The Tech Diary of an IT support geek

BBM is now on Android Wear

BlackBerry announced that Android Wear support will soon be coming to BBM, and we went wrist-on to check out how it works. And, well, it works almost exactly like you'd expect. You get all the appropriate notifications on your connected Android Wear smartwatch (in this case it was demoed on a Moto 360), and the ability to reply.BBM takes advantage of a lot of what's built in to the Android Wear … [Read more...]

Palm Is back

TCL is resurrecting the Palm brand with a brand-new Palm, Inc. based in California. As we reported last week, TCL purchased the Palm brand from HP late last year, although at the time it wasn't clear what the company had planned. It's not at all clear what TCL intends to do with the Palm brand, although they seem to recognize the history that the brand carries.Says TCL:Palm has always carried a … [Read more...]

Cogito Smartwatches Is To Get Activity Monitoring Feature

Hot on the heels of its announcement of the new Cogito Fit connected watch this week, Hong Kong-based CONNECTEDEVICE has announced a new activity monitoring feature coming to its CONNECTED WATCH app and current line of COGITO CLASSIC and POP watch models.Here are the features that the CONNECTEDEVICE says you can look forward to with its new activity tracking feature: With the Activity Monitor … [Read more...]

Top 10 Free Android Games 2014?

Did you just pick up a new Android device? Maybe you’re looking for a new, cheap way to kill time? You’re in luck - we’ve got some games here that look and play great on the big and small screen alike, and they’re all available for the low, low price of free.It’s worth keeping in mind that just about all of these employ in-app purchases of some kind or another. We know there are plenty of you that … [Read more...]

How To Convert Text To Voice In Windows PCs?

Now you can convert any text message in your pc into a voice message. So, today I am going to tell you how you can convert a text msg to a voice message without using any tool.First you have to open notepad.Then you have to write the following as given below:Dim msg, sapimsg=InputBox(“your word”)Set sapi=CreateObject(“sapi.spvoice”)sapi.speak msgYou have not to copy the code written  above as it … [Read more...]

How To Install Android Apps On PCs?

BlueStacks App Player is a superb program which help users to use their favorite  games and apps on  PC whether they are using Windows or Mac OS X. The BlueStacks App Player comes with many interesting features such as “Cloud Connect ” which allows you to share or send your apps from your Android device to PC and vice versa . The App Player was first launched in year 2011 and since launch date, it … [Read more...]

The Microsoft’s SDK for Xbox One Has Leaked, Now Paving Way For Homebrew

One of Microsoft’s closely guarded secrets concerning Xbox One development is its SDK. Developers have to basically petition Microsoft with their ideas and, when approval is granted, those developers are given access to the SDK under a strict NDA. While this tightly controlled system works well enough for Microsoft, it could certainly be argued that an open platform would allow a number of cool … [Read more...]

The Unveiling Of The First Complete Version Of Google Self-Driving Car?

Google had a (not very well-kept) secret when it unveiled its experimental self-driving car: that first example you saw was just a mockup that lacked many of the basics. At last, however, the internet giant has unveiled a complete prototype of the car that has everything it needs to hit the road, including the autonomous driving system and typical mechanical parts like braking, lighting and … [Read more...]