How to Use Dictionary on the iPhone and iPad

One or the other time we have a need to use the Dictionary for some of the words, especially smart phone world its very hard to open up a dictionary to know the meaning of something when you are reading any thing.

Here is the simple tip on how you can use the Dictionary on your iPhone or iPad right from where you are reading.

• Open your browser or even on your Notes taking Application and wondering you needed to use Dictionary for a specific word, and just select that word and look for "Define"

• Once you Click on Define You will be taken to the Dictionary Preview mode with meaning of the selected word. 

• In case if you don't have a Dictionary available on your smart phone or if your Dictionary is not working after iOS update, OR you are getting "No Definition found" ? you can fix it with few simple clicks. 

• To add or to Change the Dictionary you are using on your iPhone , simply click on "Manage" button right from the same screen and select the Dictionary you desired to use and thats it , you are ready to use. 

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Awesome Facts about Languages

Here is Some Awesome facts about languages:

• There are 7000 languages in the world.

• Chinese language has 5000 characters

• To read daily news paper in Chinese languages, you need to know at-least 2000 characters in the language.

• There are 2,200 languages in Asia region.

• 1/4 the of the world population knows at least some basic English language.

• There are 13 ways to spell the 'o' sound in French.

And there are more.. checkout the below Info-graphic image for more awesome details.

Source: Edudemic

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Must Know Social Media Shortcuts

Every Internet user is browsing through Social Network Sites like Facebook, Twitter, Google+  and Youtube on daily basis. And its Obvious that every one wanted to get the things faster and which intern needs a keyboard shortcuts to perform the repeated tasks.

Many people don't know that social networks like Facebook, Google+ have Shortcut keys. If you want to be the Expert Level user on the Social Network , you need to start using the shortcut keys. Maybe you need some time to get used to all the commands, but its worth trying for whose loves to become a Pro.

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Screen Share with a friend on Facebook?

One or the other Day every one should have experienced the need of Desktop sharing software. Though you have some of the tools available in Internet, its not an easy to have screen share with out having some soft of software installed.

Deskhop is a Facebook app that enables you to share your computer screen with a friend on Facebook. By using Desktop you can share your screen to your Facebook friend also you can request to share your Friends Desktop with you .

Screen sharing with Deskhop is completely safe and the connections are encrypted end-to-end using 128-bit AES Technology. So there is no chance for a third party to interpret your connection to steal your data.

Deskhop is currently Free to use , and it's created from RealVNC , the inventors of VNC remote access and control Technology.

This Deskhop works in 3 easy steps.

1. Choose a Friend from your Facebook friends list.
2. Choose whose screen to share ( Yours OR Your Friends ) 
3. Download and Run small temporary file, That's it .. !! 

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Drive Smarter by Connecting your Smartphone and Car

Automatic is an iPhone app that pairs with a little piece of intelligent hardware called "Automatic Link". The Link plugs into your car's OBD-II port, connecting your phone to your car's onboard computer while you drive.

All cars since 1996 have an OBD-II port, and most cars are compatible with Automatic Link, Check Here if your car is compatible with Automatic. 

Automatic is a Smart device, helps you make small changes to your driving style that can lead to huge savings on gas overtime. 

Automatic can detect many types of serious crashes using built-in accelerometer  and Contacts Local authorities and also call your loved ones.

Automatic connects to your Car's onboard computer and helps explain any "check engine" problems and explains what is the problem. 

With Automatic you don't need to remember where you parked your car, Automatic Does. 

Find out more about Automatic Here.

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How to Convert your Sound files to Professional Audio standard

Auphonic is a free service which helps you convert your Sound files to a Professional Audio standard with its web-service and uploads to your favorite Cloud services like Youtube, SoundCloud, Dropbox or your FTP location. 

Auphonic does Automatic Audio leveling, normalization, noise reduction and encoding and cleans up to a Professional Standard and sends your Audio/Video to your podcasting Service and you can also backup your podcasts from your cloud drive .

Auphonic is a free service, Its one of the must have Service for all the Bloggers, Broadcasters, Podcast creators, and Screencasts.

It balances levels between speakers, music and speech to new broadcast standards with noise reduction and filtering of disturbing low frequencies and uploads  your formatted file to Dropbox, FTP, SFTP, HTTP, WebDAV, Amazon S3, YouTube, SoundCloud, Libsyn, Blubrry and Archive.org 

Auphonic has also have Mobile App's for both iOS and Android with on-board recorder. 

Source: One Thing Well

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Must have Creative apps for iOS

iPhones and iPads became most powerful and popular educational/presentational tools , A Case Study demonstrates iPad's are widely being used in Educational and professional presentation / learning. To take advantage of more creative and interactive presentations, these are very few must have iPad/iPhone apps. 

• Pic Collage  ( Free , Compatible with iPhone/iPad) 

 Pic Collage lets you arrange your photos into frames - or get creative with freeform collages, cutouts, boarders, stickers. Its just like photoshop with your fingers. This App is useful for the ages from 5 to 100 with free pic Collage and dress up your photos.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pic-collage/id448639966 

• FlowBoard ( Free, Compatible with iPad ) 

FlowBoard is a Story Telling and Presentation App that allows you to make side-scrolling presentations with images, text, videos, pdf's and links. FlowBoard allows to share an idea, tell your story, present a document right from your iPad.  It also allows you to create your with your content in the cloud like Google Drive, SkyDrive, Dropbox.

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/flowboard-touch-publishing/id630717527

• Funny Movie Maker ( Free, Compatible with iPod/iPhone/iPad ) 

Funny Movie Maker - Replace your face instantly and create hilarious movies to share with friends. Choose any face photos of friends, celebrities, politicians or even yourself and record videos by replacing their mouth with yours, Adjust the pitch of your voice and add music to complete your movie. By using this you can make even your pets talk, or your body parts talk and share it with your friends and family. 

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/funny-movie-maker-replace/id430623298 

•  TouchCast ( Free, Compatible with iPad, soon for Desktop ) 

TouchCast , Its a new way of experiencing the Web inside Video,  It's unique Authoring environment allows you to effortlessly add any thing from web, images and other interactive features into your video. In a simple words, you can create a responsive , fully browsable and live Videos, just like having TV Studio at your home. 

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/touchcast/id603258418

• J2E-Just2easy ( Free, Compatible with iPod/iPhone and iPad ) 

J2E is an online creativity tool purely designed for education purpose, It brings the power of web 2.0 presentations into your life.  It's so easy to use, versatile yet so powerful, You can add text to speech to your master peace and you can do realtime collaboration with other j2e registered users at same time.

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/touchcast/id603258418 

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Future Technology Device: Leap Motion

LeapMotion is a brand new and high technology device, Leap Motion controller is a very small peace of hardware , compatible with both Windows and Mac computers, that allows users to control the device without touching the keyboard, mouse or the screen . This smart device is available in market for $80 , which will be very useful for presentations , class rooms and meetings to present in a innovative way.

We can use LeapMotion controller to use zoom in and away from the sun/ google earth, the planet of our solar system . As an added bonus LeapMotion has a many apps which support 3D environment with 3D glass. 

This device will be useful for Video Gamers, School teaching for visual demonstration of the solar system , Corporate Meetings and presentations. 

Eventually , we may expect to see most of the organizations/users using Leap Motion in all of their demonstrations.. 

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How to Create cartoon style bubbles for your photos ?

By using Phrase.It we can create our own Comic style speech Bubble images, Its 100% free and you don't even need to register or provide your email address. 

It's one of the very best speech bubble photo editor.  You can create Comic strips by uploading your own photos, or you can even import from facebook or you can select random stock photos from internet and use those. 

Once you create your Cartoon bubbles you can edit your photo with vintage look or shady look ... they are have different themes. 

After your creation , you can download your art to your computer or you can share to your friends over Social network or using link.

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How to create a word clouds ?

How to generate your own "Word Cloud" from the text you have provided ? Word Cloud gives very stylish way of arranging the words you wanted to see on a image .

Wordle is very intelligent toy for generating "word clouds" from the text provided by you , The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.

You can change your text with different fonts, layouts and different color schemes. Wordle provides the way to print your word cloud after creation or you also save them to Wordle public gallery to share with friends, But it will be visible to every one in the internet, there is sign-in, or protection to your images once its uploaded to Wordle Gallery.

Actually , Where can you use word Clouds ?  Well, its up to your imagination & based on your needs , You can use word cloud on Business Cards, on your Blog , Print it on your T-shirt , as a book cover , as a poster, as a flyer , or even as a wall poster in your Office or bedroom.

Happy Wordle.. !!

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