Category Archives: Android

GTA3, Shazam, Mini Motor Racing under a dollar, Longest day sale

Google play store is offering few high priced apps and games at giveaway price, Grand Theft Auto 3 by Rockstar Games is generally priced at 4.99 USD.. its very much worth the $5 price tag but at .99 its a steal.

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Secure your android phone from Kids. Save Money.

Secure your android phone from being billed for apps and in-app billing

Have you ever thought if you ever gave your android phone to some inquisitive kid what might happen.

My friend’s kid often plays with my phone and installs free kids apps that use in app billing and I have to watch over his shoulder not to buy something for hefty dollars. Few times he managed to buy few apps which I refunded, thankfully.

Here’s another complaint:

My son just ordered $150 or credits in-app from Game Insight. As it is in app there is no way to cancel the order other than sending an email. I hope I can get a refund….

And the complaints have kept on pouring, here’s an easy solution which doesn’t require cancelling your credit cards .. Read more »

Tilt Shift Photography with Picsay on Android Mobile

So you must have been urging for the wonderful effect which comes from that costly DSLR’s. In Tilt Shift shallow depth of field is simulated clearly depicting the actual object/person, so that the rest remains in the background. Simple isnt it. Yes its simple to do with Picsay. Believe me, once you can do this on your photos.. you will become the envy of your followers. Time for some massive instagramming.

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Google Play android store updates

Google play store online site http://play.google.com has updated its search feature. This update lets you filter search resultset.

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Dropbox Android beta, instant photo upload & extra space

Dropbox development team has started doing the wonders again for android os. It has seamlessly integrated with the OS and let you instantly upload photos to your dropbox camera uploads folder.

While you are at it, you are sure to get 500MB as bonus extra space when you upload your first photo and for trying out this experimental build.

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Android Clean Up Disk Space

From our day to day use, installing several apps, games, putting in music, videos, pictures; our beloved android gets bloated. Within a month any user starts thinking where did my gigs of storage go. Here’s a wonderful yet easy way to find out whose using the space.

All Free ways to free up space after the break

Taking screenshots on your Android phone

ShootMe - Screen Capture app for Android

There are quite a few apps which let you take screenshots on your Android phone, the apps can be divided into two categories, one which required the phone to be rooted to work and the other where the app will work on an unrooted phone too. Here is a list of screenshot taking apps with their virtues & vices so that you can decide which one to use.

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SMS Backup Apps for Android

SMS Backup Restore by Ritesh Sahu

With unlimited SMS storage we seldom delete SMS messages and gradually they pile up, navigating the SMS inbox becomes tough and you feel like deleting all messages, but then there are some you don’t want to delete. Also, rarely though, you might flash your Android phone or would like to factory reset it, and you might want to backup your precious SMS messages.

SMS backup & restore apps, backup & restore your SMS messages, on-demand or automatically, in common XML or in a binary format. We’ll look into the features of a few such apps.

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