Finally! Google Maps Now Accessible For Apple iOS

Google has recently launched the official Google Maps application for the iOS devices, right after 3 months Apple swapped its previous mapping service with a native mapping application.

Google Maps Director for Mobile, Daniel Graf stated on the official blog that the Google Maps application is now officially available at the Apple’s App Store for the 4th generation gadget iPod Touch and iPhone with software versions iOS 5.1 and higher.

The application has been made available in 29 different languages and over 40 different countries including Japanese and Chinese.
Users all around the globe have been waiting for the Google Maps app on the iOS devices. The release being made today, Google Maps app is here, available to users in the App Store. The app as has been premeditated from the ground up to bring in the precision and comprehensiveness of Google Maps with an extremely friendly user-interface that helps users find what they are actually looking for much easier as well as faster.

With the release of the iOS 6 version, Apple replaced the Google Maps app with a native Apple Maps app, in part to bring down its dependence on Google.

On the other hand, Apple Maps was not much appreciated as some of the mapping services lacked the accuracy and details earlier originated in Google Maps. Accordingly, Cupertino has amplified and improved its efforts to hire developers who could improvise the program and Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO even declared an explanation to iOS consumers for the unplanned initial effort.

Soruce: Apple Store

Access 1Password 4 iOS Now Via the App Store!

Scheduled for launch on December, 13th, the 1Password, latest version has now been made available at the App Store. This latest version of the app brings to users a host full of updated features, and has not been made available for only $7.99, which is 50% less than the typical price of the security app by the atebits software.

The 1Password will help generate strong and unique passwords for every single sit you get to visit on your iOS gadget, protecting all your confidential data behind a distinct master password It offers superior security features with a military grade 256-bit AES encryption, and makes use of the standard iOS libraries to ensure that there are simply no 3rd party security or backdoors gaps. In case, your iOS gadget is stolen or lost, the 1Password supports an Auto-Lock feature, which makes sure that all of your data is secured and protected.

You can easily backup all your information in the 1Password, imperative and confidential information such as access codes, bank account numbers, Passport info, notes, Store credit card numbers, passwords and a lot more. You can mark such items as your favorites, or easily organize your data strongly into different folders. You can easily search within the apps for more attachments, and even make them view within the 1Password application.

There is even an integrated browser for online shopping, logging into sites, secure surfing, which provide users with an access to their 1Password vault data without even jumping to Safari. With this feature, you can automatically fill up address info, credit cards, and browse through multiple tabs safely.

Moreover, 1Password also offers iCloud support, enabling users to easily sync their data across the enabled gadgets, and also offers the ability to utilize the feature of Dropbox across the 1Password apps on Android, Mac, or Windows PCs.

This is the universal app which has been made available now to users, it runs perfectly fine on iPod touch, iPhone and iPad. Once you are going to purchase and install on your iOS gadgets, it will not ask for any other hidden fees or subscription

Source: iTunes Store

Now Save Web Contents to Google Drive with the New Chrome ‘Save to Drive’ Extension

Google has announced an update to Chrome just today that allows you to save directly the contents of the website to Google Drive in just no time. Google Drive is software by Google that was released on April 2012 that lets you to save files, transfer them instantly to all the other devices and access them from anywhere. It comes with a memory space of 5 GB and requires subscription to get more space.

How It Can Be Done :

You can save the web contents by using the new extension feature added to Chrome that is called ‘Save to Google Drive’ Extension. It can be done by either using browser action or the context menu. The content that you can save can be an image, a document, the whole web page, only the hyperlink and many more. It requires only right clicking the content. It will then move to the Google Drive and you can easily access it afterwards from any other device.

Features :

In addition to this, the feature offered by the update includes the options that allow you to control and use the contents you saved in the way you want. For instance, you can rename the files, move them to other folder or can even share it with anyone. Moreover, the saved images can also be managed and organized with the help of the available choices like Zoom, fit to page and much more. The tools are also available that can even enhance the image you saved.

Google always comes up with something interesting to offer to the world and it is always more user friendly than its previous version. The update offered by Google today is one of its kinds making people’s life simpler and it also saves on their precious time.

Soruce: Google Chrome

The Version 18 of Firefox Does Not Supports Animated Theme

Firefox is a popular web browser in the world and a great number of people rely on it. It has been declare by the Firefox developers recently that their latest version will not support background-animated themes known as ‘Persona’ as they were available on the previous versions of Firefox. According to them, the reason behind this change is that the animated themes affect the overall browsing experience as the browsing speed becomes slow. This happens because animated themes are very heavy on graphics, have very large pixels and size and it takes a lot of time to load them. On the other hand, many people find these animations attractive and they consider it a unique feature in Firefox. It enhances the browser and makes it eye-catching. This is the reason Firefox provided this feature to its browsers on the previous versions. People could easily download different themes before and for free. Now this feature is not available with the new Firefox and this change is made so that users can surf the web with better speed and improved performance.

However, Firefox people explains, targeting their animated theme fans, that they are working on finding a solution to this problem and that they are striving to find a way to bring back the animated themes to its browser with no compromise on speed. They have also told that before they come up with the solution, their animated theme fans can still benefit from this feature by downloading an add-on called Personas Shuffler. This will keep the animated themes moving without being stuck and it will support the animated themes quite well. Users can still download themes and beautify their browser in the way they like.

Firefox values their user benefits and they will definitely come up with an update that will please all its users.

Soruce: Firefox Blog

Google Shuts Down A Local Shopping Store Service In China

Google has been pulling it out from the search market in the region of China since 2010, and now it has shut another service as well. The shutting down of the shopping search service has been lately shut down in China.

The Google’s official blog stated that the company is to make a superior effort to ‘better optimize its resources’ as the grounds for the closure of the service. The primary objective of the service was to serve the users as a bridge between different consumers and traders and retailers, but it did not really meet the prospects. The closure becomes effective from December 12th, 2012.

Google apparently did not take note of the fact that it still remains committed to helping out the Chinese citizens considering exporting their goods internationally, and the Google Shopping service in various other markets should still be accessible to the Chinese customers.
Google’s shopping site closure even brings down the music service in the Chinese region back in September, 2012.

On the other hand, the fact cannot be denied that Google has been maintaining pretty troubling terms with the Chinese government. Back in November, only for a short period of time, accessing to nearly all the Google services such as Google.com, Google Maps, Gmail were restricted by the Chinese government.

As it becomes more predictable, Google’s move out from China has greatly impacted its current market share. The search engine service, which reroutes to servers back in the Hong Kong region, which presently stands in the 4th place and the mapping services rank at the mark of 6.

How To Protect Your Android Phone From Virus – 5 Best App On Google Play

Security issues for Android devices keep showing up in the news just about every single day, from various malicious apps making their way to the Google Play Store to mobile based malware spreading through SMS. Although, Android is an Operating System which is easy to use and flexible has now been made available a large number of devices,. This has made the mobile or the virus threat landscape more imperative for users to install additional security features on their devices.

You will get basic security features such as auto-lock or password protection on your device by default. For this you do not require any app. However, do not stop over here. To prevent viruses, you can opt for anti-virus apps that offer enhanced password protection with numerous other vital options.

Following are the 5 Best apps you will find on a Google Play Store to protect your Android phones from viruses:

AVG Anti-Virus :

This app is useful in scanning all settings, apps, media, files in real-time, blocks access to malicious portals, guards against any sorts of Phishing attacks, kills tasks that freeze or slow down the device. It also enables users to easily locate their stolen or lost device through Google Maps. Users can even lock their phones remotely with a customized lock screen message displayed and make the phone ring even if it is on the silent mode.
The AVG Antivirus application is available for free. However, the Pro version costs only $9.99 which offers some vital features such as storage and battery optimization, along with the feature to secure the apps fro being accessed by others using your device and creating backups.

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Lookout Security & Antivirus :

A great app you should opt for as soon as you buy an Android device. The Lookout security and antivirus app has been made available in two different categories, and that is a free and a Paid account.
With the free account, users can scan their devices for malware, restore their data online, create backups, use the GPS feature to locate their gadget.
The Paid version costs $3 monthly and $30 yearly, offering wiping and remote locking capabilities.

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Dr. Web Anti-Virus Light :

The Dr.Web Anti-virus Light app happens to be an exceedingly reliable and consistent approach to protecting your Android phone from several kinds of threats/viruses. The app has been integrated with the most advanced virus detection as well as neutralization technologies. Users can check their phones with the help of the implemented scanner feature and can efficiently neutralize the detected viruses.

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Anti-virus Free :

The Antivirus Free app offers users with features that come in as a complete mobile security package. It provides real-time protection against viruses and keeps your device secure from the latest viruses and threats by cross-referencing newly released apps that are installed on your device with an up-to-date database of well-known malicious apps.

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TrustGo Antivirus and Mobile Security :

The app offers users with scheduled or on-demand scans on the devices and also on the SD card to locate and remove Trojans, spyware, malware and viruses. Secured App Finder Engine feature of the app is useful in finding and downloading apps that are marked as safe. The app also offers alerts while the user browses to any malicious portal, and can easily manage and monitor their device’s usage,  memory and batter consumption.

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