Sunday, March 31, 2013

Top 5 April fool Pranks app for Android to Enjoy this Fool’s Day

If you have remembered this day April 1, then you may feel safer to not believe anything you hear or read. And Google has released a big April fool on YouTube , have you believed in it? In this special funny day, do you just want to fool others with the funny April fool pranks or good jokes? Aha, here are some best Android apps to help you experience a very great April Fool’s Day.

1.April Fools Pranks

April Fools Pranks
To get some great April fool ideas,get the app April Fools Pranks by DaleAppStudios.Nearly 70 ideas for practical jokes are offered to prank your friends from from cute and innocent to stuff that might get you in serious trouble.If you have any creative ideas, you can also send the ideas to daleappstudios@gmail.com to have the chance to included in the list.That's it.

2.Crack Your Screen
Crack your screen
Want to find the best way to fool your friend, just crack his screen.Just use your finger to shake screen and crack it,Better Crack, better prank, better fun.Then you may see the surprised look in your friends or family eyes when they crack" your screen or Broke your screen.It is just a very great way to prank people and get the funny.

3.Broken Screen
Broken Screen
If you feel the above crack your screen is not that astonshing, then just try this Broken Screen.It offers the better crack screen effect for your phone by displaying glass or lcd with a transparent broken crack on top of a game, a wallpaper or your lock screen.With this one, you can easily pull a joke or fool your friends while keeping the device in a fully usable state with a damaged screen.

4.Fake iPhone 5
Fake iPhone 5
Trick your friends into thinking you have the iPhone 5 with the app Fake 5 iPhone 5 .This app is a full-screen working replice of the iPhone home screen, and it even replaces your phone's status bar so that your friends cannot recongnised android underneath.Cool one,is it?

5.Burning Screen
Burning Screen
Burnning screen?With this app, it can be true.Just use your fingers to fake the LCD screen burning away, letting the circuit board shine through to surprise your friends.This is really a amazing idea, if you want to try the special one, don't foget this one.

Have you ever succeed in fooling someone? If you don't, just check out the above fool practical pranks.Just enjoy!

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Wednesday, March 27, 2013

5 Best Free Travel Apps for Android and iOS for Holiday

Best travel apps for android and ios
In the daily life, sometimes we feel so tired and just want to get relaxed on our holiday such as the upcoming Easter, and go for a travel is undoubtedly the best way. Whether it is a short road trip or just faraway experience, some problems may happen like wrong directions, language barrier or others. Luckily, we can just rely on our smartphones or tablets to eliminate such things with the best free travel apps for both Android and iOS. Next, just go and check out the best travel apps.

1.TripIt (Android/iOS)

Ideal for: bad at organizing or those traveling with a lot of documents

Just like one of those old-fashioned travel agents, TripIt takes all of your travel plans and organizes them into one convenient itinerary by signing up for a TripIt account and forwarding your flight, hotel, and rental car confirmations to plans@tripit.com, or just letting TripIt automatically scrape your Gmail. With the app, you can check in to your flights, check your flight status, map out travel distance from your hotel, and so much more. You can even sync it to your phone’s calendar which will notify you for any missed appointments. Also, there is a paid version of TripIt app which adds more features.

2.Google Translate(Android/iOS)

Ideal for: Travelling to a foreign country but don’t know the language

Google Translate helps you make sense of over 60 different languages. You can even speak your phrases with 17 languages and hear the translations with 24 languages. With the app, you won’t have to guess what you’re ordering off an Indonesian menu or ask for someone local if you travel overseas.

3.Kayak(Android/iOS)

Ideal for: One-stop for booking flights, hotels and rental cars and find the cheapest fight

Kayak just offers you almost all your major travel planning, covering flight and car search, hotel search and booking, Flight tracker and My Trips. Besides, you can find the cheapest deal with the app by comparing pare flight, hotel and car rental deals

4.Google Maps(Android/iOS)

Ideal for: No Sense of directions and want to find the nearest shop, places to eat and such stores.

Google Maps is absolutely the most widely used map app by Android devices and iOS devices. For travelling abroad, it can be said as must have App. You can navigate your world with the easy-to-use maps with the feature of built-in Google local search, voice guided turn-by-turn navigation, public transit directions, Street View and more.With Google Maps, you can catch your way in your travel.

5.Oanda Currency Converter(Android/iOS)

Ideal for: travelling abroad or outside of an economic union

Sometimes we may would ask what about money when go abroad, it is difficult to answer unless you’re into exchange rates and keep up with them on a daily basis. So the Oanda Currency Converter app is here for the question. It supports exchange rate changes for over 190 countries every day. And you can easily figure out how much a meal will cost in both local and foreign currencies with the app.

These are the best ones that I have collected, so before you go for a travel, just check out them and be an idle person with them.


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Tuesday, March 26, 2013

How to Make Unlimited and Free Calls with Google Voice over Wi-Fi or 3G/4G on Android Phone?

With the popularity of Android smartphones, undoubtedly, the voice app of Android Google Voice becomes important to people. But one big thing that Google Voice doesn't offer is free voice-over-internet phone calling through your cellphone. You can make an unlimited call with Google Voice, however, by using some Android apps without any minutes over Wi-Fi or 3G/4G.If you are not sure about this, there are some apps in the following to make free calls in North America with Google Voice.

1.GrooVe IP Lite

GrooVe IP Lite
GrooVe IP Lite is an android app that that connects to Google Voice using Voice over IP (VoIP).With the app, you can make free unlimited calls to any phone in the US or Canada over Wi-Fi connectivity without using your voice minutes. The app works well on Android 2.1+ devices.

How to make a free call with GrooVe IP Lite?
  • Download and install the app on your Android device.
  • Launch the app and tap the Google account you want to use for sign-in or press the manual sign-in button and enter your information, then authorize access for GrooVeIP.
  • You can do some setting to adjust the call quality like audio-adjustment settings.
  • To make a call, tap on the Phone icon along the top of the app and dial a number.
  • To receive incoming calls you must go into your Google Voice account and forward calls to Google Chat.
The app is ad-supported and only Wi-Fi is available. To remove ads and make calls with Wi-Fi or 3G or 4G,you can upgrade the full version GrooVe IP.

2.Talkatone
Talkatone
The app Talkatone offers the support of free calling and texting to phone in US and Canada via the Internet connecting associated with Google Voice. With high quality audio with voice compression for calls, you can enjoy the unlimited calls via Wi-Fi or 3G or 4G.

How to make a free call with Talkatone?
  • Install the Talkatone.
  • Open the app and sign in with Google Account .Or Go to Menu>Setting>Add Google Account option, then sign in.
  • Tap the Phone icon from the main area of the app and dial a number to make a call.
Tips:
  • For two-step verification enabled Google account, just log in to Google through a Web browser to generate an application specific password for Talkatone.
  • For only Wi-Fi connectivity, Go to Connection area>Setting>Wi-Fi only.
This app is also ad-supported and if you want to get rid of ads and acquire better call quality, go for the in-app upgrade purchases.

3.Phone for Google Voice and GTalk
Phone for Google Voice and GTalk
Phone for Google Voice and GTalk is another free app which offers the free call and text in the US and Canada. It is an easy-to-use an simple app with good quality voice calls. The app supports only Wi-Fi connectivity.

How to make a free call with Phone for Google Voice and GTalk?
  • Install the app.
  • Open the app and log in with your Google account details.
  • Tap on the round button labeled Keypad and dial a number, or just dial the number from Contacts.
Like others, it is ad-supported, too and at present, you cannot remove ads. Besides, it don’t offer the access of 3G or 4G.If you don’t care about the customization setting and want only Wi-Fi calling, this one is really a great one to start.

Have you use the above apps to make free calls with Google Voice? Or others?


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Sunday, March 24, 2013

Best Free Android Apps for Getting Ready for 2013 Easter Day

2013 Easter Day
2013 Easter Day is just around the corner, so have you got ready for it? Easter Greeting cards, great Easter egg ideas, Easter games for kids, ideas for Easter baskets, and such the things, have no ideas? Don’t worry, we can use a handful of Android apps to make creative ideas for this holiday. Check out the following apps.

Easter Themes
Want to use a beautiful template to send greeting cards to your loved ones? The free app Easter Themes offers you a quick way to directly select and send wonderful Easter greeting cards to your family or your friends with Email. If you just want the simple greeting, this app is really great.

Paint your Easter Egg
Of course, Easter Egg is the important thing on Easter Day. So have you thought of painting your own Easter Egg to send someone to impress your wishes to others? Paint your Easter Egg makes it easy to paint your own Easter egg and send it directly from the Android device to friends and family. Also, you can share it on Facebook or just set it as your Android wallpaper.

Hidden Egg Hunt
Speaking of the games, the classic one is hunting for the Easter egg. And the game Hidden Egg Hunt requires you to find hidden Easter Eggs and drag them into your Easter Basket to earn points.It is a very funny game and suitable for all ages.In addition, the game includes 5 colorful scenes filled with fun Holiday imagery music .

Easter Basket Dressup
Where does the Easter egg put? Certainly the Easter Basket. So, do you want to dress up it? Try the game Easter Basket Dressup.It offers may baby chicks and peepz, painted and dyed eggs,Chocolate rabbits, jellybeans, flowers and more. All you should do is to drag and drop cute chocolate bunnies or yummy jelly beans into the basket, then adding different color basket fillings to make it cute.

Easter Day wallpapers
If you just look for some Easter wallpapers, you can just download the app Easter Day wallpapers which offers you tons of beautiful Easter photos.

By the way, if you just want to watch some Blu-ray or DVD movies with family on Easter Day, you may need some useful software and you may be interested in this Easter Discount Party of multimedia software.

Wish you a Happy Easter Day!

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Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Samsung Galaxy S4 vs Galaxy S3 vs Galaxy Note 2:Need to Upgrade?

Samsung Galaxy S4
Recent days, Samsung Galaxy S4 is definitely the hot topic in smartphones since it was debut on Mar.14. Undoubtedly, the most popular Samsung smartphones ware Galaxy S3 and Galaxy Note 2 before, and when Galaxy S4 joined the game, which one will become the flagship of Samsung? And facing with the powerful and science fiction device S4, is there a need to upgrade for S3 and Note 2 guys? Before that, we should take some considering about the phones, the basic method, compare them, Samsung Galaxy S4 vs Galaxy S3 vs Galaxy Note 2.

CPU and GPU
Galaxy S4 Galaxy S3 Galaxy Note 2
octo-core Exynos 5 Octa chipset with four 1.6 GHz Cortex A15 cores and four Cortex A7 cores at 1.2 GHz;PowerVR SGX 544MP GPU a quad-core 1.4 GHz Exynos 4 Quad;Cortex A9 architecture, Mali 400 GPU 1.6 GHz Exynos 4 Quad chipset;a Mali 400 GPU

Obviously, S4 owns the most powerful CPU and GPU which makes it the winner to manage the hardware resources and improve the battery life.Besides,Note 2 is better than S3 with a little higher frequency than S3.If you just want the powerful CPU, S4 is the ideal.

Size and Display
Galaxy S4 Galaxy S3 Galaxy Note 2
an 5 inch 1920 x 1080 Full HD Super AMOLED Display(441ppi);136.5 × 69.8 × 7.9 mm;130 grams an 4.8-inch Super AMOLED display 1280 x 720 pixels resolution(306ppi);136.6 × 70.6 × 8.6 mm;133 grams an 5.5 inch 1280 x 720 HD Super AMOLED Display(265ppi);151.1 x 80.5 x 9.4 mm;183 grams

From this table, you can easily find that S4 owns the best display with the highest 1920 x 1080 resolution and 441 ppi, just similar as HTC One.And 441 ppi is almost 50% more ppi than Samsung Galaxy S3, not to speak of Note 2, which can provide superior image clarity, not only for multimedia content, but for web browsing or reading a document with small fonts.

Besides,it is the thinnest and the lightest one with only 7.9mm thickness and 130 grams weight, which makes it more convenient to carry it whether on the go or not.Samsung S3 is also good in this term.Note 2 does a bad job for potable convenience.

However, Note 2 owns the big screen which will let you get more enjoyment in watching tv or reading document although it owns the lowest ppi.

In a summery,S4 is still the winner.

RAM,Storage and Connectivity
Galaxy S4 Galaxy S3 Galaxy Note 2
2GB RAM;16/32/64 GB Internal Storage;3G, WiFi, 4G LTE, Blueteeth ,NFC,and infrared port 1GB RAM;16/32/64 GB Internal Storage;3G, WiFi, 4G LTE ,Blueteeth and NFC 2GB RAM;16/32/64 GB Internal Storage;3G, WiFi, 4G LTE ,Blueteeth and NFC

Galaxy S4 choose the same configuration for RAM and storage as Note 2.But with the more powerful processor, S4 will perform better than Note 2, and also better than S3.In addition, Samsung Galaxy S4 add the infrared port for TV-watching.

OS and Software
Galaxy S4 Galaxy S3 Galaxy Note 2
Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean out of the box;Smart Pause,Smart Scroll,Floating Touch, S features like S Translator, S Voice Drive,etc Pre-loaded Android 4.0 ICS and can be upgrade to Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean;S Pen stylus,AirView

Galaxy S4 is inarguable owns the new amzing features like Smart Scroll/Pause, which is integrated in TouchWiz.But good news for Galaxy S3 and Note 2 is that Samsung Galaxy S3 and Note 2 will also receive the Android 4.2.2 update, and the new software improvements will be introduced on the S3 and Note 2.So, if you just want to be attracted by the new feautes, you just need to wait for the update without the need of upgrading.

Camera and Battery life 
Galaxy S4 Galaxy S3 Galaxy Note 2
a 13 MP rear camera and 2MP front camera;Removeable 2,600 mAh battery a 8 MP rear camera and 1.9MP front camera;2,100 mAh battery a 8 MP rear camera and 1.9MP front camera;3,100 mAh battery

Samsung Galaxy S4 upgrade its camera to 13MP from its predecessors which records full HD videos at 30 fps, just similar as S3 and Note 2.But the difference is S4 add new fun features in camera app like Sound and Shot,Drama Shot and others.The really great point is that you can simultaneously record videos with both the front-facing and rear-facing cameras on S4.The camera of S4 can be a good point to attract people to upgrade.

The battery of Samsung Galaxy S4 is 500 mAh more powerful than the one of the Galaxy S3, but considering the bigger full HD display, the battery life shouldnot make much difference between S4 and S3.Note 2 owns the biggest battery but at the same time it owns the largest screen,so the battery life should be very similar as S3.

Conclusion
From the comparison above, we can find that Galaxy S4 is a well-deserved top-end smartphone with the full HD display and hardware platform. Considering of the new software improvements will be most likely arrive on the Samsung Galaxy S3 and Note 2, the main reason for you upgrading to S4 is maybe the higher hardware and full HD display.

If you just don’t care much about hardware and get satisfied with the display of S3 and Note 2, there is no need to upgrade. Whatever, it all depends on you.


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Tuesday, March 19, 2013

How to Upload Your Videos to YouTube from Your iPhone or iPad?

YouTube is undoubtedly the most widely used video sharing website and many people just want to share their own videos on YouTube from iPhone or iPad. When speaking to upload iPhone video to YouTube, I bet you would have to transfer the video to your Mac/Win, use a flv converter and open up a web browser like Safari or Chrome to go to YouTube website to upload it. Ok, that’s the thing before iOS 6, and with the update, Apple offers you a variety of ways to upload videos to YouTube from iPhone or iPad.Also, we can use apps to upload videos. I have collected some ways to do the job in the following.

Directly upload videos from iPhone or iPad with iOS’s own feature

Directly upload videos from iPhone or iPad
  • Open the Camera roll / album, and find the video you will upload.
  • Tap the Share button, which is at the bottom of the screen.
  • You’ll now see a variety of options for sharing the media such as via the Mail app, the Message app, or YouTube.Tap on YouTube.
  • Enter your account details (if prompted for),and after that, enter the information of the video like Title, Description and such.
  • Tap Upload and you are succeed.
Directly Upload videos from iPhone or iPad with YouTube Capture

If you just do some lightly editing after capturing the video before upload to the YouTube, just try the Google app YouTube Capture, which supports capturing, lightly editing, and uploading videos from your iPhone or iPad.
Directly Upload videos from iPhone or iPad with YouTube Capture
  • Sign in to YouTube account, and allow the app to access your Camera Roll.
  • Do some settings: color correction, image stabilization, landscape lock, rotate to begin recording and upload quality settings(360p or 720p). 
  • Capture the videos and use the color correction and stabilization tools ,trim the videos,and choose YouTube soundtracks, after that tap upload.
  • Also, YouTube Capture lets you select a privacy setting and share your video on Google+, Facebook, and Twitter.
Upload iPhone Video to YouTube Via Safari

Apart from the direct methods, you can also upload the video to YouTube using the browser Safari.
Upload iPhone Video to YouTube Via Safari

  • Open YouTube.com on Safari. Scroll down and find the 'Desktop’ letter and tap it.
  • Tap on ‘Upload’ from the top menu and ‘Select file from Computer’.
  • Choose the video from your videos library.
  • Write down the details and press upload, you’re done!
Now, you can enjoy your own works on YouTube.


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Sunday, March 17, 2013

Samsung Galaxy S4 vs LG Nexus 5: Buy the Galaxy S4 or Wait for Nexus 5?

We have got the details of the Samsung Galaxy S4 on Mar.14, and the amazing science fiction features just make us have an impulse to buy it. But just wait, do you have heard of the rumored Nexus 5,the next generation of Nexus 4? There is no need to say that how success that Nexus 4 is, so what about the Nexus 5, which is said to be launched in October? Will it bring new surprise? And should you Buy the Galaxy S4 or Wait for so-called Nexus 5? Although Google hasn’t confirmed the device, but next,let’s still explore something about Samsung Galaxy S4 vs LG Nexus 5.

Galaxy S4 vs Nexus 5
Specs 

Samsung Galaxy S4 Rumored LG Nexus 5
Display 4.99” 1920 x 1080 Full HD Super AMOLED Display(441ppi) 5.2″1920×1080 OLED Display(440ppi)
CPU International version:1.6 GHz Quad-core A15 +1.2GHz Quad-core A7;Samsung Exynos 5 Octa
US version: Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 APQ8064T;1.9Ghz Quad-core Krait 300
a quad-core 2.3GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 800
RAM and Storage         2GB RAM;16GB/32GB/64GB;up to 64GB expanded storage 3GB LPDDR3 RAM; 16/32/64GB of internal storage
Camera a 13MP rear camera;a 2MP front camera a16MP rear camera (4k video recording @30FPS); a 2.1MP front camera (1080p video recording @30FPS)
Battery removable 2600mAh battery 3300 mAh Lithium Polymer battery
OS Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean(Which is confirmed to update to Android 5.0) Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie
Undoubtedly, from the specs, we will find that LG Nexus 5 seems the ideal of the smartphone,and it is just hard to believe the so-high specs. But who knows, Galaxy S4 can give us the fiction feeling, maybe Nexus 5 can really mix these high hardware.

Software

We know, Samsung Galaxy S4 bring us the Smart Scroll/Pause, Floating Touch, S Translator, S Voice Drive and other S series. And the software offers us more convenience, while Nexus 5 may be similar as Nexus 4, the pure Android 5.0, known as Key Lime Pie, which is expected to launch in May at Google I/O. So, we may need to wait for the Android 5.0 to know the new features. Besides, the LG Nexus 5 would be controlled through a series of gestures to perform tasks like navigation and zooming.

Ending

There are not many things about LG Nexus 5, but the things leaked here is enough to give you a reason to wait for it. The choice about Nexus 5 and Samsung Galaxy S4 may be mainly stay on mainly the timely Android and the price.

Just wait for my update.

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