Save your day with Portable Wi-Fi Hotspot Application

Even though you might not notice, internet is a important factor for your business as well as for your day today life. You will only notice it when you had to spend a day or week without internet. Specially if you move your house or business you might have to live without internet for couple of days. If you have a smart phone, specially a Android base smart phone or iPhone 4 with 3G connection you will not have to suffer with out a internet connection.

Portable hotspot is a added feature of Android 2.2 and Apple introduce it in iPhone 4. As the name suggest you can transform your mobile in to a Wi-Fi hotspot and connect your laptops, ipads or tablet devices enjoy the internet. If you are traveling and cannot miss emails and surfing net this is going to be a cost effective way. 

How you can save money 

• You do not have to buy 3G plans for all the portable devices. 
• You can select Wi-Fi only devices and save one time cost. For example you can go for iPad Wi-Fi which is cheaper comparing to iPad 3G.

Things to consider....

• Select a good 3G plan with higher download limit. 
• Remember to take USB or normal mobile phone charger. 
• Enable this to the device you always take with you specially if you have couple of phones.
• Make sure you disable the Wi-Fi Hotspot when you are not using it. 

Drawbacks 

• Portable Wi-Fi Hotspot is not supported by all the Android devices or iPhone 3G or 3GS 
• iPhone 3G or 3GS needs to be jailbreak and install MyWi via Cydia.
• You may run out your mobile battery if you forget to take your charger. (Carrying a USB charger in your bag would be a good idea.)

How to Enable Pocket Wi-Fi in Android phone

• If your Android phone is supporting this feature and updated to Android 2.2 or later then you will have this option under All Apps. 
• Simply go to Home Screen and Menu  and All Apps and click on the Wi-Fi Hotspot 
• Then you can specify a router name, Security Type and Password for the Wi-Fi Connection.

How to Enable Pocket Wi-Fi for Apple iPhone 4

• Under the Settings you will find a option Personal Hotspot and you can enable disable it and change the password. 

If you are traveling a lot and use internet you can try the Smart phone pocket Wi-Fi Feature. 

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How to solve the iPad Wifi Problems

Apple iPad 2 is having some issues connecting to certain Wifi connections and Apple forum was filled with complains and requesting help. Many claim that Wireless will be drooping N (802.11n) in 2.4 and 5 GHz bands specially if they do not use the mix mode. Apple has officially confirmed that there is a issue and suggested some solutions for that in Apple support.

iPad Wifi Issue Symptoms

* WiFi will only work for a short while, then completely stop.
* Dropping WiFi connection constantly.
* iPad2 shows good signal strength but nothing works via WiFi
* iPad is restarted or wakes from sleep state, it fails to join the known and remembered WiFi wireless network

Suggested Solutions

Fix your Router

* Update Wi-Fi router firmware - All most all the modern routers allows you to upgrade it's firmware. Simply check whether a update available for the router model and log in to your router from a web browser and
upgrade the Browser firmware.

* Use WPA or WPA2 wireless security instead of WEP. Again you should be able to change this setting by login to the router.

Changes for your iPad

* I am not sure how adjust screen brightness will effect the iPad WiFi connection but Apple suggest to switch off the auto brightness and increase the brightness. You can change the settings from Settings > Brightness & Wallpaper.

* Renew IP address of iPad.

Tap Settings > Wi-Fi > Select the Wi-Fi network you are currently using and tap Renew Lease

Apple will be fixing the iPad Wifi problem in the future software updates but until then you can try the above methods.
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Has Mark Zuckerberg Joined Google+?

I am sure Mark Zuckerberg Google+ account is a fake one. However, it makes me laugh to see this profile in Google+. Many tech reviewers think that Google+ will be a real challenge for social networking giant facebook. This time Google learnt the lesson from Google Wave, Google Buzz and Orkut. Do not take this seriously but this is for fun. I have a question for you. Which circle I should add Mark Zuckerberg.

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Do you need Google+ Invitations?

Today morning I got a Google+ Invitation from one of my friend. I was so exited to accept the invitation and create the account. Google+ first impression is "Cool". Yes, it is pretty cool. I love the way the circles are working. Finally Google has came up with a better service for social networking.

Ok. I know you do not want here what I think about Google+. You want to check it out by your self. Good news is I got some Google+ invitations and would like to share with you.

Please leave your name and email address and I will send you an invitation. I am not sure how many invitation left (Google+ dose not indicate). So hurry up.
This will be first come first serve basic. I would you to leave a comment but I do not want to see your emails getting spammed.



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Should I buy a new Computer or wait till Windows 8 released?

Windows 8 rumors, leaks and official demonstrations are circulating around the Internet.Touch friendly user interface, Windows 8 tablet computers, improved and modern operating system, application store and one OS for desktops, laptops and tablets are the main goals of Microsoft, which will be achieved from Windows 8. Early Windows 8 builds leaked to Internet already revealed these Windows 8 features. Before the end of this year you will be able to experience Windows 8 Beta and by early next year shelves will be filled with Windows 8 and Windows 8 compatible devices. Is it better to buy a new computer sooner or wait for Windows 8 computer to be released next year?

Widely used Windows XP and Windows 7 operating systems are not touch friendly nor compatible with tablet computers. Also, they are not supporting ARM processors, which are specially designed for tablets. Even though there are couple of Windows base tablets, you cannot find a optimised Windows operating system for them. New Windows 8 touch friendly user interface, which is similar to Windows Mobile 7, is designed and developed to support tablet and touch screen computers. Not only it gives an elegant, modern and clean interface it adds multi tasking, switching between classic Windows interface and modern interface and also provide easy access to connect with networked computers, storage and cloud services. Therefore, I strongly recommend you to wait until Windows 8, if you are planning to buy a Windows based tablet.

Windows 8 is designed for desktop computers, laptops, netbooks, tablets. In another words, it is designed from computers with and without mouse and keyboards. On the other hand, it comes with lots of improvements and new features. Microsoft Application store, Hybrid boot, ISO mounting program, Modern PDF reader, Application Folder, optimised HTML 5 Internet Explorer, improved Task Manager, Webcam Application and improved Disk Cleanup are some of the added and improved features in Windows 8. I will not wait to buy a new computer only because of the above features. However, it will provide a better operating system for your next Windows computer.

Paying for a new computer and for the operating system separately or paying extra for upgrades is not a option for many of us. If I am getting it free with hardware it makes more reasonable for the price I pay. Therefore, I would rather manage with the current Windows XP and Windows 7 computers until Windows 8 is released to buy a new computer.

You may be noticed that every other Microsoft OS is a failure. Windows 95 was a massive improvement specially with the graphical user interface but then Windows 98 start getting blue screen of death. Then Windows 98/SE was a good operating system however Windows Millennium failed to continue that. Windows XP is one of the best operating systems Microsoft has produced and it is still the most popular OS on the planet. Once again you can see that Windows Vista was a big time failure and then Microsoft manage to recover it from Windows7. What is going to happened with Windows 8? Will Windows 8 break this pattern and continue the Windows 7 glory or will it be going to fail? This may let you satisfied with Windows XP or Windows 7.

If you decided to buy a computer before it releases, or already purchased one, you do not have to worry about it. Even though, it is not official, Windows 8 hardware requirements will be similar to Windows 7 or lower. You, can upgrade to Windows 8 soon after it releases. Considering all the facts and information available I recommend you to wait till Windows 8 is released to buy a new computer , specially if you want to buy a Windows base tablet PC.
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How to get Google +1 Invitations?

Many blogs and review sites predict that Google +1 can be quite challenge to facebook. We are not going to talk about that. There is a good news that Google + 1 invitations are already out. If you are wandering how to get one go to Window 8 Italia. It is in Italian but you can use Google translator to translate in to English. 

Keep visiting this page as we plan to update all the other places where you can get Google +1 invitations. 

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A preview of Gmail’s new look

You might have already noticed that lot of changes in the Google interface. Soon changes will be coming to your favorite Gmail as well. Much cleaner and contrast interface to Gmail.

"This is part of a Google-wide effort to bring you an experience that’s more focused, elastic, and effortless across all of our products." Says Gmail Blog. You can slowly notice the changes in the future as Gmail team apply the changes.

We’re kicking things off with two new themes for you to try out as a sort of sneak peek at what we’re up to. Starting today, you’ll see the “Preview” and “Preview (Dense)” themes in the Themes tab in Gmail Settings. Why two themes? Our new interface will eventually expand dynamically to accommodate different screen sizes and user preferences, but until then you can pick the information density that you prefer.

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