Since childhood, my greatest worry used to be the driver installation cd’s of my computer. Since internet was not that common in those times and where it was available, the speed was so slow that it would hardly open the main page of yahoo. In those times, our only hope used to be the driver disks after formatting the computer.
In Windows 7 you can use Windows Update to install the basic drivers, but not all of them. DriverEasy is a free app that performs a deep scan of your system to detect the hardware and find their drivers. Using this app has two benefits; finding latest drivers and installing the drivers in case the CDs are lost or the driver folder has been mistakenly deleted.
Using DriverEasy is 3 step simple process.
1) Run the program, hit Scan Now and it will start scanning for the hardware and their drivers.
2) The result from the scan will show you all the required drivers for the hardware found on your computer.
3) In last step, you can download and install the drivers that you found missing in the second step.
The screen shots of the three steps are also shown below:
According to the official site of DriverEasy:
Can’t you see ? Driver Easy is quite easy to use that you could completely download all latest device drivers within 3 clicks !
With the friendly user Interface, Driver Easy can save you too much time & energy to find out the latest drivers of your computer. Don’t be annoying ,it is fully compatible with all current OS .
Thanks to its Industry-leading technology , 100,000 + hardware driver database, daily-updating drivers support, DriverEasy will drive your computer more faster and assure your system running more safe & steadily
The app uses a huge 1 million plus driver database and can find drivers for almost all software. Enjoy the software and get rid of multiple driver cds from your collection.
Apple has finally unveiled its much awaited Apple iPad. The Apple iPad offers many exciting features and is more or less built on the same lines as Apple iPhone. However, its price is remarkably attractive to general users and we strongly expect it to give a real tough time to the traditional laptops and netbooks in the near future. Below is detailed overview.
Specifications of Apple iPad
-SCREEN: 9.7-inch IPS LCD screen. The LCD provides the backlighting, but most of the technology is IPS, or In-plane switching. This gives it a stronger viewing angle than most screens.
- RESOLUTION: 1024×768 pixels (132 pixels per inch)
- SIZE: 0.5 inches thin.
- DIMENSIONS: 9.5 inches x 7.5 inches x 0.5 inches
- WEIGHT: 1.5 pounds (1.6 pounds for 3G)
- CHIP: 1 GHz Apple A4 chip. They went in-house instead of going to Intel.
- MEMORY: Three models with 16 GB, 32 GB and 64 GB solid state hard drives.
- INCLUSIONS: Accelerometer, Microphone, 30-pin connector, Compass, full capacitive multi-touch, Bluetooth 2.1, 802.11n Wi-Fi, 3G access on higher-end models
- BATTERY LIFE: 10 hours at full blast. On standby, it will last over a month.
Apple iPad Interface:
The interface should be familiar to you; it looks a lot like the iPhone OS interface. In fact, it’s essentially a custom version of the iPhone 3.2 OS. Primary apps are housed at the bottom and you swipe left and right through your home screens to find apps. Steve Jobs even mentioned that it would be easy for people to pick up on the interface because so many people (7.5 million) have either an iPhone or an iPod touch.
There is a new SDK for developers to build apps specifically for the iPad, but all iPhone apps run in the iPad. iPhone apps can run either in their native resolutions or in a “double pixel mode” for full-screen use. Most of the apps we’ve seen run very well in double pixel mode
Apple iPad Web, Email, and Maps
Just like the iPhone, it utilized Safari Mobile as its browser. It’s bigger, but not much else is different. And just like the iPhone, it does not support Adobe Flash, a plug-in that Apple simply doesn’t like.
In fact, most of the other standard web apps are the same between the iPhone and the iPad. Email, for example, utilizes a similar interface, but it does have more features such as email previews. Google Maps runs on the iPad just as it does on the iPhone.
One app that did get some new features though was the Photo app, which now sports an iPhoto-like interface and some new multi-touch inputs that allow you to easily view and manage multiple pictures.
Apple iPad Connectivity
Apple’s tablet comes in two models, based on their connectivity. Both versions have Wi-Fi connectivity, which is to be expected. However, the higher-end model also comes with 3G access — for $130 more, you can have a 3G-enabled tablet.
If you want the 3G model, you have to use it currently on AT&T: it’s the official launch partner of the iPad. Luckily though, you don’t have to sign a contract to use the 3G connection. Instead, you prepay for however many months of 3G access you desire. It costs $14.99 for 250 MB of data per month, while you’ll need to fork over $29.99 monthly for an unlimited plan. You can cancel any time without any termination fee.
The iPad utilizes microGSM, meaning that it’s not specifically bound to AT&T. Thus, you can expect it to work on international carriers sometime in June or July. That doesn’t mean you can just stick in a T-Mobile or Verizon card though: Verizon and Sprint use the incompatible CDMA 3G format, while the iPad’s 3G modem doesn’t support T-Mobile’s 3G frequency.
Apple iPad Gaming
You really want to look out for the iPad as a gaming device, because EA and others are going to build some amazing games on this platform.
Several games were demonstrated for the iPad, including Need for Speed Shift and N.O.V.A. In Need for Speed, the driver moves the car by turning the tablet. Tapping on the device changes your perspective and zooms. You utilize the touchscreen to accelerate and change gears. Our estimation is that the game looks great — better than an iPhone game — but still doesn’t compare to the PC. In N.O.V.A., a first-person shooter, you can use thee fingers to open a door or slide two fingers to toss a grenade. There are more input possibilities with Apple’s tablet.
The same things that made the iPhone a popular gaming platform were apparent in these demos, however the iPad’s HD capabilities and its more advanced touch screen will make it a stronger gaming platform. And with all iPhone games running on the device, there’s already a big library in its collection.
The Price of iPad is the most exciting feature and i am sure that is going to bring the revolution. As you can see from the image above, it comes in two editions: Wi-Fi enabled or Wi-Fi + 3G capable. There are also three sizes: 16 GB, 32 GB and 64 GB. Thus, the cheapest (Wi-Fi, 16 GB) costs only $499, while the most expensive iPad, the 64 GB model with 3G, costs $829.
Here’s the rundown, in order of price:
- $499: 16 GB, Wi-Fi only
- $599: 32 GB, Wi-Fi only
- $629: 16 GB, Wi-Fi and 3G
- $699: 64 GB, Wi-Fi only
- $729: 32 GB, Wi-Fi and 3G
- $829: 64 GB, Wi-Fi and 3G
In addition, you have to take into account the cost of 3G services. The iPad has 3G through AT&T alone currently, but there is no contract, meaning you can prepay or cancel at any time. For 250 MB of data a month, it costs $14.99 per month, while unlimited data is $29.99. It’s quite a good deal in our estimation, especially since you can cancel your contract at any time and you get access to any AT&T Wi-Fi hotspot for free (e.g. Starbucks).
Lego iPhone app is a tiny applications for iPhone and iPod touch users that will transform any picture into a one made up of Legos. At first view, you might find it a bit boring but once you get started, you literally end up transforming all your crazy pictures through the app into Lego brick mosaics. Thats the fun part of Legos that once you get addicted to it, you cant just get away from them.
Web Touch is a Free App for Touch Screen users who frequently use YouTube, Picasa and Flickr and at the same time are too lazy for the normal way of browsing. Web Touch helps you to navigate desired content by simple clicking and dragging. General Support of kinematic scrolling is implemented and also touch screen keyboard support is added. The keyboard app also offer multilingual support. The application is in the experimental stage and hence don’t expect it to be perfect. And you don’t get perfect stuff for free
Procter & Gamble famous brand Tide has come out with its iPhone/ipod Touch App titled Stain Brain. Stain Brain let iPhone consumers to find and share ways to remove stains at home and on the go. It gives consumers a step-by-step cleaning instructions from the experts at Tide and other iPhone users to get answers before stains have a chance to set in. For those iPhone users who have a secret recipe for removing tough stains, Tide Stain Brain lets them instantly share their own tips and tricks within the application. After downloading the free application, consumers can browse the top 20 stains, according to popularity. They can use search and filters to find stains by name or category. Users of the application can retrieve the Tide stain solution, complete with on-the-go tips, fabric care notes and recommended Tide products.
“We see Tide as the authority in stain removal, and we’ve had stain solutions on our Web site for some time, and we wanted to extend out of home to reach consumers,” said Amanda Treevy, Cincinnati, OH-based digital brand manager of Tide at P&G. “The iPhone application allowed us to do that, offering on-the-go tips at consumers’ fingertips.
The Stain Brain Tide iPhone App is free to Download at Apple App Store.
Fishbowl is an awesome Facebook Desktop Client App for Window users just like Seesmic and TweetDeck are for twitter. Fishbowl lets you Experience your Facebook content in new ways with a desktop client application that lets you personalize how you read your newsfeed, update status, comment, like, browse and upload photos. Fishbowl Mini-mode offers an unobtrusive way to stay connected and offers Seamless integration with Facebook’s web so you are always just a click away. Fishbowl offers fluid, snappy user interface and let you to navigate photos quickly. You can simply drag & drop photos into Fishbowl to have these published to Facebook. Users of Fishbowl can sit back and watch a full screen slideshow to see your albums. According to DownloadSquad:
Since the app is built by Microsoft’s own people, it makes perfect sense that Fishbowl takes advantage of Windows 7’s superbar. The preview thumbnail also includes controls for jumping between pages or opening the Facebook homepage…Which is where the one real downside to Fishbowl appears.
If you’ve gotten used to browsing Facebook using Chrome or Firefox, be prepared for some slowness. Fishbowl is likely using IE8’s rendering engine, so opening external web content is going to feel slow. You can, however, force such links to open in your web browser – just click the gear menu and check the appropriate box.
You can also switch color schemes, though that only effects the bar across the top of the window. Still, if you’ve got a nice, dark Aero Glass scheme set up, you might want to flip Fishbowl to Dark as well.
Fishbowl System Requirements
Operating system: Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (32-bit edition only), Windows Vista (32-bit or 64-bit editions), Windows 7 (32-bit or 64-bit editions), or Windows Server 2008.
Processor: 1 GHz or higher for Windows 7 or Windows Vista; 800 MHz or higher for Windows XP.
Memory: 1 GB of RAM for Windows 7 or Windows Vista; 512 MB for Windows XP.
Internet connection: Internet functionality requires dial-up or broadband Internet access (provided separately). Local or long-distance charges may apply.
Graphics or video card: A video card that supports DirectX 9.0 or higher, and Shader Model 2.0 or higher.
Electronic Arts (EA) has successfully entered the mobile gaming market with the release of its Fifa 2010 iPhone and iPod Touch versions. The game is the perfect example of how big game developers are trying to explore new avenues of revenues as competition is getting tough in their traditional markets. This is the first time that EA is bringing its top selling football franchise “FIFA” to mobile devices. iPhone has taken the credit for being the device that compelled EA to jump into the arena of developing games for mobile devices. FIFA 2010 for iPhone and iPod Touch is just awesome and below is the detailed feature wise review.
Here is the brief description of the FIFA 2010 App
Category: Games
Price: $9.99
Released: Sep 30, 2009
Size: 61.6 MB
Seller: Electronic Arts Nederland BV
Latest version: 1.0.1
REAL LEAGUES. REAL TEAMS. REAL PLAYERS.
Match 30 leagues, 570 teams, and 12,620 players from around the world. Play up to 20 licensed tournaments and cup competitions.
“BE A PRO” MODE: A FIFA 10 EXCLUSIVE!
Create your own future superstar — ONLY with FIFA 10 by EA SPORTS™. Track his play in multiple seasons. Earn skills in competition against the world’s finest soccer players, and build your legend!
CONTROL THE GAME WITH FINGERTIP EASE
Easily dictate tempo with the accelerometer. Pull off defense-splitting passes, rifling shots, and pro-style tricks. A simple, innovative two button control system offers a free flowing football experience, offering up a wide range of passes and tackles at full speed with incredibly tight movements. The responsive shooting system provides a host of attacking options, whether it be testing the keeper with a long range thunderbolt or rounding the keeper and finishing with a touch of class.
TRUE SIGHTS AND SOUNDS
Hear the roar of sold-out stadiums, and catch close-up the pride and passion on the field, from team presentations to goal celebrations. View from 6 angles, plus the “Be A Pro” camera. All in 3D.
TURN UP THE COMPETITION
Access Local WiFi Multiplayer Mode for friendly head-to-head action. Test your skills vs. your personal rivals.
PICK UP AND PLAY. ANYTIME, ANYWHERE.
From Barcelona to Brazil, manage the world’s best, and play for prestige and glory. Load in seconds and get ready for action!
SCREEN SHOTS OF FIFA 2010 for iPhone and iPod Touch
Video Review of FIFA 2010
Download the offical Copy of FIFA 2010 for iPhone and iPod Touch at App Store here
Download the Free Copy of FIFA 2010 for iPhone and iPod Touch at Rapid Share here
We do not encourage you for the second option but just sharing it with you as we believe to keep our readers aware of the info as its already on the internet. However, we personally recommend the official copy, which is of course not free
NASA has jumped into the apps arena by launching its own free app for iPhone fans labeled NASA iPhone App.The New Media Team at NASA Ames Research Center has developed the first NASA iPhone application to deliver up-to-the-minute NASA content directly from Agency sources in one easy-to-use mobile platform. The software offers images, videos (YouTube clips), wallpapers, mission details and regular updated through the NASA Twitter feed.
The software makes extensive use of built-in iPhone features and usability to offer NASA information in a clear and intuitive way. The application aggregates and delivers a compelling range of dynamically updated information, images and video links.
The NASA App is available free of charge on the App Store from Apple directly to the iPhone and iPod Touch or within iTunes. The official link for NASA iPhone App can be find here
The Zoomback team has come out with a small gps gadget that you can place on anything and track it through your iPhone. All you have to do is to get hold of the Zoomback device as you can see in the picture below and keep it in the backpack of your children or attach to your suitcase and download and install the iPhone app on your iPhone. Start the iPhone app and use your online username and password to log in and click on “Find Now” to track your items.
If you want to keep a continuous track of your items, switch to continuous mode and you will be able to track the movement of anything that you want to track at an interval of five minutes.
While Zoombak modules retail for $99 to $149 (USD) each, but I managed to find many modules for as little as $38 over at Amazon, which is a steal. You can grab the iPhone app here.
Adobe has released the Photoshop.com Mobile for iPhone and it can be downloaded for free by clicking here. The beauty of the product is that it offers almost all the important features for the users while being on the go. According to PC Mag, “Photoshop.com Mobile does let you edit photos stored on your iPhone, adjusting qualities such as exposure, saturation, and tint as well as cropping, rotating, and flipping. In addition you can apply effects, such as pop art, vignette, sepia, and black & white. There are even multiple levels of undo/redo if you make a mistake. When you’re done tweaking your photo to its desired state, you can upload your new picture to your Photoshop.com account. You can also view other pictures you’ve saved from your iPhone or computer.”
Photoshop.com Mobile for iPhone is a free download and requires iPhone OS 2.0 or later. Photoshop.com offers free accounts with 2GB for free, but an account isn’t required to use the iPhone app.
Electronic Arts has unveiled its Fifa 2010 for its fans that use an iPhone. The game is surely going to give a great joy to all its fans who can not spare a minute to get it finished. Priced at $9.99, it offers a lot of features and game play camera views. According to a blog site:
If Real Soccer 2010 just isn’t cutting the mustard for you, FIFA 10 for iPhone might be your answer. In the latest edition of the soccer game from EA, you can play as one of 570 teams in 30 leagues from around the world. 12,620 players have also been licensed for inclusion in the game, and you can try your best to take down one of 20 tournaments and cup competitions.
Game controls are actually quite easy and intuitive. You can even control the ‘tempo’ of the game with the accelerometer. Game play is viewed from 6 different camera views, each in full 3D.
Of course, there’s a cool WiFi Multiplayer Mode built-in as well that allows for head-to-head matches for you and your friends. There’s also a ‘Be a Pro’ Mode that lets you create your own star, and track play through multiple seasons. Earn skills, score goals, and advance your career!
I wonder if $9.99 is going to stop the fans from buying one for their iPhones? What do you think? Fifa 10 is available in App Store here
I wonder if there is any thing that is left untouched by the Apple revolution? Every site has made their own application for the Apple most famous phone i.e iPhone. Flickr, which is a world for picture lovers have created their own official app foriPhoneto better serve their clients who uses iPhone. The Flickr iPhone app is free and hence you can give it a try without giving a second thought. According to TechCrunch:
Yahoo’s Flickr app has just gone live in the App Store. After only a little bit of time using it, I can tell that I’m going to like it. The main screen is a fairly mesmerizing slideshow of photos from your contacts on Flickr. There is an upload button that is easily accessible right on the main page, and the upload process is nice and easy. You can obviously name your picture and give it a description, but you can also easily manage what set to put it in, and what tags to give it. And the privacy settings are very clearly displayed on the upload page.
The main page search functionality works well, and thumbnails are populated quickly. If you click on a photo, you can also go to a larger version loaded in a different screen that allows you to swipe left and right to move between images. It does not look like pinch to zoom works, however.
So what are you waiting for? Come on look at the screen shots and go ahead and download the Official Flickr iPhone App by clicking here
Google and Blackberry have finally come together to offer integration of the Google Apps messaging suite with BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) which will allow the users to access Google apps, contacts, e mails and calender directly from their Blackberry devices. This step was long expected and will surely benefit both parties. Google got its access into the Blackberry devices, which now form a major portion of global smart phones while Blackberry will facilitate its users who frequently use Google products on their laptops.
The details features as announced by Google are listed below, thanks to AT:
* Messages sent to your Gmail inbox are pushed to your BlackBerry within 60 seconds.
* Emails read/deleted on your BlackBerry are marked as read/deleted in Gmail, and vice-versa.
* Emails archived/starred on your BlackBerry are archived/starred in Gmail, and vice-versa.
* BlackBerry folders are synchronized with labels in Gmail.
* You can search for contact information of coworkers from the global address list on your BlackBerry.
* Contacts in Gmail are automatically synchronized with your BlackBerry address book.
* You can view your Google Calendar schedule with the native BlackBerry application, with one-way synchronization from Google Calendar to your BlackBerry device. Two-way calendar sync with the ability to accept, decline and schedule meetings from your BlackBerry device is not available with this release but we are working on it.
* Administrators can use the management and security tools that are part of BlackBerry Enterprise Server.
iPhone has opened up the world for programmers who have literally came out with apps for everything. Cool Fx is one such app that satisfies the lust of those who wants to have a picture editer in their iPhonesand iPod. The MacStore describes the Cool Fx in following words:
Cool fx is a image-editing app by photo industry veterans The Tiffen Company. In its App Store description, the app promises to simulate different color and black-and-white photographic looks, diffusion, motion picture and film stocks, and optical lab processes. It certainly delivers on that promise–perhaps too much so for some users.
Cool fx is the definitive set of color and black and white film/photographic looks for the iPhone and iPod Touch. This unique software is brought to you from the folks at Tiffen, recognized for their product and engineering excellence earning two Technical Achievement Awards and a Scientific and Engineering Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, as well as an Emmy Award from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. If anyone knows film and photography, it’s Tiffen. Using 172 visual presets, Cool fx simulates a variety of color and black and white photographic looks, diffusion, motion picture film stocks and optical lab processes. Cool fx is made up of Black&White, Color, Diffusion, Grain, and Temperature preset groups. Enhance your photos with Cool fx, just like Hollywood cameraman and visual effects artists do! Don’t forget to check out our Photo fx App–a great compliment to Cool fx.
Features of Cool Fx
- Select from 70 different color and black and white film/photographic looks
- Add realistic diffusion to photos using a library of 50 different textures
- Choose from 27 grain presets to simulate popular motion picture film stocks
- Modify color temperature to be either warmer or cooler using one of 18 presets
- Add a vignette to any preset
- Add multiple presets without saving
- Modify presets by fine tuning sliders
- Shake on the Preset screens to choose a random filter
- Shake on the image editing screen to reset controls
- Edit in portrait or landscape mode
- Crop, Rotate, Straighten
- Integrated Help
Final Word and Price:
Cool Fx is full of detail picture editing options for iPhone and iPod and is currently priced at $0.99 at the Apple store. Users can find a lot of other similar apps as well with less options but Cool Fx is currently the app that offers the maximum editing options and hence highly recommneded for the users.
Wordpress has already launched its app for Blackberry but it has recently launched the latest Wordpress Beta 0.9.0.134 for blackberry users. This new version has fixed some of the bugs identified in the previous version. The wordpress app for blackberry is not fully functional since its in beta phase and i am sure the final app will be very helpful to its users. The current version has the following changes.
* XML-RPC discovery upgrade
* Fix for the category field not being focusable
* Added a paste option to the link assistant
* Added menu item to check if there is a newer version of the app
* Big improvements on how the app handles images. App can now work with jpeg and png image, without format conversion.
You can find out more about the Wordpress for Blackberry as well as the Download link at their official blogsite
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Procter & Gamble famous brand Tide has come out with its iPhone/ipod Touch 
