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One of the major strength and a reason for Raspberry Pi success has been the General Purpose Input/Output (GPIO) access offered by the mini computer, these programmable in/out pins allows a great of hackability letting users expand the system and get it interacting with other hardware devices. The GPIO pin's are confusing as they are not numbered serially, here are two nice RasPi GPIO pinout layouts for making things easier to understand.

Raspberry Pi GPIO Pin Layout (Revision 1 Board)

Dubbed as the biggest change to iOS since the introduction of the iPhone, Apple today announced the developer preview of Apple iOS 7 with immediate availability and final version for end-users version scheduled for fall release. The latest Apple iOS supporting iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad features an entirely revamped design with flat UI and lots of colors with "parallax" effect for the wow factor, updated apps, a new control center which gets launched by a bottom screen swipe, and a brand new WebOS card-style multitasking system.

Apple iOS 7 update will be available this fall to end-users for all device newer to iPhone 4, iPad 2, iPad mini, and 5th-gen iPod touch, with few features not being available on iPhone 4 or iPad 2. Apple also launched a brand new iOS in the Car service, which is basically a trimmed down version of iOS 7 for car interface. Compatible dashboard systems in your car should now be able to sync with your iPhone 5 featuring Maps, audio-only FaceTime calls, music, Siri, or other useful nifty features. Do watch the official video of new features posted below.

Day by day we are inching towards a perfect voice and gesture controlled Smart Home, and now a new technology promises to do this without requiring any specialized hardware like camera or sensor. Suitably named WiSee the smart technology makes use of existing WiFi waves from your wireless-router to detect and react precisely to gestures as demonstrated in the video shared below.

Making life easier for Raspberry Pi users, the core team has announced a new, feature packed "Raspberry Pi Recovery System" aptly named New Out Of Box Software (NOOBS). The utility allows users to select and install operating systems for the Raspberry Pi on an SD card without technical details like partitioning or card imaging.

The Recovery system creates a FAT partition on user supplied SD card with highly-compressed versions of various supported OS images like Raspbian, RaspBMC, Pidora, OpenELEC, ArchLinux and RiscOS. Just like recovery apps for Mac OS X the RasPi recovery allows users to press SHIFT while booting to launch it and use features like ability to easily reinstall the existing OS, install a different one, launch web-browser for online support or edit config.txt file using a handy editor for troubleshooting.