Month: February 2013

Top 7 Expert Tips And Tricks For IOS 6

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iOS 6 is the latest Apple OS that runs on every Apple devices. Its features like friendly user interfaces and the convenience of apps, makes it a smarter operating system.  Perhaps you are an iOS guru. Or maybe a newbie to the operating system, but here we present some tweaks in iOS that you probably never knew. We also hope you love them and enjoy the benefit of this post.

  • Your iPhone Can Read To You:

You can enable the speak option for facilitating the iOS device to read aloud a selected text. You can enable it from the Accessibility option.

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  • Enable Emoji Keyboard:

Add iconographic symbols in e-mails, messages, tweets and other postings. This feature is shipped with every iOS 6 devise and doesn’t require buying a third-party iPhone application. To get this feature select General, International then Keyboards tab from the settings option.

  • Ask Siri To Find Location By Using The ‘In Transit’ Cue:

You can ask Siri to find you an address by adding some extra word like ‘transit’ in the end of the command. For example “give me the direction to Kennedy International Airport via transit”. iOS will open up the maps apps and display the route.

  • Edit Siri Commands:

Sometimes Siri doesn’t understand your words and might interpret into something else. But you can fix this issue after Siri responds that she doesn’t understand what you’re talking about. Tap the speech bubble where Siri keeps a record of what she interpreted, there find your command, edit it and resubmit the request.

  • Limit The Ad Tracking:

Most users find it annoying to get constant Advertising pop-ups. But iOS allows you limit these accesses as well. Under the General option tap About and then Advertising to Limit the Ad tracking.

  • Take Photos While Shooting Video:

iPhone 5 and iOS 6 allows the users to snap photos and shoot video simultaneously. It appears on the screen in addition to the shutter button.

  • Customize Auto Replies For Rejected Calls:

you can tailor specific messages, explaining the situation why you didn’t answer your calls. By default you will get 3 pre-reserved options. However you can customize these pre-preserved messages too.

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Android 4.2.2 is set for release this month!

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Google is constantly working to roll out its Jelly Bean update in the form of Android 4.2.2 in the end of this month. It is likely to be a minor update that will fix the prevalent bugs and to enhance the performance speed of the Jelly Bean OS. It is also expected to patch the Bluetooth streaming issue in Nexus 7 devices.

Some reports suggested that, Google is already testing the 4.2.2 update on all Nexus devices like the Nexus 4, Nexus7 and Nexus 10. According to the website, Google claims to release it to the consumers by mid-February. These rumors have been there for quite some time since the last couple of months but reporters have already spotted some Google Nexus 4 devices in Malaysia and Brazil that were running Android 4.2.2.

Rumors have it, that Google will be releasing its next Android version 5.0 in-between April and June of this year. This update may also be called as ‘Key Lime Pie’. Google has announced that its next developer conference will take place during May 15 to May 17 of 2013, where they might introduce new android applications for version 5.0. Finally, as only 1.2 % of Android devices run 4.2 Jelly Bean versions, only a few users would be benefited from this update.

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New Features Updates Of IOS 6.1

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Earlier this week, out of uncertainty, Apple released an iOS 6.1 update for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. This update is the first major update to iOS 6, since its launch in the last year. There have been minor updates before this, such as iOS 6.0.1 and iOS 6.0.2, but they were flawed with issues. The features introduced in iOS 6.1 are not necessarily groundbreaking, but as a fix and improvements to its previous mistakes. Let’s take a look at these features.

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  • ‘Siri’ Integration To Search Movies:

Siri has made it extremely simple to find movies, and then buy tickets from Fandango. It is also required to install the Fandango iPhone application to make this feature actually work.  Movies lovers would find this feature to be an extremely fitting update.

  • Apple Maps App:

Apple has definitely improved its Map App with this update. Some of the previous bugs are fixed but hasn’t been solved completely. Along with this it has also added a prominent ‘report a problem’ button.

  • Music Controls:

There is a newly fashioned Lock Screen Music controls in iOS 6.1. When the home button is pressed twice, the music controls pops up. It has been featured to access the music even if the screen is locked. The control interfaces and theme also go well with the Music app itself.

  • Fixed Wi-Fi Issues:

iOS 6.1 on iPhone 5 has resolved all issues from iOS 6.0.2 update. The network connection seems to be strong and stable.

Along with all these features it has also fixed the issue of unexpected OS boot where as the power management is still not satisfying with this update.

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Andolasoft is a leading iPhone application development company offering a comprehensive range of iOS solutions to our global customers. With expertise in HTML 5, CSS, iOS, iPhone SDK, and Cocoa framework, we develop stunning applications to reach a wider audience. With the release of iOS 6.1 it has facilitated our developers to explore new possibilities for application development.

CakePHP is Faster Development Of Next Generation Web Application

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There are numerous PHP frameworks available such as Zend, CodeIgniter, Akelos etc. CakePHP on the other hand is the most popular framework among them and reduces significant coding time and investment. It is an open source web application development tool. It helps to build the web pages and applications faster and simpler.

Some features of CakePHP framework

  • Compatible with almost all PHP versions
  • Facilitates code scaffolding for faster development of prototypes
  • Doesn’t require any complex configuration
  • This framework is safe and secure:  It provides in-built tools for input validation, XSS prevention, SQL prevention for secure application development.
  • It provides built-in view helpers for AJAX, JavaScript, HTML etc.
  • It offers faster and flexible tempting features as well as data validation features

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These features make installation and use of CakePHP easy which in turn makes PHP more manageable. As it is an open source, it can be customized according to the needs of specific business requirements. It provides the CakePHP developers with MVC framework, Class inheritance, re-usability, Ajax support and many more to make the development process easier and effortless.  It assists the PHP developers at all levels and provide the ability to manage every part of project development.

Conclusion

It has a lot of advantages over other PHP frameworks, such as less code, less maintenance, and more scalability. CakePHP team works tirelessly to make sure that programmers who want to use CakePHP can do so in an easy and enjoyable way. CakePHP itself is easy to use, and the framework has many features to make life easier for developers who need to create applications that work well and scale to large numbers of users.

Our CakePHP development team is highly experienced to deliver robust, logical, most reliable and effective solutions to our global clients. Our expertise in CakePHP development helps us for building cost effective apps that too matching customer budget with quick turn-around time.

Watch out for the latest Security Patch to deal authentication bypass for RoR

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ror41Ruby on Rails framework developers have been continuously releasing security updates since the last two weeks. Its recent updates like 3.0.20 and 2.3.16 versions were to address the remote code execution vulnerability. This was the third security patch released this month. The developers have mentioned that the updates released are extremely important, and have advised the users of 3.0.x and 2.3.x rails framework to update as soon as possible.

The security update will fix the vulnerability in the Rails JSON code. That allowed the hackers to bypass authentication system and inject random SQL into the application database. It occasionally performed denial-of-service attack too. The rails developers have also pointed out that currently it supports only the 2.3.x, 3.1.x, and 3.2.x versions and might release an update for 3.0.x version.

Most recent vulnerability was identified as CVE-2013-0333, which was patched in the framework on 8th of Jan. The Ruby on Rails developers using Rails 2.3 and 3.0 are also advisable to install the new fixes even if they have installed the fix for CVE-2013-0156 earlier.

 

Brief Summery

  • Affected Versions are: 2.3.x, 3.0.x
  • Unaffected Versions are: 3.1.x, 3.2.x, and applications using yajl gem
  • Fixed Versions are: 3.0.20, 2.3.16