Must-have apps to supercharge your Palm Phone The number of apps in Palm's official webOS app store has been growing steadily since its launch on June. Now Palm Pre, Palm Pre Plus, Palm Pixi and Palm Pixi Plus users can choose from over 1,000 apps. WebOS's App Catalog may be way behind iPhone and Android in total number of apps, but that doesn't mean there aren't some great ones. We've rounded up the 20 best. In this article Palm Infocenter highlights some essential must have Treo freeware applications apps and also the pro with price
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WHERE: WHERE integrates several widgets designed to answer any question that starts with its name. Where's the nearest coffee shop? Where's the nearest gas station? But it's more flexible than that, able to answer some questions that start with "what," as in "what's the traffic on I-95 like?" Hell, it can even do some "whens," like "when is Fantastic Mr. Fox playing?" It's got Yelp, YellowPages, Starbucks and more. Price : Free
Evernote: Evernote is arguably the best note-taking app on every platform on which it appears (iPhone, Android) and on Pre it's nearly as good. For some reason the Pre version lacks voice notes, but it's still what I use for grocery lists. Price : Free
Pandora: It's Pandora. It's great. Especially essential on the Pre, which has a mere 8GB of non-expandable memory. Price : Free
Fandango: Another one that you probably already know, Fandango's the best movie-finding app on WebOS. It saves nearby or favorite theaters, uses GPS to find those closest, lets you watch trailers—it's everything you'd want in a movie app. Price : Free
Twee: I had a hard time deciding between Twee and Tweed for the title of Palm Pre Twitter Champ, but decided on Twee for two reasons. First, I like its story—it was a jailbreak app first, and muscled its way into the App Catalog on sheer moxie and pluck. Second, it offers a free version, which is the one I actually use. Tweed has a more conventional (read: prettier) interface, but I'm not sure that's worth three bucks when TweeFree is totally competent. Price : Free
NYTimes: An essential for any smartphone platform, the Pre's NYTimes app falls in between the iPhone's and Android's in quality. It's less buggy and better-looking than Android's, but its smaller screen and slightly slower performance gives iPhone the edge. Regardless, it's a great app for the greatest news outlet in the country, and lets you feel informed even though you're just skimming headlines while sitting on the toilet. Price : Free
TasteSpotting Today: TasteSpotting is my favorite food website, but the things that make it great (huge and constantly updated selection, links to external websites, great photography) also make it a headache to read on a mobile device. But TasteSpotting Today puts the massive amounts of info in an easy-to-read format. Great for anyone who likes food. $1
Tea Timer: Honestly, I don't really like tea. I can never get it to taste like much besides tea-flavored hot water, and, you know, I always feel like could be drinking coffee instead. But I have to say, Tea Timer, which provides exact steeping times for a huge variety of tea types (as well as a countdown timer), did result in the best cup of loose-leaf Rooibos I've ever had. Still tasted like tea-flavored water, but it was the best tea-flavored water I've ever made. Way to go, Tea Timer. $1
Topple Ball: The Pre's definitely lacking in games compared to the iPhone, but Topple Ball is the perfect waiting-for-a-bus game. It's kind of like that tilting maze game Labyrinth, but with obstacles like bumpers, launchers and teleporters to provide extra challenge. Surprisingly tough, but my go-to timewaster. $2, free version available
Stitcher: As with Pandora, it's important to have a source of streaming media to make up for the Pre's anemic storage, and Stitcher is my favorite podcast app on the platform. It's sleek, fairly full-featured, streams quickly, and has an easy-to-use interface. Price : Free
Scoop: Scoop is my pick for best RSS reader on the Pre, due to its solid integration with Google Reader. Feeds is the other frontrunner, but it's five times more expensive and you definitely aren't getting more for your money. $1
Open Table: Open Table is a great (albeit sometimes limited) way to reserve tables at restaurants without having to, like, talk to a human being. It's really effective in major urban areas like NYC and SF, although in my suburban Pennsylvania hometown I was better off using Yelp and calling the restaurants. Price : Free
Accuweather: Tells you the weather. Price : Free
Dealert: Tracks deals from a variety of online deal purveyors, like SlickDeals, DealNews and FatWallet. That's provided you need some other source of deals beyond our own Gadget Deals of the Day, shocking though that may be. $2
Yelp: The premiere source for sometimes-corrupt listings of restaurants and local businesses. Need pan-Asian-Ethiopian fusion food right now, in the middle of Little Italy? Yelp's got your back. Price : Free
JogStats: If you're one of those weirdos who likes jogging even when there's a perfectly nice couch you could be sitting on, JogStats is the best running assistant on WebOS. It tracks your distance, speed, calories, altitude, all that stuff that makes me exhausted just typing it. $5
Classic: For the guy who just can't let go to the past, this oddly third-party app recreates the classic Palm OS on your Pre or Pixi, complete with virtual buttons, and will run any Palm OS app. Price : Free
GDial: The Palm Pre's Google Voice app is damn good—in John Herrman's words, "The Pre handles Google Voice nearly as well as Android, and obviously way better than the iPhone." Price : Free
Crosswords: It ain't from Will Shortz, but the Pre's Crosswords app is surprisingly excellent. Clever puzzles, huge selection, with a range of challenge from Monday to Saturday (there's a little crossword humor for you). Seems expensive, but if you're into crossword puzzles, this could mean dozens of hours of entertainment. Or, if you're like me, hundreds of hours. $10
Media Remote: A version of Apple's very first iPhone app, Remote, Media Remote takes the idea to the next level by letting you control several different programs on a Windows PC—WMP, iTunes, MediaMonkey, VLC and XBMC. Pre only (since the Pixi has no Wi-Fi) and yeah, Windows only is lame, but I use this app all the time to control my XBMC-running media center and it works great. Price : Free
Treo 700p with SERO Plan · 40 Free Wallpapers for the Palm Pre Best part about all these apps? They are all FREE, (unless where noted). AppBrain, essential, As previously mentioned, check this every day to see what great apps are out there. A must have for anyone with an Android phone
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AndroidBro - Google Guide to Gingerbread Tips and Tricks
My favorite tips and apps for Nexus S, which features Android 2.3, Gingerbread. A lot of Googlers liked it, so we thought some of you might enjoy it as well. So, i just shared some of my "favorite tips and apps for Nexus S." And you've gotta figure that my favorite tips and tricks are probably worth checking out. Some Android power users might snort at the idea that they didn't know how to, say, turn a stack of images into a slideshow, but the list should be a nice primer for most Nexus owners regardless.
Keep in mind most of these are specific to Android 2.3 Gingerbread. Here's my list:
1. Tips
2. Keyboard tricks
3. Applications
Top Best Money Saving Tips to Buy Gadgets
Save money and saving money more to buy gadgets. Read on the article for some effective tips for right approach toward the plan to buy gadgets. The main issue about purchasing gadgets is purchasing comfort, economy, and health; therefore, it is required to have some green tips for enjoying green effect in life with about these gadgets. Gadgets have become the part and parcel of our life. Hardly any of us can imagine our life with different gadgets. Great Money Saving Tips We all can use extra money.
Money Saving Tips to Buy Gadgets. Read on the article for some effective tips for right approach toward the plan to buy gadgets. Campus on a Budget: Money Saving Tips For College Students. While at $109000, this isn't exactly a money saving gadget. It's really helpful and, like your tips, shows us all great ways that we can use discredit yourselves to buy labeling what should really be side notes.
While purchasing gadget we should consider the features of the said gadget first and accordingly need to think about the utility of the features of the gadget for the purchaser. For example, before purchasing a mobile phone, one has to see if all the features of the phone are really required by the users or not. Those who are simple user should not go for hi-end phones for the sake of fashion or status only.
Energy saving factors is of great importance while the purchase of a gadget is concerned. It is always wise to buy gadgets with 5-or 7-star ratings because these ratings ensure the energy efficiency of the said gadget. More the gadget is energy efficient; it is proven as more economic.
While we purchase a new gadget we often consider the features and price but we forget to consider the after sales service and warranty section of the gadget. It is true that quality gadgets hardy gets damaged during first 2-3 years and that covers the warranty coverage of the same provided by the manufacturer. However, after- sales service efficiency should be one of the prime factors in selection of a gadget and before purchasing it should be verified if the service center for that gadget is located at near by location. It will not only save money but will also save time.
Another deciding factor to buy gadgets is the availability and price of the spare parts of the same. If spare parts of a gadget are not available or it is too costly, it is better not go for that item. Otherwise, in case of damage the whole investment will go in vein. Those who are concerned about output of the gadget and at the same time is running on tight budget may consider the option of purchasing refurbished or open box items. Refurbished items are retailer repaired products and open box products are sold-back products. Both of these items are available against lesser price than the new one but they render service as new products. However, before considering purchase of repaired or refurbished items, it is always wise to verify the reputation and background of the retailer so that in requirement the customer may ask for his assistance for servicing.
It is always good to go for branded items while purchasing a gadget. This may incur little more investment, but it will prove ultimately big saver of money. Online shopping to buy gadgets is a great idea because some of the online stores offer huge discount around the year. If one can avail these discounts, it will help in saving considerable amount of money.
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Top Best Android Apps Must Have 2011
If you own an Android powered phone and are wondering what Apps you need to download, look no further. Here is an in-depth list neatly sorted for your App-finding pleasure. Have you decked out your Droid with business apps yet? If not, take heed: Google Android phones still have a ways to go in terms of business, sports, travel and many morre android apps for the best parts.
Business
1. Tasker – The ultimate automation app for Android, this app allows one to set conditions (time of day, orientation of phone, use of a particular app) under which apps launch or close. You can also edit volume levels, switch sounds on or off, and more. Includes many other automatic features.
2. Documents to Go – View Word and Excel files on your Android device. For $14.99, a key can be purchased that unlocks create/edit functionality.
3. Bump – Take any two phones that have this app, bump them together, and swap contact information without a single button press. It doesn’t get any easier to share information than this.
4. Maps - The Maps app is so dead useful that it alone can be considered worth the purchase of an Android device. The new navigation feature removes the need for a GPS Unit, or subscription to your carrier’s navigation app.
5. Currency - Up-to-date exchange rate info for just about every type of currency used in international markets today. A must for anyone going international.
6. You Keep Your Money – A collection of apps that keep track of expenses. It shows them as graphs for easy analysis.
7. Fake-a-Call- Great for getting out of a meeting gone too long. Set up a call to go off at a given time, and your phone fakes the call for you to conveniently step out and answer.
8. Google Voice – The best VoIP app on Android is — surprise — from Google. This feature-packed app boasts number consolidation, text notification, voicemail transcriptions and several other bullet points.
9. Dropbox – Quickly becoming one of the new must-haves for the tech-savvy, this app allows you to store and share files through your Dropbox account from your phone.
10. It’s About Time – Track your finances from your device, if you’re a Quickbooks user. Easy integration between Quickbooks Online is one of the big draws of this app.
Entertainment
Some Apps are just plain fun. Here are the top 10 entertaining Apps.
1. Ringdroid – A neat little app that lets you slice mp3s on your SD card into custom ringtones. Eliminates the need for all those annoying ringtone apps clogging up the market.
2. MP3 Music Download – Don’t have the song you’re looking for? Must resort to a tone search engine? This is the one — it eliminates as much hassle and fluff from the experience as possible.
3. Movies – This is a Flixster-powered movie info app. Simple to navigate, it features what’s playing, local showtimes, reviews, and even the ability to purchase tickets through the app.
4. Solo – The first guitar app on Android to actually get it right and work well. There’s a free, limited version as well, which drops multi-touch support as well as a chunk of the chord library. $3.95.
5. IMDb – Put all those questions and disagreements about who played who in what TV show/movie to rest with this app. It creates an attractive and easy-to-use wrapper for IMDb.com, putting the site at the touch of a button.
6. DirectTV- While only useful if you have DirectTV, this app is a good proof of concept: it allows the user to control their DVR from anywhere. Forget to set up some shows to record tonight? Sudden change of plans have you out of the house? This can help.
7. Caller ID Faker – Obviously meant for prank calls, this app features the ability to spoof a different number to your target’s caller ID. The unfortunate bit about this app is its two minute limit on free calls, but it’s an excellent start to the idea.
8. Steamy Window – Talk about a fun little time waster. Blow into the mic of your phone to steam up the screen, and wipe it off by touch.
9. Backgrounds – The only background gallery app worth mentioning. If you don’t have any pictures that you’d particularly care to set as a BG, this 10,000+ background app is for you.
10. Useless Facts – Another fun time waster. Interesting, quirky, and offbeat true facts, served up at random.
Games
1. Angry Birds – Physics based action and strategy, involving angry little birds and the pigs they came to get revenge on. Destroy the pigs’ towers using the birds’ unique abilities, logic, and force.
2. Robo Defense – The epitome of a tower defense game on Android. Large maps, achievements, great graphics, and responsive gameplay have made it one of the most popular games on the platform.
3. Fruit Ninja – Who knew that slicing up fruit could be so fun? This hit iPhone game, now available for Android, will have you asking that question repeatedly.
4. Alchemy – Combine the four basic elements (earth, air, water, fire) and their products to create more than 200 different new elements. With a sometimes logical, sometimes bent sensibility, this game will have you captivated.
5. Bubble Blast 2 – A game that involves clicking on bubbles to remove them, and setting up chain reactions. Think Bejeweled, minus all the trademarks and gems.
6. Wordfeud Free – Android’s answer to Words with Friends. A fun little multiplayer crossword app that allows you to play with friends or strangers.
7. Live Hold ‘em – The best live poker app in the Market. Allows you to play with users on Facebook or other Android devices. Just don’t bet!
8. Solitaire – What would a computing platform be without a solitaire suite? Simple and lightweight, this app has four common solitaire games to get you through whatever boring moment you’re facing.
9. Toss It- Tossing paper into trash cans. Sounds exciting, eh? You’d be surprised how addictive it gets, if you haven’t tried out a game like this already.
10. Air Control – Guide aircraft safely down to the landing strip by drawing flight patterns for them, while avoiding crashes between planes.
Social Networking
1. Tweetcaster – The best Twitter app currently on the Market, with all the features one would expect. Share your thoughts in about 140 characters.
2. Facebook – The world’s largest social networking site’s official app. Comes pre-installed on most Android devices.
3. Foursquare- We’re not talking about the traditional ball game. This location-based game that allows you to earn points for letting people know where you’re at in the world.
4. TweetDeck – A mobile browser that combines functionality for Twitter, Facebook, and Foursquare. The standalone apps do what they do better than this one does, but if you’d prefer to have them all in one place, this is your app.
5. HeyTell- Turn any Android phone into a Push-to-Talk phone with this app. Send a short PTT message, encrypted, with the option of location, to other HeyTell users over 3G/4G/WiFi.
6. Bump- Take any two phones that have this app, bump them together, and swap contact information without a single button press. Seriously one of the coolest concepts we’ve found.
7. Myspace Mobile – the first big breakthrough of social networking may be on its way out, but if you’re still a regular user, this is the official app for mobile use of the site.
8. Picasa Tool Pro – A functional, well-built app for users of photo sharing service Picasa. And Picasa is one of the best ways to share and manage photos.
9. SyncMyPix- Are you having problems with Facebook syncing contacts and profile pictures incorrectly, or not at all? Try this app out to simplify the process.
10. Google Buzz Widget – Allows you to post straight to Google Buzz from the homescreen. This might be the kind of push Google needs to turn its fledgling service into a monster success.
Travel
1. Maps – An absolute no-brainer, the up-to-date maps and Navigation beta feature completely obselete the concept of a GPS unit. No Android user should be without it.
2. Street View on Google Maps – A nifty add-on to Maps that lets you get Street View from anywhere on the map. Essential when you;re out in the “real world.”
3. GasBuddy – Comprehensive, up-to-date gas prices are what this app is all about, allowing you to find the cheapest fuel in your area. Very useful for the budget-conscious traveler.
4. Yelp – A massive database of reviews, info, and opinions on all the places to eat, sleep, and play. The ability to write one’s own reviews is a plus.
5. Kayak Flight and Hotel Search – Probably the best hotel/flight booker on a mobile platform, right now. Easy to use, reliable, and the rates aren’t bad.
6. Car Locator – Tag your car’s location when parking in a large lot, and find it again later with minimal hassle and GPS accuracy. Not too great in parking garages, unfortunately, but open-air parking is what this app was made for.
7. Currency – Not quite as important to the traveler as the businessman, but still dead useful. Exchange rates for nearly every currency in the world.
8. Urbanspoon- When you can’t decide where to eat, this app is here to help. It suggests places to try out, and features favorites and wishlists in order to better tailor your experience with the app.
9. Trapster – This app will alert you when you approach known police speed traps, red light cameras, and speed cameras. Throw in 5 million regular users constantly updating the database, and you’ve got a dead useful app.
10. Happy Hours – An app designed with the drink and food specials in mind. This app alerts the user to the best local deals at bars and restaurants.
Sports
1. ESPN Scorecenter – Keep updated on all the latest scores with ESPN’s incredibly comprehensive coverage of every sporting event known to man.
2. Live Scores – Much simpler and more stripped-down than ESPN’s offering, Live Scores is a just-the-facts app for those who want numbers and no flashy designs.
3. MMA News – MMA is hot. Period. This is the most popular and highest quality MMA news aggregator currently available, for those who love their fights.
4. MLB.com At Bat – The official app of the MLB. Scores, news, standings, rankings, and anything else you could ask for. It’s a bit late to pick this one up now, but rest assured that 2011 will bring plenty of joy to the baseball fan with this installed on their device.
5. NBA Game Time – With the 2010-2011 season gearing up, now is the perfect time to pick up the NBA’s official scores and news app.
6. Skydroid Golf GPS – This app turns your phone into a GPS based rangefinder, perfect for club selection on that next tricky shot. Golf just turned more science.
7. Yahoo! Fantasy Football – Fantasy football has exploded. Here’s the web’s #1 fantasy football community by numbers comes to Android in the form of this functional, light app.
8. ESPN Fantasy Football – Manage and get all the news for your fantasy team and league with this convenient app, with the professional backing of ESPN.
9. NFL Sunday Ticket – Another DirectTV based app with a good concept. With a subscription to DTV’s NFL Sunday Ticket package, this app allows live streaming of any and every game being played at the moment.
10. Sports Radio Droid- An internet radio app with a pure focus on sports streams and shows. Great for the superfan.
Healthcare & Fitness
1. Instant Heart Rate – This app measures your heart rate with only a finger over the camera. Pretty nifty, and accurate enough for such a gimmicky application.
2. CardioTrainer – An app to track walking, running, biking, and other activities. Keeps track of distance, time, calories burned, and maps the route taken with GPS.
3. Lightning Bug – A sleep machine app with a decent collection of different sounds. Perfect for those who need a little white noise to sleep to—including babies.
4. Calorie Counter by FatSecret – Keeping track of your calorie intake has never been so easy. Searchable databases and a barcode scanner make it easy to quickly input your meals.
5. Sleep Bot Tracker Log – Exactly what it says on the tin – a sleep tracker. Allows you to not only track how much sleep you’re getting a night, but your total sleep debt overall.
6. Baby ESP – Being a new parent is stressful. This app allows you to track your baby’s needs. It even predicts when you can best to address those needs.
7. First Aid- Plenty of information on first aid for dozens of different situations. Easy to use, and quick — very important in certain emergency situations. Remember, no one expects accidents to happen. Be prepared.
8. Favorite Recipes – Don’t know what to cook? Search recipes by name, ingredients, keywords, and categories. An excellent pocket cookbook.
9. PillReminder – An app version of what women have been doing with their cellphone alarms already for years, this app is basically a birth control reminder. And from the looks of the comments, very effective.
10. Mindfulness Bell – Quite the interesting concept – this app rings a bell periodically during the day, at which point the user is to think about what they are doing and their current mindset. Reportedly, this is very good for mental health and de-stressing.
News
1. The Weather Channel – This App has a great interface with simple and low-resource widgets. Also get up-to-the-minute weather information make this app a must-have.
2. Engadget – This is the dedicated reader for Engadget. It’s the definitive source for news and reviews on gadgets and technology.
3. USA Today – The latest news, scores, and weather from USA Today. A great way to keep aware of what’s happening in the world at large.
4. CNET News – More tech news, but from the decidedly differently-flavored teams at CNET. Very slick, pretty interface on this one.
5. BBC News – The BBC’s top headlines and stories in a convenient package. It’s easy to use and read.
6. HuffingtonPost.com – Keep on top of the Huffington Post’s provocative and informative reporting with this app. Not your average news here, Ladies and Gentlemen.
7. reddit is fun – An easy to use shell for reddit.com, taking all the hassle out of using mobile web to browse the site. Just open it up, read, and vote.
8. NY Times – The New York Times in a simple, compact app. No need to explain this, right?
9. Voter Map – More of a discussion of the news than news itself, but with midterms just finishing, this app connects politically active minds to one another quite beautifully.
10. World Newspapers – Top News - An aggregator collecting news stories from all the major US news outlets, including The Wall Street Journal and USA Today, as well as many non-US papers/magazines, and web content. Great for an all-in-one solution to your news, though the standalone apps for each source look prettier.
Reference
1. Google Sky Map – One of the coolest things to come out of Google labs, this app overlays a map of the night sky on wherever the camera is facing, showing you what stars you’re looking at (or would be, in case of daytime).
2. Aldiko Book Reader- Currently the most successful e-reader on Android, with tens of thousands of texts to choose from. Must-have for literary types. Remember readers are leaders.
3. Kindle for Android – Bringing the Amazon Kindle’s entire library to the Android userbase. That’s like 700,000 texts.
4. Dictionary.com – An app wrapper for Dictionary.com, this turns it from a website into a pocket dictionary. Useful and quick.
5. Wikidroid- Wikipedia in a more attractive format for mobile devices, with all the functionality of the actual site ported into the menus. The best destination for any random knowledge you could ever want.
6. United States Constitution – The full text of the Constitution, for review or edification. You’d be surprised how many people have no clue what it says.
7. Wolfram Alpha – The computational knowledge engine that was a minor internet firestorm not too long ago is now available in a convenient app.
8. Audible for Android – Audible, the Internet’s leading provider of digital audiobooks, presents its library for listening pleasure in this app.
9. Urban Dictionary - Slang has become such a huge part of our language that it’s nearly impossible to keep up with all of it. Thankfully, Urban Dictionary does the work for us. And it’s funny.
10. How to Tie a Tie – Now let’s be honest, nobody is going to need this app for more than one special occasion, or maybe their first week at a job that requires a tie. But it performs its function.
Music
1. Pandora Radio – The absolute best music app of all time. Customizable radio stations, tailored to your tastes by you.
2. Last.fm – Between Pandora-style stations, the social networking aspect of Last.fm, and the ability to scrobble plays to your Last.fm profile, this app is a fun total package for those wanting to be more sociable with their music.
3. TuneIn Radio- Listen to radio streams that have jumped on board with TuneIn, from local to syndicated to internet broadcasts. Just download and “tune in!”
4. Listen – Google’s standard podcatcher, and the best one currently available. Manage your podcast subscriptions, listen to new episodes, and search through the catalog of thousands of audio feeds.
5. Ringdroid – A neat little app that lets you slice mp3s on your SD card into custom ringtones. Eliminates the need for all those annoying ringtone apps clogging up the market.
6. Shazam – An app that puts an end to wondering what song you’re hearing on the radio. The app listens to the song, analyzes it, and reports back with the title and artist, as well as links to info and places to purchase.
7. Winamp- Still in beta, Winamp’s mobile incarnation far outclasses any of the stock Music players that come packaged with Android builds. Highly recommended as a main music player.
8. TuneWiki Social Media Player – another music player that beats the stock application, with a twist: this one searches and displays the lyrics of a given song karaoke style as the song plays.
9. Album Art Grabber Free – A tool that grabs album art for the music loaded on your SD card. Not essential, but sure does make things prettier when combined with Winamp.
10. Uloops Music Composer – A loop-based music composition program with a vibrant and talented community. There’s a bit of a learning curve to using it, but this is probably the best way to make music on a mobile platform seen yet.
Which Apps have you downloaded? Are there any you think should be added to this list?
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Money Saving Tips to Buy Gadgets
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Save money and saving money more to buy gadgets. Read on the article for some effective tips for right approach toward the plan to buy gadgets. The main issue about purchasing gadgets is purchasing comfort, economy, and health; therefore, it is required to have some green tips for enjoying green effect in life with about these gadgets. Gadgets have become the part and parcel of our life. Hardly any of us can imagine our life with different gadgets. Great Money Saving Tips We all can use extra money.
Money Saving Tips to Buy Gadgets. Read on the article for some effective tips for right approach toward the plan to buy gadgets. Campus on a Budget: Money Saving Tips For College Students. While at $109000, this isn't exactly a money saving gadget. It's really helpful and, like your tips, shows us all great ways that we can use discredit yourselves to buy labeling what should really be side notes.
While purchasing gadget we should consider the features of the said gadget first and accordingly need to think about the utility of the features of the gadget for the purchaser. For example, before purchasing a mobile phone, one has to see if all the features of the phone are really required by the users or not. Those who are simple user should not go for hi-end phones for the sake of fashion or status only.
Energy saving factors is of great importance while the purchase of a gadget is concerned. It is always wise to buy gadgets with 5-or 7-star ratings because these ratings ensure the energy efficiency of the said gadget. More the gadget is energy efficient; it is proven as more economic.
While we purchase a new gadget we often consider the features and price but we forget to consider the after sales service and warranty section of the gadget. It is true that quality gadgets hardy gets damaged during first 2-3 years and that covers the warranty coverage of the same provided by the manufacturer. However, after- sales service efficiency should be one of the prime factors in selection of a gadget and before purchasing it should be verified if the service center for that gadget is located at near by location. It will not only save money but will also save time.
Another deciding factor to buy gadgets is the availability and price of the spare parts of the same. If spare parts of a gadget are not available or it is too costly, it is better not go for that item. Otherwise, in case of damage the whole investment will go in vein. Those who are concerned about output of the gadget and at the same time is running on tight budget may consider the option of purchasing refurbished or open box items. Refurbished items are retailer repaired products and open box products are sold-back products. Both of these items are available against lesser price than the new one but they render service as new products. However, before considering purchase of repaired or refurbished items, it is always wise to verify the reputation and background of the retailer so that in requirement the customer may ask for his assistance for servicing.
It is always good to go for branded items while purchasing a gadget. This may incur little more investment, but it will prove ultimately big saver of money. Online shopping to buy gadgets is a great idea because some of the online stores offer huge discount around the year. If one can avail these discounts, it will help in saving considerable amount of money.
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Android - Google Guide to Gingerbread Tips and Tricks
Keep in mind most of these are specific to Android 2.3 Gingerbread. Here's my list:
1. Tips
- Visual cue for scrolling: When you are in a scrollable list (like your Gmail inbox) and you reach the end of the list it shows an orange hue—a visual cue that you can’t scroll anymore.
- Notification bar icons (Wi-Fi, network coverage bars, etc.): Turn green when you have an uninhibited connection to Google, white when you don't. Hint: if you're in a hotel or airport using Wi-Fi, the bars won't turn green until you launch the browser and get past the captive portal.
- Voice actions: Tell your phone what to do by pressing the microphone icon next to the search box on the home screen, or long press the magnifying glass. You can tell it to send an email or text message (“send text to mom, see you for pizza at 7”), call someone ("call mom"), navigate somewhere (“navigate to pizza”), or listen to music ("listen to Mamma Mia").
- Find things you’ve downloaded from your browser: Your downloads are now neatly collected in a Downloads manager, which you can find in the apps drawer.
- Turn a Gallery stack into a slideshow: In Gallery, when you are looking at a stack of photos, put two fingers on the stack and spread them. The stack spreads out and the pictures flow from one finger to the other, a moving slideshow that lets you see all of the photos.
- Walk, don’t drive: Once you’ve gotten directions within Google Maps, click on the walking person icon to get walking directions.
- Easy text copy/paste from a webpage: To copy/paste from a webpage, long press some text, drag the handles around to select the text you want to copy, and press somewhere in the highlighted region. To paste, simply long press a text entry box and select paste. Gmail is a bit different: you need to go to Menu > More > Select Text.
- Turn your phone into a Wi-Fi hotspot: Go to Settings > Wireless & Networks > Tethering & Portable Hotspot. (You may have to pay extra for this feature.)
- Look at Maps in 3D: With the latest release of Google Maps, you can now look at 3D maps. Tilt the map by sliding two fingers vertically up/down the screen, and rotate it by placing two fingers on the map and sliding in a circular motion, e.g., from 12 and 6 o’clock to 3 and 9.
- Cool shutdown effect: When you put the phone to sleep, you’ll see an animation that resembles an old cathode tube TV turning off.
- Shift+Key to capitalize a word: In Gingerbread (and supported hardware), you can Shift+Key to capitalize a letter instead of going to a separate all caps keyboard.
- Auto-complete: The space bar lights up when auto-complete can finish a word.
- Quick replace: Tap on any previously typed word, then tap on a suggestion to automatically replace it with the suggested word.
- Easy access to special characters (like numbers, punctuation): Press and hold any key to go to the special character keyboard. You can also press and hold the "," key for an extensive punctuation keyboard.
- Angry Birds: Popular game that lets you knock down blocks by slingshotting birds.
- Astro: Awesome file explorer app. Browse and access the directories on your phone, and take full advantage of its capabilities. Great if you’re a power user.
- Chrome to Phone: This one is really useful for Chrome users. You can send anything you browse on your computer to your phone. So if you are heading out to a restaurant or party and look up directions on your computer, just click the “send to phone” button (requires Chrome to Phone extension) and that exact page will open on your phone. Same with virtually any webpage.
- Flash: Install from Android Market to watch Flash videos embedded throughout the web. Runs even better on Gingerbread.
- Fruit Ninja: A juicy action game that tests your ability to smash flying fruit. A fun time-killer on the bus or train.
- FXCamera: Popular photo sharing app with slick effects and filters.
- Google Maps: Use your device as a GPS navigation system with free turn-by-turn voice guidance, and take advantage of other Google Maps features like Street View, Latitude and Places.
- Instant Heart Rate: Measure your heart rate using your camera.
- Phoneanlyzr: Track your phone usage: who you text most, call most, average call length distribution, etc.
- RemoteDroid: Control your computer from your phone. Gives you a mobile wireless mouse and keyboard. Great if you’re using your computer for music or movies.
- Shazam: Identifies virtually any song you are listening to.
- SoundHound: Record a snippet of a song and get it identified instantly. You can even hum (if you can carry a tune!).
- Tango: A free, high-quality video call app that works on both 3G and Wi-Fi. If your device has a front facing camera (e.g., Nexus S), you will love this app.
- YouTube: New UI. Plus, portrait-mode player, and view comments and drop-down box video information
Senin, 21 Februari 2011
Top Best Android Apps for Business Must Have 2011
Label: Android, Android Apps, Apps, Business, Business Online, Buy Online, Ecommerce, Gadget, Shop Home, Shop Online, Smartphone, Software
Time is precious and all business entrepreneurs will undoubtedly agree with the fact that time is money. Gadgets and technology get together. This year, sales of smartphones based on Google's Android operating system have begun to surpass Apple's iPhone in the U.S., according to Nielsen. With increasing interest in Android handsets, mobile application developers are starting to make business-specific apps. Here are 10 apps from Google's Android Market, selected with the help of Google, that are popular and highly rated (on a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 the highest) by users.
When you are looking for a smartphone other than an iPhone, the Andoid smartphone might be the one you're looking for. Cellular South reveals the best Android apps for business and reminds users that Android is also for professionals. The choice of apps for the Android mobile operating system is bewildering, so Jason Hiner picks out some of his favourites. If you own an Android smartphone, you can make your life a lot easier with apps that enhance your business productivity while you're on the business ecommerce.
Documents to Go 3.0 (DataViz)
Free viewer; $14.99 for full version
Rating: 4.5 stars
View, edit, and create Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Adobe PDF files. If you want to edit or create files, you'll need to buy the full version.
PocketCloud (Wyse Technology)
Free for limited features; $14.99 for full version
Rating: 4.5 stars
Access Windows, Mac, or Linux desktop files and applications from your handset. It's free to use with home machines, but workers who want to use this with a corporate computer on a network need to buy the full version.
Ignition for Android (LogMeIn)
$29.99
Rating: 4.5 stars
Your computers become an extension of your Android smartphone with this app. Remotely access and control both work and home computers, as long as they're connected to the Internet.
UPS Mobile App for Android (UPS)
Free
Rating: 4 stars
Track packages or freight shipments from your handset and estimate shipment costs and delivery times. This app also lets you access your address book and payment info at UPS.com and find the nearest UPS service locations.
TouchDown (NitroDesk)
Free 30-day trial; $19.99
Rating: 4.5 stars
Workers can connect to corporate e-mail with Android devices and get new e-mail messages pushed to smartphones rather than needing to remember to download messages. TouchDown supports encryption, and the IT department can wipe data on the device should it be lost or stolen.
Astro File Manager (Metago)
Free; $3.99 for app with no ads
Rating: 5 stars
This app helps you copy, move, delete, and rename files on your smartphone. It also lets you send files as attachments to e-mail messages and read and extract compressed files, such as Zip and Tar files.
Evernote (Evernote)
Free
Rating: 4 stars
Evernote helps you remember things, whether it's a receipt from that last business dinner or the name of the executive you met at a conference. The app lets you type a text note, clip a Web page, snap a photo, or grab a screen shot and store it, organize it, and find it later.
Travel Organizer (TripIT)
Free
Rating: 4 stars
When you're on the road, you can see the details of your itinerary, get maps and directions, and make phone calls straight from your itinerary with the tap of a finger.
Expense Reports (Expensify)]
Free
Rating: 4 stars
Never lose another receipt. Log expenses, scan receipts, and take comfort that a free service will back up those receipts online. This app also lets you import expenses and receipts from your credit-card or bank account.
Dropbox (Dropbox)
Free
Rating: 4.5 stars
Sync files between your computers and mobile devices. Share links to files and save photos and videos from your camera to your computers. This app also lets you browse a Dropbox folder from your handset.
Admittedly, I feel more confident downloading apps from the Apple store than I do from the Android Marketplace because I know that Apple strives to protect. Cellular South Touts Android Apps for Business Users The software can business users the possibility to easily find the most useful and fun Android apps available today. Top 15 Android Business Apps Highly useful Andriod apps for a wide variety of business tasks, from travel aids to financial transactions to office productivity.
10 Must-Have Android Apps for Business Whether you're running the next great business pitch from your phone or you just need to jot down ideas and edit documents on the go, we have you covered. 101 Best Android Apps in Business Here are the results for 101 Best Android Apps in Business on 101 Best Android Apps. Vote for your favourite applications.
10 must-have Android apps for business Whether you're running the next great business pitch from your phone or you just need to jot down ideas and edit documents on the go business online. 11 Must-Have Android Apps for Business Among all the apps pouring into Google's Market, here are a few notable gems.
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