SIRI, the personal assistant on iPhone 4S revealed something new today. Some one asked SIRI about which languages can she Speak. SIRI replied that she could speak German, French, English and Japanese. The strange thing was Japanese. Apple hasn’t made the support for Japanese Language yet. Luckily SIRI can also speak Japanese. SIRI cannot speak Japanese completely yet but she was able to confirm that she can speak Japanese also. She cannot even understand Japanese yet.
Few weeks back we came across a rumor that Apple is planning to extend the language support in SIRI for many new languages like Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Italian, and Spanish. Apple also promised hat they would be extending the support of SIRI in the above stated languages in 2012.
Below is a piece of FAQ’s of SIRI posted on Apple’s website proving that the new languages support will come in 2012. This means that Apple has started to roll out the beta version of the following languages internally or so.
Language Support and Availability
Siri works exclusively on iPhone 4S. Siri understands and can speak the following languages:
English (United States, United Kingdom, Australia)
French (France)
German (Germany)
In 2012, Siri will support additional languages, including Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Italian, and Spanish.
Somehow SIRI got so happy that she leaked the upcoming language support and indicated that Apple must be working on the above language supports. We can expect the support of above stated languages in March with the release of iPad 3 and iOS 5.1.
This leak by SIRI might have made many of the Japanese fans really excited about the support of their native language will be next.
The tool is not new. We must be new for you but you all must be aware of the Jailbreaking Tool called Redsn0w. Redsn0w is the most famous tool used ever for Jailbreaking tethered and untethered on latest iOS’s released by Apple after some time and this tool is updated periodically according to the iOS version present currently.
This update doesn’t bring any new Jailbreak for the iOS 5, which is currently rolling in the market. This update of Redsn0w simply brings some minor changes and speed improvement made.
The change log is as follow:
Updates #5b and #5c: Version b5b fixes an issue with using custom ramdisks on iPhone3G and iPod2G, and version b5c prevents redsn0w from crashing due to the ever-growing ramdisk size :).
TIP: If auto-detection fails and redsn0w tells you no identifying data was found, you can always pre-select the appropriate 5.0.1 IPSW using “Extras->Select IPSW”.
This update of Redsnow fixed the issue with the crashing of Ram-Disk on older devices which include iPod 2G and iPhone 3G.
Till now we don’t have any specific tutorial on how to perform the Jailbreak on your iDevice, but we will be coming up wit the best guide of redsn0w regarding the Jailbreak Really soon.
So stay tuned with us. If you have any questions or need some help till then, visit our Facebook page and ask there. Our experienced Admins are willing to help you.
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From previous Apple was looking for something new and was thinking to bring in something new in the market which can beat out it’s competitors. The competitors of Apple’s iPad have introduced many small size tablets of 7.5” and less than that. The best example we can see if of Amazon’s Kindle Fire. The Amazon Kindle Fire is total of 7” with multi-touch display and all the features that a user wants to see in a small sized tablet. It got WIFI, USB Port, Cloud Storage, on device storage and much more. When it was released in the market so Amazon thought that it would beat the hell out of iPad 2.
After the financial results the result was clear that Amazon couldn’t beat iPad 2 in competition. Somehow the sales were much better of the Amazon Kindle Fire. A part from Kindle Fire, there is Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 another competitor in the market against Apple. The size of the tab is 10.1” that is almost few inches bigger than iPad 2. The iPad 2 is 9.50” tall. Apple chose the design that much big because it was perfectly fitting for the Apps resolution on the iPad.
To compete with the other competitors, Apple was planning for a Mini-iPad from past few months. The rumors about the Mini-iPad surfaced last year and were surfing this years starting also. Rumors are always rumors. The day before WSJ (Wall Street Journal) made one of the rumors a confirmation regarding the Mini-iPad by Apple and the size is said to be 8”.
“Officials at some of Apple’s suppliers, who declined to be named, said the Cupertino, Calif.-based company has shown them screen designs for a new device with a screen size of around 8-inches, and said it is qualifying suppliers for it. Apple’s latest tablet, the iPad 2, comes with a 9.7-inch screen. It was launched last year.
One person said the smaller device would have a similar resolution screen as the iPad 2. Apple is working with screen makers including Taiwan-based AU Optronics CO. and LG Display Co. of South Korea to supply the test panels, the person said.”
Till now Apple is only testing the mini-iPad with only with suppliers and not looking forward for a public release or sending them in production. Interestingly, Apple is succeeding suppliers for the 8” iPad.
The 8” iPad will be a great challenge for Apple because they have never compromised on the design ad the features in past. The time will tell about what Apple will be coming up with.
Apple must be planning for the Mini-iPad, 8” tablet; on the other hand they got the iPad 3 ready for the March 7th release. The iPad 3’s are said to be in production since the beginning of January and few days back many leaks of the parts surfaced on the Internet.
So what will be your expectations from the iPad 3 and the iPad-Mini?
Strange news are floating around the web these days that Apple has started to crack up on all those Devices which don’t support SIRI. It means that the iDevices running SIRI, other than iPhone 4S are getting a close up soon by Apple. The Devices other then iPhone 4S are running SIRI with the help of SPIRE, a jailbreak Tweak by which we can use SIRI and have fun. It seems that Apple cannot see its users happy on having SIRI on older Devices.
Reports are claiming that Apple has putted on a new token to the mix for SIRI which means that people using 3rd party Servers by having SIRI keys won’t be able to use those keys again because the SIRI keys will be having a new set of token which protects the Keys to be used on other Devices.
According to reports roaming on Twitter suggests that Apple has made some sort of SetActivation Token for SIRI to protect the keys from running on non-iPhone 4S Devices. This strange move by Apple has caused issues to those entire running 3rd party SIRI servers via SPIRE. Till now there is no proper fix for this issue.
A person over IDB has found out a temporary working fix for this. The temporary fix is to remove a file by accessing root of your iPhone 4S. The file is com.apple.assistant.plist located in the var/mobile/Library/Preferences/ directory. Remove this file and we are good to go.
To sum up all the things up, we all know that SIRI is a great personal assistant on iPhone 4S and not every one can buy Apple’s iPhone 4S in order to have this SIRI. So people came up with a unique solution of making Servers and donating up SIRI Keys, so all the people on non-iPhone 4S Devices can use it and have the same fun the are having. After the Untethered Jailbreak of iOS 5.0.1 on iPhone 4S, SIRI has been made more useful and much more user friendly. Every day or after a week there is a Tweak in Cydia regarding SIRI, which makes SIRI a useful personal assistant.
Lets hope that Apple comes up with a better solution of SIRI on non-iPhone 4S Devices.
Early this morning a very shocking thing happened with the Microsoft’s Indian Store. The Microsoft’s Indian Store website got hacked and all the saved passwords were compromised and were leaked by the hackers in a plain text. According to WPSauce the landing page of the Microsoft Indian Store website was replaced with an anonymous sort of face. The hackers call them selves the Evil Shadow Team. They also revealed that the user database was saved in a plain text on the database of the website.
Till now the intentions of the Hackers are unknown and why they hacked the website, so far they have waned that the “unsafe system will be baptized”.
After seeing all this, the Indian Microsoft Store (microsoft.co.in) Has been taking offline and it seems that the server has been closed down to prevent further attacks or moves by the team of Shadow Hackers. The team of hackers is said to be from China and it consists of two Chinese only.
On the other hand the CIA website was also hacked few days back. These sorts of hacks have started to take a burgeoning move. The hack of CIA was some sort of protest against USA and about the India Microsoft Store website hack, no clue. The hackers might wanted to see about how much secure is Microsoft. In the end, Microsoft failed. The biggest fail thing Microsoft did was to store the data on a plain text, which is taught to a web dev in the c101 class of their development to not do this.
You can see more information and picture from the official website of the Hackers.
[box type=”warning”] If you have ever registered on India’s Microsoft Store online, so change your password now or a.s.a.p. You can be safe from the attack of the hackers in near future. [/box]
If we say that the children’s are the flowers of Heaven, we can’t be wrong. Like this every single child is like a flower to their parents and a star for them. Every single parent in the world cares for his/her children, as they are a piece of gold to them no matter how bad or good are the children’s.
When the child grows up, he/she goes through many new challenges like studies, health fatigues, family problems and many more issues. In every step of the life parents are there to help them but sometimes in life we have to go through many phases in which we are alone to deal.
When we are young, we are not aware of the talent we got. Our parents help us to realize about the talent we got or they help us to find our talent in our selves. It is very rare to extract about someone’s great God gifted talent. Those people are naturally talented and they succeed in their life.
What happens when these type of talents are not supported or neglected?
When these types of talents are not brought up, they become a hidden talent working on there own or go on to the wrong path with the help of there talent.
According to a survey from 1990-2009, there are 6.79 billion people in the world from which if we even assume that 30% of the total population would be with the great talent but where are they?
My question to everyone is that, how many people in the world do you know who is talented?
Your answer would be hardly 10% or less. This is because those people are not given the exposure to show their talent.
Pakistan, the under developing country is already rich with a lot of talent.
Pakistan being an under developing country is going through many internal and external difficulties. The internal difficulties are the war on terrorism, poor economy, poor politics, and much more. The external difficulties are the worsen relationship with foreign countries.
As I mentioned above that Pakistan is rich with a lot of talent, the only problem is of some proper system to promote their talent. There are systems to promote the talent but are very less financed and only stay up to the national level but to get to the international level the children’s their selves have to work hard.
Like this we know two young talent of Pakistan who are Young Microsoft Certified Professionals (MSCP).
The youngest MSCP was Babar Iqbal, the 12 years old kid who was the first MSCP of Pakistan. He is generally known as genius cyber kid, had set up three world records including Youngest Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) at the age 9, Youngest Certified Wireless Network Administrator (CWNA) at the age 9 and Youngest Certified Web Professional Associate (CIWA) at age 10.
Another name is of a young girl who became the youngest MSCP at the age of 9.
The name of this girl was Arfa Karim Randhawa born in 1995 was a student from Faisalabad in Pakistan, who in 2004 at the age of 9 became the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) in the world. She was invited by Bill Gates to visit the Microsoft Headquarters in USA. The vice president of the Software Development Division Mr. S. Soma Segar wrote about it in his blog.
On returning to Pakistan, Arfa had numerous interviews on almost all of the country’s known television channels and newspapers. In August 2005, Arfa Karim received the Fatimah Jinnah Gold Medal in the field of Science and Technology, presented by the Prime Minister of Pakistan at that time. She also received the Salaam Pakistan Youth Award again in August 2005 by the President of Pakistan. Arfa Karim is also the recipient of the President’s Award for Pride of Performance. This award is a very high level civil award granted to people who have shown excellence in their respective fields over a long period of time. Arfa was the youngest recipient of that award ever.
Arfa Karim has also represented Pakistan on various international forums; she was invited by the IT Professionals of Dubai to stay with them for two weeks in Dubai. A dinner reception was hosted for her there, which was attended by the diagnostics of Dubai including the Ambassador of Pakistan. During that trip, Arfa was presented with various medals and awards. She also flew a plane in a flying club in Dubai at the age of 10, and received the first flight certificate.
In November 2006, Arfa was invited by Microsoft to be a part of the keynote session in the Tech-Ed Developers conference held in Barcelona, Spain. The theme of the conference was “Get ahead of the game” and Arfa was presented as a true specimen of being ahead in the game. She was the only Pakistani amongst 5,000 developers in the conference. The young girl at the age of 9 and 10 got achieved many awards of which a person cannot even think of at that age. She was the first Pakistani who had some sort of inner motivation and family support which made her achieve all these awards and tittles.
She was a true pride for Pakistan. She was one of them who made the whole nation proud at a very young age.
Arfa Karim also had some goals, dreams to accomplish. She wanted to make a Digicon Valley in Pakistan, which will promote the I.T side of the country. Digicon Valley will be a platform for all those people who are good at I.T stuff and got no resources to promote their talent. The Digicon Valley would be like the India’s Silicon Valley but with very different hopes and programs. She had got high goals set for the future and really wanted to do something for her Country.
As of 2011, at the age of 16, Arfa Karim was studying at Lahore Grammar School Paragon Campus in her second year of A Levels. With all the dreams buried in her heart with a great spirit to do something for the country, on December 22nd 2011, she suffered from a heart attack and an epileptic seizure. She was admitted to CMH in critical condition on the same day.
After 6 days of her admission in the hospital, on 28th of December 2011, we came across heart throbbing news that Pakistan has lost its pride. Luckily that was a rumor.
It was really a shocking moment to hear about the news of Arfa, the young girl with a smile on her face every time was is in a very critical situation. The age in which she was admitted to the hospital in a serious issue was the age of enjoying and starting to grow up.
On January 9th, Bill Gates, the owner of Microsoft took a step further and opted to help the young girl fighting for her life. Bill Gates, the millionaire contacted Arfa’s parents and asked about her current health. He also showed them a great hope by providing them a special team of American Doctors who would help the local doctors over the air for Arfa’s Treatment. All the expense was to bear by Bill Gates.
This was a pretty good and humanity move by Bill Gates. He directed a special panel of doctors for Arfa on his personal expense.
Not only the Family of Arfa praised him, but also the entire nation was praising Bill Gates.
After four days, on 13th of January, Arfa showed some great improvement and her brain also showed some improvement. Every one was in a hope that she will be shifted to U.S for much better treatment and they all were thankful to Microsoft for bearing all the medical treatment expenses.
Unfortunately on 14th January 2012 we came across a heart throbbing news that the girl which we wished to see smiling back has departed from this world to meet the creator of her. The news of her death was so shocking that the whole nation stood still for a moment after hearing this sad news. The whole nation was so shocked to hear about the news of her death that the whole nation was in tears. Not only the whole nation but also we can say that the whole world and all those who knew her from past were also in tears.
Her funeral was offered at Cavalry ground at Lahore at 10:00 AM. She was buried at her ancestral village Ram Diwali near Faisalabad.
In the end I would like to say that Pakistan lost a great talent. This is a huge loss to the world and specially Pakistan. Once again I would like to say is that talents like these are made once in a lifetime and those who don’t care about these always loose them.
“If you are born poor, that is not your fault, if you die in poor state, then it’s your fault completely.”
Bill Gates.
The death grieve wasn’t finished yet and we came across the 17th birthday of Arfa Karim. The 17th Birthday of Arfa Karim once again made us realize that she must not be present physically with us but she is present abstractly in our hearts and will always be present in our hearts. All the people showed the real proof of this thing from the world in a tribute video made for Arfa compiled by Syed M Mudassir.
Video:
The best thing is that the month in which Arfa was born is the same month when another great legend was also born. The month is February. In this month two great legends were born and now both of them are not present in this world physically, but are present abstractly in our hearts. The first legend was Arfa Karim and the second legend was Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs’ the Co-Owner of Apple was also born in the same month. The date of birth of Arfa is 2nd February 1995 and Steve Jobs date of Birth is 24th February 1955. The difference between the two geniuses is of 40 years. You, yourself can see that we came across another genius after 40 years.
