Easy Download Gmail File in Android Phone and save in your SD Card

 

Despite being an open mobile operating system which offers more freedom than competing platforms, Android comes with a bunch of small but nonetheless frustrating limitations. One such limitation is Gmail’s limited support for different file formats; it plays well with things like PDFs, DOCs and AVIs, but when it comes to ZIP files and other, lesser known formats such as 7z, the popular email client simply denies the user from downloading it. Further, Gmail doesn’t let you save attachments to specified locations on your device’s internal memory or SD card.

Both of these shortcomings are easily solved with an app we’ll be talking about in this post. Check it out after the jump!

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Developed by Poofinc Studios, Gmail Attachment Download is an easy-to-use app that lets you download any attachment from Gmail and place it anywhere on your device.

Gmail Attachment Download doesn’t come with any app icon and is only activated when you attempt downloading an attachment from Gmail, so it is more of a plugin than a standalone app.

To get it to work, you simply press view/preview in Gmail and select Gmail Attachment Download when the option comes up. This launches the plugin from where you can select the exact path where the attachment will be saved. You then tap Save file and voila!, the attachment is saved for later use.

We’ve tested the app on a Samsung Galaxy S II (Android 4.0.3 ICS) and can confirm that it works as advertised.

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Gmail Attachment Download is more of a necessity than anything else. If you use Gmail on your Android device (who doesn’t?), you really need to install this app.

Gmail Attachment Download is a free, ad-supported app [Google Play]. It works on all Android devices on version 2.1 and up. The app also apparently works on other email clients, but we weren’t able to test this.

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New Top 5 Technology Trends For twenties centry

 

With the End-of-Year Countdown firmly underway, We’ve taken time to reflect on the last twelve months to give our forecast of the top five trends for the year ahead.
If we’re right, the forecast for the next twelve months will have some sunny days, although mainly cloudy with occasional outbreaks of rain, and we could even experience some wintry conditions!

1. People Vs Technology
At the end of October we saw the world population reach seven billion. While this saw many debating if the planet would have enough resources to sustain us all, I was puzzled by a different conundrum – if there are now five billion mobile handsets in operation across the globe, a billion of which were connected in the last two years, which is growing faster? And, while it’s fairly obvious which is, what will happen if the level of connections are maintained? I’ll put my neck out and say I believe that, GSM will possibly match the number of people on this earth by 2013/14 and could even exceed the population growth by the end of 2014.

2. Home Vs Office
While many are worried by the euro-zone crisis, back here on home soil I don’t see our financial situation dramatically improving – in fact things are set to get worse before they get better. For the whole population, inflation – measured by the retail prices index – has jumped by 14.4 per cent since September 2007 and businesses are feeling the pinch too. Office space is at a premium, utility bills continue to rise, fuel duty is set to put the pump price even higher, and I could go on but you get the picture. I believe people, and the companies they work for, will start to think smarter about where they work.
The way I see this playing out is businesses looking to reduce their overheads, and employees looking to cut their spending, will both look to embrace home working. I do have some hard statistics on which to make this predication as, earlier this year, my company conducted a study that revealed that 82 percent more people are working from home this year than they did last year. We may even see more organisations move to become completely ‘virtual’.
Let’s face it, we’re all grown ups so don’t need constant supervision, and with technological advancements this is a viable alternative. Instead of the daily trudge to the office, employees will remotely connect to the organisation’s infrastructure – securely I hope. Physical interaction will be replaced by conference calls, with weekly or even monthly creation and collaboration opportunities pre-arranged to exchange information.

3. Hardware Vs Software
For many years I’ve argued that hardware based tokens have had their day. But, in March this year, EMC’s RSA division fell victim to hackers. Subsequently, Lockheed Martin – one of EMC’s clients, suffered a breach that was blamed on its reliance of hardware tokens and proves my point that these tokens are fundamentally flawed. I see two things happening over the next twelve months in this area.

a) Now that the criminals have realised where the keys to everyone’s kingdom are kept, we will see more attacks against organisations, like RSA, who store their clients’ seed files. The fact is malicious individuals understand that this information can be compromised and what they can do with it- it’s been proven! I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, the most secure method of two-factor authentication is to randomly generate any required keys within the customer’s own environment.

b) Organisations will move from hardware to software based tokens to authenticate users.
While you could say this isn’t really a prediction, as in truth the exodus to tokenless has already started, I’ll bravely put a figure against it and say 50% of all hardware tokens will be replaced with tokenless two factor authentication by this time next year.

4. Data Continues To Go Mobile
This next prophecy is based on the predication from another, Ericsson – it has predicted that mobile data traffic will increase tenfold by 2016. I obviously concur with this theory, but I also believe the knock-on effect of this trend is how this data is moved and accessed. Therefore, my prediction is that remote access will also increase proportionally – sticking my neck out I guesstimate this to be 40% by 2016. However, mobile data poses a risk to an organisations security so, this will mean companies needing to secure this vulnerable data. Authentication will be a key consideration so, theoretically, this should also grow by 40%.

5. Green IT
Trying to predict the future shape of the government’s green policy is extremely difficult, and I’m not the best placed person to do this anyway. However, what is more certain is that its green policy is a good deal more certain than many other aspects of government policy as the general direction of travel, in favour of low-carbon development, remains clear and is as guaranteed as any national priority can be by the Climate Change Act.
One simple way business can look to reduce their carbon footprint is by moving from hardware tokens, to tokenless authentication. For example, it would require 1,673 trees to offset the emissions created in deploying 3,000 physical tokens. With soft tokens not even a branch has to be sacrificed.

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Firefox 11 Ready For Download only For Windows, OS X & Linux

 

It wasn’t that long ago when users had to wait an eternity for the developers over at Mozilla and Google to push out new versions of the popular Firefox and Chrome web browsers. In fact, pretty much every major browser version seemed to have an extremely long shelf life before the developers felt it needed an update and brought new and improved features to the public. Thankfully, it looks as though that trend of making users wait for improvements has been put to bed, with Mozilla pumping out the updates thick and fast for its Firefox browser.

It was only the end of January that the development team released Firefox version 10 into the wild, bringing numerous security fixes as well some additional features such as CSS3 3D transforms and anti-aliasing for WebGL. Just under six weeks down the line and Mozilla have today released Firefox version 11 which doesn’t offer any mind blowing enhancements or new features and can be seen as a more evolutionary update rather than revolutionary. The quick release seems to fall in line with the new browser update strategy which has been adopted to keep up with Google who decided to significantly reduce the time scales in between their Chrome browser releases.

Firefox is one of the world’s most popular web browsers and will obviously have a massive amount of people heading for the download button, but just what is included in the version 11 build? Well, as mentioned earlier, there isn’t a great deal to get excited about, but it does feature a few significant improvements which will benefit both developers and the average user, as well as offering the obligatory bug fixes which are present in every build.

The most notable addition to Firefox version 11 is the ability to migrate bookmarks, browsing history and stored cookies from Google Chrome, with Mozilla also adding synchronization features for add-ons and adding support for some additional CSS properties. From a developers point of view, Firefox 11 brings the availability of the CSS style editor as well as being able to fully visualize a web page in 3D thanks to the new page inspector 3D view. A number of fixes have also been implemented which were left outstanding in the previous build, most notably a fix which brings redesigned HTML5 video controls, as well as rectifying the issue which prevented Growl notifications from being displayed when using Growl 1.3 or later.
With the time scales between each release being significantly cut, it is to be expected that each new public release will be more of an incremental build rather than one which comes out with an array of new and impressive features. However, with that in mind, the shorter time scales will also see any annoying bugs or issues being ironed out a lot quicker.

    Download Firefox 11 [Windows]
    Download Firefox 11 [Mac]
    Download Firefox 11 [Linux]
 

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Facebook Timeline "The Voice" You Vote on Facebook

 

Fans of NBC’s The Voice can now vote for their favorite contestants via a new app for Facebook Timeline.

Facebook Timeline users can begin voting for artists on The Voice on Monday, when the app will be released. Fans can also share their views with Facebook
friends, connect with others and track artists via the app.

“This app gives our already socially-savvy fans another way to connect and share,” Vivi Zigler, president of NBC Universal Digital Entertainment, said in a statement. “From declaring their favorite artist to discovering friends’ preferences to interacting with more content, the app creates a fully social online voting experience.”

It also allows users to access related content from the show, including performance videos and blogs.

This isn’t the first time The Voice has turned to the online world to encourage voting. Last year, the show allowed fans to vote by buying the contestants’ songs on iTunes.

Other shows have also used social media to help with the voting process. In November 2011, the U.S. version of The X Factor allowed viewers to vote for their favorite performer via direct messages on Twitter

Meanwhile, American Idol let viewers vote on the show’s Facebook page during season 10.

Facebook announced in January that it would be adding apps to its site, so members could share more information about their interests, what they’re reading and what they’re doing online. Apps currently range from The Washington Post to Nike.

Are you more likely to vote for contestants on shows such as The Voice via social networking sites, rather than texting? Let us know in the comments.

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Apple Release Information about iPad battery indicator

There was another small dust-up this week over the new iPad and its battery, following a rash of complaints that the device charges too slowly. On Monday, DisplayMate analyst Raymond Soneira published an in-depth technical review of the new device, reporting that the battery indicator was showing more charge than it should.

According to Soneira, the battery indicator shows 100 percent charged before it reaches full charge, then continues charging and finishes its power cycle. With the battery at “100 percent,” he said, the iPad gets around 10.4 hours of battery life; with it charged past that point, he got 11.6 hours. In all of Apple’s ads, the company promises 10 hours of battery life.

when the battery indicator first says 100 percent the battery is actually only 90 percent charged and you get 1.2 hours less running time,” he wrote.

Apple responded to Soneira’s report in a conversation with All Things Digital, saying that the same is true of all iOS devices, and that the company has decided to show battery life that way to keep an optimum charge.

According to Apple vice president for iPad product marketing Michael Tchao, “That circuitry is designed so you can keep your device plugged in as long as you would like.” He added, “It’s a great feature that’s always been in iOS.”

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Keyboard For iPad for Users who Fully Customize Their On-Screen Keyboard

iOS developer Ganbold, who has brought customizable keyboards to the iPhone has now released a similar tweak which brings the ability to alter and arrange the keyboard on a jailbroken iPad. 5 Row Customizable Keyboard for iPad has recently hit Cydia and works in the same manner as its younger brother, which is for the iPhone. Apple have a dedicated Settings entry within iOS that allows users to define certain international keyboards, but these are pre-defined layouts and don’t give the user a more advanced option of creating a keyboard to suit specific layout requirements.

Ganbold has today released his latest offering, which is a variant of the keyboard tweak dedicated to the iPad and is available through the BigBoss repository as a commercial installation for jailbroken iPads running iOS 5 or higher. Once installed, the keyboard is activated by heading over to Settings >> General >> Keyboard and then selecting International Keyboards to bring up a list of all available keyboards. Searching for, and selecting ’5 Row’ will activate the keyboard, turning the iPad into a 5 row typing powerhouse.

The tweak itself replaces the Russian keyboard and allows it to become customizable to most countries and languages that are not included in the native iOS installation on the iPad. Four keyboard rows and the forty four keys contained on them can be modified through the tweak’s settings panel, users will then need to repsring the iPad for any changes to take effect. One of the great things about this tweak is that it contains support for the iPad’s split keyboard, which is a very nice option.

5 Row Customizable Keyboard for iPad is available to download from the BigBoss repository right now, and requires an iPad running iOS 5 or above.

Of course, you will need to jailbreak your device to install this tweak. For jailbreaking the latest iOS 5.1 (tethered), follow the instructions posted here to jailbreak using Redsn0w, or here for Sn0wbreeze. For jailbreaking iPhone 4S and iPad 2, you can simply follow our step by step tutorial posted here to jailbreak iOS 5.0.1 using Absinthe on Windows or Mac. Those of you with an iPhone 4, 3GS, iPad 1, and iPod touches can use Redsn0w or Sn0wbreeze to untether jailbreak on iOS 5.0.1.

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iPhone Allows To Be Used In Landscape Mode Multitasking Switcher for IOS

For those who prefer to embark on their iOS journey in a landscape orientation, it may be slightly annoying that certain native apps and parts of the OS  isn’t set-up with landscape support. Apps such as the default Settings app are strictly portrait-only affairs and no matter how ferociously you flip that device around; it refuses to to budge. The same goes for the multitasking switcher tray which can be invoked by double tapping the Home button on the device. The bar that appears along the bottom on the screen containing backgrounded apps is designed to work in portrait mode only.

The SwitcherLand tweak that has recently landed on the Cydia store aims to solve that issue by introducing support for the alternative landscape orientation when the switcher tray has been invoked by the user. It seems a little strange that such behavior hasn’t been built into iOS as standard by Apple, considering that the default behavior is to show the multitasking tray in portrait only mode, even if the open app is in landscape. With that being the case, the whole user experience is tainted when the Home button is tapped twice, meaning that the user has to literally flip the device to use the tray. While that might not seem like a big deal, it does seem to go against the whole seamless flow of iOS that Apple craves so badly.

After installation, SwitcherLand extends the abilities of the switcher tray to support the alternative orientation but still stays true to the original functionality and contains the familiar media controls, Music app access and even a orientation lock option that allows the user to lock the device into landscape orientation. This particular tweak contains no additional icons or settings entries and requires an iPhone or iPod touch running iOS 5 or above.

SwitcherLand is available as a free of charge download from the BigBoss repository.

Of course, you will need to jailbreak your device to install this tweak. For jailbreaking the latest iOS 5.1 (tethered), follow the instructions posted here to jailbreak using Redsn0w, or here for Sn0wbreeze. For jailbreaking iPhone 4S and iPad 2, you can simply follow our step by step tutorial posted here to jailbreak iOS 5.0.1 using Absinthe on Windows or Mac. Those of you with an iPhone 4, 3GS, iPad 1, and iPod touches can use Redsn0w or Sn0wbreeze to untether jailbreak on iOS 5.0.1.

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