MIUI7 is finally here for Note3G, update your device to V7.0.2.0.KHDMICI

If your Note3 is still running on MIUI6, time is here to update it to MIUI7.

Best way of updating your device is the OTA method. Look under Settings, update device and you should see the update.

However if you do not see it yet, you should be able to download the update package from here



Note 3 download package
 

Installing MIUI7 on your device

Xiaomi has released MIUI7 and that is receiving rave reviews from all. If you do not see an OTA or want information on how to upgrade it, read on!





We got the word Xiaomi would be releasing stable rom in October 2014, but you can always install the beta version (developer version), which is very stable unlike previous releases. Here is how you can install it on your phone (Redmi1S, Redmi2, Redmi2 Prime, Note3G, Note4G, Mi3, Mi4i, and Mi4)
If you are wondering what are the new features in MIUI7, read on this link : MIUI7 features

Installation
You can download the MIUI 7 Global Beta ROM 5.8.22 for your device from this site : Xiaomi downloads.
After you select the right device, download “Developer ROM”.

1. Once you have downloaded developer ROM on your PC just plug in your smartphone device to your PC and copy the ROM file to internal storage of your phone.

2. Go to Updater App (Settings -> Check for updates -> Menu on Top right) from your device and tap on options from top right corner and select choose update package and choose the ROM which you have copied.

3. Sit back, your phone would reboot, enjoy MIUI7 !


Note : Flashing your smartphone with above recovery files will not clean out your existing, but it is still advisable to keep a backup.

Xiaomi releases MIUI7

Have just tried the beta rom for MIUI7 and I am extremely pleased (having risked my phone with a beta rom). Now I am waiting anxiously they release the global rom for my Note3.

Some of the cool features are

1. Performance : Performance is the key in this update. Apps load quicker than ever before and leave a very pleasing usage experience. No more waiting for apps to turn on, they start almost instantly after you click. Magic behind this is the preemptive loading of data, while app is still on loading screen (animation page)
   
2. Themes : New interesting themes.
   
   
3. Battery : Battery is claimed to be improved by 25 percent. In true sense this would depend on apps you use.
   
4. New Child Mode
   
   
5. One hand mode : Although this was also there in MIUI6, but for phones like Note3, there was hardly a gap between MIUI6 and MIUI7.
   
6. DND : New DND mode, and it extends to other devices like MI Band. When you are in sleep all devices sleep with you.
   
7. SMS Filtering : New options to filter non contacts sms’es.

Powerful customization available in IBM Connections

Notifications are great, specially on a social platform they help you keep at pace with what is happening on your content. Which is critical for your persona in social space, after all you would like to know what is happening to content you post, is it being liked, commented upon (discussed), shared etc.
One problem with social platforms is that they do not provide sufficient mechanism to control these notifications. There is no way to mention if you would want notifications for a particular event, what kind of notification should that be, would you like to just have details of event like “User A commented on blog you posted” or would you want to have contents of the comment and blog as well.



IBM Connections fortunately is different and provides full capability to administrators for managing notifications and its contents. For this IBM Connections uses a a technology called templates or more popularly knows as Free marker templates. More can be read about templates on
IBM Connections Documentation page : Customizing Notifications
Details of Freemarker can be found here : What is Freemarker

Feel free to edit those template files based on what notifications you want and how you want them. Best of all you do not even need to restart servers if use Freemarker tool.

Incognito, Welcome to world of Private Browsing

As a developer, specially a web developer there are times when you need to play around with cookies and logins. This generally transpires in a developer frequently clearing out this cookies and other offline data, the famous ctrl+shift+del combination.


Not only is this tedious it also robs you of data that you did not essentially intended to clear out.
That’s the reason I love Incognito mode of browsers. It gives you a clean slate to work with, free of any existing cookies or offline data. Most of the browsers support it and below are the shortcuts for Chrome and  Firefox

1. Chrome : Press Ctrl+Shift+N and you should see a page like below


2. Firefox : Press Ctrl+Shift+P and you should see a page like below

Happy Browsing !!!!

Getting started with IBM Liberty in your Eclipse in 10 minutes.

A strictly developer’s steps to get started with Liberty and Eclipse development environment. Removing the long documentation, below are the steps that should get you started under 10 minutes.

1. Get the latest eclipse ( Kepler, I used SR2 release )

2. Install Liberty in eclipse
    2.1 Open this url in browser : https://www.ibmdw.net/wasdev/downloads/liberty-profile-using-eclipse/
    2.2 Drag and drop Install icon on this page on your eclipse, that should automatically trigger the install

3. Once this is done and eclipse has been restarted you would need to create a server instance
    3.1 Go to server view and select new server
    3.2 From the options select WebSphere Liberty and then select  install liberty runtime
    3.3 Choose the folder where runtime would be downloaded
    3.4 That should be it wrt liberty.

4. Click on server and select add/remove your web in workspace should show up.

Resolving ssl_error_no_cypher_overlap in Firefox

For those of you who update to latest releases of Mozilla Firefox,




chances are high that you have run into ssl_error_no_cypher_overlap or similar errors. It might be a bad idea to ignore errors like these on websites which are public and you are not sure of. But in case you start getting this error for sites you have been routinely accessing before updating you can bring down the min tls version.

Here is how you can work around this issue

1. Open a new tab in Firefox and type “about:config” in the URL bar

2. You would get a warning dialog box, click Promise to be careful and move on

3. In the search bar, enter the following security.tls.version

4. First, right-click on the setting “security.tls.version.fallback-limit” and select modify.  You’re going to change the “1” to “0”.  Then do the same thing with “security.tls.version.min”, changing the “1” to “0”.