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Owaeis N.

Owaeis - who has written 998 posts on The Gadgets.

Owaeis is a geek, a gadget freak and the founder of theGadgets.net. He writes about Apple, Android, Microsoft and everything between them. Owaeis always has some great tips and tricks to share.

Current Gadgets: iPhone 4, HTC Desire, MacBook Pro 13", Google Chrome Notebook Cr48, HP Mini 110, HP 530 Notebook

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7 Subtle iOS 5 Features You Might Not Have Noticed Yet

16 December 2011

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7 Subtle iOS 5 Features You Might Not Have Noticed Yet

Apple introduced about 200 new features in iOS 5 including the notifications center, newsstand, lock screen enhancements, twitter integration, iCloud and others. While you always keep on stumbling upon the newsstand in your springboard and tweet from mobile Safari, there are a lot of subtle features you might have not noticed yet. For instance, did [...]

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Apple may release Macbook Pro with retina display in 2012

15 December 2011

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Citing unnamed industry source,s Digitimes is reporting that Apple is going to launch a Macbook Pro with a drastically better display than the current models, or any other notebooks available today. The display resolution of the upcoming Macbook Pro is said to be 2880 x 1800 pixels, with a launch window in the second quarter [...]

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Google+ Hangouts Updated with Broadcast, Recordings, Phone Calls and More

15 December 2011

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Google+ Hangouts Updated with Broadcast, Recordings, Phone Calls and More

While Google is working hard at catching up with their rivals in smartphone market, they are not short on creativity and pioneering innovation in their core field: the web. They have always been the best, and are continuing to lead the trends. With Google+, Google practically told the world exactly what a social network should [...]

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Google is building “Majel” as a Siri alternative for Android

14 December 2011

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Google is building “Majel” as a Siri alternative for Android

Although Google is a pioneer in modern voice-command-assisted-search, they have been blown away by Apple’s intelligent voice assistant called Siri. Google’s voice recognition is limited to search and some fixed-syntax commands, whereas Siri can understand natural language and reply to out of context questions, look up maps, find directions, do math, and even mimic smalltalk. [...]

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There’s a hidden Star Wars launcher in Ice Cream Sandwich called “Rocket Launcher”

5 December 2011

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Galaxy Nexus has some surprises accompanied with it, for the very first owner in the UK, it turned out to be a test unit running an unbaked ROM; others found a volume bar all of a sudden. Although both of these were glitches by chance and got fixed eventually, but there’s some stuff on the [...]

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Ice Cream Sandwich

29 November 2011

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    Quick Info Ice Cream Sandwich is the marketing name of Google’s Android 4.0 operating system, which was announced on October 19th, 2011. This version of Android combines elements of Android 2.3 Gingerbread for smartphones, with elements of Android 3.X Honeycomb for tablets, to create a unified OS for both smartphones and tablets. Ice [...]

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Apple iOS 5

27 November 2011

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  Quick Info   Apple’s iOS 5 is arguably the best smartphone operating system in the world with almost every cool feature one may think of. It is a great improvement over its predecessors with about 200 new features introduces; iMessage, notifications center, iCloud are the most notable ones… [keep reading]     Platform Current [...]

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Raskin for Mac

27 November 2011

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  Quick Info     Raskin is a productivity booster for Macs, it is an enhanced zoomable UI which easily leaves behind Apple’s Finder and Exposé. All the applications, documents and media is displayed on a 2D plane. Switching between the apps is as simple as zooming in to open an app and zooming out for [...]

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Raskin – a Finder replacement for Mac will multiply your productivity [Full Review]

26 November 2011

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Raskin is a Finder and Exposé replacement for Mac OS, a two-dimensional zoomable surface with all the contents of a Mac displayed as graphical placeholders, categorized in panes instead of the old school icons and folder structure of 70′s.  All of the contents of a document/app are clearly visible. You zoom-in to an app to view and [...]

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Nemo Mobile Ported to HP TouchPad

25 November 2011

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HP’s touchpad was never able to appeal to the masses, but did break its own sales records after it was dropped to a $100 price. Although, most of those units were bought by developers and hobbyists. Who knew this would start a new era of hacking, development, and creativity? Soon after the TouchPad was sold [...]

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Aftermath of Steve Jobs’ Death

22 November 2011

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Steve Jobs made his way to heaven leaving behind a great company, a great team of geniuses, great ideas and a tech-savvy world. His departure could have effected Apple adversely but people were actually very hopeful, Tim Cook took over as the new boss and Disney’s Art Levinson is the new chairman of the board. The [...]

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Galaxy Nexus Problems You Won’t Want to Live With

19 November 2011

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Samsung Galaxy Nexus is a nice phone with a lot of cool things one can’t avoid appreciating. On November 17th, Google’s new flagship phone made its debut in UK as it’s first market and performed pretty well in sales, there were some people waiting lines too. This is probably the first phone which made Steve [...]

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First Proud Owner of Galaxy Nexus in US is Steve Woz!

19 November 2011

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Apparently Google won’t let us have a Samsung Galaxy Nexus in the US with Android 4.0 but one lucky guy has it already. The lucky guy not only got it first of all but also had the honor of having it presented in Google’s very own headquarters right in front of the Ice cream sandwich [...]

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Clockwork Recovery Available for Samsung Galaxy Nexus

19 November 2011

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Clockwork recovery is the most widely used custom recovery on Android devices because of its simplicity and sophisticated functionality. The good news is that @koush has released ClockWork recovery for Samsung Galaxy Nexus which was already rooted quite some time back. Now that clockwork recovery is available for download from ROM Manager, the room for all [...]

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Google Granted Patent for Pattern Unlock

19 November 2011

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While we were biting our fingers astonished at US patent system looking at the slide-to-unlock patent granted to Apple, Google has come up with it’s own version. Google is granted a patent for pattern unlock by USPTO. Apple filed a patent in US patent office for the unique screen unlocking mechanism they had developed, which [...]

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