Don’t you hate it when your Android vibrates with a new message notification and turns out that you have just received yet another spam or a promotional text message from your mobile service provider? Then there are those funny text messages from friends which arrive once in a while, taking the focus away from your [...]
Onlive, a service to play games over the cloud, now brings the Windows platform on your Android or iOS tablets. If you are on a vacation or just out of the office and need to send your boss a quick sales report for the last quarter, what would you do? True, there are lots of Android and iOS apps you can do that. However, you are going to miss the nice multi-functional Windows desktop at your office. Well no more. Here is a quick review of what and what not you can do with the new Onlive Desktop for tablets.
Do you want to control the music or media app on Android without having to unlock the screen? Do you want to play the next or previous tracks or play/pause the current song using hard buttons? Here are some alternatives worth considering.
TED, which stands for technology, entertainment and design, really lives up to the name. With a collection of more than 1200 educational talks and videos, TED is one of the best sources to find inspirational and motivating talks by thought leaders who changed the world with their ideas. The good news for Android users – [...]
There are situations when you may want to quickly send a webpage from your desktop computer to your Android browser. There are a couple of different ways to handle this situation, I will share the three ways I often use myself: Generate a short URL of the long link on your desktop browser and then [...]
Consider this. You have all the favorite songs and video clips stored on your Android device and you want an easy way to play these files on your computer, without having to copy the files from Android to the desktop computer over and over again. I prefer storing my media library, music, videos and movies [...]
Soon after Box.net announced a hefty free storage space of 50 GB for all Android users, in comes the reply from Dropbox. Now you can automatically upload photos and videos to your Dropbox account from Android, without having to manually upload the files from the app or use a USB data cable to transfer the [...]
If you are a Box.net user and have an Android device, here is a unique chance to upgrade your Box.net storage space to a lifetime 50GB. Box.net has released several updates to its Android app and is now giving away 50 GB of free storage space to all Android users, all you have to do is install the Android app and login to your Box.net account.
Although there are numerous ways to download YouTube videos from a regular desktop computer, there seems to be no easy way to download YouTube videos on Android phones and tablets. A quick search in the market for “YouTube video downloader” shows very irrelevant results and fact is that none of the free YouTube apps in [...]
Update: This feature, known as Google Sesame, has been taken down and it no longer works. Hopefully, Google will release an improved version of Google Sesame in near future. Logging into your Google account on a public computer is a risky affair, thanks to keyloggers and scripts that can track every keystroke when you type [...]
If you have tech savvy kids and a couple of Android phones or tablet devices, you know how difficult it is to deny them access to your phone. They would want to play with your phone, surf the web, make calls and do all sorts of bizarre things. Not all of their activities is safe, [...]
Do you want to track internet data usage on your Android and get notified when your monthly data usage plans reaches a threshold? Do you want to monitor data usage on Android and get instant alerts whenever the monthly quota of your 3G internet connection reaches a critical lower limit? Here are some free Android [...]
When it comes to a proper tabbed browser for Android, nothing beats Dolphin. It is undoubtedly the best tabbed browser for Android with an exact look and feel of Google Chrome for desktop, which unfortunately in not available for the Android operating system yet. I have used Opera mobile, Opera Mini, Mozilla Firefox and the default Android [...]
While there are quite a good number of free as well as paid applications available for capturing a screenshot of your Android phone, but when it comes to recording a video of Android screen – you have fewer options. The good old way to record a video screencast on your Android device is to install [...]
The one thing I don’t like about my Android smart phone is its liberal and open nature towards apps. My friends sometime take the phone to play games, watch videos or surf Facebook but I don’t want them to open my Gmail app or use the Twitter app on my Android device. Sure I can [...]