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Privacy Friendly Android Apps You Should Prefer To Use

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There are Android apps available in the Play store for almost everything and anything. But everyone is most concerned about their privacy with increased awareness and all. If you are also one such a person who cares the most about your privacy, then do check out these privacy friendly Android apps that you can use instead of the most used apps on your device.

Privacy Friendly Android Apps

DuckDuckGo:

A browser is definitely one of the most used applications in all our devices and we just can’t survive without the browser on our device. But Chrome is the browser that we all might be dependent on and some may rely on Opera. But they are not privacy friendly.

You can try DuckDuckGo instead of sticking yourself to Chrome, Opera or UC browser. It doesn’t save any personal information, even hides your IP address from websites. It doesn’t save your searches. So, give it a try.

F-Droid

Google Play store as we all know has been the default store app that we all will be relying on and it is a disaster when you consider about its privacy. So, if you are privacy concerned and would like to secure your privacy, then F-Droid. It doesn’t keep track of your device or even your activities. You don’t have to have an account to get apps downloaded from this app store.

OI File Manager

This file manager allows you to save your privacy to the utmost level and you can stay safe while your files are secure all the time. It is ad-free and doesn’t require any internet access. You can do all the various functions that you will need through a file manager through this OI File Manager.

Telegram

WhatsApp has been the popular messaging service that we all have been addicted to. But Telegram is one of the most privacy friendly android apps.  It works faster and it is also the secure messaging service.

So, we hope you make your life secure by shifting to these privacy friendly Android apps.

Best Google Playstore Tricks That You Should Know

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Google playstore, our Android device is nothing without this application. This is not an exaggerative sentence but a true one. We may find nothing to do on our phone if it doesn’t have a Google playstore which gives us access to millions of applications that help us in various different ways. Everyone who has a phone uses the Android playstore, but everyone knows the amazing tricks. So, here we present you to some of the amazing, useful Google playstore tricks. Check them out.

Amazing Google Playstore Tricks

Install An App Not Available In Your Country

We all might be aware of the thing that many applications that are in the Google playstore are not made available in our country. We may go and try many ways to get them downloaded and installed on our device. Here is another simple and quick solution for this problem. It is by using the VPN, download any VPN of your choice like Tunnebear, Shellfire and enable it, then you should be able to download and install the application you want from the Google playstore.

Parental Controls

This is another one of the most useful Google playstore tricks. If you are one such a very much concerned parent, then how can miss out this trick? For enabling the parental lock, you need to open the Google playstore app, and then tap on the menu and then click on the settings. Now select parental controls, then enable it and apply the PIN and also set the restrictions as you want. The setup is now done and you need to enter the PIN each and every time you wish to download the application.

Device Manager

The Google device manager is another cool and interesting way to find your lost device. All you need to do is just go to the Google device manager link and then login using your Google ID to track the location of your device.

Install Apps From Your Computer

Yes, this is probably the lesser known trick about the Google playstore but in fact a really interesting and useful one. All you need to do is just browse to the Google playstore web page on your device. Then browse through the playstore and then select the application that you wish to download, then tap on the install option available. Then finally you need to choose the device and click on the install button.

We hope and wish you make better use of these tricks.

How To Check Your Android Battery’s Health For Free

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Saving the battery life of our devices is one such a really important concern for many of the Android users. We are not just talking about the day to day battery saving, but in fact about the improvement of the overall battery performance. We have recently also seen the different useful tips for improving the battery performance. Now, here in this article, let us go through the process of checking the Android battery’s health.

How To Check Your Android Battery’s Health

It is a simple method and all you need is a simple application to be downloaded from the Google play store. It is the app called Accubattery.

Just get this application downloaded and installed on your device. Then it will take you through a brief introduction to what it does. The application even has done some kind of research on the battery percentage. It stated that charging the battery up to 80 % can help the phone battery in performing better. You can set the timer to ring and alert you to stop charging your device after 80%. The app recommends you to set the battery alarm at 80% but you can also set it at whichever percentage you want. Then it will perform a quick calibration and you are all set to go.

Then when you start using your device, it will collect information about your phone battery and display statistics in the application.

The application will also show you information regarding how long the battery will last. It will also have details regarding the average battery performance, battery usage per application etc. Accubattery can thus help you in reviewing the performance and the overall android battery’s health.

We hope you find this process and the app simple to use and useful. Try checking the performance of your phone battery using this simple process.

How to set reminder in Google Now using Chrome browser

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Sometimes our phone might be just out of reach and we have just remembered something that we need to set up reminder on our phone. Then the lazy ones don’t have the mood to get up and reach their phone, don’t worry here is a solution for you. If your phone is away from you and you are working on your laptop or PC and just got to set reminder on your phone. All you need to do this is your laptop/PC and an active internet connection.

Steps to set reminder

First of all, open Chrome browser and then open the Google search. One thing that you should remember here is that you should be logged in through the same gmail account that you used for your android phone. To set reminder, just type on the Google search something like “remind me for my meeting” and it will present you the reminder settings which you can custom set the date and time and then click on remind me on Google Now.

Set reminder

That is it you are done with setting up the reminder and you will be reminded on your phone on whichever device and whatever device that you use the same Google account in.

Set reminder using these simple steps on Chrome browser and you will be remembered of the task.  But your device should be synchronized before once. That is after setting up the reminder, your device in which you need to be reminded of the task needs to be connected to the internet.  

Use Google Now and set reminder and you will get reminder on your various other devices where your same Google account is logged in.

Make use of this reminder feature and let Google remind you of the important tasks on time and let the work be done on time without any delay.

Check Out This Amazing And Lightning Fast Android launcher

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There are tonnes of Android launcher applications available for the users in the Google playstore. But only a few of them work great. This is one of the side effects of Android as it is so open and customizable and that’s what makes it filled with lots of unwanted and useless applications. But as the decision will be in our hands, we have that freedom to choose that particular application that we want and need for our device. So, we need to be wise.

Android allows it’s users to have their own customizations and Launchers are the best way to do that. Let us now get to know about a launcher that works in lightning speed.

Evie Launcher –Amazing Android Launcher

It is the Evie launcher that is overloaded with features and gimmicks. It also offers its users essential customizations like icon packs, custom grids and more. You can search with lightning fast using this launcher. Usually, every other launcher in the store puts up a Google launcher on the top of the screen which is just so good for web search, but it is not the right choice for your device search.

All you have to do is just scroll down and start typing, it shows you the results even before you finish typing and it will show you the perfect results that you will find the one you are searching for in the top results.

You won’t find an app drawer icon on the home page of your device in this launcher, all you have to do to get the app drawer is just swiping down. You will get the list of apps in your device in alphabetical order.

Evie launcher allows you to customize the home screen just as you like by giving you lots of customizing options. Another most interesting feature with this launcher is that it actually turn the most searched item in the Google search into an icon on your home screen and you can simply tap on it to get the results.

So, bored of the same launcher, try this Android launcher and I you won’t regret trying it.