Install and run Android Apps in Bluestacks

 I’m going to show you how to use free software called BlueStack . It is app player for windows where you can run all your favorite android apps on your pc .
1) Download and Install BlueStacks .

2) You can download and use any android apps and run it on your pc. If you’re looking for specific app , click on App search and type specific app in the search bar . Click on it and download+installing process will begin . 

How to sync your Android phone with PC

BlueStacks lets you sync apps, photos and SMS messages between your phone and PC? Here’s how:

1) If you want to sync your Android phone with PC. Go to Settings and click on Cloud Connect .

2) Set up your BlueStack account .

3) Install the BlueStacks Cloud Connect app from the Android Market to your phone.

4)Open the app and pair your phone with your PC by typing in your PIN:

5)Select whether or not you want to receive SMS messages simultaneously on your PC via BlueStacks . Click “Login” and you are done!

Dual Boot Your Pre-Installed Windows 7 Computer with XP

You have windows 7 computer, but you want to have trusty XP standing by in a dual boot setup. Today we’ll walk through creating a new partition in Windows 7 then installing XP on it.

In this process we are going to shrink some free space on the Windows 7 hard drive to allocate toward a new partition. Make sure to take a moment and decide how much space to use for the XP partition. Make sure you have enough space on your hard drive for files you’ll be adding to each.

Create a New Partition

The first thing we need to do is create a new partition on the Windows 7 machine. Luckily we can do it without any 3rd party software. To begin, click on Start and type either partition ordisk management into the search box and at the top of the menu click on Create and format hard disk partitions.

The Disk Management window opens, and from here we need to free up space on the (C:) drive Windows 7 is installed on. Right-click on the drive and select Shrink Volume.  

A window pops up showing the drive is being queried for available space.

 

Now enter the amount of space you want to shrink the volume. You’re shown the total size of the disk and the amount of size that is available to shrink. In this example we’re freeing up 40GB of space.

After the process completes you’ll see the new Unallocated space. Right-click that and selectNew Simple Volume.

The New Simple Volume Wizard launches which is a straight forward process. When you get to the Format Partition section, NTFS is selected by default as the file system and you can leave that as is. You might want to rename the Volume label something else like “XP Partition” so it’s easier to identify when installing XP. Also you’ll probably want to make sure to checkPerform a Quick Format.

After the format is complete you will see the new volume as a healthy partition listed.

Now when you go into My Computer you’ll see the the new disk and notice that space has been taken away from the (C:) drive Windows 7 is installed on.

Install XP on the New Partition

Now that you know how to create a new partition on your Windows 7 machine, it’s time to install XP on it. Here we’re installing XP Professional on the new partition. Boot from the XP installation disk and start the install process.

When it comes to choosing a partition, make sure you select the one you created using the steps above. In this example we made a 10GB partition for the XP install.

If the partition you created was already formatted as NTFS you can leave it, or you can choose the FAT file system if you want. 

Basically you continue through as if you were doing a clean install on any hard drive.

Create Boot Loader

Once installation of XP is successful you can now go through and install the latest Microsoft Updates and drivers. You will undoubtedly notice that the machine is booting directly into XP at this time. This is due to XP writing it’s bootloader over Windows 7’s. To get both XP and Windows 7 as an option at the boot screen you can use the free utility EasyBCD 1.72 or their new 2.0 Beta.

 

VistaBootPRO 3.3 (free version) will still work too which you can download here. VistaBootPRO is now called DualBootPRO and is no longer free, it’s $9.95 for a single user license.

After getting the bootloader back you should see both XP and Windows 7 as options in the Windows Boot Manager.

Conclusion

If you want to set a default OS on your dual boot system, check out The Geek’s tutorial on how to set it up. To download the EasyBCD 2.0 Beta, you’ll need to register with the NeoSmart Technologies Forum first. If you’re hesitant to try out Beta software, EasyBCD 1.7.2 is also free and will still work as well.  Of course there are other ways of creating a dual boot system, but this is the method I have been using and it’s simple and effective.

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When an acquisition is as massive as Microsoft's $7.17 billion deal to purchase Nokia's mobile and services division, it has to work its way through various regulatory bodies around the world before it can become official. As something of a double-edged sword for Microsoft, because it has a minority standing (albeit growing) in the mobile world, approval has been coming fairly quickly.

Just a few days ago, the U.S. Department of Justice approved the deal; and now, the European Commission has also applied its stamp of approval to Microsoft's plans. The Commission said about the acquisition that "the overlap of the two companies' activities in this area is minimal and several strong rivals, such as Samsung and Apple will continue to compete with the merged entity." It went on to say that it didn't expect Microsoft to restrict access to Windows Phone or any Microsoft apps for 3rd party hardware makers.

Presumably, just like the Google/Motorola deal, the next step is approval in China, and then the pathway will be clear for the purchase to be finalized. Microsoft and Nokia expect to be able to close the deal in early 2014. 

source: Europa Press via The Verge

Microsoft/Nokia deal approved by the European Commission

When an acquisition is as massive as Microsoft's $7.17 billion deal to purchase Nokia's mobile and services division, it has to work its way through various regulatory bodies around the world before it can become official. As something of a double-edged sword for Microsoft, because it has a minority standing (albeit growing) in the mobile world, approval has been coming fairly quickly.

Just a few days ago, the U.S. Department of Justice approved the deal; and now, the European Commission has also applied its stamp of approval to Microsoft's plans. The Commission said about the acquisition that "the overlap of the two companies' activities in this area is minimal and several strong rivals, such as Samsung and Apple will continue to compete with the merged entity." It went on to say that it didn't expect Microsoft to restrict access to Windows Phone or any Microsoft apps for 3rd party hardware makers.

Presumably, just like the Google/Motorola deal, the next step is approval in China, and then the pathway will be clear for the purchase to be finalized. Microsoft and Nokia expect to be able to close the deal in early 2014. 

source: Europa Press via The Verge

President Obama says that he can't own an Apple iPhone "for security reasons"

When President Barack Obama first became President of the U.S., he was always seen with a BlackBerry in his hand. And even though he lobbied for a cooler phone in the Oval Office, the President received a BlackBerry 8830 World Edition with a special app installed called SecureVoice. Ironically, the app gave the Commander-in-Chief access to top secret info from the NSA. The president did say that his daughters are both iPhone users.

On Wednesday, the president was talking with youngsters at the White House Youth Summit on the Affordable Care Act. During his talk, the president noted that he is not allowed to own an Apple iPhone "for security reasons". The president does have an Apple iPad 2 which was given to him by none other than the late Steve Jobs during a Silicon Valley dinner back in 2011. Obama says that only 10 people have his personal email address. The two presidents prior to Obama, George Bush and Bill Clinton, did not use personal email.

While the iPhone does have clearance for Department of Defense employees and some government agencies, this clearance is well below what a presidential phone needs. A BlackBerry model from 2007 is the only handset owned by the president that has been certified to be used by him.

source: Reuters

Leaked Samsung doc reportedly shows KitKat update schedule

The latest Samsung Jelly Bean update may have left a bad taste in your mouth, and for good reason, but perhaps a hint of chocolate will put a smile back on your dial? A new document, reportedly a Samsung KitKat update roadmap, shows the dates for KitKat updates to the major Samsung flagship devices.

The Samsung Galaxy line will be getting KitKat sooner than you might have expected.

The document supposedly originates from Samsung R&D India but we have no idea if it is legit or not, so take the usual pinches of salt, sugar and non-dairy creamer with this one. But what the document says, if it is true, is exciting news for Galaxy owners. Both the Galaxy S4 GT-I9500 and Note 3 SM-N900 will reportedly receive the Android 4.4 update in January 2014 and the S3 GT-I9300 and Note 2 SM-N7100 sometime between March and April 2014. The mini versions of the S4 and S3 are not mentioned however.

If this document is legit, it's good news for Galaxy owners.

Considering the dodgy Android 4.3 update problems, not every Galaxy owner will be looking forward to this update with quite the same level of enthusiasm they normally would. But I think it's safe to say Samsung will test the crap out this update before they let it go live. Otherwise I can easily envision angry mobs armed with flaming torches and pitchforks marching on every Samsung store in the area. A word to the wise: get this one right Samsung. Or else.

I don't know about you, but I like KitKats better than Jelly Beans.

Are you excited to get Android 4.4 on your Galaxy device? Will you be holding your breath while it installs to see if your phone works or crashes?

How to use your Google Maps offline

I use Google Maps almost daily. Whether it be to scope out the quickest route to get somewhere or just to figure out where exactly I am when I’m visiting a new area, it’s an indispensable tool that I’ve come to rely on. However, I’m in a lot of situations where I either have no cell or WiFi reception or would incur huge roaming costs, so Google Maps becomes impractical to use. However, there are a few ways that you can get your maps offline so that you don’t need to consume data each time you want to look at them. 

 

To make a map available for offline viewing, there are two methods. For both methods, just search for your desired location first and get it up on your screen. For the first method, once this is done, just type of speak “OK Maps” in the search bar and this will automatically start a download of the specified map to your cache.

The second method is similar: once on your location, tap on the search box again and scroll down to the bottom. Here, you’ll find an option to download the map offline and once you tap on it, will download it to your cache as well. Once either of these methods have been done, you will have an offline version of your map and that you can use whenever you want.

Two methods for downloading your maps offline.

A downloaded map doesn’t require a huge amount of space, in fact. New York, for example, took up only 13 megabytes when completely downloaded. However, just for data sake, you might just want to be connected to WiFi before you start downloading all the maps that you want. Also, keep in kind that if you continue to do this that your cache for Google Maps will fill up rapidly and you should check it and clear it out every so often.

Some precautions

There are some limitations to the functionality of the offline maps, mostly to do with the size of the location you’re looking for. For example, New York and surrounding areas would be a bit too much for just one cached file and would need to be broken into smaller, surrounding areas. If you get too big of an overview of the area, you won’t be able to gather much from the information.  When you open Google Maps, the last opened map section will be opened and you won’t be able to preload other maps via search later without an internet connection. You can, however, swipe through maps that you have saved until you get to the area that you have saved, but that can be a little bit annoying. As well, offline navigation is not available.

An example of two levels of capture: Too broad (left) and just right (right).

Conclusion

The online functionality of Google Maps obviously cannot be replaced, but for those who are on the go and travel quite a bit, this may provide a small solution to the problem of always attempting to find a cell reception area or a place where you can leech a WiFi signal. As well, just having a portable offline version of a map is always indispensable, especially when exploring a new area.

The cache size before and after downloading a map. In this case, an offline map of New York.

The offline functionality described in our article relies on Google Maps version 7.0.1 which in turns requires at least Android 4.0.3.

How to take a screenshot with your Android device

Whether you are wanting to capture a video still, save an important detail in a picture or explain a function within an app or on your Android device, screenshots are super useful and quite often are very easy to perform with the correct button combination and other quick methods. Today we will break down for you the various ways to make a screenshot on different devices, because it ain’t all the same on every Android smartphone.

Believe me, screenshots are a lot easier to do than this.

This is how it’s done with most devices

With the arrival of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, the process of taking a screenshot became a lot easier and as of that point in time most devices use the same button combination: press on the power button and the volume down button at the same time and hold them both until you hear a sound or are notified that the shot was taken with some sort of animation. Often you’ll briefly see a white frame appear around the edge of your screen and get a quick preview of the captured screenshot.

Then, you can retrieve those pictures in the Gallery in the Screenshots folder. Gaining access to these shots via USB can be done by going in to the /Pictures/Screenshots folder of your internal memory or SD card.

There’s a second possible method but it won’t work on every device: to see if it works for you, hold the power button until the menu to power down appears. If you see an option here that says ‘screenshot’ then this means the method works for you. The menu will automatically disappear once you take the shot.

For older devices, sorry but you are out of luck when it comes to relying on your phone’s own software for this function. You’ll need the help of a custom ROM or root or even an app like No Root Screenshot It which will perform a shot without needing to root your device first.

Samsung

Samsung has a completely different combination of buttons that serve the purpose of taking a screenshot. When you have the Galaxy S4, the S3, the Note 3 and almost all other Samsung phones, you need to press on the home button and the power button at the same time (as opposed to volume down) and hold until the shot is taken.

Samsung decided on a different button combination for their screenshots.

Samsung Galaxy Note 3, Note 8.0 and Note 10.1: taking a shot with an S Pen

Whether you have the Galaxy Note 3 or Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition), there are three methods to get it done. Open up the Air Command menu, pull out the stylus, hover it above the display and press the button on the side of the S Pen to get the following options:

• Scrapbook: This function can be found in the circular Air Command menu and lets you draw circles around a portion of the screen that you would like to save. You can then use these in your own notes or sort by category. The screenshot is saved in the Scrapbook app.
• Screenshot note: this function was already available on the Note 2 and isn’t available through the Air Command menu. With the Note function the entire surface of the screen at that specific moment will be captured and you can write over the top of it in different colors if you want to be creative.
• S Pen Button: With all Galaxy devices equipped with a stylus, when holding down the button on the S Pen and long pressing its tip on the display, this will take a screenshot.

In our S Pen function article that we wrote a while back, you can see what other cool things you can do with the stylus.

The S Pen has many useful functions, one of which is taking screenshots.

Samsung Galaxy S4, S3, Note 3 and Note: Swipe to capture

• In the settings, choose My Device and then Gestures and Movements.
• Under Hand Motions you need to activate the options for Palm Swipe to capture.
• Now you can swipe your hand horizontally over the display and a screenshot will be taken. The direction of your hand doesn’t matter, but it should touch the display. If you have done the gesture properly, you should hear the camera shutter sound and receive a notification that your shot has been saved to the gallery.

Which device do you own and how do you do a screenshot on it?

3 ways to speed up your android phone

You probably used to love your Android phone when it was new and you could zip through different apps with ease, but now you the lag between tapping something and your phone response has become unbearable. Your phone is not the only one that suffers from this malaise. Fear not, because in this article we take a look at some of the ways in which  you can speed up your Android phone.

In this article we provide 3 ways in which to speed up your android phone and get it back to normal / © AndroidPIT

Clear app cache

Ever since you got your phone, the apps on it have been writing into the app cache and this uses up your phone’s resources in the process which of course makes your phone slower. The way to fix this is to simply visit every app's property page within the settings on your phone and clear the cache on each and every app on your phone. The problem is that with a lot of apps on your phone, it can take a long time to do this so in order to speed up the process, you can install an app called app cache cleaner from the Google Play Store. This allows you to clear the cache on all the apps you have on your phone in one go, so you don’t have to spend a long time doing it manually.

Disable or uninstall the apps you don’t use

You can also disable and uninstall some of those apps that you don’t use as some may be eating up some system resources because they may be running in the background. Some apps that you probably want to target are those that came preloaded on your phone but you really don’t use all that much. If you have rooted your Android, you can get rid of these apps easily. If not, you can simply go to the app properties and disable the app to prevent it from running and using up your phone’s resources.

Remove widgets and shortcuts from the home screen

The widgets and shortcuts that you have on your home screen maybe aesthetically pleasing, but they also contribute to the slow response rate that you get from your phone, so unless you absolutely have to have the hottest YouTube videos on your home screen then just drag them of the screen. It also helps to remove all of the shortcuts from your home screen as well.

By implementing these three suggestions, you can significantly improve the speed of your Android handset. Do you have any other ways you know of that will improve the speed of a phone? If so, please leave us a comment below and we will get back to you.

Source: Laptop Mag

Official Google Search update brings 'Ok Google' voice search and GEL

The moment we've all been waiting for, well, one of them at least, is here: the Google Search update – that brings KitKat functionality to anyone who cares to install the update – has been officially released and is rolling out as we speak. There's tons of exciting new features in the update, including voice search, the Google Experience Launcher we've seen on the Nexus 5, and a bunch of other cool goodies. If you can't wait for the update you can install the APK manually below and get it right now.

The new Google Search will talk to you! / © AndroidPIT/Google

Thanks to Android Police, we already have a nice breakdown of what the new update brings with it. Here's the major points:

• The Google Search version 3.1.8 works on all devices running Android 4.1 or higher. There's new refresh animation and UI.
• Google Now can now talk back to you, as we reported recently, to clarify general voice commands like ''send a message'' or ''call Jennifer''.
• The new Google Search supports the Google Experience Launcher, meaning everyone, not just those running KitKat, can enjoy the experience.
• The Google Experience Launcher has been optimized for tablets.
• There's new Google Now cards: website update, news topics, and What to Watch
• Waze includes traffic incident updates
• Recurring reminders
• Real-time sports score updates
• Package pickup notifications
• Better navigation of Google Now cards, dismissed cards can be brought back with Undo button

Combined with GEL, Google Seacrh gets you a lot closer to the KitKat feel. / © AndroidPIT/Google

If you can't wait for the updated Google Search to appear in the Play Store, you can download the APK and if you want to add the Google Experience Launcher to your device, simply install the Google Search APK, then download and install the GEL APK and you should be sorted.

Download Google Search 3.1.8 APK

Download Google Experience Launcher APK

Have you got the new Google Search with GEL running on your non-KitKat Android? What are your thoughts?

Source: Android Police

Nexus wireless charger appears in Google Play

One of the best features that no one ever talks about in Nexus devices is the built-in Qi induction charging capabilities of the Google devices. Google has just released it's own Nexus-branded wireless charging station in the Play Store in the US and Canada, with a ''coming soon'' message currently appearing in the UK and elsewhere. 

The sticky rubber-backed plate will charge your Nexus in a snap. / © Google

The wireless charger will cost $49.99 and is a discreet little black box at six centimeters square. Your Nexus will snap into place via the use of magnets when you drop it on the glassy plate to charge. It's nice to see Google producing their own Nexus-branded wireless charger to match their slick looking range of new Nexus devices although fifty bucks is a little steep.

The Nexus wireless charger is compatible with the Nexus 4, Nexus 5 and the 2013 versions of the Nexus 7. The older Nexus 7's and Nexus 10 do not support Qi.

ClixSense is another well-known site in the world of PTC advertising. It works very similarly to NeoBux in that you earn money by viewing ads and you can also earn even more by referring people.
When someone signs up to ClixSense using your referral link they become part of your downline. This means that you earn a commission from a percentage of what people in your downline earn. It's a great system and really opens up the earning possibilities once you get some active people in your downline.
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Register in ClixSense by clicking on this banner:



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You will see a button called View Ads in the upper part of the page. After you click it, you will see all the available ads in the moment. As you can see, there are different type of ads, you can click on - Micro, Mini, Standard and Extended Advertisements. Each type gives you different amount of money for clicking it. The amount per ad ranges from $0.001 and up to $0.02.



When you click an advertisement, a new page opens with the advertiser's site. Before the timer starts, you have to solve a small Picture CAPTCHA (for security reasons). You will be shown 5 images - 4 images of dogs and 1 image of a cat. Click THE CAT and the timer will start. In the upper part of the page, you will see a bar timer. You must wait for it to reach the end (it depends on the type of ad, but it varies from 3 to 30 seconds). When the bar is filled, it means that the time for viewing the ad is over, and you have earned the money for it! In the upper part of the page you will see the money you have been credited with and a little link saying "Close". You can click it, in order to close the page. Now move on to next ad!

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Referrals are people who have registered in ClixSense and entered you as their referrer (they have clicked on your referral link, banner or you have told them about the great power ot the ClixSense system). Unlike Neobux, here you earn not only from your direct referrals, but from their direct referrals and their direct referrals and so on until 8 LEVELS of referrals.
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ClixGrid

ClixGrid is a game of chance. You can start it from the third button in the upper part of the page, called ClixGrid. You will be presented with a 30x20 grid, 600 blocks - each block opens an ad in a new window and you have to see it for 10 seconds. The prizes are from $0,25 to $5. Standard users have 25 chances every day, and Premium members have 50 chances. 

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