android apps

Apps for your Privacy and Security in Google Play Store

June 24, 2016 by Satyapriya

There are about some millions of apps in the Google Play store, but how many of them are for your android device’s security and safety and among those how many actually keep up to their promise in real. So here we give some list of apps that are for your security and privacy. Some inbuilt device settings can even help you to protect your device from the vulnerability of the android platform, while we are giving you here some information regarding the best apps for your device safety and security.

Hushed:

This is an amazing app that allows you to create temporary phone numbers which you can use while filling up a form, giving your number to a marketing agent. So your private number is not going to be spammed anymore as you have this app with you where you can create a temporary phone number and delete it later on if you get frustrated with nuisance calls and all. You can download it for free from the Google Play store.

NordVPN:

A VPN is a Virtual Private Network which provides the best safety from the third parties that usually collect data from the user and t even provides safety from your own service provider as well. This NordVPN app allows you to connect to almost 548 servers in 49 countries and protects your personal data.

DuckDuckGo:

Without any doubt we can say that Google is the most popular search engine, but have you ever thought of your privacy in searching. Here comes the DuckDuckGo which doesn’t keep track of any of your search information. This DuckDuckGo app which protects your browsing history and keeps it safe is available for free in the Google Play store.

Telegram:

It is most privacy focused messaging application. The service is not only end to end encrypted, it also has secret chats and self destruct messaging feature for security.

ProtonMail:

The first mail was sent about 45 years ago through this client. When you send mail to someone who also uses the ProtonMail service, the messages are end to end encrypted, but in case you need to send an email to someone who doesn’t have a ProtonMail then you can secure the message with a password.

LastPass:

This is an amazing password manager app that allows you to manage all your passwords safely and securely. And it prompts you the various passwords that you have saved whenever it detects a password field. The passwords are encrypted safely.

Make your android device safe and secure with these amazingly useful apps that are available in the Google Play store for free.

How to Stop Automatic Starting of Apps on Android and Save Memory and Battery

June 23, 2016 by computerera

Are you worrying about your Android phone which have sufficient amount of RAM and powerful battery and working slow and draining fast? The reason might not be the software update or the bugs in it. It is the automatic apps that start without your consent and run in the background that slow down your phone. As the apps would be running, the battery would also be drained faster than normal.

How to stop automatic apps starting in android?

Every app that runs will depend on the system resources itself thereby showing an impact on the free memory and battery. To be frank, Android operating system doesn’t quit apps literally when closed. They will keep running in the background unless they are swiped off.

Actually, the applications that are installed will not just work on on-demand basis. Some startup automatically when the device is turned on. Take an example of the themes. Will they be running on-demand or they run automatically from startup? Glad you got my point.

Warning: Before you get to know how to stop automatic apps starting, make sure you won’t stop any Google related apps and some background services with weird names. Stopping those may affect your android phone and you may need to reinstall the OS again.

You would be using the phone as a normal user as of now. Enabling the developer mode will give your more flexibility over the customisation of the android operating system from the core.

Go to Settings > About > Quick tap 7 times on Build Number to enable the developer mode. Come back to ‘Settings‘ and you will find an extra option ‘Developer Mode‘ in the stack of settings.

Now go to Developer Options > Running Services and check all the services that are running on the device. Open the identifiable services and you will find Stop and Report options. Tap on Stop to stop the app and sometimes you may need to stop some other belonging services/apps that are running associated with that app.

The Marshmallow app has a doze feature that minimises the running services in the background. You may also go to Settings > Apps and swipe over to the Running apps and Force Stop them.

Beware of the Google must-run services and apps.

Hope this guide helped you save some RAM and battery life of your phone. Please share it to your friends too if you like this article.

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

June 11, 2016 by Satyapriya

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.

How to Get Any Coupon or Discount Instantly on Android Phone

April 20, 2016 by computerera

The app I demonstrated in this video serves as an assisting layer over the existing apps on your device. To avail simple services like ordering food, booking cabs or online shopping, you might be jumping across multiple apps and perhaps mobile browsers to get coupons and to avail the service at the optimal price. All of that changes with this app. It is a smart solution to crunch the extra time you spend on searching and comparing across multiple apps. It gets triggered while you normally use apps to avail a service by understanding the need for comparisons, best deals and coupons. It pro-actively puts all the information you need a single tap away by pulling data across apps and integrating with them.

FEATURES

CABS

Having a trouble to book the cheapest available cab? Book the nearest cab around you at a cheaper price even during peak hours. Cabs across all major cab service providers compared at one place based on the final price, including surge pricing and best coupons curated. Cab booking now made easy with this app.
Service providers – Uber, Ola, TaxiForSure

SHOPPING

Hunting for best discounts available to purchase that favorite gadget of yours? Shop your favorite products across various e-commerce site to compare and choose the best buy available.
Service providers- Amazon, Flipkart, Snapdeal, Ebay, Shopclues and many more

COUPONS

Save money while availing online services. Avail the latest discounts and coupons for Food, Recharge, Movies, Groceries, Buses, Flights, Hotels and Fashion. Open your favorite app and build your order as you usually would. Exactly when you need to apply the coupon, This app will just the perfect coupon to get the maximum discount/cashback.

FOOD ORDERING- FoodPanda, Faasos, Swiggy, Tinyowl
RECHARGE- PayTM, Mobikwik, Freecharge
MOVIES- PVR, Bookmyshow
GROCERIES: Grofers,PepperTap, Bigbasket
BUSES: Redbus, Abhibus, Paytm, Goibibo, Makemytrip, Yatra
FLIGHTS: MakeMyTrip, Yatra, Cleartrip, Goibibo, Musafir.
HOTELS: OYO, Makemytrip, Yatra, Expedia, Goibibo, Cleartrip
FASHION: Amazon, Flipkart, Snapdeal, Jabong, Myntra

And many others service providers.

POP-UP
The best part? You don’t need to do anything different. Open the service provider’s app as you normally would. This app’s pop-up will appear on your screen with all the assisting information.

3 Best Android Lock Screen Apps

April 19, 2016 by computerera

Hi Locker

Hi Locker’s gives a CyanogenMod-type launcher which helps you to launch your favorite android apps from the lock screen. It provides three types of lock screen: regular, Lollipop and iOS, and a separate section dedicated to your calendar, wherein you may quickly view upcoming activities. It gives lots of options to customize it by adding custom greetings, eye catching fonts, and automated wallpaper changes.

LokLok

LokLok is an interesting concept, your friends also need to be a part of it to get the most out of it. This app helps to draw on your screen and send that as a message to your friends who already using it. They can set it on their lock screen and can modify and send back to you.

This app is still in beta, and you cannot secure it with PIN code at present, which means it’s no longer a first rate lock screen app for safety. But as a casual user to send messages as lock screen drawings, it’s really worth a shot.

CM Locker

This Lock Screen app provides slide to unlock style available on iOS devices like iPhone etc. More than this, CM Locker consists of power-saving feature which helps us to clean battery draining programs without leaving the lock screen.

If you enabled intruder alert from the settings, now onwards whenever someone tries to unlock your device, it captures their photo. You can control music playback, change music tracks, check latest weather forecasts from the lock screen itself.