Monday, April 13, 2015

6 Hidden Android Easter Eggs from Gingerbread to Lollipop

Google Loves to Surprise their Users. Every Android Versions from Gingerbread (Android 2.3) to Lollipop(Android 5.0) has an Easter egg. And accessing method for the Easter Eggs in all version is the same. Easter Eggs in the newest Versions are coming with more Animation and interactivity.

Every aster eggs Pay Tribute to Something such as Tron movie, nyan cat, Jelly Bean and Flappy Bird. They also has theme to match the Androids Version Name. For Example Jelly Bean Easter egg Features a Game with Jelly beans.

To find the Easter egg for your Android version. Open the Settings Page, Scroll Down to the Bottom and Tap About Phone.

6 Hidden Android Easter Eggs from Gingerbread to Lollipop

Find Android Version on the about phone Screen then Tap Repeatedly until the Easter Eggs Appear. If you are using Gingerbread instead of Android Version look for Firmware version in the About Phone Page. This method works with Android Tablets also so in Tablets you have about tablet instead of about phone.


6 Hidden Android Easter Eggs from Gingerbread to Lollipop

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Android 5.0 Lollipop

Lollipop Easter egg will appear as a Lollipop image just tap on the Lollipop to activate the Feature. Android Lollipop Easter Egg is a Flappy bird Clone. They replaced the Bird with Android Robot and used lollipops for the pipes. And this version is just as hard as the Original Flappy bird game.

Android 4.4 Kitkat

Kitkat Easter egg will appear as a Chocolate bar. Tap and Hold it a fun sliding game will start. the game features pictures of different Sweets.

Android 4.3 Jelly Bean

Jelly Been Easter egg will appear as a large red jelly bean, tap the red jelly bean and a face will appear. Then a mini game will start the game allow you to endlessly flick jelly bean off the Screen. This game will never end until your battery phone dies.


Android Jelly Bean Easter Eggs
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Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich

Android 4.0 Easter egg will appear as a Pixel art Android robot wearing an ice cream sandwich. Tap and hold until swarm of android robots flying across the Screen. This Animation is a tribute to the nyan cat internet meme.

Android Ice Cream Sandwich Easter Eggs

Android 3.0 Honeycomb

Honeycomb Easter egg will appear as a honeybee with electric blue colors.it is inspired by its name, the color of the honeybee looks same as the OS interface. Honeycomb is inspired by tron Legacy that’s why the Easter egg honeybee creates a word bubble with the word REZZZZZZ. In tron Rezzing means Creating Something.

Android 2.3 Gingerbread

Gingerbird Easter Egg is a Painting. The Zombie themed painting Portrays a Gingerbread man and android Robot in the Middle and around them group Zombies stand around with Android Phones in their hands.

Android Gingerbread Easter Eggs

Thursday, April 9, 2015

How to Download Free Music from Google Play Music

Google Play Music is a music Streaming Service from Google.it is also works like a music Download store like Apple’s iTunes and Amazon’s Prime Music.

You can buy Songs in Google music Store via Pay per click System. The best part is Google Play offers some free songs to Download. If you are familiar with Google play music you probably know about "free song of the Week". However you can Download more free songs other than that.

There are more free music’s waiting under Google Play music’s main Webpage.as well as songs you can also get Albums for free.so how to get free songs apart from free song of the week. You can’t see any other links to free songs in google play music main page. The problem is google Play music doesn't have an Advanced Search Option to find Free tracks specifically.

How to Download Free Music from Google Play Music

How to Download Free Songs of the Week in Google Paly Music

If you know how to download free song of the week skip this Section and Scroll down to find how to use Search Option to find more free Songs.

Go to Google Play Store

Log in to your Google Play Account.

Choose Music sub menu in the left side panel.

To get Google’s free song of the Week all you have to do is Scroll down to the Screen until you see the free song of the Week link.

Click and Open the link, without Downloading the Song you can add it to your Online library.to add the song to the library click on the Free button, located at the right side of the Song.

Next make sure the song you selected is free and Click the Add to Library button.

You will see a Congratulation Message. You can listen or share the song from there for now click close to continue.

Open my Music located in left side. The song will be in My music now you can download the song to your Device. 


How to Download Free Music from Google Play Music

How to find more free songs With Google Play Music Search

As I mentioned earlier there are no links to free music’s other than the free song of the week, to find more free songs you need to use Google Play Search.

To Search single Songs, Enter Free Songs in the Google play music Search box. You can also try Free Music it might give you Additional contents.

Your Search Results will Display a list of free songs

You can view the list as single tracks by clicking the See more button in Songs Section.

If you are trying to Find Free Albums clicking the See more Button in the Album Section will do the trick.

If you want to add a free song to your Library. Click the Free button located in the right side of the song.

If you want to add a Free album to your library, click the free button by the Album cover Photo.

Before adding a Song or Album to the library make sure that the song is free and then Add to Library.

Before downloading any songs, you can listen to them for 90 seconds. If you want to Play a Song just click on the Songs Tittle.

Whether you are Downloading Free song or Paid Song you must have a Payment Option in Google Play. When Adding Free songs to your music Library verify the song is Free otherwise you will be charged for the Song.

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Monday, April 6, 2015

5 Tips to Extend your iPhone Battery Life

When it comes to the Battery Life iPhone 6 has some improvements from the iPhone 5S. Per Charge iPhone 6 remains 10 to 11 hours for Wi-Fi and Videos use. However when Browsing the Web via 3G you will get only 10 hours of battery Life.

Apple Claims that iPhone 6 Plus will remain 12 hours per Charge, However if you use iPhone heavily you must know at best your Phone won’t stand more than 8 hours per one Charge. Luckily with some Tweaks you can save a few minutes or an hour of your battery life. Here is some of the Tips to save your iPhone battery Life.

Disable Background App Refresh

This Feature introduced in iOS 7, some iPhone Apps refresh automatically in the Background whether you are using your Phone or not. This will Consume lot of Power, and your Apps will Update Automatically without knowing whether the Update is Important or not.

5 Tips to Extend your iPhone Battery Life

Specifically Facebook App Background refreshing, Consume more Power and Drain your Battery Fast.so if you don’t use Facebook often you can turn off App Refresh for Facebook.

Disable Automatic Raise to Speak in Siri

In iOS 7 and later version you can set Siri to Activate Whenever your phone is raised near your face. The problem is iPhone will regularly scan with its Sensor to figure out whether the Phone is near your Face or it is not. This will Burn up battery life.so to Save Battery Life just Go to Siri Settings, Choose General Settings and Disable Raise to Speak.

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5 Tips to Extend your iPhone Battery Life


Turn Off App Suggestions

Suggested Apps feature is introduced in iOS 8, it will use your location information to know where you are and what kind of Apps installed on your Phone. Based on these information’s you will get new App Suggestions. This might useful but it uses Extra battery life for Checking your Location and communicating with App Store.

You can turn of Suggested Apps Go to iPhone Settings, and tap on General Settings then Choose Handoff & Suggested Apps, Now turn off my Apps and App store

5 Tips to Extend your iPhone Battery Life


Switch off Location Tracking Apps

Some of the iPhone Apps like Google maps, Apple maps, Facebook, Twitter, Google+ ask for Permission to Access your Location data. If you give Permission to Track your location. The tracking process will burn your Battery faster. So if you want to save your Battery Life go to the individual apps Settings and turn off location tracking.

5 Tips to Extend your iPhone Battery Life
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Reduce Screen Brightness

This is an old Trick and most of you may know this. Turning down the Brightness is The First thing you have to Do When you have Leaky battery.by Default I Phone brightness is set to Auto – Brightness. And auto brightness can take some of your Battery Power. Switch this settings to manual and turn Down the Brightness to a Comfortable level for your Eyes.

5 Tips to Extend your iPhone Battery Life



Saturday, April 4, 2015

How to Send Videos From your Computer to iPhone Using iTunes

If you have a Movie on your Computer and you want to watch it on your Phone, following these steps you can simply send a video from your computer to iPhone using iTunes.

First you need to import the video to iTunes. Open the Video folder, click and Drag the Video to iTunes you don’t have to put the video at any special location, just put the video anywhere while iTunes running.

In iTunes Upper left coroner select the movie icon then click on home videos. 


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How to Send Videos From your Computer to iPhone Using iTunes


Your Video will be there in home videos. Next make sure your iPhone is connected to your computer then drag the video in to the Phone icon located at the top left corner.

Now you can see in the middle bar on top, the video will automatically syncing.

After the Process completed, Open Video app on your iPhone and you can see your Video waiting for you to play.

How to Send Videos From your Computer to iPhone Using iTunes

How to Send Videos From your Computer to iPhone Using iTunes

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Friday, April 3, 2015

How To Rename multiple files at Once in Windows

Microsoft Windows Operating System offers different options to rename multiple files at once, you can rename a file using Command prompt, Windows Explorer, and Power Shell.

Renaming multiple files with Windows Explorer is Easy and fast, however it lacks in flexibility. PowerShell is flexible but it is complicated you need to use commands to rename files in PowerShell.

How to Rename Multiple Files Using Windows Explorer

Windows Explorer has a built in way to rename multiple files .most of us don’t know it yet it’s well hidden.

First Choose the files which you want to rename. Then Place the Files inside a folder. Now sort your files in the order how you would like. Remember windows Explorer will rename the files starting from the top of the list.

How To Rename multiple files at Once in Windows


Select all the files by Pressing Control + A or click and Drag your mouse ,right click on the First file and click rename. Now Type File Name and Press Enter.

Windows Explorer will change the Base Name and add number after file name. This method is Simple and fast. You can clean your messy Names in a short time.

How To Rename multiple files at Once in Windows


How to rename Multiple Files Extensions with Command Prompt

With a simple Command you can rename multiple files at Once in Command Prompt. There is an Easy way to Open Command Prompt, Hold Shift and Right Click in a folder and Select Command Windows here.it will open the Command Prompt window.

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Windows Command Prompt most used to change all files Extension at once. You can use simple rename or ren command to rename. Use the following command to rename html files to txt files

ren * .html * .txt

Other File Extension Examples

ren * .png * .jpeg

ren * .docx * .txt

The command Prompt Option is not Powerful, though it can be included into more Complicated Scripts.

How to Rename multiple files using PowerShell

PowerShell is more flexible for renaming multiple files. With PowerShell, you can combine the output of one command known as a commandlet in PowerShell terms to another command.

PowerShell need two commands to rename files one is Dir this one lists the files in the current directory. And the second command is Rename-item this will rename a file and connect the Output of dir to rename-item.

To Open PowerShell Search for PowerShell in Start Screen(Windows8,) or Start (windows7).you will see windows PowerShell click to launch it.at first you need to enter the folder directory that contain your files. remember you have to put all the files inside same folder.

In PowerShell Enter cd following that paste your folder location for example:

cd “C:\Users\Leonardo\Desktop\scar” Hit Enter.

Now Paste the Following Command

Dir | Rename-Item –NewName { $_.name –replace “ “,”_” }

Replacing the “ “ and “_” parts of the command will replace other characters in file names.

For more Advanced Rename Options Visit Microsoft Documentation Library.

Third Party Rename Applications

There are some good Powerful third party apps Available for renaming multiple files. You can rename files without commands. Using Bulk Rename Tool you can rename multiple files at once without writing any commands.

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Install Bulk Rename Tool and Launch it .Browse and select a folder, make some changes in the panels and it will show you a Preview of your changes. For example Bulk rename tool has Panel for Auto Date, Add name, Remove name, Number, replace. If you want to replace a name you can replace a word with other word in replace panel, if you want to add number you can add numbers after name in the Number panel. Finally Select Rename to confirm your changes and Rename the files.

Thursday, April 2, 2015

How to Set up Face Unlock in Android

Android Offers Different unlock methods to unlock a Device you can use Password, Pin, Pattern gesture, and Swipe. However you can unlock your Android Device with your Face (face recognition).

If you don’t have a Unlocking method you should set a Secure unlocking method for your Device Before Setting up Face unlock. Open Android Settings find Security section Tap on Screen Lock Select any one from Pin, Password, or Pattern unlocking methods. Follow the instructions and set up your unlocking method.

Once you return back to the security settings Page, Choose Smart Lock and Enter your Unlock Pattern when Prompted .now Tap on Trusted Face then you will see some information’s about unlocking your Device with your Face. Read the information very carefully and Tap set up when you are ready.


How to Set up Face Unlock in Android

Before the Process make sure you are in indoors or not in a overly bright area. This will help Android to capture your Facial features. Once you selected a good spot tap next. Now your Mobile will start the process of detecting your face. Hold your Device at eye level to match your face with the ring of dots onscreen.

After you have positioned your Mobile and face properly, the dots will start to turn green. Wait until All dots to turn green and a tickmark will appear in the center of the Screen. When you see that tap Next.

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For better results you have to show Android how you look under different situations such as with short hair, long hair, clean shaven, with mustache, beard, with cap on, with eyewear’s and whatever attribute. This will help to recognize you better when your Appearance changed.

To Do that Go to Settings and Tap on Security, Select Smart lock. Then tap on trusted face and select improve face matching. Move to a Spot that has different lighting. And change to a different Appearance. Then tap next and repeat the method of adding a face. You can do this Process as many time as you want.

How to Set up Face Unlock in Android

Note: face unlock is not very popular among Android Users. There is some reasons for it first anyone can hack it without any Programs with your Photo Anyone can Unlock your Phone. Second Face unlock doesn't work Good in the dark and Overly bright location.

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Wednesday, April 1, 2015

How to Enable Guest mode in Android Lollipop

If you ever needed to give your Android Mobile to someone else for a While. Then there is a Chance for them to easily Access all of your Personal Data. Worst case Scenario they End up Deleting important information Like Contacts or changing your Settings and Preferences.

Luckily Android 5.0 Lollipop comes with a System level Guest mode. Android 5.0 Guest mode allow you to Quickly Switch to a Different Profile (Guest) that doesn’t have any of your Data and Settings. The guest mode is as good as a Fresh Install of a OS, in Guest mode the user cant access your Phone Data’s such as installed Apps, messages, contacts Etc.

If you switch back to your Default Google Profile, all Settings and Data saved in guest mode will Delete Automatically.

How to Enable Guest mode in Android Lollipop
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How to Enable Guest Mode in Android 5.0 Lollipop

Swipe Down on the Top of the Screen. It will bring the Notification bar.

At the top right tap twice at your Profile picture

Now you will see three icons Your Google Profile, Add Guest and Add User.

Tap on Add Guest

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Now Android Lollipop will switch to guest mode. The guest mode take few minutes to load and the Phone may lag and slightly Slow.

You can Easily Exit Guest mode and revert to your Google Account, to Do that Swipe Down on the Top of the Screen to bring the Notification bar.

At the top right tap twice at your Avatar

The three Icons will Appear, Tap on your Google Account icon. Now Android will Delete all Data and Settings Saved in the Guest mode.

How to Enable Guest mode in Android Lollipop


If you don’t have Android 5.0 Lollipop, you can use Pre loaded guest modes. Some brands such as Samsung, LG, Xiaomi Pre loaded an App that Allow you to use Guest mode on your Smartphone. The Guest mode App name will be Different for Each Brands, so Search your Phone Apps with names such as Guest mode or kids mode.