Author: Jimmy Wolfee

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Will this tweet confirm the launch of Galaxy Note 2 ?

Samsung Galaxy Note is definitely one of most successful offering from Samsung till now. There should be no doubt in considering the fact that Samsung will soon launched the next version of Galaxy Note as they have already launched their much awaited offering that is Galaxy S3. This next version is often rumoured to be as Note 2. Galaxy Note is nothing but a mixture of of a Smartphone and a 7 inch Tablet and for this particular property it is also known as a Phablet in the web world. Whatever be the rumours the launch of Galaxy Note 2 is not always confirmed.

But after this tweet from the Twitter account of Samsung Mobile Arabia it became quite possible that Samsung will soon launch the Note 2 into the market. In this Tweet Samsung Mobile Arabia asked their twitter followers about which of the upcoming Samsung products you are most excited about. They have also given some options which includes Galaxy Beam, Galaxy Tab2, Galaxy Note 2. This directly indicates that Note 2 is on the launch list of Samsung in the coming months. Here is the screen shot of the tweet.

note 2 tweet

Rumoured specifications of upcoming Galaxy Note 2

Feature Name

Value
Picture note 2
CPU chipset Samsung Exynos 5250
CPU 1.5 GHz Quad Core
RAM 1.5 GB
Primary Camera 12 MP
Display Size 5.5 Inch
Display Material Plastic substrate based OLED (Organic LED) display
Display features If rumour is believed to be true than screen on Galaxy Note 2 will be flexible in nature
Operating System Android Jelly Bean 4.1
Other Features S Beam
S Voice (Similar to Apple Siri)
NFC Chip
LTE on a quad core chipset
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Leaked information indicates 3 new Windows Phone 8 smartphones from HTC

htc rioLast week Microsoft launched the next major version of Windows mobile operating system and named it as Windows Phone 8. Windows Phone 8 brings some serious improvements over Windows Phone 7.5 and Windows Phone 7.8. Two of the such improvements includes support for HD resolution displays and support for multi core processors.

These two features will enable Windows Phone partners like Nokia, Samsung and HTC to use multi core CPU and high resolution display in their new Smartphones based on Windows Phone 8. Now as per the leaked information going around the web world, HTC will soon launch three new smartphones named HTC Rio, HTC Accord and HTC Zenith running the latest Windows Phone 8.

The launch date for HTC Rio and HTC Accord is expected to be around October of this year and for HTC Zenith it will launched towards the end of the year. HTC Zenith is rumoured to be the flagship upcoming Window Phone 8 smartphone from HTC.

The leaked specs of these phones are listed below in tabular format:

 

Feature

HTC Rio

HTC Accord

HTC Zenith
Chipset Qualcomm MSM8227 Qualcomm MSM8227 Qualcomm quad core based chipset (name still not confirmed)
CPU Dual Core 1 GHz with
Krait cores		 Dual Core 1.5 GHz with Krait cores Snapdragon Quad core @ 2.5 GHz (rumour)
RAM 512 MB 1 GB 2 GB
Display 4 inch @ WVGA 4.3 inch @ HD Resolution 4.7 inch SLCD2 display @ HD resolution
Primary Camera 5 MP
Recording at 720P		 8 MP
Recording at Full HD		 NA
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How to modify topic title in PHPBB3 ?

PHPBB3 is one of the best free forum software.out there. It can easily be modified to your community’s requirement.

One of the problem with the default PHPBB3 installation is the default titles of the topics or posts. The default topic title in PHPBB3 is in the following format.

Site Name • View Topic – Your_Title

Now if some one search for a given topic in Google than he will be presented with such a long title from your website. This decreases the organic traffic traffic to your website. Now this can be improved by modifying a single line in your Overall_Header.html file present in your theme folder. I am here writing all the steps to modify the title:

  1. First go to your PHPBB3 admin panel.
  2. Click on the STYLES TAB on the above menu bar.
  3. Click on the Templates link in the left menu bar which is under the Style Components category.
  4. Now you will see the list of all the styles installed in your PHPBB3 installation. In the front of each style there is an Edit option. Click on it.
  5. Now you will see a drop down list showing different template files. Select the  overall_header.html file.
  6. Now you will a editor window showing some HTML code.
  7. Search for <title> {SITENAME} &bill; <! –IF S_IN MCP –>{L_MCP} &bull; <!– ELSEIF S_IN_UCP –>{L_UCP} &bull; <!—ENDIF —> {PAGE_TITLE} </title>
  8. In the above line of code delete this portion {SITENAME} &bill; <! –IF S_IN MCP –>{L_MCP} &bull; <!– ELSEIF S_IN_UCP –>{L_UCP} &bull; <!—ENDIF —>
  9. After this task click on the submit button.
  10. Now click on the General Tab in above menu bar.
  11. In the middle of the home page of your forums admin panel click on the link in front of Purge the cache option labelled as Run Now.
  12. Now its done.

Now your forums title will not contain useless Site Name and other variables.

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PIR to raise .org prices by 0.49$

Public Interest Registry or simply known PIR is going to increase the prices of .ORG domain extension by 0.49$ from 1st July onwards. This means if your present registrar is selling the .org extension for 10$/year than from now onwards it will be 10.49$. 0.49 $ is approximately Rs. 28 in Indian currency.

PIR is the organization which is behind the core management of .ORG domain extension. Though this extension is mostly used by NGOs or volunteer organizations, its popularity among domainers is very high. Some experienced domainers consider .ORG to be a more general extension than .NET and hence more premium too.

So if you have .org domains in your portfolio, than renew it before the price increase.

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Rumoured HTC One XXL to be powered by a Krait based quad core CPU

As per the latest rumours going around the web world, HTC is going to launch the all new Smartphone HTC One XXL. HTC One XXL can simply be considered as an upgraded version to HTC One X (USA Version). The USA version of HTC One X is powered by a dual core CPU based chipset S4 from Snapdragon. The CPU on a S4 chipset is a dual core processor with Krait based cores.

htc one xxl

 

HTC One XXL not only features a mere CPU upgrade but also many other improvements. Some of them are listed below:

  1. HTC One XXL is rumoured to have 2GB of on-board RAM. 2GB RAM is present in very few smartphones presently. The upcoming Galaxy Note 2 from Samsung is also expected to be loaded with 2 GB of RAM. Presently LG Optimus 4X is the only smartphone to have 2 GB of RAM. But also if the rumours are true then the Galaxy S3 version for South Korea also features 2 GB of RAM.
  2. Larger screen size of 4.7 inch at HD resolution
  3. 8 megapixel primary camera and 1.8 megapixel secondary camera
  4. Latest Adreno 320 GPU
  5. Quad Core chipset with 4G or LTE connectivity.
  6. The chipset which we expect to be present in this beat is Qualcomm APQ8064 which have 2.5 GHz of clock per core!