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PicSee Pro For iPhone: Photo Editor That Lets You Remove Unwanted Backgrounds

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Adobe Photoshop is one of the best, most comprehensive tools for professional-level image editing, but you don’t always want to use something as complicated as that to make minor changes to your ordinary photos, especially when they are on your iPhone. There are so many good casual photo editors available for iOS that you hardly ever need to transfer your photos to your computer for editing. However, there are a few tasks that are still really difficult to perform on an iPhone, and one such feat is the removal of background from the photo of an object or person. Not many image editors come with the background removal option, even the otherwise feature-rich ones. Fortunately, PicSee Pro is not one of those apps. Not only does it have all the usual photo effects, filters and coloring options, it has a whole menu dedicated to background editing and removal. Details past the break. Read More

Official CNNGo App For Android Lands In The Google Play Store

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If you’re fond of touring and travelling, you’re going to fall in love with this app, and the the depth of the informative content that it presents via multimedia-rich articles. Initially available only to Nokia and iOS users, the official mobile app of CNN’s popular travel-based show, CNNGo, has finally arrived in the Google Play Store. Packed with plenty of worldwide tour guides, travel info, destination exploration, photo galleries, up-to-date tourism details, CNN iReports (reports submitted by users across the globe), and plenty of instant sharing options, the official Android client of CNNGo vows to be your one-stop shop for local and international travelling-related articles. Through a neatly designed and intuitive UI, the app provides you access to all the latest region-based and featured content for which CNNGo is revered by traveling enthusiasts, plus some exclusive content. Read More

Solid Explorer: Holo-esque, Dual-Pane Android File Manager With Root Access

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Google Play Store is filled with plenty of quality file explorers and file management apps for Android. As we saw in our compilation of the ten best Android file explorers, you have apps ranging from multi-pane file explorers to those that let you explore and edit root directories. Arguably the best and most feature-rich ICS-themed file explorer to hit the Google Play Store yet, Solid Explorer (currently in beta) seems to pack enough features to topple most (if not all) of its competitors. To begin with, this root-level file explorer expedites your file management needs by providing you with a user-friendly dual-pane interface, complete with all the usual features that you’d find in a contemporary file browser. The interface may not follow all Holo UI conventions, but it looks great nevertheless and is a treat to use. Maneuvering files between various directories can be done through simple drag-and-drop gestures, whereas batch selection of content is enabled by default. The app also supports universal index search, which means that you can search for content from within device search. Read More

Bloom* For iPhone: Motivate, Inform Or Inspire Yourself & Others Through Mini-Presentations

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In my experience, motivating or inspiring oneself in isolation is next to impossible. Mostly, some external stimulus is needed to get you going. Your friends can prove to be a great source of motivation, or you might come across some beautiful landscape that can spark your creativity. Bloom* integrates all such things into one innovative iOS app. It is a source of presentations, uploaded both by the Bloom* staff and the app’s users, designed to motivate people regarding various aspects of life. If you want to create a presentation of your own, the app offers a nice photo editor, and you can set any song from your library as the presentation’s background music. Read on to learn more about this app. Read More

MegaCloud For Android Allows On-The-Go Media Streaming From 5 GB Of Free Cloud Storage

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Cloud storage services seem to be arriving left, right and center these days. In just the past few weeks, we’ve seen Google Drive transform into a reality; Maxthon released Skyfile, whereas earlier this morning, LG jumped in with LG Cloud for Android. Another cloud storage service called MegaCloud has been around for quite some time now, catering to the online data storing, syncing and sharing needs of Windows, Mac and iOS users. The service has just released its official Android client too, which means that you can now remotely access, manage and share your MegaCloud content anywhere on the go. MegaCloud has been throwing an initial offer of 5GB of free cloud storage space to anyone who registers for a new account, and once you install its official mobile client, you are rewarded with an additional 1GB of storage space. Using the mobile client of MegaCloud, you can upload almost any file type to the cloud, and stream photos, videos and music files natively (video and music streaming does not seem to be working currently), without having to download the content beforehand. Read More

Jolicloud For iPhone & Android: All Your Social Media Photos, Links & Videos Under One Hood

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Jolicloud is not a new name when it comes to cloud integration of data, as the web version of the service has been around for quite a while and has managed to gain considerable popularity among users. The idea behind Jolicloud is rather simple, albeit infinitely useful. This service lets you manage all your data and media content, from all your social network and other online accounts, by treating it as if it belonged to the same source. In Jolicloud, the content you shared on a particular date is displayed on the timeline, regardless of the source of the content. This means that a Facebook photo and a link from Twitter might appear next to each other if they were shared at the same time. The services that can be linked to your Jolicloud account include just about all the popular ones, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Flickr and many others, making Jolicloud a truly useful integrator for all the content that matters. Update: Jolicloud is now available on Android as well. We've added a link to its Google Play Store page at the end. Read More

Shoot & Edit Slow-Motion HQ Videos With Your iPhone Using SloPro

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Videos that are rich in action appear even more dramatic if they are played in slow-motion, and with the right sound effects int he background. SloPro is an iOS app that allows users to shoot videos in slow-motion, and that too, in high quality. There are a few video editing options available in the app as well, which allow you to adjust the frame rate and other aspects of your action sequences. The app also has a default soundtrack that is applied to each clip. This cancels out the original sound in the video by default, but you can opt to keep that as well. So, the app can be used for two main purposes; creating slow motion videos and suppressing undesirable background noise. Read More

Homes For Rent Discovery App Zillow Rentals Released For Android

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After making its mark among web, iOS, Blackberry and Windows Phone users, the online real-estate expert, Zillow.com, has finally landed its official Android client in the Google Play Store. Zillow Rentals vows to help mobile users in conveniently finding and staying up to date with the latest rental home offers from within their selected locations. The app gives you complete control over specifying your search criteria for your next apartment, and lets you pinpoint the exact region on map from where you want the app to find your next home. For this, you can either pick a custom location and/or draw over the map to help Zillow Rentals identify your specific areas of interest. Based on your specified region(s), the app tries to come up with relevant search results that match your personalized preferences. Read More

Day! For iPhone: Your Personal Diary Of Activities & Moods Logged On A Calendar

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If you are into the habit of diary-writing, there are many iOS apps that might be of interest to you. Other than some really good photo editors already available for iPhone, some apps are designed specifically for letting users maintain their daily journals. Day! is one such app that combines beauty and usefulness in perfect proportions. The app presents you with a calendar, whose looks can be customized in almost every way possible, and is meant to allow users to make a journal entry against each date. The word editor in the app is pretty thorough, letting you attach images, change the text size, font and color of the note, as well as assigning separate moods to each day. There is more to Day! than that, and you can find out all about the app by heading past the break. Read More

Frame Artist For iPhone: Photo Editor With Templates For Creating Quick Collages

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The iOS App Store has a lot of apps that let you create collages out of the photos in your device’s library, and the number of photo editors is even greater. A combination of both these genres is, however, pretty rare. That’s what makes Frame Artist worth a try for any iPhone and iPad users who have a thing for photo editing apps. Not only can it be used as a full-fledged photo editor, it also comes with a handful of collage templates, so that you can begin creating any design or image without having to work on the layout. Read More

Download & Install Custom Boot Animations To Your Rooted Android Device With AniBoot

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Previously reviewed BootFlash by XDA member, SoCal Devs, allowed Android users to set a custom image of choice as their device’s splash screen – the static screen that shows up immediately after the device (re)boots. What follows the splash screen is the boot animation that normally sports the OEM logo (in case of the stock firmware) or the animated logo/mascot of the custom ROM developer. What if you were to get rid of your device’s monotonous boot animation, and personalize it according to an animation of your own liking? Well, there are a couple of workarounds in this regard: you may either follow all the extensively discussed steps in our detailed guide on changing and creating custom Android boot animations, or you can simply install SoCal Devs’ new app, AniBoot, which features dozens of downloadable boot animations which can be applied to any rooted Android device in no more than a couple of taps. The app supports boot animation in three different screen resolutions – 800x480, 1024x768 & 1280x720 – each comprising at least a dozen various boot animations. Each boot animation can be previewed individually, and if it catches your eye, you can download and apply it to your device in a matter of just a few seconds. Read More

SaveGram For Android: Batch-Download Photos From Any Public Instagram Profile

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If the reputation of the popular photo-editing and sharing sensation, Instagram, was impressive among iOS users, the debut of its Android client in the Google Play Store has been nothing less than a fairy tale. First, the app almost instantly shot up to the number one spot among Android apps from the social genre, then the service itself got acquired by the social network giant, Facebook, at a staggering price of $1 billion. The official Android (or even iOS) client of Instagram is good at letting you apply retro filters on your photos and share them on the network, but what if you wished to download your entire Instagram photo collection to your newly bought Samsung Galaxy Note? What if you were to add to your local image library all the gorgeous snaps that your Instagram followers have uploaded on the network publicly? New to the Google Play Store, SaveGram is an Android app that lets you access, explore and save the entire collection of photos that have been shared on Instagram by any user (including you and your followers). Read More

How To Backup iPhone SAM Activation Ticket To The Cloud via Cookie [Cydia]

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To those who like to stay up to date with the latest news regarding the jailbreak world, SAM is nothing new by any means. You must also have heard of the new method through which it has become possible to carrier-unlock any jailbroken iPhone on any baseband and firmware, in a few simple steps (discussed here in detail). Although the method seemed to be a blessing from the heavens, Apple was quick to react, and is in the process of updating their servers to block the SAM unlock altogether. The jailbreak community, as always, is one step ahead. Enter Cookie, a Cydia tweak that backs up your activation ticket to the cloud, so that you can restore it at any time you want! Read More

LSBrightSlider: Add Brightness Slider To iOS Lock Screen [Cydia]

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Jailbreaking your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad not only opens the device up to several useful tweaks, but also a lot of appearance enhancements. The Cydia store is full of themes and fonts that let you make cosmetic changes to your iDevice, while utilities and tweaks add or change functionality of certain aspects of the OS. It is a testament to the comprehensiveness of the Cydia store that there is no area of Apple’s mobile OS that cannot be altered using the tweaks available in it. A large percentage of Cydia tweaks focus on the lockscreen, and LSBrightSlider is the latest addition to the list of such tweaks. The functionality it offers is a simple but useful one. Using LSBrightSlider, people with jailbroken iOS devices get a new slider on their lockscreen, which can be used to change the brightness level of the display. Read More

Preference-Aware Music Events Tracking App Bandsintown Concerts Comes To Android

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Bandsintown is a popular Facebook app that keeps the music enthusiasts apprised of the upcoming live concerts and performances of their favorite music bands/artists. An iOS variant of the app has been around in the iTunes App Store for quite some time, while the Android version has just hit the Play Store. Using Bandsintown Concerts for Android, you can start tracking concerts and performances of your favorite music celebrities who are scheduled to perform in virtually any part of the world. Not just that - the app also scans your music library to fetch all the music artists that you listen to regularly, and lets you track their concerts with utmost ease. For each artist that you wish to track, the app fetches a list of their upcoming live shows, displaying the date, time, venue and location of each concert. Read More

Use Siri To Search & Download Images From The Web With JpgToSiri [Cydia]

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Not that Siri isn’t already pretty useful, but for those who feel it could have been better in some aspects, there are many Cydia tweaks that enhance the talking assistant's abilities. If you have a jailbroken iPhone 4S, or any other device with access to Siri (through SiriPort, for instance), there are some really cool things you can make Siri do. However, there aren’t many tweaks that combine usefulness and fun in as perfect a proportion as the newly released JpgToSiri does. JpgToSiri, as the name implies, adds the ability to search photos through Siri. You can simply ask Siri to show you a photo of anything, and a random JPEG image will appear right within the conversation. Not just that, users can even save the images to their camera roll, or share them with friends. This means that the tweak converts Siri into a pretty decent image search engine! Read More

Gifture For iPhone: Create GIF Animations, Apply Filters & Share, Instagram Style

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The popular photo sharing service, Instagram, has had such a huge impact on the development environment for iOS, that there are many apps which copy Instagram’s functionality, while another large contingent of apps borrow the basic idea behind it, but switch a key component with something else. Gifture is an iPhone app that falls in the second category, and is designed to be the Instagram for animations. Animations have always been popular among users, but they weren’t really widespread, as it wasn’t easy in the past to create them. This, however, changed with the multitude of apps that allow easy GIF creation, making it possible for even the novice users to showcase their creativity in this domain. Gifture does that, but that’s just a part of its working. Once you have created animations using the app, you can edit them in Gifture’s own editor, which incorporates a number of beautiful filters, and bunldes the option to choose the frame rate at which the animation is played. Then, you can share the animation over the app’s own network, or publish it to other social media. Read More

Disable iOS Notification Center While Running Full-Screen Apps [Cydia]

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Some time back, we covered a Cydia tweak by the name of DisableNC, which allowed jailbroken iPhone, iPad or iPod touch users to avoid accidentally pulling down the Notification Center while playing games. DisableNC is basically an SBSettings toggle, which is added to the SBSettings panel, and can be controlled from there. While everything about DisableNC worked absolutely fine, it had one major shortcoming - it cannot be used for full screen apps other than games. If you are an iOS user, you must be aware of the fact that most apps work in full screen mode, and pulling down the notification center while using them is almost as annoying as doing it in games. This is why DisableNC Switch has been released in the Cydia store, which is a standalone tweak and lets its users disable Notification Center in all apps running in full screen mode. So, this implies that you don't need separate NC disablers for games and other apps, as DisableNC Switch works its magic on all the apps in your jailbroken iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. Read More

View The Location Of Any Smartphone Or Internet-Enabled Phone With Space-time For iPhone

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Find My Friends by Apple (reviewed here) is a pretty decent app for always knowing the current location of your contacts. Apart from that, there are many other similar apps available in the App Store that perform essentially the same task. So, why should another location-tracking app be covered by us? Simply owing to the fact that Space-time is different from all the apps of its genre. First of all, Space-time will not eat up your battery unnecessarily, as it does not run in the background, but comes into action only when you have to request a friend’s location. Another advantage this app holds over similar apps is the fact that your friends won’t be stalked indefinitely after they allow access to their location just once. Space-time sends its location requests via SMS, and you will have to send a new SMS through the app each time you want to know where your friend is. Read More

SMS Flash: View Received SMS As Toast Notifications, Reply via Proximity Sensor Gestures [Android]

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As a regular GO SMS Pro user, what I personally like about the popular Android messaging app is its ability to display pop-ups for received text messages anywhere in the OS. However, said feature of the app doesn’t always work, specifically with games and other full-screen apps, which eventuates in me missing out on important text messages at times. New to the Google Play Store, SMS Flash is an Android app that resolves said issue. Once the app is installed and activated, it displays each new received message via a customizable toast notification (a tile overlay containing text that appears for a short period of time). Whether you’re playing a game, watching a movie or working with any full-screen app, SMS Flash ensures that you have your latest texts right before your eyes so that you do not have to leave the current screen. As the app’s name suggests, each SMS appears for a short time, after which it automatically disappears from the screen, and this is where the most interesting facet of SMS Flash comes into play. The app utilizes your device’s proximity sensor to provide you with ample control over the flash duration, appearance, and most importantly, the way in which you can respond to the received texts by interacting with the proximity sensor. Read More