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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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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,…
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Could this be Facebook’s New Font ?
Facebook is always dropping new updates to the public, like the New Login page which was spotted while back .Today it was noticed that facebook was using a new font, when checked with the CSS Styling it was true. “Helvetica Neue” and “Helvetica” have been added to the facebook’s font list. Facebook showed me what I think might…
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UnoTelly: The ultimate tool to unlock Netflix/Hulu on any device Review
The traditional way to unlock most of the blocked services in other countries is by using VPN. That has been the way we’ve been telling people for some time. But, VPN has its own problems. They cut down your speed and you’d have to turn it on every time you use the internet. Worse, you can’t…
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Save your inbox from spam with Unroll.me
Most of us must have used our email address on website we thought would be sending us useful Newsletters but instead just send useless spam. The usual way is to open the email and click on the unsubscribe link. Unroll.me is an awesome web app that helps you unsubscribe from those email providers with just…
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Facebook Introduces Alpha Build App Testing For Android
Facebook has done something interesting for all Android app testers, the ability to test an app in its alpha stage.Facebook App for Android is probably the first major app to have alpha builds tested with the public.The alpha testing program will be similar to the beta program, but just that the app will be at…
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Twitter rolling out a feature that Allows Direct Messages from Anyone
Twitter for a long time has allowed major brands to receive direct messages from anyone(follower). Twitter announced that this feature is now rolling out for all the regular users of it’s platform. This feature can be activated in Twitter Settings> Account . The update is being rolled out to the public in phases. This feature might…
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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…
