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Fast Fingers; The Top 5 Alternative Keyboards for Android Smartphones

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Are you the kind of person that starts a text and by the end you’re left with a jumble of characters and letters that barely resembles a language at all? Swiftkey might be the best for you. This cutting edge technology allows for error correction and word prediction in a way that has never been seen before. Without even using spaces Swiftkey can determine what you meant to say. It literally learns your style of typing to best correct words and even predict what you’re going to say before you start typing it.

#2 Go Keyboard

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Go Keyboard is another very smart texting app. It also can learn the way you type and help texts come out smoother and faster. This is also the app for the fashion forward person out there. With new themes coming out all of the time and over 60 in total you can change the layout and look as often as you want. It even has great customizable size templates to work best on any size and display of tablet or phone.

#3 Smart Keyboard

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Smart Keyboard is another great keyboard app. It has a solid and professional looking layout and has incredible language variation. It caters to numerous alphabets and language inputs which makes it a great keyboard for multilingual people or world travelers.

#4 Swype

Swype has been dubbed as the cursive style writing for the new age of technology. It features a single touch interface that allows the user to simply swipe their finger over the keyboard making a zig zag pattern over the letters of the word they want. Swype takes a bit of getting used to, but it is an incredible revolution in typing on an electronic device.

#5 Hacker’s Keyboard

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Hacker’s Keyboard is mainly designed for tablet use. It is laid out very similarly to a computer keyboard and allows the user to feel like they’re not typing on a touch screen. It even allows multitouch for command keys so that you can press copy and paste type shortcuts without going through the usual hoops and leaps that are necessary on a normal device.

Al in all keyboards for touch screen devices are very personal decisions. Different styles fit different people better. Check all of these top 5 out and see how they work for you. These will allow you to reach your true texting potential and have everyone envious of your speed!

Samsung confirms it will bring Tizen OS smartphones this year

Finally Samsung confirms it will bring Tizen OS Smartphones this year. Tizen is a Linux-Based open source OS system led by Intel and Samsung. The Operating system supports both Intel and ARM processors and SDK API allow developers to develop HTML 5 based applications.

“We plan to release new, competitive Tizen devices within this year and will keep expanding the lineup depending on market conditions,” Samsung told Bloomberg Businessweek in an e-mailed statement.

Samsung believed to have better designs on boosting Tizen as a leading OS.

Unfortunately, we haven’t any confirmation about device specification and pricing details for the upcoming Samsung smartphones. Maybe following actions help them, to decrease reliance on Google Android Os.

[Image credit: Tizen]

Sim-Free HTC One SV landed in UK Market

Taiwanese electronic manufacturer HTC released the ONE SV Smartphone in British Stores, the device is now available to purchase from Clove £349.99 only. Currently Clove is selling unlocked and SIM-Free both devices in two flavors white and blue colours.

The HTC SV devices packs a 1.2 GHZ dual-core processor, 1 GB RAM with 4.3 inch display to watch movies and play your games etc. Unluckily, the device is running Jelly Bean OS and has a resolution of 480×800.

According to few sources, HTC ONE SV will be coming to EE, UK LTE carrier, user can purchase this device from Clove & then opt for a SIM only deal from EE which charge around £21 for month.

Source: Clove

Samsung Galaxy Camera begins rolling out to Android 4.1.2

We are happy to tell you that, Samsung begins rolling out Jelly Bean 4.1.2 updates for the Galaxy Camera. According to a few blogs, the update is being sent out to users in the United Kingdom. Unfortunately the update does not brings latest features except few bug fixes, performance improvements etc.

Last Year, at IFA Samsung officially announced Galaxy Camera with Android OS. Galaxy Camera uses 4.8 Super Clear LCD display, 16 Megapixel Camera, 1.4 ghz quad-core processor, Wi-fi hspda, Android Jelly Bean 4.1.1 and Samsung latest Touch-wiz Nature UI.

Information about the firmware :

Productcode: EK-GC100TADBTU
PDA: GC100XXBLL7
CSC: GC100OXABLL7
MODEM: GC100XXBLL7

Samsung Galaxy Camera users can update their Camera via Samsung KIES software’s or OTA.

How To Share Photos To Facebook Wall Or Page with Chrome Extension

Facebook, undoubtedly is the biggest social network, and also is utilized as a platform to verify identities online. It enables users to sign in and make use of different web based applications, services as well as participate in several online forums. A large number of users on Facebook surely benefit themselves in this regard; and share content that they find interesting among their friends, and they leave them with comments on the forum or site. For sites that have mostly, if not completely, offer image based content, users normally make use of their Facebook ID’s to share the images. Just consider sharing an image from anywhere over the Internet, without copying or pasting its source URL. Make use of the ‘Upload Photos To Facebook Pages’ extension by Chrome that will enable you to share image based content right on your Facebook or to the pages you manage through the right-click context menu.

The Upload Photos To Facebook Pages extension offer users with an upload option next to the URL bar. You are required to sign in to your Facebook account, and make use of this extension, authorize the app to connect to your account. Once you have authorized the extension with the permission, you have to allow it to post it on your behalf or it is completely of no use and if you consider using it to post on your Facebook profile, you will have to provide it with an access to your Facebook pages too. All of these features will appear as options you essentially can skip, but if you skip them, installing the extension will be useless.

To login and then authorize the application, you must right click on the image and then select the option as ‘Upload to Facebook’ from the context menu. You will be now asked to login to your Facebook account and authorize the extension to access your profile details.

Once you have provided the extension with the permission, its icon would be right next to your URL and will list down your profile and any other pages you manage on Facebook. While you share any image, you will be able to select he option where you have to share it, that is your profile, page or even both. The extension will also enable you to add a description to the content you are sharing; as the description box appears, and you select the sharing option, click ‘Ok’ and post it. You will not be able to mention any of your contacts’ name within the description box.

The image you will post will appear immediately on your Facebook page or profile and goes within an album created automatically by the extension. it is precisely like you have downloaded an image and later on have uploaded to your profile in a much smarter way. This extension perhaps is not for everyone, but it happens to be extremely handy for all such users who make use of Facebook extensively.

Soruce: Google Chrome WebStore

The 6 Best Free Antivirus For Windows 8 – Year 2013

Finally, it’s New Year! This New Year brings many of the exciting fresh releases and updates in the technology for the people all around the world. There are new antivirus software’s released for the users of the windows 8. This article is a review on the top free antivirus software’s of the year 2013. Continue reading as to help yourself in selection of the best software in order to keep your windows 8 run smoothly and efficiently and also secure your system from any type of harm.

AVG Internet Security 2013;

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The software is best for the people who do online shopping and banking. It will give the finest and most reliable online security from any kind of harmful attacks. AVG has the capability to recognize and block any threats before you actually click on it. It will protect your emails from spam and will also protect your private data from being hacked.

Avira Antivirus 2013 ;

AVIRA is one of the most popular antivirus software of last year that now offers amazing new features with the new premium update. It provides the most excellent security to the system and also protects system from online threats. The new feature includes the problem solving ability of the software that will help you in overcoming the harms occurred to your system.

Bitdefender Antivirus ;

bitdefender is the most simplest among all the softwares. It will not irritate the user from any kind of advertisement or messages. It is smart enough to take its own decisions in solving problems of your system without actually troubling the user. It is the lightest software that works best on windows 8.

Panda Cloud Antivirus 2013 ;

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The software is so efficient that it will protect your system by taking its own intelligent decisions. The software will upgrade itself without asking for the user’s permission. PANDA provides the best online security to the system and it will scan and clean the USB device as soon as you insert it.

COMODO Antivirus 2013 ;

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The software will deeply scan your system and will rapidly remove all the harmful hidden files from your system. COMODO Antivirus is based on the Auto sandbox technology that will smartly control all the threats in your system automatically.

Immunet Antivirus 2013 ;

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Immunet will not affect your system’s performance and it will continue to give the best security with maximum speed as it consumes little memory space. It does not require updating the software. This fast and efficient software is friendly with your present antivirus.

The technology is getting smarter with the passage of time and each year, people are striving hard to bring out the fastest technology to the world. Now update your system’s antivirus softwares this year to keep up pace with the rapidly changing technology.