What is Google Wallet?

Google’s mobile payment system, Google Wallet, is now available to the public — for people who use Sprint Nexus S 4G phones and Citi MasterCards or Visa cards at least. The near-field communication and contact-less payment system was expected to launch this summer.Google Wallet — along with Google Offers — is built on an open platform that combines multiple credit cards, loyalty programs and offers at the point of sale. Payment is made by swiping your smartphone at checkout. Essentially, Google is turning your phone into your wallet.

The Google Wallet service must be associated with a Google account to begin using it. After agreeing to terms and conditions and entering a PIN, you can start the process of provisioning your cards to your account.So far the service only works with Nexus S 4G phones on Sprint; people with these phones will receive over-the-air updates Monday and will see a new “Wallet” app. It also only works with Citi Master Cards and Google Prepaid Cards, which can be filled using any other credit card.

Update: Visa has announced that Visa customers can also use Google Wallet.Eventually Discover and American Express will work with the app as well, Google said Monday.The system made its debut in May and was tested in select markets. Just last week MasterCard, a launch partner, held another press event in New York City to show off other future-of-payment technologies, including the ability to make purchases by simply waving at your TV.

How To Fix Overheating & Fan Noise After Upgrading to Mac OS X 10.7 Lion with SMC Reset

A fair amount of users are reporting that upgrading to Mac OS X Lion has caused their Macs to run hotter in general and their fans to constantly engage, creating excessive and unusual fan noise. For users who have just performed an upgrade from 10.6, this is usually because of Spotlight and the mdworker & mds process combination, which irons itself out over the course of an hour or so.

If waiting it out hasn’t resolved the heat and fan noise for you, or those Spotlight processes aren’t running, you might want to try resetting the System Management Controller, or SMC. This seems to be particularly effective for MacBook Pro and MacBook Airs that are running hot with considerable fan noise after the Lion installation.
Fix Fan Noise & Heat in OS X Lion by Resetting SMC

For MacBook, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air models with internal batteries:

• Shut down your Mac 
• Plug in the MagSafe adapter 
• Press and hold Shift+Control+Option+Power button at the same time 
• Release all keys and buttons simultaneously 
• Press the power button to turn on your Mac as usual 

Apple notes that the little LED light on the MagSafe adapter may change colors or states, or even briefly turn off when you reset the SMC, which could be an easy way to tell if it’s be done successfully.Resetting the SMC is a fairly common trick to fix some of the quirkier power and battery related problems on a Mac, and in many cases it works. If all else has failed, try this out, it just may solve your heat and fan noise issues with Lion.

Note: Anytime the SMC is reset you will typically lose custom power settings, so be prepared to go back into System Preferences to readjust Energy Saver settings again.

Hurrey ! Google Plus Finally Allows Public To (Sign Up Now)

Google Plus is finally available for all users and everyone can signup with Google Plus now. Over the past 90 days, they were developing applications and adding new features and Google Plus finally comes out with more than 91 improvements, since its launch. It is really a good news for those people waiting to get their hands on Google Plus to get a better experience than other social media website like Facebook and Orkut. Earlier, people had to invite a particular user to sign up for Google+ but it is open to all.

Now, you can sign up through the official website at google.com+ or plus.google.com. Open these links and you can see that sign up (Create an account) option is now available and you can use it to get a Google Plus account. If you already posses a Google account or using any Google service then you can use the same ID and password to sign in to Google Plus.

Some of the most popular features on Google Plus:
Hangouts: We can use this feature on Google Plus for get live video chat with many peoples on same time face-to-face and we can share lots of things during Google hangout with friends like Video, Music, Games and many more. Finally Google hangout improve and now available on Android 2.3+ devices with front-facing cameras (and iOS support is coming soon).

+Search: It was also most popular feature on Google Plus because with the help of this tool, we can search people on Google Plus and their posts too. Just type what you’re looking for into the Google+ search box, and it will return relevant people and posts, as well as popular content from around the web.

Google+ API for developers: Last week, Google announced API for application developers. But today Google released one more API specially for hangout application developers. If you are a developer and want to develop application for Google Plus and hangout, then it’s your day and you can get full information on Google Plus API by visiting the Google official Google+ Platform blog.

Multiple Gmail Sign-in for Mobile

Google has upgraded Gmail for mobile with a couple of long-awaited features, including multiple sign-in.The feature, which has been present in the desktop version of Gmail for about a year, lets users sign into several Gmail accounts at the same time — very convenient for those who often need to switch between one or more personal and business accounts.

To sign into another account, click on the account switcher at the bottom of the app’s thread list. Then you can choose to either sign into an another account, sign out of all accounts, or switch between the accounts you’ve already signed into.

Other new features of note include a vacation auto-responder, which can now be set up from the mobile version of Gmail, and creating a special mobile signature that makes it clear you’re responding to an email from a mobile device.

To try the new features, simply go to mail.google.com on your smartphone or tablet’s browser.