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iOS 7.1 update starts rolling out

Yes. Its indeed a good news for Apple fans. iOS 7.1 update is now out. I have iPad Mini 2 (Retina Display) and I am now on the latest version.When I searched for software updates from settings menu, I got the below list of features/bug fixes, CarPlay iOS experience designed for the car Simply connect your iPhone to a CarPlay enabled vehicle Supports Phone, Music, Maps, Messages, and 3rd-party audio apps Control with Siri and the car's touchscreen, knobs, and buttons Siri  Manually control when Siri listens by holding down the home button while you speak and releasing it when you're done as an alternative to letting Siri automatically notice when you stop talking  New, more natural sounding male and female voices for Mandarin Chinese, UK English, Australian English, and Japanese iTunes Radio Search field above Featured Stations to easily create stations based on your favorite artist or song Buy albums with the tap of a button from Now Playing ...

Pratyaksha Hindi – The launch of the online e-Weekly

Most of you are already aware that Dattaguru Publications is publishing the magazine Krupasindhu in 4 languages, viz. Marathi, Hindi Gujarati and English. Now, Dattaguru Publications will now be publishing PRATYAKSHA as a e-weekly through arrangement with Lotus Publications Pvt. Ltd.  All the Shraddhavaans are aware that the Dainik Pratyaksha is now in its ninth year. This newspaper is published primarily in Marathi, and as a ‘non-political daily’, it not only provides news but, more importantly, educates the reader.  There has been a continuous flood of requests from Shraddhavaans from other parts of the country and abroad for making PRATYAKSHA available. It is in response to this very request Samirsinh Dattopadhye , in his address during the 2013 Aadiveshan, announced that very soon there will be Pratyaksha as an e-weekly in Hindi. You will be very happy to know that the inaugural issue of the e-weekly in Hindi will be publ...

Spring Data JPA + JSF + Maven + MySQL using Eclipse IDE - Simple Example to start with

I am in the process of learning Spring Data JPA and was trying a lot to use it with a JSF Web Application created as a Maven project through Eclipse . I was facing issues and ultimately getting Null Pointer Exceptions at many places. After searching the internet for a long time, still I could not find a simple example which will explain the use of two frameworks together i.e. Spring Data JPA and JSF .  But, one of my friends (Kunal Laud) helped me to overcome the issues. I thought of sharing the application here as a blog post. The example taken here is of Employee Management. 1) Create a database table first. Below is the query which I used, CREATE TABLE `Employee` (   `empid` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,   `name` varchar(30) COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci DEFAULT NULL,   `address` varchar(30) COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci DEFAULT NULL,   `age` int(3) DEFAULT NULL,   `salary` int(10) DEFAULT NULL,   PRIMARY KEY (`empid`) ) ENGINE=InnoDB ...

Aviate Launcher for Android - A must download

I recently installed Aviate Launcher on my Galaxy Note. This launcher is simply superb. The best launcher I have ever seen. Three cheers to the developers of this launcher !!! Below are the screenshots from my mobile, Just see how intelligently the home screen is arranged. At the top, we can see date and time. There are slots for widgets. You can change these widgets according to your requirement. Even the widgets can be changed according to their dimension (4x1, 4x2, 2x2 etc...). Right now, I have Weather widget and a picture widget. After that, apps are arranged.   Swipe right. Now the next homescreen will open. Just see how intelligently the installed apps are arranged. Simply superb.  Swipe to right again. This will open A to Z apps screen. All the installed apps are arranged alphabetically. Now, swipe left 2 times and come back to first home screen and tap on upper left corner. Window as shown above will open. INVITE b...

Dainik Pratyaksha New Year 2014 Issue on Social Media

  India consists for the most part, in the population of the young. Alongside this phenomenon is proportionately on the rise, the influence of the social media that is immensely popular with the youth. Moreover, the number of netizens is soaring in leaps of millions making it impossible to curb the increasing influence of the social media. T his medium, this platform that technology makes increasingly expansive and comprehensive by the day, is now reigning over the world and holding sway over it, so much so that its influence is now not only evident but also inevitable in every walk of life. And therefore as responsible citizens, it is time we handled this medium with a tremendous potential in a more thoughtful, more innovative and of course more responsible appropriate and mature manner.  And precisely therefore, we bring you on 1 st January 2014, the New Year Issue of the Dainik Pratyaksha that has for its central theme… The ...

Android 4.4.2 KitKat for Galaxy Note GT-N7000 - Omni ROM builds

Galaxy Note GT-N7000 (the first ever device in the Note series) can have Android KitKat and that too 4.4.2  !! In my previous post on Omni ROM for Galaxy Note , I mentioned that the Android 4.4.1 builds are available for note. But there is one more sweet surprise from Omni ROM developers. They have released 4.4.2 builds also. Its indeed a very good news for the Android fans like me. I am using Omni ROM 4.4.2 build on my Galaxy Note since last 5 days and I am really happy with the stability and performance of the ROM. As the developer says, OmniROM is a free, community built, aftermarket firmware distribution of Android 4.4 (Kitkat), which is designed to increase performance, reliability and features over stock Android for your device.  =============================================================== For the details about the features, visit the following links:-                 http://omnirom.org/features/  ...