Content creator is next to Manager in power, he can’t change the admin roles but he can do other stuff. Moderator can delete comments, create ads and view insights. Advertiser can add ads and can view the page’s insights. While, the Insights analyst can only see the insights of the particular page.

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Hope you got a hang of what each role did, now let us see how to change the admin roles.

Changing Admin Roles in Facebook Pages

  1. Login to your Facebook Account
  2. Go to your Page, and switch to use Facebook as the page.
  3. Click on Edit Page -> Admin Roles at the top.
  4. Once you click on it, you’ll be taken to a page where all the admins of the page will be listed.
  5. You can change the roles by clicking on the drop down below each user.
  6. Once you’re done changing, click on the Save Changes button to finish it.
That’s it, you’re done changing the admin roles. If you didn’t understand it, take a look at the screencast below to get it right.

Hope you were able to make the changes. If you’ve any doubts, let us know through the comments and we’ll help you out. Do share it with your friends who own pages.
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How To: Create Multiple Profiles in Google Chrome

Posted July 7, 2012 By Ganesh Babu
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Google Chrome supports multiple profiles, but if you wan’t to keep the two profiles completely unrelated to each other, there isn’t any inbuilt function for this purpose. However you can create multiple profiles in Google Chrome and keep them totally unrelated to each other by following a slightly unconventional method.

Before that, what is the need of multiple profiles in Chrome, you might ask. If you have a common computer at home and if all are using Chrome, the history, bookmarks and others can get cluttered. So, you might want to keep them completely separate. You can use different browsers, which is a much simpler alternative. If you are so sure about getting the Chrome experience to all at your home without affecting each other’s privacy, then this tip will help you.

Creating Multiple profiles will let each member of your family have separate browsing history, bookmarks, apps for them.

Related: How To: Open Any Number of Facebook Accounts in Google Chrome

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Creating Multiple Profiles in Google Chrome

#1 Open Google Chrome and press Ctrl+Shift+Del to delete your entire browsing history so far.

#2 Open Windows Explorer. Now navigate to the User data folder of Chrome. You can find it at

C:Users[Your Username]AppDataLocalGoogleChromeUser Data

#3 You’ll see a Default folder inside it, Make a copy of that folder inside the Use Data folder itself. The Default folder holds all the settings in chrome.

#4 Rename the new copy, say your profile_name, this will be used as your profile.

#5 But, the problem is, the copied folder to has the same settings as the default as it is basically the copy of it. So we’ll reset the new profile to factory defaults, so you can have a fresh start. For that, Open the Command Prompt [Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> Command Prompt] and enter the folder in which Chrome is installed using the “cd” command. It will be generally installed in the Program Files folder of the C drive.

#6 Once you’ve moved into that folder, enter this command on the command prompt.

chrome.exe –user-data-dir=”..User Dataprofile_name” -first-run

#7 That’s it, we’ve created a new profile in Chrome, which has the default settings. But you need to follow one more step before this is over. We’ve  to create a new shortcut in your desktop or anywhere else for Chrome. Right click where you want the shortcut and click on New -> Shortcut.

#8 In the dialog box, that pops up, there’ll be a field named location. Enter the following the path in it.

C:Users[Your Username]AppDataLocalGoogleChromeApplicationchrome.exe –user-data-dir=”..User Dataprofile_name

That’s it, you are done ! If you want to keep your profile out of reach of others, than keep the shortcut in a safe place. You can give a different name than the obvious one and a differnt shortcut logo to keep it more secretive.

Note: Windows XP users, will have the User Data folder in the following path

C:Documents and Settings[Your Username]Local SettingsApplication DataGoogleChromeUser Data

So, you’ve got to change the command accordingly.

Now you can create multiple profiles in Google Chrome by following the same procedure, for others in your family. Hope this guide helped you to achieve what you are looking for.

If you know a more easier way to do this, then do let us know through the comments. If you have any doubts, drop a comment about the problem and we’ll help you out. Don’t forget to share this with your friends.

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Download Amazing Spider-Man Game for Android and iOS

Posted July 3, 2012 By Ganesh Babu
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Amazing Spider-Man released just today in the western hemisphere, but we at India had the fortune of watching the movie, days before. It was a decent movie and a box office hit. Now, if you are stuck with the film and want to play a game on the same plot, don’t worry. Gameloft has come up with the game and you can download Amazing spider-man game for Android and iOS from the Play store and App Market respectively for approximately 400 INR ($6.99).

The minimum requirements for the iOS version is iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPod touch (4th generation), iPad 2 Wi-Fi, iPad 2 Wi-Fi + 3G, iPad (3rd generation) and iPad Wi-Fi + 4G, requiring iOS 4.0 or later and any device running Android 2.2 and up can play the game.

The Game’s plot is in line with that of the movie. You play the protagonist, Teenage superhero spider-man and you’ve to save the city from thugs and the main antagonist, the Lizard (Dr Curt Connors’experimental disaster). You have 25 missions in total. You can crawl, zip and swing through a 3D and open New York city.

Take a look at this video to get an idea about the game and the gameplay.

Gameloft has announced a game based on the DC Comics Superhero, Batman, which will be released in line with the release of the Dark Knight Rises, the third part of Chris Nolan’s trilogy. We’ll update you when it hits the stores.

You can download Amazing spider-man game for Android and iOS from Google Play Store and iTunes respectively.

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We haven’t tried the game personally. But based on the comments, it seemed the game lagged a bit in older Android devices. It was rated a 3.9 in the play store and a 4.5 in the app store. The Android version is lighter at 595 Megs while the iOS version is a bit heavier at 694 Megs

Do try the game and let us know about it. Subscribe to the email updates so that you’ll be the first one to know when the Batman game releases.

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2 Tools to Build Your Own Customized Linux Distribution

Posted July 1, 2012 By Ganesh Babu
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If you’ve been using Linux, you would know how greatly flexible it is. You can add or remove any part of the OS, if you know how to do it. It is also the best learning place for Computer Engineers, because studying Linux and it’s functions will help you understand how the computer works. Though building Linux from scratch is a difficult task and it is a mammoth task to be taken only by geeks. But what if you want to build your own customized linux distribution but you are no geek ?

We have an answer for you. There are a few tools available, that’ll help you to build your own customized linux distribution through a graphical user interface and sans coding. Excited ? Read below.

Build Your Own Customized Linux Distribution

As stated above, we’ve two tools that’ll help you do it.

  1. The More Powerful SUSE Studio, which lets you customize almost anything on a base version of OpenSUSE.
  2. The second one is the newer, Ubuntu Builder, which will help you customize an Ubuntu distribution. It is not as robust as the SUSE studio, but will be useful if you’ve used Ubuntu before.

SUSE Studio

  1. You’ve to create an account with SUSE Studio before you use it. Just head over to SUSE studio and click on the sign in or create an account button to create an account. You can use Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter or any other OpenID provider or create a new Novell account.
  2. After creating an account and logging in, you’ll be asked to choose a base template. You’ll have different options like GNOME, KDE or even JeOS over the latest version of OpenSUSE and SUSE linux Enterprise. Choose the one you want. GNOME, KDEetcetera are user interfaces. If you are not sure about them, then Google it before using it.
  3.  If you scroll down, you’ll be asked to choose your Architecture where you’ll have to choose if you want to build a 32-bit or 64-bit version of your OS. You’ll also be asked to choose a name for your new OS, the name can be changed later, so don’t worry about it. Now click Create Applianceonce done. SUSE studio calls each bootable system you create,  an “appliance” throughout the process.
  4.  The real fun begins now, All that goes into your OS, can be chosen right from here. Click on the Software tab to see what you’ve already added, this is based on what you chose in the previous step, these are the files required for the boot up. Now you’ve options to search for and add applications that you want in your own distribution. You can search for it or simply browse through the software collection that is neatly organised into categories.If you want to add Mozilla Firefox or any similar program, just search for it in the search bar and you’ll see the results, instantly below. You can click on the +add button and the software along with the other required stuff will be added to your distro.
    But, What if you don’t see something that you know runs on Linux—like, say, Google Chrome? Find an RPM-formatted package and add in a repository URL that carries regular updates. A decent Google search for the keyword “Name of your program and OpenSUSE” should get you the thing. Hit the “Upload  RPMs…” link near the top of the Software page, and you’ll be able to upload it from your computer, or through an URL to the resource online. What’s really neat is, once you upload your RPM files, you’ll have a special repository created for you that can be loaded into any system you build with SUSE Studio.

  5. After adding all the softwares of your choice, head over to the Configuration tab to change the look and feel of your new Distro. You’ll have to start with Generaltab. Here you’ll find options to Language, time zone, network, firewall and users & groups settings. It is quite simple and self explanatory.
    Next stop is at the Personalizetab. This one will help you make your Linux distribution, more yours. You’ll have options to change the Logo and background wherever it’ll be used like the boot selection and login pages.Then at the Startup tab, you can choose to display an EULA and what type of login you want for your users. The server tab helps you setup PostgreSQL and MySQL, but we don’t think we would be needing them for now.  In the Desktop tab you can choose to login a user automatically for faster startup times, you can also choose what programs will run during startup. The Appliance tab lets those planning to install to a disk or USB drive, or run in a virtual machine, fine-tune their memory and disk use settings. and  get into the Scripts and Files tab only if you have a good knowledge about Linux.
  6. Go to the Buildtab let’s you pick the format you would like to download, whether an ISO or a disk image or a ready-made virtual machine file for VirtualBox or VMWare. Choose your format, set a version number for your distro, and that build will always be available for downloading or cloning  it later for another new distro.

    If you are not so sure about what to do with the files you just received ? Here’s SUSE Studio’s guide to using SUSE Studio appliances. If you want to try out your custom Distro before installing it on your system, SUSE Studio lets you run your custom-built appliances on their own virtualization servers, for up to one hour, for free. Hit the “testdrive” link on one of your builds, and wait for it to boot up.

Hope that guide helped you to build your own customized linux distribution. Now, let’s take a look at the Ubuntu Builder.

Ubuntu Builder

Ubuntu is the most used distribution of Linux as of now. But, more people are shifting to mint, since when Ubuntu started using the Unity interface. If you like Ubuntu, but want to change the look and feel of it and the default apps that it come with, then Ubuntu Builder can help you with that.

Ubuntu Builder is a very simple to use software. Launch it up in any version of Linux and give it an Ubuntu ISO to tweak. You can choose from a number of alternative desktop environments, like GNOME, LXDE, KDE etcetera, as well as add your favourite applications to be installed along with the OS. You can also add other sources to synaptic, give your distribution a name, and more.

When you’re done, just build the ISO and you can install your custom version of Ubuntu on any computer. It isn’t quite as powerful  as the SUSE Studio, but it’s best suited for Ubuntu fans who want something a bit more tweaked to their liking.

Hope this guide helped you to build your own customized linux distribution. If you’ve any doubts in the process, do drop a comment and we’ll help you out. If you liked the article, don’t forget to share it with your friends ! :-)

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Show Rage Faces on Facebook Chat [How-To]

Posted June 30, 2012 By Ganesh Babu
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Rage comics and troll faces are all over the web right now. All those old witty jokes are now re-written in the troll language. What is so awesome is that, now you can add Rage faces on Facebook chat. We’ve seen before about how to add profile pictures of people and pages in Facebook chat.

We’ve been getting mails about adding rage faces on Facebook chat. So, we’ve compiled a list to let you know this.

We’ve listed the id’s of pages with Rage faces as profile pictures. So, you can use those to show rage faces on Facebook chat.

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ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME: [[Are-you-fucking-kidding-me]]
Cereal Guy: [[cereal-guy]]
Challenge accepted: [[100002727365206]]
Derpina: [[Derpina]]
Feel like a sir: [[Feel-like-a-sir]]
Forever Alone: [[Forever-Alone]]
LOL Face: [[LOL]]
Me Gusta: [[me-gusta-meme]]
Mother of God: [[Madredediosoficial]]
NO Guy: [[NO-MEME]]
Not Bad: [[NotBaad]]
Okay face: [[100002752520227]]
Poker face: [[Poker-Face]]
Rage face: [[FUUUOFFICIAL]]
Socially awkward penguin: [[Socially-Awkward-Penguin]]
Troll face: [[Trooolll.Face]]
Yao Ming: [[Yao-Ming-face]]

All of you’ve to do is, copy the id corresponding to that of the rage comic face that you are in need of, and paste it in your Facebook chat. You can bookmark this page for quick reference, else save this picture to your computer.

The Rage emoticons are not big enough to be used often. But a few of them, like the troll face are big enough to convey the meaning. If you want to create your own meme faces, just create a page or profile with the corresponding rage face as the profile picture and use the user/page id of the page as above.

It is advised that you use a page for this purpose, bacause if you use profile, it is likely to be deleted by Facebook in the future. If you’ve already created something like this, let us know and we’ll add it to this list.

We will update this list later with future additions. Stay tuned.

Did you like this list ? Do you want a particular rage face to be added to this list ? Let us know through the comments and we’ll add them for you ! :-)

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Amazing Alex – New Game From Rovio

Posted June 29, 2012 By Ganesh Babu
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Rovio, the Finnish company which created the much appraised Angry Birds franchise, which reached all the extents of the world and literally went to space too. Now Rovio, has come up with it’s first game outside the Angry birds franchise – Amazing Alex.

There were various questions around Rovio. Whether this company which created a huge splash in the app industry can do something outside of the bird box. Rovio has answered all those questions well with this new game from their stables.

Amazing Alex is a physics based puzzle game in which a whiz kid named Alex, turns all those stuff around the house into adventure. He create this chain reactions, that’ll solve various puzzles, which varies from cleaning his room to battling the robots in his backyard. Amazing Alex comes with 100 amazing levels which has multiple creative solutions.

There are multiple answers to the same puzzle and you can share what you found with your friends and see who found the best one. The game takes place on four fun filled locations.

The best thing is, users can create dynamic new levels using built-in 35 interactive objects. With that, users can create and upload endless levels and this game will be unending.

We’ve seen several physics based puzzle games before, like the infamous Cut the Rope. We’ll have to wait and to know what is new with Amazing Alex.

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Amazing Alex is developed for iPhone, iPad and Android. The pricing details is not yet announced. But, it is hoped that, like in previous times, the iOS version will be a paid one and the Android version could be an ad supported one, with a possible ad-free paid upgrade.

The game is set to release on July, 2012 and it is creating a lot of expectations. Take a look at this Offical Teaser Trailer.

Will this game be another jackpot for Rovio or will it be nothing ? What do you think about the game ? Are you expecting anything from it ? let us know through the comments and don’t forget to subscribe to the newsletter and we’ll let you know when the game is available for download.

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Google Introduces Nexus 7 [Specifications]

Posted June 27, 2012 By Ganesh Babu
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Google, today on its Google I/O annual event, introduced the Nexus 7, a 7 inch Android 4.1 [Jelly Bean] tablet. The tablet is filled with stuff and is one of the best of its kind. It can play HD videos, has a quad core processor, has a total of 16 cores (including the GPU). It is totally awesome.

Google has tied up with electronics manufacturer Asus, to create this device. There were rumours about this device for some time. There were various speculations about how it would turn up. Will it be an iPad killer or would it be a low cost alternative and much more. Google has fulfilled all of our dreams with this dream tablet, that too in a fabulous price. Let us take a deeper look into the specifications of the device.

Google Nexus 7 Specifications

  1. Display - The display is a 7-inch 1280×800 HD display (216 ppi) back-lit IPS, and it comes with the scratch-resistant Corning Gorilla glass.
  2. Processor - It has a Quad CoreTegra 3 processor. It is first 7 incher to have a Quad core processor. It also has a 12 core NVidia GPU. That is 16 cores of pure awesomeness, which can be felt for sure while gaming.
  3. Operating System - The Nexus 7 comes with Android 4.1 – Jelly Bean. It has various new additions over Android 4.0.3 – ICS
  4. Camera - A front facing 1.3 MP camera will make Google+ hangouts much more fun.
  5. Battery - Google Nexus 7 comes with a 4325 mAh Battery, that’ll give 8 Hours of use and 300 hours of standby as Google claims.
  6. Connectivity - It has Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, NFC and GPS.
  7. Storage - It has two models. The 8 GB model and a 16 GB model.

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Google Nexus 7 Price and Pre-order

The Nexus 7 is priced at $199 for the 8 GB model and $249 for the 16 GB model. The price is cheap considering the power, the device comes with.  You can pre-order it from the devices section of the Google Play store. It’ll be shipped in 2-3 weeks. As an introductory offer, you’ll be getting $25 worth credits for use at the Play store.

Take a look at what the Google guys have to say about their new device.

What do you think about this new device from Google ? Did you like the Nexus 7 Specifications ? Are you gonna pre-order one ?
Let us know through the comments.

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6 Sites to Check Your Internet Connection Speed

Posted June 26, 2012 By Ganesh Babu
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Our Internet Service Providers, promise us to give 2Mbps, 4Mbps or whatever you may call it. But, practically we don’t get it. So, you should check your internet connection speed to make sure that you get at least something close to what you are paying for. So here we’ve listed 6 sites that would help you check your internet connection speed.

There are hundreds of sites that help you do this. But we’ve listed only the best rated. Almost all sites work alike, they ping a nearest server and then download and upload a sample file to test your connection speed. Some give more statistics, while some work on different platforms. Take a look at them for yourself and choose the best one based on your experience.

#1 SpeedTest

Without any doubt, it is the most used one. Speedtest pings a closest server to you and uploads and downloads a sample file. It also let you review your ISP and shows others’ reviews. They’ve mobile apps too, so that you can check your internet connection speed in your mobile. Sharing your results with your friends is also using speedtest. It has many servers all around the world, so you could always find something closer to you. You can also provide them with servers if you are interested.

#2 DSL Reports

DSL Reports has multiple speed tests. One based on flash, one on Java, JavaScript speed test for mobile phones and another basic mobile phone speed test and lot more. It is one of the most advanced and comprehensive speed tests. Though the servers are present mostly in US, It gives you a close to accurate results.

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#3 Speakeasy Speedtest

Speakeasy speedtest is also based on the same software that is used on speedtest.net. However speedtest is owned by Ookla, the company which owns the software., but speakeasy speedtest is run by a separate company. The results are almost same, since they use the same methods. So, you can try any one of them.

#4 Pingtest

Pingtest is also a product of Ookla. But Pingtest is based on Java. So you need Java support so that you can run this web app. It works just like speedtest and has servers all around the world. It has a little more features than speedtest. It shows the packet sent/received data, packet loss %, jitter etcetera. It also rates your ISP on a grade basis.

#5 Speed.io

Speed.io functions just like the others. It has a different interface though. It shows the browser you are using and the number of connects in the connection. Useful, if you want to know the number of devices connected to your Wi-Fi network.

#6 TestMy

TestMy works in the same principle like SpeedTest. It displays your speed in an ECG like format. So you can witness the ups and downs in the process. It works fine.

Check your internet connection speed often to make sure you are not being exploited. You can use any of this service as a proof, while arguing with them. All of them are trusted services, used by millions all over the world.

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