The trouble with managing our connections on Android is that we have to keep coming back to them for activating or deactivating certain services to preserve battery life. In case of WiFi it is the same thing and while some apps would automatically act based on certain aspects, most of the time it comes to manually having to handle it. For managing…
Simple searching “Free music download” on the Play Store will reveal a great number of apps, some working while others made just for the fun of the naming. In any case, if you look close enough, yo will find some pretty good alternatives out there. Here’s one of them. TinyTunes by Exigo is one app that has gained in popularity…
There are many solutions that we use to keep us informed of the battery status. In this category there are widgets of all shapes and sizes to place on our homescreen. Next there are status-bar notifications with all kinds of icons. Finally there is TEAM Battery Bar – the mos convenient of all three. Not all manufacturer provided ROMs have the…
Famous benchmark 3DMark from Futuremark, a landmark in the area of benchmarks (so many marks!) is now getting a new version and surprise-surprise it doesn’t only come to the PC, but also to mobile. It will also get a version for iOS, Android and Windows RT. The latest version of 3DMark launched hours ago via the Futuremark site and Steam and through…
The idea of Android apps on Windows has already been experimented, but now people want more. They want Windows apps running on Android this time if possible. Alexandre Julliard, the developer behind Wine, the famous compatibility layer recently discussed an ARM-friendly version of the software he created. The idea is that you’ll be able to run…
Android 4.2 Jelly Bean, the latest version of the operating system, was mainly developed so it can greatly enhance the usability of the OS and brought along some highly useful features. One of these is the Daydream feature that looks good and saves battery. The Dydream feature in Android 4.2 has seen a lot of implementations for older versions of…
Managing and launching apps on our Android device can become tiresome if we have to scroll through all the pages to finally get to the one we want. While there are some great alternatives on the Store for quick launch of apps, some are worth more than others. Here is a good one. HomeFlip by developer Lean and mean is designed to help users get…
The problem with smartphones these days is that we have so many apps that it can become really hard to find the one we want to launch at a specific time. The Android OS has integrated a great search engine but some third party software on the Store can work even better. GYF Side Launcher from developer Chris Ravenscroft provides a great way of launching…
The Android share menu is one of the most highly rated features of the OS, missing from so many other mobile systems. The feature lets you share just about anything through the touch of a button. Supposing Facebook is installed on your system, you can share images. Save articles in Pocket and so on. But what if there are many apps of the same kind installed. AppChooser by…
Ever dreamt about running Android natively within Windows? Well, now you can do that, kind of, thanks to WindowsAndroid, a project from a company called Socketeq, that aims at bringing Android to run natively within Windows, without involving emulation. What’s unique here is that Android runs within Windows based on Windows kernel instead of Linux. Right…
