Splay Launcher Redefines Android Home Screen Replacement With Unique, Pie-Like Navigation

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Let’s face it, single-handed operation on mobile phone with a screen size of over 4.3 inches gets a bit tricky and as you up the screen size further, it almost becomes a challenge. Developed by Else Ltd., the company behind the smartphone 'First Else' that never made it to the shelves, Splay Launcher for Android is another Home Launcher replacement, but what makes it stand out is its distinct interface that focus on single-handed operation. The app's interface may remind some of you of the the much popular Pie feature from the Paranoid Android ROM. Think of it as a semi jog-dial containing three menu levels that are accessible via some intuitive swipe gestures. The app requires Android 4.0 + to work. Read on after the jump, as we take a closer look at the app and its interface. Read More

Browse Twitter #music On Windows Phone & Download Track Previews As Ringtones With #trending

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For some reason, Twitter chose to make their new #music service really tough to access, with iOS being the only smartphone platform having an official client for it. Even Android has been ignored so far, which means there is little chance of #music appearing in the WP Store for a long time. Apart from lack of support for various platforms, there are also a bunch of region restrictions that have so far limited the availability of #music to only a lucky few users when seen at a global scale. Despite all these adversities, a Windows Phone developer has somehow managed to bring an unofficial #music client to WP7 and WP8. #trending displays the latest charts from #music, keeping users in the loop regarding the tracks gaining popularity on Twitter. You can listen to a 30-second snippet of all the listed songs, and even download these samples as ringtones for your device. Read More

VJC Is A JPEG Image Compressor With Original Vs. Result Comparison

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Internet has become a vast community that, just a few decades ago, not many had thought would turn into what it is now. You can instantly communicate with friends, family, coworkers, acquaintances, professionals and even strangers on social media, VoIP or IM apps, approach your clients online without actually meeting them, exchange emails with your colleagues, play games, and do a bunch of other stuff you like. Among the many advantages internet provides, sharing photos is probably one used by a vast majority - even those who don't use many other online services. But sometimes, sharing photos can become quite a tedious task due to image size limitation of the photo sharing or file transfer service that you employ or even worse, if your monthly internet data cap is already dipping in the lows. That’s where tools like VJC come to rescue because if you can’t share the original file, why not just compress it first? Read More

Create Image & Voice Notes On Android & Export To PDF With ArcNote

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Note taking apps are common but most are limited to saving simple text notes. ArcNote is an audio and image note-taking app for Android from the developers of the famous Perfect365 image editing app for Android, iOS, Windows Phone and Windows. It’s a break from the normal text-based notes apps that you usually come across; you can directly take a camera shot or use one of the images already saved on your device for image notes. A single note can contain multiple images and audio recordings. Images can be edited so that only a particular user-defined area is highlighted. ArcNote isn't for jotting down a quick address, nor is it useful when you want to make a quick grocery list. It’s more suitable when you can take a picture of whatever information you need to save, like a business card, a poster or sign, or even a whiteboard, or quickly capture audio, for example an important part of a lecture, interview, presentation or just some instructions from your significant other before you go out shopping. While notes themselves aren't text based, you can add comments to any image in a note. Images can be edited individually, or even in batch. Read More

Postpone Is A To-Do List Web App With Mailbox-Like Task Reminders

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The world is an unorganized mess and there is a good chance that merely making a mental list of things you want to do will do you little or no good. It’s precisely why a new to-do app and task manager pops up every other day, and Postpone is yet another service for this very purpose. Postpone groups your tasks into workspaces and with a free account, you can add up to three workspaces. Each task has a title and a description. Tasks can be marked as done, kept in you current workspace's task box, or moved to the ‘Snoozed’ box.  Much like Mailbox for iOS, when snoozing a task, you can select when it will return to the main task box. You can use one of the preset time intervals or enter a time and date of your choice. The other noteworthy feature in Postpone is that you can ‘mention’ people who are involved in a particular task, provided they have a Postpone account too. This not only allows them to know when they've been included in a task, but also lets you search your tasks by person. In all objectivity, it’s an immensely productive use of the ‘mention’ concept that is largely used by social media sites. Postpone is currently in private beta and the invite codes can take up to a month to arrive in your inbox. Read More

MiniPlayer Is An Always-On-Top Floating Music Widget For iPhone

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Looks like the developers over at the Cydia store are looking to fill the Home screens of all iPhone owners with interactive widgets today. The much-anticipated Velox came out earlier, and a unique (albeit less feature-rich) tweak by the name of MiniPlayer is sure to ‘wow’ a lot of people as well. Apple revamped the iTunes interface in its latest version 11, but the feature that has garnered the most praise is the mini player widget. The widget is great for controlling music if you are using multiple applications simultaneously, or are just too lazy to go to iTunes to merely pause playback. The MiniPlayer tweak brings the same widget to iPhone, letting users keep an eye on their playback even if they are playing a game or using an app on their device. The widget can be hidden when you are not using it, making it perfect for everyday use. Read More

Velox Adds Widgets & Notification Popups To iPhone App Icons [Review]

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Remember MusicWidget (Velox style), the tweak we covered almost a month ago? As mentioned in that review, Velox was always meant to be the real deal, with MusicWidget providing just a tantalizing glimpse of things to come. Well, the wait is finally over, and Velox has finally been made available to the jailbreak community, in what might prove to be a bigger release than even MessageBox. Velox is one of the very few tweaks that has the potential to revolutionize the way people use iOS. There are plenty of widgets already available in Cydia, but Velox provides the neatest way to access the most useful options related to any iPhone app on the go. You can send messages, check your Facebook feeds, manage notifications and control music without opening any app at all! Read More

How To Remotely Access & Troubleshoot A PC Via A Google+ Hangout

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Video chat apps and services aren't very useful if they don’t allow you to send files or invite several people to the same chat session. Another much in-demand feature is the ability to remotely access the desktop of whoever you’re chatting with, in order to help them do something or troubleshoot some problem. There's great news on this front for Google+ users - the feature, has been added to Google Plus Hangouts in the form of an app. The great thing about Google Plus Hangouts, like Gmail Chat, is that your browser is the only thing you need to start a video call and invite multiple people to it, and you can now remotely control someone’s desktop just as easily. Here’s how. Read More

Make Any iOS App Go Full-Screen By Hiding Title Bar & Toolbar With FullScroll

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By now, most of the popular iOS apps have been updated with display optimization for iPhone 5, but long before that happened, Cydia store started offering plenty of options to forcibly maximize apps to get rid of the letterboxed view on your device’s larger display. Though what if you want your apps to take up even more of your screen? How about a new tweak that adds a full screen mode to iOS apps. FullScroll isn't aimed at owners of iPhone 5 only, as it doesn't have anything to do with letterboxing. FullScroll has the ability to make any app full screen, in a way that is reminiscent of the new full screen mode recently added to Chrome for iOS. Whenever you scroll down in an app, FullScroll makes the toolbar and title bar go away, letting you get both back any time you swipe upwards. Read More

The Best Apps, Tips & Tweaks Of The Week [05.05.2013]

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It’s that time of the week again when we round up the most popular as well as the less-popular but equally useful apps, tips and tweaks that you may have missed during your hectic workweek. This time around, we discuss an awesomely easy way for transferring files from PC to Android, Google Now for iOS, a new digital jukebox for Windows, and a significantly improved Facebook app for Windows Phone, among other excellent apps and tips. Read More

What Is TWRP Recovery & How To Install & Use It On Android Devices [Guide]

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Till just over a year back, ClockworkMod (aka CWM) was the go-to custom recovery for pretty much every mainstream Android device. Things have changed a lot since, with a newer player entering the game and gaining a lot of critical acclaim, as well as a huge user base. TeamWin Recovery Project – or TWRP for short – is a fully touch-based custom recovery that was initially developed for Nexus devices, but has since been made available for countless other smartphones and tablets as well, in form of both official and third-party builds. Just like we took you through a very detailed tour of ClockworkMod recovery and its features, we’re going to guide you through all the features of TWRP right after the jump. Read More

Easily Disable USB Drives Or Read/Write Access For Guest Users With Ratool

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People who work in the office with many people around, or take their laptop along for working remotely would know that leaving your computer on while you’re not using it can bring a lot of risks of data snooping and unauthorized use. Whether you leave your desk to grab a cup of coffee or run to the bathroom, there are always chances of someone using your computer, plugging in a USB device and stealing your private information without you even knowing. This is where apps like Removable Access Tool come to the rescue. It can prove to be very useful when locking the entire computer isn't a choice and you have someone to temporarily use it for accessing social media or checking email. The application is designed to restrict read and write access of any USB thumb drive plugged to the computer. It’s fairly easy to use and sports a very lightweight design, weighing in at just a few kilobytes. Read More

Moldiv Is An iOS Collage Maker With Tons Of Styles & A Great Built-In Photo Editor

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It seems like iPhone owners love meshing their photos together to make collages, or at least that’s what the developers think. In the past, we have covered collage-makers like Pixplit and Collagetastic, so the newly released Moldiv should be just another similar app, right? In our opinion, that's certainly not the case. Moldiv comes from JellyBus - a developer who knows what it takes to make a successful photo editor for iOS, having already released the likes of HDR FX, Beauty Booth and PicsPlay. Moldiv is pretty different from other apps of this kind though, as it offers a staggeringly large number of frame styles. Also, unlike other collage creators, Moldiv focuses on editing features as well, rather than just stitching your photos together in different styles. Read More

Popular Windows Phone YouTube App Metrotube Comes To Windows 8 & RT

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YouTube can be considered one of the biggest and most lucrative acquisitions by the company. The video streaming service has become so popular that most internet users hardly spend a day without browsing a few videos or YouTube channels, whether on mobile or desktop. Google however, has been quite dismissive when it comes to releasing a YouTube app on Windows 8, leaving video streaming fanatics on this very platform rely on third-party apps or the web version. We have covered a few Windows Store apps that provide a handsome YouTube experience without leaving the metro environment such as PrimeTube, YouVue and Your Tube 8. Metrotube – a renowned Windows Phone YouTube app – has now joined the party, and with its release, the YouTube experience on Windows 8 and Windows RT is finally setting its foot in the right direction. Read More

CloudLover Offers A Quick Way To Access iCloud Tabs In Safari For iOS

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When Google Chrome brought tab syncing to iOS last summer, it was pretty clear that Apple would have to add the same feature to Safari, or risk seeing it become the second best web browser on their own mobile platform. iOS 6 did add tab syncing to the stock iPhone web browser, making use of iCloud for the purpose. A bit unexpectedly though, this particular feature didn't get too much attention, even from Apple. Instead of adding a new iCloud button to the browser’s main screen, the option is hidden inside the bookmarks collection of Safari. For all avid users of iCloud, or anyone who owns more than one Apple devices, the extra taps to reach synced tabs are sure to seem pretty annoying. As is the case with most annoyances in iOS, the Cydia store has a solution. CloudLover doesn't add an iCloud tabs button to Safari, but it does something even better. The tweak lets you configure a  gesture against two of Safari’s existing buttons to access your synced tabs in the blink of an eye. Read More

Seafile Is A Private Cloud Storage & Collaboration Solution For Teams

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Seafile is a cloud service that allows you to create and share a private cloud library of files with friends or colleagues. Files get synced for all users, so that if one person edits a document or makes any changes to it (if they’re allowed to), Seafile automatically updates the changes for everyone in the group. I know this sounds trite, but sharing files via the cloud is an amazingly convenient thing. Still, sometimes you don’t want or need to bring the internet into the picture just to share files between colleagues and friends who are on the same local network. To accommodate this, Seafile also allows you to create your own personal cloud for sharing files between computers in the same organization using its open-source server that's available for Linux and Raspberry Pi. It’s safe, because you use your own servers, and reliable because Seafile saves everything and you can even restore stuff you've accidentally deleted. It’s also secure because the files can be encrypted with a password. And finally, it’s mega-convenient, because all users on the network using Seafile get to sync their work with each other simultaneously. Read More

Get System Toggles Under iPhone Lock Screen Slider With LockBar Settings

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More and more Cydia developers have recently started adopting the policy of releasing a beta version of their upcoming tweak in the form of DEB files before making it available as a release on the Cydia store. A few days back, MessageBox took that route, and now, LockBar Settings is available for manual download as well. We have to admit that LockBar isn't as highly anticipated as MessageBox was, but the features it offers can really become an essential part of your daily routine. With LockBar Settings, iOS users get to place four of their most frequently needed system toggles on their device’s lock screen. Much like LockscreenToggles, the new controls added to the lock screen by LockBar only become visible when you invoke them. In fact, it is even possible to require an extra tap for their actions to ensure that a toggle is never hit accidentally. Read More

Concord Is A Floating App & File Launcher For Windows Desktop

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A few days ago, I cleaned my desktop to get rid of unwanted and obsolete icons that were doing nothing but simply cluttering my desktop and ruining my beautiful background. After making the desktop completely uncluttered, I started to add a few shortcuts of just my frequently accessed programs, files and folders back to it. It was all going smooth and steady until I realized that filling up the desktop with a plethora of icons isn't exactly the most efficient or aesthetically appealing way to access my required content, and started looking for an alternative solution that could provide quicker and more organized access to my shortcuts without spoiling the desktop. My hunt for that intuitive solution landed me on Concord, and it proved itself to be quite handy. It’s a application launcher for Windows that eliminates the need for putting shortcut icons on the desktop. Along with beautifying the desktop with its minimal design , it provides a nifty solution for quickly accessing files, folders, apps and websites. Read More

Auto-Arrange Movies & Subtitles Into Respective Folders With A Click

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No one ever said cleaning up is fun, but it doesn't have to be mind-numbing, either. If you've got a folder where you dump a lot of files, many of which belong to the same group and have different extensions but the same names (such as a video file and its corresponding subtitles file), arranging them into their own folders manually can be something one puts off for later till the pile becomes too large, and then one simply doesn't wanna bother going through it. Though what if there was a way to sort them all into individual folders at the click of a button, faster than you can say “LeoMoon Files2Folders”? That's what the tool does - organizing files into folders by filenames, not by extension. Folders are created automatically for each file or group of files with the same name, and you don’t have to do anything other than point where to clean up and hit the 'Start' button. Read More