Yearly Archives: 2011

Nexus S 4G Gets Nexus S GSM Android 4.0.3 ICS Port [Download & Install]

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Nexus S 4G gets Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich, but it only comes as a port for now, courtesy of Android Central forum member Beezy. Further credits go to gbhil, Cory Streater, Team Hydro and Dooderbutt. The port comes right after the recently released Android 4.0.3 OTA update for the Nexus S GSM device, and frankly we all saw this coming. However the actual update for the 4G should be coming out anytime now but if you want to give this ROM, named, ICS-Dooderbutt 4.0.3 v1 a run on your device, we can tell you that the ROM seems to have most stuff functioning very nicely, apart from Wi-Max of course and a broken camera as well. Read More

Root & Recovery For Motorola Xoom On Android 4.0.3 ICS

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If you have just installed the Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich ROM for the Xoom that we covered, you would now have lost all root access on the device. However, thanks to XDA-Developers forum member anidrin, we now have a confirmed working root solution of the Xoom on Android 4.0.3 ICS. If you flashed the CWM packaged ROM, you will have the recovery intact on the Xoom, even if not, no worries, you can get it back easily. All that, after the break! Read More

ICS ROM For Motorola Xoom (Wi-Fi) Available [Download & Install]

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Let the Ice Cream Sandwich madness begin! Motorola Xoom, Google's flagship Honeycomb tablet, has just received it’s first working ICS ROM thanks to XDA-Developers forum member razorbladex401. The ROM is a work in progress and meant for the Xoom Wi-Fi only, but for some strange reasons people on the forum have reported it to be working on their 3G Xoom tablets as well, however, if you do have a 3G Xoom, we advise you to stay away from such adventures, especially if you have never rooted or installed custom ROMs on it. Coming back to the ROM, there may be some graphical glitches as per the developer, but the important thing is, Wi-Fi is working, and users are reporting a very snappy and smooth OS. We again advice, that users who have experience with custom ROMs on their Xoom devices, only they try this out, you never know what bug you might hit and want to revert back. Oh and one more thing, you will loose root, but there’s a cure for that. Link, can be found at the bottom of the post. Read More

Root Galaxy Nexus On Android 4.0.2 ICS With CF-Root [Download]

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The beginners rooting solution for the Galaxy Nexus is here! Chainfire has has just released the first CF-Root kernel for the Galaxy Nexus running Android 4.0.2 (ICL53F) which is perfect for users wanting to root their device with no hassle at all and want to keep the phone as close to stock as possible. Contrary to previous versions of CF-Root for various devices, CF-Root for the Galaxy Nexus does not contain the ClockworkMod recovery due to kernel and recovery being separate partitions on the device. This means you don't need to flash a recovery with your kernel. Read More

Root Samsung Galaxy Mini On Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread

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If you have a Galaxy Mini running Android 2.3.3/4 and SuperOneClick is not working out for you in trying to root your device, there still is a way to get that done. It’s not exactly the one click solution you would have hoped for as offered by SuperOneClick, it's still easy enough and requires you to flash a file from recovery so you should be able to root it without much hassle. The method and files used were originally meant for the Galaxy Ace, but apparently they works just fine for the Galaxy Mini as well. Read on for more information and our complete step-by-step instructions. Read More

Create Disk Image & Clone Hard Disk Partition With Ubuntu Live USB

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Earlier, we showed you how to create persistent Ubuntu Live media disk, and use it for resetting and changing Windows 7 administrator and standard user account password. Apart from tweaking with Windows registry hives, Ubuntu Live media disk can be used to create data backup, shrink partitions, clone hard disk, scan system for viruses, imaging disk partitions and more. Although disk imaging or hard disk cloning can be done using data backup and disk copying applications, malware-infected OS often make it hard to perform essential data backup operations. For instance, if a PC is infected with boot sector virus, disk cloning application doesn’t work unless you clean the system from virus and repair boot sector. Read More

Online Radio & Podcast Streaming App The PURE Lounge Comes To Android

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Love listening to live online radio and podcasts on your smartphone? Then you must try giving a try to The PURE Lounge – a cross-platform online radio and podcast streaming app for Android and iOS that features no less than 16,000 online radio stations, thousands of on-demand podcasts as well as plenty of featured content. To help you easily navigate to content of interest, the app offers category-based searching, browsing, filtering & assortment of channels. In addition, it offers recommendations for content that matches your taste, lets you view channel/station information (where available), and contains the option to add content to favorites etc. The app comes with a neatly designed user interface, support for almost all the popular playlist formats, stream formats and protocols, and the option to share all content with your Facebook and Twitter network. Read More

Edit Photos, View EXIF Data & Apply Filters With Photo Light For WP7

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Even a platform like Windows Phone 7 has no shortage of photo editing apps. There are apps for just about every aspect of image post-processing. However, there is still room for new apps in that category, apps that integrate most or all of the most popular features, as no one likes to use too many apps for editing one photo. Photo Light is a new, free addition to Mango’s photo editors, which really has the potential to become a one-stop shop for basic photo-editing on your WP7 device. Read More

Hipstamatic Disposable For iPhone: Share Camera Rolls With Facebook Friends

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Back in the old days, it was exciting to wait for the whole film roll in a camera to develop to see a particular snapshot. Wouldn’t it be fun to have a taste of that again? From the team behind Hipstamatic and IncrediBooth comes Hipstamatic Disposable for iPhone, a free app that lets you choose from a collection of disposable cameras, each with a different filter and a capacity of twenty four photos. Once you have captured the twenty four shots, the app allows you to view them, share them in bulk or individually over Twitter and email. What makes Hipstamatic Disposable stand out from other apps of its genre is that you can invite Facebook friends to a camera you chose (provided they have the app too), allowing them to shoot photos with you until the roll runs out. The collective roll of resulting photos is automatically synced between all parties. Read More

Manually Install Android 4.0.3 ICS Update On Nexus S [Download]

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Ice Cream Sandwich for Nexus S, has begun rolling out from Google. Just a day back we covered the MIUI ICS based custom ROM for the device, and now Google steps in with the official update to Android 4.0.3. User are excited beyond doubt, the one’s that just received the OTA, and the one’s in wait, but waiting can be annoying, and we’re sure they’re already out there looking for a manual way to update the Nexus S to the official ICS. Well there is a way, and it’s easy. Looks like Google is holding onto it’s trend to update it’s Google phones before anyone else does, so if you have a Nexus S and have not received the OTA yet, for reasons that could be a rooted device, custom ROM or more, here’s the manual method. Read More

PhotoLikr: Create/Manage Picasa, Minus & Other Online Photo Galleries

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Photo viewers are spread in thousands across the internet, but actually a few ones feel handy and unique. For us, a photo viewer should be aesthetically pleasing and should hold a few unique features, to consider it worthwhile for a review. PhotoLikr is probably one such software, which seem to have much potential. It is an image viewer that lets you review, rate and upload your images to Google+, Picasa, Gmail, PhotoOnWeb and Minus. Your friends can then rate your images and help you in sorting them out according to their ratings, its like those Hot or Not games you'd often play with your friends. The application allows you to share individual images, whole folders or set custom filters according to the Total number of votes, Likr Score or Personal rating. Once an album has been viewed, rated, liked and disliked by your friends, you can choose to either move low rated images to recycle bin or move best rated images to a new folder. PhotoLikr supports all popular image formats such as JPG, PNG, BMP, GIF, PSD, TIF etc, and lets you specify the default resolution of pictures before uploading. Read More

Shop Kmart & Shop Sears: Find Nearest Stores, View New Items & Prices [WP7]

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Shopping for the holiday season is in full swing, and it might get a bit overwhelming if you try to visit each store to find the best deals. So, it is always useful to have some help from your smartphone (that is exactly whaty makes it smart, after all). If you own a Windows Phone 7 device, your shopping just got a whole lot easier. Shop Kmart and Shop Sears are two very similar apps that will let you get info on products of your interest to help you decide what you want to get before you set out to buy it. The apps present their users with the best deals, product details and reviews of stuff that you just have to buy. Read More

NowBox For iPad: Virtual TV Guide For YouTube Videos Of Your Liking

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Searching for your favorite episodes and songs on YouTube can be so exhausting at times. Things would be a good deal easier if you could train an app to look for your favorite channels on YouTube, so that each time you launched it, all your favorite videos would be available on it. NowBox for iPad relieves you of the daily headache of scouring YouTube, so that you can spend more time watching videos than searching for them. Share your favorite videos, songs, season, or movies with your pals on Twitter and Facebook, discover new channels from various categories offered by NowBox or simply search your favorite channel with this app and subscribe to it. Keep reading after the break to explore NowBox in detail. Read More

Edit & Restore Windows Hosts File And Block Websites With Host Mechanic

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Host Mechanic is a portable application to edit, delete and restore the Windows default hosts file. This application makes it easy to add entries to Windows hosts file; you won't have to navigate to system32/drivers/etc folder every time just to add new domains and change mapped IPs. All you need is to launch the application, enter the domain followed by IP address to add the domain entry to hosts file. Moreover, it lets you restore the Windows hosts file and block websites by mapping them with localhost. For those who aren't familiar with hosts file, it allows users and authenticated applications to map domains with defined IPs to either block the access or boost the access speed. Read More

Get Mac’s Scroll To Navigate Feature In Windows & Other OS [Chrome]

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Want similar mouse gestures for Chrome in Windows as you use to on Mac? Scroll2Navigate, a Chrome extension, allows you to easily navigate through previously viewed pages by adding Mac OS X-like mouse & track pad gestures on Windows and other OS. Once you’ve installed the extension, simply scroll your Magic mouse wheel left or right to navigate between pages, just like what you used to do on Chrome for Mac. It adds mouse gestures for much faster navigation while surfing the internet, and if you're a Mac user, you can also use the magic track pad with two-finger-swipe on Windows. Easily change the Sensitivity and Effective Range settings by accessing the Scroll2Navigate options. Moreover, disable the Scroll2Navigate temporarily by holding the Alt key. Read More

Mount Virtual Disc Images In Ubuntu Linux With Furius ISO Mount

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Mounting disc images to a virtual drive can help view the data without having to burn the image to disc. Most users prefer disc images in standard formats (such as ISO format) to avoid straining the lens of their optical drive, as running a game, movie, etc  from a CD/DVD drive reduces its life. But, it is not just disc image formats that need to be mounted for viewing their content, most Linux backup tools use the IMG format for creating system backups. Such a format can also be mounted using a disc image mounting application to read the data in image file without having to restore the complete backup. Read More

XnViewMP: Free Mac App To Edit, Compress, Classify & Convert Images

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We’ve reviewed small Mac apps that edit, convert or compress images in a few formats, but finding an app that converts and compresses images between a large number of formats, and that too, for free, isn’t easy. XnViewMP is a Mac app that compresses images in JPEG, PNG, TIFF, BMP, GIF, JPEG-XR, JPEG 2000, PCX, PDF and TGA formats. The app offers a way to organize your images either into categories, or to add colored tags to them. It comes with a built in file browser that keeps track of file locations, and a color enhancer that allows you to adjust brightness, contrast, gamma, hue, saturation, lightness and to increase red, green and blue color levels. The app allows you to save a set of presets, and reuse them on an image. Changes made to an image can be previewed live. Read More

Official Android App Of Social Network Service MindTalk Released

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A few recently conducted online surveys reveal that Facebook is the most used Android app. While there is no denying the popularity of said social network among web and mobile users alike, it does not imply that there is no room for a new entrant. The impact of social networking on our lives is such that people nowadays prefer spending more time in the virtual world than in the real one. The growing trend of sharing your ‘life’ with the world via all these platforms is what inspires new services to emerge onto the global scene. Add to this list MindTalk – yet another attempt at providing users with a nifty little socializing medium wherein they can share their thoughts, photos, (YouTube) videos with others via various custom channels (represented byhashtags) based on topics of their interest. You can now enjoy all that on your mobile device with the official MindTalk client for Android. Read More

Hear Your News Feeds Read Out With Aloud For Windows Phone 7

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Despite the lack of an official Google Reader client, Windows Phone 7 has a lot of good feed reader apps (with the the likes of NewsSpot present in the Marketplace). Although Aloud is not the client of a popular news service, and you can’t import feeds from another service (like Google Reader) to the app either, but the concept behind it is rather unique to the platform. You'd be hard pressed to find a similar app on the Marketplace. Aloud is a text-to-speech RSS reader. You can add any news source of interest to the app, and with a single tap, it will begin reading out the introductory paragraphs of all the articles within it. While the app might sound like an accessibility option, it has the potential to prove to be handy in a multitude of situations. You can treat Aloud like just another feed reader, but one that uses speech instead of text to convey the latest news items from the sources you follow. Read More

Blippar: Scan Products To Reveal Virtual Info & Games [Android & iOS]

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Augmented reality is a field which really has a lot of potential, and up until now, one can’t help but feel that only a fraction of that potential has been unleashed. There are a few apps, on both iOS and Android, which make good use of the concept, and Blippar is one of them. At first glance, you might feel that the app is all fun and games, but it does have some pretty useful features as well. You just have to scan an object/product recognizable by Blippar, and the augmented reality engine kicks in, overlaying the object's image with an interactive layers of information or games. Read More