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10 Best Android apps that are not available in Google Play Store

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Play store has almost a million applications in its store covering applications of various categories and types and for various uses. But there are still many apps that haven’t been available on the play store for some reasons. These can be installed easily if you know where they can be found. But upgrading these apps should be done manually and it will not show you any update notifications, so you yourself has to keep an eye for upgrading the apps with latest versions.

Here is the list of some apps that cannot be found in the Play Store.

Amazon Underground:

The official app of Amazon which is available in the Play store is among the very popular shopping apps, but the Amazon Underground direct app which has all the shopping features along with access to Amazon App store. And another interesting thing is it gives free access to apps, games worth 20,000$.

Amazon Video:

Once you have downloaded the Amazon Underground app, you can also download this Amazon Video app which enables you to watch the Amazon Prime instant video subscription on any android phone and tablet which is normally available only on Amazon fire tablets, iphone and ipad.

Humble Bundle:

This is an app that helps you to get the paid apps for cheap. By purchasing games in bundles this will help you to get the apps for the cheapest prices. While you make the purchases, you can also choose how to split your money in between game developers and charity. Download the humble bundle app directly to your device and choose to update and download apps, but you have to first purchase them on the website.

Real Money Poker apps:

You won’t find these official real money poker apps in the android store as you do in the apple store. A simple search in the google help you to find out the games online, but be sure you download it from the official website.

Xposed Framework Installer:

It is a must have app for all the rooted android devices and this will give you the ability to make system level changes to your device. Installing this app in android kitkat and lower versions is as simple as installing an apk file while installing it on lollipop will take an extra step.

Tasker:

It is one among the most powerful android tools that are available on the playstore. This app is available for free on a 7 day trial. Go to the tasker website and use the free trial and you can also uninstall and reinstall the app to extend the free trial.

MiXPlorer:

It is real hidden gem like app that can be downloaded from the xda source. It is a nice file explorer with an efficient search function, it supports various file formats and it also has built in text editor, image viewer and media player.

CF.lumen:

This is the best blue light filtering app available on android phones which helps you to protect your eyes from the harmful blue light and helps you to have deep sleep. Download the app straight from the source to activate the freeload mode or if you download it from play store, you need to unlock.

Viper4Android:

It is a very powerful audio equalizer app for rooted android devices. It will give you great results if you dedicate some time in learning this app. This version of app available in the Play store is not official and you can download it from the official source.

Transdoid:

This is a download manager which helps you to manage your downloaded torrents right from your android device.

Best Extensions and apps for your Google Chrome browser

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Chrome has a Web store that has a large amount of extensions and apps that make it work more efficient. I hope and wish that these extensions and apps will help you to improve your web experience.

One Tab:

This is a tab management tool that is available as an extension in Google Chrome Web store that allows you to free up about 95% of memory which will help your browser to speed up. All your tabs will be converted into a single with the links of the tabs once you click on the one tab icon which will be available on the top right of the browser once add the extension.

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Google Dictionary:

This dictionary extension by Google is a must have as it will help you to instantly know the meaning of the word on any website or anywhere on the web by just double clicking on the word. This extension is the most useful and will help you to know the meaning of the word without leaving the webpage.

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Lyrics for Google Chrome:

This extension will help you to have the lyrics displayed while you stream r listen to the music online from music sites like YouTube, Spotify and Gaana. Isn’t it cool to get the lyrics of the songs that you listen online without having to search for them separately.

Evernote Web Clipper:

This official Evernote extension will change the way you use the web definitely. This allows you save the information on the web directly from the web using Evernote web clipper and access the information at a later time across various devices. You can save the webpages as bookmark, screenshots and articles.

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Awesome Screenshot:

This is one of the best extensions that Google chrome offers. This extension allows you to take the best screenshot without using any kind of additional softwares or applications and also give various editing options and annotations that you can make to that screenshot and share them with your friends.

Grammarly Lite:

This Chrome web extension corrects your spellings, grammar and punctuation mistakes while you write online. It acts like your English teacher and corrects you when you are wrong.

Gmail Offline:

This is a must have extension for all those who use mail a lot. It allows you to read and respond to the mails without internet access. The queued actions will be processed once the internet reconnects.

Hover Zoom:

This app allows you to quickly view the thumbnails of the images in full size without having to open them in the new web page. When you add this extension in your chrome, then you will able to view the images in large zoomed size without having to load them in the new page.

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Chrome to Phone:

If you are an android phone user, then you can use this extension which lets you to send the web links directly from your browser to your phone. You need install Chrome to phone android app where you can view the links send from your browser.

BugMeNot:

This extension helps you to bypass any compulsory web registration in some websites while you surf through the internet.

 

Convert your photos into cartoons and sketches

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Have you ever wanted to have a sketch or painting of yourself. It is an expensive thing, but with the help of technology you can have your sketch done at free of cost. If you have already tried using sketching applications and not satisfied with their work, then don’t worry I am here to introduce you to the new application called XnSketch which has the easy to use interface for the users.

As using complicated photo editing tools like Photoshop will be a difficult thing and a headache to learn, XnSketch is simple sketching tool for all the non techie computer users.

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XnSketch is simple to use application that you can download and use it for free for your Windows, Linux and Mac platforms. Android and iOS devices support this application as well.

It is a powerful tool that helps you to turn your photos into sketches. The user interface in this application is so simple that anyone can use it and convert their images into wonderful cartoons and professional sketches by choosing among the various image effects it has. The result of the photos is outstanding and realistic.

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XnSketch is portable sketching and cartooning application. You don’t have to install this application software. Just download the file and extract it. Then double click on the XnSketch file.

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All you need to do for converting your images into sketches is just drag and drop the image in this XnSketch application window and then select among the various filters like cartoon, black and white, pastol, crayon and many more. Then save the image directly on your computer or any other photo storing sites like flickr, picasa and others.

Try this wonderful sketching application and convert your favourite photos into sketches and share them with your friends and make them feel amazed.

 

Best sites and apps for short story lovers

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Story reading would have been a habit ever since childhood for many of you. Short stories are for those who don’t have much time to read a book or a novel and yet love reading. Here are some cool and useful websites and apps list that give a daily dosage of the best short stories.

Morning Short:

Yes, now you don’t need to regret forgetting to visit the site for your daily dose of short stories, you will be delivered with the story right in your inbox. You just need to sign up here in this website and it also allows you get the recorded short story that you can listen. All this is for free.

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TaleHunt:

This is an application that is available for Android and iOS devices where you can sign up for free and start writing if you are interested or just restrict yourself to reading. These are truly short stories as they are restricted to 250 characters only. You can also follow the users, if you like their writings and get their stories regularly as they write.

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Poop Fiction:

It is a website that works fine on both mobile and PCs which lets you find the perfect story that fist the time you have. Just enter the time you have and then tap “Find me a story”. It has a great variety of stories that are categorized into tiny, short, medium and long stories. Don’t be misguided by the websites name, it’s a great website which has a collection of good stories.

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r/ShortStories:

It is website where anyone can write stories and send them to the world to read them. Check out the side bar to know what the tags in each post mean.

Daily Science Fiction:

If you love science fiction stories, then this site would probably the best things of you that offer you the best delightful stories of science fiction every week.

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Launchora:

This is a website which has an awesome collection of short stories written by various people. You too can write here. For reading the stories, you don’t need any sign up. Enjoy reading.

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So don’t give up your habit of reading as it will enlighten you. Try these awesome websites that give you daily and weekly dosages of stories that you will love.

Safe and clean software download websites for Windows PCs

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Customizing your computer or laptop with the various softwares that you need is a great idea. But finding the reliable software downloading websites is not an easy task. As there are a lot websites that has softwares for free. The wrong site can step you into problems. And they also make us download the unwanted softwares along the ones we need which will make our Pc more vulnerable to viruses and other malwares.

Here I provide some websites that you can download free softwares from.

Ninite:

Ninite is a quite simple and safe website that allows you to download various software programs for free. It allows you to select a list of programs and then download the custom installer file that allows you to save your time. Run the same file later to update all the applications.

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Softpedia:

Softpedia has the largest database of about 8,50,000 files and updated regularly with all the latest updates. So this website gives you not only clean and safe files, but also the latest updated files.

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MajorGeeks:

The site may look so mush of 90s model, but it is one among the most reliable and clean websites to download software from. It is the most reputed software download site since 15 years. Browse through the left side bar and find the various high rated programs that you may find interesting and useful.

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FileHippo:

This is another interesting and safe website that has a lot of softwares to download from. This will prompt you to download the download manager, which you can skip and download the softwares directly. It offers a update checker which scans your entire system and check for the latest updates of the various programs you have, this lets you to download all the latest software updates.

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FilePuma:

FilePuma is good in its categorization and it also has a update detector program to keep the programs in your PC updated.

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Try these website to download various softwares that you wish to have on your PC.