Windows 8.1 is released last month and it has witnessed many million downloads and its still continuing. With Windows 8.1 you have an option to save all your pictures, videos and music files to an removal disk and its interface with the 8.1 version of windows is good as windows 8 does not provide such easy interface and access to the external or to the removal disk. Here is the guide to setup the default location on the windows 8.1. 

* Press windows key + I 

* In the sidebar select on the pc settings

* In the following window of pc settings select pc & devices

* In the next window select the devices

* In devices scroll down till you find default save locations

* Insert your SD card in its slot and click on the setup

* Now your default location for saving pictures, videos and music is your SD card.

* Remember that the files that already present wont get sync with the new location and you have to do it manually.

While selecting SD card make sure that what type of card your system supports because some of the laptops only support small sized SD card and some large cards. You can also save your files in that location by using windows style desktop applications too. If you dint insert your SD card while clicking on the setup it will show an error msg. Hope this information might be useful for you, Happy Computing !  

In iPhone 5S launch there made announcement that iPhone 5s comes with an additional M7 processor along with A7 processor. This M7 processor will make the task easier and improvement in application performance and speed of the phone and in addition to this battery conceded by the phone is less. We list the interesting facts behind this performance improvements by these processors.

In Desktops GPU takes the graphical calculation works and leaving the CPU for it core process. Likewise M7 will take raw datas from the sensors such as geo location sensors and from motion sensors and it will process the data and it will directed to the application directly and the core processor A7 is now free to handle its function without any interruption. Developers can easily access this M7 processor by the use of new core motion framework. Core Motion will handle data from the accelerometer, the magnetometer, and the gyroscope.

Many application in the app store are redesigned or reworked to work with the new core motion framework. Addition of this processor does not require any change in the code and it will performance is improved. Now with the implementation of this new processor will not pause the core processor work and make it to handle the application requested data and it will make some delay or lag in phone performance. 

A new dedicated chip to handle data and it will remove the battery requirements across all the units of the phone, now the battery is saved along with free cpu to handle its work. With the implementation of new chip M7 processor in iPhone 5S will improve the battery life and performance of phone and it will welcomed by both the consumers and the application developers. 

Google to ban the external source extension to the chrome by the january of the next year. Windows users are allowed or able to install extension to chrome only through the official store. This ban is due to the security concern of the chrome users.

Google claims on its blog that the current security concern isn't enough for the chrome users for windows. When they install the extensions from the external source and the bad actors had figured out how to bypass it. The external source extensions had changed the new tab page in the chrome for the windows users. 

The google ban on the external source extension will affect the stable and beta version users of the chrome in windows. Developers version of the chrome will remain unchanged. Google ask the website developers and the the business persons to migrate their extension to the google chrome store. Malicious extensions are strictly prohibited from the chrome store. 

Web Developers and the business persons can use inline install and the enterprise policy to their extensions. This change might affect the security software providers who provide extension from external source in their update or in the installation. In such case google encourage the security developers to host the extensions in the store and hidden from the search. 

Google is the most important tool in our day to day activity in the modern world and we will lost our way back to home from a trip without google maps. Its mixed with our life and we cant do our work without google. Now google has a new updated search app for iOS with some of the existing features in it. New improved app with make your day to day activity more simple and easy as it comes up with remainder sync with the search. 

Improvement in its iOS app make users mostly rely only on google for all of their works. Now google with its latest update for iOS app comes up with the google search sync with the calendar and it will brings up the remainder and the search. If you want to meet the doctor and it will remind you about the meeting or appointment and also with the directions to the destination.

If you got struck in the traffic jam then it will suggest you the alternate path and with the estimated destination reach time. If you want to do some when you reached your office or home and google will now help you with the remainder. You have say " Ok Google, Remind Me ........." and google will wake up and start to listen your query or your remainder. But for doing this you have to enable sound and GPS on your mobile and you should give required permission to access and push notifications. 

When you are in the theatre or in the Airport google will automatically pull your tickets from the PDF file and its has reduced your worry for searching your emails for the tickets. You must enable your GPS to get this from google. GPS will help you to locate where you are and it will act accordingly to it. 

Internet Explorer was launched along with windows 8.1 and now IE 11 is avaliable as the release preview version for windows 7 users. Soon Microsoft is ready to launch the full version of IE 11 to windows 7 users. Microsoft claims IE 11 will be more faster than the Chrome, Firefox and much improved from their previous versions.

Most of the internet users in the globe use Firefox and Chrome for their day to activities and they may be surprised to hear that IE 11 is 30% more faster and works well with javascript and the flash. Microsoft says in its blog as "IE11 on Windows 7 improves performance across the board with faster page loading, faster interactivity, and faster JavaScript performance, while reducing CPU usage and improving battery life on mobile PCs”. 

Microsoft Claims that IE 11 will be 9% faster than its previous version IE 10 for windows 7 users. It also released few apps for the developers and the users to check their improvements in IE 11 with Javascript, HTML5 and it will guide developers to develop with their new API. You can get more tools from their IE test drive site. 

IE 11 is avaliable for download across the globe in 95 different languages. Once you download and install it and it will be automatically to the latest version for windows 7 users. You can now download IE 11 from microsoft site. 

BitTorrent v1.2 is now released with improvements in its sync speed and it has also released new app for iPAd. Sync API is in developer mode and the developers can create apps on it as the platform. BitTorrent claims that it will be Cloud free Sync and it also adds it will be your own private, secure and unlimited cloud storage platform. 

BitTorrent Sync v1.2 has features with improvements in file transfer speed by 20 times as compared to its previous version. It claims it can sync 10GB file in less than 2mins of time and it mandatory to have such speed. 

Sync app for iOS has been updated to new look, improvement in connection speed and a native iPad app. Improved features also added now you can sync your file with other app and send files from other app using sync and it also has an option to save sync file directly on the camera roll. 

BitTorrent Sync Beta API "will allow developers to create distributed social media, communications, and enterprise apps on top of the platform" said in the BitTorrent Blog. It is also designed to work on all platform such as Linux, Windows and MAC. API allow the developers to decide whether to sync the entire folder or a specific file in a folder and it has also added an option to integrate app without using the default UI. 

Weebly is a tool to create eCommerce website and other Business and Professional Websites and now it came up with option to create free website. Wide range of Pricings are avaliable and it is mostly affordable by small and medium business organization for their eCommerce Site. According to the company Weebly new platform is designed in such a way users can create eCommerce website like Amazon easily and also for free.

Weebly will handle transaction for their customers of their own and it will accept payments via paypal and it will also accept credit cards and it also offers secure payment with ssl for your own domain. It is also designed to work on smartphones and tablets too. The listings of the products are also made simple with this option you can attach multiple images with different colours and size. You can also add video to explain about your product in detail. 

The can manage their orders, payments, tracking of the shipment details, refund and return processings. This all can be done by end to end confirmation e-mails. All the above processing can be done in mobiles, smartphones and in tablets too. It is simple to import your existing store on Etsy or Shopify or you can upload the csv of store file.

Weebly starts its pricings for free and it offers to create a free site and it also includes free hosting. With starter it offers it for 4$/month and it has features such as own domain, premium support and expanded site stars. With Pro it offers weebly for 8$,month and it has features such as password protection, professional multimedia and powerful site search. With Business it offers weebly for 25$/month with complete premium support and complete premium package.  

Beta in a software on in game refers to the that that application or game or softwae is still in the developmental stage and their full version is not yet ready. Software development stage is consist of different stages and they are named as pre-alpha, alpha and beta. Here is some of the interesting facts about the software development stages.

Software Development Stages

various stages releted to development of the software or an application are listed

* Pre-Alpha

* Alpha

* Beta

Pre-Alpha

In this stage software or game are in the development stage and they are not released for any testing prupose. They still in activities such as software design, software development, requirement analysis and unit testing. 

Alpha

First phase in the software testing and it is initially released only by the open source software and game developers to the public for testing. In this phase may lead to crash or data loss in the application or in the game. Usually this phase is tested by using white box technologies. Later they are moved to black box or gray box technologies. 

Beta

This phase begins with the completion of software feature. The feature complete software may have many bugs, speed, data loss, crash and performance issues in it. These softwares are then developed to complete software. Hope you find the information about the various methodology used in the development phase of the software, Happy Compuing !

Planning to upgrade to windows 8 from windows 7 or from windows XP. During this some might get doubt will my system works well in windows 8 ? We list the Requirements of Windows 8. 

Processor: 1 gigahertz (GHz) 

RAM: 1 gigabyte (GB) (32-bit) or 2GB (64-bit)

Hard disk space: 16 GB (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)

Graphics card: Microsoft DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM driver

If your system matches the above specified requirements and anyone can give you assurance your system will works with perfectly with the windows 8. Hope you would find above information useful for you. keep Visiting Happy Computing!

Nexus 5 with the android 4.4 KitKat is now on sale for Google Play Store. The Nexus 5 is now avaliable in google play store of 16GB and 32GB in both white and black. Kitkat 4.4 will also be avaliable to Galaxy S4 and HTC One Google Play Edition devices andNexus 4, 7 and 10. 

Nexus 5 is built by LG which is much like nexus 7 with 8.59mm thick and 130g in weight which makes it as much thinner and lighter. It has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 quad-core processor with an Adreno 330 for graphics, 2GB of RAM, a 5-inch 1080p display made of Gorilla Glass 3, a non-removable 2300mAh battery, 4G LTE support, and an 8MP rear-facing camera with Optical Image Stabilization.

Android 4.4 has few changes in the android store for the users this time. The default launcher is called as google experience and it allows the users to access google by saying " Ok Google" and you can search anything. Navigation and the taskbar are transparent in the new version. Books and Movies will play in fullscreen. Android 4.4 also has much improved in RAM usage and it will run with lower end devices with only 512MB RAM. Phone app has been updated to include better caller ID and prioritized contacts.

WordPress is one of the best blogging platforms and it has tons of  plugins for it users. WordPress has come with its latest updates 3.7 few days before and its has made a spectacular changes to it. It has come with some of the architectural updates with the nicknamed update as " Basie ". Great news of the updates is the automatic background update.

Now with updated word press 3.7 updates can be done automatically in background and no need to download and update it. Once word press 3.7 update is done from this all updates from the word press are done automatically background while you are in the sleep. Security is the primary concern for user and it said it has come with new checks and safeguards to make its reliable. 

Passwords are more reliable too access the websites and and its necessary to come with a more secure password. WordPress 7 has come up with new password meter based on drop box to avoid some of the common mistakes such as keyboard patterns, dates and names. WordPress 7 also has come up with some important updates for its search.

Search in WordPress 7 also got a major improvements since the search in the WordPress are based  on the date and not based on relevance. With its latest updates the search priority are given to post title and post content but not based on the post date as in the previous versions. Now it will let you do more than the blogging and its an important feature of this update. Now you can update from the dashboard no need to download the fresh copy and install it, remember backing up your WordPress if might help you if any thing goes wrong.