WERE TO SEE ONLINE WHEN YOU WANT ENTERTAINMENT

Watch 

BoxTV 

If you want to watch movies and TV shows, BoxTV has plenty to offer for a monthly subscription of 199. Most of its content is available in HD quality too, and can be streamed as many times as you want. So whether your taste is Scrubs and Community, or Mahabharata and Nukkad, Udaan and Golmaal or Stuart Little and Donnie Brasco - it's all here. 

www.boxtv.com 

Devour 

We have been fans of Devour for a long time now. A team of editors sifts through the large amount of YouTube videos to hand-pick content that's smart, entertaining, funny - or all of the above. Devour is the best place to quickly see that clip everyone's talking about, or the trailer of the next big blockbuster. 

devour.com 

Viralviralvideo 



If you're always the last one to know of videos that are trending, then make haste to Viral Viral Video. This site - categorized by themes such as animals, classics, crazy, funny, music, nerd and spoofs - puts up every conceivable clip that can go viral, or already has. Bookmark right away for the inside dope on what's going to be hot on the interweb. 
viralviralvideos.com 

 The kids should see this 

Rion Nakaya, a mother of two, collects the best kid-safe videos across the web and puts them on this page. "There's just so much science, nature, music, technology, art, storytelling and assorted good stuff out there that my kids (and maybe your kids) haven't seen," she says. 

thekidshouldseethis.com 

Listen 

Gaana 

This free music-streaming site hosts a huge collection of Indian and international tunes, which you can search, or browse through using categories such as New Releases, Most Popular, Playlists, Artists, Genre, etc. All you need is a good internet connection. 
gaana.com 

BC Radio 

Be the Change Radio

is all about showcasing Indian musicians. Choose a 'radio station' (Heavy Metal, Rock, Regional, Progressive or Electronica) and the site starts playing an endless stream of songs by local artists and bands such as Junkyard Groove, Parikrama, Agnee, Them Clones, Demonic Resurrection and more. 

bcradio.in 

Music maze 

Key in the name of an artist or band you like (anything from Coldplay to Kishore Kumar) and one of their songs will start playing, while also displaying a tree of six similar artists/bands. Click any of the artists to listen to their songs and get a new tree; or let Music Maze automatically choose one and take you on an endless journey of music discovery. 

www.musicmaze.fm 

This is my jam 

This Is My Jam is a musical social network that also lets you connect it to your Twitter and Facebook friends, so you can see what your friends are listening to and show them your favourite tunes. Find others with similar tastes, write what makes a song special to you, and enjoy the great interface. 

www.thisismyjam.com 

Read 

Longform 

The internet has seen a resurgence in long form journalism, and here's an entire website dedicated to aggregating the best of these, typically taking pieces that are over 2,000 words long. The site doesn't restrict itself to new articles, but digs through the histories of major publications to find great stories. And yes, it's all free. longform.org 

The browser 

What are the best articles written in the past few days? Head to The Browser to find out, as its crack team of editors pours through hundreds of stories, from publications around the world, to come up with "must-reads" every day. Each piece includes its word count and a short summary by the editors. 

thebrowser.com 

East of the web 

If you are a fan of short stories, there is perhaps no better site on the internet than East Of The Web. The portal has been around for over 10 years - and although it has expanded into interactive stories and games, it remains the best resource for short stories. You can browse through the latest submissions, check out a random story, and go through the most popular ones. And of course, if there's a writer in you, don't forget to click that 'submissions' button. 

www.eastoftheweb.com 

Five chapters 

This is a unique approach to story-telling , but once you get hooked to it, there is nothing like Five Chapters for your daily dose of fiction. Each week, the site publishes a new short story in five parts - one for each weekday. So far, there have been around 400 stories by 340 authors, spanning a wide range of genres. Unfortunately, the resource doesn't have a way to browse its archives by category. But the joy of finding new reading material in your inbox every day is reward by itself. 

www.fivechapters.com 

Play 

Armor games 

Our favourite Flash-based games site, Armor Games is updated daily with new titles, sorted by latest games, the most popular ones, and by category including adventure, action, MMO, shooting, strategy, sports, puzzle and skill. It's all free, so let the gaming begin! 

armorgames.com 

Tiger Woods Golf Online The online Tiger Woods Golf game has beautiful graphics and smooth gameplay. Check the wind, pick your shot or clubs, zoom-in on the target, see where you're hitting on a map, and control the power and speed - all in real time. Whether you're new to golf or not, you'll love this one. 

tigerwoodsonline.ea.com 

Arcademics 

You aren't going to be able to stop your kid from wanting to play video games, so why not introduce them to stuff that's both fun and educational? Arcademics turns subjects like mathematics into fun pastimes. Take, for example, Penguin Jump, where your kid will be in a race with three others; solving a mathematical equation to jump to the tile that matches the answer. Come to think of it, this isn't bad for grown-ups either... 

www.arcademics.com 

Travian 

This is a browser-based , multiplayer, strategy game. You can play either as the Gauls, the Romans, or the Teutons - each with its own strengths and weaknesses - to build a prosperous village and an army that can either defend against attacking hordes or one that can plunder and loot your neighbours. Gameplay is all about striking allegiances, cooperating with teammates, and working towards ultimate domination of everyone else. Travian is addictive and a single game lasts for months. 

www.travian.in

Creating Your Own Spelling Checker Service

 

The spelling checker service improves the typing speed as well as the vocabulary; it makes one self familiar with the tough words. If you enter a word spelling incorrectly then a red line will come under the word, you can select the best suitable word from given words.

If you are an input method editor (IME) developer, the Spelling Checker framework gives you a great way to provide an even better experience for your users. You can add your own spelling checker service to your IME to provide consistent spelling error corrections from your own custom dictionary. Your spelling checker can recognize and suggest corrections for the vocabularies that are most important to your users, and if your language is not supported by the built-in spelling checker, you can provide a spelling checker for that language.

The Spelling Checker APIs let you create your own spelling checker service with minimal steps. The framework manages the interaction between your spelling checker service and a text input field. In this post we’ll give you an overview of how to implement a spelling checker service. For details, take a look at the Spelling Checker Framework API Guide.

1. Create a spelling checker service class

To create a spelling checker service, the first step is to create a spelling checker service class that extends android.service.textservice.SpellCheckerService.

For a working example of a spelling checker, you may want to take a look at the SampleSpellCheckerService class in the SpellChecker sample app, available from the Samples download package in the Android SDK.

2. Implement the required methods

Next, in your subclass of SpellCheckerService, implement the methods createSession() and onGetSuggestions(), as shown in the following code snippet:

@Override                                                                      
public Session createSession() {                                            
    return new AndroidSpellCheckerSession();                                
}      

private static class AndroidSpellCheckerSession extends Session {          
    @Override                                                              
    public SuggestionsInfo onGetSuggestions(TextInfo textInfo, int suggestionsLimit) {
        SuggestionsInfo suggestionsInfo;
        ... // look up suggestions for TextInfo
        return suggestionsInfo;
    }    
}

Note that the input argument textInfo of onGetSuggestions(TextInfo, int) contains a single word. The method returns suggestions for that word as a SuggestionsInfo object. The implementation of this method can access your custom dictionary and any utility classes for extracting and ranking suggestions.

For sentence-level checking, you can also implement onGetSuggestionsMultiple(), which accepts an array of TextInfo.

3. Register the spelling checker service in AndroidManifest.xml

In addition to implementing your subclass, you need to declare the spelling checker service in your manifest file. The declaration specifies the application, the service, and a metadata file that defines the Activity to use for controlling settings. Here’s an example:

<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    package="com.example.android.samplespellcheckerservice">
    <application android:label="@string/app_name">
        <service
            android:label="@string/app_name"  
            android:name=".SampleSpellCheckerService"
            android:permission="android.permission.BIND_TEXT_SERVICE">
            <intent-filter>
                <action
                    android:name="android.service.textservice.SpellCheckerService" />
            </intent-filter>
            <meta-data
                android:name="android.view.textservice.scs"
                android:resource="@xml/spellchecker" />
        </service>
    </application>
</manifest>

Notice that the service must request the permission android.permission.BIND_TEXT_SERVICE to ensure that only the system binds to the service.

4. Create a metadata XML resource file

Last, create a metadata file for your spelling checker to define the Activity to use for controlling spelling checker settings. The metadata file can also define subtypes for the spelling checker. Place the file in the location specified in the
element of the spelling checker declaration in the manifest file.

In the example below, the metadata file spellchecker.xml specifies the settings Activity asSpellCheckerSettingsActivity and includes subtypes to define the locales that the spelling checker can handle.

<spell-checker xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:label="@string/spellchecker_name"
    android: settingsactivity="com.example.SpellCheckerSettingsActivity" />
    <subtype  
        android:label="@string/subtype_generic"
        android:subtypeLocale="en" />
</spell-checker>

That’s it! Your spelling checker service is now available to client applications such as your IME.

Bonus points: Add batch processing of multiple sentences

For faster, more accurate spell-checking, Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) introduces APIs that let clients pass multiple sentences to your spelling checker at once.

To support sentence-level checking for multiple sentences in a single call, just override and implement the methodonGetSentenceSuggestionsMultiple(), as shown below.

Private static class AndroidSpellCheckerSession extends Session {                
    @Override                                                              
    public SentenceSuggestionsInfo[] onGetSentenceSuggestionsMultiple(
          TextInfo[] textInfo, int suggestionsLimit) {
        SentenceSuggestionsInfo[] sentenceSuggestionsInfos;
        ... // look up suggestions for each TextInfo
        return sentenceSuggestionsInfos
    }    
}

In this case, textInfo is an array of TextInfo, each of which holds a sentence. The method returns lengths and offsets of suggestions for each sentence as a SentenceSuggestionsInfo object.

Best Apps , When You have Lost Your Android Phone

Many have gone through the situations like; they have entered the room and closed the room to just see themselves that they lost the key. For instance when someone loses their phone, Not many people have prepared themselves for this. The best applications to help you find or wipe your phone need to be installed in advance. There is at least one notable solution, which could well save your phone.

Mozilla, who are renowned for their successful internet browser, are entering the mobile race, developing a new web-centric OS that will directly compete with Google, Apple and Microsoft.

If the name Mozilla rings any bells it's because they're the tech boffins who put together Internet Explorer, the browser that Windows defaults to. Mozilla took the leviathan computing company on with its Firefox browser, and today it stands as the second most popular browser worldwide.

Now the company who was underdog to Microsoft looks to be playing the same role, but this time against internet mogul Google.

Announced on the Mozilla discussion forum, Mozilla have begun coding for phones and tablets. The BBC revealed the mobile operating system will draw on Android code, with Mozilla writing as much fresh code as possible. The hybrid-like operating system will be named Boot To Gecko.

It is an unusual name for an OS, until you remember Gecko is the rendering engine employed by the Firefox browser that interprets web page coding and displays it in a screen-friendly format, a homage to its origins.

Even though Android coding will form the operating system's foundations, Mozilla hope to add a much more open wrapper around it than Google currently do, making it more versatile as an operating system.

Its shared foundations will also make Boot To Gecko compatible with the same phones as Android, competing as a direct alternative to Google.

Often, when you select a link from an application native to the Android or iOS market, the operating system will have to open a new webpage in the browser. Boot To Gecko aims to limit this by making applications much more web-centric.

If the venture proves successful, Mozilla will be waging war against industry giants, with Google, Apple and Microsoft dominating many facets of the technological world.



Mozilla have acknowledged the project is in infancy and have chosen to make the development public in hope it will attract talented enthusiast coders who will contribute to the Boot To Gecko's cause.

According to their project team, all of the code development will be completed and shared with the public as soon as it is written.

Researcher Andreas Gal, who announced the development, admits the company has set a high target, but wants to do it "the way we think open source should be done.

Gal says his ultimate goal is to break "the stranglehold of proprietary technologies over the mobile device world," implicitly referring to the practices of Apple, Windows Phone and Google.

Silent Sound Technology: An End To Noisy Communications

You are in a movie theater or noicy restaurent or a bus etc where there is lot of noice around is big issue while talking on a mobile phone. But in the future this problem is eliminated with ”silent sounds”, a new technology unveiled at the CeBIT fair on Tuesday that transforms lip movements into a computer-generated voice for the listener at the other end of the phone.

The device, developed by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), uses electromyography, monitoring tiny muscular movements that occur when we speak and converting them into electrical pulses that can then be turned into speech, without a sound uttered.

‘Silent Sound’ technology aims to notice every movements of the lips and transform them into sounds, which could help people who lose voices to speak, and allow people to make silent calls without bothering others. Rather than making any sounds, your handset would decipher the movements your mouth makes by measuring muscle activity, then convert this into speech that the person on the other end of the call can hear. So, basically, it reads your lips.

“We currently use electrodes which are glued to the skin. In the future, such electrodes might for example by incorporated into cellphones,” said Michael Wand, from the KIT.

The technology opens up a host of applications, from helping people who have lost their voice due to illness or accident to telling a trusted friend your PIN number over the phone without anyone eavesdropping — assuming no lip-readers are around.

The technology can also turn you into an instant polyglot. Because the electrical pulses are universal, they can be immediately transformed into the language of the user’s choice.

“Native speakers can silently utter a sentence in their language, and the receivers hear the translated sentence in their language. It appears as if the native speaker produced speech in a foreign language,” said Wand.

The translation technology works for languages like English, French and Gernan, but for languages like Chinese, where different tones can hold many different meanings, poses a problem, he added.

Noisy people in your office? Not any more. “We are also working on technologyto be used in an office environment,” the KIT scientist told AFP.

The engineers have got the device working to 99 percent efficiency, so the mechanical voice at the other end of the phone gets one word in 100 wrong, explained Wand.

“But we’re working to overcome the remaining technical difficulties. In five, maybe ten years, this will be useable, everyday technology,” he said.

Google Mobile Maps Now With MyLocation

Google Maps for mobile phones has announced a new feature called My Location.
My Location is a new beta technology from Google that uses cell tower identification to provide you with approximate location information, so it will work on phones without GPS. Simply fire up Google Maps for mobile, press [0], and the map will indicate your approximate location by centering on a blue circle like this: 
Google Maps for mobile is currently available in over 20 countries and Google is working to increase its availability.
Google Maps works with the following devices:

• Most Java-enabled (J2ME) mobile phones.
• Palm devices with Palm OS 5 and above.
• All color BlackBerry devices.
• Windows Mobile devices with Windows Mobile 2003, 5.0 and above.
• Symbian Series 60 3rd edition devices.

Using MyLocation would help you like this:
Real-time traffic — See where the congestion is, and estimate delays in over 30 major US metropolitan areas.
Detailed directions — Whether you plan to walk or drive, your route is displayed on the map itself, together with step-by-step directions.
Integrated search results — Local business locations and contact information appear all in one place, integrated on your map.
Easily movable maps — Interactive maps let you zoom in or out, and move in all directions so you can orient yourself visually.
Satellite imagery — Get a bird’s eye view of your desired location.
For more details on Google Mobile Maps MyLocation, visit Google MyLocationHelp Center.
If you’d like to learn more about the My Location technology, take a look at this short video:

  shareshare

Hidden Flight Simulator In Google Earth

I just have come across an intresting article ontechcrunch about hidden flight simulator in Google Earth new version.

Hidden inside Google Earth is a secret Flight Simulator that takes full advantage of Google’s extensive satellite imagery.
To access the hidden feature, open Google Earth and hit Command+Option+A (note it must be capital A) or Ctrl+Alt+A if you’re using a Windows Machine.
The Google Earth Flight Simulator comes with two aircraft options, a F16 Viper and the more manageable SR22 4 seater. Players have the option of commencing the game from their current location in Google Earth or can pick from a list of pre-determined runways. Control instructions can be found here.
Overall the game play is fairly simple in terms of control, but the striking difference is flying over real pictures of locations. I took a quick flight from San Francisco International, headed North to the Golden Gate then turn back over the city before heading towards the Valley. It wasn’t perfect, but it was as good visually as the paid Microsoft Flight Simulator, and in terms of actually presenting real objects it was better.

Here’s a video on youtube, How to try flight simulator in Google Earth:

Google: From Earth To The Stars

Google launched Sky, a new feature that enables users of Google Earth to view the sky as seen from planet Earth, through a partnership with the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, the science operations center for Hubble. To access the new feature, users will need to downloadthe newest version of Google Earth, available free of charge.

With about a hundred million stars and two hundred million galaxies, Sky in Google Earth lets you explore the heavens like never before. Sky will allow astronomers a chance to glide through images of more than one million stars and 200 million galaxies.

With Earth’s new Sky feature, you can:
* Zoom in to distant galaxies and nebulae
* View constellations and the movements of the planets
* Learn about the lifecycle of a star and different kinds of galaxies
* Create and share your own imagery, placemarks and more

See the product demo video below: