Android 4.4 Features-Part 4

Here are Android 4.4's Main Features

• The voice-activated always-on search assistant was first seen in the Moto X, Android 4.4 extends it to the Nexus 5, allowing users to just say "OK Google" when in the home screen to launch the Google Now assistant and do a voice search, send a text, get directions or even play a song.

• Google Now can be launched by simply swiping to the left instead of swiping from the bottom, at least on the Nexus 5.
• Enhanced Google Now with new card types that bring information about contextual topics that interest users such as updates from a favorite website or blog.
• Users will now be able to print photos, documents, and web pages from their phone or tablet through any printer connected to Google Cloud Print, HP ePrint printers, and via other printers that have apps in the Google Play Store
• Android apps that feature web content now use Chrome to render web components accurately and quickly. Chromium WebView supports HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. It supports most of the HTML5 features available in Chrome for Android 30.

Android 4.4 Features-Part 3

Here are Android 4.4's Main Features

• The new phone app now automatically prioritises the users' contacts based on the people they talk to the most.

• Users can also search for nearby places and businesses, contacts, or people in their Google Apps domain directly from the Phone app
• If they get a call from a phone number that is not saved in their contacts, the phone will look for matches from businesses with a local listing on Google Maps.
•  Android 4.4 brings a new unified messaging app, with Hangouts getting SMS and MMS integration, in addition to offering instant messaging through Google accounts (erstwhile Google Talk). Hangouts now also allows users to share their location and send animated GIFs.

Android 4.4 Features-Part 2

Here are Android 4.4's Main Features

• The lock-screen widgets for music and movies apps now also offer the option to seek and jump to a specific part.
• The Quick Settings notifications menu toggles also add a 'location settings' toggle.
• A new Emoji keyboard for emoticons has also been included in the native Google Keyboard.

• Android 4.4 KitKat will also show full-screen album and movie art if content is being streamed to another device such as a Chromecast.

Android 4.4 Features-Part 1

Here are Android 4.4's Main Features

• Android 4.4 KitKat offers a translucent menu bar located at the bottom of the screen

• New transition effects when you open the app launcher
• The OS now offers full-screen wallpapers with preview and the wallpapers now extend through the notification tray as well, in addition to the navigation buttons.
• KitKat offers more immersive experience by hiding the status bar and navigation buttons when the user is reading a book, or playing a game or watching a movie. They can just swipe the edge of the screen to bring back the status bar and navigation buttons on KitKat.

Android 4.4 Features-Part 5

Here are Android 4.4's Main Features

• Android 4.4 brings platform support for two new composite sensors,kk-sensors-runtastic-n5.jpg step detector and step counter allowing users to track steps when they're walking, running, or climbing stairs, via apps and hardware that offer the feature. 
• The Nexus 5 offers the two sensors and Google says it's working with its chipset partners to bring them to new devices as soon as possible. Android 4.4 also brings support for the Message Access Profile (MAP) enabling Bluetooth-enabled cars to exchange messages with Android devices. 
• It also supports Bluetooth HID over GATT (HOGP) offering apps a low-latency link with low-power peripheral devices such as mice, joysticks, and keyboards. 
•  Android 4.4 also introduces platform support for built-in IR blasters, and a new API and system service for developers to build apps that can leverage them. This means the IR Blaster, present in the Samsung Galaxy S4 and HTC One will now be usable Android 4.4 also supports Wi-Fi Tunneled Direct Link Setup (TDLS), a way to stream media and other data faster between devices already on the same Wi-Fi network.

Android 4.4 Features-Part 6

Here are Android 4.4's Main Features

• Android 4.4 offers system-wide preferences for 'closed captioning'. Apps that offer video can access the user's captioning settings and adjust the display of the captions as per the user's preferences. 
• Android 4.4 offers support for screen recording, and includes a screen recording utility that lets users capture video as they use the device and store it as an MP4 file. This also allows developers, reviewers and end-users to create walkthroughs and tutorials for apps, testing materials, and marketing videos, among others.

How to get ios6 Features in iOS 5-Part 1

iOS6 had little to impress and more to depress, but what if you want to have the best of both worlds

New Siri Features 

 Believe it or not, Siri’s new features – including the ability to take sports-related queries and local searching in newer countries – have already been implemented in one way or the other with tweaks from Cydia.

 Let’s start with sports: SiriSports tweak, free from Cydia under ModMyi, lets you make queries related to NBA, MLB and NHL from Siri. You can look up match timings, statistics and scores with phrases like Did The Giants win last night?, just like it was shown in the WWDC keynote.


Sireet, free from Cydia under ModMyi, lets you use Siri to tweet. Just saying Tweet [your actual tweet] and Siri will do the rest. Last but not least.
Those of you in unsupported countries can install International Locations for Siri ($0.99, BigBoss repo) to get local search. There are many other Siri tweaks available with go well beyond its limited built-in feature-set.

Siri for iPad 

 Siri on the iPad is something which we’ve been looking forward to, but since the launch of the iPhone 4S and iOS 5. We knew Apple would eventually bring Siri on other devices

And now, Siri has finally made its way onto the iPad with iOS 6. But there’s one problem, iOS 6’s launch is a bit far away, and only the 3rd-gen iPad is supported to work with Siri.
 Fear not, the jailbreak community has us covered with a tweak called Spire, which brings Siri to the iPad. But there’s one small catch, it doesn’t support iOS 5.1.x and will work on devices running iOS 5.0.1 or earlier, which also means that it won’t support the new 3rd-gen iPad right out of the box even if it’s jailbroken.
 The devices supported by Spire are; iPhone 4, 3GS, iPod touch and the first and second generation iPads.

How to get ios6 Features in iOS 5-Part 2

iOS6 had little to impress and more to depress, but what if you want to have the best of both worlds

Do Not Disturb

For this you can use BannerDisable (free, BigBoss repo).Just like the iOS 6 feature, it lets you turn off all push notifications with a flip of a toggle from the native Settings app.

FaceTime over Cellular 

 FaceBreak ($1.99, BigBoss repo) has been in Cydia for almost two years now. As the name implies, it lets you make FaceTime calls over 3G.

How to get ios6 Features in iOS 5-Part 3

iOS6 had little to impress and more to depress, but what if you want to have the best of both worlds

Full-screen Mode in Safari

 FullScreen For Safari ($1.99, BigBoss Repo) is another one of Cydia’s famous old tweaks. To make better use of the 4” Retina display, it lets you view webpages without the intrusive bar at the bottom.

Pull To Refresh in Mail app 

 Because of it’s intuitive-ness, Tweetie’s Pull to Refresh feature has made its way through hundreds of other apps such as Facebook, Tweetbot, Sparrow etc. Now Apple has taken notice of it and included it in their Mail app.

The vibrant jailbreak community understood this before Apple and as such, a tweak named Pull to Refresh Mail (free, BigBoss repo) was introduced many, many months ago.

Turn by Turn Navigation 

 One of iOS’ biggest shortcomings, especially when compared to Android, was its lack of turn-by-turn navigation feature. Until its introduction in iOS 6, however, users had plenty of options in the form of third-party apps.

The most well-regarded in this case is TomTom’s official app which costs a whopping $59.99, but the free, crowd-sourced Waze also does a pretty splendid job.

How to get ios6 Features in iOS 5-Part 4

iOS6 had little to impress and more to depress, but what if you want to have the best of both worlds

Upload Photos from Safari

It’s not as elegantly designed as Apple’s feature in iOS 6, but it gets the job done. On sites that give you the option, Safari Upload Enabler ($1.99, BigBoss repo) will let you choose a photo/video using a file browser like on a desktop PC.

 3D Maps 

 The most anticipated and one of the crappiest and hottest features in iOS 6 has to be 3D Maps. Giving Google Maps the thumbs down in iOS 6, Apple has stepped up to the roster and implemented their very-own in-house implementation of the Maps app which sports mind-blowing 3D renders of numerous cities around the globe.

Quite unfortunately, there aren’t many apps in the App Store which provide the same results as Apple’s own implementation, but if you’re rocking an iPad then the UpNext HD Maps app is your best bet to get the same Apple-esque results. The only downside of the app is; no support for the iPhone nor the iPod touch. Google announced at the start of this month that they will be bringing a dedicated Maps app to iOS which will bring 3D maps to the masses. Or you can try Google Maps too, which wins hands down

How to get ios6 Features in iOS 5-Part 5

iOS6 had little to impress and more to depress, but what if you want to have the best of both worlds

Facebook Integration 

 Facebook Integration in iOS 6? Hah! The jailbreak community released a tweak called Fusion ($2, BigBoss repo) two months ago that not only integrates Facebook in iOS, but also MySpace and Foursquare so you can share photos, links and more just like you would with Twitter.

You can even update your status on these networks with the Siri integration that comes with Fusion. 

Upload Photo to Facebook using native Photos app 

 This is a feature we’ve all been yearning for a long time now, and it’s there in iOS 6 by default, and thankfully the jailbreak community has us covered in this department as well. With a tweak called FacebookThis – free from the BigBoss repo – it allows you to upload photos and images directly from the native Photos app.

Photos Courtesy :Redmondpie

OSX ML features

Here are 10.8 features in just 2 mins

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7 Features of iOS 7-Hopefully-Part 3

While iOS7 is gearing to its release in a few months. Here are the top features i would like to see in it


3.Shortcuts: More shortcuts to be enabled

2.3D:

1.Game controller support:

7 Features of iOS 7-Hopefully-Part 2

While iOS7 is gearing to its release in a few months. Here are the top features i would like to see in it

5.Folders without Limits: iOS has been very stingy with folders, they did not provide the folders till iOS4. Now what we want with folders is that it should have unlimited apps inside it, and able to put folders in folders

4.Third party uses with SIRI: With SIRI possibilities are endless!. What if siri could tell you your facebook updates

List of Features Removed in Windows 8

• The Start button has been removed, although it is still accessible as a hotspot in the lower left corner of the screen, via the Windows key, and on the charms menu
• Aero Flip 3D has been removed. Win+Tab now activates an app switcher only for Metro-style apps.
• The Start menu has been removed in favour of a full screen interface called the Start screen
  • Start screen lacks the global "Recent Documents" menu.
  • Start screen lacks the automatically filling by usage tracking "Most Frequently Used" (MFU) programs list, each with its "Recent Documents" menu
• The Aero Glass theme, which has been featured in Windows Vista and Windows 7 has been removed from Windows 8 in favour of a Metro-style theme
• Windows Desktop Gadgets which has been featured in Windows Vista and Windows 7 has been removed from Windows 8.
• The User Log on/Log off sounds have been removed. The startup sound remains but is disabled by default.

File Explorer

• The command bar is no longer present, and has been replaced by a new Ribbon UI

Games

• Games such as Chess Titans have been removed. However some of them are now available on the Windows Store.

Networking

• For dial-up connection (DUN), some of the options under Redialing options such as "Redial attempts" and "Redial if line is dropped" is no longer available. Although dial-up using PSTN telephone line is becoming increasingly rare, this could affect users that still use DUN to connect to 2G/3G/3.5G mobile network and also DSL subscribers that use Windows' PPPoE dialer
• The Manage wireless networks under Network and Sharing Center is no longer available, although a similar function is still available through netsh command (netsh wlan).
• Similarly, creating an ad-hoc wireless connection ("Set up a new connection or network" > "Set up a wireless ad hoc") is no longer available through the GUI; users need to use the same netsh command or third-party utility such as Connectify.

Media features

• Windows Media Center will no longer be included by default in any version of Windows 8, but will be available as an add-on for Windows 8 Pro.
• Windows Media Player will no longer include codecs to play DVDs but DVDs will be playable if the Windows Media Center add-on is purchased
• Windows Media Center cannot run on start up or on top of other windows because of “new Windows OS requirements and behaviors”
• Windows DVD Maker has been removed.

Other

• Backup and Restore has been renamed Windows 7 File Recovery in favor of the new feature called File History
• The Blue Screen of Death no longer shows as much technical information about the error that caused the computer to stop
• Windows CardSpace has been removed in favour of the new feature U-Prove.
• The Parental Controls feature present in earlier versions of Windows has been removed and replaced by the Family Safety feature
• Chkdsk only shows a percentage when running at start up.
• ImageX has been deprecated and will be removed in favor of DISM in the future.