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Hindi will be the first Indian regional language on professional network LinkedIn, supporting 600 million Hindi language speakers globally. With 82 million members, India is the second largest market for LinkedIn after the U.S. Members will be able to access their feed, profile, jobs, messaging, and create content in Hindi on their desktops, Android and iOS phones.

User-generated content will be displayed in the language they were originally created in. Those with Hindi as their primary language will be able to see Hindi translations by clicking on the 'See Translation' option. For users with Hindi as their preferred language on their smartphones, LinkedIn will automatically be available in Hindi. Desktop users can click on the 'Me' profile icon at the top of the LinkedIn homepage, click on 'Language' and then select 'Hindi' from the dropdown list.

The steps to change the language to Hindi are given in the Help Centre, LinkedIn said. Basically, for mobile apps on Android and iOS, the app’s language would be the same as the language set for the device. This means that in order to see the LinkedIn app in Hindi, users would have to go to decide settings and change their preferred language to Hindi, and the LinkedIn app will change the language automatically.

For desktop versions, however, users would need to select the ‘Me’ icon located at the top-right corner of the interface. Following this, they would have to go to Settings & Privacy tab, and then to Account Preferences. They would then need to go to the Site Preferences tab and go to Language.

By selecting Hindi here, users will see the user interface and LinkedIn content like navigation bar in Hindi, but any user-generated content like user posts would be visible in the language that they were created in. These posts, however, will have the option of translating them to Hindi.

New users would be able to go to the LinkedIn website and register for a new account. Moreover, existing users would also have the option to display their profile in Hindi as well by creating a second language profile using the desktop version, by going to ‘Me’, and then ‘View Profile’ where they would see the option – ‘Add profile in another language’.

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Internet users from different age groups are victims to different types of cyberattacks depending on their usage and primary device used to go online, according to cybersecurity firm Avast. The firm surveyed over 16,000 online users across age groups in 17 countries including India, USA, Russia and Australia.

Users aged above 65 mainly use their desktop computers or laptops to go online which makes them susceptible to ransomware, tech support scams, spyware and botnets that can be accidentally or unknowingly downloaded or accessed via links in emails or through malicious websites.

Majority of users aged 18-44 use smartphones to go online, making them targets of adware, mobile banking Trojans, SMS scams and even TikTok and Instagram malware.

“Different generations may see the internet with different eyes and have different online experiences, which is something to keep in mind when having conversations about online safety at home,” the report added.

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Love board games but running out of place to store them? Infinity Game Table from ArcadelUp is for you. The Wi-Fi-enabled, 1920 x 1080-pixel touchscreen tablet comes in 24" and 32" versions with legs, and packs around 40 digital versions of classic board games like Monopoly, Scrabble, Battleship, Operation and Sorry! in single and multiplayer options. Table's legs can be removed to convert it into a tabletop gadget. Each player has a personalized perspective, based on their position at the table. Animations and sound effects plus haptic feedback provide immersive gameplay.

Table has 16 GB of storage, a microSD card slot for expansion and a rechargeable built-in battery. It is impact- and water-resistant, so it's safe to set beverages on the bezel area around the touchscreen.

It's well built, and better yet, the IGT is impact- and water-resistant, so it’s safe to set drinks on the large bezel area around the touchscreen. Once plugged in and set up, you bring it to life by tapping the top. Sadly, finger smudges quickly mar the look, so it requires regular cleaning with a microfiber cloth.

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Ever come across a colour you want to use in a design or to paint your walls with? The SwatchMate Cube lets you capture the exact colour. Just hold it up to the coloured surface that you want to copy, and press the top. An internal spherical light source illuminates the surface in a controlled sequence, with the reflected light being picked up by an integrated colour sensor. The device immediately sends the colour via Bluetooth to a paired iOS or Android smartphone or to Photoshop on a nearby computer, although it can also store up to 20 colours in its own memory. The Cube can output colours in the RGB, CMYK and L*a*b* colour spaces.

Once you've picked a color, they can either be stored on your phone for later use, or beamed straight to Photoshop, using Bluetooth.

The Kickstarter project has already hit more than $85,000 of its $55,000 funding goal — but for photographers, it would be especially useful to hit the $90,000 mark. That's when SwatchMate would add a light intensity sensor, allowing it to be used as a light meter, to. If it hits that point, $80 for a gadget that can works as a light meter as well as a color sampler would be a pretty fantastic tool.

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The original name in online photo sharing recently updated its Android and iOS apps. Refine your pics in real-time with editing tools that enable deep photo tweaking, and Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr integration. Record up to 30 seconds of HD video using the same live filters available with photos and customize the video by adding different segments of footage. Its new Auto Sync feature lets you upload original quality photos from your phone automatically to your account. Other new features include a smarter and faster search, detailed photo data and limiting the audience of select photos. Plus 1000 GB of free storage for everyone who downloads the app.

Flickr has also finally renamed Sets (a collection of images) to the more widely used Album.

In addition, Flickr to challenge the Instagram and other photo-editing apps has also introduced new editing tools such as levels, crop, colour balance, contrast, saturation and live filters (total of 14 live filters for iOS) for HD video editing to its iOS app.

Flickr's vice president, Bernardo Hernandez said in a blog post, "Whether you're new to Flickr or one of our biggest fans, we want you to know the new apps are the beginning of a great deal more to come! They represent our commitment to building new products for your changing needs and they offer a beautiful canvas for upcoming features."

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Need portable power on the go? Vorson's Bookmark packs a 2,500 mAh battery into a thin shockproof housing that's just 4.7 mm thick. On its bulging bottom you'll find a standard-sized USB port, as well as touch-to-activate battery meter so you always know how much juice is left. The battery works with any USB charging cable, including a micro USB cable. Described by Vorson as the "world's thinnest backup battery", with the $60 Bookmark you won't have to worry where your next charge will come from.

The Vorson Bookmark battery is designed to be easy to carry with you, you won't find better and more practical than having the world thinnest portable battery in your pocket, with the capacity to fully recharge once your phone, it will provide enough power to ensure you can make it through the busiest days, on family trip or if you are going out of town for a few days with friends or for work.

Power charging has become a difficult issue for people these days as smartphones and tablets are being use many hours each day. But don't worry, with Vorson Bookmark portable rechargeable battery,

No more stress to see your phone dying when waiting for an important phone call, texting or browsing online for vital informations. Now you can finally enjoy using your phone or any devices that can connect to USB, the Vorson Bookmark battery can recharge virtually any USB device.

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Here's a fun way to show your friends what you're up to, it's your excuse to take a selfie. The entire concept of Frontback is in its name Snap a picture of what you're seeing with your phone's front camera; then another with your rear camera of you, and a frontback' is created.

Enter Frontback, the app. It was released today in the App Store. Now, there is no whitespace around a Frontback photo, absolutely no chrome. The photo itself doesn’t have any filter. It’s just two square-ish photos on top of each other, filling up the entire screen of your iPhone. It’s all about immersing yourself and putting yourself in your friends’ shoes.

“It tells so much more than a photo on Instagram,” Instagram designer Tim Van Damme recently told Della Faille. “Two photos change everything,” Della Faille told me. “On Instagram, you share something because it’s beautiful, but you don’t share the context,” he continued.

Share both in a single image on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. You can tag your FB friends right from the app. Free for iOs from the App Store.

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The Micro Phone Lens is an adhesive add-on lens that lets you take and send microscopic pictures and videos with your phone to all your science-loving (or not) buddies.

Measuring only 6 mm in diameter, the lens simply clips on over the top of the one on your smartphone to provide microscopic levels of detail. It is washable, removable and reusable, so you won't have to lock it into one specific smartphone or tablet. The lens is made using "platinum catalyzed silicone technology", meaning it uses soft plastic instead of glass, making it flexible, scratch-resistant and optically identical to glass.

The lens can achieve a magnification of 15X, and a magnification of 60X with the help of the smartphone or tablet's digital zoom. Phones with cameras of 5MP and higher are recommended.

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A wristwatch for your finger POCKET-watch, wrist-watch, finger-watch? As its name suggests, The Ring Clock is a watch that you wear as a ring. The chunky stainless steel finger ring is made up of an inner and an outer ring. The outer ring has three distinct bands; the top one has 24-hour clock markings, the second has minute markings, and the third has dots showing the seconds ticking away.

The Ring Clock sits on your finger in an inert state until you spin the outside ring, at which point the time is revealed by the correct numbers lighting up with LEDs. This keeps battery use to a minimum, which, as the battery only lasts two hours before needing to be recharged via its Qi wireless power charger pad, is a good thing.

Charging the device looks just as impressive as wearing it. With its own futuristic pad, you can be sure that losing the ring will never happen.

Outdoor enthusiasts would be happy to know that the Ring Clock is water resistant. Unlike most crafty watches, you won’t have to remove it every time you go for a jog or jump in the shower.

The devices comes in standard international sizes, which does not affect the features of the ring.

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How many times have you silenced your phone and forgot to turn the ringer back on? Shush!, a super-simple app, makes sure you'll never forget your phone on silent again. Once your phone's on silent, Shush! automatically launches its timer which you can set to anything from 15 minutes to 12 hours, in increments of 15 minutes. It will tell you what time the ringer will come back on. You can also control your phone's ringer volume once it comes back on. The app is small and light so it won't hog valuable space on your phone. Great for class, the movies and sleep! Free on Google Play.

In push-to-silence mode (aka “cough button”), press and hold the hotkey to immediately mute your microphone so nobody hears anything you don’t want them to. Release the hotkey and Shush will unmute your microphone.

In push-to-talk mode, your microphone will be muted until you press and hold a chosen hotkey, unmuting your microphone and allowing your voice to flow freely. Release the hotkey and Shush will mute your microphone again.

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Google updated its terms of service recently to allow them to use your real name and face alongside ads, under an expansion of its "shared endorsements" program. To stop Google from using details from your Google+ profile in its ad campaign, go to the Shared Endorsements page on Google+. Scroll down to this option: "Based upon my activity, Google may show my name and profile photo in shared endorsements that appear in ads." Uncheck the box and click 'Save'.

According to Google’s new and not-so-improved (in our opinion) terms, this includes your “Google profile name, profile photo, and actions you take on Google or third-party applications connected to your Google Account (such as +1’s, review you write and recommendations you post) in our Services.”

It’s all part of Google’s new Shared Endorsements plan, which ensures “that your reviews, recommendations and other relevant activity” get in front of “the people you really care about” in the form of ads and in other “shopping contexts” that they might see when cruising for apps, music and other stuff in the Google Play store and elsewhere.

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Say goodbye to getting wrapped up in miles of cord connecting your MP3 player to your headphones. Split is a wireless audio player that fits the ears like ear buds. The magnetic earphones turn on when you split them apart. You can control the volume and playback via "bite clicks" or by biting down which is detected by a 3-axis accelerometer. One bite skips a track while a double bite adjusts the volume. The player can be locked to avoid potential chaos when they're chewing gum while using the device! Each earphone contains a memory chip, circuit board, processor and a button cell battery. Both earbuds are synchronized with high precision crystal clocks so they can play in unison. The device can be charged using a standard USB. The earbuds only exchange a short near-field signal when the track or volume is changed reducing the amount of radiation you are exposed to as compared to a Bluetooth streaming headset. The main limitation is that music is stored locally in the earphones in a memory of 256MB.

With no buttons or microphone for voice command, Split uses its accelerometers for control. These are designed to respond when the user bites.

One bite, even a soft 'bite click', changes tracks, and two bites changes the volume, cycling through low, medium, high and muted volume settings. The volume control can also be used to place the player on standby.

Tapping the right earbud deactivates the control.Split's makers have just launched a Kickstarter campaign aimed at bringing the current design to production standard and to enable mass production of the device.

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Created by design company MJ McLaren, Video Earrings can play four to eight hours of videos, screen savers, slideshows or advertisements. The fashion device consists of hook earrings with a small screen dangling from them. The device is 2.25" in length, 1.25" in height, and weighs approximately 17 grams. The earrings connect via USB cable, which can be used to charge the device or load it with videos. Compatible with both PC and MAC platforms, the device accepts MOV, AVI, MP4, WMV, Mpeg and Mpg video file formats. When not in use, the earrings can be powered off or put on an automatic screen saver mode. It can play audio, but is not designed to have audio playing constantly. The creators plan to come out with three storage capacities -- 2GB, 4GB and 8GB.

The 2.2-inch screens would play popular video formats and would be loaded and recharged via USB cable.

Set in a carbon fiber frame, the high-tech jewelry would have simple volume and power buttons and built-in speakers -- just in case what's coming out of your mouth isn't as interesting as what's on your screens.

The Video Earrings are being offered for only $50 and come with attachments of various lengths.

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Android powers over 1 billion smartphones and tablets and since these devices make our lives so sweet, each Android version is named after a dessert: Cupcake, Donut, Eclat. Froyo, Gingerbread, Honeycomb, Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean. As everyone find chocolate so tempting, Google decided to name the next version of Android (4.4) after a chocolate treat-KitKat!

About three years ago, when Google launched Kitkat, it released this statement that sheds a little more light on the naming convention than the spokesperson’s explanation: “Android is the operating system that powers over 1 billion smartphones and tablets. Since these devices make our lives so sweet, each Android version is named after a dessert: Cupcake, Donut, Eclair, Froyo, Gingerbread, Honeycomb, Ice Cream Sandwich, and Jelly Bean. As everybody finds it difficult to stay away from chocolate we decided to name the next version of Android after one of our favorite chocolate treats, Kitkat.”

Google, of course, is not unique when it comes to naming important stuff after a certain category of things. Apple’s OSs are named after cats, and the Italian supercar company Lamborghini has a long tradition of naming its cars after fighting bulls, but Mountain View really does go all the way when it comes to naming their operating systems and celebrating them.

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The clip-on Eye Tribe Tracker technology means you can hold your tablet in one hand and a pizza in the other while your eyes take care of the swiping and tapping on your devices. It connects via USB 3 and tracks the exact point that the user is looking at on the screen. It's the smallest eye tracker in the world and allows hands-free navigation of apps and websites on tablets, laptops and desktops and device control such as aiming in games, eye activated login or hands-free typing. Currently available only for Windows PC, laptops or tablets, Android and iOS versions are also in the works.

An eye tracker uses invisible near-infrared light and high definition cameras to project light onto the eye and record the direction it’s reflected off the cornea. Advanced algorithms are then used to calculate the position of the eye and determine exactly where it is focused. This makes it possible to measure and study visual behavior and fine eye movements, as the position of the eye can be mapped multiple times a second. How quickly an eye tracker is able to capture these images is known as its frequency. A recording can also be made of the scene a person is looking at, and using eye tracking software it’s possible to produce a visual map of how the person viewed elements of the scene.

In this blog post we will explore the range of eye trackers available, what types of research each is most suited to, how to understand and interpret the results of your eye tracking study, and the unique benefits of using eye tracking in research.

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