Sep 27, 2013

The Greatest in Free Android Apps

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Both practical and fun, here is a list of the top free apps out there for Android.
The Greatest in Free Android Apps

1. Juice Defender


If you struggle with fading battery life, then try downloading Juice Defender to protect your device’s power. Juice Defender serves as a suite for active and background functions with a task manager that will dump and disable battery abusing apps. Another great feature it offers is that “it can be set to automatically toggle charge sucking features like 4G LTE and Wi-Fi,” writes TechRadar.
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2. Swiftkey 4.0


With Swiftkey 4.0 you can easily take advantage of Android OS’s ability to use third-party keyboards. Swiftkey identifies your typing habits by creating a heat sensory map that will show if your thumb accidentally grazes the delete button while tapping M. The app will then utilize this information to adapt to your personal style. Amazingly, it also houses the intelligence to analyze your emails and Facebook posts to learn the common phrases which you frequently use. It will then utilize all this information to reduce your work when typing.
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3. Dropbox


Fantastic for the wide number of platforms it is available on, Dropbox is an excellent tool for transferring projects back and forth between a PC, Mac, phone or tablet. Dropbox not only backs up data to the cloud but also allows easy access from practically any device. It offers a significant amount of storage for free and can be upgraded from there.
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4. Google Sky Map


If you love the night time sky, then you will definitely enjoy Google’s Sky Map. This app uses phone orientation tools to provide an accurate map of the stars and planets on your screen when the phone is pointed skywards. This is a great tool for identifying and learning the constellations and planets.

5. Flickr


Flickr is a fun photo app that provides a set of special filters for either capturing new photos or tweaking uploaded shots. It also connects to Twitter and Facebook to make sharing simple.

6. TweetDeck


For serious social media nuts, the TweetDeck app for Android is a fantastic tool. With easy to navigate panels, TweetDeck displays your timeline, direct messages and replies. It can also be set up to include your Facebook status updates along with Foursquare and Buzz.

7. Amazon


New to the Android world is Amazon’s recently launched official app. Simple and quick, it provides complete shopping cart features along with your account details. This will help you to smoothly navigate the site without the mobile web store.

Another offering from Amazon is its Kindle app which provides a good e-reader that is linked to your Amazon account. Kindle is a great way for storing books with an easy to read screen of the text.

So while many people are out searching for an iPhone case for their new device this week, you can take advantage of a wealth of practical and just super cool apps available for your Android device for free.
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Sep 25, 2013

Download the Official Wallpaper Of Android 4.4 Kit Kat

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Latest version of Android is not 5.0 (Key Lime Pie) but Google makes surprise the world with Android 4.4 Kit Kat
Details on new Kit Kat features are scarce (read: unavailable), but Google does say that their goal with Android 4.4 is to “make an amazing Android experience available for everybody.” Ready to speculate on what that means?
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Download Official Wallpaper of Android 4.4 Kit Kat

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Sep 23, 2013

Top Android News of Last Week

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Android 4.4 KitKat
It's Google's goal with Android 4.4 KitKat to make an amazing Android experience available for everybody. Android form is named after a treat: Cupcake, Donut, Eclair, Froyo, Gingerbread, Honeycomb, Ice Cream Sandwich, and Jelly Bean. As everyone gem it troublesome to stay far from chocolate we chose to name the following form of Android after one of our top choice chocolate treats, Kit Kat!
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The image above is capture by Intel from a presentation given at Intel's Developer Forum last week, where they talked about its computing plans for the future, touching on various operating systems including Windows and Android. As you can see in the picture, 64-bit support is mentioned as an upcoming “enhancement” for Android devices that will have Intel chips under the hood. Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean, and upwards now definitely requires a 64bit environment to speed up compilation and to reduce turn-around time in building. So to sum up, what you see on the Play Store has no bearing on whether 32bit or 64bit are used and thus irrelevant.
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Sep 20, 2013

Top 3 Photo Editor Android Apps

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A While back, I wrote about Night Vision Goggles on Your Android Device. Night Vision Camera tries to utilize your smartphone's Camera competencies to improve images and utilizes a luminance boosting algorithm to upgrade the picture brightness. The Google Play Store has lots of photography apps. We rounded up the best apps for capturing photos, making collages and editing images.

Photo Editor by Aviary


Aviary is a powerful photo editor which aviary created because we wanted a quick and easy way to edit our photos on the go with no fuss. They have included all the tools you need, in a super intuitive interface so you can get right to editing.
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Aviary Inc.
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Pixlr Express


Its nice having multifunction to edit your images as per your choice save to gallery and share to social network in one touch.

Features

Crop, resize, straighten and rotate images easily. ‘Auto Fix’ photos for a one-click fix to balance out colors, adjusting for dark photos and poor lighting conditions. Remove red-eye and whiten teeth with simple tools. Overlays help you adjust the mood – amplify the tone, cool it down, or add surreal shades. Lighting effects can add drama, sparkle or a grunge look. Easily adjust the intensity and orientation of each effect. Finish off your photo process with the right border – pick a style that fits you. Look like a pro with cool photo effects like focal blur, denoise and more.
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Autodesk Inc.
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Pixlr-o-matic


You can add fun retro effects to your photos in a snap and transform your photos into cool looking vintage images. Editing is as easy as one, two, three with Pixlr-o-matic to add effects, overlays and borders. So many options to choose from, there are more than 5,000,000 possible finishes to make your photos look spectacular!
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Autodesk Inc.
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Features:

  • Color overlays help you adjust the mood – amplify the tone, cool it down, or add surreal shades
  • Lighting effects add drama, sparkle or a grunge look
  • Finish off your photo process with the right frame – pick a border style that fits you
  • Want it all in a single swipe? Try the randomizer and we’ll select an effect, overlay, and border for you.
  • No camera required! Select a photo from your gallery and start applying effects. If your device has a camera, you can also snap a new picture from within the app
  • Share your vintage image directly with your friends through Facebook or imm.io
  • Export your finished image back to your gallery. Images can be saved in high resolution, depending on the resolution of the original image.

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Sep 17, 2013

Android Updates and Security Worries

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Android has been in the news with pictures of the Android robot made out of chocolate. Along with updates in the Android 4.3 or Jelly Bean OS, Android’s 4.4 “KitKat” will be presenting Google users with enhanced features later this year. But some security experts have recently voiced worries about the ways in which Google manages user passwords in new versions of Android.
Android Updates and Security Worries

What Jelly Bean Offered


Recently released, Android 4.3 promised accelerated 3D graphics, restricted profiles, increased blue-tooth intelligence, dialpad auto-complete and other features for Nexus users. It offered advanced surround sound technology with a system that can support virtual surround sound on Nexus devices. Progress was also reported in the operating system’s ability to support right-to-left languages such as Hindi, Hebrew and Arabic. Additional support was enhanced for Hindi, Afrikaans, Amharic, Swahili and Zulu.
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What KitKat Promises


Recent rumors suggest that the next upgrade of Google’s OS will become available on October 14th of this year. Sundar Pichai, Android chief, announced the name KitKat via Twitter earlier this month.
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Android 4.4 is being called KitKat because of a pact made with Nestle to match the integrity of the new OS with that of the popular chocolate bar as “sweet, smooth, beautiful and addictive.” A gigantic statue of the chocolate Android robot was erected along with previous characters, such as gingerbread and cupcake, on the lawn outside building 44 at Google headquarters. Several subsequent promotions such as limited Android robot-shaped chocolate wafer bars and the chance to win a Nexus 7 tablet with the purchase of a candy bar are in place.

Some of the suspected features include:


  • Revamped user interface
  • Firmware for older phones
  • Improved screen re-sizing
  • Newer APIs for animation
  • Additional theme colors besides the default blue
  • New notification widgets
It is anticipated that in a so-called “big bang,” Google will release the Nexus 5 smartphone and improved Chrome OS simultaneously with KitKat.
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Security Questions for New Versions of Android


As hype builds for the promised updates, Google’s Android mobile OS is also being called out by privacy experts who claim that newer versions of Android pose a serious security problem. Reportedly, the backup tools copy people’s Wi-Fi password histories and save them to Google’s servers. Obviously, this presents a security dilemma if Google is ever asked to divulge this stored information to a government authority.
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Gizmodo points out that the real issue is that on top of storing people’s passwords, Google is doing it in a way that makes it possible for them to read the passwords if they want to. This is why new Android devices can find all your old passwords and settings from their servers after you input your phone number, Gmail address and password. This poses a threat to network security for Android mobile technology.

As with any update, there are potential fears about bugs and security kinks. But as Android prepares to unveil more “candy” next month from its newest operating system, some users may be more interested in improving the password protection on their android devices.

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Sep 15, 2013

Night Vision Goggles on Your Android Device

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Night Vision Camera tries to utilize your smartphone's Camera competencies to improve images and utilizes a luminance boosting algorithm to upgrade the picture brightness. We additionally attempt to arrange your smartphone's camera for greatest visibility in the dark by arranging your smartphone's shade speed, scene mode, etc.
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It is recommended that you keep camera as steady as possible because if it little bit shaken while capturing, your image will not have good quality.It can take picture in dark but if there is atleast a small amount of light, than you will have good pictures.

Night Vision Camera Pro Features


  • Live Camera View
  • Torch / Flashlight Feature for supported phones
  • Adjustable Brightness / Light Sensitivity
  • Adjustable Zoom (if device supports zoom)
  • Save High Resolution Images
  • Beautiful UI
  • Share via Facebook, Google+, Twitter.

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Mister Borken
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The Hindu Android app updated

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One of India’s most respected newspapers, The Hindu is known for its classic yet contemporary design and its authentic and credible journalism. The Hindu Android app lives up to that reputation and offers a rich experience and depth of coverage that few media brands can match. In other major application updates, The Hindu's official Android application has additionally been redesigned and carries some handy features and enhancements, you can look at the full change-log below.
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Features


  • Breaking news and top stories, along with in-depth analysis and opinion
  • Night Mode
  • Personalize your home screen, and get news from the city of your choice
  • Swipe from left edge to open navigation menu
  • Bug fixes
  • Improved stability
  • Mark articles as "Favorites" for offline reading
  • Share stories with friends through your preferred network or app
  • Extra large font size
  • Get to see the most popular and most commented articles
  • View and post comments
The Hindu The Hindu
Kasturi and Sons Ltd.
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