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How to Buy Google Nexus S in India

The Google Nexus S by Samsung is officially the best Android phone yet. It is the only phone to run Android 2.3 Gingerbread and sports some killer hardware. You can check out the Google Nexus S Review here.

It hasn’t officially been launched in India but you can get the Nexus S in India by having a friend in the US ship it to you.

Update: The Google Nexus S is up on Infibeam for pre-order at Rs. 24000

You can also buy the Google Nexus S on eBay India for just Rs. 32999. It is unofficial, obviously, so you won’t have any warranty from Google.

The seller currently has a 97.4% feedback on eBay and seems legit.

Buy Google Nexus in India – 1

Buy Google Nexus in India – 2

Check out these two eBay links. The price seems reasonable. It is available for around Rs. 25000 ($529) in the US.

How to Find Website Load Time

In this tutorial, I will show you how you can test, find or measure the loading time of any website. The bigger a webpage, the more time it takes to completely load in a browser.

Why should you care about load times?

Having a bulky webpage can lead to excessive usage of your hosting bandwidth once you start getting good traffic, leading to higher hosting bills.

Google also considers load times when ranking your website pages, so high load times can lead to a lower SERP rank on Google.

Having a high page loading time also leads to a bad experience for your website visitors. Nothing is more frustrating than waiting for a webpage to load.

How to test your website’s load time?

To test the load times of any website, including your own, just use Pingdom’s tool – Full Page Test.

It allows you to test the load time of your website and also gives a complete visual breakdown of the various components in your webpage, and the time taken to load each of them.

How to reduce your website’s loading times?

There are many ways to reduce your website’s load times. You could remove comments and redundant code from your HTML and CSS pages as well as JS scripts to reduce the size of the file.

Also, ensure that you don’t add too many social plugins or widgets like Facebook, Twitter to your pages, as they can add up to your page size.

How To Root Nook Color (Android)

How to Install Apps and Games on Nook Color

Update: Get the AutoNooter instead of Pokey’s Nooter to get Android Market access on the Nook Color. You can also read Kindle Books on the Nook Color. Check this tutorial for more details – How To Enable Android Market on Nook Color and Read Kindle Books on it – Complete Guide

New: How to Install Android 2.2 Froyo on Nook Color

The Nook Color, a $250 Android ebook reader has been rooted by the XDA community. Here’s a tutorial which explains how you can root your Nook Color.

How to Root the Nook Color And Install Android Apps and Games on it.

What You Need

1. A Nook Color
2. 64 MB+ microSD card
3. A computer (Windows, Linux or Mac)

Steps to Root a Nook Color (Android)

1. Download this file – Pokey9000′s Nooter

2. Extract the image file from the ZIP archive and write it on your microSD card.

Tutorials to write the image on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.

3. Remove the microSD card and insert it into your Nook. Press the power button for 15 seconds to turn it on and connect it to your PC using the USB cable.

4. The Nook Color will boot from the microSD card. Your computer should detect a new USB device in about 30 seconds.

5. Now remove the microSD card and reboot the Nook Color. It should boot normally.

6. Now, the Nook Color has been modified to enable ADB connections. You need to modify the ADB INI file before you can use it to install apps on the Nook Color. – Here’s how.

7. To install apps and games on your Nook Color, just run this command using ADB

ADB install package.apk

where package.apk is the APK of the app you want to install.

via: NookDevs

How To Unlock or Jailbreak Windows Phone 7 Phones

A new tool has been released which allows you to unlock or jailbreak your Windows Phone 7 device with just one click.

Using the ChevronWP7 unlocker, you can now jailbreak your Windows Phone 7 smartphone and install any third party Windows Phone 7 apps on it directly. It is easily reversible and seems completely safe.

How to Unlock Windows Phone 7 Phones
How To Jailbreak Windows Phone 7 Devices

1. Connect your Windows Phone 7 device to your PC using the data cable

2. Download the ChevronWP7 application and run it.

3. Ensure that your phone isn’t PIN locked and select the “Install Certificate on Phone” option.

4. Click on the Unlock button and your Windows Phone 7 device should now be unlocked.

You can now sideload any third party apps on your phone.

How to Install and Remove/Delete/Uninstall Apps and Games in Windows Phone 7

Unlike the earlier versions of Windows Mobile where installing an application or game was very time-consuming, Windows Phone 7 offers access to the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace hub which is very similar to the iPhone App Store and the Android Market. You can now install and remove apps and games on your Windows Phone 7 device very easily.

Install Apps and Games on Windows Phone 7

Just click on the Start button and tap on the Marketplace. Press the Search button and type the name of the app or game you want to install.

You can also click on Apps or Games in Marketplace and browse through various categories of apps and games and select the one you want.

If it’s a paid app or game, just click on Buy and enter your credit card details or your mobile phone account details to buy the app.

After the installation is complete, the app will show up in the App list.

Remove / Uninstall / Delete Apps and Games in Windows Phone 7

Just click on Start and browse to the Apps or Games list.

Tap and hold the app or game you want to remove and select Uninstall / Delete.

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