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How To Install Any App As A System App On Android [Guide]

Haroon Q. Raja — Mon, 14 May 2012 14:00:20 +0000

While installing an app on your Android device is as simple as searching for it in the Google Play Store and hitting install, or sideloading its APK on your phone, that always installs them as user apps (also referred to as data apps). At times certain apps need to be installed as system apps rather than user apps in order to utilize their full potential, and that’s where things get a little complicated. In this guide, we will show you how you can install any Android app as a system app on your Android device.

The apps installed on your Android devices can be broadly categorized as system apps or user apps, based on their installation location. The user apps are just all your normal app installations through the Google Play Store, Amazon Appstore or sideloading. These go into the /data partition of your Android phone, which is the part of the internal memory made available for user data and apps.

System apps are basically the apps that come pre-installed with your ROM. In a standard Android user environment, the user doesn’t have write access to the /system partition and thus, installing or uninstalling system apps directly isn’t possible. The process isn’t as hard as it may sound. However, there is a catch.

In order to install an app as a system app on your Android device, your device must either be rooted, or have a custom recovery installed (or both). Usually pretty much everyone who has a custom recovery installed uses a rooted ROM, so we’ll just be using the method for rooted phones.

Root Access File Manager Method

Requirements

Your Android device must be rooted. If it isn’t already, check out our guide on rooting Android.
A root access file manager of your choice. We will be using ES File Explorer for the purpose.
The APK file for the app you want to install as system app. If you have the app installed as a normal user app, don’t worry; we’ll show you how to grab its APK.

Procedure

Configuring ES File Explorer for root read/write access (required only once):
1. Launch ES File Explorer, press Menu and tap ‘Settings’.
2. In the settings, enable the ‘Up to root’ check box.
3. Further down in the settings, enable ‘Root Explorer’ check box. You will get a warning that you should confirm.
4. You will then get the Superuser permissions request that you must allow.
5. Finally, enable the ‘Mount File System’ check box, and press the back key to get back to the explorer interface. ES File Explorer is now configured to work as a root explorer. You do not need to do this again on the same device now, unless you uninstall ES File Explorer, perform a factory reset or install another ROM.
Finding the APK of an already-installed normal app (skip to step 3 if you already have the APK):
1. First of all, install the app from Play Store, if you haven’t already done that.
2. Launch ES File Explorer and go to /data/app. (You may have to press the back button to get to / first).
3. If you know the icon of the app, you can easily find it here. If you are having trouble finding the app here due to the confusing names or because of having a lot of apps installed, just search for the app in Google Play Store in a web browser and look at its Play Store link for the name. The file name will basically be the part after ?id= in its market link (and before any other question mark that may or may not appear in the link). For example, the market link for ES File Explorer is https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.estrongs.android.pop and its APK file in /data/app is com.estrongs.android.pop-1.apk.
If you already have the APK of the file that you want to install as a system app, make sure you have transferred it to your device’s SD card if you haven’t done that already. Also make sure you know the path where you have copied it on the SD card.
Once you have located the required APK on the SD card from ES File Explorer, tap-and-hold on its icon till you get a menu, and tap ‘Cut’. You should see a little blue arrow on the bottom of the screen now. (You may select ‘Copy’ instead of ‘Cut’ if you are copying a file over from the SD card and want to keep a copy there. In case of copying an APK from /data/app, always use ‘Cut’.)
Now press the back button till you reach / and then browse to /system/app/
Tap the little arrow that you see on the bottom of the screen. It will bring up a pane with the icon of the copied file.
Tap on the file’s icon, and it will be transferred to /system/app/.
Now find the app’s icon in the list of files there and tap-and-hold on it till you get the menu.
Scroll down in the menu till you see ‘Properties’ and tap on it. You will now see the properties dialog.
Tap the ‘Change’ button in front of the Permissions to bring up the permissions dialog.
Make sure everything under ‘Read’ is checked, only ‘User’ is checked under ‘Write’ and nothing is checked under ‘Execute’ Your screen should look like the following:
Tap OK on this screen and then on the Properties screen. Your app’s permissions are now set correctly.
Reboot your device. Your app is now ready to be used as a system app.

ADB Method

Requirements

Your Android device must be rooted. If it isn’t already, check out our guide on rooting Android.
ADB installed and configured on your computer. See our guide for the complete method.
The APK file for the app you want to install as system app. If you have the app installed as a normal user app, don’t worry; we’ll show you how to grab its APK.

Procedure

If you have the app installed on your phone as a normal user app:

Search for the app in Google Play Store on your computer in a web browser, and open its Play Store page.
Look at the Play Store link of the app for a string that starts with ?id= and ends before any further question mark in the link. That will be part of the APK’s name on your phone. For example, the market link for ES File Explorer is https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.estrongs.android.pop and its APK file in /data/app is com.estrongs.android.pop-1.apk. If you see another question mark after such a name in the link, ignore everything after that.
Launch a command prompt window and enter the following commands one by one:
```
adb remount
adb shell
su
cd /data/app/
```
Now enter this command, making sure you replace ‘file_name_part_comes_here’ with the partial file name for your app that you found out from the link in step B. Don’t forget the asterisk ( * ) in the end.
```
ls file_name_part_comes_here*
```
In case of our example from step B, the command would be
```
ls com.estrongs.android.pop*
```
As a result of the command in step D, you will see the complete file name of the app. In case of our example, the result would be com.estrongs.android.pop-1.apk. It is usually the same partial app name that we got from the link in step B, followed by a hyphen ( – ), a number (usually but not always 1), and the .apk extension. Viola, we have located the file name of the required APK.
Now enter this command, replacing full_file_name_comes_here with the full file name including the extension:
```
mv full_file_name_comes_here /system/app/full_file_name_comes_here
exit
exit
adb reboot
```
In case of our example, the command would be
```
mv com.estrongs.android.pop-1.apk /system/app/com.estrongs.android.pop-1.apk
```
And you’re done.
Your app has been moved to the system partition, making it a system app from a user app. You may now close the command prompt window. The phone will now reboot for the changes to take effect.

If you have the APK of the file available on your computer:

Open a command prompt window and navigate to the location of the APK file on your computer.
Enter these commands, replacing file_name_comes_here with the full name of the APK file including the extension:
```
adb remount
adb push file_name_comes_here /system/app/
adb shell chmod 644 /system/app/file_name_comes_here
adb reboot
```
For example if the file name is FileManager.apk, the commands would be like:
```
adb push FileManager.apk /system/app
adb shell chmod 644 /system/app/FileManager.apk
```
And you’re done!

Your phone will reboot and your app will be ready to be used as a system app.

Method for unrooted devices with custom recovery installed

If you have a custom recovery and haven’t rooted your phone, you already know what you’re doing, and know that you just have to flash the zip file of the apps you need to install as system apps.

AROMA File Manager: Touch-Enabled Android File Explorer That Runs Within Recovery

A. Rehman — Mon, 14 May 2012 12:59:48 +0000

We at AddictiveTips always love to bring to you apps that provide the users with instant and convenient solutions to their routine technology-related issues. When it comes to Android, things are no different at all. As can be seen in our compilation of 10 best Android file browsers, we have already come across quite a few feature-packed file management apps for the Android platform. Managing your Android’s internal and external storage content from within the OS through a nifty file explorer is one thing, but what if you wanted to avail these tools right from within your device’s recovery? If you often flash custom ROMs or mod ZIP files onto your device, you might have, at least once or twice, forgotten to move the flashable ZIP file to local storage before rebooting into recovery. You can always use your custom recovery’s mount USB storage option to remedy such situations, but now, there’s a better way to go about it. Fresh to the arena, AROMA File Manager by XDA member, amarullz, is among one of the very first successful attempts at providing Android users with a fully-functional root-level file explorer that can be operated from within system recovery; a custom recovery such as ClockworkMod (read all about the recovery here).

AROMA File Manager is a skinnable, touch-enabled and immensely user-friendly file explorer lets you gain control over your Android’s local storage and the underlying data right from within the recovery mode without requiring you to completely boot into your Android OS.

AROMA File Manager is available on the XDA-Developers forum (link provided below) as a ZIP file that can be simply flashed in the same way as you’re used to flashing any custom Android ROM/flashable zip package. However, if you’re a neophyte in the Android world, all you need to do is reboot your device into recovery mode. Once you’ve stepped into to the recovery mode, select install ZIP from SD card > choose Zip from SD card > navigate to the directory that contains the ZIP file of AROMA File Manager. Next, install/flash the ZIP file to launch the file manager, and you’re good to go.

The developer has ensured that not only does AROMA File Manager cater to the basic file management needs of Android users right from within the recovery mode but also offers plenty of customization options to alter the looks of the app according to their personal preference. For instance, from the app’s main settings screen (Menu > Settings), you can set the toolbar style to show just the icons or icon and text, modify the font size, font style, the icon set, general theme, the default transition animation speed, the default language (English or Indonesian), and the option to automatically mount all installed storage paths on app launch. Here’s a brief list of various sought-after UI tweaks that AROMA File Manager has on offer:

Font Family: Droid Sans Serif, Droid Sans, HTC Hand, Helvetica Neue Cn, Roboto
Iconset: Generic, Holo, Sense
Themes: Generic (the app’s own skin), ICS, MIUI, Sense 4

All the various aforementioned UI modifications, when coupled with the touch-enabled controls and an intuitive root-level file manager interface, make AROMA File Manager a handy prospect. Once you’re into the app’s main interface, it’s hard to tell whether you’re using a file manager from within the OS itself or the custom recovery, as is the case with AROMA File Manager. Upon launch, the app prompts you to calibrate the screen to test the effectiveness of the touch controls. Your device’s hardware keys can also be used as an alternative means to navigate to and control various facets of the file manager.

As with most file managers that we’ve already seen, batch-select mode in AROMA File Manager is also automatically enabled upon tapping the icon of the required file/folder. Tapping the folder title reveals all the underlying contents. Once the required data is selected, you can pick from the various controls on the toolbar at the bottom to manipulate the data accordingly. Needless to say, various file management options offered by AROMA File Manager for your selected content include copy/paste, cut, delete, add to favorites, check details, create new folder, and de/select all etc..

AROMA File Manager has been successfully tested on HTC Desire Z running ClockworkMod recovery (v5.0.2.7). While the app works almost flawlessly with most of its features, it does not always let you take a glance at the selected folder’s Details. What this means is that we’re unable to tell whether the app lets you modify the R/W privileges for the required folders or not. Hopefully, said bug will be removed by the time the app debuts in the Google Play Store, officially.

Other than that, AROMA File Manager can be cited as a well-finished product that can suffice adequately to your pre-boot file management needs on an Android device. Hit the link provided below to head over to the app’s XDA-Developers forum page from where you can check out the app’s features list in detail, and download its flashable ZIP to your Android device.

[via XDA-Developers]

SoShare For Android & iPhone: Share Photos & Videos Of Any Size With Your Private Network

A. Rehman — Mon, 14 May 2012 12:20:28 +0000

SoShare is a relatively fresh private file-sharing web service that lets users instantly share photos, videos and other relatively larger files with each other without placing any restrictions on the storage capacity or the file type whatsoever. It is a social network of sorts that allows you to interact with your contacts and custom-created contact groups by sharing files and commenting on each others’ activities. The service has just launched mobile clients for Android and iOS, which lets you remotely access and manage your file-sharing activities on the network while on the move. Whether it’s sharing files with your SoShare contacts, downloading content shared by other users, commenting on each others’ activities, or creating custom groups with select contacts, the official SoShare client for Android has you covered. Details to follow.

In order to hop onto the network’s file sharing bandwagon, you must be a registered SoShare user. Registering for a new account is free, and can be done from within the app.

Once you and you’re contacts have joined the network, file sharing via SoShare becomes a three-step affair. All you need to do after launching the app is hit the share icon at the top-right of the screen, pick the desired recipient(s) and the file(s), compose a brief message (optional), and hit the share button to instantly share the file. What’s even better about SoShare is that it supports resuming file upload and download tasks. In addition, the app integrates with Android’s native share menu so that you can share files even while navigating outside of the app’s interface.

All your file-sharing activities on the network can be monitored from the app’s homescreen, which lists the shared content in a chronological order. Alongside each shared file, you can view the user(s) with whom the file has been shared, the type of file, and the number of comments that it has received (if any). To comment on an activity by yourself, hit the + button.

Hitting the menu button in the top-left corner reveals a side pane that houses your SoShare Profile, option to specify your preferred Network (Wi-Fi/cellular) to share data on, and Logout.

Now, here’s an interesting fact: from within the app’s interface, you can only capture, import and share media files (photos and videos). However, when using the SoShare option integrated with the native Android share menu, you can upload files of any format (from within a file explorer of choice).

SoShare is free in both the Google Play Store and iOS App Store. Grab the app via the links provided below.

Download SoShare for Android

Download SoShare for iPhone, iPad & iPod touch

Visit SoShare

Dashboard X: Add Notification Center Widgets To iOS Springboard & Lock Screen [Cydia]

Hamza — Mon, 14 May 2012 11:40:54 +0000

Widgets are something that have been exclusive to Android so far, and although iOS now offers a couple of native Notification Center widgets, they are not the same as Android’s ever-present and feature-rich ones. Fortunately, things have finally taken a turn for the better for jailbroken iOS users. Now, it is possible to have home screen widgets on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, thanks to the recently released Dashboard X Cydia tweak. The tweak can be considered a whole new platform for widgets that allows users to add several Notification Center widgets to the home screen. Not only that, you can make the lockscreen area of your iPhone more functional and productive as well, using the tweak’s Dock Mode, which lets users summon widgets at will, so that they don’t clutter the screen all the time. Sound interesting? Read on for details.

Setting up Dashboard X’s widgets is easy. As already discussed, the tweak has two modes. You can add permanent, translucent widgets to the Springboard of your device, or configure the Dashboard X dock mode to hide widgets until they are made temporarily visible via an Activator gesture. To get started, just tap and hold your finger over any empty area of the Springboard, and as soon as you enter wiggle mode, the option to add new widgets to the Home screen will appear. The freshly-displayed list will contain all the installed widgets supported by Dashboard X, and you can enable them simply by hitting the Add Widget button.

From the stock Settings app, you can change the way Dashboard X behaves overall. The option to enable or disable widgets is present here, in case the gestures didn’t work for some reason. From this menu, users can also choose the Activation Method. The tweak is compatible with all Activator gestures, and the chosen gesture will take you into dock mode (double tap on the status bar is the default gesture). To get out of dock mode, just double tap any area of the screen. The best thing about dock mode is the fact that it keeps your screen uncluttered, and the widgets only appear when the users performs the specified gesture. Another advantage, and perhaps the bigger one, is the mode’s lockscreen compatibility.

Many of the existing Notification Center widgets are compatible with Dashboard X, and a lot of new widgets are expected to be released soon. Dashboard X will cost you $1.99, but the new functionality it offers is certainly worth the money. You can grab the tweak from the ModMyi repo in the Cydia store.

ESPNcricinfo For WP7: Cricket Scores, Match Details, Articles & More

Hamza — Mon, 14 May 2012 11:30:39 +0000

Almost all Cricket fans know what Cricinfo is, as it is the best source for getting live updates related to the gentlemen’s game. The popular website from ESPN is not limited to just scores and fixture details, and has got practically everything related to Cricket, including articles, photos, videos and rankings. Although you can utilize the mobile version of the site on your Windows Phone 7 device, it is nowhere near as comprehensive as the full version of the famous website. So, it must come as a pleasant surprise for Cricket fans that a new app, named ESPNcricinfo, has just been released in the Marketplace, and it is Cricinfo’s official Mango client! The app has a few pretty good features that are enough to put even the web version of Cricinfo to shame. Read on to learn all about this awesome WP7 app.

The app starts off with a view of all the ongoing and recent matches from around the world. This matches page is divided into three subsections, including Live, Fixtures and Results. Each match’s icon shows a summary of the game, and you can go to its dedicated page by tapping the thumbnail. Depending upon the match’s status, users can view the result, scorecard, preview and other related info. Although most sections of ESPNcricinfo can be accessed via swiping across screens, the menu is still pretty useful, as it displays links to all sections in one place, including scores, fixtures, records, rankings and a bunch of others.

The magazine menu of the app displays articles (both informational and humorous) posted on the Cricinfo blog. The news presented in ESPNcricinfo can consist of videos, photos and audio clips, but it is also possible to browse through these media files by going to their respective sections. The Settings menu of the app allows users to choose their favorite team, so that updates are provided accordingly.

All the features we have discussed so far are the same as the web version of Cricinfo, but there are a couple of things that take ESPNcricinfo to a whole new level of awesomeness. One of these features is the app’s landscape mode that brings up extra information if you are in one of the supported screens. For example, while viewing a match’s summary, it is possible to take a look at the detailed scorecard of the game by tilting the phone horizontally. Another similar feature is the Lean Back mode, which displays the live score from any ongoing game in full screen. This means your device can be used as a score indicator in dock mode.

ESPNcricinfo is a free app, and a must-have if you are Cricket fan using WP7.

Download ESPNcricinfo

ididit! For Android & iPhone Gives You The Motivation You Need To Achieve Your Goals

A. Rehman — Mon, 14 May 2012 11:30:13 +0000

There is no better way of keeping yourself motivated to achieve your goals, and sharing them with the world. In this way, not only can you prevent yourself from going astray in pursuit of your dreams, but also serve as an invaluable source of inspiration for others. Based on said concept, ididit! is an online service that provides you with a unified platform for sharing your ambitions with the world. You can update your progress or distance from your goals, share success stories, and in return, extract motivation from the experiences of others. The service lets you announce your goals to the entire community, specify the deadlines by which you wish to intend to complete the goals, get timely notifications for each individual goal via a reminder, and share your entire progress on Facebook, Twitter or through email. The service released its official iOS client in the iTunes App Store last month, and now the Android variant has been released to the Google Play Store. Details to follow.

Whether you wish to become an entrepreneur in the coming years, want to serve humanity by offering basic necessities of life to the poor people of your village, or aim to eradicate a deadly disease from your region by setting up your own medical center, you can begin your mission by joining the ididit! club. Signing up for a new account is absolutely free, and once registered, you can access the network from your mobile device or any web browser.

Being relatively newer to the scene, the activities on the ididit! network are currently a tad on the lighter side. That said, the service has already managed to attract an impressive 866 members (as of this writing) who are sharing their goals and progress with the entire world. Apart from connecting you to the ididit! Blog, the mobile app lets you specify and keep track of your own goals. For this, tap Menu > Goal to head over to the new goal screen.

Next, define your goal, set the goal date, specify the notification settings (along with repeat interval), and select whether you’re looking to share the progress of an ongoing activity/goal or want to inform others of a goal that you’ve achieved. In either case, the app prompts you to select the social network on which you want to share the news. In addition, it also lets you supplement the news with an image of choice.

In a nutshell, ididit! not only helps you with tracking the progress of your own personal goals, but also serves as a handy information source that keeps you apprised of various achievements made by worldwide app users. The official mobile app of ididit! is free in the iTunes App Store and the Google Play Store. Below is the app’s official intro video followed by the download links of its Android and iOS variants.

Download ididit! for Android

Download ididit! for iPhone, iPad & iPod touch

Official TIME App Released For Windows Phone 7

Hamza — Mon, 14 May 2012 10:45:00 +0000

Time is among the most popular and well-respected publications on the face of the globe, and with the advent of technology, the weekly magazine has moved into the cyber world with a pretty good website, and online versions of its issues across all major platforms. As can be expected, Windows Phone 7 didn’t have an official Time app till now, but that has finally changed, and now, you can browse through the service’s latest articles via TIME Mobile, the newly released official Time client for Mango phones. The app isn’t too cluttered, like most other news-related apps, but you can still control almost every aspect of its usage. There are separate sections for articles, videos and photos, and the best thing about TIME Mobile is the fact that you can save any item for offline viewing.

The main section of the app lists the Latest News from around the world. Each story displayed in this menu has a thumbnail associated with it, and you can view more than just the featured articles by hitting the more button at the end of the list. Once you open an article from this page, it comes with some pretty good sharing and navigation options. Each story is properly tagged, and source links are provided where necessary. From the bottom menu, users can add comments and navigate to the next or previous article in the list. If you want to make a page available for offline viewing, just hit the save button from the bottom menu.

The Gallery section in TIME Mobile showcases all the popular images featured in the publication. Some of these galleries can provide you with a few pretty awesome wallpapers for your phone, as downloading the photos requires nothing more than hitting the save photo button in the bottom bar. Like the articles in the app, photos can be shared with other users as well, using email and/or social networks set up on your device.

Much like the Gallery, the TIME Mobile app also has a Videos section, where users can browse the latest addition to the TIME video collection. The page marked Most Popular displays the stories that have attracted most views, and acts as a TOP 10 for popular news items. If you are interested in reading the articles related to one genre or category only, go to the sections tab and hit the desired button. On this page, there is also the Settings menu that allows users to enable push notifications and live tile.

TIME Mobile is a free app, and you can download it from the following link.

Download TIME Mobile

HomeSpringPage For iOS Adds An Empty Homescreen For Dashboard X Widgets [Cydia]

Hamza — Mon, 14 May 2012 10:30:16 +0000

The Cydia store is certainly an active place, and every few days, a new tweak is bound to create a lot of hype among the iOS jailbreak community. These days, this tweak happens to be Dashboard X (recently reviewed here). After all, who wouldn’t want to have some truly gorgeous and useful widgets on the Springboard of their iPhone? Dashboard X is a rather new addition to the Cydia store, and hence, far from perfect. For example, many people have complained that the widgets obscure app icons, as there are only a few empty spaces available on the Springboard. Also, what if you want the first screen of your iDevice to consist of nothing but widgets? All these problems can be solved using a simple Cydia tweak named HomeSpringPage. The tweak performs the sole task of adding a blank screen on the first slot of your Springboard, and you can use that screen for placing all the Dashboard X widgets you want.

HomeSpringPage is available in the BigBoss repo of the Cydia store, and you can download it for free if you have a jailbroken iDevice. After its installation, the tweak adds no new Springboard icons or options in the Settings app. You don’t have to configure HomeSpringPage in any way, as the tweak will give you a blank screen on your Springboard automatically. Now that you have a blank screen, it is possible to neatly arrange your favorite Dashboard X widgets here, and use it as an area exclusively for these widgets, so that none of the existing app icons will be obscured.

If you are a fan of Dashboard X, HomeSpringPage is a must-have. However if you are not using the widgets platform, skip installing this tweak, although it won’t cost you anything even if you do.

Official LinkedIn Client For WP7 Arrives In The Marketplace, Speaks Metro All Over

Hamza — Mon, 14 May 2012 07:47:54 +0000

Windows Phone 7 offers deep integration with quite a few services and social networks, and provides a good way of managing and viewing all your accounts in one place. One of the services integrated with Mango is LinkedIn, and many of the features of that social network can be accessed from the Me tile. However, that cannot be considered a replacement for a dedicated LinkedIn client for WP7, as there are many things that can’t be done via the People hub. So, it is good news for Windows Phone users that the official LinkedIn client for Mango phones has finally been released. The app contains everything you may expect from an official client for such a popular service, and has “Metro” stamped all over its gorgeous interface.

The welcome page of the app offers the options to login or create a new LinkedIn account. The app has the blue theme generally associated with this social network for professionals, and even the icons in the phone’s status bar are dyed in the same tone. The first section that shows up after you have logged in to your LinkedIn account, is the Updates page, displaying a feed of all the latest activities of your contacts and followed groups. You can add a new update of your own using the ‘+’ button in the bottom bar. Next to that is the search option, using which you can look for any LinkedIn user or group. Swiping to the right when you are on the Updates screen will bring you to the app’s main menu.

The page lists the following 5 tiles:

LinkedIn Today: The latest updates from the LinkedIn team, and other featured articles on the network.
Groups: Manage and view all the activities from the groups you might have joined.
Jobs: This section suggests suitable available jobs depending upon your inclinations and experience.
Inbox: Send/ receive messages and invitations.
Companies: All the organizations you are following show up here.

If you want to manage your own LinkedIn profile using the app, just go to the You page, and the app shows the list of people who have recently visited your profile, along with suggestions regarding People you may know. On other people’s profiles, you can view their experience and other relevant information.

The app is available as a free download, and you can grab it by heading to the following link.

Download LinkedIn for Windows Phone 7

Stream & Download Free MP3 Songs On WP7 With Fildo

Hamza — Sat, 12 May 2012 20:00:36 +0000

YouTube is probably the best source of online music if you don’t want to browse through a lot of websites, looking for a working link. That is why there are many YouTube clients on Windows Phone 7, and some of them even let users download songs as MP3 audio files. However, surfing through YouTube or similar services still requires some time and effort, and the conversion of video to audio is often not smooth enough. Fildo is a new WP7 app that promises to be every music-lover’s dream come true. The app comes with an impressive collection of MP3 songs that you can stream or download to your device. That’s not all; Fildo can be used as an alterative to the Music + Videos hub of WP7, as you can create playlists, listen to songs in the background or under lockscreen, and view lyrics for each.

There isn’t a lot of hassle involved in the app’s usage. The menu is simple enough, and has just two important functions. From the Playlists menu, users can manage all their past downloads and arrange them in any order. However, the real fun begins in the Search area of the app. From this menu, it is possible to look for any track or artist. The search result limit for each keyword is 200, and that means you can find a lot of good stuff as a result of each search.

Every MP3 song you come across while using Fildo can be streamed or downloaded. Of course, it is not possible to export the songs to the stock music player, but that isn’t too much of a problem, as the app’s own player is pretty good. To stream a track from among the search results, just tap it once and it will start playing. Fildo supports continuous play, and this means that after you begin streaming one song, the app will automatically start playing the next search result when the first one is over. It is possible to manually change the song as well, and the option to do that is available in the bottom bar.

To view the lyrics of the current song, users have to swipe to the right of the search screen. Songs can be downloaded if you press and hold your finger over a title, and then hit the save icon once it shows up. The downloads made via Fildo appear in the Playlists section of the app. You can create a new playlist by long pressing any track title and then hitting the ‘+’ button.

Unlike the stock WP7 music player, Fildo offers the option to reorder playlists from within the app. Fildo has got just about everything, and although the collection might not be absolutely perfect, you will still find most good numbers available in Fildo. And did we mention that, just like all the MP3s within it, the app is completely free?

Download Fildo

Alarm Clock Ultra Is Arguably The Best, Most Comprehensive Android Alarm App Out There

A. Rehman — Sat, 12 May 2012 12:00:08 +0000

Just recently, we’ve been treated to quite a few feature-rich Android alarm apps, such as iHome Sleep (read review), PipeUp! Voice Alarm (read review) and Morning Routine (read review). However, when it comes to the amount of features and extent of customization, none of the above come even close to the fresh entrant, Alarm Clock Ultra. It’s not your run-of-the-mill alarm app. Alarm Clock Ultra is laced with goodies, including fully customizable alarms, eye-catching themes, multiple homescreen widgets (depicting current time & upcoming alarms), various time presets to enjoy a Quick Sleep (nap), slick stopwatch and timer, built-in egg timer to help your mom prepare you a boiled egg of preferred hardness, option to dismiss/snooze the alarm by solving mathematical problems, playing games or by just shaking your device, and lots more. Details to follow after the break.

The app’s UI is really the hallmark of the entire package. Not only it offers plenty of eye candy, but also packs all the extensive features on offer under a total of six (6) main buttons. Starting from the left side (assuming that you’re holding your device in portrait orientation), the first button is from where you can check the current time and date, toggle day/night mode, and take a glance at the current battery status via a nifty battery indicator.

Tap the bell button, and you’re taken to the app’s all-important main alarm screen, from where you can manage your various alarms. Each individual alarm can be personalized in a virtually endless manner. For instance, you are presented with the option to specify the repeat interval of your alarm. You can set the app to play a random alarm tone, select one of the app’s own alarm sound presets, or define a custom MP3 file from your library for that purpose. Further options include labelling alarms and enabling vibration for each. From the same screen, you can check the Gradual Alarm Increase option, along with specifying the preferred time length for this increase, to wake up to a tranquil sound rather than an annoyingly shrill one.

Then comes the option to define various gestures for dismissing/snoozing the alarms. In this regard, you can opt for just giving your device a bit of shake, solving a Math problem or playing a puzzle game to achieve said purpose. From the snooze settings perspective, you can set the custom snooze duration, as well as the maximum number of snooze instances that can be availed.

From the Mathematical problems, the app lets you define the total number of problems that it must present you with in order to silence the alarm. The difficulty level of these problems can be set to easy, medium or hard. The last option on the Alarms screen is pretty important, too, as it lets you set the alarm behavior whilst you’re attending a call. Moreover, there is the option to toggle playing alarms whilst your device is in silent mode. All aforementioned settings must be enough to help you set up your alarms accordingly.

Want to take a quick nap without setting up all those extensive alarm settings? Hit the ZZzzz button on the app’s main interface, pick one of the four available alarm time presets (15, 30, 60 or 120 minutes), and hit the Quick Sleep button to enjoy a power nap. The fourth button on the app’s main interface lets you launch the built-in Stopwatch or Timer, whereas the fifth button is from where you can specify various timer and other miscellaneous settings to prepare your boiled eggs. In this regard, you can choose the desired size of the egg, the type of boiled egg that you’d like to have, and once everything is set, just hit the Start Timer button and wait till the alarm goes off.

The last button on the app’s main interface lets you specify various app preferences. You can select the background theme of the app, define the shake sensitivity to silence/snooze the alarm, enable Vacation Mode (to disable all alarms at once), and enable viewing the next alarm notification within the notification area, among other parameters.

Already feeling you got too much with an ‘alarm clock’ app? Well, the aforementioned are just the features that are available with the ad-supported free version of Alarm Clock Ultra. There’s a $3 paid variant available in the Google Play Store as well, which not only kills ads but also brings plenty of additional features, including integrated weather info and widgets, a sneak peek into your overnight social media feeds upon wakeup, the Ultra Sleep System feature that helps you sleep and wake up to a relaxed and sound environment, and lots of added melodious alarm tones to expand your pool of choice.

Below is the official intro video of Ultra Alarm Clock followed by the Google Play Store links and QR codes of its free and paid variants, respectively.

Free

Paid

Download Alarm Clock Ultra Free

Download Alarm Clock Ultra (Paid)

Newser For WP7: News App With Concise Stories, Readers’ Reactions & A Great UI

Hamza — Sat, 12 May 2012 10:55:28 +0000

In today’s world, getting information regarding any subject is fairly easy. These days, the question is not “How to get information?”, but “Where to get it?”. Technology has endowed us with a lot of sources for latest news and other up-to-date information. Even the age of television is passing, and now many people depend on their smartphones for staying in touch with all the important happenings. Even Windows Phone 7, a platform that is not known for the choice of apps in its Marketplace, has got a decent number of news apps. Newser is a new app for WP7 Mango devices that shows the world how news apps should be made. Not only has it got an absolutely gorgeous interface, the way it presents news to its readers is quite unique as well. The sole aim of Newser is to keep users interested in what they are reading. The news items are concise, and the app provides a unique voting system for them, which involves user reactions instead of the regular thumbs up/down or numerical rating. The app offers way more than that, so read on to find out everything about Newser.

Newser presents an optional tutorial when you launch it for the first time, and you can view that by hitting the OK button in the Welcome message. It is possible to use the app without having to sign up for a Newser account, but you will need that if you want to vote on stories. The main page of the app is divided into all the usual sections that news apps usually have. You can read popular, trending and breaking news by swiping across the main screen. One rather curious section of Newser is the Superlatives area, which lists news stories that have been voted to be of a particular type by users. There are six of these genres that are predefined in Newser, and the app’s voting system revolves around these categories. A news item in Newser can be voted hilarious, brilliant, scary, depressing, intriguing or annoying. The Superlatives menu shows the stories that have received the most votes under each type.

Once you open an article in the app, you are sure to notice that the Newser writers certainly don’t beat around the bush, and this makes the stories to-the-point and interesting. By swiping to the right, you can view related posts, comments from users and other data associated with the article. At the end of most Newser articles, the links for the sources of the material are provided, and the app has a pretty good tagging system to go with. You can share a story with anyone via email or through your social network. Newser sports a pretty decent search function, and finally, you get the option to see the articles in a list view, as well.

The Newser app for WP7 has been released in collaboration with Nokia, but it works with non-Lumia devices as well. You can grab it for free by heading to the following link.

Download Newser

AutoProtect Bypasses iPhone Lock Screen Passcode When On A Specific WiFi Network [Cydia]

Hamza — Fri, 11 May 2012 19:25:40 +0000

If you are even remotely concerned about your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad’s privacy, lock screen passcode is the most rudimentary measure that can (and should) be taken, and previously reviewed Cydia tweak, CleverPin, makes that passcode intelligent enough to automatically disable itself whenever the device is connected to a trusted WiFi network, for instance, the network at your home or any other location where the chances of your privacy getting violated are minimum. The tweak also offers some other useful options (like defining a time period during which the passcode will be disabled), but you have to pay $1.99 to get it. Meet AutoProtect, a new Cydia tweak that provides the same functionality for free!

AutoProtect is available in the ModMyi repo of the Cydia store, and once you have downloaded the tweak, it will add a new menu to the Settings app of your iDevice. From the AutoProtect menu, you can configure the passcode bypass functionality. Just toggle on the button marked Enabled AutoProtect, and then enter the name of the trusted network under the Authorized WiFi Network field. Once you have done that, hit your device’s Home button, and AutoProtect will work its magic automatically. If you are currently using the added Wi-Fi network, the passcode should now be temporarily disabled. As soon as you wander out of the network’s range, the passcode protection will come back on.

AutoProtect is the kind of tweak you just have to employ once, and then forget all about it. There aren’t too many complicated settings, and the configuration procedure is extremely simple. To top it all, the tweak is available for free in the Cydia store. So, if you have a passcode set up on your iDevice, do give AutoProtect a try, as it can counter a really annoying problem.

Stashpix For iPhone: Create Virtual Photo Stashes At A Location, View Those Left By Others

Hamza — Fri, 11 May 2012 19:20:00 +0000

The thrill of discovering something that has been hidden from general view has always held a certain charm for people of all ages. Be it a treasure hunt, or just some small scavenging game, coming across a hidden stash is sure to make your day. This is the principle the new iOS app, Stashpix, is based upon. The app lets you view photos or albums shared by other users, but the distinguishing feature of Stashpix is that you have to be in the area where the image was originally shared in order to view it. Stashpix displays all the stashes of photos in your vicinity, and lets you add to them as well. In a similar manner, you can leave your mark on any area by creating a virtual stash there, so that future visitors of the location are able to appreciate your shares. It’s like geocaching, but for photos.

The Nearby Stashes page of Stashpix features one popular album each day, and that album can belong to any location. Apart from this Stash Of The Day, the main page of the app also lists the stashes found near your current location. The app keeps scanning for such albums automatically. When you tap a stash, you are taken to its dedicated page that displays all the photos in it, along with a map of the location where it was created. There are two kinds of albums in Stashpix. Locked albums consist of photos that are added by the original poster only, while anyone can make additions to an unlocked stash.

If you want to create a photo stash of your own, Stashpix has an Aviary-powered photo-editing plugin that will let you spruce up your photos before they are added to the current location’s stash list. There are some pretty good photo effects and tools available in the editor, and you can enhance your image in a lot of ways before saving it to the album. Once a stash has been created, you cannot add more photos to it unless you are again at the same location (although photos can be deleted). Stashpix has a separate menu for letting you manage your own albums, although the location restrictions apply there as well.

Stashpix is a free app, and optimized for iPhone and iPod touch only. If you like a bit of mystery and adventure, head to the App Store link provided below and grab this neat app.

Download Stashpix

[Giveaway] ESET Mobile Security For Android Out Of Beta, Now Supports ICS & Honeycomb

A. Rehman — Fri, 11 May 2012 15:50:00 +0000

The reliable computer and network security solutions provided by ESET are highly regarded among domestic and professional computer users all across the globe. When the company launched the public beta of ESET Mobile Security for the Android platform in June last year (2011), Android users were introduced to arguably one of the most comprehensive protection tools for their devices. This multi-lingual app encompasses several sought-after security features to secure your device and all the underlying data from any sort of unauthorized access. The app’s feature set includes real-time device protection from viruses and malware through on-demand (user-requested) and on-access (event-triggered) scanning, specifying blacklists for all incoming calls, SMS, and/or MMS from specific users, integrated security audit to identify the most vulnerable aspects of your Android device, multiple anti-theft tools (SIM matching, specifying a trusted SIM card via its IMSI number), and a built-in task manager. The app just recently shed its beta tag and is now available as a 30-day free trial, after which it requires you to purchase a 1-year license to continue availing all the security features. More to follow.

Note: After the initial 30-day free trial, ESET Mobile Security requires you to purchase a $9.99 license that remains valid for a year. We’re giving away five one-year licenses for the app to 5 lucky readers, details for which can be found at the end of this post.

Apart from shedding its beta tag, ESET Mobile Security now also brings support for devices running Android v3.0 (Honeycomb) and Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) or above. As mentioned earlier, the 30-day trial offer can be availed by any Android user who wishes to join the program by providing a valid email address. Should you opt to upgrade to the full version of the app, you can navigate to the Activation option within the app, provide your email ID, and purchase the license from the Google Play Store. The license remains valid for 1 year, thereby granting you access to the app’s full features during said period.

To go through the entire list of security tools supported by ESET Mobile Security, you can go through our comprehensive reviewof the app which we did in last June while the app was in Beta phase. Nothing’s changed much since then. That said, we can still recall the app’s entire list of the features that you will get from under the various tabs present on the app’s main interface:

Antivirus: One-tap full system scan for potential malware. Scan individual folders, include/exclude SD card, apps or compressed archives from the scanning process, and define the default action upon threat detection.
Antispam: Block all calls from anonymous numbers, select individual contacts whose incoming calls, SMS and MMS you want the app to block automatically. Block outgoing calls to specific numbers. You can also set separate provisions for incoming/outgoing activities for all the known as well as unknown contacts.
Anti-Theft: Define trusted SIM cards by their respective IMSI numbers, view SMS commands that can be used to wipe, lock and retrieve the password that you’ve used to secure the app. From under the same tab, you can specify your Trusted Friends’ numbers that can be used to send a text message containing the reset password for the app.
Security Audit: Analyze various aspects of your Android device – GPS, battery, cellular network, Memory card et al – that can affect the device’s performance drastically. The integrated Task Manager lets you monitor and control all the various processes, services and tasks running on your device.
Update: Update the app’s security database manually, or specify the time to auto-update said database.
Password: Secure the app using a custom password and bring various supported features under the security umbrella as well. The app asks you to provide the password before uninstallation.
Activation: Purchase a one-year license for the app.
Language: Select a different default language for the app.
Help: Get help regarding various features of the app.
Uninstall: Remove ESET Mobile Security from the device from within the app itself.

ESET Mobile Security can be downloaded for free from the Google Play Store via the download link or QR code provided below.

Download ESET Mobile Security

Giveaway: We’re giving away five 1-year licenses for this app. The giveaway will last for 48 hours. Participation is simple. Follow @addtips on Twitter, tweet/retweet the giveaway and in the comments below, provide a link to your tweet. Alternatively, you may comment on our Facebook or Google+ page, where the comment should preferably be under the shared post and not on the page itself. Our editors will pick the five winners randomly. Good luck!

Update: The giveaway has been closed. Winners will be contacted shortly.

Listen & Speak: Virtual Foreign Language Teacher That Tests & Rates Your Pronunciation [Android]

A. Rehman — Fri, 11 May 2012 12:59:40 +0000

Developed by 9spikes.com., Listen & Speak for Android is a free app that helps you improve your listening and speaking skills in various global languages by practising them through oral dictation. Listen & Speak sports an extensive online library, complete with various basic and advanced exercises in different foreign languages. The app uses your Android’s Text-To-Speech (TTS) engine to read aloud sentences or phrases from a selected exercise set. You can listen to a sentence as many times as you like, and then repeat it after the app to have your speaking skills analyzed. Based on the extent of your precision with the spoken sentence, the app ranks your speaking skills on a scale of 0-1, with intermediate scores represented in decimal figures. Apart from practicing with a specific exercise set, you can also set the app to translate all the sentences or phrases into a global language of choice. Details to follow.

Listen & Speak can prove to be an apt companion for all such users who’re often required to work in multilingual environments, or want to perfect the art of listening and speaking to thrive in a dynamic work structure. As of now, the online library of Listen & Speak contains exercise sets in just English, French and Spanish, which ultimately means that the app can prove to be your language teacher in just the three aforementioned languages.

The app, by default, defines several themes (practice sets) upon installation. However, you can head over to the Themes tab on the app’s interface any time to download and install further exercise sets. Each theme is supplemented by several sentence structures and phrases that you can practice orally.

The Learning tab lets you select a specific theme that you wish to practice with. For instance, you can opt to practice learning and improving on certain English proverbs, basic Spanish phrases, common medical terms, English quotes, or just the routine conversation bits. As mentioned earlier, along with each sentence, the app displays its translated version in a language of choice to help you easily identify as to what is being conveyed in the test sentence.

Using the buttons at the bottom, you can listen to the sentence repeatedly, or speak after the app to get your speaking skills analyzed. After your speech has been assessed, the app displays the corresponding score, and prompts you to select your next action. In this regard, you can opt to repeat the sentence, proceed with the next sentence or cancel the practice session altogether.

Listen & Speak’s Settings screen houses several important options. For instance, you can select your native language in which you want the sentence to be translated. Then there is the option to listen to the spoken content via the earpiece instead of the speaker. It is also from the same screen that you can select the default speech service (Google’s TTS Engine or Microsoft Translator service). The app also lets you specify the time out (in seconds) after which it automatically moves to the next practice sentence in the exercise.

Listen & Speak is available in the Google Play Store, and can be downloaded via the link or QR code provided below.

Download Listen & Speak

meshtiles: Interest-Aware Photo Styling & Sharing App For Android & iPhone

A. Rehman — Fri, 11 May 2012 12:15:04 +0000

There’s no shortage of entertainment-filled apps across various mobile platforms, and it also comes as no surprise that most of these apps are based on the concept of photo-capturing, decorating and sharing. Even before the photo-editing and sharing sensation Instagram hit the Google Play Store, Android users had plenty of quality alternative options to pick from, and the trend doesn’t seem to be slowing down. A new app, called meshtiles, has just stepped into the foray to provide Android and iOS users with an Instagram-like photo styling and sharing experience, but with a nice little twist of its own. Fusing the concept of content-aware photo exploration and photo sharing, meshtiles provides you with an unending stream of photos fetched according to your areas of interest. The app also keeps a detailed log of all the photos that you’ve shared on the network, and presents you with a visually appealing timeline of your activities. As a reward for the extent of your activities on the network, the app also awards you with specific titles and points that keep accumulating with time.

The core feature behind the entire concept of meshtiles remains all the various keyword-based #hashtags that you can use to let the app learn of your personal tastes and preferences, based on which you’re presented with only the most appropriate content on your home screen. Whether you wish to explore the trending photos, search for photos across the network, or view all the content on the map, you have to utilize these tags accordingly.

Apart from that, meshtiles also borrows all the basic elements of a typical social photo sharing service, so that you may view, comment on and like all the amazing photos shared by other app users from all across the globe. In addition, you can start following a particular user, or be followed yourself. However, before all that, you are prompted to log in to the app using a valid meshtiles account. From the app’s signup screen, you can grab a fresh account for yourself using your Facebook or Twitter login credentials.

Past that, the app prompts you to provide it with your personal likings, choices and interests. This can be done by picking as many as five different commonly used tags. You can add a custom tag, or pick from the extensive list of tags offered by meshtiles. Next, the app requests you to authorize it to access all the various social media sharing accounts on which you wish to share your favorite photos. Once the app has analyzed your interests and preferences, it welcomes you through its heavily-stacked main interface that lists all the popular photos on the network.

Using various tabs at the top of this screen, you can change the app’s default mode to display all the photos. In this regard, you have the choice of switching to grid, list or map view. Whilst in any aforementioned photo viewing mode, you can filter the app’s content to view only the popular photos, photos based on your preferred tags, or manually search for photos by other tags. Tapping a photo reveals it on its tile along with all the comments, likes and other sharing stats.

Tapping the trend # tab on the app’s main interface lists all the trending keywords/tags along with relevant photos. This list can be filtered to display only the Hot running photos on the network, or those from the past week.

To share images yourself, tap the Shot tab on the app’s main interface. Doing so lets you snap a photo, or import one from your device’s gallery. Just import the required image, crop it, apply a filter to it, assign the relevant tag(s), compose your short note, pick a pictorial of choice, opt whether to tag your location along with the image, select the preferred social sharing service (or individual friends), and share the tile with the world. The timeline tab, as its name suggests, displays a detailed timeline of all your activities on meshtiles.

The last tab on the app’s interface is from where you can track your meshtiles profile in detail, complete with all the points that you’ve earned so far, comments that your posts have received, tags that you’ve added to the favorites list, and a statistical summary of all the days of the week on which you’ve been the most active on the network. From the same screen, you are presented with the option to explore your own shared images in list, grid or map view.

meshtiles is available for free in the Google Play Store and iTunes App Store. Download links for both variants are provided below.

Download meshtiles for Android

Download meshtiles for iPhone, iPad & iPod touch

CacheClearer For WP7: Clear App Cache Files To Speed Up Performance [Homebrew]

Hamza — Fri, 11 May 2012 11:45:05 +0000

Anyone who has been using a Windows Phone 7 device for a considerably long time, must surely have noticed that their phone becomes a bit laggy with the passage of time. This issue is not exclusive to the Mango platform; the same thing happens on Android, iOS and even desktop platforms. This is owing to the fact that the system’s cache starts building up as the app count on your device increases. By default, or even through third-party apps, there is no way of clearing your WP7’s app cache. That’s where the new Homebrew “CacheClearer“ comes into the picture. Using this app, you can free up a lot of internal space (in the order of several Megabytes) on your device. Not only does it let you analyze the cache usage of each app individually, you can use it to get rid of the device’s lag by cleaning up everything in a safe and convenient way.

Despite the app’s rather complicated-sounding functionality, using CacheClearer is really easy. The main page of the Homebrew lists all the apps that are installed on your device. From the Settings menu in the bottom bar of the app, you can choose to run it in background so that it can continue working even if you navigate away while the cache clearing operation is under way. The button marked quick clean at the bottom of this main screen will let you clear the cache of all the apps present in the main list. On our rarely used Omnia 7, doing this freed up a total of 54 MB of space! A pretty impressive haul for such a device.

In case you want to view and clear each app’s cache individually, just tap its name in the list. In the Summary section of each app’s dedicated page, you will be presented with a pie chart, showing the percentages of the file types occupying the cache on the app’s behalf. To see the details of each area in the app, just tap anywhere on the chart and explanatory text will pop up. By swiping to the right, you can view the list of all the Files that are included in the app’s cache folder. To clear individual caches, just tap the Clear cache button on the app’s page.

CacheClearer is a really useful app, and serves the dual purpose of freeing up extra space and making your phone more efficient. So, if you have got a rooted Windows Phone device, CacheClearer is a must-have utility. You can grab the XAP from the download link provided below.

Download CacheClearer

[via WPHacker]

Gallery+ for Pinterest Displays The Photo-Sharing Social Network As A 3D Slideshow [Android, iOS]

A. Rehman — Fri, 11 May 2012 11:00:19 +0000

The popular pinboard-themed social photo-sharing service, Pinterest, has a mobile client available for iOS users whereas Android users are currently out of luck. That said, the official iOS client of the service isn’t exactly an app entirely worth dying for. There are plenty of third-party alternatives present across app stores of all renowned mobile platforms that not only let you gain complete control over your Pinterest activities, but add plenty of eye-candy as well. One such unofficial Pinterest client that has been around in the iTunes App Store for quite some time is Galley+ for Pinterest that presents you with a neatly-built photo gallery, complete with all the photo and video collections shared on Pinterest in the form of various pinboards. Apart from managing your own Pinterest account and indulging in various customary activities associated with the service, you can also dive into the world of photo-packed pinboards to explore all the underlying images via high quality, animated slideshows. To the delight of Android users, the app is no longer exclusive to the iTunes App Store, as an Android variant has just made its way into the Google Play Store. Details to follow.

Not only is the app way ahead in terms of aesthetics as compared to the official Pinterest mobile client, but it also also offers plenty of customizability. Once you log in to the app using your Pinterest account, you can ‘pin’ and/or upload fresh photos to your personal pinboards, mange your Pinterest profile, and like, pin/unpin, or comment on various pins shared by other users.

The app’s buttery smooth animations, and the option to display all the various pinboards and underlying pins via customizable slideshows make it an even better prospect as compared to the official client of the service. The app opens to a scrollable screen that lists tiles of all the various pinboards featured on the service. By swiping on the screen, you can circle between various pinboards. Tapping the play button at the bottom-left of the screen plays the slideshow of the current screen.

Tapping the Pinterest icon at the top-left side of the app’s homescreen lets you quickly navigate to various Pinterest categories, such as the videos, popular items, gifts, your personal Pinterest home page or the search history. There is also the option to search for pins/photos containing specific keywords.

Tapping a tile reveals the underlying contents along with the buttons to pin/unpin, like, or comment on a specific photo. In addition, you can also see the details of the user who has shared a particular photo. Tapping the photo lets you view it in full-screen. From the app’s main settings screen, you can specify the quality of photos, set the interval and style of the slideshow, and clear the app’s search history.

So, until the official Android client is released in the Google Play Store, rest assured that Gallery+ for Pinterest won’t let you feel being left out in the cold at all, thanks to its sheer visual awesomeness and the option to access all the necessary Pinterest features from right within the app.

Like its iOS counterpart, Gallery+ for Pinterest is available as a free and a $2.7 variant. The paid version is ad-free, and more importantly, lets you add/upload photos on your own Pinterest boards. Apart from that, both variants share most of the aforementioned features in common. Download links to the paid and free Android and iOS variant of the app are provided below ,along with their respective QR codes.

Paid

Free

Download Gallery+ for Pinterest for Android (Free)

Download Gallery+ for Pinterest for Android (Paid)

Download Gallery+ for Pinterest for iPad (Free)

Download Gallery+ for Pinterest for iPad (Paid)

Squrl For iPhone & iPad: View Trending Videos From Your Social Networks & Video Sources Of Choice

Hamza — Fri, 11 May 2012 10:45:45 +0000

Services like Google Reader are helpful in letting users view items from several news sources in one place. Such feed aggregators are not rare, and there are many similar apps available for iOS as well. Squrl Video Discovery is an iPhone app that is essentially a feed aggregator, but with a major twist – the app deals specifically with videos. With Squrl Video Discovery, you can create a personalized video feed, stay apprised of the latest video trends among your social media friends and discover new videos from sources of your choice. Squrl offers a network of its own too, where you can follow different channels and other users. Read on past the jump for further details.

The app provides a short tutorial regarding its usage when you launch it for the first time. The option to link your Facebook and Twitter accounts with the app are provided during this tutorial, although you can do that later as well. By default, the Fresh page is the first to show up after you are through with the tutorial. This shows all the latest videos from the sources incorporated by Squrl, which include YouTube, Hulu, Reddit, ESPN, CNN and many others. If you choose to connect your social network with Squrl Video Discovery, the Activity menu shows a list of videos watched and shared by your friends. To interact with other Squrl users, you can send them messages, and this correspondence is done via the Messages menu of the app.

Arguably, the best section of the app is What’s Hot. Here, all the trending videos from your chosen sources are displayed. This can give you a good idea about what’s popular across the web these days, and it also keeps you up to date with the latest news related to the topics you are following. To personalize the whole experience of using Squrl, you can go to the Channels menu and add new items to your main feed. There are several categories of channels available, and you may follow any channel you like. You can also share or like videos from the main Squrl feed, without even having to launch the video. To do that, just long press any video thumbnail. Apart from that, the action menu’s ‘+’ button allows users to add a video to a Queue, so that it can be watched later.

Squrl Video Discovery is a universal app, and is optimized for both iPhone and iPad. Recently, the app got a complete interface overhaul, so even if you have used it before, do give it another try. Squrl is free and can be downloaded from the link provided below.

Download Squrl Video Discovery

DoNotDisturb: Turn Off All iOS Alerts & Banners From Notification Center [Cydia]

Hamza — Fri, 11 May 2012 10:00:36 +0000

A few days back, we covered a Windows Phone 7 Homebrew named Snotify. That app allowed users to silence the notifications on their WP7 device with a few toggle buttons. It doesn’t happen too often, but an iOS utility seems to have followed the Mango app’s example. The Cydia tweak is named DoNotDisturb, and is basically a Notification Center widget that includes a single toggle. If you switch DoNotDisturb on, all notifications on your device are immediately turned off. This doesn’t mean that you won’t be able to see notifications at all – they will still be there in the Notification Center – but all pop-ups and banners will be killed for as long as the tweak is activated. Sound like something you would want to use? Read on for details.

DoNotDisturb is not a typical NC widget, as it doesn’t add any glossy new feature to the Notification Center. There is just a button that can be used to silence the notifications. After the tweak has been installed on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, you might have to manually respring the device. Once you have done that, go to the Notifications menu in the stock Settings app and enable DoNotDisturb. The tweak adds a menu of its own to the Settings app as well, but it contains nothing more than a few instructions for configuring DoNotDisturb.

Once the DoNotDisturb toggle appears in the Notification Center, just tap it, and you won’t get a notification alert until you turn the tweak back off. As discussed earlier, new notifications can be viewed from NC even when the tweak is working, but all alerts will be silenced, including text message banners, email notifications, alerts from third-party and stock apps and just about any other notification alert you can possibly think of. DoNotDisturb appears to be something that can be more useful as an SBSettings toggle, but as it is the only available option for now, the NC widget will have to do. So, if you want a few hours of peace without having to switch your phone off, head to the ModMyi repo of the Cydia store and grab DoNotDisturb for free.

MusicBunk For Android & iPhone Is A Social Network For Music Discovery & Sharing

A. Rehman — Thu, 10 May 2012 19:15:16 +0000

Want to know how many of your Facebook friends love Adele’s Rolling In The Deep, or who else in the world loves Pitbull’s tracks like you do? Say Hello to MusicBunk – a cross-platform social music discovery and sharing app for Android & iPhone that connects you to worldwide music fans so that you may share, like and comment on all your favorite music tracks while enjoying high quality music streams through personalized playlists. Simply put, the app scans your device’s music library for locally stored songs, lets you create and share playlists from those tracks, listen to the music tracks via its neatly-designed native music player, and lets your friends learn what tracks you’re currently listening to. In return, your friends can respond to your choice of music by commenting on and liking your activities on the network. That’s not all; based on your musical taste, the app also suggests friends who have a particular favorite of yours added to their own MusicBunk playlists. In this way, you can befriend other app users who have the same taste in music as yours, creating a nice little music circle comprising only your Music Matches! More to follow.

In order to access all said features, you must first log in to the app using a valid MusicBunk or Facebook account. First-time users can sign up for a fresh account from within the app for free.

Not only can you invite your Facebook friends and Android contacts to join in the fun right from within the app but also start following other app users from their MusicBunk profile page. From within your own profile page, you can specify individual privacy settings for your songs, posts (comments) and friends list.

While you may listen to tracks stored on your own device without any restriction, for other (unmatched) tracks that you wish to listen to from one of your friends’ playlists, the app presents you with an audio preview from Amazon, along with other track suggestions from the same artist. Provided the video of the same track is available on YouTube, the app provides you with the relevant YouTube link too. All this is possible only if all the tracks in a playlist are properly titled, and contain enough metadata to be identified online.

While listening to a track, you can like and/or comment on it to let other users know your thoughts about it. MusicBunk also supports advanced playlist management. In this regard, you can opt to add only select songs in a custom playlist. Moreover, while within a playlist, you can sort all the underlying tracks in multiple ways. For instance, songs can be sorted by title, artist, recently added, and number of likes that they’ve received. You also have the choice of filtering the playlist to display only those tracks that are present in your own and your MusicBunk friends’ playlists.

The Home tab on the app’s main interface lists your own and your MusicBunk friends‘ activities on the network. Tapping the Me button within this tab lets you manage your MusicBunk profile, check your notifications and friend requests, and most importantly, create and manage your own music playlists. You can create multiple playlists, each with different music tracks and customized privacy settings.

The Songs tab lists your currently selected playlist whereas the Friends tab lists all your MusicBunk friends and allows you to start inviting your phone contacts and Facebook friends to join the network.

Once you’ve listened to a handful of tracks from your playlist, you can head over to the Match tab on the app’s interface to check if any other app users have one (or more) of the same tracks in their own MusicBunk playlist. Should you be able to find a music match, you can send them a friend request, explore and listen to their entire playlist, check their other friends on the network, and follow their activities.

MusicBunk is available for free in both the Google Play Store and iTunes App Store. Download links to both variants of the app are provided below.

Download MusicBunk for Android

Download MusicBunk for iPhone, iPad & iPod touch

Easily Create & Manage Your Website On The Go Using Weebly For iPhone

Hamza — Thu, 10 May 2012 12:00:21 +0000

It might sound like a daunting task, but these days, creating a website or blog isn’t that difficult. Everything is automated for the user’s convenience, and thanks to services like Weebly, and even WordPress, you can create a new website in just a few minutes. Weebly, in particular, is so simple to use that you just have to choose a theme and domain name to have your site up and running. The service is now even more convenient, owing to the release of the new Weebly app for iPhone. Not only can the app be used to create new websites, it is also possible to manage existing Weebly blogs through this newly released iOS app. So, if you have always wanted your own blog, or have already got one via Weebly, head past the break to learn all about the service’s iPhone app.

If you have never used Weebly before, choose the New User option from the app’s welcome page. Once you have done that, you will be directed to choose a theme for your site. There are many good themes available in Weebly’s repository. Pick one and hit the Continue button. You have to remember, though, that if you choose a theme that is too fancy, your blog will be slow to load. After the theme has been chosen, you are ready to create your first ever blog post.

The editing area offered by Weebly is fairly simple, and is divided into separate sections for photos and text. Photos can be added to each post from the camera roll of your iDevice, or by shooting a new image straight away. You can add captions and even apply filters to photos. The text editor is minimalistic, but houses all the necessary options needed for basic text editing and formatting. The images and text can be rearranged easily using the reordering buttons provided next to each. When you have finished the post, hit the Publish button in the top-right corner of the app. Note that Weebly also offers auto-publishing options for Twitter and Facebook.

Now comes selecting a domain name for your website. The app checks the availability of a requested domain name in real-time, and once you have found a name of your liking that is available, you are good to go.

If you are already using Weebly, the app can be even more useful for you. Not only can you manage all your Weebly websites using the app, the Comments section lets you handle the feedback you get as well. In the Stats menu, you can view your site’s page views, but anything more advanced than that will require you to upgrade to the pro version, which costs $27.99 or $47.99 (depending upon the duration of the subscription).

Download Weebly

ShoeBox For Android & iOS Lets You Scan Old Photos, Auto-Adjusts Edges & Perspective

A. Rehman — Thu, 10 May 2012 12:00:08 +0000

ShoeBox by 1000memories is an online image gallery specifically dedicated to your old photos. It is a platform where you can gather all the old, scanned snaps that might be lying on your computer, smartphone or across various social media sharing platforms, including Facebook and Instagram. The service presents you with various category-based ShoeBox (album) templates under which you can place all relevant snaps. You can also create your own ShoeBox, and share it with the entire world. Moreover, there is also the option to keep a ShoeBox private, wherein only authorized users (collaborators) can view the content contained within the album. ShowBox has both an iOS app (which has been around for a while now), and a freshly released Android client, both of which sport smart edge detection and automatic perspective adjustment so that you close to no effort is required at your end to make the scans look flawless.

The app’s UI looks a truly well-polished article, and most of the available features are pretty simple to use. It lets you explore images contained within various public ShoeBoxes. You can also log in to the app using your ShoeBox or Facebook account to get into the sharing side of things yourself. New accounts can be created from within the app for free. Once logged in, you can start scanning your old photo albums to have them nicely organized within your personal ShoeBoxes. For this, hit the red scan button at the top.

The app also lets you import an existing image from your device’s gallery. Once that is done, you can crop it to get rid of all the rough edges, and get the image perspective right. You’ll notice that the app, using its edge-detection feature, automatically does a little adjustment by itself. At times, you might not even need to adjust the edges manually.

Past that, the app allows you to rotate the cropped image, and finally, choose the ShoeBox to which you wish to upload the image. In this regard, you can create a ShoeBox from scratch (with custom privacy settings) or upload your image to an existing ShoeBox.

Finally, you’re prompted to specify various details, such as the image caption, date (decade, year or month) and location. Moreover, you can tag people to the photos, and decide whether you want to share the image on Facebook or not.

After logging in, you can see a of a total of three main tabs at the top of the app’s main interface. The Shoeboxes tab lists all your personal collections. The Uploads tab lists all the images that you’ve uploaded to 1000memories whereas from the Explore tab, you can dive into the world of vintage photos shared by other ShoeBox users.

ShoeBox is absolutely free in the Google Play Store, and requires Android v2.2 or higher to run. Download the app via the link or QR code provided below.

Download ShoeBox for Android

Download ShoeBox for iPhone, iPad & iPod touch

Consmr: View Crowdsourced Product Reviews, Ratings & Alternatives On Your iPhone While Shopping

Hamza — Thu, 10 May 2012 11:15:19 +0000

Even if you have to buy a simple bottle of ketchup, there are so many options available in the market that anyone can get confused. There are a lot of apps in the iOS App Store that are designed to help users get the best items when they are out shopping. Some apps might be able to help you by pointing out the latest deals available for various products, but nothing is better than getting a real person’s opinion while shopping. This is exactly what Consmr Barcode Scanner does for its users. With this iPhone app, you will be able to scan the QR code or barcode of any product, and view its customer reviews, ratings, available alternatives and even the places where the item is easily available!

The main Search page of the Consmr app lists all the product categories that are usually of interest to common users. You can look through the most popular grocery items, find trending beauty products and search for just about any product imaginable. The app can prove to be more productive if you choose to create a Consmr account. This can be done via your email address, or by linking your Facebook account with the app. Doing so will allow you to view deals suggested by your friends and other contacts.

The Discover section of the app lists all the product reviews from popular and trusted users. This can be a great place for finding products that are highly recommended and currently popular among consumers. You can browse the section in Global mode (location based) or Expert mode (lists top-rated products). Any item you come across while using the app has got its own dedicated product page. This page shows the item’s rating, user reviews and alternatives. To check the product’s availability in your area, go to the Nearby tab. To add an item to your shopping list, just hit the small button in the top-right corner of its product page.

The Scan menu in Consmr can be used to analyze QR codes and barcodes. If the product is listed in the app’s database (most are), you will be taken straight to its page. Alternatively, you may use the search menu to find products that perfectly match a certain requirement.

Consmr is available for free, US-specific and currently optimized for iPhone (or iPod touch) only. You can grab the app from the App Store link provided below.

Download Consmr

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All-In-One Hack ToolKit For HTC One X, One S, Vivid, Rezound, myTouch 4G Slide & Amaze 4G

Zayed Rehman — Thu, 10 May 2012 11:00:03 +0000

Tool kits for Android devices are a blessing literally. With the abilities to perform multiple functions from one app and mostly via a convenient one click method. XDA-Developers recognized member hasoon2000 has been hard at work developing a toolkit for the latest HTC devices out there, but best of all, he has released versions of the toolkit that are particular to the device at hand. The tool kit covers the recent HTC One X, One S, Vivid, Rezound and the likes of myTouch 4G Slide and the Amaze 4G as well. The tool kit lets you not only root the device, install a custom recovery, flash a custom kernel, but brings with a few very useful extra commands as well. We talk more about it, and how you can use this tool, in detail after the break.

The best thing about this toolkit, is the fact that it caters to the most novice users – notice the step by step instructions and scripts laid out in the root procedure – and for advanced users as well, who want to flash a custom kernel to the device, boot into bootloaders or remove bloatware from the device.

The kernels, or the recoveries contained in the tool kit vary for the respective devices of course and as you can see, the above screenshot is that of the toolkit for the HTC Rezound. The toolkit will download the drivers to help you get started without worrying about installing the right USB drivers.

The Toolkit also contains some of the very useful XDA-Links incase you’d like to learn more about what you’re about to do, or find something new or cool for your device. Want to install an APK? Well there are alternative software out there, but heck, why not use a tool you already have in place. The toolkit brings in an APK installer as well, and to top it off, it not only installs, but backs up any installed apps as well. Even hotter, is the ability to all this in batch. More so, you can rename APK files, restore backed up data, or install apps to SD card.

So if you deem this powerful tool kit useful for your device, head over to the forum thread for your device from the links below.

HTC Sensation Camera Mod Ported To HTC Vivid, Improves Photo & Video Quality

Zayed Rehman — Thu, 10 May 2012 10:45:50 +0000

The HTC Vivid boasts an 8MP AF camera with the ability to record videos at 1080p. However it’s Android, and with that label comes the urge to increasingly push a device to its limit. Camera Mods are not really a new concept and have been around for quite a while now. However, as the camera sensors and over all technology crept to astonishing heights, it is only fair that all that potent hardware is used at its maximum potential. Something like this happened for the HTC Sensation a while back, where the device could record full HD videos at 40mbps! Stuff like 0 compression on JPG images (photos taken), experimental addition of ISO 1250 mode and more were part of the deal. In short, huge improvement in the video and photo quality overall was achieved. Well guess what? The HTC Vivid just got all that! In fact, XDA-Developers forum member zacgoesrawr has simply ported the mod for the Sensation onto the Vivid. So if you’re hungry for some uber camera improvement on your HTC Vivid, read on after the break.

The mod is available for the Inquisition ROM and for all Sense 3.6 based ROMs. It is important to not that this is currently a project that is not entirely complete and zacgoesrawr is currently working on it to add more stuff. So what do you get with this mod?

Uncapped JPEG File size resulting in great photo quality.
Uncapped Video, recording 40MBPS.
The experimental ISO 1250 mode.

You may need to have a Class 6 or higher SD card in your device, to avoid any problems. So let’s get down to how you can install this mod on your Vivid!

Disclaimer: Please attempt this guide at your own risk. AddictiveTips won’t be responsible in case your device gets bricked or damaged in any other way due to this method.

Requirements:

A rooted HTC Vivid with custom recovery installed. See our guide on all in one toolkit for HTC Vivid here, to root your device and install a custom recovery.
Camera Mod for Inquisition ROM | Sense 3.6 ROMs.

Instructions:

To begin, download the mod depending on your ROM and copy it to the root of your SD card.
Boot the device into recovery and make a Nandroid backup.
Navigate to install zip from sdcard > choose zip from sdcard and select the mod file.
Once the mod is flashed, simply reboot your device.

For updates and queries, head over to the forum thread at XDA-Developers.

Informator: Use Action Menu To Paste Device Info While Entering Text [Cydia]

Hamza — Thu, 10 May 2012 09:30:30 +0000

If you want to share your iPhone’s IP address or other device information with someone, you have to navigate to the depths of the stock Settings app, memorize the info (as it can’t be copied) and then write it down in the Notes app or somewhere similar; a fairly unintuitive way of doing things. Not many people are huge fans of the way text editing is done in iOS, but you have to admit that the text action menu it offers is quite a feature. This menu can be enhanced even further if you have access to the Cydia store. There are many tweaks available in the jailbreak store that focus entirely on letting users add more text editing options to the action menu for greater convenience. New to the Cydia store, Informator is a simple, free tweak that adds a new button to the action menu, using which you can add any device information (IP address, device ID, UDID, device name, etc.) to text in a couple of taps.

The action menu’s Informator button becomes available in all areas of iOS that accept text input. This means that even if you don’t have to write the information down, you can merely use the Informator tweak for viewing the data. As soon as the action menu button, marked Informator, is tapped after the tweak’s installation, a menu comes up containing a long list of specs that can be viewed with a single touch. The information accessible through this tweak ranges from hardware data to network specs, and you won’t have to blindly go through the Settings app just to view a simple piece of information related to your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch.

Informator is available as a free tweak in the BigBoss repo. Once you have installed it to your iDevice, it takes effect immediately without disturbing the Springboard or Settings app. If you have to share your device’s information frequently, do give Informator a try.

AT&T HTC One X Gets One Click Root

Zayed Rehman — Thu, 10 May 2012 09:03:26 +0000

The HTC One X from AT&T has been rooted! Earlier we covered a rooting guide for the retail version of the HTC One X here, but the AT&T branded model was no where released back then. However, thanks to the efforts of XDA-Developers forum member kennethpenn, not only do AT&T users have the ability to root their device in a one click fashion, but users on Rogers and other networks as well. Even better, this method will work for Windows, Linux and Mac.

So what will this do? It will root the One X, install Busybox and the SuperSU application as well for rights management. If you’re wondering why you need to root your device, you can see our guide on the top 10 reasons to root your Android device, here. So without further talk, let’s just get our hand dirty and get on with some good old rooting!

Disclaimer: Please attempt this guide at your own risk. AddictiveTips won’t be responsible in case your device gets bricked or damaged in any other way due to this method.

Requirements:

Instructions:

To begin, download the root package and extract the contents.
Enable USB Debugging on the One X by navigating to Settings > Developer Options.
Now depending on the OS you’re on, run root.bat for Windows | root-linux.sh for Linux | root-mac.sh for Mac, and the automated script will root your device.

The device will reboot a few times and once it finally boots up, it will be rooted! For updates and queries, head over to the forum thread at XDA-Developers.

Additionally click here to see our guide on the top 15 apps to install after rooting your Android device.

Flipboard For Android Leaked, Available For All Devices

A. Rehman — Wed, 09 May 2012 14:00:20 +0000

Once the official Instagram Android app finally hit the Google Play Store last moth, most users (including me) set their sights on another popular iOS-exclusive app, Flipboard – an elegant, customizable magazine-style news and social feed reader. Just last week, along with the announcement of the much-anticipated Samsung Galaxy S III, came the news that Flipboard will be debuting on Android as an SGS III-exclusive app. Now, unless you’re one of the lucky few to-be owners of said device, chances are bleak that you’ll be getting a taste of Flipboard on your Android any time soon. That said, XDA member, Valcho, seems to have completely different plans, as he has managed to pull the APK of the much sought-after news reader from his Galaxy S III (a test unit, presumably). So, albeit not officially, Flipboard for Android is now available for download, and is ready to give Google Currents a good run for its money in the race of the best news reading Android apps. Download link, further details & screenshots past the break.

If you’ve ever had the chance to witness the beauty of Flipboard running on an iOS device (especially the iPad), you’ll appreciate the elegant flipping of pages. For many, it is easily the best medium of news reading on a mobile device. Apart from presenting you with heaps of content gleaned from several preloaded news sources, Flipboard also supports fetching latest news stories from a wide array of online news service providers of choice. You can associate your Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google Reader and other accounts with the app to sift through the latest news and your social media updates from under the same roof.

You have complete control over the app’s cover page and subsequent pages, and once you log in to the app using your Flipboard account, you can use the same configuration across all devices.

Using the app is quite simple. All you need to do is swipe from bottom to top on the app’s main (Cover) page to sift through added news and social media sources. Using the same gestures while within a news source switches between news item. While reading an article, you can swipe from left to right to head back to your Flipboard cover page.

To manage all the news content and your social accounts, just hit the search tab at the top. From this screen, you can also search for a news item/source of interest, and navigate to a desired news category to add the relevant source to your personalized Flipboard edition. All the tiles visible on the app’s main interface can be maneuvered, meaning that you can reposition them anywhere on the magazine as you wish. For this, long press a tile, and using the drag-and-drop gesture, place them anywhere you like.

You can favorite/like a news story that has flown in from one of your social media. Plus, you can also post status updates to your Facebook Wall and Twitter Timeline straight from within the app, and reply/retweet to, and comment on various content shared by your Twitter friends. In addition, you can natively share the link of a news story, bookmark it to read later, view it on its original web source, and share it via mail.

Last but not the least, the only additional feature in the app’s Android variant, the homescreen widget. The widget is pretty simple as of this writing. It comes in two sizes (4×2 and 4×1) displays the latest story and lets you sift through stories by pressing a small refresh button in the bottom-right corner.

The delight of experiencing Flipboard on a Galaxy Nexus apart, in complete honesty, I must admit that the app does suffer a slight lag, especially while flipping through pages. Though, what was more alarming than that, was that it seemed to be leeching battery at quite a pace.

Though, that doesn’t change the fact that it is a peach of an app, regardless of whatever minor issues it might currently have, we would suggest you head over to the XDA forums (link provided below) to grab your copy of the APK. We would love to know your first experience with Flipboard on Android, and your opinion on how it will fare in the Play Store once it is officially released.

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