Five Productivity iPhone and Android apps

Apr 232011
 

With all of the new and VERY complicated smartphones and tablets, productivity apps have become immensely popular and useful for the average smartphone owner. However, many people don’t know much about the top productivity applications

Productivity can be interpreted differently by different people. It’s direct definition is “the quality of being productive or having the power to produce” which overall, basically means the ability to get things done quickly and stress-free. Here are the top 5 productivity applications for iOS and Android smartphones and a brief summary of each.

iOS  Productivity Apps

1. Tips & Tricks – iPhone Secrets

This $0.99 application is mainly directed towards those iPhone users that aren’t very tech savvy or have never owned an iPhone before. It is essential information in over 120 written tips and free updates with each revision of iOS. The great thing about this app is they keep it new and current. Some of the tips are advanced ones that you would not find on your own.

2. Flashlight

This is the #1 free productivity app store application. It is the most basic, easy to use flashlight that uses the LED flash to its fullest ability. The only downside to this app is that it can burn up your battery if the flashlight is turned on for too long. Strobe/Blinking mode is also supported and best of all its free.

3. JotNot Scanner Pro

Out of all of these applications JotNot Scanner is my favorite. This $0.99 app gives you the ability to scan and save documents, receipts, whiteboards and more all from your iPhone! However, this is not like a photo app at all. It makes your photo a clear black and white document, but you can also have the picture in color. Overall, this app is very useful and can help anyone out that wants to keep and save documents easily.

4. Week Calendar

This $1.99 application is pretty much a better and more equipped version of iCal for your iPhone or iPod touch. Week Calendar provides a calendar overview with a better day, week, and month overview. This application is directed towards the type of people that need to keep track of what they’re doing and when they are doing it.

5. iTranslate ~ the free translator

iTranslate is the best Universal Translator on the App Store today. It includes over 50 languages, Voice recognition, Conversation Mode, 18 free voices, Dictionaries, save & copy, and Landscape mode. Whether you’re doing your language homework in school or just wondering what a certain word or phrase means this is the app for you! Best of all its free!

Android Productivity Apps

1. Root Explorer

This app is just $3.97 and Root Explorer is the ultimate file manager for root users. Access the whole of android’s file system (including the elusive data folder!). Additional features include SQLite database viewer, Text Editor, create and extract zip or tar/gzip files, multi-select, and many more!

2. Swift Key

SwiftKey is a great $1.99 application for anyone look for an easier to type on keyboard. From the Android Store “SwiftKey Keyboard uses AI technology to make typing smart, fast and personal.” This app is innovative, useful, and very easy to use.

3. ADWLauncher EX

ADWLauncher EX is an awesome way to tweak your phone without any rooting or hacking needed. Just $3.35 to tweak your Android desktop. It comes with hundreds of themes, Icons editor to create your own customized shortcuts, and a customizable main dock. ADWLauncher EX is different from ADW.Launcher in that it has a lot of new additions and improvements.

4. ezPDF Reader

ezPDF Reader is a simple, $0.99 app that basically is a PDF Reader! One addition is that it plays both video and audio. One cool thing you can do with this app is called Freehand draw. It says to just long click on the screen to activate and you can change the color and thickness of the line. Pretty cool, right?

5. JuiceDefender Ultimate

Last but certainly not least is JuiceDefender Pro. This app is kind of pricy at $5.09 but still seems like a very great application for those that are having batter problems. It gives you “Absolute control over your battery” and includes wifi control, 2G/3G control and many more!

All 10 of these apps are great productivity apps for many different types of people on two different platforms.

What are your favorite types of productivity apps? Let us know and comment!

 


Facebook launched Facebook Auto Tagging Feature

Dec 162010
 

Facebook today released new feature that will make your Facebook Tagging feature much easier. In their blog today Facebook announced face recognition tagging which basically will try to tag you or your friends in photos that were published.

This isn’t really something new , Facebook back in October launched pretty much similar feature that allowed you to tag person in group of photos instead of just one by one, this time Facebook tagging recognition software will try to recognize your face in photos that your friends posted and let’s hope that it will do good job. Some of my friends told me I look like James Dean so if somebody adds picture of James Dean am I going to get tagged? Weird huh?

facebook recognition tagging software picture

Currently this Facebook tagging recognition software is only distributed to 5% of the Facebook accounts but if all turns out to be good, many will get it by end of this year.

We’ll be debuting tag suggestions to users in the United States over the next few weeks. Look for tags suggestions when you upload groups of photos that feature the same friends, and see how they can help you share life’s occasions—large and small—every day.

Well if you are interested more about this feature I would suggest to head over to Facebook Blog and read more about it, and don’t forget to share this article on Facebook with the blue button above. (Thanks)

Android Generates more Ad Revenue than iPhone-Millennia Media

Oct 192010
 

Mobile ad company Millennia Media found that Android ad revenue has, for the first time ever, beaten iPhone ad revenue on the company’s network.

According to the Millennia Media’s September “Mobile Mix” report, Android occupied the second-largest device status on its network, and this was continued since July 2010. According to the report, Android started to gain improvements at the rate 2% month-over-month and is currently 29%. Here, Apple’s iOS impressions are very hard to ignore as it accounts for 46% impressions.

The overall figures according to this report is as, Android ad requests improved to 1,283% since January. Rim ad requests are at 143%. Here, the significant change or difference is that the much popular Apple’s iOS ad requests are just grown to a little extent as 18%. This is clearly indicating the Android’s rapid growth this year. Although the OS may not have the raw mobile ad impression numbers of its iOS counterpart on Millennia Media’s network, it has been coming online with the company in increasingly large numbers.

IPhone 3,2 Hits “AP” Field Test Stage

Oct 182010
 

Apple’s latest iPhone 3,2 was assumed to be the Verizon (CDMA-compatible) phone. It is rumored and informed through a reliable source to “boy genius” that the said device hit the “AP: testing stage. Generally this “AP”test stage is the one happens just before to its release. It means the device reached to all its final hardware and final software status and soon will be ready for retail release.

The iPhone 3,2 device contains a SIM card slot. Perhaps the facility is for:

• It is heard that the latest device could accommodate CDMA+GSM+HSPA, that means it would support Verizon, AT&T and some other worldwide iPhone carriers frequencies quite comfortably. This is indicating that the Verizon Wireless subscribers and AT&T subscribers will have the same device.

• There is a possibility that this iPhone 3,2 could be a CDMA-phone along with a capacity to hold another SIM for global roaming.

• Also, there is a possibility that this device is designed in a way that all the earlier antenna issues will not be having any chance to trouble as it did for other models.

If the information is true and sources are reliable, it is indicating that the much hyped device is soon going to see the light. Is there any chance for this holiday season?

iPhone Camera Uses Pleco 2.2 Chinese Dictionary to Translate text in Real Time Video

Aug 162010
 

Perhaps many individuals are not aware of the Pleco Chinese dictionary, but it has already reached two full version releases successfully. So far most of us are using OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software in converting the image to text. This OCR been a great help in many times in reading business cards. Google Google-Smartphone apps which will converts images into text works through this OCR.

Now, Pleco 2.2, is the first of its kind app that is capable enough to translate text in real time using the live image presented on your phone camera display. This new feature is going to available for users from September this year and it needs iOS4. This feature can work on iPhone 4 or older 3G versions successfully.

Via Engadget

iOS Software Will be no Longer Vulnerable Through Recent Fix

Aug 052010
 

Apple confirmed a recent development that their newly developed fix can keep the iOS software vulnerability at bay. One of the Apple’s spokes woman also said as “we’re aware of this reported issue, we have already developed a fix and it will be available to customers in an upcoming software update”, but the release date for this fix was not announced.

This developed fix is a response to the Apple’s earlier announcement confirming “investigating” on the iOS vulnerabilities.

Earlier “comex” the iPhone Dev team hacker initially identified these flaws and users were allowed to jailbreak their iOS devices. The users that were used browser-based jailbreak faced some of the Face Time and MMS service related problems. These issues were resolved instantly from the iPhone development team within no time.

All these flaws and vulnerabilities had gained a lot more unnecessary attention during this week. One German government agency took this a step forward and asked all their users to avoid the usage of PDF files on their device. In addition to this many security firms labeled this issue as “critical” too.

German government was kept on expressing their concern about iPhone 4 and iOS security features since June the same was highlighted in the New York Times too.

Now, Apple has come up with a fix for all these flaws and vulnerabilities, users should wait for the release of this fix through upcoming updates.

How To Speed Up Mozilla Firefox and More

Jun 282010
 
Firefox

This Tutorial only works well for Broadband Connections

  1. Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return.
  2. Look for the following entries

    network.http.pipelining
    Change False to True

    network.http.proxy.pipelining
    Change False to True

    network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
    Change 4 to any value higher than 4, but not more than 8

    network.http.max-connections
    Change 30 to 96

    network.http.max-connections-per-server
    Change 15 to 32

  3. Right-click anywhere and select:
  4. New-> Integer. Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0″. This value is the amount in Milliseconds that the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.

For more in depth explanations visit the Links:

About:config entries

Editing configuration

Customizing Mozilla

The Preferential project This page contains an extensive list of Mozilla preferences, although it is not complete, it is one of the most comprehensive resources available on the Internet.

Excellent Tutorial on About:config

Excellent Tutorial on About:config http://youtube.jimmyr.com/

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Windows Live Essentials beta Ready To Download

Jun 242010
 

Microsoft has released its Windows Live Essentials Wave 4 suite Beta for Download Today 24/June/2010

What is it?

“Windows Live Essentials beta includes free programs from Microsoft for photos, movies, instant messaging, e‑mail, blogging, and more. Get them all in one download and get more done with Windows.

Windows Live Essentials beta requires Windows 7 or Windows Vista. Learn how to upgrade from Windows XP. It includes beta versions of Messenger, Photo Gallery, Mail, Movie Maker, Writer, Family Safety, and Sync, plus Bing Bar and Messenger Companion. You also get Microsoft Office Outlook Connector Pack and Microsoft Silverlight.”

Windows Live Essentials beta Programs

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Wolfram Alpha iPhone App from $50 to $2 Price Change due to iPad Release

Apr 012010
 

wolfram alpha iphone Wolfram Alpha changed price today from $50 to $1.99 for famous iPhone App. Wolfram changed their iPhone app price today due to iPad release , it is unclear as of right now why they changed it.

You can download wolfram alpha by going to this iTunes link.

But what about those that bought app for $50 yesterday? Don’t worry they get money back as well by going to this url.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/iwantmymoneyback

What is Wolfram Alpha?

Get answers. Access expert knowledge. Wherever you are. Whenever you need it.
Find out how much vitamin C is in a bowl of ice cream. Learn what European country has the fourth largest population of children. Compute solutions to difficult trig and calculus problems. Balance complex chemical equations. Discover what is overhead as you gaze up at the stars. Finally crack that crossword puzzle.
Whoever you are and whatever you do, Wolfram|Alpha delivers insight and understanding into any facet of your life.

 

XBox 360 Will Support USB Flash Drives as Memory, Release Date April 6th

Mar 262010
 

xbox 360 usb storage support Major Nelson just announced that XBox 360 will support USB Flash drives which can be used as additional memory storage to save Games, Demos and Profiles. The good thing is that you can take that USB flash drive to another Xbox 360 and re-configure everything you had on your previous XBox 360.  This means that instead of buying extra hard drive for your XBox 360, you will be able to use your 32GB USB flash drive.

Release date for Xbox 360 update is April 6th.

Here are some key points:

  • You can have 2 devices connected to the console at a time, enabling up to 32GB of simultaneous storage.
  • The system won’t just configure the device once it is connected to the console. You’ll need to head to the memory area in system settings, select your USB Device, and choose from Configure Now (Format and Configure the Full Device), or Customize (you can choose how much memory you want configured for Xbox360 from the free space on the device.)
  • Enhanced memory management functions, so you’ll be able to have better control on what you want to copy or move between storage devices.

Checkout rest of the screenshots of Xbox 360 supporting USB Flash Drive via Flickr.

More via Major Nelson

Kindle Software for Mac Released and Ready for Download

Mar 182010
 

Kindle for Mac Amazon today released Kindle for Mac software which allows you to read Kindle based books which you can purchase via Amazon.  With Kindle for Mac you can chose and buy over 450.000 books which includes 101 out of 112 New York Times best sellers!

The only thing what Kindle software for Mac does not include which Kindle gadget does is the reading of Magazines, Blogs and Newspaper articles.

To download Kindle for Mac go to Amazon.com

Find out more by going to MWD site and use search box.

MacHeist Adding Tweetie 2.0 to NanoBundle

Mar 092010
 

Untitled Mac users will love this especially those that love to Tweet. MacHeist added Tweetie to NanoBundle. App alone cost $20 bucks but with MacHeist you get will get free upgrade to Tweetie 2.0 which is soon to be released.

With the NanoBundle which cost $19.99 not only you save $322 but you also give donation to various charities.

MacHeist NanoBundle includes:

  • MacJournal
  • Ripit
  • Clips
  • CoverScout
  • Flow
  • Tales of Monkey Island
  • RapidWaver (locked until $50K bundle purchases have been made)
  • Tweetie (locked until $50K bundle purchases have been made)

Enough writing from me, go to MacHeist and see it for your self. By the time you read this , maybe Tweetie and RapidWaver are already unlocked!

Playstation Network Problems Have Been Resolved

Mar 022010
 

Yesterday we reported that Playstation Network has been down for several hours. Late Monday night PSN Admins resolved the problem by indentifying what was causing the issue.

We are aware that the internal clock functionality in the PS3 units other than the slim model, recognized the year 2010 as a leap year. Having the internal clock date change from February 29 to March 1 (both GMT), we have verified that the symptoms are now resolved and that users are able to use their PS3 normally.

If the time displayed on the XMB is still incorrect, users are able to adjust time settings manually or via the internet

For additional info please visit Playstation Blog

Apple iPhone Security Update 3.1.3, time to re-jailbreak?

Feb 032010
 

 

Yesterday Apple released what is now the latest update for for it’s iPhone.  Now the current version is 3.1.3.  Apple has gone only five months since it’s last update to 3.1.2.

3.1.2 fixed a bug that affected many people, including myself, that caused the iPhone to sporadically reboot.  Will 3.1.3 be as helpful?

 

A cheesy iphone Ad made by Me.

Image by twenty5pics via Flickr

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Firefox 3.6 Is Out So What Changed?

Jan 222010
 

Not too long ago Firefox 3.6 was released. You can read the changelog below in case you wonder what changes have been made. Personally I have noticed great performance especially with sites that use lots of Java Scripts.

Firefox web browser - Faster, more secure, & customizable - Mozilla Europe_1264174449566

    • Available in more than 70 languages – get your local version.
    • Support for a new type of theme called Personas, which allow users to change Firefox’s appearance with a single click.
    • Protection from out-of-date plugins to keep users safer as they browse.
    • Open, native video can now be displayed full screen and supports poster frames.
    • Improved JavaScript performance, overall browser responsiveness, and startup time.
    • The ability for web developers to indicate that scripts should run asynchronously to speed up page load times.
    • Continued support for downloadable web fonts using the new WOFF font format.
    • Support for new CSS attributes such as gradients, background sizing, and pointer events.
    • Support for new DOM and HTML5 specifications including the Drag & Drop API and the File API, which allow for more interactive web pages.
    • Changes to how third-party software can integrate with Firefox in order to prevent crashes.
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