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Windows Blue Latest News; Windows Blue will not integrate with Start Button

In case you have been considering that the Windows Blue version, which is believed to be released in the Summer of 2013, is going to bring back to the users the Start Button, you perhaps would like to take a seat. According to CNbeta, who leaked confidential information regarding Windows 8 earlier, state that the Windows Blue version will not integrate the Start button back to the Windows 8.

This does not come as a bombshell , as the Microsoft Corporation is going to have a huge tomato on its face it it did come to its users’ desires and requirements to bring back the iconic button. On the other hand, beyond not bringing back the iconic button, the source also states that the Microsoft Corporation will keep on making nips to the desktop and also there would be updates made to the taskbar. What would these tweaks be about has not been mentioned. Moreover the tweaks, the entire user interface will emerge as flattened, the kernel will also be upgraded to 6.3, will be accessible at an extremely affordable price range or even for free. With a flatter look been applied to the User Interface, all the related features of Aero will be completely killed with the Windows Blue version.

As we stay tuned for more vital details on Windows Blue, Microsoft has already pulled up its sleeves, and it is most likely would be called as the Windows 9. As the release is anticipated in Summer 2013, we will hear from the Microsoft Corporation soon regarding the Windows Blue and about the updates concerning one of its prime revenue generating endeavors.

The 5 Beautiful New Year Live Wallpapers For The Android

Now with some incredible apps, you can have beautiful New Year Live wallpapers for your Android device. All you have to do here is to browse through the Google’s Play Store and download these applications on your phone right away. Following are the 5 best apps that you can download to get access to the most beautiful and amazing New Year Live wallpapers to your Android phone.

3D New Year Countdown :

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The app has been developed by Jetblack software. It features live 3D wallpapers for the New Year. With this app, you can start a countdown to the coming year 2013. This version of the app offers users with magical Sky Lanterns, realistic 3D Snow Scene, Christmas Tree of Light, and a lot more to celebrate the Lunar/ Chinese New Year, along with a complimentary Valentine’s day scene and fanatical Fireworks scenes too! The app can be easily downloaded from Google’s Play Store.

2013 New Year Countdown LWP :

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The application has been designed by DroidofDroid. You can get access to some incredible wallpapers for the year 2013. The countdown to the new year has already begun. You can customize your wallpapers by utilizing the feature of Wallpaper editor. The app offers a free version as well as a paid version which consists of some other beautiful themes such as Garden, party, and Night city. The app can be easily downloaded from Google’s Play Store.

New Years Live Wallpaper lite :

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The application has been developed by Agreadd Studios. You can get 3D Christmas wallpapers for the New Year and make your device full of colors for the coming year of 2013. You will see a Christmas tree with amazing flashing lights. You will certainly enjoy all the graphical features of the app and enjoy your New Year at its best. The app can be easily downloaded from Google’s Play Store.

New Year Sky Live Wallpaper :

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Creatiosoft has developed this app. And wishes all the users a very happy new 2013. As the New Year countdown begins, there is nothing else better than having a live New Year’s wallpaper on your phone that constantly reminds you about the time left for the next year. With this app, you can enhance your exhilaration and enthusiasm as the countdown begins for the 2013 arriving. The app can be easily downloaded from Google’s Play Store.

New Year Fireworks LWP :

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Wsabi has developed the app. It enables its users to enjoy the excitement related to the NEW year. They can get a free New Year Fireworks Live Wallpaper installed on their screens while they are celebrating the holidays as well as the new year. The app can be easily downloaded from Google’s Play Store.

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Now enhance your Instagram Photos by Using InstaWeather & InstaPlace iOS Apps

There are many apps available that are use to enhance and beautify the photos taken through Instagram. However, the InstaWeather and InstaPlace apps for Instagram offer a completely new concept to enhance pictures. These two apps are for the people who love to travel and who love to take pictures. They can now easily take photos from any where in the world through there Instagram, add the weather and place description on the photos, and then easily share it with their followers. This will keep your friends updated through your pictures about you and the photos will definitely inspire them.

InstaWeather for iOS :

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The app has similar interface with only difference in the skins they offer. It features a variety of skins to choose from that will reflect the current weather condition about your current location. There is skin that will only display the current temperature of the place and there is another one that will display the complete detail about the weather, wind speed or air pressure of your location. You can manage your photos in the way you like. You can manage the focus of your photo as the apps give room for maximum customization. This app will allow you to share your completely transformed photos with your friends within no time. It lets you to share photos on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

InstaWeather for iOS (Free)
InstaWeather for iOS (Paid)

InstaPlace for iOS:

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The app is so smart enough that it will recognize your current location and it will also recommend you with various skins that you can choose. It also features the caption on photo that allows you to add your own comment to your photo. You can control them to be displayed anywhere on the picture. InstaPlace features both the front and back camera mode that allows you to take your own photo very easily. In addition to the weather information, you can even choose the days of the weather forecast on your photo. In this way, your photos will themselves talk to the people and will truly act as an inspiration for them.

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InstaPlace for iOS (Paid)

Both the free and paid versions of the apps are available. The paid app features a large variety of skins. These apps will give you an opportunity to play with your photos in the way you want. It lets you to capture and beautify your pictures that will add more to your memories in life. You will thoroughly enjoy in the years to come.

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BlueStacks App Player Beta Released that runs Android Apps on Mac OS

After the Alpha version of the BlueStack for Windows8, that was released back in June, now comes the beta version of the BlueStacks app player software that allows more than 750,000 of the android apps to be run on the MAC OS or any of the Apple’s device. It is to be noted that the alpha version only allowed seventeen of the millions of android applications to be played on Windows8 and even the small release was the demand of 5 million users. It was given the Best CES Award software. Through the massive hit, the beta version is now enjoying a huge success among many users. One surprising fact for the Apple is that even the IOS apps cannot be played on the devices other than the apple’s Smartphone’s and tablets, and the release of the BlueStacks technology has left them far behind.

The BlueStack software is developed using a smart technique that runs on MAC OS and acts as an android phone in disguise. The Layercake technology creates an android environment on the OS X machine and the apps functions as smoothly as they run on an android phone. The MAC users can now enjoy almost any of the android apps available on Google Play and run them on their laptops or PCs and the offer is completely irresistible for the Apple users. The BlueStacks developers were able to gather amount of $15 million with the help of sponsors and it was the hard work and great minds of 10 engineers that contributed in the development of this wonderful technology, which has even given competition to the Apple.

You just need to download this free software and you can enjoy the millions of android applications on your OS X.

Check Out The Six Top Smartphones Of Year 2012

The year 2012, probably over any other year till now, has seen an incredible change, the way different companies manufacture, design as well as sell off their tablets and Smartphones. A large number of commerce versions have been progressively switched to a service-first versions, as the manufacturers endeavor to attract their customers through these podiums with the commitment of VAS as well as offering them with all the media related content they actually could probably require at one place.

In year 2012, Apple Corporation has moved ahead, building its reputation as the tech giant all around the globe, whereas Google offered user with mobility, and Android reaches millions of users worldwide and incorporated more useful services and apps into the mobile phone offerings.

The Microsoft Corporation has come forward with its latest release of Windows Phone 8 as well as the Windows 8 platforms, which is an attempt to create its very own way in the Smartphone and tablet markets.

For HTC, Sony, Huawei, and RIM it has been a mixed year, however; there have been a number of incredible tablets and Smartphones released – providing users with more preference than they could even possibly imagine.

Learn About The Six Best Smartphones Of 2012 ;

iPhone 5 :

iPhone 5, soon after its release, became the best ever selling Smartphone all around the world. It was released back in September and launched in 9 different markets. Within the first 24 hours of its release, Apple was able to sell more than 2 million gadgets, which reached to the mark of 5 million after a weekend. iPhone 5 features a latest A6 processor, 20% lighter and18 percent thinner than its predecessors.

Samsung Galaxy S 3 :

2012 has been a stellar for Samsung that has completely overtaken Nokia, becoming not just the world’s biggest Smartphone manufacturer, but also world’s most renowned cellular phone company. Samsung Galaxy S III has brought fame to the manufacturer and turned out to be the best selling Smartphone of year 2012.

The Samsung Galaxy S 3 integrates a 4.8” 1280×720 AMOLED display, with a4 quad-core processor as well as an 8MP camera. It supports the Google’s Jelly Bean OS version.

Nexus 4 :

Google, in the year 2012 changes the technique on how it originally sited its Nexus product line, but did not amend the way the gadget was sold. The Nexus 4 was made available with an extremely low price mark which was the 8GB version just for $299, and the 16GB version was available for only $349.

Nexus 4 features a 4.7-inch 1280 x 768 display, a quad-core 1.5 GHz processor, an 8MP rear-facing camera, 2GB RAM, 2100mAh battery, and the first gadget to run Google’s most recent Android Operating System which is the Android Jelly Bean 4.2 version.

The Lumia 920 By Nokia :

Nokia came up with the latest Lumia Windows Phone 8 devices by November, which integrated improved software and hardware functionalities within its new range of Lumia 820 and Lumia 920 handsets. The device supports a dual-core 1.5GHz S4 processor, 4.5” IPS LCD display, 1GB of RAM. Nokia has integrated the feature of the ‘PureMotion HD+’ technology that offers Synaptics tech which enable users to easily press and swipe even with bulky gloves on.

HTC One X+ :

HTC has now come up with the new range of various Android gadgets. Back in April 2012, HTC released the One X, which integrated a 4.7” Super LCD 1280 x 720 display, 1GB of RAM, 1.5GHz quad-core processor with an inbuilt storage of 32GB.
After 6 months, HTC came up a superior version and released the One X+.

The One X+ had similar 4.7” Super LCD 2 1280 x 720 display, 1GB RAM just as its predecessor, integrating a 1.7 GHz quad-core chip, which has mad the One X+ approximately 67% faster compared to the One X.

Samsung Galaxy Note 2 :

The Galaxy Note 2 by Samsung was released on 29th of August, 2012. It supports a 5.5” Super AMOLED Plus display, 2GB RAM, quad-core 1.6 GHz processor and an amazing battery of 3100 mAh.

The Galaxy Note II has been able to reach the mark of 3 million unit sales within only 37 days time. Samsung has forecasted that this device will be able to sell more than 20 million devices alone, which would be twice as of its precursor.

How To Block / Unlock Calls On Android & iOS – Based On Location

You are comforting at home, perhaps enjoying your favorite movie, when you get a ring on your cell phone from your office requiring you to report immediately. Instead of disrupting the movie, or take the particular call and give them with a half-apology, would not that be awesome if some places were unavailable for SMS and calls by particular groups of people? Check out the call block managers for Android and iOS platforms and make it work for you.

Block / Unlock Calls On Android :

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Mr. Number-Block Calls, Texts App happens to be a call manager and blocker application for Android Blackberry and iOS devices. Call blocking is one of the most imperative features of the app; it basically takes full control of your device’s phone app and can block out any number you want to.

Once you start off with the app, you will be provided with the blacklist that contains the kinds of numbers that you prefer blocking, along with exceptions. Moreover, you will be able to send all the private numbers via an app directly to the voicemail; the application can even block SMS messages from a particular number or even from private numbers.

The app provides users with the feature to choose exactly how the app should block the SMS and calls. The traditional approach is to send the caller or number right to the voicemail, but this app also provides the feature to ‘pick up the call and hang up’. Moreover, you can also set up different profiles and even block certain numbers as per your needs and requirements.

Mr. Number is an exceedingly useful application, which is free to access and can be downloaded from the Google’s Play Store.

Block / Unlock Calls On iOS :

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Apple, earlier in the year 2012, came up with the ‘Do not disturb’ mode, which enable users to automatically disregard any kind of notifications or calls for that matter. This feature got to receive huge fanfare, yet most users consider it to be moderately more selective in comparison to just on/off switch.

Call Bliss is the app that bridges the gap in the most useful manner and setting up is certainly a bliss: right from your app, you will be able to create your own list of various locations, like school, home, gym, work and even create groups of people like Co-workers and friends. Right from there, you can easily assign your different contacts to any of these groups, and then tag at the location you hope to be available by each group.

The app certainly happens to be an incredible addition for anyone who wants to deal with their contacts in a better manner. Remember, the app is programmed to discover your present location, no matter where ever you are, however it perhaps will drain your device’s battery life.

Call Bliss can be accessed easily from the App Store for just $2.99.