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Today we compare the Samsung Galaxy Grand smartphone with the newly unveiled Samsung Galaxy Grand 2. This is one of the first battles where a mid-segment smartphone goes one on one with its successor. This is the battle that many mid-segment consumers have been looking forward since the time Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Grand 2! We put these two smartphones in a head to head battle of specs and features in an attempt to find out the changes and improvements that have been made in the new version. If you are interested in knowing how good the Samsung Galaxy Grand 2 smartphone is, then this is the post for you! Will the Samsung Galaxy Grand be able to put up a fight against the Galaxy Grand 2 or will the successor prove to be way more powerful and advanced? Let us find out. Samsung Galaxy Grand Samsung Galaxy Grand 2 DISPLAY The Samsung Galaxy Grand has a 5-inch TFT capacitive touchscreen display with a screen resolution of 480 x 800 pixels and a pixel density of 187...

With our current way of life, Social Networking Websites are one of the best ways to reach the masses, if used correctly. Websites like Twitter make it possible for you to easily advertise and promote your business or blog, although, unless you are actually able to build up a decent following, you will simply be talking to yourself. The only real way to get a massive number of followers is to tweet something positive about Justin Bieber, and then sit back and watch as thousands of youn g fan-girls follow you, although these probably aren’t the people you want to be targeting with your blog/business ideas. Here are some helpful tips to remember if you wish to improve your Twitter traffic. Brilliant Twitter Bio On a social networking site that has millions of users, you need to ensure that you have something that makes you stand out. This is where your Twitter biography comes in. If you are going to have a boring biography that puts the reader to sleep, there will be no ‘follow’ ...

Just about every major tech company is offering free online storage space, but few give you as much free space as MediaFire. The cloud storage provider is heating up the competition with offers of 50GB or more of free storage--and, with the new Windows and Mac desktop app--automatic file syncing as well. Yes, that means, as The Next Web reports, taking on popular online storage provider Dropbox. MediaFire starts you off with 10GB of free space, and it's ad-supported, but that's still five times as much free space to start off with as Dropbox. You can earn 50GB (or more) with referrals and other actions. I had already locked in a 50GB account, thanks to downloading the Android app, but the bonus space--via connecting social accounts or installing MediaFire Desktop, even--is still available on top of that. Even if you've already got an account with Dropbox, Google Drive, SkyDrive, and/or another cloud storage provider, 50GB of free space is still hard to pass up...

Java8 isn’t scheduled for for release until March 2014, but early release versions have been available for a while. Some of the most interesting new features of Java 8 are:  Streams  Functional interfaces  Default methods  Lambdas  Java Time  Streams  The new java.util.stream package contains “classes to support functional-style operations on streams of elements”. Streams aren’t a new type of collection and don’t replace any of the existing ones such as Lists and Queues. Instead, they provide a way to interact with an existing collection, and in that respect are more similar to iterators.  The javadocs describe a stream as “a sequence of elements supporting sequential and parallel aggregate operations.” A stream pipeline consists of a source (e.g. a collection), intermediate operations (e.g. a filter or map) and a terminal operation, which produce a result (e.g. sum or count). Streams are lazy in that the operations on the da...

Ever wanted a copy of Windows you can take with you wherever you go, to use on any computer you want? It's possible: here's how to install a portable version of Windows 8 on a USB hard drive that you can take anywhere. P The Enterprise version of Windows 8 has a feature called Windows To Go that lets you install a portable version of Windows on a "certified" flash drive. Unfortunately, most of us don't have the Enterprise edition of Windows 8, nor a certified flash drive. However, there is a tool called WinToUSB that can essentially do the same thing, no matter what version of Windows you have. Here's how it works. WinToUSB is a free software that allows you to install and run Windows operating system on a USB hard drive or USB flash drive, using an ISO image or CD/DVD drive as the source of installation. WinToUSB also support creating bootable WinPE USB drive, it can help you to transfer the contents of WinPE to the USB drive and make the drive bootable...

BBM for Android and iPhone is now live in Google Play and Apple’s App Store BBM for Android and iPhone nets over 10 million downloads on day one of release BlackBerry has revealed than in the first 24 hours since it launched BBM for Andorid and iPhone it has been downloaded more than 10 million times, in what the company describes as "one of the best single-day openings for a mobile app to date ." BBM achieved number one app status in the UK, US, Canada, Indonesia and "most of the Middle East," according to a BlackBerry statement. It also gained "overwhelmingly positive" user ratings on both Apple's App Store and Google Play with 60,000 five star reviews on Google Play. Andrew Bocking, BlackBerry's executive vice president of BBM, said, "This has been an incredible launch for BBM across Android and iPhone devices. The mobile messaging market is full of opportunity for BBM. We intend to be the leading private social networ...

YouTube has been designed to only allow users to watch and view videos on their website. Many users want to save their favorite videos to their computer so they can watch them without being connected to the Internet or so they can watch them on other devices. Below are the steps required for downloading and watching YouTube videos on your computer for free. Saving YouTube video as a video file on your computer Today, there are several online websites that allow you to enter the URL of the video you wish to save to your computer, and get a link to download the file. Below is the simple three step process that will link you to a page that does the job. Go to the YouTube video page and copy the URL of the video you wish to save. For example, below is a URL to a video on YouTube, the whole address would be copied. Once this address has been copied, paste that URL into the below URL text field and click the Download Video button. If done properly, a new window will op...