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biolabee: Still despicable though sasgay signing contracts with snakes when other creatures belle full everywhre

His ancestor controlled bijuus
While he slithers around with snakes

Muppet

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Android is open and customizable. iOS is closed, designed for ease. But iPhone users are maturing, demanding more personalization, and Apple might give it to them at WWDC. At D11, Tim Cook said “I think you will see us open up more in the future, but not to the degree that we put the customer at risk of having a bad experience.” Here we’ll look at some Android options Apple could unlock for iOS.

I agree with John Gruber when he speaks of how the average smartphone user has matured. “The design of the iPhone software was entirely informed by the fact that this was a new experience. It needed training wheels. Look around you. We all get it now. iOS-style computing is no longer novel. The training wheels can now come off.” 2007 is very different from 2013 in terms of our mobile literacy, and it’s time iOS reflected that.

Apple’s concern is likely that novice users might download and install an interface-changing app and not know how to remove it — “a bad experience.” Apple would need to determine how to reconfirm configuration changes with users such that veterans don’t get annoyed but newbies don’t get stuck.

If it can strike the right balance, some new capabilities iOS users might gain include:

KEYBOARD REPLACEMENT
The most commonly requested customization we hear from iOS users is the option to replace the default keyboard. Simply shrinking a typewriter keyboard down for a tiny touch screen may not be the most efficient way to type, especially one-handed. Android lets you replace the default tap-to-type version with third-parties keyboards like SwiftKey which learns how you type to predict your words, and the popular Swype gesture typing keyboard. Advanced prediction and the ability to drag your finger between letters can drastically speed up communication.

WIDGETS
The iOS lock screen and home screen have begun to look quite static. With so many real-time feeds of information out there, from weather to finance to social, staring at wallpaper or a set of dead icons and folders buries information. Android lets you pull that data out from apps and splay it across your lock and home screens for value at a glance. While Apple has sought to make the iOS interface consistent, more experienced users would appreciate the ability to deviate to their own tastes.


PHONE APP MODIFICATIONS
One under-appreciated advantage of Android is the ability to change the most basic part of a phone — the phone part. Apps can allow you to block certain numbers or entire area codes from calling you or send their calls straight to voicemail — handy for dealing with insistent telemarketers or ex-girl/boyfriends. You can set up custom Do Not Disturb modes that repond to calls or SMS with a pre-written text message. There’s even crowd sourced caller ID apps that pull in what other people have named numbers so you always know who’s calling. Mr. Number was a particularly powerful phone app mod who was rewarded for its innovation by being acquired by WhitePages. Mr. Number doesn’t even offer an iOS version because none of this functionality was allowed on iOS 6 or older.

Update: Apple announced at WWDC that iOS 7 will allow call, SMS, and FaceTime blocking of specific numbers. Rather than opening up the ability to modify the Phone app for developers, Apple chose to build in limited blocking functionality itself.

HOMESCREEN / LAUNCHER REPLACEMENTS
Launchers have long been a favorite of Android users, but Facebook Home brought the open / closed issue to the mainstream, demonstrating how your entire phone experience can be reskinned. Home lets you read the news feed from your lock screen, while others like GO Launcher EX, LauncherPro, and SO.HO let you navigate through gestures, offer quick access to certain settings, and provide pre-made themes amongst other options.

CROSS-APP FUNCTIONALITY, DATA SHARING, AND DEFAULTS
Android doesn’t erect boundaries between apps like iOS. Thanks to App Intents, apps can easily share information and content with each other so you can send a photo from one editing app to another. They can even run over the top of one another, like Facebook’s Chat Heads which overlays chat conversations on whatever app you’re currently using. On iOS, Chat Heads is trapped within the Facebook app. Android also lets you pick which app you’d like to default to for opening certain media types, or doing certain actions. My fellow writer Frederic calls for Apple to treat us like adults and choose if we want to use Chrome as our default browser or Google Maps for default navigation.



MULTI-USER SUPPORT
Sharing one device between many people is a huge pain on iOS. You all have to use the same instance of the operating system. That means frequent log-ins and outs of different apps, overlapping phone books, a shared camera roll, and big issues for parents who don’t want to let their kids meddle with their whole phone or tablet when they hand it over to let them play a game. Android lets each user customize their account to their liking.

There are plenty of other personalization options on Android, including automation for scheduling tasks; quick controls for brightness, wifi, and airplane mode; the ability to track and manage your battery and data usage by restricting what certain apps can do; and SD cards for slotting in new data.

Of course, Apple isn’t fond of just following so we’ll hopefully get some true innovation in iOS 7 at WWDC tomorrow. But adding some of these features could unlock new opportunities for the developer community, attract more hardcore tech users, and let people feel like the Apple devices they carry everywhere are truly their own.

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SaGas Energy begins conversion of Nigerian vehicles for gas use as auto fuel

From Suleiman Idris, Lagos

A major leap in the on-going efforts at providing gas as alternative automobile fuel was taken yesterday, when Sagas Energy Company Limited, a subsidiary of Dangote Group and the pivot of the new technology in Africa began the conversion of heavy-duty trucks for use of gas as fuel. The conversion ceremony, which held in Lagos yesterday and witnessed by top officials of Sagas, Nigeria Gas Company (NGC) and the partnering Prins Autogas West Africa Limited, was in furtherance of the execution of a Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU) signed three months ago between Sagas and the NGC.

Of the 5,000 trucks belonging to the haulage arm of the Group, Dantrans, which were scheduled for conversion as at the time of this report, about 200 has been successfully converted to the new system and now, the trucks are able to run on both Gas and Diesel (dual fuel usage). Under the arrangement, the NGC, a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) is to exclusively supply Sagas with Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) for 20 years while Sagas converts PMS (petrol) and diesel engine vehicles in Nigeria with kits to adapt the engines to the use of gas as obtained elsewhere outside the African continent.

Journalists and guests were conducted round the conversion centre at Ikeja where the conversion process was going on. Chief Operating Officer of Prins Autogas, Henry Van Tienen, rode on an already converted truck test-driven to the admiration of all present. Tienen explained that the conversion was a novel technology in Africa and that the use of gas either as alternative fuel or a mix blend with diesel has advantages over any other fuel currently in use.
According to him, with the kick-off of the conversion, Nigerians are in for a new technology that would help in conserving fuel, and could deploy the abundant natural gas into good use with a cleaner environment.

He disclosed that conversion centers would be established at various points across the federation while the gas filing stations would located at the fuel filing stations through accredited dealers scattered across the country. Tienen said the use of the new technology is safe, convenient, cheaper and more efficient and that as time goes on most Nigerians would prefer the technology to the traditional fuel.

Speaking at the ceremony, Chairman of Sagas, Sani Dangote, expressed happiness at the commencement of the vehicle conversion soon after the agreement was signed with the NGC, saying the ceremony was meant to demonstrate to the public the capability of Sagas to deliver as promised during the agreement signing.
The Sagas boss disclosed that 5,000 trucks would be converted within a year and that the kit to convert 1000 are already on ground and advised commercial vehicle owners as well as in industrial and private owners to avail themselves of the benefits of the new technology.

He stated that the Sagas would source gas from the NGC, through its vast network of pipelines and compress it to a cheaper, cleaner and sustainable alternative fuel or dual fuel for profitable business. In his remark, the Managing Director of NGC, Engr. Saidu Mohammed described the agreement as part of the gas revolution agenda of the government saying the nation has enough gas and that it was a good thing that the gas is being domesticated for commercial use.

Engr. Mohammed said he was overwhelmed by what he saw and that going at the present level, not less than half of the vehicles on Nigerian road would have been converted as it would have been established that the new system is cost-effective and would certainly reduce the cost of vehicles maintenance.
He stated that NGC with a network of about 1,500 km gas pipeline, Nigerians would be able to get affordable gas as fuel, safe and devoid of environmental pollution.
He however advised that the system should be domesticated as soon as possible so that the conversion kits and the cylinders would be manufactured locally in order for the employment generation aspect to felt quickly.

PunchNG:

A major leap in the ongoing efforts at providing gas as alternative automobile fuel was taken on Monday, when Sagas Energy Company Limited, a subsidiary of Dangote Group and the pivot of the new technology in Africa, began the conversion of heavy-duty trucks for use of gas as fuel.

Of the 5,000 trucks belonging to Dantrans, the haulage arm of the Dangote Group, which were scheduled for conversion as of the time of this report, about 200 had been successfully converted to the new system, for the trucks to be able to run on both gas and diesel (dual fuel usage).

The conversion ceremony, held in Lagos on Monday and witnessed by top officials of Sagas, Nigeria Gas Company (NGC) and the partnering Prins Autogas West Africa Limited, was in furtherance of the execution of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed three months ago between Sagas and the NGC.

Source: http://tribune.com.ng/news2013/en/news/item/14080-dangote-subsidiary%E2%80%99s-trucks-now-to-use-gas.html

Adejoro74: Why is Fasola not taking care of his neck skin cancer? The thing don chop him neck finish.

larrysng: Keep deceiving yourselves the reason why they are coming into nigeria is because anything goes here. They knew once they pass ghana must go under the tables of our law makers and executives they would grant them concession to operate any how they like. They knew that it is only in nigeria you can get cheap labour where they can hire anyhow and sack anyhow. They know the government of Nigeria do not care about its citizens and are ready to do anything for their own pockets. They knew it is only in Nigeria that a foreign unemployed school cert can be made to boss a nigerian Msc holder because the work is for their people and not ours. SMH for this country. Where are our own indigenous biz men and women? They are busy laundering our money abroad to better akata country. Nigeria economy is growing indeed!

mr_man: 2015 is definitely going to be bloody. The old era of political assasinations is probably going to creep back into the polity.

funnyx: Parliamentary system of govt is the best for Nigeria especially they type we practiced in the first republic.

Feraz: And Sakura is Tsunade without

She might channel her chakra there oh!

Hope Minato won't do bijuudama with one hand cos that is hand falling for Naruto. . .
Then again, who noticed the way the Hokages are co-operating and all isn't forming I'm the strongest, meanest, oldest or fastest. . .

tayoccu: Naruto will probably decline the offer to become hokage, He's too much like Jiraiya, And Jiraiya cos he won't want to be weighed down by the responsibility. There's the possibility that naruto will allow sasuke become hokage just to compensate the uchiha clan.

Ihedinobi:

Honestly, I thought this was a joke before I saw the new release. If Kishi wasn't so convincing, he'da got for himself some real drop in ratings from me. I'm still pissed at two things though.

One, Naruto's being special 'cos o' the Kyuubi's chakra is out the window. Well, looks like anybody can be SO6P, even Minato. Now that's a real piss-off. Why the heck's Minato look like Naruto now, huh, why?

Two, what the hell's with Naruto and this Sakura-infatuation? Thought we were done with that nonsense. I hope Kishi has a plan to untangle that mess. Hinata deserves a lot more than I'm seeing him give her. Saku-who?

I expect to see new stuff from Sasuke in this fight and Naruto had better be very freakin amazing or I'm gonna step on Kishi's head.

Ok, so we're finally gonna see Minato's and Tobirama's power. That's worth watching.

yuzedo: Sweerie, in fact i love left hand! Has a mind of its own. Whenever i'm alone in my room, that's my favorite hand to.......................................... Soooooooooo, wuz the topick dammit!

Gee001: Greetings to y'all. Would like to know why people always give meanings and too much importance to the left hand especially when it comes to giving out and receiving with the left hand. To some people, they claim it's means being disrespectful, while others see it as nothing. Although my brother is left-handed but he's trying to be ambidextrous. I would like to know your opinions. Why is it so?