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  Shutter   is an application in linux similar to Snipping Tool in windows.   To install Shutter please give the following command. sudo apt-get install shutter   To take a screen shot in the application : 1. Open the application by typing shutter. 2. Click selection and you can select the portion on the screen you need. 3. Holding shift key + left double click will capture the selection you have made. 4. Save the selection as you need

Camscanner is a good app to digitize any paper document like receipts, documents, notes etc. We can simply take the image of the document in phone camera. The image can be easily cropped and edited and even convert to a PDF document.This can be called as a must have smartphone app , as next time you if you search for a xerox shop to scan something and didn't get , try this! https://www.camscanner.com

To add fonts like Times New Roman , Ariel etc in Ubuntu do the following. 1. open ubuntu Software Center  2. Searh fo r  ttf-mscorefonts   in search  bar. 3. Install the item listing in the page. Now you can use new fonts in ubuntu.    

Microsoft has revealed that it will soon release Microsoft Office version for Apple iPad, ' Office for iPad'.Office will be available for free download from Apple store for iPad.Users can read documents with this.But to edit the document user may need to subscribe to Office 365. Microsoft's new CEO Satya Nadella said.

It hard to find application that allow printing from mobile phones.Here I show five application to take print out directly from your smart phone that will work on devices from iPhones to Windows Phone 7.Printing apps work with varying degrees of ease of use. Print n Share for iPhone One of the top rated printing apps for the iPhone is called simply,Print n Share.It's not free:the download from the Apple iTunes App Store will run $8.99.

Mobile phones have surely changed the way we click pictures.The quality of picture has also significantly improved over the years.I fact for most people,the only camera they have built is the in -built mobile camera.It would not be completely crazy to say that the convergence of mobile phones and camera has truly taken place. Instagram is an easy way to share pictures with rest of the world through the social website of your choice.This a a cool application.The application works in iPhone platform and makes it very easy to share your pictures with friends on Facebook ,Flicker and other social websites. Instagram also allows you to do basic edting of your pictures and add some cool special effects to them before sharing them with the world.The best feature about Instagram is that it adds a special social networking element to your picture.It also allows you to tag your location to the phone and share them on the Instagram network. Obviously,if you want to keep your picture private or

Oracle has announced the release of new Java Standard Edition 7.They said it includes many features that improves performance,security and usability of Java platform.The developers and Sun customers say about the primary features as Modularization,Multi language support,Developer productivity and performance. Although the release made a new milestone some report says it contains bugs.The Apache Lucene search engine project management committee said that Java SE7 contained bugs cause a Java Virtual Machine to crash or affect applications.The Oracle release of Java SE 7, is through OpenJDK , is not under an open licence.More about downloading Oracle Java SE 7 http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk7/

McAfee has launched McAfee Mobile Security and McAfee WaveSecure tablet ecition.McAfee Mobile security provides mobile security solution by combining three McAfee mobile security products : WaveSecure, VirusScan Mobile and siteAdvisor for Android.It helps in data loss prevention and privacy in the event loss or theft, and protection against virus threats.It also provide protection from spyware and web-based threats. The WaveSecure tablet edition offers Android users Wi-Fi ability to find their missing device with alarm and location tracking, and preserve importnat memories.It protects personal data with remote backup. The mobile security product is available at $29.99 and McAfee WaveSecure is available at $19.99.It is available from McAfee and Android market . 

Microsoft introduces its online productivity suite Office 365.It has incorporated  computing over to the cloud so that every enterprise,business or government entity can access it.Microsoft says the Office provide affordable businesses productivity tool on the cloud.The suite,comprising Word,Excel,PowerPoint,email and other software can be used by enterprise on a pay per use basis.