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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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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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Sharing a Photo Of a Cat Via PM Gets Your Facebook Account Disabled
Update: 03/10/16 Its been over a day since the bug has been fixed. All the affected accounts have been reinstated. Yes! You read the title right. Sharing the photo of a cat in a suit (via a private message) is all it takes to get locked out of your Facebook account. I did not buy…
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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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Use Resq to get notified when friends and family are reachable
Due to the rains and the flooding in Chennai, Anoram has built an notifier bot to notify if a family or friend is reachable by phone or by Whatsapp. This is a FREE service which can be setup by visiting help.anoram.com There are two ways to get notified when friends and family are reachable. Anoram…
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How to disable ads on uTorrent
Let’s admit it, one of the first softwares we install on a PC is a torrent client. It is either uTorrent or bitTorrent. We always look for the easiest method to obtain files. uTorrent has for long had options hidden deep into the settings menu that lets the end user get rid of ads without…
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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 use Whatsapp Web
Following the ban wave of Whatsapp Plus users Whatapp CEO Jan Koum posted a status update announcing Whatsapp for Web. The update is not yet live on the Play Store but you can grab the beta from here and install to start using Whatsapp for Web. http://www.whatsapp.com/android/beta/WhatsApp.apk Once you have installed the beta Whatsapp you will need…
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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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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…
