May 19, 2012, 7:50 AM — IPhone users love to brag about their phones. They line up around the block and stand in line for hours when a new one is released. Yet, for many users, Android is clearly the superior platform. Yes, its Achilles’ heel is a big one: security. Android’s openness and large market share mean that it’s a juicy target for attackers.
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Yet, Android’s openness also provides serious benefits. It allows for more customization; its apps are usually cheaper and various handset manufacturers are able to offer significantly different form factors, such as the smartphone-tablet hybrid, the Samsung Galaxy Note.
With a little tweaking, you can speed up and optimize Android in ways that will make iPhone users’ heads spin. Here are 10 ways to make Android faster, more productive and more secure than iPhone:
Make your Android faster
1. Get a better browser.
One of the major benefits of using the popular browser Opera Mini is that its cloud engine compresses data by as much as 90%. It features tabbed browsing, support for widgets and the ability to set advanced privacy features, such as the ability to automatically clear passwords, cookies and browsing history.
The advantage for Android users: the ability to use Opera Mobile instead of Opera Mini. Opera Mobile supports Flash and 3D graphics, has an HTML 5 engine and has a device-side web rendering engine for higher fidelity browsing. You can set up the rendering engine to work locally when on a Wi-Fi network and default to the cloud-based rendering engine when on a 3G or 4G network to minimize expensive data usage (if you’re not on an all-you-can-eat data plan). It also allows you to access your camera from your browser. Expect cool new widgets to start using this feature soon.
2. Install an Android optimizer.
Apps like Android Booster and Android Assistant give you the power to automatically kill apps that run in the background, gobbling up battery life and draining CPU. You can set a monthly data limit and monitor exactly how much data you’ve downloaded over 3G and 4G networks, and you can purge your cache, history, etc.
3. Conserve your battery.
Nothing slows you down more than a dead battery. One advantage Android phones have over iPhones is that you can swap out your battery. But proper power management can save you from that trouble. Apps like JuiceDefender and Battery Stretch help you regulate your power use.
With more than 7 million downloads, JuiceDefender is the most popular of these apps. It offers three different profiles: “Balanced,” “Aggressive” or “Extreme.”
The Balanced setting is the default and requires no configuration on your part. If you bump it up to “Aggressive,” the app will automatically disable data connections when the battery is low. If you’re really worried about a dead battery, the “Extreme” setting disables data connections by default. You can turn them back on manually, and you are able to whitelist apps that you want to have connectivity.
Make your Android more productive
4. Dig deeper into which apps hog data.
If you constantly go over your data limits, an app like Android Assistant may not be enough. Sure, you will be alerted when you are nearing your limit, but what exactly is causing the problem?
Is it Facebook, podcasting software, the MLB Gameday app? Who knows?
Article source: http://www.itworld.com/software/276921/how-make-android-faster-more-productive-and-more-secure-iphone
Tags: Android Assistant, Battery Stretch, CPU, HTML, Opera Mini, Opera Mobile
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Drag and Drop Search is a free Chrome extension that offers an elegant solution to a common problem: Searching on the website that will give you the answers you need. Google is a great engine, but there is no reason to go through it for everything. If you’re after quick facts and figures, you might be better off searching Wikipedia directly; if it’s videos you’re after, then a direct YouTube search might let you find them faster. If you’d like to get a sense for a place, searching for it on Flickr will show you what it’s like. With Drag and Drop Search installed, you only need to select a term, then drag and drop it on the name of the search engine you’d like to use.
The Drag and Drop Search configuration interface looks like it was lifted out of a 1997-era webpage, and requires prior knowledge to work.Drag and Drop Search works by overlaying your window with a four-by-four grid. By default, the center of the grid is clear, and the cells for the outer perimeter are each assigned to a different website or search engine. This makes for twelve sites and engines the add-on ships with, including Delicious, Twitter, Wikipedia, and other popular websites. It’s easy to get started: Select any word or term on the current page, start dragging, and the grid will appear. Each of the cells is clearly labeled; drop the term on the cell for the site you want to search and it will open up in a background tab.
If you are looking for visual polish, you won’t find much of it in Drag and Drop Search. The extension does have a configuration pane for customizing your engines, but it is very bare-bones. It’s just a basic HTML table with one table cell for each grid cell. There are no instructions for customizing the search engines used. Each engine has a name, and a URL. Search engine URLs often contain many arguments, one of which is your search term. Drag and Drop Search does not provide a wildcard character for substituting your search term (like %s on Chrome). Instead, you are supposed to format the URL so that the search term is the last parameter, and leave it blank. In other words, you need to be fairly familiar with URLs to customize the search engines Drag and Drop Search uses.
In action, Drag and Drop Search offers a beautiful and effective way to search specific websites for a string of text.The basic mechanism Drag and Drop Search uses is brilliant. It is easy and fast to grab a term and drag it to the right search engine, and it’s even a gesture that translates well into a touch interface (unlike right-clicking). I see Drag and Drop Search as a proof of concept, and a sign of things to come. But even in its current state, it is a simple and useful Chrome extension.
Note: The Download button takes you to the Chrome Web Store, where you can download it directly into your Chrome browser.
–Erez Zukerman
Article source: http://www.pcworld.com/article/255351/speed_up_searchesand_reduce_typingwith_drag_and_drop_search.html
Tags: Chrome Web Store, Drop Search, HTML, URL
Drag and Drop Search is a free Chrome extension that offers an elegant solution to a common problem: Searching on the website that will give you the answers you need. Google is a great engine, but there is no reason to go through it for everything. If you’re after quick facts and figures, you might be better off searching Wikipedia directly; if it’s videos you’re after, then a direct YouTube search might let you find them faster. If you’d like to get a sense for a place, searching for it on Flickr will show you what it’s like. With Drag and Drop Search installed, you only need to select a term, then drag and drop it on the name of the search engine you’d like to use.
The Drag and Drop Search configuration interface looks like it was lifted out of a 1997-era webpage, and requires prior knowledge to work.Drag and Drop Search works by overlaying your window with a four-by-four grid. By default, the center of the grid is clear, and the cells for the outer perimeter are each assigned to a different website or search engine. This makes for twelve sites and engines the add-on ships with, including Delicious, Twitter, Wikipedia, and other popular websites. It’s easy to get started: Select any word or term on the current page, start dragging, and the grid will appear. Each of the cells is clearly labeled; drop the term on the cell for the site you want to search and it will open up in a background tab.
If you are looking for visual polish, you won’t find much of it in Drag and Drop Search. The extension does have a configuration pane for customizing your engines, but it is very bare-bones. It’s just a basic HTML table with one table cell for each grid cell. There are no instructions for customizing the search engines used. Each engine has a name, and a URL. Search engine URLs often contain many arguments, one of which is your search term. Drag and Drop Search does not provide a wildcard character for substituting your search term (like %s on Chrome). Instead, you are supposed to format the URL so that the search term is the last parameter, and leave it blank. In other words, you need to be fairly familiar with URLs to customize the search engines Drag and Drop Search uses.
In action, Drag and Drop Search offers a beautiful and effective way to search specific websites for a string of text.The basic mechanism Drag and Drop Search uses is brilliant. It is easy and fast to grab a term and drag it to the right search engine, and it’s even a gesture that translates well into a touch interface (unlike right-clicking). I see Drag and Drop Search as a proof of concept, and a sign of things to come. But even in its current state, it is a simple and useful Chrome extension.
Note: The Download button takes you to the Chrome Web Store, where you can download it directly into your Chrome browser.
–Erez Zukerman
Article source: http://www.pcworld.com/product/1199296/drag_and_drop_search.html
Tags: Chrome Web Store, Drop Search, HTML, URL
Drag and Drop Search is a free Chrome extension that offers an elegant solution to a common problem: Searching on the website that will give you the answers you need. Google is a great engine, but there is no reason to go through it for everything. If you’re after quick facts and figures, you might be better off searching Wikipedia directly; if it’s videos you’re after, then a direct YouTube search might let you find them faster. If you’d like to get a sense for a place, searching for it on Flickr will show you what it’s like. With Drag and Drop Search installed, you only need to select a term, then drag and drop it on the name of the search engine you’d like to use.
The Drag and Drop Search configuration interface looks like it was lifted out of a 1997-era webpage, and requires prior knowledge to work.Drag and Drop Search works by overlaying your window with a four-by-four grid. By default, the center of the grid is clear, and the cells for the outer perimeter are each assigned to a different website or search engine. This makes for twelve sites and engines the add-on ships with, including Delicious, Twitter, Wikipedia, and other popular websites. It’s easy to get started: Select any word or term on the current page, start dragging, and the grid will appear. Each of the cells is clearly labeled; drop the term on the cell for the site you want to search and it will open up in a background tab.
If you are looking for visual polish, you won’t find much of it in Drag and Drop Search. The extension does have a configuration pane for customizing your engines, but it is very bare-bones. It’s just a basic HTML table with one table cell for each grid cell. There are no instructions for customizing the search engines used. Each engine has a name, and a URL. Search engine URLs often contain many arguments, one of which is your search term. Drag and Drop Search does not provide a wildcard character for substituting your search term (like %s on Chrome). Instead, you are supposed to format the URL so that the search term is the last parameter, and leave it blank. In other words, you need to be fairly familiar with URLs to customize the search engines Drag and Drop Search uses.
In action, Drag and Drop Search offers a beautiful and effective way to search specific websites for a string of text.The basic mechanism Drag and Drop Search uses is brilliant. It is easy and fast to grab a term and drag it to the right search engine, and it’s even a gesture that translates well into a touch interface (unlike right-clicking). I see Drag and Drop Search as a proof of concept, and a sign of things to come. But even in its current state, it is a simple and useful Chrome extension.
Note: The Download button takes you to the Chrome Web Store, where you can download it directly into your Chrome browser.
–Erez Zukerman
Article source: http://www.pcworld.com/article/255351/speed_up_searchesand_reduce_typingwith_drag_and_drop_search.html
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In software, “new” all too often means “complicated.” New tools often tempt us with futuristic features and promises of improved productivity, but learning to use them can be a confusing experience, not to mention the time lost while trying to get up to speed. So when I see a tool that is truly new, but also manages to be simpler and more streamlined than the current alternatives, I am truly impressed. HackPad is one such tool: A new breed of Wiki that shows how much simpler and fluid wikis can be.
Hackpad features syntax highlighting for code, and lets you see who wrote what (also on regular pages).Most wikis have two page states: You’re either viewing a page (a static piece of HTML), or you are editing it using a textbox in your browser. HackPad melds both modes into one: To edit the page you’re currently viewing, just click anywhere in it. The screen doesn’t change, and you’re not taken into a bulky editing form. A text insertion cursor just starts blinking, and you can start typing.
HackPad can do this because it doesn’t have to worry about collisions between multiple users editing the same page simultaneously and then saving and overwriting each other’s work. In fact, there is no Save button: All edits are done in real-time, and other users viewing the page can see what you’re typing as you’re typing it. This feature made it easy to use for collaborative note-taking in SXSW.
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Creating new pages (or “pads”) in Hackpad is as easy as highlighting a bit of text.nother thing that’s confusing about regular wikis is figuring out who wrote what. A page usually looks like one cohesive piece of writing, when in fact several authors wrote and amended different parts of it. With HackPad, when you write a new paragraph, it is marked with an author color and your name is written in the margin next to it. When you edit an existing paragraph your new text is underlined with the same color, and anyone hovering over your text with the mouse can see that you wrote it, even if it’s just a single word in the middle of someone else’s sentence.
HackPad is still in its infancy, and it is not perfect. The most important feature missing is revision history: Individual users can undo their immediate edits (Ctrl+Z), but you can’t roll a page back in time to a previous state. This is interesting, because HackPad is partially based on open-source editor Etherpad (acquired by Google in December 2009), a collaborative text editor that has an excellent timeline feature for managing revision history.
Hackpad offers page title search, but it doesn’t let you search within pages.Another tradition HackPad breaks is the wiki syntax for links: Most wikis use double brackets to link to other pages. HackPad uses the trendy at symbol (@), which does double duty: You can use it both to link to other pages, and to mention (and invite) other users. When you log onto HackPad using a Google account, it accesses your contacts. Then, when you make an @ symbol and start writing the name of a contact, their full name and email pop up. Just hit Enter, and the contact is invited to edit the document with you (you don’t have to use your Google account if you don’t want to). Linking to other pages is also incredibly simple: Just write @, start typing their name and HackPad will offer to autocomplete it. And if you paste in a link to some rich content (say, a YouTube video), HackPad will immediately embed that video for you into the page. If you’re coding, HackPad offers syntax highlighting for several languages such as HTML, JavaScript, and CoffeeScript.
HackPad includes easy to use privacy controls: You can set a page to be public, open only to people who have its link (like the mode Google offers for sharing Picasa albums), or open only to people you’ve explicitly invited.
HackPad does not yet offer commercial plans, but its free offering is full-featured, and feels amazingly fun and simple to use. If you’ve ever felt frustrated and limited by your current collaboration tools, take HackPad for a ten-minute spin. Careful: It’s addictive.
Note: The Download button takes you to the vendor’s site, where you can use this Web-based software.
–Erez Zukerman
Article source: http://www.pcworld.com/article/253741/realtime_wiki_hackpad_makes_web_collaboration_fast_and_easy.html
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Exoot Systems released yet another browser plugin that promises to remove timeline for profiles, but unlike others in the past, this one provides details on how it works and what it does and doesn’t do.
Facebook Timeline Remover is a browser plugin for Google Chrome that intercepts the HTML code sent by Facebook and substitutes the code for the pre-timeline layout.
Only users who have installed Facebook Timeline Remover will be able to view profile pages in the old layout. Timeline and all of its information and content are not deleted. Exoot said the plugin will continue to work even after all profile pages are transitioned to timeline, due to the manipulation of HTML code.
More details follow from Exoot, including a section on “how does it works?” (their words, not ours):
Facebook is sending HTML code to your computer, and your computer translates the code in your browser. The plugin intercepts the code and reassembles it in the old design. Therefore, you see your old profile again.
Your personal profile will be changed only on your computer. If you want your friends to see your old Facebook profile, they, too, need to install Facebook Timeline Remover.
It will affect only personal profiles, not fan pages!
It will continue to work in April, no matter if Facebook changes all profiles to timeline on their end, because our plugin sill puts together the old display in your browser. If we all use it, the timeline change won’t affect us at all.
Facebook Timeline Remover will pacify Facebook users whose objections to timeline are fueled by dislike of the new design and layout. But much of the anti-timeline sentiment is focused on the amount of personal data that must be vetted and privacy setting that must be tweaked, and this plugin won’t solve that.
Readers: Would you install a browser plugin like Facebook Timeline Remover in order to avoid viewing your profiles in the new layout?
Article source: http://allfacebook.com/facebook-timeline-remove-2_b85107
Tags: Facebook Timeline Remover, Google Chrome, HTML
With the first Beta version of its original service released in 2008, Wix is no newcomer to the website creation arena. But Wix (free, Premium plans start at $5 per month) has just reinvented itself: Its previous offering was entirely based on Flash, and this current release leaves Flash behind for the power and ubiquity of HTML5. With the new Wix, you can create beautiful, modern-looking personal, portfolio, and business websites, without writing a single line of code and without running Flash.
Wix features dramatic, beautiful templates that make it easy to get started making a website.To start you off, Wix offers dozens of ready-made HTML5 templates, subdivided into categories such as Kids, Music, Fashion, Food Drink, and more. There are also single-page personal profile templates, competing directly against services like about.me and flavors.me. The templates are beautiful, and don’t look anything like WordPress or other content management systems. Like Weebly, Wix uses Web fonts, so it’s not all Arial and Times New Roman: Titles are sometimes rendered in playful script fonts, and some themes use with thin, all-caps sans serif fonts for dramatic impact. The templates avoid Lorem Ipsum, opting instead for placeholder text that’s in plain English and more closely resembles actual copy. In the rare event that no template catches your fancy, you can always start with a blank slate and create your website from scratch.
Wix lets you customize individual components, such as image galleries.The Wix editor is a joy to use. Click an element, and you can drag it around, change its text, or edit its appearance. You can customize just about anything: A template I was editing used ribbon elements that appeared to “fold” across the left side of images. With the editor, I was able to change their direction and color scheme so that they folded onto the image from the right. Since everything is based on CSS, I only had to change one ribbon, and Wix applied the change across all of the others. For many elements, the editor offers presets you can pick from, but also lets you create your own settings from scratch for your own unique look.
Wix also makes it easy to create new pages and arrange them in the menu, as well as customize the menu itself. Pages are arranged by types, such as a gallery, text pages, a Services page, and so on. Unlike Weebly, Wix does not let you create a blog as part of your site, nor bring in other editors to help you author content and maintain the site.
Wix supports Web fonts, which means your website can break out of the familiar Arial and Times New Roman.The other side of the coin for Wix’s ease of use is that you can’t get at the actual CSS and HTML that drive your website. Even if you know what you’re doing and want to customize things by coding, Wix will not let you do that: Everything is locked behind the editor. This also means that when you design you website with Wix, you are effectively married to the service. Wix does not support exporting your content, and monthly plans are relatively expensive for a simple web hosting service.
Wix does have a free option, but it displays a Wix banner at the bottom of your website and will not let you use your own domain name. Even the Connect Domain premium plan that costs $5 per month leaves the banner intact-to get rid of it, you must upgrade at least to the Combo plan, which is $10 per month. If you don’t mind the rates (or the banner and Wix branding), Wix’s new HTML5 version offers some of the best visual website creation tools I have seen to date.
Note: The Download button takes you to the vendor’s site, where you can use the latest version of this Web-based software.
–Erez Zukerman
Article source: http://www.pcworld.com/article/253379/create_a_website_easily_with_wix_even_the_free_version.html
Tags: Apple Safari, Connect Domain, CSS, Food Drink, HTML, Unlike Weebly
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