Author: Tarandeep Kaur

The HP Pavilion Mini 300 is palm sized and runs Windows perfectly. That little thing has received a nice update where the company has upgraded it to Broadwell a k a 5th generation Intel processor. We have spotted two models online, first is the HP Pavilion Mini 300-130 and second is Mini 300-150.

The first one comes with Intel Core i3-5005U processor and 4GB of RAM while the second model dons a Intel Core i5-5200U chip and 8GB of RAM. These are very tiny, measuring just 145 × 146 × 53mm and weighing 640 grams. Find Core i3 5005u passmark score. These broadwell processors emit very little heat and this has allowed manufactures like HP and Shuttle to churn out fanless PCs with powerful processors.

While they are so tiny, HP has managed to equip them with lot of ports and jacks that include four USB 3.0 ports, a media card carder, display port, LAN, 802.11n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and HDMI port. Japan tech blog cross-coretech says HP Pavilion Mini Broadwell runs windows 8.1 and will get a free upgrade to windows 10. We suggest holding off till July 29 because HP will be selling them with windows 10 pre loaded after W10 release.

It’s often normal for a virus to affect your computer files and the overall performance of your system. Many people store a massive amount of data and files in their systems and the majority of people use the internet in a way which makes it easy for an operating system to become infected with a virus. A virus can be defined as a computer program capable of copying itself to a computer and infecting it. This term is also synonymous with referring to malware like adware and spyware programs which are incapable of reproduction.

Provided there is enough evidence to believe a computer is infected with a virus, running an antivirus scan will help to detect and remove the threat. Those users who are unable to boot into windows can boot the computer to safe mode to run the antivirus scan.

As soon as the malware threat is discovered by the antivirus program, a prompt is usually given and informs the user if they would like to remove the infection. The user should either quarantine or remove the threat. Many users don’t have malware security software on their computers and in this case, if they are suspicious of a file infected with a virus, running an online scan may be the right way to proceed. There are many websites out there on the Internet which are capable of scanning a computer’s hard drive for infections. Installation of a high quality free antivirus or paid version is recommended.

There are two different categories of the antivirus programs. One of them is a real time program that consistently seeks and identifies malware.

A different option exists in the form of on-demand scanners that look out for malware infections. Detection occurs when opening the program manually and running a system scan. It is better to have a single antivirus program installed with real-time protection but some on demand virus scanners could be handy.

Using antivirus or malware removal software is crucial and there is really no point in manually deleting files on the computer which are suspected to be infected as it won’t fix the problem. In the process, the user could end up deleting some important files which aren’t affected by viruses. It may unfortunately lead to errors and issues with the computer’s operating system.

Intel Xeon E7-8895 v3 was quietly launched today by the company and it currently the most powerful x86 processor for servers. Intel Xeon E7-8895 v3 has total of 18 cores which with hyper threading gives you 36 logical cores that can be configured on the fly depending on the load.

Intel Xeon E7-8895 v3 specifications: 22 nm Haswell-EX processor with base frequency of 2.6 GHz and 3.5 GHz in turbo more, a 45 MB cache, DDR3 / DDR4 memory that supports up to 1536 GB of memory and 32 PCI-Express 3.0 lines with a TDP of 175 watts.

As mentioned earlier, you can change the number of cores in action and the operating frequency at any time remotely without having to make any changes physically. However, these functions are currently only supported by the Oracle Server X5-4 that was announced recently.

For now, the  Xeon E7-8895 v3 is only available to Oracle customers, and nobody knows when it will be sold to other customers. Price tag is also unknown but it will be close to 7200 dollars.

Samsung introduced new improved keyboard in Android 5 lollipop but has not made it available for the Galaxy Note 3 Neo. Fortunately XDA has made it available by porting it to Note 3 Neo. 

To use it, you must download and flash the Note 4 Mini V6 ROM on your Note 3 Neo and then flash it. Download Samsung Android 5 keyboard from here and flash it using Note 3 Neo custom recovery but if you had earlier installed the Note 4 Mini v6 ROM, you must be having the custom recovery already installed. The ROM is very efficient and will improve your battery life as well.

You will find multitude of enhancements on this Samsung keyboard compared to the one you already have on your Note 3 Neo. It feels much polished and better to type on. 

Flipboard Briefing is originally now bundled with the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Neo but you can get it by installing the APK from link given at the bottom of this post. This flipboard briefing APK has been extracted from a Galaxy S6 ROM.

The best part is that the Flipboard briefing APK can be installed as a normal APK file. For those who do not know about Flipboard briefing, it gives you the daily top news, according to your interests, all in one place – all powered by your Flipboard account.

After installing the APK file, from the home screen, swipe left to the Flipboard Briefing panel and select Get Started that is located at the bottom. Review the terms and conditions and tap on I Agree to continue. Then tap on the Menu Icon and follow the on screen prompts.

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While HTC One X development has been halted by HTC, folks at XDA are still churning out ROM for it on full swing. For instance, we now have its Android lollipop 5.0 ROM available for download. While it is not official by any means, it is great alternative.

HTC One X Android Lollipop download link

• Download ROM

Since Gapps are not included in the ROM, you can install them separately from below link:

• Gapps link

HTC One X Android Lollipop Installation instructions

1. Make sure you have custom recovery like CWM or TWRP pre installed.
2. Then copy ROM’s ZIP file along with Gapps file to the internal SD card and boot into recovery
3. Then flash ROM file first and then gapps file. Make sure to do a factory reset by going into recovery again after those two zip files have been installed.
4. Reboot and never restore apps using titanium backup. Also never use Xposed with this Lollipop ROM.

HTC One X Android Lollipop: Features of the ROM

* Volume panel timeout
* Clear recents location
* Heads up customization
– Quick access button on expanded status bar
– Swipe behavior
– Touch outside behavior
– Time out
– Do not disturb
– Blacklist
* SlimRoms custom lock screen shortcuts
* Navbar on/off
* Hardare keys on/off (in devices supported)
* Power menu in navring targets
* SlimPie controls with all working
* Sound panel option om power menu
* Super user indicator (Notification, Statusbar icon or no indicator)
* Force expanded notifications on expanded status bar
* Power menu and notifications tiles
* Four tiles per row
* Vibrate on tiles touch
* Disable quick settings on secure lock screen
* Kill app back button configurable timeout
* Omni-Ambient Display

Samsung Galaxy S5 camera is super feature rich and today thanks to the folks at XDA you will be able to download Download Galaxy S5 Camera to the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Neo. This will allow you to take 16 megapixel photos too. To install it on your Note 3 Neo, all you need is a rooted device and custom recovery like TWRP and CWM.

Installation instructions:

1) Download the S5CameraPorting-v2.zip from this link.
2) Delete the Samsungcamera apk in /system/app.
3) Flash the download S5CameraPorting-v2.zip via custom recovery.
4) wipe cache and reboot.

It shall be noted that Selective focus and Dual Camera are not working.