Have you ever imagined operating your smartphones using an external device that is similar to a switch? Sony Ericsson’s Xperia SmartTags based on NFC can automatically handle everyday tasks with a simple touch. What is NFC? NFC, Near Field Communication, is a short-range communication technology that enables devices to exchange information with other NFC-enabled devices or certain NFC supporting cards. It makes use of interacting electromagnetic radio fields instead of the typical direct radio transmissions.It [...]

All the Counterstrike lovers,a port has been made to play Counterstrike 1.6 on android.Yes, you heard me right! Valve’s Counterstrike has been ported to Android devices.Thanks to the developers at XDA who have released the Android version using the Unity 3D engine. As of now, there are two versions available : 5o version for Android 2.0+ (but not ICS), ARMv6+, GL 1.0+ and 6p version for Android 2.3+, ARMv7, GL 1.0+. All the Counterstrike gamers [...]

For people with Facebook Chat as your primary choice for online chatting, Chit Chat should be interesting.Chit Chat is a free instant messenger (IM), launched by Athena IT Limited, that allows you to chat with your Facebook friends from your desktop. You can connect to the Facebook chat without a web browser. Chit Chat provides you a swift and fast tabbed interface for chatting with as many as friends you want. It also offers instant alert notifications. [...]

Did you ever imagine a world of see-through monitors and windows that are interactive? The technology that will make the world of Sci-Fi movies real is out! Samsung is demoing a mind-blowing transparent glass touchscreen display to see the world outside. With the Back light units (BLUs) removed, you can see right through the display to whatever is beyond. The panel is effective even at night as it includes a special transparent BLU that acts [...]

Isn’t it cool to hear it? Navigating through gestures and touching the screen to launch apps seems to be out-dated. Tobii has developed Gaze, a eye tracking technology that will let you control the mouse, launch apps, open links and many more by just looking at them. Tobii specializes in developing new eye tracking technology and has designed a software called “Gaze” for Windows 8. It is essentially an eye-controlled device or web cam that [...]

The much awaited world’s cheapest tablet – Aakash – is now up for sale. Datawind, the maker of the tablet, has put up about 30,000 tablets for sale online priced at Rs 2,500.You can now book your tablet through the online portal www.akashtablet.com. Suneet Singh Tuli, CEO and founder of Datawind in a press release said – “We have put up on sale about 30,000 tablets online, which will have a cash on delivery of [...]

Students can now plot mathematical functions including trigonometric, exponential and logarithmic, using Google search. “I still recall the day when my friend Yossi came to school and showed off his brand new graphing calculator,I was stunned by how easy it was to plot complicated functions — meanwhile, the rest of us were still drawing them by hand on graph paper” , Google Inside Search Blog says. Simply type a function in the search bar and [...]

Bharti Airtel gives its mobile subscribers in India free access to Twitter on their mobile phones till 1st March 2012. Subscribers can sign up for Twitter or subscribe to SMS updates of specific users (via short code 53000) on their mobile phones. Users will also be able to get Twitter updates via SMS for free. Other links shared by Twitter users will incur normal data usage charges. N Rajaram, chief marketing officer, consumer business, Bharti [...]

The Black menu bar is gone! Google rolls out the new “Google Menu”. The recent change made to the design is the new navigation bar. The old black bar which occupied a lot of space on the screen is replaced by a drop-down menu bar under the Google logo. The official blog says ” We’re now ready for the next stage of our redesign—a new Google bar that will enable you to navigate quickly between [...]

If you are interested in changing your Logon screen background, then you need to just follow the steps given below:  Click on the Start icon. In the search box, type regedit. Open the regedit.exe. You can also open regedit by typing regedit in the Run command( Windows key + R) In regedit,expand HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>>SOFTWARE>>Microsoft>>Windows>>CurrentVersion>>Authentication>>LogonUI and then click on Background. Double click on the OEMBackground, and change its value from 0 to 1.  Now,open windows explorer and [...]