How To Install KitKat Android

Awesome KitKat Dialer google brought in the latest version of Android 4.4 and were hoping to enjoy it on their current android phone must disappointed by not getting them in manufacturers update. Even some of the most popular Custom ROM also does not include  the dialer.

 if your device is rooted and running on android 4.4 (be it any Kitkat ROM) then chances you can still enjoy new Kitkat dialer by following the simple tutorial below.

GUIDE:

1. Download the New KitKat Google Dialer/Phone APK first. DOWNLOAD LINK (Mirror) and copy it to phone’s sd card. | File name: GoogleDialer.apk  (2.3 MB)
2. If you don’t have any root file explorer then install ES File Explorer (The screenshots below taken using Es File Explorer)
3. You need to enable root explorer option in ES File explorer by doing:

1. 1. Launch ES File explorer and Tap on settings icon at top left.
   2. Under Tools, look for Root Explorer and tap on Off to toggle it ON.
   3. Grant the permission when your SuperUser/SuperSU asks, right after you enable it.
2. Let’s enable permission to write files.

1. 1. Under settings of the app, tap on Tools tab and then tap on Root Explorer to bring up its options.
   2. Now tap on Mount R/W, check all the boxes under RW then tap OK to enable the write access.
2. Now on ES file explorer find the GoogleDialer.apk we’ve copied before. Long tap on the file and select copy at the bottom.
3. Navigate to root folder/system/priv-app of your device by doing:

1. 1. Open settings by tapping on menu key or icon at top left
   2. Under Local tab, tap on / Device
   3. Scroll and find the system folder and tap on it
   4. Scroll and find the priv-app folder and tap on it
   5. Now you are inside the priv-app folder, paste the Google Dialer.apk that you copied in step 5.
2. Change the app’s permissions by doing:

1. 1. Tap and hold on GoogleDialer.apk you just pasted
   2. Then press 3-dot button on the screen and select properties
   3. Now, click on the change button right to the Permissions text to bring up pop-up menu titled Permission
   4. Uncheck all boxes under Execute option and uncheck Group and Other boxes under Write option. See the screenshot above for help.
   5. Tap on OK. Now, it will read as rw- r– r– between Permissions text and change text on the properties pop-up. Press back button to go back in priv-app folder.
2. That’s it. Restart your device and Locate the new phone app in the app drawer and drag it to home screen for quick access. Open the phone app and look into settings, you have it right there.

Start using the cool new KitKat dialer on your android phone. Though you’ve install the new dialer app, the incoming calls will still goes through the old dialer app. You can use the both dialer app without any problem. Enjoy!

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Hide pictures - KeepSafe Vault Android App Free Download

There are heaps of picture hiders out there, but it seems that this is a losing battle. 

KeepSafe really locks your compromising pictures from indiscreet eyes, needing a pin code to unlock them, but the trick may be rather clumsy. 

As many other lock apps, KeepSafe can be uninstalled and installed again to reset the pin code and the app icon is quite suspicious.


 It's true that Kii Safe does what it promises, but there's no middle ground. If your favorite spy is unable to find your photos in a changed name folder, you won't need this application.

  For that same spy was a standard Android user, he would quickly detect the flaws of this app and compromise your privacy. The last update brings an option to create a fake folder with a second pin in a creative way to make up for those minor flaws and makes all the difference.

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Easy Battery Saver APK for Android Free Download

If you have battery problems and your device needs charging once a day, you might want to try Easy Battery Saver, an Android app that saves the power and extends the battery life. 

The question is always the same? How does it save battery? This app simply deals with the phone's network connectivity, screen time out and brightness. It also saves it when you're sleeping.

You need to choose a mode: Normal Mode, which doesn't do anything; General Power Saving mode, which saves basic network connection; Intelligent Power Saving Mode, which intelligently enables network connections; Super Power Saving Mode which only saves conversation and text and also Advance Customized mode, which lets you create your own customization. You can also download Easy Task Killer plugin, which kills unnecessary apps.

In the menu, you can access to Battery Info, which tells you the remain battery capacity, Optimization where you can choose a profile mode, Consumption, which tracks the consumption for each app and even Tutorials to improve your battery saving knowledge. 

The truth is, Easy Battery Saver is really simple to use, well-explained and complete. The design is excellent and the usability is also pretty great. Of course, the main thing about this type of apps is its effectiveness, which really works. 
Easy Dev Team is the developer of Easy Battery Saver, an excellent and helpful tool for those who tend to use their devices a lot and have experienced problems with the battery. Totally recommended.

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360 Mobile Security For Android free Download ( Best Android Security app)

360 Mobile Security - Antivirus is an unveiled new application designed to protect your Android device against all those enemies and system vulnerabilities that might endanger your phone's health. 

In addition, after using 360 Mobile Security, your phone will be more clean and and the speed will increase.


What can you do? By using this application you'll be able to run a quick phone scan and remove the viruses and scan the installed apps and apk files in real time. This will help you increase your phone's health and detect the vulnerabilities quicker while deleting all useless data and history. Moreover, you will have access to each permission and the apps which have access to it.


Make use of the notification system in order to set alarms, turn on the flashbacks and other helpful tasks. The fun feature comes with the shake movement, which triggers the cleanup function.


Qihu 360 Software Co., LTD(QIHU) is the developer of 360 Mobile Security - Antivirus, an incredibly helpful application without advertisement and free of use. One of the most useful applications we've ever reviewed, the perfect tool, essential in your device and with an excellent and minimal design and usability.

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Duolingo App Free Download For Android (Language Learning App For Android )

Duolingo is quite popular on the web. For a long time, thousands (millions?) of users have followed its method to improve their language skills. Now, the service is also available from mobile devices which is aimed to make even easier a daily routine for language learning.

Just in case you haven't one, you need to create an account in Duolingo to gain access. You can do it from the app in a few steps. After that, you'll get to Duolingo's dashboard that will guide you from the basics to the advanced level of the language you choose to learn. By now, you can learn 

Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, and English. Totally free. Doesn't it sound awesome?

Duolingo features translation, listening, sorting and vocabulary exercises and a final test to check if you've got the concepts. Lessons are themed in order to help you learn vocabulary in a comprehensive way. In addition, grammar difficulty increases gradually which guarantees no one is left behind. Anyway, lessons can be repeated as many times as you want and, since exercises are randomly generated, you'll always be challenged until the concepts are reinforced. Learn at your own pace.

If you find basics too easy, you can always jump to a "shortcut test". If you pass it, previous lessons will be unlocked and you will be able to start advanced levels. Anyway, users with medium-advanced language skills won't find it extremely difficult. Think Duolingo as the entrance gate to a new language instead of a service to get Proficiency level.

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Palm Beach PaddleBoards Free Download and Review

 I'm sure you have a ton of questions? Don't worry, we're here to answer your SUP questions and guide you through the process to get you on the perfect board. Florida is the perfect place to stand up paddle, tons of waterways, great beaches and more. Get out on the water, have fun and get in shape.

In this app you can EVEN use the camera to take a picture of a wave you caught or a special paddle board location. Send it to us and you might be featured as the rider of the week! Use the GPS maps or one touch calling to stay in touch with.

Current Version: 1.0
Released: 2012-09-20

Useful Features Include:

- Check In and receive exclusive coupon rewards
- Unlock loyalty rewards created exclusively for our mobile clients
- Email us photos at the touch of a button
- Interact with our staff and other customers
- View our awesome board selection from your phone
- Connect with us through Facebook
- Easy to follow directions in seconds

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Samsung Galaxy Fonblet Specifications and Review

The Era of Samsung keeps continuing with another surprising Beauties. This smartphone is expected to be a superior version of the Galaxy Player 5.8 that is currently available only in Korea. It comes with a 5.8-inch TFT screen with QHD resolution display, 3-megapixel camera, Bluetooth 4.0 and runs on Android 4.0 Samsung is also on  its plans to increase the resolution of smartphone displays considerably over the next couple of years with WQHD resolution (2560 x 1440) displays next year, and then with 3840 x 2106 screens .It sounds nice, but remember these resolutions are planned for devices with roughly 5-inch screens.  Apple essentially topped what the average human eye is capable of distinguishing on a smartphone screen at regular use distance with its 326ppi Retina display on the iPhone 4S. 

Apart From Measuring 130.5 × 67.7 × 11.9 mm and weighing 148 grams, the Galaxy X Cover 2 will run Android Jelly Bean (version 4.1 or 4.2) and like its predecessor, is going to be dustproof and waterproof. 

Other features includes ;

•  4-inch WVGA display
•  5-megapixel rear camera
• VGA front-facing camera
•  4GB of internal memory
• MicroSD card support
•  HSPA+, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, GPS
•  Bluetooth 4.0 
• 1700 mAh battery. Apart from unveiling it's latest flagship smartphone, However the Galaxy S IV as well as the new Galaxy Note, the company is also planning to launch a new smartphone sporting a huge 5.8-inch display.

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Problems Creating By ios 7 and its Solutions.

Rapid battery drain

Many people are finding iOS 7 is more power hungry than iOS 6 was. You can find some general help by referring to our tips for saving smartphone battery, but there are also a couple of iPhone specific fixes worth considering.

Solutions:

• Disable the parallax effect that gives the home screen that 3D look by going to Settings > General > Accessibility > Reduce Motion.
• Turn off the background app refresh for at least some of your apps by going to Settings > General > Background App Refresh.
• Turn off Air Drop by swiping up from the bottom of the screen and selecting the toggle in the Control Center.
• Go to Settings > Notification Center and toggle off any apps that you don’t want to include.
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Wi-Fi and Bluetooth not working

A lot of people have found that the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth functions are not working properly after the update to iOS 7. They may appear black out in Settings and either won’t toggle on or appear to toggle on, but turn straight off again.

Try:

• You should try rebooting your iPhone and your router, but it is unlikely to permanently fix the problem.

Solutions:

• Some people have had success by removing an apostrophe from the iPhone name. If your iPhone is called something like “John’s iPhone” then this might work. Go to Settings > General > About > Name and change it to something with no apostrophe.
• Some people have reported success by putting the iPhone into Airplane mode and then going to Settings > General > Reset > Reset Network Settings, but the problem may return.
• You could also try going to Settings > Control Center and disable Access on Lock Screen then turn your iPhone off and on again.
• Make sure that your router firmware is up to date.
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Apps keep logging you out

Many users have encountered issues with apps like Mailbox and Snapchat logging them out. App developers are working on fixes and seem to be in agreement that the way iOS 7’s background refresh works is the problem.

Try:

• Go to Settings > General > Background App Refresh and turn it off for any apps where you’re finding problems.
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Solution:

• You may have to wait for an update from the app developer or Apple to find a permanent fix for this one.

Loads of unread emails

Some people found that they had hundreds or even thousands of unread emails after updating to iOS 7. This problem seems to be particularly common for Gmail users, but it can occur with other email accounts.

Solutions:

• Go into your email account on your computer and select all your emails then choose Mark as Read. Now go back to your iPhone and the count should be drastically reduced. It may be quicker to select all, choose Mark as Unread and then choose select all again and click Mark as Read.
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• You can also select Edit > Mark All > Mark as Read on your iPhone, but for it to work, you’ll need to download all your emails to the iPhone first, which can take a long time.

Motion sickness

A lot of people have reported motion sickness issues with the new iOS 7 platform. The parallax effect, bright icons, and all the zooming transitions can prove to be a bit much and may cause nausea or dizziness. There are a few things you can try to lessen the problem, but they aren’t going to fix it entirely because you can’t turn off the animations right now (it’s possible Apple will address this in a future update).

Solutions:

• Go to Settings > General > Accessibility > Reduce Motion.
• Make sure that you are using a static wallpaper via Settings > Wallpapers & Brightness, and then choose from Stills or your own photos.
• It’s possible that larger text will help via Settings > General > Text Size.
• You can also reduce the transparency via Settings > General > Accessibility > Increase Contrast.

Media controls not working

You have found that the media controls in the Control Center and on the Lock Screen are not working after the iOS 7 update. Luckily there’s an easy fix.

Solution:

• A soft reset should deal with this one, so press and hold the Sleep/Wake button until the red “slide to power off” appears and slide it. Once the device is off, simply press and hold the Sleep/Wake button again until you see the Apple logo.

Can’t download app updates

Quite a few people have found that they can’t download app updates after the iOS 7 upgrade. There could be multiple apps showing that updates are available, but they simply don’t start. Turning Wi-Fi off and on again, or even connecting to iTunes may not resolve the problem, but there are other things you can try.

Solutions:

• Go to Settings > iTunes & App Store and tap on your Apple ID, then select Sign Out. Double tap the Home button and make sure you swipe up any problem apps that are running to close them, then reboot the iPhone and sign back in to iTunes to try the update again.
• If that doesn’t work, try going to Settings > General > Usage and select the problem apps, then delete them, reboot the device, and try to download them again.

Camera not working

If you updated to iOS 7 and encountered a problem with your front-facing camera or your main rear-facing camera then you’re not alone. Some people report that the main camera keeps freezing or refuses to load; they just get a black screen. Others are complaining that the front-facing camera is excessively blurry. This could be down to an app or it could be a hardware failure. Here’s what to try:

Try :

• Close the camera app, double tap the Home button and swipe the camera app up to close it completely, then reboot your iPhone and try loading the camera app again. This will work for some, but it doesn’t mean that the issue won’t return.
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Solutions:

• Go to Settings > General > Restrictions and make sure Allow: Camera is on.
• If an app is causing the problem then removing it might fix your camera. Remove third-party apps one by one, reboot the iPhone, and test the camera. It’s a good idea to start with anything that obviously uses the camera.
• Take it into an Apple Store and show them the problem. If you’re still under warranty then you should get a replacement without any hassle.

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iPad Air Latest Review

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• 2048 x 1536 (Retina) 9.7-inch display Screen
• Space :16GB, 32GB, 64GB and 128GB
• Chip : A7 processor
• Processor : 802.11n dual-channel Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0
• BAck up's : 10 hours general use Wi-Fi surfing, 9 hours on cellular

    Design Status

The design is based on the star of Apple’s iPad Air refresh this time around; the 9.7-inch Apple tablet has had the same form factor that gives  for two generations now, and that one actually made the design worse one and  – it got heavier, and it got thicker. This new iPad mini-inspired look  Featured with sheds both size and weight, giving the iPad Air a 43 percent smaller bezel, a 20 percent thinner case, and making it 28 percent lighter, at just one pound.The iPad Air is much, much more comfortable to hold than the iPad 4th-gen it replaces; This isn’t strictly a one-handed device, but it’s as close as you can get with a tablet that still has a gorgeous, expansive 9.7-inch Retina Display.

The Optimised pixel density of that 2048 x 1536 9.7-inch display is 264 PPI, which is much less dense than the iPad mini, but you’d have a hard time telling the difference when you’re actually using the thing. In short, both are excellent, and lead the market in terms of quality when you factor in color rendering, viewing angle and other visual attributes.Also new to the iPad Air are dual microphones which help out with sound quality on audio and video  having  a  FaceTime calls, and the motion coprocessor means that you’ll start to see more activity tracking built into the iPad, too. It may seem to be an odd feature for a tablet, but the iPad is designed to go with you where you go, and it might be even more representative of your general activity level since it won’t be triggered so easily as a phone worn close to the body.Cameras also get an update with the iPad Air, which is to be expected. The real gem here is the  Fact that ita having a FaceTime HD camera that offers 1080p video calling instead of 720p on the last model, which does make a difference.

Stay Tuned with us..

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iPhone 5s Apps Getting Failure Than The iPhone 5

Crittercism looked at hundreds of millions of app launches since the release of the new iPhones.The new operating system has also received complaints due to the new transition, zooming, animation, and parallax scrolling features which have reportedly been making some users sick.

Users are reporting it’s not just third party applications which fail, but standard Apple apps including Settings, Numbers, and Safari. Other apps that have shown up as problematic  covering subjected on Apple’s Support Communities discussion board include Facebook, Skype, and WhatsApp.

 Its fact that you got the newest, fastest, goldest iPhone available, you may have noticed something a bit frustrating. Apps are crashing more often.This is likely due to the fact that, though they prepared relentlessly for the new iOS 7 operating system, developers had no way of preparing for the new hardware architecture, especially that 64-bit processor.

In some cases, crashes are just annoying, such as when your app fails while you're reading headlines on a news site. But for some apps, a crash can actually harm business. For example, a customer trying to purchase something through an app may give up and not buy the product if it crashes.

The 5S might be seeing more crashes than the 5C because of its new hardware, which wasn't available to developers before its launch. The iPhone 5S includes a dual-core, 64-bit A7 chip that's nearly twice as fast as the A6 CPU, the chip that both the 5 and 5C haves.

 Apple is aware of the issues developers are having and have already released two new updates to the OS. In other words, hang in there. It gets better.But even with the doubled rate, crash frequency is still relatively low across all versions of the iPhone 5. 

It seems the transition to a new operating system and the introduction of 64-bit architecture, along with Apple’s requirement for any new app or app update submitted to have iOS 7 compatibility, may have caught some developers by surprise, and problems are still being ironed out. However, if app ratings are dropping and negative reviews are being written, we can expect updates to appear quite quickly.
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Gmail Integrates With Collabspot

Connecting Gmail to CRM has never been easier. We provide a wide set of pre-packaged and tested integrations that work out of the box. No technical skills or complicated setup required.
Collabspot is a browser extension that promises to make life easier for sales teams by integrating Highrise and SugarCRM with Gmail. The Singapore-based company has been following a lean startup model, but recently accepted a seed round of $80,000 Singapore dollars (about $64,000 USD) from Louis Nauges, the co-founder of French Google Apps maker Revevol; Kevin Dewalt, a Beijing-based investor and Entrepreneur-In-Residence at the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF); and Singaporean investment partnership 8 Capita. Collabspot says its new international network of investors will help it target new markets.

startup will use its new funding to ramp up marketing and grow the customer relations team for its sales email platform. Most users are small- to medium-sized businesses and Collabspot’s aim is to make data entry as simple as possible for sales staff. Emails can be saved to Collabspot’s CRM platforms with one click and an entire company can view contact info, sales activity and manage new opportunities without opening Highrise or SugarCRM.
Eighty percent of sales rep jobs can now be done directly from within Gmail, which is not the case for our competitors,” Gasser told me in an e-mail. He adds that the startup plans to scale up by integrating more of the leading CRM platforms into Gmail and providing email automation to sales departments that will be comparable to marketing automation.Online CRM software for managing your sales, marketing, customer support, and inventory in a single system.

CloudWork allows you to connect CRM, Emailing, Helpdesk, Finance and online Storage applications to automate repetitive tasks. CloudWork can automatically sync new contacts, tasks, files and notes between Google Apps, Salesforce, Mailchimp, Zoho, Evernote, Basecamp and many more.

Thousands of businesses already trust CloudWork to connect their apps together:

1. No coding or developers needed
2. Set up your integration in minutes
3. Fast, reliable and friendly customer support
4. Free plan available

Collabspot says most of its current users are in the U.S. and it has doubled its paying monthly active user base to 1,000 within Months.

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Meetup ! An Ultra Speed Messaging Software

Dispatch reached a place where it would have needed an additional round to continue its efforts, but was having troubling raising from what we’ve heard. The product was struggling a bit to find a way to best incorporate itself into user workflows, as the pivot indicated. In addition, while the service, as it ended up, worked something like a group email address – like a Google Group or listserv, for example, but one allowing for more granular user controls – it didn’t offer integrations with other services where teams may have already been working on projects, like Basecamp.

This made it difficult for Dispatch to really carve out its niche, given it was light on features that would have allowed to to handle more structured tasks, timelines and deadlines, while still aiming to mirror those email-based work conversations to the web..

That being said, Dispatch did have a number of good features as well as a modern design and layout which you could easily imagine as part of a larger product, like Meetup.

Dispatch founders Jesse Lamb, Nicholas Stamas and Alex Godin are now joining Meetup, where they’ll form a new product team focused on improving communications within Meetup Groups.

For those unfamiliar with Dispatch’s focus, the startup had initially been working on building an online workspace that connected Dropbox, Google Docs, Evernote and Box, allowing teams to manage and collaborate on work projects in the cloud. But failing to gain significant traction for that product, the company pivoted this summer to shift its efforts to improving email-based collaboration.

Communications is only one area where Meetup is planning on making improvements in the months ahead. The company is also looking at other areas like payments, better international support, mobile improvements, design upgrades, and more. In some cases, these developments will be aided by future acquisitions.

But these will likely be smaller deals like this, where it’s about strategically adding smart, passionate people to the Meetup team. Heiferman insists that Meetup is focusing on staying relatively small itself – it’s 96 people today, and he wants it to continue to maintain its low profile as opposed to “flipping it” for a profit, or moving to an IPO.

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Nexus 8 With Advanced Bluetooth

Google’s Nexus 8 is said to have a 5.55-inch 1080p display, along with a Snapdragon 800 2.3GHz quad-core processor, 3GB of RAM, an 8 megapixel rear camera and a 1.2 megapixel front shooter, LTE support and Bluetooth 4.0. It’s all powered by a 2300mAH battery, which is just slightly more capacious than the 2100mAH battery on the current Nexus 7. It’s also powering a much more powerful device, so it’ll be interesting to see how that affects what kind of mileage you get on a single charge.

If it’s priced right, a new LTE-capable Nexus in time for the holidays could be a very good option for buyers looking to get a strong smartphone for relatively little money upfront. Last year, supply was very constrained early on, however, so if you’re interested in one, it’s probably a good idea to be ready to order when they do get made official.

but it’s been rumored to be a relatively minor update, and  has heard separately from a well-placed source that indeed, KitKat will be mostly business as usual compared to version 4.3, with the next update down the line offering up much more substantial changes.

The Nexus 5 looks set to have LTE support. FCC filings and the service manual indicate Google will remedy the lack of LTE connectivity that hampered the Nexus 7 in its successor. With 4G networks lighting up across the world, a bringing out a new smartphone in 2013 without LTE support would be a major omission, and Google has recently brought out an LTE-equipped variant of the Nexus 7.

Specs-wise, the Nexus 8 doesn't look to be a major leap from the Nexus 7, though the 32GB storage would be a welcome addition to the Nexus 7's 8GB and 16GB options. It's not known yet whether Google will launch two variants with different storage sizes, though such a move would be in keeping with Google's traditional pattern for hardware.

Add in great viewing angles from the IPS panel and the screen really is a delight to look at. We were as happy reading e-books as streaming video, and if we had the Nexus 8 long term would seriously consider ditching the Kindle. This can't bode well for Amazon.

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Google's Latest Algorithm Review

Google mentioned the new algorithm for the first time today, at an event that was (in a confusing surprise to everyone who arrived at Google HQ and was put on a bus) hosted in the garage that Larry and Sergey rented as Google started to prove successful. Other things announced include a tweak to Google’s Knowledge Graph to allow it to handle comparison questions (“Which is better for me — olive oil or butter?”), and Push Notifications for Google Now on iOS.

Despite a good amount of questioning from the audience on just how Hummingbird worked, Google avoiding getting too technical. While they did say that this was the biggest overhaul to their engine since the 2009 “Caffeine” overhaul (which focused on speed and integrating social network results into search) and that it affects “around 90% of searches”, there wasn’t much offered in terms of technical details. 

The main focus, and something that went repeated many a time, was that the new algorithm allows Google to more quickly parse full questions (as opposed to parsing searches word-by-word), and to identify and rank answers to those questions from the content they’ve indexed.

As for how it’ll affect results, moving forward (the ears of a zillion SEO dudes/dudettes just perked): the engine overhaul was silently put in place weeks ago, right under all of our noses. 

feature might seem a bit old-hat. As Google Now can run constantly in the background on Android, it’s been able to do such things for a while now. On iOS, however, most apps are shuffled into a state of hibernation, requiring developers to use Apple’s push notification system to send background alerts to the user. Until now, Google Now for iOS hadn’t made use of these notifications.

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iCracked Latest Review

With the new iPhone 5s and 5c out this week, it’s an opportune moment for the 30-person startup from Redwood City. iCracked basically started out of a dorm room at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo where co-founder AJ Forsythe gained a reputation on campus as someone who could fix iPhones on the cheap.

He parlayed that skill into a business that’s on track to do eight figures in revenue this year by selling repair kits and deploying contractors or “iTechs” to fix or buy back devices on the spot. They have more than 400 of these skilled contractors throughout the world.

To date, they’ve had a buyback service where you can mail in your phone. But that business is relatively small with a few thousands devices sent in each month.

But today, they’re launching a way that you can call up someone on-demand in the next few hours to take iPhones or iPads off your hands. Depending on the storage, condition and model of the device, they’ll pay up to a few hundred dollars for the latest iPhones or iPads. It’s available in the San Francisco Bay Area now, but they’ll widen out the reach of the program later on. They’ll expand to Southern California next month, then New York.

The coolest part is that iCracked will hand you a branded debit card carrying the value of the device. The company spent a year working on this because they didn’t want the financial risk of having contractors walk around with hundreds or thousands of dollars in cash. When an iTech accepts a device, they can load the debit card with money on the spot and hand it over.

Then you can use it like a regular debit card from your personal bank by taking out cash at an ATM or buying goods at a store. The whole in-person transaction should take 15 minutes at most.

The new service ties into iCracked’s ambition of being the ‘AAA’ for people’s devices.

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