Iphone 6 vs. Galaxy S5; The Final Desicion

The battle between Apple's iPhone and Samsung's Galaxy has been raging for years, but the latest two flagship handsets put the companies more neck-and-neck than ever in 2014. Apple finally got the memo that consumers like bigger, 4.7-inch form factors, while Samsung took inspiration from the iPhone 5s to create the S5's fingerprint reader.

The iPhone 6 and Galaxy S5 are the most powerful and best-looking phones from their respective makers, but how do they stack up head to head? We put the two popular handsets through a 10-round gauntlet to find out. 

Design

Do you like sexy or sporty? The iPhone 6 is Apple's slimmest, sleekest smartphone yet, with curved edges that make the handset's transition into the 4.7-inch arena a graceful one. The phone's aluminum back panel has a smooth, premium-feeling finish, which comes in Apple's usual trio of Silver, Space Gray and Gold color choices.

The Galaxy S5's plastic design isn't quite as seamless, but it has some notable durability benefits. Sporting a glossy bezel and a soft, textured back panel, the IP67-rated Galaxy S5 can endure being dunked in 1 meter of water for 30 minutes. This water resistance comes with a caveat, though, as the flap that covers the S5's microUSB port is both pesky and flimsy. 

Both phones are comfortable to hold, though the iPhone 6's lighter body and narrower design make it feel a bit more suited to one-handed use. At the same time, the iPhone 6's super-smooth edges and back panel made me feel like I could drop the phone at any moment, whereas I never had such a worry with the S5's more-textured body.

Winner: iPhone 6. While the Galaxy S5 is water resistant and easier to hold and grip, the iPhone 6 has one of the slimmest, most premium-looking builds of any smartphone.

Display

The iPhone 6's 4.7-inch, 1334 x 750 display finally gives Apple fans a comparable screen size to the 5.1-inch Galaxy S5. But the new iPhone still lacks the full HD resolution (1920 x 1080) of Samsung's flagship.

Despite this difference in resolution, both phones pack some of the brightest and clearest smartphone displays in the business, with the iPhone 6 edging out the Galaxy S5 on our brightness test. If maximum real estate is your thing, the Galaxy S5's screen is noticeably bigger than that of the new iPhone, which is a plus when you're watching movies and browsing Web pages.

Both smartphones proved impressively sharp when I watched an episode of Arrow on Netflix, as I was able to see the finer details of Oliver Queen's prickly beard and deep-green leather jacket on either device. 

The Galaxy S5 proved more color-accurate in our lab tests, scoring a Delta E rating of 0.9 (with 1 being most accurate). The iPhone 6 lagged behind, at 3.0.

Despite this, I found skin tones and clothing colors to look a little saturated on the Galaxy S5 and more natural on the iPhone 6 — a small difference, but one that was immediately noticeable when watching the episode side-by-side on both smartphones.       

Winner: Galaxy S5. While the iPhone offers more-natural-looking hues, Samsung's flagship has the bigger display, and is the only one with full HD.

Audio

If you need a quick fix of music when showering or cooking dinner, the iPhone 6 and Galaxy S5 both do apt jobs filling small rooms with sound. The pulsing horns and sugary vocals of Taylor Swift's "Shake It Off" sounded crisp across the board, though the iPhone 6 sounded a bit louder and clearer when I quickly alternated between the two devices.

Listening to piano ballads like Sam Smith's "Stay with Me" was largely the same experience, with the iPhone 6 making it a bit easier to make out the layered vocal harmonies in the song's chorus.

The iPhone 6 also proved louder in our lab tests, with an 81-decibel output that trumps the Galaxy S5's showing of 73 decibels. 

The Galaxy S5's speaker is located on the back panel, which makes the phone less than optimal for placing on a table and playing music. The iPhone 6's speaker rests along the bottom edge, so you won't have such a problem when you lay that device flat.

Winner: iPhone 6. The iPhone 6 offers louder and clearer sound.

Interface

The iPhone 6 comes loaded with iOS 8, which refines the minimalist design overhaul brought about by iOS 7. The Android-esque Control Center makes a return, featuring quick-access buttons for functions such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Airplane Mode. And the OS' handy Spotlight search now searches the Web instead of just your device. Plus, the multitasking view lets you quickly dial your favorite contacts. 

Apple has augmented its keyboard with a predictive text bar as well as the option for third-party keyboards, two features that Samsung Galaxy owners have been enjoying for years. However, unlike the iPhone 6, the S5's default keyboard includes a dedicated number row.

The Galaxy S5 runs Android 4.4.2 coated in Samsung's signature TouchWiz skin, which makes app icons and menus look more vibrant than stock Android (despite some clutter). Like the iPhone 6, the S5 sports a slide-in menu for adjusting Wi-Fi and brightness, but the S5's menu has more options (like the ability to quickly toggle location services), and Quick Settings can be customized.

The Galaxy S5 has better widget support, allowing you to check the weather, search Google and shop Amazon all from your home screen. The iPhone 6 also allows for widgets, but only in the pull-down notifications menu. The S5 additionally benefits from Multi Window mode, which lets you split the screen between two apps.

Winner: Galaxy S5. While the iPhone 6's interface is clean and easy to navigate, the Galaxy S5's offers more functionality.

Special Features

The iPhone 6 and Galaxy S5 both gained some neat new features by doing a fair bit of borrowing from one another; the Galaxy S5 touts a Touch ID-esque fingerprint reader, while the iPhone 6 has adopted the NFC tech that has graced Android phones for years.

Located on the S5's home button, the fingerprint reader on this phone lets you register up to three digits for unlocking your phone, signing into your Samsung account and making PayPal payments. While this added layer of security is welcome, the S5's reader requires a vertical finger-swipe to unlock, which sometimes takes multiple attempts.

By comparison, the iPhone 6's Touch ID sensor allowed me to unlock the phone by simply placing my finger on the reader in any position. On top of unlocking the iPhone, Apple's fingerprint reader also allows you to instantly authorize iTunes purchases.

Soon, you'll be able to authorize instant mobile payments via Touch ID. The iPhone 6's new NFC capability is designed exclusively for Apple Pay, which will let you store payment cards to your iPhone's Passbook and make payments at supported registers with a quick tap of your device. Apple Pay will arrive for iPhone 6 owners by the end of October. Meanwhile, you can already make in-store payments with the Galaxy S5 at any location that supports the PayPal app. 

The Galaxy S5's NFC capabilities go beyond mobile payments, as you can tap another NFC-enabled Android phone to instantly share Web links and contacts via Android Beam, or photos and documents via S Beam. You can also use NFC on the S5 to pair it with other devices, such as select Bluetooth speakers.

Both phones have apps built for the health conscious, but the Galaxy S5 has one big advantage in that department: a built-in heart rate monitor. Located under the smartphone's rear camera, the S5's sensor usually displayed my heart rate on the S Health app just a few seconds after I placed my pointer finger on the sensor. While the reader had difficulty registering my finger a few times, I appreciated being able to check my heart rate without an external accessory.

Winner: Galaxy S5. The iPhone 6 has the better fingerprint reader, but the Galaxy S5 has the more extensive feature set overall.

Camera

The Galaxy S5's 16-MP camera packs twice the pixels of the iPhone 6's 8-MP iSight sensor, but each phone's strengths and weaknesses go beyond mere megapixels.
The majority of my shots looked more colorful and crisp on the iPhone 6, whether I was capturing a cafe's salad bar or an American flag flying against a concrete building.

The Galaxy S5 didn't even come close on selfies, as its 2-MP front camera produced shots that were pale and grainy compared to those of the iPhone 6's FaceTime camera. 
MORE: How to Take Better Photos with Your Galaxy S5
In a separate test, other editors noticed that the iPhone 6 has trouble setting white balance, but it's not an issue you'll likely notice in most of your shots.
Both phones feature HDR, panorama mode, burst shots and slow-motion video. However, only the iPhone 6 supports burst shots in front-facing mode for rapid-fire selfies. I also noticed that the iPhone 6's near-instant autofocus is about a second faster than that of the S5.
When customizing your shots, however, the Galaxy S5 has the edge. Selective Focus lets you put the focus on either the background or foreground of a photo, while Shot and More mode lets you scrub away photobombers or create dramatic action shots.  
Winner: iPhone 6. The iPhone 6's overall picture quality and zippy autofocus make it the better smartphone for shooting pictures.

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Goodbye to books

Did you know that a lot of school students carry between eight to 10 kilos of books to and from school everyday? If you've got back pains, then you probably did! Well, if an experiment organised by Microsoft and the Philadelphia school district is successful, that and many other things about stundents' lives will change in the future, It doesn't even have an encyclopedia.

According to Microsoft, in the future all students will have writing tablets and students will only study the material which is available on the internet.

Smartboards, which function as white boards

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BMW x5 eDrive is Coming SOON!

While BMW has been dabbling in diesel sedans and readying i3 and i8 for their 2014 debut, the German automaker has not neglected those who would rather have a hybrid. Next month at the Frankfurt Auto Show, the BMW Concept X5 eDrive plug-in hybrid will be unveiled to the world, and though not confirmed for production, it certainly looks ready for primetime.

The BMW Concept X5 eDrive pairs a 95-horsepower electric motor with a turbocharged 4-cylinder engine (of unspecified displacement and power), and can reportedly operate under electric power for up to 19 miles, and at speeds of up to 75 mph. BMW claims it consumes just 3.8 liters of fuel per 100 km, which works to approximately 62 mpg on the U.S. testing cycle.

Being a Bimmer though, engineers made sure the X5 could scoot to 60 mph in under 7 seconds, and the Concept X5 eDrive also comes with three battery modes. Save Battery maintains the current battery levels, allowing drivers to make a highway trip before slipping into electric mode at their urban destination. There’s also an all-electric mode, as well as a mode that handles all that thinking for you.

The BMW Concept X5 eDrive makes its official debut next month, and it looks ready to go from the show floor to the dealership if you ask me

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Google Analytic's Importance

By utilizing custom dashboards, you can keep an eye on specific aspects of your blogs health. Doing this will give you a greater overall picture of how your site is performing, as well as how it may need to be improved.

The real benefit of using multiple dashboards is that you can easily segment the data, making it easier to understand and digest. Using custom dashboards, you’ll be able to see a spike or loss in traffic, whether or not your landing pages are performing well and if your social mentions have increased from a social campaign, and much more.

There are several dashboards available to use, but these five should give your site an immediate boost if you use the data they provide properly.

(Note: To use the links make sure you’re logged in to Google Analytics, or the links will appear broken!)

1. Brand Monitoring


The Brand Monitoring dashboard allows you to customize and replace the key terms with your own brand. By doing this, you can see how mentions of your brand are appearing in different social media channels.

You can also see where and how often you’ve been mentioned, as well as the percentage of visits to your site from each source. Having this information can help you gauge how effective your marketing campaigns and efforts are.

2. SEO Dashboard

SEO Dashboard allows you to see the total number of organic visits to your website as well as which keywords are bringing in traffic. It will also allow you to see which landing pages are most popular and effective.

You can also see which sites people are being directed from, as well as the bounce rate of new keywords. SEO Dashboard is a pretty deep tool, so taking a bit of time to explore what it can do your site is a smart move.

3. Social Monitoring



The Social Monitoring dashboard is specifically used to tell you how social media is affecting your site. In order to be effective and streamlined, Social Monitoring limits the data it shows you to tell you which social media networks are bringing in the most data, how they’re interacting based on time and day and much more.

4. Traffic Dashboard


Traffic Dashboard was designed to help you keep an eye on your incoming visitors. Using the dashboard, you can find out how many unique pageviews you’re getting, how many pages users are visiting, the total number of pageviews, how much time they’re spending on your site and on each page in particular. You can also perform a comparison search by date range to figure out where decreases in traffic are coming from so you get a jumpstart on correcting them.

5. Ecommerce Dashboard


If you have e-commerce tracking enabled on your site, you can use the Ecommerce Dashboard to find your conversion rate, total revenue, average value of individual sales and the average value of transactions and unique purchases.

Correlating this with other dashboard tools, you’ll be able to see where these sales are coming from and how you can better focus your efforts to make more or boost lagging sales figures.

Using these five dashboards, you can keep an eye on the health of your site and perform strategic calls to action to improve your site. For example, if you want to focus on running a Facebook giveaway, using these tools could tell you whether or not the campaign was successful by telling you about unique page visits, where users were coming from and a whole lot more.

If you install these dashboards, and you should, make sure you examine how well they are performing at least once per week in order to really get the most information you can from them. If you monitor these dashboards regularly, they can only help your business grow.

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Yahoo beats Google in US internet traffic

IT WAS the darling of the 1990s dotcom boom, but by the late 2000s Yahoo! was washed up, perpetually second to Google.

But has new CEO Marissa Mayer achieved the seemingly impossible?

For the first time in five years, Yahoo! has topped Google for US internet traffic.

Google has held the number one position continually since April, 2008.

To put that into perspective, Yahoo! had never been on top while Barack Obama has been US President, or while iPhones have been available in Australia.

The stats, from comScore, don't explain why Yahoo! has managed to knock Google off the top spot.

It could be related to Yahoo!'s acquisition of blogging site Tumblr, which has separate traffic, but could be directing traffic to Yahoo!

ComScore told Marketing Land that Yahoo! and Google had been close in traffic recently.

"There are other factors at play... it can likely just be normal seasonal/month-to-month fluctuations," the statement said.

Ms Mayer has been a controversial CEO since she started at the company in 2012.

In February she banned the previously-generous work from home allowances, and was criticised again a month later for vetting new recruits too closely.

Since taking the helm, Ms Mayer has overseen the acquisition of a growing list of start-ups, including Tumblr, Snip.it, GhostBird, Xobni and Qwiki.

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Google Servers go down for 5 mins, 40% traffic falls

A few days ago on Saturday morning all Google services like Gmail, Youtube, Google search etc. were out. The internet suffered a lot because Google IS internet.

The Google App Dashboard documented this brief outage as all apps provided by the search giant went down for around 5 minutes.

The app dashboard for Gmail had the following message for users:

"We’re aware of a problem with Gmail affecting a significant subset of users. The affected users are able to access Gmail, but are seeing error messages and/or other unexpected behavior."

CNET reported that according to web analytics firm GoSquared, traffic on the internet dropped around 40 percent during those five minutes and perhaps only highlights the reliance of internet users on the search giant.

After Google returned to normal, internet traffic did as well and asCNET points out search engines like Yahoo! and Bing weren’t able to capitalise on Google’s outage, only highlighting our dependence on services Google provides.

Google hasn’t made any statement yet on what cause the outage. 

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Blogger or Wordpress

What you get for free

WordPress.com is a commercial venture. It’s a way for the kind souls who have put time, money and a whole load of effort into the open source and free-to-download WordPress blogging engine to make some money back. They do this by making it stupidly simple to set up and maintain a blog, while introducing some rather hefty limitations for experienced users.

A free WordPress.com account offers:

• A blog, which you can turn into a full-on static or hybrid (part blog, part static) website.
• 3GB of free storage for posts and media.
• Publicize, a tool for connecting your blog with social networks.
• Free statistics for tracking visitors.
• Access to hundreds of non-premium themes, many of which can be customised further.
• WordPress.com access from mobile apps for iPhone, iPad, Android and BlackBerry.

WordPress.com designates the following as premium upgrades:

• Custom Design ($30 per blog, per year) adds custom CSS (not PHP editing) and fonts.
• Custom Domains ($13 per domain, per blog, per year) removes the .wordpress.com part of your URL.
• Guided Transfer ($129 one-off payment) for transferring your WordPress.com site to your own web-host for greater independence and freedom.
• Ad-free ($30 per blog, per year) removes any possibility of WordPress.com showing adverts on your blog to non-logged in visitors.
• Premium themes (priced per blog for the lifetime of the blog).
• A redirect ($13 per blog, per year) for redirecting traffic from yourblog.wordpress.com to your new domain.
• Additional space (priced per amount) for storing more posts and media.
• VideoPress ($60 per blog, per year) for uploading, hosting and embedding your own videos on your WordPress.com blog

Conversely, Blogger is not a commercial service. It was acquired by Google in 2003 who have since kept it ticking over, with a few redesigns and some recently-added new templates. The rather ancient Blogger features page (ancient because it explicitly mentions uploading to Google Video and easily accessing iGoogle, two of Google’s many dead projects) promises users access to all features. There are no upgrades, no fees for adding a custom domain, and all the customization options thrown in that Blogger has available.

Included features worth noting are:

• A template designer for customizing your blog’s appearance.
• Free hosting, free Blogger (or Blogspot) sub-domain and option of using a custom domain (either registering through Blogger or using one you already have).
• The ability to add media to your posts, with no quoted maximum storage space.
• Quick access to Google’s advertising schemes.
• Pages static content on your blog.
• Mobile access via iPhone and Android apps, as well as SMS or email blogging.

It would seem that despite WordPress having the plugins and themes markets sewn up, Blogger still offers more for those looking for a free service.

The Sign-Up Process

WordPress.com allows you to register for an account with an email address, username, password and URL. Blogger is a Google service, and just like YouTube, requires a Google account. If you already have a Google account then this makes signing up a painless affair, but if you don’t (highly unlikely, unless you have something against Google), you’ll have to register for the whole package. This also means if you do have a personal Google Account but want to distance yourself from the topic you’re blogging about you’re going to have to create a new account, and also deal with Google’s messy multiple-account management.

Google’s sign-up process doesn’t indicate that you do not need to supply a mobile phone number or an email address, despite asking for one. Conversely WordPress.com only asks to fill out four fields but will also run a check for the URL you enter and try to sell you a premium domain (which costs to register, and requires an account upgrade to use on WordPress.com) as well as pointing out the flaws in the free account you’re about to register.

Managing Your Blog

Both WordPress and Blogger have centralized areas from which to manage your blog empire, which are separate to the settings for the blogs themselves. The two areas are equally attractive and usable, with both services featuring an area to read blogs you follow as well as the various outlets under your control.

On WordPress this takes the form of a deep attractive blue theme with a tabulated layout that allows you to quickly switch between reading, overseeing blogs and managing analytics in addition to a quick post button.

Blogger houses all of this on the one page, with a quick compose button found next to the blog title itself. Beneath this are new posts from the blogs you have chosen to follow on the service. It goes without saying that you can’t follow Blogger blogs on WordPress.com and vice-versa, though it would be nice if we could all get along

In Conclusion,

I'd highly recommend you to use blogger to create your blog, it gives you alot of facilities and comfort and easiness for free. 

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Take Telescopic Photos with your smartphone

Casual Telescope

Well, you won't Believe it, but you have to.. you know what. You can use your smartphone to take telescopic images!!! yeah yeah you can see the rings of Saturn, the clouds of distant nebulae. All you have to do is create a simple smartphone mount and you can see crisp images right from your backyard observatory. Russ McAllister from Cabot, Ark., designed this rig for his iPhone and posted the plans on Instructables.com (search for "iPhone mount for telescopes"). Google Nexus 4 can now also be used. Annnddd I'm gonna teach you how to make this protocol.

All you need is:

• Conduit hanger (should fit snugly on eyepiece)

• 6-in. bolt (make sure it fits hole in base of conduit hanger)

• 1-in. bolt

• L-shaped corner bracket

• Washers, nuts, wingnuts

• Two pieces of wood, cut from ½-in. stock: 4½ in. x 3 in. and ½ in. x 3 in. (We used plywood.)

• Rubber bands 

Instructions 

Step 1: Wooden Base Create shelf for phone by gluing small piece of wood (A) across large piece (B). Using drill and jigsaw, cut a horizontal, 2-in.-long slot (C) wide enough to fit 1-in. bolt, as shown. (Slot allows you to adjust positioning.) Cut a rabbet around the slot, on front, to recess bolt head. Next, attach L-bracket (D) to back of wooden base using the short bolt and wingnut. 

Step 2: Assembly Insert 6-in. bolt into conduit hanger base (E); secure with washers and nut. Attach L-bracket to long bolt using washers and nuts, as shown. 

Step 3: Mounting Attach conduit hanger to eyepiece. Use rubber bands to attach phone. Loosen wing- nuts to adjust lens position. 

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Experience of Shifting to Our New Home

Hmm, Today we (mom, dad, younger sister and me) shifted to our new home in Islamabad, its on rent, so we had a lot of luggage, it was really really huge, we hired 2 trucks yet we took a lot of stuff in our car. When we shifted we took the luggage off the truck and kept it in home... After that a 4 HOURS hard work was required to set and arrange that stuff!!!, and get the home ready to live in, its now my first night in my new home's room... I arranged my room really well, its a little bigger than the old house, but unfortunately our internet (wireless wingle) is really slow here :(... I am looking forward to get a connection of land-line internet, that would be much better. The first time I bought the car in our home, which was pretty difficult due to narrow gate, you may be astonished that I'm only 13 and driving, but in our country Pakistan, everything is possible... I bought the car from just 1 mm distance on both sides of gate... well, this experience of shifting was really awesome. Did you ever shift to a new home?.. share your experience with me. (comment)

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20 Tips Writing a Good Blog Post

 I jotted down some ‘quick tips’. While they are all short I hope that they might spark some ideas – enjoy!

1. Tell your story – it is what makes your content unique
2. Share how you feel – it will take your readers to a deeper place
3. You’ll never please everyone – the sooner you come to peace with this, the better
4. Write about things that matter to you – passion is infectious
5. Inform, Inspire and Interact – aim to do these things every week!
6. Experiment with different styles of writing – it will help you find your voice
7. Mix up the length of your posts – short can be sweet but long can be epic!
8. When an idea strikes – drop everything and capture it!
9. Do everything you can to understand who is reading your blog – it will make you more useful to them
10. Before you publish – ask what you want your reader to do after reading your post – and edit accordingly
11. Become hyper aware of problems – and obsess over writing posts that solve them
12. Put aside time to create quality content – it doesn’t just appear
13. Put aside time to edit and polish your posts – it will take them to the next level
14. Get a life – you’ll be a much more interesting writer if you’ve lived a little
15. Ask your readers questions – it will make them feel like they belong and you’ll learn a lot too!
16. Take your readers on a journey – posts that build from one to another can be powerful
17. Brainstorm regularly – generating ideas for future posts now can save a lot of pain later
18. Not every post needs to go viral – shareable content will help you grow but it may not serve your current readers best
19. Write, Write Write – the more you write, the better you will get
20. Publish selectively – you don’t need to publish everything you write

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Mystery of 600,000 light-year-long gas stream solved by Hubble

Our Milky Way galaxy doesn’t just hover in space all by itself. There are a number of small satellite galaxies orbiting it like moons around a planet. Two of these galaxies, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, have been at the heart of an astronomical mystery for the last 50 years. It was 1965 when scientists discovered a massive stream of gas extending from these two galaxies, but were at a loss to explain its formation. Massive doesn’t actually do the so-called Magellanic Stream justice — it wraps itself halfway around the Milky Way, and is a staggering 600,000 light years long.

Astronomers have posited a variety of hypothesis to explain the presence of such a gigantic cloud of gas trailing off from two small galaxies in the decades since its discovery. Most of these scenarios had the Magellanic Stream forming all at once, possibly as the result of some gravitational interaction between the Small Magellanic Cloud and the Milky Way. It took detailed observation by the Hubble Space Telescope to figure it out.

A team of astronomers, led by Andrew J. Fox of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, used Hubble to gather data indicating that the Magellanic Stream is composed of material from both the Large and Small Magellanic clouds (the bright spots in the image above). Perhaps more unexpectedly, it was stripped from the dwarf galaxies at different times.

The astronomers made their observations of the Magellanic Stream by pointing Hubble at quasars — the super-bright active cores of distant galaxies. These were used to backlight the cloud and allowed a precise absorbance spectrum to be gathered. The levels of oxygen and sulfur in different parts of the stream gave researchers the data to pinpoint the age and origin of the gas.

We now know the stream initially formed more than two billion years ago when a stream of matter was ripped from the Small Magellanic Cloud. The part of the gaseous ribbon closer to the dwarf galaxies had a different profile, though. The team concluded that it matched the composition of the Large Magellanic Cloud, which means that part of the stream was formed more recently.

The new research also clarifies the mechanism of formation. As the satellite galaxies are pulled closer to the Milky Way they encounter the halo of hot gas around it, which displaces the gas native to the Magellanic Clouds. The stream is the result of that effect combined with the gravitational tug-of-war between the two smaller galaxies. The displaced gas is simply catapulted off in a gravitational slingshot.

A great deal of effort has been devoted to understanding the Magellanic Stream and the Clouds that produced it. The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are unique among the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies because they have been able to retain most of their gas envelopes and are still actively forming stars. Without the presence of sufficiently dense gas clouds, star formation stops. This is what we see in most nearby dwarf galaxies, and it gives us a preview of what will one day happen in the Milky Way.

The gas stripped away in the Magellanic Stream is slowly spiraling in toward the Milky Way, and could kick off a wave of new star formation when it gets here. The team believes the stream could get even larger if another puff of gas from the Large or Small Magellanic Cloud were to be thrown off. Even if 600,000 light years is all the longer this stream of star-birthing gas gets, it’s going to be a bright future for our galaxy.

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Apple to Release new Iphone on September, 10

 Apple Inc. is planning to debut its next iPhone at a Sept. 10 media event, according to a report by an AllThingsD technology blog post over the weekend. The report cited unnamed sources, though the timing would be similar to last year's launch of the iPhone 5. Analysts widely expect Apple to introduce both an iPhone 5S as well as a lower cost iPhone for lower-end customers this year. The company has been losing share in the smartphone market to Google's Android platform. A report from IDC last week found that Apple's iOS accounted for 13% of smartphone sales in the second quarter compared to 17% in the same period last year, while Android expanded its share of the market to 79% from 69% in the same period. Iphone 5s is going to have IOs 7. For more technology news, keep visiting http://www.faizanabrarinfo.blogspot.com

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How to Post in Different Pages of Blogger

Many of you want to post in different pages of blogger and whenever you post something, it comes in the main homepage and not the required page, so I have the solution to it. Just follow the steps and Enjoy!

Step 1: First of all you need to create a post and add a Label to it. (add the label named to the desired page you want it to go to). For example: I label my post "Video"

Step 2: Now you need to find out that labels web address, which you can do from clicking on the label on your site and copying the web address.

Step 3: Now you have to create a web address page (From blogger pages section click on New page then "web address"

Step 4: Now you have to add the label web address as the web address and name the page whatever you want

Step 5: Enjoy! Any Queries so ask in comments

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How to Use Social Media to Create a Successful Blog

Are you searching for effective ways to grow your online audience while increasing your blog traffic? Social media is an efficient tool for promoting your blog and making it popular among your target audience. Businesses have successfully extended their blog’s reach using social media sites such as YouTube, LinkedIn, Pinterst, Google+, and of course Facebook and 

        9 Tips for Using Social Media to Successfully Promote Your Blog

Let’s take a look at our Top 9 Tips for Promoting Your Blog Using Social Media:

Post to Social Media Profiles Using Feed Tools

Twitterfeed, and various other feed tools give you the ability to publish links to your blog posts on multiple social media sites automatically. If your blog is running on the WordPress platform, you’ll find some really great plug-ins that help you automate this process.

Automate Your Publishing

Imagine how simpler your blogging life would be if you could automate your posts. Well, using tools like HootSuite, SproutSocial and TweetDeck, you can. Simply schedule your posts for the entire day, week or even month ahead. This is a great way for busy business owners to get the word out about new posts quickly and simply. Scheduling allows you to spread your posts out, while simultaneously posting to various social media profiles.

Add Icons on Your Blog for Quick Social Media Sharing, Tweeting and Liking

No matter which blogging platform you use, your sidebar should contain social network icons. Why? These icons allow your readers to quickly connect with you via your social network profiles, with just one click. They also encourage your audience to share, like and tweet about your blog or any of its contents.

Link Your Blog and Social Media Profiles to Each Other

Every single one of your social network profiles should include the URL of your blog. That way, no matter where your audience is connecting to you from, your blog is only a simple click away.

Your Forum Signatures Should Contain the URL of Your Blog

When you post relevant, valuable information, questions or comments in industry-related forums, you increase your web presence. Including a link to your blog in forum signatures helps to create backlinks to your blog, which helps to increase blog traffic.

Comments Made on Other Blog Should Contain Your Blog’s URL

Leaving or responding to comments on other relevant blogs also increases your web presence among your target audience. Add a link to your blog within your comments to create valuable backlinks. This also increases the chances of that audience visiting your blog using a single click.

Utilize the Social Media Widgets and Tools Offered

Most of the popular social media networks offer free widgets and tools to promote user profiles. These can be added to your blog to increase your content’s exposure. Simply log into your social media profiles, access these features, and add them to your blog.

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