DriveDroid: use your phone to boot ISO images
With storage size increasing every year, smartphones are finally reaching levels that make them interesting for other applications as well.
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Silence for Android lets you change sound and system settings on schedule
If you take your smartphone with you wherever you go, you probably encounter several situations in a week where it may be appropriate to change some of the phon
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Notable is an unobtrusive elegant Android reminder app
What do you do if you need to be reminded of something? Do you use a note taking application on your smartphone, a notepad or calendar that you carry around wit
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Dropsync adds two-way syncing of Dropbox data on Android
My Samsung Galaxy Note II phone came with Dropbox preinstalled, and I even got 50 additional Gigabytes of storage space for free as part of a cooperation betwee
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A purchase on Google Play may leak your email address to developers
I use several email addresses for a variety of purposes.
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Listen to Hype Machine tracks on Android
I have to admit that I have not really explored many audio streaming options on my Galaxy Note II.
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Game show Wipeout gets its own Android game
While it may not be familiar to readers around the world, U.
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WinZip app for Windows 8 now free. Update: Not
One of the first apps to land in Windows Store that allowed you to unpack archives was WinZip, and like the desktop application it was not available free of cha
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Free up disk space on Android with Image Optimizer
If your Android phone or tablet is running out of storage space, you may want to free up disk space on the device.
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Homeflip makes app switching on Android a breeze
Switching to an application while another is running is not really that comfortable of an operation on most Android devices as you need to open the apps listing
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Pin Anything to Windows 8's start page
While it is possible to pin different items to Windows 8's start page, installed desktop programs and websites come to mind, it is not possible by default to pi
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What is the Firefox Marketplace again?
If you are a Firefox user you may have heard about the Firefox Marketplace before.
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How to pin websites to the Android home screen
While some browsers for Android make available bookmarks that you can use to open websites quickly without having to start typing their addresses to load them i
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Check Android SMS on your desktop computer
I sometimes do not have my mobile phone in reach when I'm working on my desktop PC.
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Nokia launches Music+ streaming service
If you own a Nokia Lumia smartphone you have probably come in to contact with Nokia Music, a free to use music streaming service for Nokia device owners.
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Running Chrome beta on Android in full screen
Chrome Beta for Android has been available in Google's Play store for less than a month for anyone to play around with.
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Chrome Beta for Android gets experimental features
Google some time ago launched Chrome Beta for Android as a testing and sneak peak version of the browser for the company's Android operating system.
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Temple Run 2 for Android is out
I have to admit that I'm not a big gamer on Android.
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Read and queue Wikipedia articles on Android
Having access to Wikipedia can be helpful in a lot of cases.
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Add a compass to Android with Holo Compass
A compass is a relic of the past in times where GPS seems to be all-present, right? Wrong.
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Remove identifiable information from Android photos before sharing
When you take photos with a digital camera metadata or EXIF data is added to it automatically which can reveal a great deal about the digital camera that was us
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How to backup all Android data without root
Most Android users need root to backup their phones and tablets, but there is a growing number of devices where this is no longer the case.
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Create a Windows Power Efficiency Diagnostics Report
A long battery life is one of the most important features of mobile devices in my opinion.
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Google launches Chrome Beta for Android
Desktop users of the Google Chrome web browser already have the choice between different versions of the browser.
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Quick Settings for older Android versions
One of the new features of Android 4.
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How to check for and terminate background apps in Android
One of the things that I dislike about the Android operating system is that you do not really know which apps are running in the background until you open the T
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Backup SD card data to Dropbox on Android
It is always good to have a backup of important data.
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Watch music videos with YouVue for Windows 8
One of the best services to watch music videos on the Internet is YouTube as you can find lots of official videos on the site that were uploaded by record label
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Facebook Pages Manager for Android now available
If you are managing one or multiple pages on Facebook besides your personal account you may have noticed that there was not an app available until now to manage
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Ultimate Stopwatch and Timer for Android
You find hundreds of stopwatches and timers in the Android store over at Google Play and it can be quite difficult to find the best for your needs.
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Ubuntu for phones announced
The mobile phone market is an ever changing place and companies that were once on top may find themselves at the bottom of the food chain after short periods of
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How to remove apps from the Android Homescreen
Many Android phones are configured to automatically add shortcuts - Google actually calls them widgets - on the system's home screen when they are installed.
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You can finally play Pitfall on your Android
Well, it is about time! Pitfall, the popular game from Activision, is finally out for Android.
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Medicine Reminder keeps track of medication and doctor appointments
If you have to take medication regularly or have lots of doctors appointments coming up, you may sometimes get things mixed up which can have serious consequenc
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Create Android ringtones with Ringdroid
While you can select any music file on your Android device as a ringtone, you are limited to ringtones that start from the beginning of the file.
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Clever Connectivity for Android helps you save power
Sometimes when you download files or synchronize data on your Android phone you may notice that the screen is being turned off because you are not actively usin
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GPS could soon to be more power efficient thanks to Microsoft
Do you have the GPS feature of your phone activated at all times or only when you need it? Whenever I activate GPS it seems to use a lot of battery, which [&hel
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Dropbox for Android: auto-upgrade to experimental builds
The makers of Dropbox, the popular file hosting and synchronization service, make available experimental builds for desktop systems and mobile devices regularly
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Pixlr-o-matic: Android Instragram alternative
Instagram's recent policy change and retraction after negative feedback exploded on the Internet may have damaged the company's reputation at least for a short
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VLC Media Player for Windows 8 is a go
If you are using Windows 8 on a desktop PC or laptop, or not at all, then you may not be that excited to hear that the VLC Media Player campaign on […]
