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How to Use ODIN on Android by Tiffany Garden, Demand Media ODIN is a third-party, Windows-based program created specifically to flash files such as ROMs on Samsung smartphones. ODIN is used in several different circumstances, such as flashing firmware or installing a custom ROM on the smartphone. ODIN has no special requirements beyond the Samsung USB drivers, which may be installed on your computer already depending on your smartphone usage. Step 1 Download the ODIN ZIP file from the XDA Developer forums at forum.xda-developers.com. Extract the ODIN folder to your computer. The folder does not need to be in a specific directory or drive. Step 2 Connect your Samsung phone to your computer with the data cable. Turn it off for 30 seconds. Turn the phone on while holding down your "Home," "Power" and "Decrease volume keys" until you enter download mode. Step 3 Launch ODIN on your computer. Click "Auto Reboot." Clic...

Real Numbers: Mobile Video Viewers Watch Seven Minutes A Day; 3.5 Hours A Month by Daisy Whitney By all accounts, mobile advertising and mobile video are growing fast. The Interactive Advertising Bureau said last week that mobile advertising had nearly doubled in the first half of the year to $1.2 billion, while eMarketer has said that 50% of smartphone users watch video at least once a month on their phones. Plus, Cisco has said two-thirds of the world's mobile data traffic will be video by 2016. But on a pure time spent basis, what do these numbers equate to? ... Read the whole story AUTOMOTIVE Ford Does First-Ever Documentary For Warriors In Pink by Karl Greenberg The automaker is using Breast Cancer Awareness month to promote its first-ever documentary about the "Models of Courage," who are the 2012 faces of its "Ford Warriors in Pink" funding program.The film delves into their personal stories, illuminating what a breast cancer diagnosis mea...

Wikimedia is holding a technical meetup at the Indian Institute of Management campus in Bangalore from 9-11 November 2012. This DevCamp is a chance to participate and work alongside experts in development of PHP and JavaScript based internationalization and localization tools as well as mobile applications using Phonegap and LAMP technologies. Software engineers, UX/UI designers, and translators are welcome! Please do not register if you are not comfortable with writing software. If you have not been invited personally by the Wikimedia Foundation to attend, your answers in this form will be used to assess whether you will receive an invitation. Please be aware that there are no scholarships for attending this event. Preliminary schedule: » November 09 (afternoon): Introductions and Workshop » November 10: Making cool stuff » November 11: Making cool stuff and Presentations Privacy statement: Your submitted information and responses may be kept by the Wikimedia Foundation or its co...

Use APKTool to Decompile, Edit, Translate and Recompile an APK APKTool is an application ( made by Brut.all ) which decompiles and recompiles android APKs. If you know what you are doing, it also allows you to debug the smali code step by step. In our case it will enable us to build a language pack by translating the .xml strings inside APK files.  This tutorial is for the Windows version of APKtool.   The Google.Code page for APKTool is here , however, we have prepackaged everything you need and uploaded it here The Video Tutorial is Below: The Supplementary guide to common errors in APKTool is below: You need to do the following preparations (the video outlines these steps anyway): Download the prepackaged APKTool zip. Extract them to a directory you will remember. Extract framework-res.apk AND apk files you want to decompile from the MIUI_Au ROM and copy them to the root directory of APKTool. This step must be completed every time you ar...

Virtual Credit Cards for Indian Freelancers, Bloggers and Affiliates Paypal denied to operate like a bank in india and for that reason many services of paypal are now limited for indian users. This makes it hard for many indian freelancers or bloggers to use paypal for shopping or for purchase. If any paypal user has no debit or credit card then chances are there that they’ll find it hard to operate paypal.  In such a case they’ve option of getting a credit card from their bank services or debit card which comes with their savings account or use virtual credit card service. In this post i’m going to review some of the virtual credit card services that are available to indians (and anyone who can’t use paypal worldwide). Entropay  – They’re not exactly like paypal but they allow you to generate a virtual credit card with specific amount in it. They charge 1.95$ per transaction(*refer to official faq/docs for recent changes) and 4.95% per refilling amount in credit car...

Pause to think about life as the years flow under the bridge MANUAL works 30 years without stopping, educates his children, gives them a good example, devotes his entire time to work, and never asks: “Is there truly any meaning to what I am doing?” He only concerns himself with the thought that the busier you are, the more important you become in the eyes of society.

Now, send free SMS through Gmail chat It is finally here. The free SMS service right from your Gmail chat window.  Almost a year after the service was introduced in the United States and many other countries, the service has now been made available to Indian users. You could now send a text message to most mobile operators across the country from the comfort of your computer, although there is a prominent exception, at least for users in Bangalore. The Gmail Free SMS service is available for connection to mobile phones with SIMs of many operators, including BSNL, Aircel, Idea, Loop Mobile, MTS, Reliance, Tata DoCoMo, Tata Indicom and Vodafone. However, repeated test messages to Airtel mobiles failed to get the SMSes delivered. Once you send an SMS from the chat window to a mobile phone other than Airtel’s, you wait for a response. The replies will appear as regular chat replies  and conversations will also be stored in your chat history. The new feature was rolled out t...

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The report of this unusual case last September was just the latest shock from a bracing new field, the science of consciousness. Questions once confined to theological speculations and late-night dorm-room bull sessions are now at the forefront of cognitive neuroscience. With some problems, a modicum of consensus has taken shape. With others, the puzzlement is so deep that they may never be resolved. Some of our deepest convictions about what it means to be human have been shaken. It shouldn't be surprising that research on consciousness is alternately exhilarating and disturbing. No other topic is like it. As René Descartes noted, our own consciousness is the most indubitable thing there is. The major religions locate it in a soul that survives the body's death to receive its just deserts or to meld into a global mind. For each of us, consciousness is life itself, the reason Woody Allen said, "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve...

Third Bhartiya Vigyan Sammelan and Expo 2012 First day of Bharatiya Vigyan Sammelan was really huge day for LPU. Chief Minister of Punjab S Parkash Singh Badal inaugurated India’s Largest Science Congress, more than 150 science exhibitor showcased their technology, 1500+ scientist including Dr Vijay Pandurang Bhatkar-the architect of the Indian Supercomputers PARAM were in the campus and there was a visit of some 15000 students from 150 colleges, schools and Universities. What a day... Third Bhartiya Vigyan Sammelan and Expo 2012

Mobile applications: native v Web apps – what are the pros and cons? The difference between the capabilities of Web-based and native mobile apps is narrowing rapidly. Before embarking on a mobile app you need to know the facts. Global Intelligence Alliance (GIA)’s Lie Luo gives the low-down on each. Rapid advances in HTML5, the new more mobile friendly version of the Web language, and the hard work by the standards body World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to create standard interfaces across mobile devices mean that Web apps can – or will be able to – do many of the things that native apps can do. Early this year GIA released a pioneering research paper entitled  Native or Web Application?  that surveyed businesses that had created both Web apps and mobile apps. Who better to guide us through the pros and cons of each platform than the author of that report, Lie Luo? This is the fourth in our series of six app-related articles, interviews and guides. See also: • What...

Lovely Professional University LPU JALANDHAR : The third Bharatiya Vigyan Sammelan (BVS) and Expo 2012 will commence on October 11 at Lovely Professional University. BVS is to be organized jointly, for four days, by Vijnana Bharati along with LPU, Punjab Technical University and Punjab State Council for Science and Technology, and will last up to October 14.  "The Sammelan will witness presence of large number of scientists, technocrats along with artisans and farmers, to discuss and disseminate knowledge, information for mutual benefit. The conference is expecting 2000 delegates from all over the country in which around 60 experts, in various fields, will impart expert lectures. The present challenges and development strategies for Punjab will be discussed in this conference," said LPU chancellor Ashok Mittal and BVS coordinator Jayakumar.  Mittal said,"For all the four days of BVS-EXPO, we have invited more than one lakh students from about 12,000 Senior Second...