On Nokia and Windows Phone 8 Lumia

Nokia Lumia series mobile phone stand out from the crowd. Devices powered by Windows Phone 8, react, the interface feels fresh and they have great cameras.

"What phone to buy?" is one question I get asked a lot, and obviously, there is no fixed answer.

Android-based phones as Google Nexus or Samsung Galaxy series – are a good option for people who prefer choice as every single feature of Android devices can be configured directly from nabiratel' for the on-screen keyboard. Then there's the iPhone for those who want to have the absolute best phone and memorized to pay a heavy premium. Some people also see the iPhone as a status symbol.

For others, my recommendation is often Nokia Lumia series, powered by Windows Phone. Why? No Google maps? Not Gmail? There are no applications for Windows Phone? This is a normal reaction that you can expect when you recommend someone Windows Phone device.

Android Store (Google Play) and iTunes app store about a million applications and Windows Phone applications store are nowhere close. This is not, however, a good reason to abandon Windows Phone platform. Most popular applications – Twitter, Facebook, Skype, WhatsApp, Evernote, Kindle, square, TrueCaller, to name a few – are already available to others how Flipboard, grapes and the path is in the works.

Google is conspicuously absent in Windows Phone Store and no Instagram or Chrome in the store. But there should be a deal breaker?

I use different models of Nokia Lumia as my main device for more than a month now, and have never found myself looking at Android or iOS device because of lack of application. The Apps I need, ban several Favorites like Flipboard and Feedly, all there now. And this is the only mobile OS that has Microsoft Office. The study said that smartphone users, on average, set about 41 apps but use less than a dozen apps on a regular basis.

Nokia Maps, now called cards here and here (to rotate the turn voice navigation) are good, in some cases, better alternative to Google Maps, and they include full offline capabilities as well. Nokia here city of lens is the augmented reality Viewer application that displays all the nearby places is not only popular public places, but even local medicine shops and MOM n pop shops – through the camera viewfinder.

One of my favorite features of Windows Phone-contacts and Facebook integration. Every time I wake up Phone, there's a new image on the lock screen, randomly pulled from one of my albums on Facebook. Then there are the children's corner, where you can select a list of games and applications that must be available for your children and the rest are all on the phone remains hidden.

On-screen virtual keyboard in Windows Phone, with flat keys and good spacing between the keys, easy to type while you miss the Swype input gesture style available on Android devices. Windows Phone 8, also lacked proper notification Center.

Lumia series phones are among the best cameras in their circle and camera button make it easy for you to quickly capture the moment. Lenses are one of the unique features of Windows phones that allows you to open various camera application-like Nokia Cinemagraph, Instagram like filters or Panorama maker from the camera window.

Lumia range is available at all price points from the budget of 520 to elite Lumia Lumia 920. 920 Sporting the biggest screen on 4.5 "and supported its brilliant PureView camera that does particularly well in low light. The device feels premium, rugged and extremely responsive, but the only thing that does not go in their favor.

Upcoming 925 Lumia has similar characteristics as 920, but does away with the extra pounds. Nokia India website said 925 "coming soon", but not sure how soon that will happen.

Next on the list is the Nokia Lumia 820. This again has a large display, which is a little less than 920, the camera takes crisp pictures, although it lacks PureView and phone performance is also very good. Unlike solid features a detachable rear cover 920820 and support micro SD card for additional storage but the whole device feels thicker and a bit heavy.

Lumia 720 sport same design – the rectangular plate with curved edges – 920, plastic back with matte finish doesn't feel cheap and provides excellent traction. 720 display isn't as bright as the more expensive cousins, but this is one model of Lumia, which feels thin and light. 6.7 MP camera and phone performance won't disappoint either.

Among the budget phones Lumia 620 is a small device with 8 Windows Phone 3.8 "display and 5 megapixel camera. Lumia 520 is the best-selling device Windows Phone 8, and rightly so – the phone is a value for money with a decent display, which is little more than 620, 5 MP camera, LED Flash, removable lid and a fluid and responsive Windows Phone 8. You can even manage the touch with 520 your nails.

Windows Phone design is fresh, different and extremely user-friendly. Live tiles, a customizable home screen, printing, large fonts, bold menu system, screen animations are smooth and beautiful. In my 30 + days of no application has never crashed, scrolling is smooth and never any lag even on low Lumias range.

Apps store is growing although Windows Phone 8 still cannot be first platform for most developers.

However, look at your current collection of applications – if the ones you absolutely need are also available for Windows Phone 8, urged Lumia. And if I had to choose a favorite among this series, it would be either Nokia Lumia 920 (for camera and polished look) or for the budget conscious, Lumia 720 (good specs and more value for money).

Google Chrome is an awesome Web browser

This video tutorial introduces you to the Chrome Dev Tools, one the best feature of chrome, not even developers can use and benefit from.

Google Chrome is an awesome Web browser, but there are even more amazing features built directly inside the chrome that most of us rarely use – this is called chrome Developer Tools. Let the word "Developer" does not scare you, because we are regular users of Chrome, or developers can also have some basic knowledge about Chrome Dev Tools.

Did you know that you can use Chrome as a WYSIWYG editor for Web pages? Or that chromium can work as a math calculator? Or you can perform date calculations inside chrome? This video tutorial will walk you through a couple of examples of where you can use the developer tools.

Open this page demo inside Google Chrome on your desktop and press Ctrl + Shift + I on the keyboard (or Cmd + Shift + I on Mac) to open the Chrome Dev Tools. Now click the magnifying glass icon in the lower left of the chrome, hover your mouse over the title of the page, and then double-click the selected HTML code into the Dev Tools for editing the header.

With the Chrome Dev tools you can easily change the order of the elements as they appear on the page by dragging them with the mouse. Click on the magnifying glass icon, hover over any element on the page — paragraphs of text, image, or list items, and then drag the selection to place it elsewhere.

Web pages often use hexadecimal format for writing colors but if #AABBCC format does not make sense for you, just write the color names in plain English, like gold, Aqua, and much more. Just enter the first character and the chrome Dev tools will show all available colors that start with that letter.

Chrome can automatically fill in the password field on the login form on a Web page, but that the password cannot be viewed because it is hidden behind the asterisk characters. However, you can use the Chrome Dev Tools change the password input field of type "password" in the "text" and reveal hidden password.

A Web page for editing in a browser, but there is a little trick that will allow you to edit the built-in Web pages, how do you make the word processor. Open Chrome Dev Tools, go to console and type = true document.body.contenteditable in command line. Voila! The page becomes editable.

When the active tab "console", you can write arithmetic expressions and also calculates a date as the number of days between two dates or write the date in the form of a human-readable string. A little unsure of the date object in JavaScript will come in handy. Chrome saves the previous computations in the $ _ special variable that can be used in the long-running calculations.

Multi-line commands are run in a console window to parse and extract data from Web pages. For example $ $ (' a ') selector will hold all the hyperlinks that are embedded in the page. Then you can use a simple for loop to export these hyperlinks in plain text.

URL = $ $ (' '); for console.log (URL in URLs) (URL [url]. href);

Some Web may request your location for personalization and chrome Dev Tools, you can easily fake location. Click the options button in Dev Tools and share a different set of latitude and longitude values from this site.

How to Import Web Data into Google Docs [Video]

This video tutorial explains how you can import web data – like HTML tables and lists – from external web pages into your Google Docs sheets with a simple formula.

You have been using Google Docs to create basic documents and spreadsheets but did you know that Google’s cloud-based Office suite can do even more.

For instance, you can directly import data from web pages and edit it inside Google Docs. You can translate the text of a cell from one language to another. You can read RSS feeds inside Google Docs. You can even use Google Docs for monitoring web page changes - this is handy for tracking price fluctuations for a product on any shopping website.

You don’t have to be a geek nor do you have to write any scripts to do such amazing stuff inside Google Docs. All you need to know is a couple of Google functions - ImportFeed, ImportHTML and ImportXML – and you’ll have a head start. Ready?

Today we’ll discuss ImportHTML, a useful Google formula that will help you fetch tables and lists from an external web pages into a Google Sheet.

Let’s start with an example. Open a new spreadsheet inside Google Docs, double-click any cell to enter the Edit mode and copy-paste the following function:

=ImportHTML("http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Bollywood_films_of_2012", "table", 2)

When you press Return, Google Docs will instantly import the second table from the corresponding Wikipedia page into your current sheet. If you replace the value of the third parameter in the above formula from 2 to, say, 4, Google Docs will import the forth table from the Wikipedia page.

In addition to , you can also import HTML lists into Google Sheets that are created using the

or 
tags. Try the next function on your Google Sheet:
=ImportHTML("weburl", "list", 2)
The 25 start-up tips are listed using an Ordered HTML List and you can import the entire list into your Google Sheet with one formula. If there are multiple lists on a page, you can change the third parameter with the index of the list that you wish to fetch inside Google Docs.


It is important to note that once a table or list has been imported into Google Docs, the table won’t update itself even if the data on the source page has changed. Also, Google imports the tables as plain text and all the formatting and links will be lost.

Use Google search like online timer

learn about easy search command, which will let you use Google as online timer to help remind you of any upcoming tasks.

Use Google as online timer

You need a simple timer to remind you of upcoming tasks like picking up a laundary, making this phone call to your client or for gluing the Pomodoro technique. There are good Web applications, such as e.ggtimer.com, which allow you to quickly create countdown timers in the browser, but you probably don't need them anymore.

This is because you can now set online timers inside Google itself by typing in the search box timer in the following format (the word "set" is optional):

timer to set the timer or for

You can use a combination of the hours, minutes and seconds. For example, you can use the search command to set the timer for 20 seconds or timer to 2 minutes 1:0 and timer will spring into action. When the time is over, your browser plays the sound.

One more thing. Instead of setting the time in the search command, you can simply use the search term ' timer ' in Google and then manually set the timer.

This tip is courtesy of Lifehacker