SAMSUNG TAB S2 PRODUCT REVIEW

I have never been a big fan of Samsung tablets till the time I used the Samsung Tab S2. It changed my perception. The Tab S2 is a superb device, both in terms of design and pro -ductivity.

The Samsung Tab S2 is a light-weight tablet with a superb display. The Korean giant has added a 9.7-inch display to a sleek 5.6 mm thin device. Weighing 392 gm, it feels extremely light. The 9.7-inch Super AMOLED display with 2,048x1,536 pixel resolution appears super bright and offers rich colours. There is a home key below the display, accompanied by a back and multitasking key.

The home button has a finger print scanner that works flaw -lessly. There is a metal frame on the sides and speaker grills at the bottom. The rear has a metal finish, which awards it a premium feel. Overall, this is one of the few Samsung devices that has got Wind of Changegreat looks and feel.


Thanks to the light weight, slim built and superb display, the Galaxy Tab S2 comes across as a great enter tainment device. Watching videos and movies is a delight. It smoothly streams videos too. It has got an internal storage of 32 GB with suppor t for expandable memor y, offering enough space of storing content.

The text appears crisp and there isn’t any trouble reading in bright sunlight either. It comes preload-ed with Microsoft Suite, which takes care of the productivit y. The tablet handled heavy graphic games with ease and there wasn’t any lag while switching bet ween the running apps. The tablet is powered by 1.9 GHz Samsung Exynos Octa-core processor 5433 and is paired with 3 GB of RAM.

The Samsung Tab S2 runs on Android Lollipop. The tablet is equipped with an 8 MP rear camera and a 2 MP front camera. The one on the rear suppor ts auto focus but is not accompanied with a flash. The images clicked by the rear camera were decent. But the 2 MP front facing camera was a bit damper, considering even smar tphones costing  `10,000 are equipped with 5 MP cameras. The 5,870 mAh batter y lasted me over t wo days on heavy usage. If used carefully, it would last much longer.

Plus    : Design, Performance
Minus: Camera

Tips on Google Advance Search

If a standard search doesn’t give you exactly what you’re looking for, try using Google’s
Advanced Search page instead to get more specific.

In order to access the Advanced Search options, perform a normal search, then click the cog icon in
the top-right corner of the results page and select ‘Advanced search.’ Since there’s no way to jump
straight to Advanced Search from the Google homepage, you may want to bookmark this particular page for easy access.

Once you get to the Advanced Search page, you’ll find a form with lots of text fields, enabling you to enter criteria and get very specific about your search. Although you will enter most of your requirements at the top of the page, towards the bottom you will find some useful additional criteria
to use, such as restricting your search to a particular region or only including webpages written in a
particular language.

Finally, at the bottom of the page you’ll find an option to search based on usage rights, which is
useful for hunting out content that you can modify and reuse, alongside some links to more search-related information.

Quick tips  
Still looking for a couple more tips? We don’t like to disappoint… Here are three quick ones to round things off..

1. GOOGLE SCHOLAR
If you’re doing research, you can use Google Scholar to search a range of educational literature from different disciplines and publishers, including articles, books and court opinions (goo.gl/jpKlwj).

2. MATHS MADE EASY 
Type a maths question into the standard Google search bar using one of the recognised symbols (+, -, * for multiplications, and / for divisions) and the calculator pops up with the answer.

3. THE INFO: OPERATOR
Use the info: operator followed by a URL in order to get more information about that particular page, including a short description of it and all of the webpages that link both to and from it.

INNOVATIVE 3D HELMET FROM Le TV

A new brand of  innovative 3D helmet along with LeMe Bluetooth headphones and a super cycle has been launched by Chinese smartphone maker LeTv.

It comes  with 70 -degree field of vision and features a myopia  dioptre adjustment range of 0 - 800 degrees. While it  can suppor t full HD content @60 fps, in 3D as well as  2D formats, it can provide a vir tual experience of a  1000 -inch screen.

Letv 3D Helmet has a comfortable case with a wrap-around zip. Inside the box you can find a setup guide and a soft cotton cloth to clean the lenses. When you wear Letv 3D Helmet youl will be surprisingly light and feels comfortable, even when you are wearing glasses. This virtual reality headset comes with an embedded 5.5 -inch 2k display  from Sharp, with a 2,560x1,440 resolution.

The 3D Helmet has its own display, measuring 5.5 inches, with stunning 2K resolution and a 70-degree field of view, giving you clear visuals from a preferable distance (15 metres).

It has a USB Type C port to connect  with the phone’s MHL signal input and has a 3.5 mm  jack for connecting headphones. The company has not  disclosed the 3D helmet’s price in India. In China, it is  retailing for 1999 CNY

6 Ways To Get Free Music From Google

The Music wing of the Google Play store has come on in leaps and bounds in recent times and is now jostling with iTunes as the world’s premier online music store.

As such, there is a lot going on there. So, first and foremost, we would like to guide you around the interface so that you know what is where. Certain features are accessible from the menu to the left or the tabs at the top of the window, but generally if you scroll down the main page you’ll see a wide
range of sections that relate to new releases, music that is similar to the tuneage already in your collection and more. You will also find a link for a free weekly song, which you can click, download for free and then get a taste of the rest of the respective artist’s album.

Findout where the freebie are: 

1: Click on Music
In the Play store, click on the Music section in the left-hand column and you’ll be taken to the Music
page. That column will then give you the option to switch between the shop and your collection.

2: Using the tabs
The tabs at the top let you explore music by genre, check out the latest charts and sample all of the
new releases. To pick a genre, just click on Genres and then pick a style from the menu.

3: Scroll through sections 
If you scroll down the page then you will discover that it is rammed full of sections, including recommendations, new stuff, suggestions based on your existing music collection and cheap music.







4. Get free music
Another of the sections that you can scroll down to is called ‘Free Song of the Week’ and provides
a link to a free download. Click on this to be taken through to the track’s related album.

5: Download the freebie
In the track listing you will notice that one of the songs is free to download. Click on this track and a
payment window will appear requiring the grand sum of zilch. Click on the Buy button.






6: Listen and enjoy

You will receive a message informing you that the track has been added to your library. You can either listen to it straight from this window or click on ‘My music’ in the left-hand column to hear it later

MICROSOFT LAUNCHES SURFACE PRO 4

Microsoft India has launched its Surface hardware in the Indian market.

The technology giant launched the Surface Pro, which, it claims, is a tablet  that can replace the laptop. The Surface Pro 4 comes with a 12.3 -inch  display, but in the size of the 12-inch Surface Pro 3, owing to the reduced  bezel. It has a 2,736 x 1,824 pixel resolution with 267 ppi and Gorilla Glass
4 protection. It measures 8.4 mm in thickness and packs in full-size USB  por ts. Surface Pro 4 is powered by Intel’s sixth generation processor  and runs on the Windows 10 operating system. It will have 4 GB to  8 GB of RAM. Depending on the variant, the internal storage, too,  will var y from 128 GB onwards. The company claims it to be  40 per cent faster than the Surface Pro 3. Late last year,
Microsoft had launched Cor tana for India with suppor t  for Indian English. The Surface Pro 4 has an 8 MP  rear camera and a 5 MP front-facing camera.

Microsoft has designed a st ylus Pen for  the Surface Pro 4, which suppor ts 1,024  pressure points, a tail eraser and an  all-year batter y life. The Pen will  come bundled with the Surface  Pro 4. The keyboard that  turns this tablet into a  powerful laptop is  back-lit, well-spaced, with a five-point, ulti-touch track  pad. However, it is not par t  of the box and will have to be  purchased separately for `13,000.


The Surface Pro 4 will be available at a  star ting price of `89,990 for the machine  powered by Intel i5 processor, 4 GB of RAM  and 128 GB storage. The one powered by the i5  processor, 256 GB storage and 8 GB RAM is priced at  `1,20,990. The top version, powered by the i7 processor  with 256 GB storage and 8 GB RAM, will be available for  `1,44,990.

Microsoft has also launched the Surface Pro 3 for consumers, not  for businesses, at a star ting price of `73,990 powered by Intel i3  Processor, 4 GB RAM and 128 GB storage. The Pen will have to be
purchased separately for `5,990. However, the Surface Pro 3 does not  support the keyboard.
Microsoft plans to bring the Surface for commercial consumers, too.  The company has tied up with HCL as an exclusive distributor for Surface  in India.

Lenovo K4 Note Product Review

Lenovo India has announced the launch of its phablet,  the K4 Note in India. It features a 5.5 -inch full HD  display with 441 ppi. It offers 178 -degree wide-angle  viewing. The K4 Note is powered by MediaTek  MT6753 - 64 bit octa-core processor and paired with 3 GB of RAM. It comes with 16 GB internal storage and  can be fur ther expanded using a memory card.

It has a  metallic body with a fingerprint scanner which awards  it a premium look over other smar tphones in this price  categor y. Lenovo has also added a 13 MP, f/2.2 rear  camera with dual LED flash and a 5 MP front-facing  camera. It also has a 3,300 mAh batter y on board and dual front-facing speakers with Dolby Atmos support.

Lenovo has also added a ‘Theatre Max’ feature to this  phone that can conver t multimedia content into vir tual  realit y experiences.

10 Effective Ways On Google Keyword Search

As the number of webpages grows, searches are becoming increasingly long-winded. Filter out all of those unwanted webpages by using keywords, or ‘search operators’Google’s search engine has a nasty habit of transforming a one-word query into seemingly endless pages of search results.

This is where ‘search operators’ come in handy, because they allow you to give Google specific instructions on what to search for, thereby sparing you from having to trawl through multiple pages just to find one relevant search result.

Adding search operators to a query instructs Google to focus on everything from a specific website to only webpages that were updated within the past week, depending on your needs.What makes search operators particularly useful is that you can string them together to construct very tightly focused queries; eg searching for pages that contain ‘Google search tips’ in the title and ‘search operators’ in the main text, and were created in 2013.

Although this query returns fewer results, there’s a much higher chance of finding exactly what you’re looking for within the first few pages. However, be aware that inserting a space between certain search perators and the first word of your query can prevent Google from recognising the search operator. To ensure that Google doesn'’t mistake the operator for part of your search query, play it safe and never insert a space.Google supports a long list of search operators, but in this section we will take a look at some of the most useful ones.

allintitle:

Place allintitle: in front of your search term to restrict your results to only webpages that have this word or phrase in the title (ie at the top of the browser).

inurl:

Limit your results to pages that have the following word in their URL. If you’re looking for a URL that contains multiple words, put allinurl: before your term

related:

Use this operator followed by a URL to view similar websites. This can also help you spot any ‘bad’ websites that are aligning themselves with your own.

site:

Restrict your search results to a single domain, or a certain subdomain or subdirectory, by using this search operator followed a URL.

number..number

Enter two numbers separated by full stops to view all results that contain numbers within that range; for example, ‘World Cup winners 1994..2010’.

OR

If you’re weighing up several possible options, search for them all simultaneously by separating your queries with the capitalised OR operator.

*

If you’re having a mental block and can’t think of a complete search query, use a * to represent any

unknowns, for example ‘writer and director *Gobert’.

filetype:

Search for pages of a particular file type, such as a PDF. Use the filetype: operator alongside the OR command to search for multiple file types

-query

Use the - (minus) operator to exclude all

webpages that feature the attached word, URL or number; for example, ‘laptop sale -macbook’.

map:

Place this before a location and the first item on the results page will always be a Google Maps preview; click to launch the full-sized version.

IN

This operator tells Google to convert the query before the IN into the query that comes immediately

afterwards; for example, ‘1 mile in kilometres’

define:

Place this search operator before a query to get the definition for that word or phrase. This is particularly useful when dealing with acronyms.