Archive for February 2015

PC Emulator: Test and Learn Linux Commands in Web Browser

February 17, 2015

If you want to learn Linux / Unix command but don't want to install it, here is something interesting for you.

"PC Emulator" created by "Fabrice Bellard" allows you to test Linux commands in your favorite web browser. No need to install Linux, Click on window and wait for # command line, OR simply open the URL in browser and test desired Linux commands.- PC Emulator

This PC emulator is written in Javascript and support following browsers officially :

  • Firefox 4.x
  • Chrome 11
  • Opera 11.11
  • Internet Explorer 9

Start Testing Linux in Browser







Related Information :

Cygwin: (Get that Linux feeling - on Windows) a large collection of GNU and Open Source tools which provide functionality similar to a Linux distribution on Windows.
Install it by running setup-x86.exe (32-bit installation) or setup-x86_64.exe (64-bit installation).

28 Essential Apps For Your Android Phone - Must Have

February 17, 2015
28 Essential Apps For Your Android Phone - Must Have

The ever-growing Android Market is flooded with apps that never cease to push the boundaries for better user experience. These apps number by the hundreds of thousands.

We run down a list of the ten best and most popular Android apps for you to download in 2015.

Security :

Cover art1) AVG Antivirus : AVG Antivirus is a free antivirus app for Android. It is free and gives you many features to secure your Android phone from viruses, malwares and threats.




Cover art2) 360 Mobile Safe : 360 Mobile Safe - a permanent free mobile security and management software, providing the most professional, impeccable, effective security services like Phone Checkup, Anti-virus, Phone Cleaner, Calls & SMS blocker, Data monitor, Contacts backup, Anti-theft more.


Backups

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3) Go Backup & restore Pro: Go Backup is an all-in-one app that backs up your data. It can backup your phone contacts, messages, call log, and also the applications installed with app data to your SD Card. You can restore full backup or select what to restore manually.


Cover art4) Super Backup : SMS & Contacts : The fastest data backup tool on android!
You can backup apps & contacts & SMS & Call logs & Bookmarks & Calendars to the SD card/Google Drive/Gmail. You will never lose your data again!


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Communication

5) Facebook: which allows you to communicate with your friends, family and clients right from your Phone. With the Facebook Android App, you can send messages to anybody on your friends’ list anytime, and you can do real-time chat too.
The app also gives you the option to update your status and photos. It also syncs your Phone contacts with Facebook friends and shows Facebook data in your Contact.

Cover art6) Twitter: weet right from your Android Phone and update your status instantly. You can follow your friends to see what’s going on with them.

Other features of this app include Tweets, Retweets, the Follow option, photo and link sharing, and direct messages to your Followers.


Cover art7) XDA: XDA is an Android application meant for developers and Android lovers. XDA is basically a forum where Android developers develop ROMs and share tweaks for the Android platform. XDA for Android is way of communicating for developers. You can ask questions and share answers, or talk about your favorite apps.

Cover art8) Viber: Viber is another free Android application which lets you send free messages and make free calls from your Android phone to other people who are also using Viber on their phone.

As long as both phones are Viber-enabled and have a data or Wi-Fi connection, then you can make free calls and send messages for free. You can also share photos and videos to your Viber Contacts for free.

 Browsers


Cover art9) Opera Mini: Opera Mini is one of the fastest, widely used browsers for Android phones. It has got a simple-to-use Interface which gives you the option to see either Phone View or Desktop View.

It also helps you to save your data bandwidth using Unique Compression Technology. Like Firefox and Chrome, it has the tab functionality to open multiple tabs at the same time.

Cover art10) UC Browser: UC Browser is another fast browser. Additionally, it supports multi-touch and also can recognize and navigate through voice commands. You need to Install Google Voice to make Voice Control work.

UC Browser uses Cloud Acceleration technique to load webpages immediately. You can download files through UC Browser at high speeds.
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11) Dolphin Browser HD: Dolphin Browser HD is a rich full-feature browser for Android. It gives you most advanced features and plugin integration that no other Android browser gives. Its range of features include Voice Navigation, Gesture Control, Add-Ons, Speed Dial, Tabbed Browsing and Sidebars.


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12) ROM Toolbox: ROM Toolbox is a must-have Android App for rooted users, it gives you many options to tweak your phone. In Personalization, you can change your system font, download boot animations, and download ThemeChooser themes. In Performance Pane, you can tweak your system’s CPU sliders, edit and tweak build.prop, boost your SD card browsing and get memory management.
There are also options like downloading and installing ROMs, make ROM’s backup and wipe Dtat / Cache / Dalvik Cache Partition directly from the ROM Toolbox Interface.
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13) Battery Defender – Battery Saver: Battery Defender is the most effective app to extend your battery life. It is not as complex as other apps in the same category, apps like Juice Defender and Easy Battery Saver. It just gives you the option to enable or disable Battery saving, and it works really well on my phone.

It disables unnecessary processes and apps running in the background and stops Wi-Fi Connectivity when not in use or when the screen is off.

Cover art14) Google Reader: Google Reader for android allows you to read all the news and feeds in one place. You can read all the latest news and posts from the popular blogs like Dealdimer.com by adding their RSS Feeds to your Google Reader. It also syncs the feeds, so you can read these feeds on other devices too.


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15) Olive Office Premium: Olive Office Premium is a free Android App that lets you view and edit documents like Word, PPT, XLS files and you can also read PDF files on it. Most other apps of this category are premium apps even though they offer generally the same features.


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16) Portable Wi-Fi hotspot: Simple application to Turn on Portable Wi-Fi hotspot and share Mobile Data Internet to Other Wi-Fi Devices like other mobiles, Laptops, Tablets through Wi-Fi, Improve your mobile computing experience. Before running the application configuration is required.
SETTING: Settings->More..->Tethering & portable hotspot->Set up Wi-Fi hotspot

You can change the name of your phone's Wi-Fi network name (SSID) and secure its Wi-Fi network when it's acting as a portable hotspot.


Launchers

Cover art17) Go Launcher: Go Launcher is the most advanced launcher for Android giving you in-depth options to customize your phone. There are thousands of paid as well as free themes, plugins and widgets available for Go Launcher.

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18) QQLauncher: QQ Launcher is another launcher which is made to look like MIUI Launcher. The recent update in QQ Launcher includes ThemeSupport, and other features like built-in locker and widgets. The launcher has a beautiful and attractive layout with many transition effects to choose from.


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Entertainment

19) Music Paradise: Using Music Paradise, you can download free music right onto your Android device. All you have to do is Search for the Music or Album terms, then download the desired music.

It also has an built-in music player which lets you listen to downloaded music right from the same Interface. You can listen to music while downloading other music on the same Interface.

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20) Zedge: Zedge is a popular site to download Phone stuff like Wallpapers, Ringtones, Notification sounds, Live Wallpapers etc for your android phone. There are 7.5 million free downloadable item to be downloaded in the app and you can preview wallpapers or listen to audio materials first before downloading.

If you are an app maker yourself, you can also sign in and upload your app right from the Zedge App.



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21) Mobile9: Mobile9 is similar to Zedge but it offers more than Zedge. Along with ringtones and wallpapers, it also gives you the option of downloading apps, launchers and themes into your phone. You need to register and sign in first before using the app. It has huge database of downloads for almost every phone. It automatically detects your phone and shows the stuff which is compatible for your Phone.



Photography

22) Instagram: Instagram is available on Android! This app lets you apply a variety of photo filters and effects after capturing photos within the app before you share it with other Instagram users.

The most popular feature is the app which gives you the ability to create photos with the Tilt-Shift effect.


Cover art23) Little Photo: Little Photo adds film and effects to your photos. This is the most popular and filter-rich app you can use to customize your photos. With over 70 photo filters and effects, you can also create your own preset style by combining different filters.

Games


Cover art24) Subway Surfers: Top Downloading android 3D Game to avoid getting bored, It FeaturesTravel to fantastical Hawaii with the Subway Surfers World Tour, Surf the Subway tracks surrounded by huge mountains and rivers of lava, Join the weekly Top Run race and compete for more shiny medals, Take Izzy, the happy hula boy, on exciting surfer adventures, Pick up mysterious Tiki masks in the Weekly Hunts to earn great prizes

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25) Temple Run: In every treasure hunting adventure movie there’s one scene in which the plucky hero finally gets his hands on the treasure but then has to navigate a maze of booby traps in order to get out alive. Temple Run is this scene and nothing else. There are few other versions available like Temple Run 2, Temple Run 3

Cover art26) Candy Crush Saga: Candy Crush Saga, from the makers of Pet Rescue Saga & Farm Heroes Saga!. Join Tiffi and Mr. Toffee in their sweet adventure through the Candy Kingdom. Pass level 50 to unlock Dreamworld and escape reality alongside an owl named Odus. Switch and match your way through hundreds of levels in this delicious puzzle adventure. Isn't it the sweetest game around? 

Kids Fun :

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27) Talking Tom: Tom is your pet cat, that responds to your touch and repeats everything you say with a funny voice.

You can pet him, poke him or grab his tail. Record your own videos of Tom, save them to your library, share them on YouTube & Facebook or send them by email. 


28) Talking Ben: Ben is a retired chemistry professor who likes his quiet comfortable life of eating, drinking and reading newspapers. To make him responsive, you will have to bother him long enough that he will fold his newspaper. Then you can talk to him, poke or tickle him or even have a telephone conversation with him.

If you get Ben to his laboratory however, he becomes as happy as a puppy. There you can do chemistry experiments by mixing a combination of two test tubes together and see the hilarious reactions.


Please Comments if I missed any Best Apps, so we can add here in Top List

Windows 10: The 10 most important new Consumer Preview features

February 15, 2015
The return of the Start menu is great, but this early build of Windows 10 has a long way to go before it



With a revived and refreshed Start menu, the ability to run Metro apps from the desktop, and more long-requested features, Windows 10 promises to return PC users to the features they knew and loved before Windows 8.
But does it deliver? We just got our first taste to find out.




Microsoft pushed out its Windows 10 Technical Preview to let geeks poke, prod, and critique its fledgling operating system

1) Start menu returns

As soon as we got Windows 10 up and running, we had to play around with the Start menu. Just click on the Windows icon in the bottom left corner of the desktop, and it will pop up like the old one did. It feels like a reunion between a boy and his lost dog. The experience is fresh, yet familiar at the same time.


2) Cortana is here to help. Or will be.


Basic search works just like in Windows 7. By pressing the Windows key on your keyboard, you can pull up the Start menu, and just start typing away. Results will be pulled up from multiple places, including your PC, the Windows Store, and the Internet, much like the Windows 8 Start screen.

3) Another control panel alternative


Windows 8.1 confused many users by introducing a “settings” section of the Metro interface that was mostly redundant with the Control Panel, and could not be accessed as a window. To fix this Microsoft has introduced a new Settings app in Windows 10

4) Entering the Continuum 


One of the most important features new to Windows 10 is Continuum, Microsoft’s attempt to make switching from desktop to tablet, or vice-versa, simple. This is enabled by the way Metro apps work in Windows 10: Any Metro app should be equally at home in full-screen view, or a tiny window consuming just a sliver of the desktop. One tap (or click) switches all open apps between windowed and full-screen view.

5) A buffet of tasty new apps, with more on the way


Microsoft intends to revamp a number of its bundled applications in Windows 10, but only some are available in the preview. These include Photos, Maps and Xbox.

6) New Store, not like the old Store

he way you download and purchase apps has been updated, too, with a revised version of the Windows Store which is currently listed as Store (Beta) in Windows 10. It offers the same selection as the regular store, but it looks much different. Unlike the version in Windows 8.1, which relies on collections of tiles, the Beta update is formatted much like a web page. 
It actually offers less information on screen at once, but better distinguishes the various content on display.

7) Windowed Metro apps in Windows 8


As promised, Metro apps now run in windowed mode in Windows 10. Just open a Metro app and click the familiar window-pane icon in the upper right hand corner of the app, which will toggle between windowed and full screen modes. Clicking and dragging on any of the four edges lets you resize it, just like you would do with any classic desktop app.

8) Charms get baked into Metro apps, for the most part

One of the many reasons that millions of people refused to use Windows 8 was the Charms menu, which, like the Start screen, clashed with the classic desktop UI. The functions contained in the Charms menu, like Search, weren’t the problem themselves. The design and layout were just poorly executed, and helped to make Windows 8 a much more jarring user experience than it had to be.

9) Task View and multiple desktops


Windows 10 can run multiple desktops simultaneously, which, Microsoft claims, allows for even greater multitasking than before. For instance, you might open all your personal apps in one desktop and all your work apps in another, and shift between them as you switch priorities.

10) The Windows 8 Start screen still lives!


Though the new Start menu takes the place of the gigantic old Start screen, you can enable it again by hitting Start, typing “taskbar,” and clicking “Taskbar and Navigation.” Then, click the Start Menu tab, and check off the option labeled “Use the Start menu instead of the Start screen.” Once you hit Apply, Windows 10 will ask you to restart. When you do, you’ll be greeted with the Windows 8 Start screen.

Android 5.0 Lollipop: 5 Key Features Added To Latest Android Version

February 15, 2015

Google announced the Android 5.0 Lollipop, the latest major version of the company’s mobile operating system, last week, along with the highly anticipated Nexus 6 smartphone, Nexus 9 tablet and a new streaming video device called the Nexus Player.

The Android 5.0 Lollipop, which was first showcased at the Google I/O conference in June as Android L, comes with many new features, such as a new material design user interface and updated notification functions. The new Android version is expected to be available for older Nexus models, including the Nexus 5, Nexus 7, Nexus 10 and Google Play Edition devices.


Here are five new key features of the Android 5.0 Lollipop:

1. WebView


WebView allows third party applications to display web content without launching the browser. The feature makes the update process independent from the update schedule of original equipment manufacturers, making it convenient for users of devices whose OEMs are slow in rolling out updates.

 2. Multi-User Support for Phones


The new Android 5.0 Lollipop offers multi-user support, which was only available for tablets, for phones. The first user of the phone will be the owner of the device and this person can decide if others can use the handset. The feature allows every profile to have its own welcome screen, application settings and wallpapers, and users can switch profiles by pressing the head button on the top right corner of the screen.

3. Application Pinning


Users of Android 5.0 Lollipop can lock any running application by applying a pin number or pattern. If the owner of the device has any protections enabled on the device, other users cannot access other apps without breaching the phone's security system.

4. Application Back Up


Users will now be able to transfer all relevant settings and apps to new Android devices through Near Field Communication at the time of initial login. Apps that are to be downloaded will be displayed as gray-colored icons, which will launch the Play Store listing when tapped.

5. Two Factor Authentication from Initial Login


Users will now be able to enter the time-sensitive security code right on the login screen itself. In previous versions of the OS, the account login screen used to open up a browser window to let users enter the code.

Microsoft launched new video editing app for Windows Phone

February 15, 2015

Microsoft launched new video-editing app for Windows Phone

New Video Editing app for Windows tablets & Windows Phone launched From Microsoft Company. Video app can download free from Windows Store & Windows Phone Store. This video editing aap works on lumia tablet, surface tablets and lumia smartphones running windows 8.1. Microsoft plans available to all devices running Windows Phone or Windows 8.1.




Video Editing app You can Movie Creator lets you combine videos, photos, music, and even cinemagraphs (selectively animated photographs) into movies. edit the length of your footage, move clips to different places on your video timeline, captions, add text cards and various filters. First, Microsoft already has a similar app for Windows Phone called Video Tuner — why release another with similar functionality?

You can also possible to pan, rotate, and zoom, like a selection of branded themes featuring characters from popular DreamWorks animated movies like Madagascar and Kung Fu Panda. It only works on the company’s phones and tablets (Lumias and Surfaces), and we’ve updated the article to reflect this.

You can even pan, zoom, and rotate. Your final result can be anywhere from a few seconds to as long as a few hours. Video editing apps usually require in-app purchases to unlock longer videos, but Movie Creator allows free editing of up to 25 videos, photos or cinemagraphs with no length limitations. Microsoft adopting a totally different strategy which has culminated with the free release of Microsoft Office on mobile devices. Microsoft should build apps for Windows Phone and Windows, not just Lumia and Surface.




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