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Practical coverage of Android apps, useful utilities, privacy changes, subscriptions and features that matter in everyday use.
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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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Facebook Addiction Control Part 3: Remove Facebook Ticker
This is the third post on our ongoing series on Facebook Addiction Control – How to Remove Facebook Ticker. Have a look at the first and second post. The reason behind the massive success of Facebook that it has mastered the art of productivity-killing by being the best procrastination tool out there. Apart from News Feed…
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Facebook Messenger is now available for iPad
Facebook’s dedicated chat app, Facebook Messenger, is finally available for the iPad. The news comes three years after Facebook acquired group messaging app Beluga and later built that technology into Messenger. The iPad app looks almost exactly like the iPhone app, except that it’s formatted to fit the screen. The list of all your conversations with different friends…
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Facebook Addiction Control Part 2: Clean Up The Facebook News Feed
This is second post in our on-going series of Facebook Addiction Control, see the first post here. In our last post we covered about the technique to completely get rid of your Facebook account instantly. We received a lot of messages and emails from the readers saying that they do are troubled by Facebook but…
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Facebook Addiction Control Part 1: How To delete Facebook account Instantly
So, you are fed up with Facebook? It is consuming a lot of your time and having a serious effect on your productivity? Do you want to delete your Facebook account right at this moment? Well, that’s not so easy, Facebook has made a lot of effort to make you keep using your account. 1.…
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Twitter Adds Support for Animated GIFs in Tweets
GIFs are being shared like never before, with websites like 9Gag and Imgur are filled with user created GIF’s. For a long time, the only major social network that support GIF’s was Google+, now Twitter has decided to support them. Twitter took to it’s official support account to announce its move to add support to…
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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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Facebook Officially Launches Slingshot
Facebook has officially announced Slingshot, one week after accidentally releasing an early version on Apple’s iTunes App Store. Slingshot is a messaging app that lets you send your friends an ephemeral photo or video. The app packs in all the usual standard messaging features, like options to overlay text or doodles. But there’s a catch — if you want to…
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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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Vebbler: The Indian Social Network which aims to change the way we connect with people online
When I came to know about Vebbler, I was pretty excited for two reasons: One, it is an Indian Startup and Two, it is a social network which actually had a lot of people using though it is relatively new. Most of them on Facebook have over a thousand friends and might have meaningful conversations…
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Everything you need to know about the Facebook’s Whatsapp Acquisition
Facebook has a huge wallet and Zuckerberg likes spending money from it. The biggest news from today is that Facebook bought WhatsApp. The news has blown up, almost everyone knows about this now. It is not because of the acquisition, but the price. A lot of eyebrows were raised back when Facebook bought Instagram for…
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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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Story behind How Facebook Paper App was developed
One thing I know for now is that Facebook developers use Quora. When a question like “What was it like to help develop Paper?” is posted on Quora, it is answered by five different developers from the already small team. But, one answer by Jason Barrett Prado, Engineer on Paper had an extremely detailed answer…
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SUN TV Website Hacked
The Official Website of SUN TV (http://www.sunnetwork.in/) a Popular Tamil Language Satellite Television based in Chennai India has been hacked by a Pakistani Hacker using the handle “H4$N4!N H4XOR ” . 4 other websites possibly hosted in the same server were also hacked and defaced www.redfm.in www.sun.in www.sunpictures.in www.suryanfm.in Mirror: http://zone-h.com/archive/notifier=hasnain%20haxor The hacked website was showing a short message,…
