Larger screen for iPhone 5 into production by next month

iPhone’s screen size has not been improved since then and as compared to the newly released phones nowadays, they boasts much larger screen. The Wall Street Journal reported that Apple is ordering large screens for the next iPhone which measures at least 4 inches diagonally. Also according to them, by next month production of these larger screens will be set in motion.

During these days, screen size matters so if the news from Wall Street Journal is true, Apple’s move to produce iPhones with 4-inch screen is a plus for them. Of course, aside from screen, Apple boasts its iPhone products’ quality, well that really counts a lot for consumers but consumers will be more interested on the new iPhone with larger screens.

When Apple unveiled its first iPhone last 2007, it has become a hit. It was a ground-breaking device with a novel interface running on a 3.5-inch screen. Since then, iPhones haven’t changed a lot. As compared to Apple, other mobile manufacturers moved up in a risky way but they have become successful as I may say because so far, they can catch up with Apple’s iPhone. On the other side, iPhone was improving just little by little in the past few years since it existed mainly because Apple is keeping its focus on their tried and tested strategy.

Apple’s iPhone is still dominant in the market just like few years back and they can sell it at the same price. Consumers still wants to own an iPhone even if there are lots of newly introduced mobile phones in the market. But consumers cannot deny the fact that iPhone is starting to show its age. We can say that Android phones also have its winning piece in the mobile world because of its new look, larger screens and newer features and this is how they get the attention of many of the consumers.

As per the rumor circulating over the internet, the new and upcoming iPhone will have a 4-inch screen. There are speculations that this is not true but someone has commented on The Verge and explained how it could be done. But in case it would be done correctly by Apple, it will be an amazing feature of iPhone.

With all these rumors about the features of the new iPhone, we cannot deny that the release of iPhone 4S still got the market and sold like blockbuster. When it comes to profit and making money, they can still count on the current features of the iPhone 4S. But on the other hand, it seems that iPhone 4 has become one of the commonly seen mobile phones in the market. Other mobile phones was able to catch up with it and its like they are all leveled together.

Apple will introduce the next generation of iPhone later this year, no one knows exactly how it will look like. It may have a larger screen and it may not. But for sure, it will still have and maintain the quality that Apple is keeping on its top of the line products.

Top Tips To Unblock Torrent Sites In India

Amidst all the hue and cry originating out of the ISPs blocking access to various torrent and video-sharing websites, EFYTimes lists down a few ways you can use to unblock such sites.  
  A top Hollywood thriller that you managed to get a first look of on YouTube did not make it to the Indian theatres. Aggravating a craving to die for, it's been almost six months since its global release and a true HD copy of the movie is all over the Internet. You rush to your laptop and access a top torrent site to get your hands on to the over 1 GB HD movie and suddenly a roadblock ends the fun. 

“Access to this site has been blocked as per Court Orders.” People who are addicted to file downloads must now be familiar with this message that blocks them from accessing the top torrents and a few video sharing websites. Following a Madras High Court order, ISPs such as Airtel, Reliance Communications, Tikona and others have blocked access to some of the top torrents and video sharing sites. Among the ones, you might have difficulty accessing include ThePirateBay, BitSnoop, Torrents.eu, Isohunt, Vimeo, DailyMotion and several others. 

The hue and cry among Indian netizens is spreading like a wildfire. Retaliating on the situation, the Indian arm of hacking group Anonymous has in fact taken down websites of the Congress Party, Supreme Court, BJP and other top Indian websites of national importance. But to the eager downloader's community, this does not come as a solution to them. Amidst the blockage, there are several ways that can give you access to your favourite websites. EFYTimes lists down a few of them: 

1. The first and easiest way to get access to blocked sites is to use the MAFIAAFire Redirector plug-in. Once installed, the user simply needs to enter the URL of the blocked domain and the plug-in redirects to its mirror site. All this happens within milliseconds. The plug-in currently supports Firefox and Chrome only.

2. You can also change the DNS provided by your ISP to Open DNS or Google DNS. Switching to one of these can surely help you bypass the block.

3. A free VPN can also come to your rescue. All you need to do is download and install a free VPN client. After this, all the URL requests of the blocked websites can be easily bypassed through it. Among several others, providers such as freevpn, supervpn and vpnreactor give you such free service. 

4. A proxy can also be of some good use for unblocking websites. There is a wide plethora of free fresh proxies available all over the Internet that can be of some good use to access blocked websites.

Among all these ways, you might find success in downloading torrents from blocked website but it does not come with the surety of good speeds as your network traffic will be redirected. Also, you must keep in mind that downloading copyrighted material without the proper retail channel is illegal. So, we encourage using the afore-mentioned means only for content that is free from copyright. Till then, happy surfing! 

Remove your social media from Google search

About to interview for a new job or just tired of your every thought landing in Google search results? Here's how to stop that from happening in the future.

Many social media sites offer options to help protect your privacy on the Web. You can make your profile private, which won't allow anyone you haven't approved to see your information, or you can remove your name from the account and use a different nickname that only friends would look for.

However, these changes will only affect your content moving forward, not the stuff you've posted in the past. So if you're just seeking a quick fix to get your personal thoughts and pictures of past and present out of the results, this is how you can do that.

First you'll need to copy the URL for your profile. Using my Twitter profile as an example, the link would look like this: https://twitter.com/c0z. Once you have the link you'll need open Google's Content Removal page -- you may need to log in to Google services again when you get there. Click the Create new removal request button and paste the link. On the next page that loads, you'll be able to remove cached content associated with the page you're having removed. In order for Google to allow this, you'll need to provide a piece of information that appears on the cached version but not the live version.

After submitting the cached information (if necessary), you will see the status page load again detailing your request along with the date. You can also cancel the request if you've changed your mind.

There's no set time on how quickly the information will be removed, so if you need your information hidden from results because you're interviewing for a new job soon, submit your request as soon as possible. Also, Google notes that not all links will be removed from search (detailed here), so you may just want to be mindful of the thoughts and pictures you share on the Web if they will impact you negatively elsewhere
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Why Your Business Needs A Web Site

The first and foremost answer is: To establish a presence. Close to 500 million people world-wide have access to the World Wide Web. No matter what your business is you can't ignore 500 million people. Even if you just conduct business within your community, you want to let people in that community know that you are interested in serving them in any way possible. If you don't, your competitors will.

The next good reason to put your business on the web is: to network. A lot of what passes for business is nothing more than making connections with other people. Every smart business-person knows; it's not what you know, it's who you know. Passing out your business card is part of every good meeting and every business-person can tell more than one story how a chance meeting turned into a big deal. What if you could pass out your business card to thousands, maybe millions of potential clients? You can do this 24 hours a day, inexpensively and simply, on the internet.

You can also make business information available to everyone who wants it without any additional effort. You can give them answers to questions like: What are your hours? What do you do? How can someone contact you? Where are you located? What are today's specials? If you could keep your customers informed of every reason why they should do business with you, don't you think you could do more business? You can on the internet.

There are even restaurants in some areas taking lunch orders over the internet. In this short space we have just lightly touched on the number of reasons to put your business on the web. The following are some more good reasons for getting your web site today.

• To serve your customers!
• To heighten public interest
• To release Time Sensitive Material
• To sell things!
• To reach a highly desirable demographic market
• To answer frequently asked questions
• To stay in contact with sales people
• To open international markets
• To create 24 hour customer service
• To allow feedback from customers
• To reach the media
• To reach the education and youth market
• To reach any specialized market!

Many companies are placing their entire catalog of products on-line, and some have built elaborate database driven web applications that help web surfers buy their products and services and pay for them online. SOLOEnterprises can setup an ecommerce site for you, and your customers can pay by check or credit card. We make the whole process of getting your business on the web simple and easy!

Do engineers need more education to advance?

When considering the value of credentials, the best place to start is with your mid-term career goals. Are you looking to move up the ladder at your company? Join a consulting engineering firm? Or make a shift to another area like marketing or finance?

If you are thinking about more credentials, you’ll enjoy this funny video about a mid-career engineer with the same issue.

If you are interested in a career in the financial markets, the combination of your engineering background paired with a finance-based MBA can be very powerful. Not only would an MBA give you new skills, good graduate business schools have a strong employment team that can help you get the job you want. It all comes with a hefty fee, of course, so you better be really, really sure before you pull the trigger.

A similar argument holds true for a change to a marketing role. However, if you are considering a technical sales role, I would argue that those skills aren’t taught in school. Your best course of action would be to find a good mentoring sales manager and just jump in.

If you want to move toward partnership status in a consulting engineering firm, having your PE is typically a must. If you aren’t in a consulting engineering firm now, but you would like to be, the good news is that they are hiring. You won’t need to be a PE to get in the door, so you can likely defer that decision until after you decide whether the consulting life is for you.

If your goal is to move up within your current employer, then maybe a Master in Engineering would make sense. Your first questions to ask should be "Does your company reward technical skills?" and "Are they willing to split the cost with you?" Or are you looking to move to another company? In those cases, having a Masters can be helpful.

Is it Time to Leave Your Engineering Job?

Are you getting clues that it’s time to leave your engineering job? Inertia is a powerful force, and that comfort may be holding you where you are. But if you are seeing some of these clues in your workplace, maybe it’s time to make a move:

1. Does your firm value its employees? While they probably won’t go so far as to put your chair on allocation like you see in this humorous video, the Company may prioritize short-term sales over longer term team-building.

2. Another clue that it’s time to leave your engineering job is if you just don’t get along with your manager. While some companies offer the opportunity to move between teams and avoid managers with whom you conflict, that isn’t always possible. And if your manager is comfortable in their job and they aren’t going anywhere, maybe you should.

3. Sometimes it’s a business problem. If you are working for a company that has declining market share, or whose business fortunes are tied to some form of engineering that’s going out of date, then maybe you need to move to get into the right industry. Green engineering jobs, for example, are hard to fill in many parts of the world. And there has been a resurgence in infrastructure work for the past few years. Your career can advance quickly if you can get hired into a company that is working in a booming industry.

4. And sometimes your Company culture is just wrong, even if the business is good. If your company treats engineers with disdain, consider moving on. Most companies value their engineering talent highly, and keep the engineers informed of the business direction.

5. If your work is boring or beneath your abilities, you may have to quit to find more challenging work. Sometimes your manager has grown accustomed to seeing you in a certain role and doesn’t offer you an opportunity to advance. Or sometimes, the company you work for by its nature just doesn’t have interesting projects. If that’s the case, you may want to start looking.

5.5 As an engineer you may wonder whether you are getting paid fairly. And that’s a reasonable request. Compensation alone may not be enough to make you want to quit your job, but it can be an irritant. Check out online salary surveys to see whether your compensation is in the right range.

10 Sites That Every Engineer Should Know About

Here’s another post inspired by an office discussion. We were discussing our favourite engineering based websites and realised the results would make a great blog post. So after a rummage through our bookmarks and a little further debate we’ve come up with our top ten sites. We tried to keep the list balanced so you’ll find a few resource sites, a little bit of fun and one or two sites that aren’t purely engineering sites, but contain valuable knowledge for engineers. Do you have a favourite site that we haven’t included? Why not add a comment below and give your favourites a plug.

1. Engineering.com

A wealth of engineering related news, videos, resources and jobs.

Visit…http://www.engineering.com/

2. Engineering Formulas

A website packed full of formula for Fluid Mechanics, Failure Criteria, Finance and loads of things that don’t begin with F too. A great site for lovers of Greek letters and other squiggles. Other parts of the site have information on materials, units, design and maths.

Visit…   eFunda: Engineering Formulas

3. The Engineering Toolbox

A great site, well structured into various engineering categories that lets you drill down to find the information you need. The flow of the site is a little spoiled by too many Google Ads links, but that is just a minor irritation.

Visit…The Engineering Toolbox

4. LinkedIn

Not strictly an engineering resource, but LinkedIn is a great place to network with fellow engineers (it’s a bit like Facebook for grown-ups) and has some really useful special interest groups for sharing knowledge, meeting like-minded professionals and exchanging job opportunities.

Visit…   LinkedIn

5. GlobalSpec

Calling itself “The Engineering Search Engine”, GlobalSpec is packed full of engineering products and suppliers. Has some great email newsletters and product alert emails. You can even find Prosig on GlobalSpec.

Visit…  GlobalSpec

6. How Stuff Works

Whenever we need bit of extra background information for an office discussion this website is one of our first ports of call. Packed full of straightforward explanations

Visit…   How Stuff Works

7. Eng-Tips Forums

A fine collection of discussion forums, blogs, whitepapers and more. Covers a wide range of engineering fields.

Visit…   Eng-Tips Forum

8. Wikipedia

Again, not strictly an engineering site, but Wikipedia can’t be ignored when seeking information. Much has been made of the possible innaccuracies of Wikipedia’s articles, but genarally the scientific and engineering pages are well maintained.

Visit…   Wikipedia

9. Discover Engineering

A fantastic site for students or anyone new to engineering. Or just about anyone who enjoys quirky science projects and engineering themed games and activities. We all need a little light relief, right?

Visit…   Discover Engineering

10. Fun-Engineering

Another bit of fun to finish with. Fun-Engineering (maintained by Prof. Jim McGovern of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Dublin Institute of Technology) is a great little site, full of engineering gems. To my mind it is sites like this that make the WWW what it is.

Visit…   Engineering-Fun