Analytical tools are increasingly becoming popular in this digital, tech-driven world. And they are helpful too, in that they allow us an insight without having to dig into the huge amounts of data and spend our time and energy. Here, then, is a new tool named ‘Gmail Meter’ which lets you keep track of your Gmail Account.
RedSn0w has been one of the most favorite jailbreaking tools for the iOS community. The best thing about it is that it has one of the most able iOS hacking team, iPhone-Dev Team, working on it, which makes sure that updates to the tool ship out regularly. Now, the team has released version 0.9.10b7 which comes with a Corona A5 jailbreak and a number of other tools. Direct download links are provided below, both for Mac as well as Windows users.
Instragram has been immensely popular with iOS users and ever since the company has announced plans to launch an app for Android too, Android users have been ecstatic. However, it now seems that many rather notorious fellows are trying to play at this popularity by creating fake Instagram apps to make quick money out of it through hidden, nefarious malware.
Imagine that you are projecting an image through a projector while giving a presentation. Now, having a number of additional accessories to control the presentation to perform zoom and other features can be quite annoying. However, with AT&T’s all-new ShadowPuppets, you can do all this merely with the help of your shadow gestures.
No, its not another software! It’s a bike that Google employes use within Google premises. Google has announced that it will provide its employees with a new version of the ‘GBike’. It was in last autumn when Google announced a competition to produce a new bike design that would be easy to produce and easy to maintain, as well as comfortable, secure and affordable. That resulted in submission of about thirty designs. The wining design has been put into production for Googlers.
Sergey Brin, Google’s co-founder, recently made headlines when he quite frankly remarked that systems like Facebook and Apple are a threat to web freedom, apart from governmental censorships and the craving of content producers to somehow gain the powers to ban websites. Now, Brin has stated that his comments towards Facebook and Apple had rather been distorted by reporting.
The legal battle between Google and Oracle continues and the latter continues to maintain that Java, although a free language, is still very valuable and that Google failed to pay the price of using it. Now, an Oracle executive has re-iterated during court proceedings that the value of Java APIs is what made Sun a very valuable acquisition for Oracle.
Oracle and Google have been locked in a bitter legal battle over alleged infringement of Java copyrights. Oracle is of the opinion that Google committed the infringement whereas Google holds that what it used was already free. Today, Oracle’s Larry Ellison took the stand to represent Oracle and we are not sure if he did a very good job at it.