Google Gives Spotify A Run For Its Money

Google has a bit of a habit of looking at a successful product in a lucrative market, and then doing their best to make a better version of it. In launching Google Play Music All Access with an 18 million+ song catalog, track streaming, unlimited skips, virtually unlimited number of downloadable tracks and intelligent mixing of your own library music, all at $7.99/month (introductory offer), Google is trying its best to beat Spotify on Android and the web.

Be sure to check out our review of Google Play Music All Access.

Unified: Google Talk, Google+ Hangouts, Google+ Messenger Merge Into “Hangouts”

Hangouts for Android, iOS and the web is the ultimate, all-in-one messaging app. It combines Google Talk’s instant messaging service with Google+ Hangouts’ group video chats and Google+ Messenger group messaging features. What’s more? Support for Google Voice and SMS on Android is on the way!

Google+ Gets Redesigned; Adds Amazing ‘Auto Awesome’ & ‘Auto Enhance’ Photo Enhancement Features

Just about every techie I know agrees that Google+ is – features and looks-wise – miles ahead of Facebook. At Google I/O, the tech giant announced awesome features that make Google+ even better! Firstly, Google+ now follows the cards-based design language introduced with Google Now. Secondly, photos uploaded on Google+ are analyzed by Google’s algorithms and then automatically tweaked for noise reduction, tonal distribution, skin softening, red-eye reduction and more, in what Google is calling ‘Auto Enhance’. Lastly, ‘Auto Awesome’ finds patterns in your uploaded photos, and creates animated GIFs of shots taken a few seconds apart, panoramas of photos taken at same location, and choosing the best smiling photo out of a bunch of chaotic family photos to create amazing family portraits.

We have already discussed both the new unified Hangouts messaging platform and updates to Google+, so give it a read for more details.

The Next ‘Nexus’ Smartphone: A Galaxy S4 Running Stock Android

One of the most surprising announcements at Google I/O 2013 was that of a Samsung Galaxy S 4 running Stock Android, without any customizations from Samsung whatsoever. With a price of $649 for a 16GB model, it is the most expensive Nexus device on the market to date, but that is fine considering that – compared to the $349 Nexus 4 – it has a Full HD 1080p display, a 13 megapixel camera, a faster processor, LTE support, expandable storage and a removable battery. The phone will be available fully contract-free on Google Play starting June 26th.

Google Maps Redesigned On Desktop And Android

Google Maps is the most popular as well as most powerful consumer maps application in the world, and the new updates for its Android and desktop web apps further cement this fact. The updated web app follows a new “The Map Is The UI” approach, where the actual map takes over most of the screen, with only the header and a little search bar at the top – no more sidebar! Google Earth, vector maps, Google Offers and Zagat’s trusted restaurant reviews are integrated right inside Maps. To make for a more personalized experience, your home, workplace and local points of interest are also included automatically in the map based on data from Google Now.

The new Google Maps for Desktop is slowly rolling out to invited users. You may request an invite at maps.google.com/preview. Android users should update their apps from Google Play to get the new Google Maps.

Google Search Integrated With Google Now For Voice Search And Other Commands

The rumors were right after all. For Chrome and Chrome OS users, Google Now is now integrated with Google Search. Saying “OK, Google” activates voice search – no typing or tapping required. Voice search has been developed to be more intelligent, so Google remembers what you last searched for, and predicts future searches. But that’s not all; you can also send emails, set reminders and more – all without leaving google.com or the Google Search app.

Google Play Books Allows User-Uploaded EPUBs / PDFs; Syncs Everything Across Android, iOS & Web

Google Play Books has always been at a distant third/fourth place in the eBooks reading app market, but a new feature update is bound to push it up ahead: the ability to upload your own collection of eBooks to the service, and to keep your page positions, bookmarks and notes synced across all platforms on which the service is available, i.e. Android, iOS and the web.

Check out our post to learn how to upload EPUBs to Play Books and read them on Android, iOS and the web.

Developer Features for Android

Rather unexpectedly for an I/O event, Google didn’t reveal the next version of Android this time, though that doesn’t mean the world’s most popular mobile operating system was completely neglected at the event. Google did announce several new features and improvements to Android, but most of them were targeted at developers rather than end users for now. However, it will be the users who will benefit from the fruits of these labors in the end.

The biggest new developer feature has got to be Android Studio – a dedicated IDE built by Google to make developing for Android easy. Apart from that, new APIs and developer features were announced for Google’s Maps and Location services, and Google Cloud Messaging. Several new features were added to the Google Play Developer Console as well, making it much easier for developers to optimize, translate and beta test their apps, with the ability to automatically roll out a beta update to a percentage of users first, and then gradually increase that percentage towards a full release. Lastly, a few major APIs were announced for game developers, allowing them to implement features like cloud save, achievements and leaderboards without having to use their own or third-party cloud services for the purpose.

Synced Notifications Across Android Devices

A major new feature for the end users was also announced: notification syncing across all your devices, meaning if you dismiss a notification from your phone, it’ll automatically disappear from your tablet as well. We will likely have to wait for the implementation of this feature in the next (likely minor) update to Android.

So which announcements do you think were the most significant? Join the poll below to let us know. You may select up to 3 answers out of the 9 available.

Haroon Q. Raja contributed to this post.

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MediaExport installs as a standalone app on the SpringBoard. All of the media files available in the Messages app are imported to MediaExport automatically – no manual configuration required! The app displays both received and sent files, which include photos as well as videos. On the main screen, there are options to export all the files to iFile at once, or use the ‘Multi. Sel.’ option and choose any number of files you want for exporting. This batch export is carried out after packaging the files into a ZIP archive, which can then be accessed via any SSH client of your choice.

MediaExport can be used to view each file individually within the app as well. Sharing options can be accessed using the arrow icon located in the top-right corner, while the ‘Delete’ button visible quite prominently in the viewer lets you get rid of any unwanted items. The exporting options offered by the app include SkyDrive, Dropbox, iFile, Contacts, Twitter, email and other compatible services installed on your device. Before deleting a file from MediaExport, make sure you really don’t need it, since the app permanently removes it from Messages as well.

MediaExport is ad-supported, but there’s little reason to complain about that since it’s available as a free download in the BigBoss repo of the Cydia store. If used in conjunction with tweaks like Attacher, MediaExport can prove to be super useful but even without that, the download is totally worthwhile  for accessing, managing and sharing all those photos and videos from one place. The app is compatible only with iOS 6 and despite having a rather lackluster interface, works completely as advertised.

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One thing that a lot of users appreciate in the apps they use is simplicity. Apps Notifier is ready to be used almost as soon as you launch it. There are no accounts to set up, and all the users have to do to get started is to add their favorite apps to the ‘Watch List’ section. Apps Notifier does not scan your device to account for apps that are already installed, so the only available route is to use the ‘Search’ tab and add apps to the list manually. This can be done by tapping the ‘+’ icon that shows up next to each entry in the search results. For now, a maximum of ten apps can be added to the watch list, but an alert claims that this capacity will be increased in a future update.

By default, all apps are configured to generate notifications whenever any of their properties change. These properties include rating, file size, languages, description, title, version and price. If you want to be a bit selective though, you can uncheck any of these entities by tapping the arrow next to the app’s name in the watch list, and choosing the ‘tracking settings’ option. Other app-specific options include ‘view in iTunes’ and ‘remove from watch list’.

Apps Notifier is a free and universal app. You can give it a go by heading to the App Store link provided below.

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Vobok offers three sign up options, including Facebook, Twitter and email. The welcome screen also lets users associate a profile picture with their new account. One signed in, Vobok displays a list of all of your contacts who are already on the service, while letting you send an invitation to anyone who is not using the app yet. Apart from personal contacts, people who have chosen to keep their Vobok profile public can be followed by anyone as well. These friends and followed users help populate the ‘Feed’ section of the app.

The Vobok feeds display a list of all the recordings posted by your contacts. These recordings can be played in-line without leaving the feed. The title of a post, along with its associated image (if any), also show up. Swipe across a recording if you want to re-post, add it to your favorites, or post a clip of your own in reply. The reply option only works for posts from people who follow you as well.

To create a Vobok recording of your own, hit the ‘Broadcast’ button from the bottom bar. To help keep things organized, you are strongly advised to give your posts a title. Attaching an image with the recording can also looks pretty good as the post’s cover. Thanks to the two button at the bottom of the recording area, users can choose to publish their posts to other social networks as well as on Vobok. To view your past posts, head to the ‘Profile’ section of the app, where you can also get an overview of your followers and people you are following.

Vobok has been around for a few months but before its latest update, the invitation method wasn’t exactly convenient. Now, however, this free app is truly uncomplicated, letting users focus on creating recordings rather than inviting friends.

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Followers On Vine is a really simple app, but getting started with it could have been made a little easier. For now, it is not possible to connect a solely Twitter-based Vine account with Followers On Vine, and you have to add an email address to your Vine account before it can be used with the app. Doing so isn’t too difficult though, as you just have to head to the Vine app’s ‘settings’ located on your profile page, and enter an email address there. Once the address has been added, you can easily login to Followers On Vine with those credentials.

The app’s main page shows the user’s profile picture and total post count on Vine. The lists of contacts are maintained below this information, and following are the criteria based on which you can browse through your connections.

• Followers: Includes the names of everyone who follows you on Vine.
• New Followers: Noticed an increase in your follower count since the last time you checked Followers On Vine? Head to this section and see who your new fans are.
• New Unfollowers: You can get your revenge on anyone who has recently unfollowed you by unfollowing them back.
• Followers You Don’t Follow: This list can help people who like keeping things fair, and think that any new follower they get should be followed back by them as well.
• Following: List of people you follow.
• Users You Follow That Don’t Follow You: How dare Kate Upton not follow you back, even after you have been faithfully watching all her posts for the past two months? Head to this list to see if there are any other people you’re following who haven’t returned the favor.

Unless you turn off the ‘Tweet Prompt’ option in the app’s settings, Followers On Vine keeps displaying a tweet draft whenever you check your stats. This can be easily changed with a toggle, but there are other features of the app that are only accessible via an in-app purchase of $0.99. These features include the ability to follow and unfollow people form within Followers On Vine, and getting rid of the in-app advertisements. Everything else can be used for free in this universal iOS app.

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MiniPlayer

The UI of the player hasn’t changed a great deal on the surface, but there are a few subtle changes that are sure to improve the listening experience for iTunes users. In the album info view of the player, a volume button has been added, which brings up a slider. When it comes to control view, the change might not be perceivable immediately, but the newly added seek bar is something that a lot of people have been craving to see in the iTunes MiniPlayer for a long time. You can easily skip to any part of the song using this bar, and there is no need to switch to the full view just because you don’t like the starting part of a track.

Song View

Clicking the album art takes you to the Song View, but it is not the view you might be used to. Previously, Song View had an interface that was a bit different compared to other areas of the music player, as you can see in the screenshot above. The UI looked a bit old-fashioned, and there was no integration for the new ‘Up Next’ feature. All this has changed now though, and Song View is much neater than before.

In iTunes 11.0.3, this view has volume controls in a new place, right next to the playlist icon and the search button. This search button lets you quickly find a song from your library without having to revert to the maximized view. You can also manage the Up Next list by using the arrow located in the top-right corner.

Albums With Multiple Disks

Previously, it was not possible for iTunes to distinguish between separate albums, and music on separate disks belonging to the same album. This small yet annoying quirk has finally been addressed in the 11.0.3 update, and the music player now keeps you library much neater than it did before.

As is the case with almost any update, iTunes 11.0.3 also carries some minor bug fixes and performance improvements. You can give it a go by heading to the link provided below.

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For now, Oggl is invite-only, so you’ll have to find someone who is already using the app, or send Hipstamatic a request from within the app and wait for an invitation code (we got one within three days). Once registered, users can start looking for profiles to follow. A looking-glass icon is located in the top-right corner of the screen for this purpose. To see the app’s public galleries, hit the globe icon from the bottom bar. Posts from people you follow are available in the tab next to the global one. To view the filters and lens used for shooting any photo, simply tap it once. The right sphere shows the name of the poster, while the one on the left displays the effects added to the image. To snap a new photo using the mentioned filters, tap the left sphere and choose the ‘Shoot With This’ option. This makes it super-easy for anyone to add the same effect to their photo that they saw someone else add to theirs and really liked. It is also possible to add a combo to your ‘favorites’ in the filters collection for future use.

The camera view in Oggl is pretty good. Just like old-time cameras, the viewfinder has crosshairs and other parameters that might be actually helpful in adjusting your phone’s position before snapping a photo. The filters and lenses can be accessed from the bottom of the screen, but you don’t have to worry about them before shooting photos, as Oggl allows post-processing. Having said that, it is possible to get a preview of any filter/lens combo in the viewfinder. Photos shot using Oggl can be shared to Flickr, Twitter, Foursquare, Facebook, Instagram and Tumblr. To make things more organized, there are options for adding a location and text description to the images.

Although Oggl itself is a free download, you can gain access to a variety of filters by purchasing a quarterly ($2.99) or yearly ($9.99) subscription. Head to the following link to get your hands on the app.

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The ability to upload your own eBooks to the Play Books makes for a killer feature, as this means you longer need to worry about carrying your entire eBook collection with yourself all the time, and then doing manual labor to keep things synced across multiple devices.

Uploading books is great and all, but what really makes the difference is the second feature i.e. how you can then read these books on your Android smartphone/tablet, iPhone, iPad or desktop/laptop PC through the Play Books website and keep things synced. Apart from just keeping your eBook library itself in sync, the service ensures that the last page you read before dozing off last night, your personal bookmarks, any notes you added – everything is saved in the cloud, and can be accessed from any of the aforementioned devices, providing a seamless reading experience no matter where you open your eBooks to read them.

You have two options for uploading your personal collection of eBooks. You can either upload them manually, or have Play Books go through your Google Drive folder to look for compatible files and transfer them to Play Books. Both options are available on the Play Books Upload page after you sign in (shown above).

Speaking of signing in, you must be living in the US – or have some way of fooling Google into thinking you are in the US by using VPNs or proxy services – to be able to access the service and upload your books to it. This is one area where Play Books still lags far behind iBooks, Amazon Books and many other competing services.

Once you have uploaded your favorite books, you can download these books to your mobile device in the Play Books app for Android and iOS (linked below) for reading them on the go.

Now, whenever you read a chapter of Dune, add a note in 1984, or bookmark a page in The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy on your way to work, it will be there on Play Books across all your devices.

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The Google I/O keynote yesterday brought a lot of important announcements, but the revamped Hangouts service seems to have managed to cause the most excitement among them all so far, probably because it has already been rolled out for users all over the world. The iOS app is available in the App Store, while  lot of Android users have managed to get their hands on the Hangouts update for their Google Talk app as well. Google already offered its Google Talk (also called GTalk, Google Chat and Gmail Chat) already enjoyed integration with Google+ and Gmail but compared to the Hangouts feature of Google+, it wasn’t too heavy on features. Some of you might have wondered why the plain old chat can’t become as cool as its Google+ variant. Even if you have never thought of that possibility, Google seems to have been thinking along those lines. The new Hangouts can be considered a consolidation of Google Talk and Google+ Hangouts that works on Android, iOS, Google+ and Chrome. The service offers everything from video calling to group chat, and even a huge collection of emoticons.

Hangouts For Chrome

The new Hangouts extension is available in the Chrome Web Store and once installed, it makes sure you stay in touch with your friends even when Chrome is closed. If you choose to stay logged in permanently, the extension becomes active as soon as your computer is turned on like a system tray app (with an icon there too), ensuring not a single message is ever missed.

The first thing you have to do after installing Hangouts for Chrome is to sign in to your Google account. Upon doing that, all your Google contacts show up in the main screen’s list. To begin a new chat session (or Hangout), simply begin typing a contact’s name or ID in the field at the top of the window. You can chat with a single person, or start a group hangout. The chat window itself is pretty simple, and has two main views. The buttons at the top of the screen can be used to switch between text chat and video calling. During a video call, you can invite more people to join your hangout, control the call’s volume and switch cameras. If you are simply sending text messages, you can share photos or send any of the 850 available emoticons. From the extension’s settings menu, you can configure its chat windows to always stay on top  of all other windows.

The New Google+ Hangouts

Google+ has received a major overhaul today, and the new Hangouts improvements apply here as well. No matter where you are in Google+, initiating a hangout is never difficult. Simply click the green icon in the top-right corner and choose your ‘Hangout Party’. The chat windows aren’t too different from the ones that show up in Hangouts for Chrome, so basically it’s this Google+ version that has been used as a model for the other apps of the service, which makes sense since Hangouts launched as a Google+ feature in the first place.

Hangouts For iOS

Since there has never been an official Google Talk client for iOS, it is pretty big news that Hangouts has been released for iPhone and iPad as well. Although Hangouts were available as part of the Google+ app, having a standalone client that even lets you chat with your GTalk contacts has got to be welcomed by many. Not only does the iOS app let you stay in touch with your friends, but you can now swap video calls with any number of your friends as well. Group hangouts allow up to ten participants, which is more than enough for most scenarios.

Using the app isn’t too difficult, as Google has refrained from making things overly complicated. To begin a hangout, tap the ‘+’ icon from the top bar and begin choosing your correspondents. All ongoing sessions have entries of their own on the app’s main screen. These threads can be archived simply with a leftwards swipe. Your hangout archives can be accessed by tapping the gear icon located in the top bar. From the same settings screen, Hangouts users get to snooze notifications and manage received requests or blocked profiles.

Much like the Chrome and G+ versions of the service, the chat window has video and text modes. Video controls are located in the bottom bar, while you can view a thread’s options by tapping the contact icon at the top of the screen. During text chats, it is possible to share photos straight from your iPhone’s camera, or by attaching the ones that are already in your camera roll. For every thread, you can add more people, toggle notifications, or go off the record. Lastly, you can block contacts and delete or archive conversations.

Hangouts For Android

For Android, Hangouts has been rolled out as an update for the stock Talk app, and is gradually rolling out to all Android devices running 2.2 Froyo or later. The app is sure to be visible for everyone in the Google Play Store but if can’t seem to install it from there yet (it may tell you that you have the app already installed, basically referring to Google Talk), you have to wait for a while longer till you get the update notification in Play Store on your device.

There are some UI differences between the Android and iOS versions of Hangouts. On Android, the app’s settings are accessible right on the main screen, and you don’t have to go to a separate section for them. Rather than having to use the back button to go to the conversations view, users can simply swipe between the most recent chat window and the list of all active threads. Unlike the iOS app, Hangouts for Android has an emoticon button of its own, which lets you open the categorized collection of smileys from Google.

The biggest criticism that Hangouts has been facing until now is that there is no way of changing your availability status on it. So, if you like staying ‘Invisible’ until initiating a chat session, Hangouts is probably going to be a little disappointing. Also, there was a lot of speculation about Google integrating SMS support into the service, making it truly ubiquitous for all communication, but that hasn’t happened. Lastly, the chat section in Gmail still shows the old interface and hasn’t been updated to Hangouts yet, which is a significant omission since many of us use Google’s chat service in Gmail.

The Android and iOS apps are a little buggy for now, but we are sure the service will have Google’s constant attention so that it can keep getting better. You can start using the new Hangouts without downloading anything by heading to Google+, or grab them for Chrome, iOS or Android from the links provided below.

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To share files between an iPhone and a PC, visit the official PopSend website (popsend.me) from your desktop web browser and sign in using your Facebook ID. If you aren’t a fan of services that offer Facebook as their only means of registration, PopSend isn’t the right app for you, since it doesn’t offer any other way to sign in. Once logged in, PopSend generates a QR code on your computer’s screen, which acts as a pairing key. The code has to be scanned using the iOS app and once recognized, you are free to start sharing files.

It is possible to send PDFs, songs, videos and other media files from a PC to an iDevice, although the options for sending files from an iPhone to a computer are a bit more limited. Files received on a PC can be downloaded to any location you want, and the ‘Incoming file’ screen shows the name of the file as well as the sender’s device so that you can recognize the nature and source of the items at a quick glance.

On the iPhone app, Facebook login is needed as well. This features has its advantages though, as you can send files to your nearby Facebook friends even without going through the hassle of scanning QR codes. Just tap a contact’s name, and choose one of the resulting options. From an iPhone, it is possible to send photos, videos, contact cards, notes and data available on your clipboard.

The files you receive from other users can be viewed within the app (each format has different options of its own). Most of the files display some basic information at the bottom of the screen, and the available sharing options include saving, copying and mailing content. PopSend also lets you extract received files from your iPhone via iTunes.

PopSend is a free app, but comes with ads and restrictions on the size of files that can be shared using it. These limitations can be removed via an in-app purchase of $1.99. PopSend is display-optimized for iPhone and iPod touch; do give it a try if you have been looking for a simple and quick way of sharing files between iDevices and PCs.

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Sol is really easy to use, and the interface is pretty much self-explanatory. The top of the screen depicts Mars, with the current temperature around Curiosity shown there. At the bottom of the screen, the temperature from your current location is shown. If you want to change the city, tap the small moon icon to head to the Sol settings menu. From this screen, users get to choose the temperature units, and enter any city’s ZIP code to change the default Earth location for the app.

The main Sol screen gives users a comparison of the conditions of the two planets, but it’s also possible to get some more stats simply by tapping the respective icons. For Mars, the data includes the high and low temperatures, solar intensity, atmospheric pressure and information regarding the season currently prevalent there. For Earth, the stats are a bit different, with humidity showing up in place of the ‘SOL’ value. To share the this information over social media, buttons for Facebook and Twitter are available at the end of the menu.

It is difficult to make a case for the usefulness of Sol for most users, but that doesn’t mean a lot of people won’t end up checking it out for the coolness factor! The app is fun, and can help you learn a great deal about the conditions on Mars. It isn’t too bad as a weather app for Earth either, with the only glaring flaw being its inability to let you see the conditions of multiple cities simultaneously. Despite all that, Sol is a free app and in our opinion, certainly worth a shot. According to the developer, Sol’s iPad version is expected to arrive soon but for now, the app is optimized for iPhone and iPod touch only.

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You can begin using Listacular without even signing in, by hitting the ‘+’ icon in the top-right corner of the main screen. To give the list a name, tap the field at the top of the screen. Other entries can be added by simply tapping any empty part of the screen. Listacular for Dropbox boasts some decent formatting options, letting you employ headings, indentations and bullets in the lists. The indentation option ensures that multilevel lists can be created to keep things well-organized and structured.

To associate a due date and time with a task, just swipe across it from right to left. You can also choose to make Listacular alert you as soon as the due date arrives. To rearrange any list, simply long-press an item and then drag it to a new position. When a task is done, you can mark it so with a right swipe, while lengthening this swipe deletes the entry altogether.

For those who choose to connect Dropbox with Listacular, several new possibilities become available. You can backup a list to the cloud by swiping on it from top to bottom. On the homepage of the app, you can also long-press a list’s name and choose to share its Dropbox link via email or any other sharing method. If you make the Dropbox folder belonging to Listacular public, anyone with whom you share a list’s link can collaborate with you on it.

At the bottom of the Listacular homepage, there is a summary of all the tasks that are past their due date. This summary also gives you an overview of upcoming tasks for the day.

Listacular for Dropbox is a free app but unless you make an in-app purchase of $2.99, it can only handle a maximum of three lists at a time. The app is optimized for iPhone and iPod touch, so if you have been looking for a neat collaborative way of accomplishing tasks quickly and are already a Dropbox user, do give it a shot.

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