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.

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An Installous is an app which allows you to download cracked apps right on your idevices, an updated version of Installous 4.4.2 is now compatible with iOS 5/5.0.1/5.1.

Below mentioned is a step by step guide how you can install Installous 4.4.2 on iPhone, iPod or iPad running on iOS 5 or later versions.

Step 1: Make sure you have a jailbroken idevice ready in front of you.

Step 2: Launch Cydia on your idevice.

Step 3: On Cydia, tap “Manage” button and then “Sources”.

Step 4: Tap on “Edit” button and then “Add” button from right corner of the screen.

Step 5: In a windows just add the url http://cydia.hackulo.us , and tap on “Add Source”.

Step 6: Tap the search tab and then type installous in search field, select Installous 4 from the search result.

Step 7: Now tap “Install” and “Confirm” button to proceed to installation of the app. At last once installation gets complete restart spring board, and you are done.

Installous 4 has been successfully installed on your idevice, enjoy free app from App Store now. If you face any trouble feel free to comment below.

Disclaimer: Downloading and installing apps from different store are illegal. iTechGiz don’t support or promote piracy in any other way. This article is purely for testing and information purpose only, the purpose behind cracked apps is to test your favorite apps before purchasing from App Store. We recommend you to delete the app after testing and purchase directly from App Store.

Just after the launch of this app we’ve seen many parodies and pranks related to Siri app where users just ask funny question and siri replies them with more fun.

A serious production video related to Siri called “Pyscho Siri” that is so well transformed that it could certainly pass for some real Hollywood movie scene. The short film involves a character who finds an abandoned iPhone 4S without any sim and app installed (seems to be a brand new), i wont ruin the rest of if for you to watch

Google has a shiny new 40,000 sq ft office in London at 123 Buckingham Palace Road. The area was designed by Scott Brownrigg Interior Design to accommodate over 300 staff. The office now has a music jamming room where you can enjoy your talent with your colleagues, an in-house sci-fi theme park where you can have meetings and discussions. Well pointing answer towards my above question, Google every month plays in a billion of dollars gathering business and down-sizing world’s economy on one platform. The office is equipped with exotic cappuccino machines, music rooms, play area etc. Follow these inside images of Google London office and do share you comments how you like it?

via Huffington Post

If we take a look at the situation we can come to the conclusion that the cable internet is so popular and widely used for so many reasons: for the speed it offers, how reliable it is, the kind of stability it provides, and how useful it can be. The problem, however, is that many people aren’t using their cable internet connection to the best effect because they don’t know what it is truly capable of, and this article will be listing 3 things you can use your cable internet for starting today.

Playing Games Online

Is it "World of Warcraft” or that latest new game on Facebook?

It has been shown that people spend an average of 7.3 hours playing online games every week, and that this number has increased significantly by 8 to 10 hours in the past year. The reason for this is so simple, with the increasing speed offered by ISPs, people are starting to see the real value of online games, and a lot more people are starting to invest their time in it. People play online games for so many reasons; some just for fun, some just to take the burden of a hard day’s work of their shoulders, and others, for financial gains. It doesn’t matter what your reason for playing online games is, you need a reliable internet service to be able to enjoy it, and that is extremely easy with a cable internet service.

Streaming Videos and Audios

In only a matter of years, Youtube has risen from an unknown website to the 3rd most visited website in the world, ranking higher than even Yahoo, and the reason is very simple – people love videos. There is every probability you prefer watching videos to any other format of content, and there is no reason why you should pay a fortune just to watch a quality video.

With the right cable internet service you don’t have to pay a fortune to stream videos and audios online, and you also don’t have to worry about going through hiccups in the process of watching a video or a live event.

The cable internet makes things extremely easy, and you can stream your favorite videos and audios from the comfort of your home.

Buying Things from Your Favorite Online Stores

Have you ever imagined how much time and money you can save in transportation costs if you decide to be using the internet for your every order instead of having to go outside for them? With a cable internet connection you will get adequate security to shop online without having to worry about your identity being compromised, or your details being sniffed, and you will also be saving a lot of time and money in the process.

Paul believes the cable internet is the best form of internet connection, and he is always giving tips on how to choose the right cable providers.

The appearance of your emails are categorized as Comfortable, Cozy and Compact and also the addition of HD themes under settings tab. A few HD themes are available on your Gmail account and still the old themes exists some of them are discontinued.

How To Activate HD Theme

In-order to enable HD themes click settings (gear type icon) on right corner and select the desired HD theme from the options.

Click on Themes and you will be redirected to new gmail themes page having color themes, HD themes and classic themes.

Now select the theme under HD Themes tab and google will instantly apply to your account. These themes may vary from mine according to your location.

You can save your Mails, Contacts, Calendars, Photos, and different apps including Find My iPhone and Find My Mac and many more to the iCloud. This is a great service as the basic storage plan is free to all users, have you setup iCloud service? If not then follow the steps to configure iCloud on your device, but wait here are some requirements that you must meet to proceed further:

iCloud Requirements

1. Updated iOS 5 on your device.
2. An Apple ID, the one you were using previously for iTunes/MobileMe.

If your device meets following requirements, then you are ready to configure iCloud account:

Setting Up iCloud for iPad, iPhone Or iPod Touch

Step 1: Tap the Settings icon on your device home screen.

Step 2: Tap the iCloud tab.

Step 3: Login to iCloud with your existing iTunes/Mobile Me account, or create a free account from the screen.

Step 4: Select apps you want to sync with iCloud by flicking them to the ‘on’ position.

Step 5: By default every user gets 5GB complimentary storage space you can definitely upgrade as per your requirements.

Step 6: When you are done with step 4, tap ‘Storage & Backup’, the next screen will show your total storage and available storage.

Step 7: Make sure the ‘iCloud Backup’ is postioned to ‘on’ now tap ‘Back Up Now’ your data will start uploading to cloud.

That’s it! You are done now sync your data to apple cloud, if your data limits end don’t worry the app will notify you. You can upgrade to more storage plan or stop sync certain data.

No matter if Apple haven’t released Siri for entire device, it seems it is possible that at least for now we can get Siri on iPhone 4. The confirmation tweet was found from popular jailbreak developer, iH8snOw – the actual guy who made possible Siri on iPhone 4.

Its much clear that Siri is not just particularly for iPhone 4S, else it can run on iPhone 4 as well. But after watching the video it seems Siri is at least working on iPhone 4 but it is not running smoothly, there is a much delay operating it have a look:

Hope fully the iPhone voice control Siri app will soon be ported on other idevices including iPod Touch, hope so the developers get success in running Siri like butter on iPhone 4 just as in iPhone 4s.