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[Android] How to get paid apps for Free

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Follow the following steps to get Android Paid App for Free: Goto your Android Phones Setting --> Applications  --> Enable Checkbox for Unknown Sources Now tap the Browser icon of your phone and type www.4Shared.com in the address bar and when the page loads click in the search box & type for the application you are looking for. (example: grabatron apk) Hit Download Button when the Download button appears. The Download should start in the notifications center, if its not working check whether you have internet connection or not.

[App Development] Windows 8 or Android: Big dilemma for app developers

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For Microsoft, and Amazon.com, and the clutch of other companies that hope to carve out a big slice of a mobile computing business currently dominated by Apple, the future depends on people like Scott Porad. As chief technology officer of Cheezburger Network, a popular publisher of humor websites, Porad has to make the tough calls on which mobile devices merit the development of special software, or apps, that will make the company's content shine. Developing apps for the hot-selling iPhonemight be a no-brainer, but that's not the case when it comes to apps for Microsoft's new Windows 8 software, or for the various versions of Google's Android mobile operating system, or for Research in Motion's BlackBerry devices. "We are a small company and we don't have unlimited resources," said Porad "We cannot afford to do it all, that's for sure." Cheezburger, an independent publisher with 85 employe...

[Tablets] Predicting how tablets will evolve by 2015

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Tablets have finally made it through the struggles of childhood and are now entering their rambunctious teenage years. We’ve weeded out the “me too” products and are left with three major players in the tablet market: Apple, Google, and a resurgent Microsoft. The products from the former two are reaching a state of maturity, where they can reliably serve enterprise computing functions, while Microsoft is gearing up for a major push into the market it once owned. With the market maturing, how might tablets evolve and be serving the enterprise in the coming three years? Personalized, schizophrenic Just as mobile phones and laptops have increasingly become tools of personal expression, tablets have continued the trend. This has created a difficult task for CIOs, who are now asked to allow any and all devices into the corporate network while simultaneously maintaining security. I believe users will win out in terms of bringing their personal tablets to work, but we’ll in...

[Android] Top 5 Never-Ending Free Action Games on Android

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Most of us are Androiders now days and every other person among us have an Android smartphone. With that smartphone of ours one of the coolest things we love to do is playing games. Most of us have mixed emotions when we finish that last stage of our beloved action games, we feel happy for the expertise we gained and the feel of victory, but the sad part is that the game is over and there are no more levels to conquer. The games listed here are from a different league, they are endless. They don’t have levels and they just get tougher and tougher until you give up and start again. One more good news is, these games are available for free in Google Play for Android device owners. 1. Temple Run Size: 22M Requires Android: 2.1 and Above This is one of the additive games you can find on Android. The whole theme of the games revolved around the story line that you have stolen the cursed idol from an ancient temple and now you have run for your l...

[Adobe Flash Player] Adobe Pulls Flash Player From Google Store

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Adobe ’s capitulation on mobile Flash , which began last year with the announcement it would be scrapping further mobile Flash Player development, got real today with the official abandonment of the player on Google’s Android mobile OS. Early this morning, Adobe dropped the Flash Player browser plugin from the Google Play store. While pre-Jelly Bean versions of Android can continue to run Flash if it’s installed, and Jelly Bean devices can install it via workaround, Adobe recommends against doing so, as it doesn’t plan to offer security updates and bug fixes for existing versions of Flash for Android after September 2013, and attempting to run the plugin on Jelly Bean may result in “unpredictable behavior.” The removal of Flash from Google Play comes as Adobe refocuses its mobile video efforts around HTML5 , something the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs suggested it do years ago. “New open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5 , w...

[Android] Signing certificates for clients in Android

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Signing certificates for Android apps are a seemingly simple thing, but it can get a little more complicated when you develop apps for a client. If you’re not familiar with signing, you may want to read Google’s instructions on signing Android apps . Read on for a few things to look out for when you build apps for a client. Why signing keys are important First, the obligatory reminder: Back up your keystore–without it, you can never update an app on Google Play again. You would need to create a new app and start over. This is because once an app is released to Google Play, all future updates must be signed with the exact same signing certificate. No exceptions, no excuses. Now, backing up your keystore may be easy when you’re developing apps for yourself, but what about when you’re building apps for a client? What if you have a very large number of clients, each with a different certificate? The same rules a...

[SmartPhones] Mobile computing and the demise of the desktop

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Apple’s earnings, which were recently released, had an interesting subtext beneath numbers that generally disappointed investors. As Apple’s flagship iPhone and iPad sales had another brisk quarter, Macintosh sales slowed, and desktops fell 13%. With the iPad eclipsing overall Mac sales, is the tablet finally poised to banish the desktop to the annals of technology history? The dawn of the specialized processor One of the major factors that might spell the end of the desktop as we know it has been the rise of specialized processors. In the traditional end-user computing market, upgrading processing power was largely a question of adding more transistors. Need more number crunching, video processing, or data manipulation power? Add more transistors. Computer graphics largely led the transition of specialized processors in the end-user space, with everyone from gamers to graphics professionals quickly discovering that a commodity video expansion card, optimized for mo...

[iOS] 10 Reasons Why Apple Bans Google from iOS 6

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Bangalore: The new Apple operating system iOS 6 is still in the pipeline and is giving surprises to the industry everyday announcing features like Siri, a new share screen, etc. But the latest one to stun the world is the news that there will be no YouTube app in iOS 6 . This came after Apple announced the replacement of Google Maps with its own Maps application, a couple of months ago. The effect of this change would be to the users who now will be forced to watch YouTube videos from within the browser. It is clear that Apple wants to keep Google out of its operating system and hence from its devices. Here are the reasons why. 1. They are Competitors It is not very surprising that Apple wants to keep Google away from its devices. They have been the archrivals for a few years. Where iPhone is one of the largest selling Smartphone powered by Apple ’s own iOS 6 , Google powers more than half of the world’s Smartphones with its Android . And now wi...

[iPhone] Apple Reveals Secrets Behind iPhone's Birth

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Bangalore: Apple, by going to a jury trial to defend the patents of its most prized products, is allowing its competitors and the public to see inside one of the most secretive companies in the world. By showing the public how it designs products that have changed the electronics industry twice, Apple has risked losing some of its secrecy. During the patent trial with South Korean mobile maker Samsung, Apple's senior vice president, Scott Forstall, has recently revealed the secret behind the iOS user interface. He disclosed the hard work and innovation that went into developing it. "The goal of an operating system is to run the entire machine, to drive the machine. We wanted an operating system that could last for another 20 years. The strategy was a modern operating system", he said. Forstall, who is with Apple since 1997, revealed how Apple decided to start on the iPhone project. Forstall and his colleagues had thought, "I remember sitt...

[Electronic Gadgets] 5 little-known things about your gadgets

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 Your gadgets may have many hidden features not mentioned in the manual. Here are some little-known facts about how you can put them to multiple use and extract some more value... Convert your smartphone or tablet into a media player The traditional way of enjoying your movies on your TV is by using a DVD/Blu-Ray player, home theatre system or by plugging in a USB drive. However, if you don't have any of these options, you could use a compatible phone or tablet as a TV-connected media player. What you need A decently powerful smartphone or tablet capable of HD video playback and HDMI output. You will need to get the appropriate cable to connect your device to your TV; Apple HDMI adapter in case of iPad, iPod Touch or iPhone, and micro HDMI to HDMI or mini HDMI to HDMI in case of many other smartphones and tablets. Playback with wires Tablets and smartphones connected to a TV via HDMI usually output in full HD resolution along with audio....

[Android] Tutorial - How to use SQLite to create a contacts browser in Android

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Google’s Android has strong database support. By default, Android ships with SQLite , a powerful, full-featured, small footprint technology. SQLite is not specific to Android; it’s an open source technology that’s been around since 2000, and has enjoyed adoption on a number of embedded platforms. On Android, SQLite provides not just a solid database layer, but also a means of Inter Process Communication (IPC). While processes on Android are generally isolated for security reasons, SQLite, combined with the platform’s content provider model, allows applications to share some data in a controlled fashion. Probably the most straightforward example of using a content provider can be demonstrated using the Contacts list on your device. This tutorial implements a no-frills contacts browser. You can follow along with the step-by-step instructions below or download the entire project and import it into Eclipse . 1. Start a new Android project in Eclipse. Because we are us...