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India Bans 59 Popular Chinese Apps Amidst Tension With China
The government of India has announced a ban on several popular Chinese apps including TikTok with immediate effect. The growing tension with China along the border has led to this unprecedented move. While these apps are among the few that are shady in their behavior it remains to be seen how effective the ban turns…
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Narendra Modi App Hack & Its Rushed Cover Up
The “Narendra Modi” app had a vulnerability that compromised the private info of 7 million users who had registered on it. Before we proceed with this article we would like to explain the meaning of “Hack” to our media who for reasons best known to them have been calling this incident as a “Non hack” Hack…
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BuySell Tickets: An app that lets you buy and sell unused movie tickets
Everyone has been in this situation where you’ve booked a movie ticket in advance, and you are unable to go to the theatre. Chances are, you go to the theatre and wait in front of the screen hoping someone would buy the ticket or post it in one of the Facebook groups. The problem with Facebook…
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RRO Layers – Android Lollipop Theme Engine
The current storm that has hit Android Lollipop users is the introduction of Layer Manager app into the Play Store. For those of you who are new to Layers, it is an optimization of the Lollipop internal code introduced in 5.1. This allows you to customize every aspect of your Android phone’s appearance including SystemUI, Navbar,…
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How to disable read receipts On WhatsApp
Not long ago we explained what the much dreaded WhatsApp feature, “Blue Ticks” meant. We did mention the chances of WhatsApp providing an option to turn off this was low, but the outrage WhatsApp has received has made the team get into quick damage control by providing a new privacy feature. To disable Read Receipts a.k.a…
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Whatsapp’s “Blue Ticks” Explained
WhatsApp has added a new friendship-killer feature. You would have already noticed “Blue Ticks” besides a message, if you are wondering what they mean then here is a quick explanation from the WhatsApp team. If you see two blue check marks next to your sent message then the recipient has read your message. In a group…
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Top 5 Camera Apps For Android
Everyone of us love taking pictures and with the advent of high end smartphones with competitive camera options, there is no need for a person to be an expert in taking pictures. Just a click, few filters and behold you are done with creating one of your most adorable pictures. We’ve put together a list…
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Google Releases Its Stock Android Email App To Play Store
Google has been at work to push the stock Android apps to the play store. This move is highly welcomed since one does not require to wait for the major OS update to get a small bug fixed. It makes a lot of sense to put these apps onto the play store in an effort to provide…
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Read faster than you have ever read before
Spritz has recently announced their new breakthrough technology which would allow people all over the world to read faster on all of their devices. The technology shows you one word at a time on your screen aligned to the center. As each and every word is occurring the same position, all you have to do…
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Download Flappy Bird for Android
Flappy Bird, the immensely popular app on iOS and Android has been taken down by the developer for reasons unknown yet. So, I’d recommend you to not delete the app in case you’ve already have it. But, if you haven’t downloaded the app when it was available in the Google Play Store there is a…
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Mycolorscreen’s Themer For Android : Hands On
Android undoubtedly has the upper hand over any other OS when it comes to personalisation. Any part of the OS can be tweaked to our liking, but until today it need manual work or even root privileges or a custom ROM available on various forums. MyColorScreen is a website known to most, where individuals share…
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Whatsapp+ For Android Gives A Customisable Whatsapp Experience
Android is known for its customisation, this feature sets it apart from Apple’s iOS which is highly restricted.Developers in the community often spend their leisure time modding app apks so that they could be themed as well, one such developer rafalense introduced us to “Whatsapp+” Whatsapp+ is a modded version of whatsapp which retains all…
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Download Moto X Active Display For Any Android Phone
Unless you have been away from this planet, you wouldn’t have heard of the Moto X. One thing which raised everyone’s eyebrows was the way notifications were served on it. The phone does not light up the entire display, instead only a certain part is activated. It is supposed to save battery on AMOLED displays. Also,…
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Google Now Update Brings Bunch Of New Cards
Google has a new update for it’s Google Now App on the Android platform with new bunch of cards.The app can be updated now and is available for all phones above Android 4.1. The search engine giant has been working with Google Now and bring lot of improvements over the weeks. Car rentals card: Get…
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Nova Launcher Gets An Update, Introduces New Scroll Effects
Nova Launcher, one of the highly used home replacement on android, has released an update. It is now at version 2.2 and has the following new features included along with quite a few bug fixes : Custom Dock Styles Custom Unread Count Badge Styles (Prime) New scroll effects (Prime) The prime version comes at a…