Moreover it has established support for Amazon’s Kindle Fire and on February 23rd users of Barnes and Nobles Nook and Nook Colour would also be able to officially tweet from their devices.

First lets take a look at the updates common to both mobile users and we start with the swipe short-cut that twitter has finally brought back. This feature lets users reply, favourite, share or view the tweeter’s profile by swiping a tweet in the home timeline, allowing user’s never to leave their own timeline’s for all this.

It has also made finding friends easy with the “Find Friends” update that alerts the users when they upload their contacts and phone numbers that they can find which one of their friends are on Twitter using the uploaded contact information.

Coming to the iOS specific updates, the dandy “Copy and Paste” feature is back allowing users to just press and hold any tweet text or user profile to copy them. “Link Love” named fresh feature enables users to not only share the link found with-in a tweet but can now also save it to be read later where users can turn it on under the advanced settings option called “Read It Later”.

Pressing and holding the link also provides the option of opening it in Safari. Furthermore “Direct Messages” lets you mark all messages as either read or unread with a single tap and the lucky chaps with iDevices can also change the Font sizes.

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It was only recently that they had a breakthrough due to a phenomenal fabricating process based on the principles of Origami, the Japanese art of folding paper into various shapes. The tiny robot is assembled on an “assembly scaffolding” joint to the machine through the use of hinges. The entire thing is made out of a sheet consisting of 18 different layers of metals such as carbon fiber, a plastic film called Kapton, titanium, brass, ceramic, and adhesive sheets. The complete structure is then manufactured like a printed circuit board.

The main idea is to assemble the tiny-bot from the assembly scaffolding by folding different parts of the sheet through the use of pins and hinges that pop-up the 3D structure just like a pop-up book in one single movement. The desired effect is gained through the use of different kinds of folds, locks and release points in both the assembly and bot schematics, it takes less than a second for the 2.4mm robot to rise from its assembly system. Once the bot takes its 3D shape the whole shebang is dipped into a liquid solder that adheres to the tiny brass, locking the shape in position.

After the successful erection it is cut free from the scaffolding with the help of lasers. Thus the technique allows for mass production as the size of a single bee-bot is very small and many such bots can be cut out on single sheet through the use of lasers. Earlier the entire process had to be performed by hand which was painstakingly difficult and error prone. As Partheev Sreetharan said in a press release that it was an impossible task to assemble such an intricate design on micron level precision under the microscope with human hands.

Therefore, the new fabrication method has opened up unexampled gates for micro-electronics, optical equipment and other mass manufacturing processes that work with parts of millimetre to centimetre levels.

[via Harvard]

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Over the years we have seen many toys being developed especially to be used with an iDevice including monster trucks, helicopters, cars etc. that take the smartphone experience up-to another whole new level.

The iHelicopter people who manufacture the famous RC helicopter for iPhone have come up with a new RC toy to be used with iDevices called the iPhone Controlled Stunt Car Racer.

The embedded video shows this little stunt car in action which runs on a Lithium polymer battery unit capable of 100mAh. The small car with dimensions of 11.0 x 7.0 x 2.7 cm can run for 15 minutes per charge and each charge takes about 60 mins.

The funky little car is controlled through a dongle that attaches to the 3.55mm audio jack of any iDevice — allows the car to be used upto a total range of 20m. It’s manufacturers have thoughtfully added three different radio frequencies for controlling the car allowing three race cars to be raced simultaneously at one place.

The app that controls this car is available at the iTunes app store and is the same app used by the iHelicopter. Although we have seen it is quite difficult to handle iHelicopters or other such toys with an iPhone, the operation of this toy car seems pretty simple. The app provides a virtual joy stick to control the pace while left-right movement can  be achieved through the iPhone’s built-in accelerometer.

The transmitter dongle is also equipped with a battery and can run upto 60 mins per charge. Meanwhile, both the battery units in the car and transmitter can be charged through a USB cable.

RC enthusiasts can purchase this toy for 49.99$ while the app is available for free. (iTunes Link)

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These bruited pictures clearly portray a more steeper taper in iPad3‘s casing rendering it much sleeker than expected. There is a clear difference in the slope of the previous model’s edges and the angled slope of the new design that tapers down gradually. Although the total thickness doesn’t bear much difference, a stacked picture of both the casings depicts a mere difference of 1-1.5 mm.

The increased taper is credited to a bigger battery that has been rumoured to be used by Retina Display and an upgraded A6 processor or as some recent news suggested an A5X processor.

The shots also present a visible difference in the side buttons for the two models. Freshly styled mute and volume control buttons on the alleged casing of the upcoming tablet hints at more detailed design differences to be expected by Apple. Another notable difference can be seen in the camera hole size, as rumours have it this difference in size regards to an upgraded camera, talks of a supposed 8-mega-pixel camera have been surfacing recently. Which may be true as the previous model received extremely bad reviews of its 1-Mpixel camera and Apple wouldn’t want this state of the art tablet to receive any downgrading critique.

All in all it’s not unusual for hardware parts to be leaked out of Apple’s manufacturing plants while we also know that production of the new tablet is on its way before it’s suspected launch at a special event to be held by the company in California on 7th of March.

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1. Unsubscribe from Irrelevant Email

You need to optimize the mails that are coming in. There are many services that allow you to unsubscribe for the irrelevant and promotional mails. These mails end up eating a lot of space in your inbox.

2. Filtration of mails

It’s not that every mail is important and you have to read it as soon as it arrives. Thus, you need to filter out the important messages and prioritize your inbox. There are many tools to help you out with this.

3. Clear Spam Folder

You need to empty the spam folder often from your mail. Majority of the times, spam folders ends up eating a lot of space and these mails are also of no use to you. Thus, you need to get rid of them as soon as possible.

4. Use RSS Feeds

Many people opt for newsletters and updates in emails and you might get several mails in day informing you about the various updates. However, RSS feeds provide you with a great alternative to these subscriptions.

5. Try sending only relevant emails

It’s a thumb rule that more emails you will send, the more you will receive. Thus, before you send any mail think about its priority and relevance. If it’s possible to use IM then why send a mail.

6. Make Use of Search Feature

Finding a mail amongst hundreds of mail in the inbox has become much easier and this is all thanks to the great search feature that you will find in almost every mail now.

7. Opt for Text Expansion

Text expansion is relatively a new concept that helps to save a lot of time. It helps to automate your typing. With just the help of few keys you will be able to create and send your mail across recipients.

8. Make Archive

Majority of the mails allows you to create files and folders. This helps in making archives and will help you to sort the mails. It becomes almost essential to make archive when you are receiving many mails in a day.

9. Think before writing

Many a times it happens that you forget to write something in mail and then you have to send another one. Thus, think before you write. It’s better to think and write content rather than sending two three mails on the same subject.

10. Manage your mail when you are on vacation

When you are out for vacations then you can opt for automated replies informing the sender about your unavailability. This feature is highly useful for you if you are a frequent traveler.

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Considering huge Japanese market for Apple products, native language support for Siri is surely a step ahead by the company. Moving on to camera feature, currently users can launch camera-mode directly from lock screen by double tapping the home screen and then tap the camera icon. However, with iOS 5.1′s new lock screen users will be able to launch camera mode by just dragging the lock screen upwards. Since camera-worthy moments take less than a second to disappear, reducing the launch time would be a great improvement.

Meanwhile, iOS 5.1 is expected to be out around March 9. Stay tuned to GizmoCrazed for more rumours and reports.

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1. Make Web Page Text More Readable

You will see that there are some web pages that are full of irrelevant ads and images and there are times when you have to just read the text. You should use various tools and services to make the text on these web pages more readable.

2. Use Command Line to Make Changes

You can easily make changes to the web pages and desktop applications with basic text operations, but when more complex and large scale editing is required then you have to make use of command line. You can use command line for taking notes, replacing text and managing to-do list etc.

3. Dealing with Unwanted Formatting

Majority of the people use the copy & paste feature for completing various tasks. However, the text gets altered when you copy it from a web page and paste it in a document. Thus, you need to use tools like PlainClip and Text Scrubber, which will surely get you rid of this problem.

4. Use Text Expansion

This tool offers you a shortcut to type text. It allows you to type short words which will automatically expand to their original wordings. This will help to save a lot of time and is a must have for bloggers. However, you need to learn using these tools.

5. Fun with ASCII

You must have heard about ASCII before. This is a text character coding language. You can use this for fun as it allows you to access plenty of fun features.

6. Extract Text from PDF Files

You cannot just copy the text from the PDF and paste it anywhere. The copied text from PDF files is stored in clipboard only. However, you can use the PDF Text Online if you are looking for just simple and plain text. All you need to do is to upload the file and wait for the result.

7. Dealing with Fonts

Since there are hundreds of fonts styles available to you, it becomes quite difficult to choose the most appropriate one. To deal with this, you need to take help of tools like Identifont and WhatFontIs to make the things easier for you.

8. Synchronize the Text

Since you use a quite a few electronic devices in a day ranging from tablets to desktops to smartphones, it is preferred that you keep the data in sync in various devices. Synchronizing makes the files readily available to you whenever you need them.

9. Text in an Image Form

You will often face difficulty in editing text, as it may have been in an image format. To convert the images based text into an editing form you need to look for various optical character recognition or text recognition tool.

10. Batch Renaming Made Easy

Batch renaming is not something that you do every day. However, when it is required to be done then you have to seek help of some batch renaming tool as doing it manually will lead to wastage of time and energy. You will come across many batch renaming tools available for Windows as well as Mac.

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1. The Corporation

This documentary shows the evil side of the fancy and appealing corporate world. It shows that how a corporate, by unethical means forces a product on the customer. It is shot well and highlight the plight of the parents who are forced to buy products that they don’t actually require, as they are adored by kids.

2. Supersize Me

It is another eye opener documentary highlight the plight of people who eat junk or fast food. It shows how the various fast food joints, popularize their unhealthy product which leads to problems like obesity. It will surely make you think when you will eat junk food the next time.

3. An Inconvenient Truth

This documentary is all about our future. It highlights the severe problem of global warming and the various ill effects that it can have not only on our lives but also lives of our future generations. This movie wills surly open your eyes.

4. Hearts & Minds

It has got the Vietnam War as backdrop. This is a war documentary which consists of various first hand interviews by experts and soldiers and also some rare field footage, which has left thousands of people dead and a nation divided.

5. Senna

Aryton Senna was one of the greatest motorsports persons of all times and this documentary is no different. This document covered the entire life of Aryton Senna from his birth to his success in motorsports and eventually his death. Directed by a BAFTA awarded winning director, it is a must watch for everyone.

6. Nostalgia for the Light

There is a place on this beautiful plan which has got almost zero humidity environments and this is Atacama Desert located in Chile. The documentary covers how a person who went to study astronomy there ends up in taking interest in archeology and uncovering evidence of the ancient inhabitants of this hot and never ending desert.

7. Enron

It is again a corporate documentary that highlights how corporate sharp minds can wipe of hard earned money of investors as well as customers. It shows how Fastow, Ken Lay and Skilling fooled thousands of investors to make private fortunes.

8. Microcosmos

If you are a nature lover, do watch this documentary. It shows the world of small insects. Have a look around when you walk in the woods and observe thousands of small creatures and their lifestyle.

9. Darwin’s Nightmare

Africa is among the worst affected nation due to capitalism. This document tells how one of the most beautiful continents was robbed of its natural wealth due to the rampant capitalization and how it destroyed the socio economic factor of the country.

10. Bombay Beach

This is another documentary marking end of the world soon. However, it takes the storey of a place called Salton Sea which was once a popular tourist destination but now have turned into a ghost town, devoid of resources because of ecological imbalance. It warns us about the incoming dangers of the future.

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1. Messages

Apple introduced iMessage a long time back for its mobile phones, which was comparable to BlackBerry Messenger. Now, iMessages has a desktop version named Messages in this new version of OS. This feature basically is an instant messaging application which allows you to send and receive messages easily.

2. Game Centre

This feature is derived from iOS. It allows you to play fantastic games and offer you multiplayer feature too. This is a fun and entertaining feature for passing time as well as interacting with friends.

3. Reminders

Life has become hectic and difficult and you need to be disciplined in your daily tasks. Many a time you forget to do critical tasks in day. However, Reminders will not let you forget anything important. You can use this feature to set reminders, alerts and make notes. This feature was first appeared on iOS 5 and has now arrived on mac.

4. Contacts

This feature can said to be an improvement of Mac Address Book app found in earlier version of OS. Contacts allow you to keep information of the individual so that you don’t face any problem in contacting them.

5. Introduction Of Software Update

Software updates have become extremely important these days as the technology is advancing at a rapid pace. Clicking on this feature will take you to the Mac App store and you can easily download and upgrade the latest software.

6. Share Sheets

This feature is inspired from the share buttons which you often see on various websites. This feature proves very handy when you plan to post videos or email links directly from Safari.

7. Gatekeeper

No electronic device is secured completely and Mac is no different. This feature provides greater security and stability to your system. You can run your Mac in three different modes using this feature. You can choose the level of security as per your requirement.

8. Twitter

It has become very easy to use Twitter on Mac because of this feature. You can send message and upload pictures from any application. You will also get notification of activities that you are doing on the site.

9. Safari Tweaks

A good web browser is a must for any OS. Safari Tweaks is a wonderful addition to this new OS. You will find a changed and user friendly interface in this browser as the search field and address bar are combined together. Also, you can easily sync the Safari tabs through various devices with the help of iCloud.

10. AirPlay Mirroring

Now you can stream videos and music wirelessly to any AirPlay compatible device. Using this feature, you can send anything which is on your Mac to a television that is connected by Apple TV.

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1. Make an Environment

You should turn off all the entertainment devices like television, computer, laptop etc. when you are going to hit the bed. You can no doubt have some good and relax music on but rest everything should be off. Make sure your music player doesn’t produce humming or disturbing sound.

2. Play soft or instrumental music

It is a great step which will give you some good sleep. Soft or instrumental music will have a soothing effect on your mind. On the other hand, loud music can ruin your sleep.

3. Read a good book

If reading is your hobby, then do try to read a good novel or book before you sleep. Reading drives all your stress and tension away. Books are a great way to drift you into sleep. However, avoid suspense novels as they force you into reading them for long.

4. Relax your muscles

You can do this by light exercises or relaxing your muscle on a bean bag. Various studies reveal that when your muscle feels light and relax, you will surely have a good night sleep.

5. Take short naps during daytime

If you have a tiring or stressful day, do try to catch a short nap in the afternoon time. This nap should not extend more than 30-45 minutes as otherwise they will interfere with your night’s sleep. A short nap refreshes your body as well as mind.

6. Bath with essential oils

A good bath can do wonders to your sleep. Thus, you should have it half an hour before you go to bed. Try to use some essential oil in your bath like lavender oil, rose oil etc. as they have got brilliant relaxing properties.

7. Drink chamomile tea

Chamomile tea has got a relaxing effect on your nervous system and thus is very effective in promoting a calm and restful sleep. Try to drink a cup of chamomile tea before you go to sleep.

8. Make your bedroom comfortable

A comfortable matter is a must for a proper sleep. Choose mattress and pillows that support your body posture and is comfortable to use. You should also set the ambience of your room by adjusting lights and sounds.

9. Avoid eating big meals

Avoid eating meals before you sleep as it not only leads to health problems but also interferes with your sleep. Smoking and drinking vices is also not recommended. Avoid caffeine also.

10. Avoid thinking when going to sleep

You should put all your thinking, worries and anxieties aside when you go to bed. Thinking in bed is a strict no-no as it may lead to sleep disorders. You should go to bed with a clean and simple mind.

These are some steps that will help you to achieve a good night sleep. In case you are suffering from sleep disorders or insomnia, then don’t hesitate from seeking medical opinions.

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