Although, I ain’t a great chess player, I always look for best chess app for my iPhone and Windows Phone to hone my skills. Chess is a game that exercises your mind and soul alike. They say, “Chess is the gymnasium of the mind”. The way it teaches me to be patient and wait for the right time to strike has helped in achieving many personal milestones in my life as well. And then there are thousands of great quotes which helped me understand the entwine of life sophisticatedly. Even, the pawn could turn out to be a queen one day. It is not always possible to move forward in life. To move forward you have to go few steps back sometimes. Like a real
An open source Instagram client for Mac, Linux and Windows OS users has appeared on the web. An application named 4K Stogram is a first ever full-fledged cross-platform instagram client out there. The recent excrescence of services that provides Instagram like experience has doubled the joy for the developer. A ravenous social networking beast name Facebook came as a savior and gorged the entire system only to later integrate some of the functions to into Facebook. In an expectation of making Facebook a better place for users they took a giant leap towards photo editing moorland. In a contest to beat down rival Google+ photo features, Facebook might have taken over the company. Instagram will be an ally of Facebook to improve the end-user experience.
Metro UI is an obsession of Microsoft. The new and claimed to be a completely revolutionary user interface may err users who are used to the traditional Windows UI since XP time. How about taking the whole matter in our hand and completely remove Windows 8 Metro UI element from the OS completely? Sounds like a daunting task, isn’t it? Well, this is where a new application called RetroUI comes to rescue to troubled users. RetroUI brings back Windows 7 style or traditional Microsoft UI to user’s sustenance. Those who became acquainted with the GG blog have already been treated with a tutorial to bring back the Windows 7 start menu on Windows 8 OS using Start8. Consider, RetroUI an elder brother of Start8 which
Google reader client for Windows 8 has arrived in style. Descending from Windows Phone platform, the developers of Flux have yet again managed to appease Windows OS community users. They say, any platforms, be it mobile or PC, their fate is decided by the support of developers or a number of applications available for the users. Well Windows 8 community is blessed with thousands of developers and the number is increasing exponentially. Full-fledged Windows 8 appearance is still at least a month away, but users have already started enjoying metro powered UI. Who would have thought that a simple square/rectangular interface will catch so much of a buzz. Even though, only RTM and consumer preview version are out there for final testing, a myriad of
Comixolgy, a comic book reader downloader for Windows 8, has made reading comic books on Windows 8 OS a fun. We continue to strive to serve our readers with better applications for their daily usage. As an avid reader and a person who always aspire to become a comic book character on one day (sort of childhood dream), I, personally, always admire comic books. Although I would like to read comic books a lot, but due to time constraint it becomes a bit difficult to allocate more time for leisure activity. Being one of my favorite past time or leisure activity comic book reading has always enticed me to look for more and more comic book readers/ downloader and eBooks in general. Note: Earlier we
While Microsoft and other developers admired Windows 8 UI a lot, many end-users found themselves in an unapprehended situation. The start menu or rather absence of it has been a talk of the town. Honestly, when I installed Windows 8 consumer preview, even I found it somewhat fascinating and unknown territory. But is this an end to start menu altogether? Of course not, there are some clever solutions which can bring back Windows 7 start menu to Windows 8. The start menu has been Microsoft’s most adaptable option to quick to programs and applications on the system
While iTunes itself is a next to complete best music player for Mac, it doesn’t enforce users trying out other options. From the powerhouse and creator of Mac OS i.e. Apple, iTunes does help in managing other iOS devices but when comes to make it a perfect music player, there are plentiful handy options available to the users. Perfectionists Apple developers have always outed superlative products, Mac Books, iPhone and iPad are living examples of it. It would be exaggerating to say that there are any comparable music player for Mac OS available. iTunes is so acutely integrated into the system that it handles most of the music related errands – music, vide0, podcasts, ringtones, apps etc. If you own Apple mobile device, then you’re
So far on GG.com, we have covered various android and iOS apps. But that doesn’t mean that we care less for other OS users. As a proof, we are now covering some of the best Samsung Bada apps for our readers. Samsung Bada is an operating system by newly crowned smartphone giant, Samsung, which can be found in the Waves series phones by Samsung. The OS has allegedly approached a slow death due to an exponential growth of Android OS, which made Samsung one of the top manufacturer of smartphone by dethroning Nokia. Abundance of apps has been developed so far for the Bada operating system. Obviously, you may not find as many apps as you would otherwise find for Android and iOS OS. We
Instagram has taken a photography to a whole new level. It has become more of an obsession and addiction than a necessity. Wouldn’t it be great, if you could download instagram photos so that all your obsessive addictions remain sound and safe? No, I’m not blaming anyone for this addiction. Sometime addictions are good. Users often capture some of the preeminent moments enjoyed with friends and family members. Instagram entirely changed the definition of photography and took it an entirely different level. Users can swiftly apply filters, effects and many other photo enhancement effects to make photos look ineludible
Dropbox just stepped up its game by offering a new two-step verification method to secure Dropbox account on the go. Following several stagnant security issues, Dropbox has rolled out a new two-step verification system to offer respite to end-users. Many of Google account users are already using a similar verification system to make Google accounts hack proof. Dropbox especially faced critical spamming issues through various account due unsolicited access to them. Despite of facing several security issues, Dropbox failed to implement any solid security, until now