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Google Launches New Tool To Test Website Performance

Google has announced its own tool which will help you to measure a website’s speed and mobile-friendliness. Google states,

Today we’re introducing an easy way to measure your site’s performance across devices—from mobile to desktop—and give you a list of specific fixes that can help your business connect more quickly with people online.

The site takes your URL and measures it on a scale from…

Microsoft Announces General Availability Of SQL Server 2016

Microsoftannounces the general availability of SQL Server 2016, the world’s fastest and most price-performant database for HTAP (Hybrid Transactional and Analytical Processing) with updatable, in-memory columnstores and advanced analytics through deep integration with R Services. Software applications can now easily deploy sophisticated analytics and machine learning models in the database…

AngularJS Built in Directives

A directive in AngularJS is a meaningful name for a function that is attached with DOM elements. All AngularJS built in directives prefixed with the ng namespace. It is used to extend HTML elemets attribute. AngularJS directives have the ability to execute methods, define behavior, attach controllers and scope objects, manipulate the DOM, and more.

Built in Directives

Here is a list of AngularJS…

Visual Studio Code 1.0!

Microsofthas just announced the official version 1 of Visual Studio Code. This fantastic lightweight development editor was launched little more than a year ago, has had over 2 million downloads, and is in use monthly by over 500, 000 developers. Built as an open platform, in less than six months, the editor has attracted over 1000 community contributed plugins and extensions – what a success…

iOS 9.3.1 bug lets anyone see iPhone’s photos and contacts using Siri

A longtime iOS expert has discovered a really easy way to view an iPhone’s photos as well as contact list without fingerprint or passcode through Siri. First spotted by the Daily Dot, YouTube user Videosdebarraquito shows how to unlock the iPhone 6 and 6s Pluswith some indirect talking and tapping and not a single passcode. You will be able to view the phone’s contact list and photo albums.…

Microsoft Live Writer Is Open Source Now

Recently, Microsoft announced an open sourced and forked Windows Live Writer. This fork is known as Open Live Writers. It is also known as OLW. The Open Live Writer is under .NET Foundation and is managed by a group of volunteers. You can now easily Download Open Live Writer.  A tweet by Scott Hanselman, the principal program and community manager for Microsoft. Hanselman, states, “We are…

Apple iPad Pro coming to India next week here’s all you need to know

Apple is all set to launch its new iPad Pro in India, which is likely to hit store shelves next week.

The exact availability and pricing hasn’t been revealed yet. However, citing sources at Apple, TheQuinthas revealed that the 32GB iPad Pro Wi-Fi will be priced at Rs 67900, 128GB iPad Pro Wi-Fi at Rs 79,900 and 128GB iPad Pro Wi-Fi Cell at Rs 91,900. The report also adds the availability of the…

Adobe Premiere Video Editor Now On Android

Adobe creates one of the most popular video; however its mobile offering was limited to iOS devices. But, not anymore, now Adobe Premier Clip, which is the lightweight version of is desktop program is now available on Android.    Some of the features that Adobe Premier Clipbrings along are that, you can drag and drop items according to the order you prefer. You can also trim the parts which you…

LG Announces Android 6.0 Marshmallow On G4

LG has announced that Android 6.0 Marshmallow will now be available on LG G4. The new update will be available for download from the next week. However, this new update will be available only for users residing in Poland. However, America, Asia and Europe will soon follow with the new Android Marshmallow update for their LG G4. 

According to LG, the new update will bring some new and improved…

XAML is a little bit similar to the very popular markup language HTML. XAML is nothing but the EXtensible Markup Language XML

Overview

XAML is a little bit similar to the very popular markup language HTML. XAML is nothing but the EXtensible Markup Language XML. XML is also similar to HTML since both markup languages share some base common properties and tag.

The only major difference we can determine is that HTML is a structure based markup language whereas XML is more generic (you can easily use XML for nearly any…

Today, Mozilla announced to end support for NPAPI (Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface) and Silverlight at the end of 2016.

Today, Mozilla announced to end support for NPAPI (Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface) and Silverlight at the end of 2016.

The negative impact of NPAPI plugins on a browser’s security, speed, and stability, and the complexity of the code base is the actual reason.

Google Chrome 42 release ended its support in April and Microsoft also droppeded Silverlight with the launch of Edge in…

Apple Releases Fourth Beta Of iOS 9.1 And Third tvOS Beta For Apple TV

Apple has released the fourth beta version of iOS 9.1 and third tvOS beta for new Apple TV. These are mainly released to developers for testing.

The fourth beta version of iOS 9.1 is released to fix bugs which appeared in 9.1. It also introduced some new features, such as, more emoji like taco, cheese wedges, middle finger, burrito, unicorn heads and many more. It also has new message option…

Microsoft announced the availability of HoloLens development kit at the Windows 10 devices event

Microsoft announced the availability of HoloLens development kit at the Windows 10 devices event. The device first introduced in January this year. The CEO of Microsoft, Satya Nadella hinted previously that a Development Edition would be available within the next year.

As per the announcement, HoloLens development kit will be available within the first quarter of 2016, priced at a whopping $3,000…

The latest version of Google’s Android 6.0 Marshmallow is now available for Nexus devices.

The latest version of Google’s Android 6.0 Marshmallow is now available for Nexus devices. This version has come with some new features which will make your smartphone works better and faster.

In their official blog Google states,

“Android Marshmallow is the sweetest, smartest Android version yet: Now on Tap serves up assistance when you need it, battery-smart features keep your device going…