BrandCrux Exuberant Participation at GITEX TECHNOLOGY WEEK 2014

GITEX Technology Week 2014, is the leading tradeshow of all the Technical trends that offered three different areas of networking and security, technology, office supplies and IT solutions.  GITEX- the largest and most respected exhibition of recent developments in information and communication technologies (ICT) and electronics has concluded with massive sales and consumer confidence yesterday. The companies from every nook and corner of the world have visited this massive tech expo to gain and share the IT knowledge.

As the curtain came down on this unique well- known major technology tradeshow, all the organizers, exhibitors and visitors has hailed the event for its inclusive insights into the prevailing issues and trends in the current ICT industry. The 5 day event in which top leaders from the ICT industry encouraged almost 100,000 conference attendees from 150 countries to bring their focus over the tech innovations to re-imagine their future.

BrandCrux Participation at GITEX

 GITEX permits BrandCrux- Worlds Leading Apps, Games & Web Development Company with years of experience in delivering highest quality projects, to take part into the current technological trends and serve GITEX visitors with many opportunities to involve and absorb the growing innovations in ICT industry.

BrandCrux’s overall experience and attitude towards the 31^st GITEX tech week 2014, has been positive and exuberant. We turned as a vibrant exhibitor in extending the skillful application development expertise throughout this global event. Having all the requisite technical expertise and experiences in the application design and development services, BrandCrux has achieved many successful partnerships and accomplishments under its belt.

BrandCrux symbolizes its premium services

BrandCrux has already succeeded in the process of maintaining its place in the industry’s trend setting authority. With the start of this global event, BrandCrux briefed their astonishing expertise and services in Mobile Apps Development, Branding Solutions and Digital Marketing to the attendees.

BrandCrux Exciting offers for GITEX

Since, GITEX is a major forum to reach assorted audience from around the globe and BrandCrux reviewed that majority of the respondents who visited GITEX were attracted towards availing discounts/offers on the tech products and services and towards               learning about promotion offers, new products and technologies.

BrandCrux also announced exciting offers for both the startups as well as enterprises at GITEX. Being a versatile development agency, BrandCrux offers all visitors’ mobile apps design, website design for their businesses as well as logo design completely free of cost. 

Visitors Response

BrandCrux successfully exhibited at GITEX 2014 and received an overwhelming response from day 1 to the day 5 of this event. The team received countless enquiries about the flexible partnership opportunities and exclusive offers. 

From day one of this massive event, visitors at BrandCrux showed interest in our services and free offers and recommended them to their other colleagues. On the second day, around ten thousand visitors held discussions with our team experts about business possibilities and long term partnerships.

BrandCrux explained its exclusive offers to Clients and described how both startups and established businesses can benefit from it. Our team heads showed up and interacted with approximately 15k global technology veterans and helped visitors see how applications and stronger digital marketing can be used to increase interactions and engagement levels. BrandCrux concluded this event by sharing success stories with their new clients, and discussed new ways of embracing the app revolution that can help startups and business veterans grow their business and gain a competitive edge.

This mega event strengthens BrandCrux’s network and relationship with current companies and reaching out to new customers in the IT industry. 

iOS 7.1 – Speeding the Performance of iPhone 4

The all new iOs 7.1 official update has been released for iPhone 4. The improvements are not that much drastic as we expected. However, Apple is steeping up much to our delight. One of the greatest advantages of iOS 7.1 on iPhone 4 is indeed improved performance as compared to iOS 6 and iOS 7. Although, iOs 7.1 on iPhone 4 does not work, obviously the same, as it does for iPhone 5, iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c. Some iPhone 4 users have report that their phones are much faster with this update at different technology forums and Apple official forum. 

The Performance of iOS 7.1 on iPhone 4

Brand Crux has conducted iOS 7.1 time based performance tests on iPhone 4. Following result has been collected from key functionality tests performed on iPhone4.

Application	iOS 6.13	iOS 7	iOS 7.1	Diff (Seconds)
Restart	31.14	45.13	43.1	11.96
Phone	0.67	2.37	1.83	1.16
Posts	1.57	2.80	1.5	0.7
Safari	1.13	2.08	1.8	0.67
Camera	1.9	2.63	2.2	0.3
Configuration	1.31	1.88	1.37	0.06
Calendar	1.23	1.78	1.37	0.14
Mail	1	1.50	1.35	0.35

With the help of above analysis, we can say that these changes are significant to the overall performance of the iPhone. The improvements are not very fundamental like some of the most important functions such as phone or camera had not received a great deal of variation, but the interactive display fluidity is appreciated. However, some of the significant improvements made to the calendar, as we can see, but restarting the phone is a still too slow task.

Yes, it's Worth Installing iOS 7.1 on iPhone 4

If you are confused with such questions about whether or not worth it because of a ratio of performance v/s security, Brand Crux suggests that yes it is worth. The improvements have not been something that will revolutionize the user experience not only in time, but also in the flow of iPhone various functions. For example, with iOS 7.1 on the iPhone 4 iBeacons implementation is much better, allowing the phone constantly search for new signals even closed with minimal battery consumption. The Bluetooth low energy also appears to have been optimized. Another detail that has been added to iOS 7.1 is improved HPF tickets when driving. Now, finally, we can properly listen to instructions when using the iPhone cruise through the car audio system.

Brand Crux hopes that above shared information will help you to understand the pros and cons of iOS 7.1 on iPhone4. For more information you can visit the discussion forums on the official Apple website. 

Google Chrome Extensions for Web Designers and Web Developers

If you work in the field of application development, the browser is also a key tool for debugging and verification phase of you project. Once you have developed a website. Than website testing ensures that it works properly or at the level of design corresponds with the guidelines that you had initially set. Considering all these tasks, the Google Chrome web store (which, incidentally, has become the single official source of extensions) offers you a good number of Google Chrome extensions for web designers and web application developers. Brand Crux will review some Google Chrome extensions that will surely help you a lot in your web designing and development projects.

Drag Design is a curious extension for Google Chrome that offers users the ability to alter the design of a website by simply dragging elements and move them from site. The idea is that we can do tests on a real web design and modified on the fly to see how it is.

Remove and Combine CSS is another extension oriented world of web design, with this edition you can analyze the CSS of the web, and also remove concrete sections to combine them and make a custom CSS available to download, for example, as a basis for another project.

Color Contrast Analyzer is a very interesting extension to all who work in accessible websites, with this tool you can make an analysis of contrasting colors that have used the guidelines of WCAG 2.0 and see if the website is accessible to special persons with visual disability.

Joomla Version Check is a curious extension that will tell us the version of Joomla used by the website you are visiting, though, as long as it is based on Joomla. Perhaps, at first glance, it may seem that the extension provides little information, but the version of a CMS is important to know if what is obsolete or has potential vulnerabilities. In fact, the best we can do when we work with a CMS is to hide the version and hide this date from the visitors.

ColorPick Eyedropper is a plug-in for Google Chrome that enables you to inspect the color palette used in a web page. Just click on a colored area and get the hexadecimal code that defines the color.

Responsive Web Design Tester is an extension that undoubtedly worth installing for a professional web developer. With this extension you can try and emulate a website from Chrome, display different mobile devices to verify that the page is perfectly suited to all types of screens (along the lines of adaptive web design).

Another interesting extension to test a website with different screen sizes, is Browser Resize, thanks to this extension can configure and test various devices, from Chrome, how a website is displayed from an iPad or an iPhone.

JavaScript Errors Notifier is a good extension that checks if the website you are visiting is malformed JavaScript. The extension will alert by generating a list of various web failures.

Perfect Pixel is an extension that allows designers to superimpose on a website, an image with which to compare if the end result of a block "pixel by pixel" with the design sketch. It may also be interesting to test modifications or changes on a design already made.

Designer Tools is a complete extension for Google Chrome that offers a set of tools aimed at developers, end with that pixel measurement, for example it inspect the color palette of a given web.

Speed ​​Tracer gives an idea about the website loading time that will help us to further improve the loading time of a website.

Ruul is an interesting extension that can help to perform basic tasks, for example, verifying the design and layout of a website. This add-on to Google Chrome adds a rule that allows us to make measurements in pixels on a given web.

Popcorn Time, the Library of Free Streaming Movies for Apple OS X

Would you like to watch hundreds of free streaming movies on your Mac? Popcorn Time is your application! In full context to an anti-piracy law, it seems that OS X comes with an application that will delight the film lovers. Popcorn Time for Mac offers a library of current and classic movies that are free to view via internet streaming.

With the rapid advancement to the internet architecture, there is a possibility to view high quality video streaming from your desktop computer, laptops, tablet and smart phones.  It’s about time to get rid of an ongoing traditional practice of downloading the movie file with the use of hundreds of downloading applications available on the internet, allowing you to download movie and wait until the download is finished. Instead of downloading completely on your hard drive the torrent file, see the best streaming quality via Popcorn Time.

Pop Corn Made Possible Torrent File Streaming

Popcorn time offers you the same media library as you already experienced at Apple’s iTunes. You can explore hundreds of movies through its library. It also offers you the movie search option through which you can easily find your favorite movie. The movie library can be also segregated in term of movie genre specific from the left column of Popcorn Time as it offers you a wide selection of movies that include action, drama, horror, thriller, biography etc…

Popcorn Time is obviously not suitable for those with slow Internet connection it will take considerable application to load and playback. Beside the 1080p HD movie streaming feature, Popcorn Time also offers subtitles in deferent languages.

A very interesting application that despite being in a beta2 phase; provides a good way to see how the AV industry has changed.

How to improve the recognition of your fingerprint with Touch ID

Have you had any problems with the recognition of Touch ID? Although this is not common, if ever this new feature of iPhone 5s do the malfunctioning; Here I am  going to share a very simple trick to improve recognition capability Touch ID so you would never ever find yourself in that annoying situation. This is especially useful in such cases when you need a quick access to the phone, usually in a situation where you are nervous and do not want to miss a single moment unlocking the device. Before starting, following are some key points to remember about Touch Id;

•  Recognition of Touch ID works in 360 degrees so it doesn’t matter which angle you select at to put your mark
• As you use the Touch ID function, this will continue learning and improving the recognition of your fingerprint
• You can also use a lock code in addition to recognition by Touch Id
• The dirty and wet hands obviously prevent proper recognition of the mark with Touch Id
• You can save up to five fingerprints, different or the same, on the phone

Improving recognition of Touch ID

Precisely this is the last property that we will use to improve the recognition of Touch ID. Basically what you have to do is to generate multiple copies of your finger prints so that the image patterns, recognizable despite how warped they are (to some extent, of course). For this, the procedure is as simple as:

1. Go  to Settings and select  General
2. Look for " ID Code and Touch "and select the option" Touch ID "
3. Now  select add a new fingerprint
4. Keep in touch the start button with the finger  until you feel a quick vibration or until a message is displayed indicating that you can remove
5. Repeat step# 4 as per the instruction shown at your iPhone till the process is complete.

In addition, there is no need to press, just rest your finger on the sensor gently. Once the initial scan has finished you will have to trim the edges of your fingerprint. It is essential that hands are clean and dry for recording fingerprints. Although, this is also important in recognizing Touch ID. We hope this article helped you in enrolling the best caption of your fingerprints so that you can enjoy this biometric security method without any complications.

Official Launch of Samsung Galaxy S5 – Brand Crux Reviews

After months of rumors and leaks, Samsung has officially unveiled the new Samsung Galaxy S5, the fifth generation of one of the most popular sagas of the smartphone market at the Mobile World Congress 2014. This is one of the most anticipated smart phones of this year.  Samsung aims to rein the Android ecosystem and the world of smart phones.

The Samsung Galaxy S5, as expected, is ahead in terms of technical specifications and hardware is concerned. This is reflected in its technical data sheet listed below, which is one of the most comprehensive towards the current smart phone market;

•  SoC: Qualcomm Snapdragon 800
• CPU: Quad-Core 2.5 GHz
• RAM: 2 GB
• Display: 5.1-inch Full HD Super AMOLED
• Camera: 16 megapixel (ISOCELL sensor), LED flash and video recording in 4K
• Connectivity: 4G LTE, Bluetooth 4.0, NFC, Wi-Fi a / b / g / n and DLNA.
• Battery: 2,800 mAh with wireless charging (Qi)
• Resistance: Gorilla Glass 3 Glass and IP67 certified (dust and water)
• Memory: 16/32/64 GB + microSD card slot
• Sensors Fingerprint, humidity, temperature, altitude and heart rate
• Colors: White, blue, black and gold
• Software: Android 4.4 KitKat + Touch Wiz 

The Samsung Galaxy S5 is a step forward as compared to Samsung Galaxy S4; it seems that the Asian company has remained a bit conservative. The company has been precisely strongest in its recent hardware generations. For example, Samsung Galaxy S5 has 2,800 mAh battery and 2 GB of RAM (while smart phones like the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 and the Sony Xperia Z2 mounted 3 GB and 3,000 mAh). However, we know that the hardware is not always important to deliver a great user experience. The clearest example to this is the Motorola Moto X. Therefore, it would be premature to judge Samsung Galaxy S5 with its hardware specifications.

There is not much changes made to the software of the Samsung Galaxy S5. The Company has redesigned Touch Wiz and has incorporated significant improvements in what relates to cosmetic appearance, but nothing close to what we expected after recent rumors and leaks, which pointed to a very similar version of Touch Wiz Android 4.4 KitKat in difference.

The camera is one of the aspects where Samsung has also taken a step forward. The company has begun assembling its own 16-megapixel sensor called ISOCELL (instead of a Sony Exmore RS as the rest of its rivals), which, in theory, should achieve a greater amount of light when it is scarce. Also, Samsung has improved things like autofocus, which enables it to focus and capture in just 0.3 seconds. The company has also added new software features like “selective focus", so that we can focus even after taking the picture.

Samsung has also incorporated some interesting features of software to save energy which is similar to Sony STAMINA power mode. It’s  a particularly mode created to save energy, in a way, when activated, turns the terminal interface to whites, blacks and grays only possible with  AMOLED screen (its consumption in dark tones is very low) this offers a  significant energy savings.

It is also noteworthy, as the inclusion of a fingerprint sensor button home, as we have seen for couple of months in the iPhone 5s. However, unlike the Apple terminal in Samsung Galaxy S5 it is necessary to slide your finger on the button, while the iPhone 5s just rest your finger on the button. Moreover, Samsung has reached an exclusive agreement with PayPal for the fingerprint sensor serve as security protocol to confirm transactions on PayPal.

The Samsung Galaxy S5 will hit the market on April 11, but its price is still unknown. According to the enduring flagships of the company, this will be available with a variety of operators and distributors worldwide in the coming month.

Facebook Acquires WhatsApp for $19Bn – Brand Crux Reviews

The giants of social networking i.e. Facebook has announced the purchase of WhatsApp. WhatsApp is a social networking app available for use on all smart phones. According to Business insider, Facebook purchased WhatsApp for 19 billion dollars. This news appears to be the biggest happening to the world of social media and smart phones users as both plays a diverse role in developing world wide communication.  Soon after to this news, Facebook also announced that WhatsApp will continue to operate independently as before without ads and paid subscription.

Facebook Becomes Smart Phones Massaging Service Provider

Facebook has a sound control over the social media activities happens to the world of personal computing whereas WhatsApp also do the same in the mobile environment. At this moment, the number of users of the social network soar over 400 million to be based on the facts for social relationships through internet. With the purchase of WhatsApp, Facebook has now command to control two major markets: first it is still the king of social network, and the second one is with the stroke of business operators in the mobile communications.

WhatsApp was timely arrived in mobile massaging in same manner as the Facebook did in the field of social network. Prior to this, arrival of both were more or less similar, but none other nearly reached to the popularity of these. There is a single fact that represents the success of both companies in their evolution.

While Facebook managed to reach users through a product that has received literally hundreds of changes over time, WhatsApp has not changed, its essence has been the same from the beginning and that has been one of the success factors which has catapulted that WhatsApp was on the right track since the launch.

No one can deny the fact that smart phones are the present and future of worldwide communication.

Key Features of Net Beans 7.4 Official Version

Net Beans is a free environment development and an open source platform, previously 7.4 is the official version available for download. This version allows a wide range of development technologies for desktop computing, web applications and mobile applications. The version supports various technologies like Java, PHP, Groovy, C++ and HTML5. The version can be installed on multiple operating systems: Windows, Linux and Mac.

Key Features

It has simplified management system for large and complex projects that helps wizards, visualization and structuring an orderly manner, helping in our everyday work. Once you get into a Java class, for instance, it will show different windows with the code, its location, methods and properties (in alphabetical order), there is also a view that represents your existing class hierarchies and many other options that are customizable according to your preferences.

Tools for debugging errors: including the debugger IDE is very useful to find where things fail. You can set breakpoints in the code line that creates interest, real time monitoring of property values ​​and variables. This allows step by step and one go method execution. You can even use the debugger hot, connecting to it when you have a process running.

Code optimization: Meanwhile the Profiler helps you to optimize your applications and attempt to make it run faster and with minimal memory usage. You can also configure it to your liking, although by default it offers enough useful options. The important thing is that you can see the behavior of the application and get informed about how few objects are created, you will also get snapshots of the state of the system at different times where you can also compare them.

Access database: From the Net Beans itself, you can connect to the different management system database, such as Oracle, MySql and others, view tables, queries, modifications, and all blending into the IDE.

Net Beans Integrates with various application servers, so that you can manage them from IDE: start, stop, start in debug mode deployments. Among others we use Apache Tomcat, Glassfish, JBoss, Web Logic, Sail fin and Sun Java System Application Server. It is easily extensible through plugins.

The Most Important Changes made to Google AdWords in the year 2013

The article is a summary of the most significant changes occurred in Google AdWords in 2013. Among hundreds of others, these three changes are those which would have the greatest impact to online business marketing.

1) Improved Campaigns -Smarter & Better Suited to Mobile

The most important change was the improved transition campaigns. It offers an updated design layout for ads which can be easily implemented on mobile. The change has not only brought a great impact to the new features, but also because of its size enhanced campaigns affect to anyone provided an AdWords account.

Here's what has changed:

Smarter ads: giving a user context to Ads. This context involves the date, location and user device and by this means advertisers can deliver ads to landlines or mobiles appropriately.

New bidding options: Enhanced Campaigns becomes possible for advertisers to bid for clicks based on the date, place and the device from which a search was launched without the need for create different campaigns every time.

Switching to improved campaign has brought many changes, including the removal of tablets targeting options or adding a conversion type for mobile advertising.

2) The Update of the Positioning Algorithm AdWords

This change should attract the attention of every advertiser. The Ad Rank is not a new phenomenon, it is the formula that Google uses to determine the positioning of an advertisement and its rank on a search results page. It is also a factor that into account in your cost per click (not your maximum bid, but what you actually pay).

The Ad Rank multiplied the maximum of what you were willing to pay by your Quality Score and Ad Rank then descending obeyed to this calculation. However, Google also used the Ad Rank to determine the cost per click of your closest competitors, or vice versa, using the cost per click of your closest competitors to determine you are obeying the principle of an auction.

Now Ad Rank will also take into account expectations by Google any positive impact from the use of Ad Extensions and their format. This is a very significant change for advertisers since the use of Ad Extensions can now help to improve the positioning of their ads, and lower cost per click. Also, if your competitors are using the Extensions, hence this benefit disappears completely.

Therefore, it is strongly recommended to take advantage of these extensions and study your Quality Scores to enjoy the benefits of this new formula.

3) Improvement of Ads with the "Site Links"
Changes to the Ad Extensions included the expansion of links to sites, which facilitates advertisers to get more control over the appearance of their ads. Google said that Ads containing links have a 30% CTR and furthermore, demonstrating that this update can have a big impact on you.

Links to websites can give you greater on the search results page surface, but they can also help users find relevant content and interesting business on your site. Now they can be set at the ad group, which means that there is need to create a new campaign for each optimization links.

The most effective links can be re-used for campaigns or Ad groups as they are associated with different URLs.

Paying Through Smartphones Will Become a Global Trend

According to the research conducted by Gartner, payments through smartphones have increased the user base to over 141 million users. There are four main models of payment system through mobile. Premium SMS - transaction-based payments, Direct Mobile Billing - this system represents 70% of digital content purchased online in some sectors in Asia, WAP mobile Internet payments - as Amazon Payments, PayPal or Google Checkout NFC (Near Field Communication) - many of the big banks and credit cards already have their own mobile applications that allows you to check your balance and also transfer funds. Visa and Bank of America are using this service for payment system based on the Visa payWave technology and In2Pay some of the best known mobile payment services are:

PayPal: offers the service of PayPal Mobile Express solution as the mobile company that works as application or through internet. According to research by LeWeb, this year the company will manage $700 million through mobile payments.

Dwolla: is a service that combines dollar, web development through P2P payment and inexpensive exchange. The person can register through Facebook or Twitter account, and thus send money to its contacts via DM on Twitter, or a personal message on Facebook.

Venmo: is free and easy to use. It is a service based payment SMS on every transaction made ​​through Venmo, each party automatically receives a Venmo account in which the balance of your account resides. The transaction process is through SMS, the actual payment online has all the security measures to ensure customer satisfaction.

Square: is a mobile payment service founded by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey. It is a service that turns any smart phone into a credit card reader.

TabbedOut: is an application that allows linking a credit card to pay through a smartphone.

ZMAZZ: is a mobile banking application platform and totally independent on traditional banks mobile payments that scan and keep receipts in a personal online safe ZMAZZ. This service is owned by Euro-Wallet.

Bitcon for Android: is an application that works like Bitcoin wallet. It is functional and supports scanning QR codes for transactions. It also allows users to receive bills by mail purchases.

Use of mobile payment system is a strong trend in Asia and is gradually becoming a trend in the United States and Europe. However, it is not yet ready for the mass market; it will take about four years to take off. The main obstacle is the adaptability of consumers. It will take time to convince them with all the security measures, and then only they will pay with mobile phones instead of cash or credit cards.

Facebook's Path to Social Media Tycoon

On 4 February 2004, Facebook went online for the first time. Since then, much has happened: There was tremendous user growth, new services, acquisitions and alliances, but also a lot of controversy and Scandals. BrandCrux will take you through the journey of the largest social media network, and let you know how it has developed over the last ten years.

Patience was never being the strength of Mark Zuckerberg: On 4 February 2004, he launched The Facebook and from then on it went with the former student network rapidly onwards. Back in December the same year, The Facebook had a million members, a few months later the company had a value of $100 million. In the autumn of 2006 Facebook opened to all Internet users, there was no holding back. There was a very minor gab between each and every milestone after Facebook launched in English version, the platform was upgraded with an instant messaging feature, a little later Facebook launched its first mobile app on the market.

An Impressive Record

Undeterred by minor setbacks, Facebook continues to its run of success. The social network currently has 1.23 billion registered users who have shared more than 400 billion photos since October 2005. Each user makes per day on average five "likes", some of which will go to the 25 million small businesses that have already created a fan page. But Facebook is not satisfied with these figures: Currently 6,337 employees worldwide feel to worry about making the social network more attractive. Facebook has a very high hope with it new app named as ‘Paper’. The app is digital newspaper that combines contributions in the news feed of Facebook users with journalistic content from different themed areas. User of the News App can adjust the mix of their interests, share exciting articles and post their own messages, photos and videos.

Facebook has showed loyalty to its users by creating a look back video for all. The video contains short glimpses of their memories with this social media tycoon. Brand Crux the world leading apps & game development congratulates Facebook for achieving this mile stone and appreciates its effort to keep the people socially connected worldwide.