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A note taking app from Zoho that is definitely worth trying

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Note taking is the major concern for many of the smart phone users. There are many note taking apps until now both for the ios and android platform users. But here comes the one more useful and interesting app from Zoho, a Chennai based company. Its Zoho Notebook, a free note taking application for android and ios users.

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The android app may not look as good as the ios app, but it is an efficient working app.

This application makes it easy to create notes, categorize the notes and also editing the notes as well. You can create various notes, check lists, audio notes. It helps you get the work done quickly.

You can even sync your various notes across the device by simply logging into the Zoho account or creating a new one.

The app allows to group the various notes with pinch gesture very easily.

This app from Zoho network works very well as a journal app, and it will be very much useful to those who like to keep a diary of notes. It also serves your various other needs like saving shopping lists, saving audio recordings.

There is no desktop and web application of Zoho notebook as of now.

Don’t miss try this wonderful note taking app in your android or ios devices.

Learn How To Create A Shared Photo Album On Android

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The first thing you need to do for this is downloading the Google photos android application. Most of the devices these days have this app inbuilt if you don’t just download it from the Google’s Play store. A shared photo album is an album that you can create with your photos on your device and share it with your contacts using their names, email addresses, or phone numbers.

Creating A Shared Photo Album In Google Photos

You have to open the Google Photos application and then go to the albums tab, then tap on the shared, now tap on the plus icon and you have to select at least one photo to create an album. Select as many photos as you can and then click on next, then you will have to give your album a name. And after that, you can click on the share and invite your contacts to share the album with them.

You can share this album with the Gmail users and non-Gmail users as well, but the non-Gmail users have to create an account using a non-Gmail account.

You can add more photos by going to photos and then click on the add photo album, you can also more users by tapping the share button and then entering their contact information.

You can even remove a contact from viewing the shared photo album if you don’t want to share it with them. You can do this by going to the album and then click on the three-dot icon and then tap on the sharing options. Then you will find the list of people where you can block them by clicking on the three dot icon and then selecting the block person option.

And if you want to stop sharing that album with everyone, you can just toggle off the share option available at the top of the screen.

Thus by using these simple steps, you can share your album from Google photos on your android device.

Learn How To Listen To YouTube Videos In The Background

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YouTube is an online treasure which has full content in it. It has a number of videos which many feel as a treasure for their entertainment. YouTube is one of the many video sharing applications and it is the most popular app as well. But the android application of the YouTube has a huge drawback.  It doesn’t allow the users to continue listening to the audio of the YouTube videos if they turn off the screen.

Playing YouTube Videos In The Background

Many of us would sometimes wish to listen to just the audio while engaging ourselves in some other work but what have you ever thought of making YouTube videos play the audio alone. It is possible and simple to do as well.

Many people think that rooting the android device is the only solution for it, but there is another very lesser known solution which you can make use of if you don’t wish to root your device.

And for that, you should make use of the Firefox browser app on your device. Even though Google Chrome is the most popularly used browser, Firefox browser also holds some excellent features. And especially it can be the best solution for you if you want to play YouTube videos when your screen is off without having to buy any paid app.

It is just very much simpler to do this, just open the browser and search for the YouTube website, then for the video you would like to hear the audio for, then just switch your device’s screen off and you will see the video playing it’s audio in the background, you can listen to them like a podcast.

This is how you can trick this and listen just the audio of the videos on YouTube, but remember this will cost you the same amount of data it costs for playing videos, so use this only when you have sufficient data.

How To Try Android Paid Apps On Google Play Store For Free

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Google Play store has a huge collection of apps with more than 2,00,000 apps in it. While a lot of the applications are available for free download, there are also some paid apps which you need to purchase before having to check them out.

How To Try Paid Apps

Amazon runs a parallel store where you can get the chance to actually try them before buying.

But the best way where you can try the apps in the Google Play store is just buying them and then returning them for the full refund. Here is how you can do that

  • Go for any app that you might want to try either from your desktop or from your Android device and just buy that app by paying for it
  • After downloading and installing the application, you can go and check it out for the next 10-12 minutes
  • After you are finished with checking out the application, just head to the android market, then go to My Apps, then select the app which you want to have a refund for
  • You can find a refund button there which you can just hit and find the app automatically uninstalled from your device
  • After the uninstall has been done, it will ask you for the reason of returning the application, check ‘I’d rather not say option here’ and the app amount will be refunded

Thus refunding option in the Google’s app market can be helpful to us like this. But there are a few important things which you need to remember while doing this refund process

  1. The refund time of an app is only up to 15 minutes after you download it from the Google play store, after 15 minutes the refund option will be disappeared
  2. The refund option works only one time, if you have refunded the app once, you won’t get the option to refund even after you uninstall and reinstall the app

Thus this is the best trick where you can try paid apps.

How To Share A Purchased App With Your Family Or Friends

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Purchasing apps from the Google Playstore is the one such thing that we Indians hesitate to do. Many of us don’t like to invest money on apps that are confined to just mobile phones. Even if we buy also, we would like to get the most out of the app and a very lesser known thing about the purchased app is that the one who purchased can actually share the app with his/her family and friends so that they don’t have to pay for it if they would like to use it. And all this can be done officially using the Play store. Now let us check the steps involved in it.

Sharing A Purchased App

• Click on this link either on your Android smartphone or computer
• Then click on Sign up for family library and then you will be taken to the sign-up process where you create a library    for sharing your purchased app so that your family, friends can access them whenever needed
• First, you need to tap on the Accept option to accept the terms
• Under Shared, you can add multiple email addresses of the people with whom you would like to share the apps with
• Then a shared cloud will be created where you can share your purchases with whom you want
• You just need to enable the application while purchasing the apps to make them available for your family

That is it, you are done, you can thus share any media, apps of Google Playstore that you have purchased with your family and friends who use Android devices. Using these simple steps you can thus share the apps you have purchased in the Google play store with your friends and family and thus save lots of money on the useful applications.

Never left behind in using the latest apps with tonnes of features just because they need to be purchased, use this trick and let it spread.