We all are very busy in getting to know how iPhone 4 is ruling the smart phone market now. Even we were busy in noting down all cool new features of iPhone 4 or iOS 4 comes with in its new release. But mean time after the release of iPhone 4, many bloggers wrote about its problems.

Today we are going to share few awesome features of Android that iPhone 4 and iOS 4 lacks.

Tech tip: Android is Google’s operating system for mobile devices. iOS is Apple Inc’s operating system for mobile devices.

There are many new smart phones in line to beat iPhone 4 when compared to the features of iPhone. As we all know, Android is one of the biggest competitor for iOS. Following are the features where Android gained advantage over iOS 4 and iPhone 4.

1. Flash Player

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Many rivals of iPhone 4 took advantage over it by running flash contents. As we all know iPhone doesn’t support Flash contents due to many reasons. May be Steve Jobs is totally relaying on the HTML5 to compete with iPhone rivals.

But as of now the main feature iPhone lacks is Flash player, where as Android based phones support flash contents and are quite well in displaying it:).

2. Physical Menu keys

Apple wants to keep things clean and clear, so they placed only one big button on the phone. The primary function of this button was navigating the users to the home screen, now the same button is being used to switch between the applications.

When we compared iPhone with Android based phones, Android has few more physical buttons like dedicated back button and menu keys which makes it more user friendly and provides quicker navigation. It’s easy to hit a dedicated button than searching for the place in screen to hit!

3. Browser

Currently when we were looking at our list of missing features in iPhone 4, we got to know one more big fight between Apple’s iOS 4 and Google’s Android is the browser available by default.

Tech Tip: iPhone 4 uses its safari browser and Android uses Android 2.2 Froyo browser.
Ars SunSpider and V8 benchmarks showed the Nexus One blowing iPhone 4 out of the water with almost double the JavaScript performance.

However,  iPhone 4 has a slight lead when Flash was enabled on the Nexus One, and slightly behind when Flash was disabled.

Have a look at  the below video where the iPhone 4 browser  is compared with Android’s browser without flash plugin. [Video by Engadget ]

4. Transfer Media

As we all know the only way for you to transfer your media files into Apple devices is through iTunes. Let me ask you a question,  Do you how much time iTunes will take to add files and sync it?

Whereas in case of Android, they can be easily used as USB devices for faster transfer of files and folders.

5. Notifications

This is one of the big not-to-like feature in iOS 4 and Android has one of the best modes of notifications one could ever want.

In Android, All notifications (like a new SMS, reply to a chat conversation, new e-mail, alerts etc.) are neatly organized in an expandable menu. So, whenever any of these notifications appear, they are quickly displayed for some time in a small strip that always stays at the top of the screen.

Consider that you’re chatting with a friend on Gtalk, while surfing the web. Whenever the person replies, you will see it in that small strip, without it disrupting whatever activity you are doing. To respond back, you will need to just swipe that strip down to open the proper notifications menu.

While the iOS 4 still follows the old method of pop-up notifications that will keep interrupting you. So, every reply to your chat conversation or a new SMS will make the iPhone bring a pop-up menu in focus, requiring you to take an action before you can get back to what you were doing. This is not good, especially now that they have got multi-tasking working, they could have done better with handling notifications. Not to mention the fact that the pop-up reveals content right in your face, for any prying eye to easily get a glimpse of.

6. Camera

Megapixels in smart phones seem to be increasingly competing with digital cameras. Apple is still not ready going for more pixel camera in their iPhone’s. As we noticed iPhone 4 has 5MPcamera while Android based phones having 8MP camera in it. This makes Android based phones more demanding in the smart phone market.

This point shows, still iPhone 4 is not a complete mobile a normal user should go for it!

Tech tip: Android has dual flash for its camera

7. Widgets

Apple has solved the problem of application icon clutter by introducing folders. May be a really good move! But if you’re going to arrange applications  in folders, then consider that one more click before you can see what you want, instead of having it placed directly on the home-screen.

Android makes good use of Widgets. With multiple home-screens, we can arrange an assortment of Widgets that we can be swiped across swiftly.

Isn’t it an advantage? You can place your favorite applications in home screen and just a click is enough to access it rather than going inside the folder every time and search for the applications and then access it!

8. LED notification light

The small LED notification light is a boon when you leave your phone on a desk for a long time. The iPhone screen will shut down after momentarily displaying a new notification. You wouldn’t know any new activity without turning it on to check manually. But the LED light on Android phones keep blinking, letting you know something new has occurred for you to see.

May be this is just a simple point, but it works a lot for busy people!

9. Voice Command

Voice commands may seem basic. However, not for iPhone users, who still can’t use default voice commands to make calls or bring up a contact info.

We can’t expect Google Voice application on iPhone 4, as Apple is not ready to collaborate with Google. But our strong feeling is Google voice could have enhanced iPhone’s functionality, offering users the ability to make calls while saving their precious time.

10. Display

The percentages of users who go for smart phone are the one who surf the Internet to the core. You can ask a question here, if they want to access web they can go for some normal phone which supports web, why smart phones?

But here the point is, smart phones will be having bigger screen and users won’t struggle to scroll down for every 10 lines. If you compare iPhone 4 screen with Android’s, Android’s will win the race. iPhone 4 comes with screen size of 3.5 inches as it is 4.3 inches in Android based phones. This obviously makes the difference in its resolutions as well.

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We feel these are the areas which iPhone or iOS is still lacking and Android’s are making a big impact. Still there are few disadvantages in iPhone. If we mention about battery once again like all previous generation iPhones, iPhone 4 too does not have a battery that user can replace.

Hope we have noted few important points which Apple should look into before they release next phone Please let us know if you any more points to add here. Share it with your friends as well

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Epic is a web browser based on Mozilla Firefox code base. It contains several applications such as social networking, chat clients and email facilities integrated into the browser. It is similar to the social networking web browser Flock, but has been designed specifically for Indian users.

Epic is available for free download, which currently supports Microsoft Windows platform.

Who developed?

Epic browser is developed by Hidden Reflex, a Bangalore based software company founded by Alok Bharadwaj.

Features of Epic

If you start counting on the features, Epic has almost all features that can take it into top position soon. Here are some awesome features of Epic:

1. All about INDIA

As said before this browser is a boon for Indian users, So now get yourself updated with all the  current news,events on various fields like Business,Sports,Health and many more.

2. Built in Antivirus

Epic comes with built-in antivirus to protect your system from various kinds of  viruses. This antivirus is supported by Eset, one of the leading antivirus software. It works at the back-end  of the browser and also can be added as a separate tab of the browser. Epic antivirus performs the following tasks :

1. Scan downloads automatically
2. Scan your system files and folders manually
3. Scans your system completely

Tech tip: First browser to come with built-in antivirus supported by Eset.

3. Private Data Deletion

In just one click Epic users can delete all the private data stored by browser.

4. Private Browsing

This is one of the interesting feature of Epic browser and none of the other browsers has. Epic user can has private browsing where NO HISTORY, COOKIES, CACHED PAGES ARE STORED: Epic is not storing your browser history, search history, download history, web form history, cookies, or temporary internet files.

5. Flash cookie deletion

Epic Browser comes with the built-in Flash cookie deletion. The first browser ever to kill them!!

6. No Browsing Reports

Epic says “We don’t store your browsing or search data. Ever.” This also one of the big advantage where the other users of the your browser cant see the sites you had visited and more.

7. One click social networking

Epic comes with a new type of bookmark on the left hand side where user can store all the much needed sites. Mainly when you install the browser, the bar will be having social networking such as Orkut, Facebook and Twitter.

8. Applications

Epic is bundled with lots of applications like a translator for Indian languages scripts, a web snippet tool, timer, to do list, a full featured text editor, games, Google maps, clients for chatting, email apps, and several other installable web apps.

9. My Computer

Look at this feature! You can even browse your system files and folders inside the browser by just clicking on a My Computer button on sidebar.

10. To-Do list

Epic comes with a in-built to-do list where user can store any number of tasks and Epic alerts you about your To-do list.

11. Timer

Epic has a in-built timer facility where user can have a count on how much time they spent in browsing. User can store any number alerts. This can done for a single day or many days as well.

12. Google Maps

User can get a direction or map to the place they want by using the in-built Google maps feature in Epic.

13. Backup

Need to access the file from different computer?Want to back up your important documents? Epic has a simple file manager interface where you can store back up all the files using your gmail account.

14. Document editor

Epic comes with in-built Document editor using which you can open,edit and create any document.

15. Snippets

While browsing user can even store any images or webpage snippets using the snippet feature provided by Epic.

16. Website collection

Want to group of website which you can open all of them in single click? Epic has that! You store any number of website as a group and open in single click.

17. Games

Epic comes with lot of flash games in-built. Anytime you can open and race, shoot or play any game. It will take a big time to load the games.

18. Addons

As Epic browser is developed using Mozilla codebase it supports all the addons supported by Firefox. Now count how many addons you can add!!

19. Regional Languages support

Epic browser currently supports 13 regional Indian languages(like hindi, kannada, marati, tamil, telugu etc).

20. Themes and Wallpapers

Epic also features a huge collection of themes and wall papers featuring subjects related to India.

21. Malicious Website warnings

Epic warns if you are browsing any site which includes malware.

22. Anti-Phishing Protection

Epic says “A big, bolded domain so you know if you’re at citibank.com or citiphishingsite.com.”

Epic is currently available for Windows, though Linux and Mac versions are also expected. What are you waiting for? Go grab your version of Epic now! Follow the link given below.

Please share your thoughts about Epic using our comment box . What you think about these features? Is there any browser is having all this features? Of course NO! .

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If you have been using Windows operating system and have just switched to a Linux operating system then this article is a must read for you. This article is also for those who just have a minor or no idea about Linux operating system and just want to give it a try .

Normally, it is said that Linux is quite complicated than windows and I even agree to that point but let me ask you one thing, Did you find windows easy to use when you started using it for the first time ?

There is nothing which will be easy when you first try it and after using it for 2 months, now I find Linux quite familiar and easy to use. It is more secured OS as compared to windows because any minor or major virus or script made for bugging windows can’t run in Linux.

Below listed are those 5 points which surely differs from a Windows OS and gives you clear idea on How Linux is different from Windows operating system. I hope you will love to read them:

1. Mount points, Not Drive Letters

Generally in Windows, Hard drives and its partitions are recognized by their Drive letters assigned to them but the first thing you would notice while start using a Linux OS will be this. Here, Drive and partitions are known by their mount point.

The drive which you call as “C:/” is known by “\” and called as root in Linux and everything is located beneath it. When you will insert any USB device, you will notice that it will open its mount location like “/media/USB-device-name”. If you want your separate partition then you have your mount point called “\home” and you will also find your personal document folder under it.

2. No Registry Available

Unlike Windows, there is no common registry or database available for Linux. Instead, they have individual configuration files in .XML format which you can modify on your own and make any particular changes you want to make in particular program.

This is good as compared to windows, If one database of registry fails, it will stop working and your OS will not boot up and in Linux, if any one configuration file stops working then it will make only that particular program and configuration stop working and show error and the other part of the system will be working fine. If this happens, you may always look for the help available.

3. Default Software Installer

If you want to perform any task in windows, you will look for help on Google or any other website which provides software downloads and install the software via its own installer and hope that it will uninstall everything when your task will be done. By doing this process, you end up in getting your device infected by unknown virus.

While in Linux, there is a software installer given which allows you to install any package you download and it make sure that everything goes well while you perform an install or an uninstall. It tracks every process and make sure that it does not leave any unwanted file like virus or anything else.

4. System Administrator Login

It is a common thing for Windows user to login as administrator every time they login and this is probably the main reason why they get infected by viruses so often. In modern Linux distributions, you are allowed to have an account which is almost like an admin account which can perform all the task and there is a super admin account which is called as “root”.

A root admin account is needed only when you install or uninstall or any other system task need to be performed. It requests you for the root account password for those performed tasks. You will notice that you don’t need a super admin account all the time you login. You should be doing fine even if you use your regular account which has all features unlike windows.

5. Help Is Free

Its so much fun and educational while changing to Linux from Windows but sometimes its frustrating when you can’t get the things right and somehow you end up in stop using it. But wait a second, there are so many people who has done it before and you always get help.

You may read my article on getting help with Linux if you want help. There is a wide scope for help in this OS.

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“Blog” , what comes to your mind when you hear this word for the first time ? Is it just a  glimpse of a simple article kind of a picture in your mind? Not at all!! Blogs are those which carry a lot of information about various topics designed in such a way, which makes the topics even-more efficient and elegant and easily understandable by any-one.

So creating such type of Blogs is not an easy task and  its very-much  necessary to follow some important steps that has to be kept in mind while you create a Blog from the beginning to till its conclusion part.

Just keep in touch with the following easy tips to make your blog- A Complete one.

1. Language

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First of all, use of language is a very important one to deal-with. According to the topics you choose, make slight changes with your presentation of the language too. Make sure that you make use of those words which go hand-in-hand along with the topic you have chosen. Simple and elegant sentences are a good workouts for lifestyle related topics or articles.

2. Images

Add some interesting images related to your topic, which makes your blog look “complete”!! And if you are not so good in building impressive sentences, worry not… the use of  images  makes your blog, speak about your intention of your topic  easily! But in-turn should be able to choose the exact images that suits best to the topic mentioned. So be cautious while selecting the type of images.

3. Content

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Don’t ever build any stories, instead stuff the blog with the contents concerned to the topic! Your blogs should be presented in such a way that readers would get into the exact topic content, easily so that they should not get into a thought of ‘what exactly the matter here is??’. I have come across some of the blogs which fail to present the exact topic and contain useless explanations, which are not at all recommended. Be clear and perfect regarding your content.

4. Design

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Your blog design plays a major role in attracting visitors, which provides repeated visitors for your blog and hence increases your blog readers base. Blog Design can be done in two ways :

• Pre-plan : In this phase, you decide the deign of the blog by visualizing and making into an complete design from scratch.
• Post-plan: In this phase, you start off with blog with any simple design and then later step by step you must keep on customizing the design to make it more efficient and attractive.

5. Live Examples.

Develop the blog by adding interesting live examples that are quite familiar , which makes the readers to continue reading further for more info. Presenting  some current on-going topics is a good workout which makes your topic even more efficient and interesting.

Providing live examples are one of the most beneficial tools in a blog because it also makes sense that you are in touch with the latest tech too!

6. Social Networks

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Jump onto the Social networking sites like twitter,facebook,digg and many more. Connect with like minded people, build and maintain your online entity to make sure that your blog is not left all alone.

7. Interactive words

Be clear and perfect with the usage of words which are  simple and easily understandable! The readers should  feel that they are interacting with someone while reading the blogs. So make sure that your articles include simple  social words, that can make any one to enjoy reading them!

8. Paragraphs

Avoid big paragraphs in the blogs which are really useless! The readers lose their interest to proceed further with that topic!! Don’t think that all users will be having patience to go through  each and every line in your post! The topic should be presented in short tips like or through short sentences which makes the users feel comfortable in reading those. So present your blogs  stepwise and in short sentences.

9. SEO

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SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. Using SEO you can get into the top results pages of the search engines. Use proper meta tags and avoid basic seo mistakes to make your blog gain more vsisitors from search engines.

10. Conclusion

Concluding part of the blog is also an important task! After providing the detail info about your topic, make sure that you also conclude your topic in a better way. So  once you are done with the blog, its necessary to end-up the topic perfectly, to make it a complete blog-post.

Well, I hope these tips work out in a better way  and make your blog- A perfect one!!! I would be glad to know your views and ideas regarding my topic through your comments.   HAPPY BLOGGING.

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We all know that Microsoft is all set to release its latest  version of browser Internet Explorer 9 in few months. Internet Explorer 9 has many new features and is ready to compete against Google Chrome5, Firefox 3.6 and other browsers. Meanwhile Internet Explorer 9 comes with many new problems and one among them is  “Internet Explorer 9 doesn’t work in Windows XP“.

Before going to problems part we would like to give some cool new features of IE9.

1. JavaScript Background Compilation
2. Type Optimizations
3. Fast Interpreter
4. Supports HTML5 and CSS3
5. SVG support

We suggest: Want to explore more about these features? Click Link1 and Link2.

All are new features , are  you surprised by the Microsoft move?Yes?

Ok then let me tell you more about IE9. We all Bloggers are mostly amazed by the Windows7 and most of them have switched from Windows XP to Windows7 and also from  Windows Vista to Windows7 as it had many problems.

When we tried IE9 preview and demos, It looked perfect and we totally went crazy about the features of IE9. But when we tried on Windows XP we just got to know Microsoft killed Windows XP with its IE9! A dialog box popped out stating

Windows Internet Explorer Platform Preview does not support any operating system earlier than Windows Vista SP2

What do you have to say about it? Microsoft clearly says no to nearly decade old operating system Windows XP! Now let us put in front the main reasons behind why IE9 doesn’t work in Windows XP. These are the 5 main reasons we found why IE9 doesn’t support Windows XP:

1. DirectX

IE9 uses the Direct2D feature of DirectX when accessing the graphics hardware to accelerate image creation and drawing. Direct2D was introduced in Windows 7, but then added to Windows Vista SP2 and Windows Server 2008 R2. But not to Windows XP.

2. Security

Windows XP users have a fast, safe, reliable and private browser in Internet Explorer 8 that IE9 doesn’t provide for XP.

3. Graphics

Internet Explorer 9 requires the modern graphics and security underpinnings that have come since 2001, which XP doesn’t have.

4. Hardware and OS

IE9 is intended to be run on a modern operating system in order to build on the latest hardware and operating system innovations.

5. Multi core

IE9 require a discrete graphics card and prefer multiple cores. Such things didn’t exist in XP.

Several users say it might be one of the marketing strategy by Microsoft to switch from  Windows XP users to Vista or Windows7, and may be Microsoft has totally stopped support to Windows XP and may not include XP in any of its future Software releases.

If this is true then for sure Microsoft will suffer big blow as Windows XP has more than 60% users in world using it when compared to 15% and 11% share on vista and Windows7.

What about other browser vendors, such as Opera, Mozilla and Google. Are these players abandoning XP? No! Here’s what Google Chrome developer Alex Russell had to say:

I recognize Opera and Mozilla and on Chrome we’re all doing hardware acceleration. And, all of us are doing it on XP. What you’re describing is a situation where people are less behind. The way is to not leave users behind.

Tech Tip: After all, upgrading to a different browser might be a whole lot easier (and cheaper) than upgrading the entire OS. After all, if Chrome, Firefox and Opera are all going to be able to do everything (or most) of that Internet Explorer 9 can do without having to upgrade the OS

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