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While prepping for back to school time again this year, parents might just consider adding some of the following apps to their students’ supplies of low-tech notebooks, pens, and textbooks. Cozi Family Organizer The Cozi Family Organizer, available for Apple and Android, is a great way to keep the family organized and on track. The app provides a family calendar for appointments, games, practices, and vacations and syncs the information to each family member’s phone or tablet. Now, all of those important reminders are available at the touch of a button and with you all of the time CourseSmart CourseSmart puts the weight of all of those textbooks inside one hefty app for Apple and Android. With CourseSmart, students can access their readings on a laptop, tablet or mobile device. Now, your student doesn’t have to break his or her […]

Energy consumption is one of the expenses that should be monitored by businesses. However, the many tasks and meetings don’t give owners or even employees the time to do so. That is why it is important to adopt mechanisms that can allow them to know if they are wasting energy on certain business process or aspects. For small businesses, reducing energy consumption is necessary especially when energy is not really needed. To help them manage energy consumption, below are the Smartphone apps that can help them. Energy Tracker The Energy Tracker is an app that allows users to identify energy expenses that are unnecessary. You can always see how much energy every appliance is consuming. This shows on two tabs on the screen of your Smartphone. Aside from the individual monitoring, you can also monitor the energy consumption of the […]

If you are a person leading a  “Hurry up” life, then remembering to remember small task is a hectic task! We all tend to have check list or to-do list so that we keep up with our routines.The ultimate solution provider is the technology either yo mobile or laptop or simply a sticky note.In this post there are five brilliant guys who remind you of what to do. GOOGLE KEEP One of the most trusted and highly proven effective apps. With this you can  Keep track via notes, lists and photos, it can have your voice notes transcribed,you can have different colors for different notes for easy access,these can be accessed from anywhere as they are stored in cloud. EVERNOTE: Rated in the category of “Must have apps” by New York Times. It enables you Capture, browse, search, and share Business […]

iOS, Android, Symbian,Windows are the leading OS on a mobile phone. For last 3 to 4 years i have heard people say “Android phones” rather than calling it by it’s maker or variant.But now for a while i have been hearing a different name and it spells “Firefox phones”. With ZTE open and Alcatel OnetouchFire hitting the stores in Spain,Poland and Brazil, its time to watch for the this buddy. Firefox OS has already been claimed as the only competitor for the Android both at entry level and at the international markets.This can be attributed to, significantly by looking at the market that android had established and from the shift of people opting for Android rather than Windows or iOS. Am not going to speak about the phones here, instead we will see what the OS as such has. Features […]

Apple has expanded its kingdom by letting iOS fight out the race with Android. However, with time Android has placed itself on a high pedestal keeping iOS dry and low. It is time for Apple to make some much required changes in its approach to bring in specialized features. These additions could take forward Apple iOS to a brand new level. With Apple iPhone 5S being in the pipeline for launch, there are too many suggestions for Apple iOS features. Third party apps, finer home screen, widgets, download option, iTune sync with apps, music and videos are some of the common features that need to be added in order to make Apple iOS a powerful competitor for Android. Being Less of restrictive and more of communicative Apple has always been restrictive in its functionality. This is one thing that has […]

If you have installed Google+ Android App then by default it will upload all the images taken via your phone to your Google+ account.This feature enables you to share your photo from any other device,So you dont need to depend on your phone to upload. But,this feature also can be pretty annoying because it consumes your Internet Data and you dont have a control over which images to upload.This article will discuss on how to disable Google+ app Auto Upload Images Feature Must Read – How to Autopost Google Plus updates to Facebook and Twitter How to disable ? Open Google+ Android App and Go to Settings and Disable the option “Instant Uploads” You can also change the settings so that Photos will be auto uploaded when you are connected with WiFi.Go Instant Upload settings and Select when to upload Photos option and it it to when WiFi is […]

Previously we have discussed about Best Music Players available for Android and now we are back with some serious contender for the title.I came across this new Android Music player called Holo Music Player on XD Forum.It was developed by Jack Underwood,A member of XDA Forum. User Interface The UI of Holo Music player looks very professional and reminds me of Google now and Google Play UI.It looks very sleek and clean but Many peoples also requested the dark version. Holo Player supports lyrics feature and its easy to fetch the Album art.It supports all the basic function that a decent music player does and kudos for the sleek interface. The app is still in developmental stage,So it may crash few times but nobody report any serious bugs.Here is a screenshots [button link=”https://dl.dropbox.com/u/84224888/NowPlaying5.apk” variation=”hot_pink”]Download Holo Music Player (.apk)[/button]

Yep,You read it correctly.Not just android games but you can also use thousands of Android apps on your Windows Tablet,PC with Widows and even on your Mac. BlueStacks is a free Android Apps emulator which is awarded as the best software at CES 2012.Presently Bluestacks player supports more then 750,000 mobile Apps.Some of the popular Android Apps and Games that are supported are Angry Birds Star Wars Fruit Ninja Temple Run Subway Surfers Instagram Facebook Mobile App Flipboard Viber Step by Step Guide Visit Blustack Website and Download the installer according to your OS.(No support for Linux yet). Click on the installer and Install it accepting the terms and conditions Now search for your favorite Apps clicking on the Search icon. Click install and it will take you to a new windows displaying the App from three different stores.One mobile,Amazon Store and Google […]

I chose Sony Xperia J as my first Android Phone,Things gone pretty well but got slightly disappointed with its performance after few days.I Honestly feel that the look of Sony Smart Phones were better then its competitor Samsung and thats why the Sony is still making good number of sales. Recently I stumbled upon a Reddit post which discusses about Sony’s inability to cope up with the market growth and How it can become a better Smart Phone manufacturer.Here is summarized version of the post. Fixing the Naming convention The problem with sony is : they produce too much smart phone variants and their naming conventions are pretty confusing for a buyer.For example last year (2012) Sony has released 23 variants and most of which didn’t make good impression on market.Phones are named like T/TX/TL which is really confusing for […]

Texting is one of the favorite past time for teenagers nowadays. With Android phones gaining more and more popularity with every passing day, the use of SMS messaging over Android phones is increasing at a faster pace. Kids in particular are avid users of SMS service, as it allows them to conveniently stay in touch with their friends. Unfortunately, they at times go a little overboard with texting, thus putting their health and even safety at risk. As parents, it is your responsibility to seek out different ways to prevent this from happening. Android spy apps can come in real handy in this regard. Of the many options available to you, SMS tracker apps are easily the most reliable and effective as their narrow scope and sole focus on SMS messages delivers just the right kind of information without completely […]