If you think previous released Temple Run was awesome (addictive) you haven’t seen nothing yet, The most downloaded game recently titled was Temple Run 2 which was downloaded more than 20 million times within few days after its release. The developer to this game, Imangi Studios recently announced the popularity of the game with downloads hitting to un-believable count.

The game hit the no.1 sport on App Store free games in just eight hours of its release. Pretty kewl!! Still after a week being passed it stands at no.3 top grossing apps on App Store.

The Game: Temple Run Vs Temple Run 2

Temple Run previously launched in 2011 didn’t look like much which was designed as pixelated, some Playstation like graphics and unremarkable visual design. But this things were aside as gamers loved the way it played, the genre shifting 3D twist with runner on side scrolling made a good sensation to players mind. Although the previous version went popular with more than 170 million downloads since launch.

The new sequel Temple Run 2 made its way to the most downloaded app on App Store not making a bad impression on its start. The game is now powered with a new engine, with new characters and game theme. The character still run away from monster and monkeys, while you can climb the rope enjoying sunset. The developers added new graphics levels, so unfortunately it might work for some older devices.

A quick glance to Temple Run 2:

• Excellent new organic environmental objects
• Stunning graphics
• More powerups & achievements
• Character based qualities
• Increased monkeys!!

You’ll be not only enjoying the run around in jungles, instead the value added graphics and tons of excellent objects helps you build the interest.

If you have tried Temple Run 2 on your iOS or Android device, navigate to the link below:

App Store: Temple Run 2

Google Play: Temple Run 2

Having kids in your home and want them to have islamic knowledge in a fun way? Today we have a similar and interesting islamic app called Children Islamic Quiz (CIQ) which help your children to gain the essential knowledge of islam in a healthy and useful challenging activity.

Children Islamic Quiz also has a grading system which displays the progress of the child with the stamp and percent knowledge gained. Starting with the app is really easily as you can create a profile of your child with his/her name so that the app can track the scores throughout every levels.

The app runs on four different levels loaded with 200 random questions. The first level of the app is free to use each time the quiz runs, the answers are randomized so that children don’t memorize the location of the answer but exactly learn the answer. On completion of each level, child is awarded with a beautiful designed certificate with different colored seals to encourage the them move forward with excellent marks and get the golden seal.

You can download the app from below provided link, the app is free to use for level 1 only, to unlock all levels the app costs $4.99.

Children Islamic Quiz [Free] iTunes link

Microsoft released its long awaited upcoming Office 2013 preview version to the customers today. The public announcement of Office 2013 for Home, small business and enterprise users took place at San Francisco by Steve Ballmer. The download link for the beta version is now available to all the users. The major changes i experienced with Office 2013 is the latest metro UI and its overall looks.

Office 2013 mainly focuses on cloud features and integration with newer Windows 8 metro UI, at first glance it seems to be highly compatible with touch interfaces across new windows tablet devices. Another feature includes the availability of built-in PDF editing, where you can view, edit documents directly from Office 2013.

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Among the trending topics on the internet recently, Windows 8 is undoubtedly the one that should not be ignored. No matter when Windows 8 will be finally released, making more Blu-ray backups on your computer is far more than a prescient move.

If you back up Blu-ray discs on your PC, once you use Windows 8 OS one day, you will have a lot of HD Blu-ray videos and movies available so that you can play any of them (say, watch 1080p HD videos) conveniently through common player software without the need to worry about the damage or loss of the real Blu-ray disc any more. You can even burn the Blu-ray folder to another Blu-ray to make of physical copy and send it to others as a gift.

Although Windows 8 will certainly have advanced technologies to support playing DVD and Blu-ray, it cannot back up Blu-ray. WinX Blu-ray Decrypter is the one you need as a professional Blu-ray backup tool for Windows 8.

Why I Recommend WinX Blu-ray Decrypter:

No matter what you will do with Blu-ray digital video, one thing you have to make clear, that is, the software you choose to backup Blu-ray have to be perfectly compatible with the upcoming Windows 8.

WinX Blu-ray Decrypter is designed to well match with almost all Windows OS’s, namely, Win 98, NT, 2000, 2003, XP, Vista, Windows 7 and even Windows 8. Besides, I have the reasons to make this recommendation as follows:

Reason 1: It is good at decrypting BD+, BD-Rom Mark, region code, UOPs, and latest AACS.
Reason 2: It can backup any kind of Blu-ray and keep original audio video quality.
Reason 3: It provides two Blu-ray copy modes for different uses.
Reason 4: It supports both 2D and 3D Blu-ray movies.
Reason 5: (the Most Important): It is now TOTALLY FREE (before May 25) on the official. Giveaway page of Digiarty Software: http://www.winxdvd.com/giveaway/

Backup Blu-ray on Windows 8 PC in Two Modes:

Mode 1: Blu-ray to M2TS

The "Title Mode" supported by WinX Blu-ray Decrypter can meet your basic need of decrypting and backing up Blu-ray to an easily playable video file on your PC. It can at least be played by Windows Media Player, VLC, KMPlayer, MPlayer, DAPlayer, etc.

Mode 2: Blu-ray to a Folder

If you choose "Full Disc Mode" under Target Mode on the right of the software UI, you can have a complete 1:1 Blu-ray copy replica. This function is mainly to facilitate convenient Blu-ray burning.

Free Access to WinX Blu-ray Decrypter:

If you are a windows user with many Blu-ray discs, here is your access to get useful Blu-ray backup software for free.

Note: The giveaway is only valid before May 25, and the software activation should be done before May 27.

Facebook is much serious about mobile’s and photos, previously we heard a cool $1 billion purchase of a popular photo sharing app called Instagram to Facebook. But what surprise came out today is, Facebook have build its own mobile photo-sharing app with same features found in Instagram.

Facebook Camera app for iOS devices is just another way to share photos directly to your Facebook account. Facebook Camera app for iPhone, iPod Touch lets you upload single or multiple photos while applying tags, locations and description to your photos. The app have same Instagram styled 14 filters as well as some basic editing tools which lets you add some good details to your snaps.

Currently Facebook Camera is available for English-speaking countries only, but soon it will open internationally over the next few weeks, as soon as Apple can populate the App Store with it.

The most likely part of the app is that Instagram won’t allow you to post multiple photos simultaneously, but thanks to Facebook developers who revamped the app and added a feature to share multiple photos at once.

Facebook Camera app is not available on other mobile platforms such as Android, Windows Phone and blackberry but it is stated as:

While we don’t comment on future products we are carefuly looking at what might make for a good Facebook photos experience across other platforms.”

As with Facebook’s other apps, it is completely free to download, you can grab and install to your iOS device right now at App Store link.

Download Facebook Camera App [iTunes] via Facebook

Apple released the new iOS 5.1.1 update for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. The update brings cure to a number of bug fixes and also bought up a number of serious vulnerabilities. The three major vulnerabilities were patched altogether, one affecting the Safari browser, and remaining two affecting the WebKit browser engine.

The update is made official is available for download you can update your iOS directly from the device Settings –> General –> Software Update, or if you rely on manual updating then I have packed up iOS 5.1.1 IPSW files below for download.

It is much important for iOS device owners to apply latest updates from Apple as soon as possible because the updated code is available and hackers would have made reverse-engineering it finding how vulnerabilities worked so they can utilize that information and target those iOS users who haven’t applied the update.

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The heavy weight participants that have recently entered the web warfare are Google, Microsoft and Dropbox. The question is, who is the best and who is the worst. However, from the user point of view, we are flabbergasted as which should be our ideal pick. The sources of our bewilderment are the positive features in each of these, which are quite tempting. On the other hand, the balanced presence of demerits makes us thoughtful as well. We are, thus, clueless and the battle of Google v/s Microsoft v/s Dropbox continues with an open end. However, let us try to find out a proper answer to this question.

Microsoft and Google’s recent stance was really remarkable and they have launched services, such as SkyDrive and Google drive respectively to give Dropbox a run for money. However, Dropbox is also not a species to tolerate dejection. So, it has come up with improved services and lurkers such as Samsung, Sony and Apple. Let us take a closer look at what is the offer that each of them have for us.

Positive Features Of Services

Google Drive, the extended user end service of Google, has finally hit the market, thereby ending months of speculation. The good news that it offers us is that it comes with 5 GB free service and as much as 1TB in exchange of a nominal monthly fee. Added to this, a host of easy to operate sharing options comes as a bonus treat from Google. The Microsoft evolution, Sky Drive gets a fresh new look this time, with extended offers and novel propositions. Dropbox, joins the warfare with newly updated space for referrals along with improvisation and betterment of services and already present offers.

Let us have a neat idea on the positive offers they are presenting.

Pricing And Storage

Now Google claims to get bigger with a tempting storage space of complementary 5GB. So, the users will get greater opportunity to store more images, documents, contents and photographs now. Those higher resolution pictures, which had been a pain to store in Google until recently, will get squeezed inside the space without any laborious effort at all! In case if you still find the free storage space insufficient for you, all you need to do is to pay more $2.49 a month to get a bonus of 235 GB space. Options for power users are 100 GB of space for a monthly rental of $4.99 and $49.99 per month for 1TB in the cloud.

Microsoft’s stance is entirely different in this respect. It has rescaled its free space from 25 GB to 7GB! So, new users have to be satisfied with only 7GB of free space. However, it is still greater than Google. The lucrative offer that Microsoft makes is that a yearly package of 20GB will be available for $10, 50 GB for $25 and 100 GB for $50.

Dropbox’s offers might sound very nominal, being only 2GB free space. But, you can increase it to 500MBs extra with Dropbox referrals. So, you will achieve 16GB of free space at the end of it. The monthly and yearly pay plans are also quite profitable. With $9.99 a month you will get 50GBs of space. Likewise, you will get 50GBs a year with $99 and 100GB for $19.99 or the same space with yearly rate of $199 only. The powers users will be offered a group plan of $795 a year for 1TB. It will be enjoyed by five users in all, with individual space worth $125 a year per user. Some of the best online cloud services also performs well.

Sharing Options

Live document collaboration is a great feature being offered by Google Drive. A document can be worked upon with a group, while all the modifications you make will be synced back to Google Drive. The changes that you are entitled to, will also be backed by notifications pointing out the changes made in your document. You can extract out photos from Google Drive and attach them into the social networking sites and Google +.
Microsoft’s sharing looks much simpler. Sending large mail attachments will be easier with Sky Drive. An upload that you make shall only be accompanied by a web link by you to any recipient of your choice. This can be done in the form of posting in social networks or instant message.

Dropbox gives the option to share all the contents of its folder with every other Dropbox user. It will comprise of essential links to every file and folder you create. But, these will only be presented to them as readable and downloadable versions, without any permission to edit them.

Accessibility To Desktop Features

Till recently, Google and Microsoft lacked the Drop Box like desktop features. But the steep competition in the sphere has made them launch extensions that allow easy drag and drop options for the PC and Mac users just as they do with their desktop.

Sky Drive gives an additional feature to its users by auto synchronizing all the images in the folders and making them available all other devices running on Sky Drive. Fetch functionality option also enables users to access any file from their PC, fetch and divert it to any other system they are currently working on. But installation of Sky Drive is mandatory of course.

Mobile Applications

Mobile app is another sphere in this field that keeps the competition alive. The built-in Android apps feature in Google Drive is one of them. The users can share directly downloaded, uploaded and shared documents to their Drive account. But you cannot enjoy this privilege offline. Google reports that it is working to solve this iOS issue.

Microsoft presents Windows Phone apps with sharing options with iPad and iPhone. Sky Drive meant for iOS gives the user benefit to upload, manage and share photos and services even with a third party iOS application, which sounds very interesting.

Although Dropbox still lacks a Windows gadget, its plethora of smart apps includes iPad, iPhone, Blackberry and Android. However, it is needless to say that Dropbox is well aware of its lacuna and will sort it out soon. New Dropbox for Android sets free backup of your photos and videos, this is truly a great way to save your moments automatically.

The inspirational approach of Dropbox is clearly visible from the footsteps of Microsoft and Google. While Google’s USP us its easy sharing and collaborating options, more storage facility and iOS apps of Sky Drive is Microsoft’s USP. Drop Box takes it share of devoted users by virtue of hi end products and services. Thus, it is best to say that which is the best is solely dependent upon the end use of the user.

Alia Haley is a blogger by profession. She loves writing on technology and autos. Beside this she is fond of cars and fancy accessories. Recently an article on Google Vision attracted her attention. These days she is busy in writing an article on green future.

Skype have released a new version of Skype iOS apps which offers some bug fixes along with minor user interface updates, now you get to have some new looks for your skype on iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices. You are now free to move your own video preview around the screen, moreover there is a new sign-in interface where skype icons pop’s out whenever you activate the app, it looks cool !!

The Skype iOS app also comes with auto restart feature if it experiences unexpectedly shutdown in previous session. So if you haven’t updates your skype app goto iTunes and download and install the new skype app. Check out the features at quick glance:

• Ability to move own video preview
• App auto restarts itself if unexpectedly shutdown
• Improved accessibility
• Improved stability
• New sign-in screen
• Other minor UI improvements
• Bug fixes
• Updated design for contacts and messages (iPad version only)

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