Now with just one easy tap you can recognize the music playing around you or if you remember lyrics but don’t know what song it is, you can enter the words and get song details.
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InstaFontMaker is an add free Android app that lets you create fonts in truetype format using your own handwriting. Yes, it provides you easy option to create your own fonts in your own handwriting and then you can use that font in composting notes etc.
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A number saved in your phonebook is automatically identified and the name of the caller, his image is displayed on your screen. But when an unknown number calls to your phone, then only the number is displayed on your screen. Here comes the use of some addon feature to identify the person calling you form an unknown number.
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Android is Linux and in a few steps you you can get the benefits of running a complete desktop Linux system with in your Android device. You can turn Android into a desktop Linux working station running Debian, Ubuntu or any other popular distro.
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Now you can set alarms on your Android phone using Daily Motion videos, YouTube videos and other locally saved videos on your device. Easy Alarm Youtube lets you do this very easily, it is free and there are no ads either.
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All Android phones and tablets have a micro USB port in them which is generally used for charging the device, transferring files & sharing internet. However, most of the Android users don’t know that micro USB port can also be used for connecting USB pen drives and SD Card Readers (for memory cards).
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A simple Android device with built-in camera can be used as a wireless security camera device that can be used for monitoring your room or office when you are away.
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You can access and listen to all music saved on your computer’s hard drive from your Android phone or tablet.
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Sometime back we have discussed about Cartoon Photo (Android App). It is an automatic cartoon generator for Android which enables you to convert your real photos into cartoon like pictures in just one click. There are various other free online services that allows you to generate cartoons from your real life photos.
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You can use your old Android phone as a webcamera for your desktop or laptop computer. SmartCam is an awesome Android app that lets you turn your Android phone into a webcam that can used on your PC.
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Here is a better and more easy way of voice recording on your Android device. You can easily capture the audio conversations happening in your room, in a meeting, a lecture and note taking etc.
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New Android devices allows you to capture screens using Power + Home OR Power + Volume up OR Power + Volume down key but this works differently on devices.
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With a Google Account, your most of your account data gets automatically backed up on cloud but transferring call logs, SMS, MMS etc can become a problem.
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Suppose you are planning to buy a new furniture for your room! Before finalizing anything, you can first start by snapping a picture of your room then place the furniture and visualize that design in 3D.
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Android Desktop Notifications is an awesome app which works same as advertised. The app enables you to receive your Android notifications on your Google Chrome or Chromium browser. You can use it on your desktop, laptop or enevn on your Chromebook for connecting your Android device with your computer’s Chrome browser. It works with all popular messengers, like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and Google Hangouts and hence you are stay informed even when you are busy working on your computer.
For using Android Desktop Notifications you will be having to install Android Desktop Notifications Chrome Extension on your browser and install its Desktop Notifications Android App on your Android phone or tablet.
After installing its Android app on your smartphone it will randomly generates a code. Now you will be having to enter that code in the settings of this extension in order to start receiving notifications.
Now from its apps settings on Android, turn on the desktop notifications and select and enable the apps for notifications as shown in the given screenshots:
Finally, your browser is ready to receive notifications from your android device:
You can also enable ongoing notifications like downloads progress and timers etc and set it to send both text and content as notifications to your chrome browser.
All smartphones & many kinds of tablets now have a camera attached to them and there is no need to say that Android is the most popular platform for accessing cloud. Hence photo clicking has now become a very easy and common job. photoclicking is not just limited to beautiful views, wild life and fashion but now-a-days selfies are very popular on social media and image sharing websites like Facebook, Instagram, Flickr etc.
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Audio books are similar to radio old shows and new podcasts where you listen to stories. Amazon’s Audible app provides you a gateway for its audio book service, drawing you in with free tasters of some of its best sellers. It’s worth downloading if you don’t have much time for reading books which you want to read or may be if you are on a long drive with tried eyes. With Audible for Android app and you can listen to audio books on the go without any kindle.
Audible.com is an Amazon company and with this app you get access to a range of 150,000+ titles from your Android device and start browsing from best sellers, classics and other categories. You can navigate through chapters, add bookmarks, enable sleep mode, variable narration speed, button-free mode. It has multitasking features for running download in the background and listening to the book at the same-time. It also lets you lets you transfer books to your devices via wifi.
Amazon Kindle device users can use this app and switch between reading-&-listening with Whispersync for Voice. Other app features enables you to:
A few months ago we discussed about using your Ubuntu laptop as a wifi router. In other words, creating a hotspot with your Ubuntu Linux. Default Ubuntu Wifi network is not visible for Android devices, specially for devices using Android 4.1.2 versions like Samsung Galaxy etc. In that case you may give a try to ap-hotspot from the webupd8 repository for creating an infrastructure AP but here a much better universal solution who need creating detectable hotspot with Ubuntu Linux.
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Life360 – Family Locator +more is a powerful Android app that lets you locate all your family members and friends near your vicinity. The app works with latest GPS tracking technology, you can create groups, called as “Circles” of your family & friends and then you can easily track their locations on a private map, You can know about their safety or when they need your help. The application also allows you to chat one-on-one or with everyone within each of your circles and chatting is all free.
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Face Switch is a fun app designed for switching two faces in order to create new ones. The app is really entertaining and gives you a great bit of fun but the fun only comes if you spend some time playing on the app. It is not very easy but if you start evolving the app it will certainly lets you crate some exciting stuff. What actually this app lets you do is swap and morph between any two faces instantly in seconds.
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The most popular PC web browser is also available for Android users. The browser provides all web browsing features which you get with classic chrome browser like faster web browsing for Android phones and tablets. User can sign in to Chrome and keep everything on sync so that you can share your web browsing experience and all important information, app and settings etc between your devices. And all other Google Chrome web browsing features including private web browsing via incognito mode. The only problem you might encounter with Chrome is that it might freeze on some devices. The same problem is experienced by many Linux users, Chrome repeatedly freezes on OS like Ubuntu Linux also.
As said by one of its users, this web browser is popular for its speed & dependability. It uses high-end compression technology rendered by a server in order to provide faster web browsing and less data usage. Its main features are:
Main Features:
Download Management – It can be used as a downloading tool. You can download multiple files, download also works in the background like Firefox and Chrome. Gives automatic reconnection if the download is interrupted etc.
Add-ons – Add-on plugins are also available for enhancing Android’s web browsing experience like add-ons for Photo Uploading to Facebook, Gesture Controller, Webpage Translator and there are more.
Auto Pager – For scrolling up on for infinite scroll pages like on Facebook, Twitter, Google and more.
Themes – You can decorate your web browser by downloading themes and wallpapers from the UC Theme Center just like you do for Chrome & Firefox or even you can use your own pictures which you have on your hard drive.
Web Application Center – You can add your favorite web apps to UC Browser.
New Image Viewer which enables you to view all photos attached on current web page are into a photo album style view.
Cloud Sync – Sync works here too. You can sync bookmarks and tabs between various devices using your Google, Facebook or UC account.
Fastest download speed of any mobile browser – Download 15% faster on 3G and Wi-Fi. Performance on 2G networks has also been accelerated.
The most popular web browser among free software users is also available for Android. This free web browser gives the power of the free web in your hands and unlike to Google Chrome it doesn’t freezes on some Android devices. But that doesn’t mean it has no bugs like if you save your passwords, it would get permanently saved and deleting the web browsing history and cookies etc is of no use if you are doing that for removing your password. Instead, if you need removing you saved password first type any wring password and then click update password button visible in a pop-up. Otherwise the official Firefox for Android is fast, easy to use, & customizable web browser.
Dolphin also gives a very good web browsing experience with Android devices. It doesn’t shows freezing & saved password bugs like Chrome & Firefox. It has gives easy web browsing experience and provides you web surfing via personalized home screen, gives you voice and gesture control features and the web browser is increasingly getting popular among Android users. At present it has over 100,000,000 downloads on Android and iOS.
Opera is a popular smartphone web browser from a long time. The browser is specially been designed for the smartphones. You can set all your favourite websites on the home screen (just like speed dial add-on available for Chrome & Firefox and there is no limit to the number of website speed dial entries you add. Other traditional Opera features works same like you can know what’s happening with Smart Page. It delivers instant updates from Facebook, Twitter and the latest news. You can save web pages and read them later or for times you’re not connected to the internet. Better download manager and Opera Mobile Classic browser is also available for Android users.
