When Canonical laid out their plan for the next mobile platform, many were found dumb struck. Almost all of them were gladdened with the new user interface and the flexibility it offered. The demo of Nexus device gave many OS manufacturers, read Google and Apple, a nightmare, while end-users started biting their nails in anticipation to try this captivating OS on their Android device. As promised the first flair of Ubuntu OS is now available for the Nexus 7, Nexus 10, Nexus 4 and Galaxy Nexus users. This is a developer preview version and is intended for developers only, but we all are developers, aren’t we? Nevertheless, if you can’t stop yourself from trying out this lucrative OS, then scroll down to the bottom of the page
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The world is obsessed about the Android APK downloading programs. The discernible reason behind that is a level of flexibility and convenience offered by such program. We also do not see them cidevant in foreseeable future. Few months back, we shared a method to download Android APK from Google Play store directly using a dandy Google Chrome extension. That article is still receiving huge traffic from Google search engine which only proves the fact that people like to download APK files on desktop PC. Later, you can sideload these applications once you download them on your PC. There are array of applications and tweaks available which let you do that. In the near future, we will share methods to sideload multiple android APKs through various
Windows 8 has finally hit the market and chances are there that you might be running the same on your computer. Windows has announced its official app store for Windows 8 and more than 40 million licenses have been sold out so far. Even the developers seem to be having great interest in Windows 8, which has resulted in the apps’ count to 20,000+ and counting. With Windows 8 OS, Microsoft has approached a totally different way to handle the software or apps downloaded from Windows store. First of all, for those who are still new to Windows 8 ecosystem, Windows store is a concept similar to the iTunes store, Google play or Windows phone marketplace. In essence, it is a marketplace for Windows 8
Whether you like it or not, people often delete important files fortuitously. The post covers one such aspect to restore deleted files from SkyDrive account. SkyDrive is one among several popular online cloud services that entices the users a lot. Initially, they offered 25GB and 7GB of free space to old and new users respectively, which is by far the highest free cloud space offered by any provider. However, Google Drive impressed many due to the sheer amount of features it has to offer. Not to forget, the backing up by peremptory web store apps. You might want to check out our Google drive starter guide to help you to explore Google drive service
The recent revelation of Outlook webmail service has opened up a new can of endless possibilities. It has also sparked up the debate of who is the best web based email service? Yes, this time Microsoft has learned a lesson and provided a near to perfect webmail service at Outlook.com. Previously, we had covered some of the interesting features of Outlook.com; importing Gmail account contacts to Outlook and keyboard shortcuts for new Outlook webmail service
Today, Microsoft pushed out the biggest ever change in its email service. With an aim to dethrone Google’s Gmail service from number 1 position, Microsoft has given a sneak peek of its latest lab rat. Highly inspired from the aesthetic look of Metro UI, Microsoft has completely revolutionized its Hotmail service, which sooner will be served as Outlook.com. Google has been ruling web based email service since its arrival back in 2004 and people refused to migrate from Gmail to other lucrative services like Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL etc, due to the sheer amount of features Gmail has to offer. This also includes a number of security features like 2-step verification system which made email hacking almost hacking proof. However, Microsoft is pushing out the new update
The newest buttery smooth OS has been in news of lately. Even though, Android users are yet to enjoy JellyBean OS on their handset, you, my friend, can enjoy it on your Windows 7 PC. Yes, you heard it right. Now, you can install Android jelly bean on Windows 7 PC, albeit as a transformation pack. It will turn your Windows 7 UI into Jelly Bean ones and give you a glimpse of the bright future that awaits you. Of course, the Jelly Bean OS has already been out, though in another form. In fact, developers on the XDA developers forum have managed to churn out some of the custom ROMs to reincarnate the old generation OS, which often criticized for not being fully optimized
The new beast by smartphone mammoth Samsung, Samsung Galaxy SIII, has just been rooted before masses gets it into their hand. Rooting opens up a door to tons of possibilities and tweaks. Similar to previous Galaxy flagship products like Galaxy SII and few others, the device got rooted within few days of its initial announcement. Rooting has its own advantages and disadvantages but pros outweighs cons, so it would be always preferable to root your device. It should be done with extreme caution as rooting may void your warranty and there is peewee possibility that you might brick your device during the process but that shouldn’t stop brave hearts. Samsung is having a tough time keeping its device and apps close to their chest as
Android marketplace (now Google Play) offers zillions of apps to Android smartphone and tablet users. But it is tiresome and not feasible approach to always download APK files from marketplace though your device. How about a scenario when you find latest game which is not compatible to your handset? Instead of waiting for new powerful Android device to arrive and remember the name of the game for months just to download them is cumbersome process, at least for people like me. One of the classic example when such need arise is, when your device is suffering from Internet outage. Wouldn’t it be nice to have ability to download Android APK file to your PC and then transfer it back to your device in such case.
Just few hours back, we provided an up to date installation and starter guide to Google Drive service. With innumerable cloud service provider knocking your door to try them out before you try their competitors, Google’s Drive service has an upper hand since, after all, it is offered by Google. It widens its reach by providing Android app which is already selling downloaded like a hot cake. Needless to say the number of Google Docs service users will get a free cloud ride. If dragging and dropping files to sync it to cloud service is too much of a work, this nifty ‘Send To’ menu shortcut will let you upload/ send files and folders with one click. All your files and folders are just one-click
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