Android Mods And Tricks

One of the major selling points of Google's Pixel smartphone since launch has been its camera, which has managed to impress both users and critics alike. Interestingly, an app developer has now figured out a way to bring the same camera improvements (on the software side) that are carried out on by the Google camera app on Pixel smartphones to other Android smartphones that feature capable processors. Separately, Google has pushed out a new update to the Google Camera app (v4.4) that allows users to take selfies with flash. Talking first about the workaround to get the Pixel-like image processing, specifically the HDR+ feature, an Ukranian developer who goes by the name B-S-G has shared a modified version of the search giant's Google Camera app. This modified version of the app reportedly brings along the HDR+ image processing to any device that features either a Snapdragon 820, Snapdragon 821, or Snapdragon 835 SoC. The app, v4.4.012.156195200, was taken from the thi...

Amazon's bet to lure Indians with its big-profile sales is chugging along smoothly in India. The most recent of it -- the four-day Amazon Great Indian Sale, which it concluded on August 12 -- saw a record number for smartphones sales, the company said Monday, adding that the first day was its biggest day in terms of sales this year. The first day of sale, August 9, saw the company sell more smartphones units than any other day this year. In particular, Apple's iPhone models attracted a lot of attention. Several iPhone models were selling with major discounts on the e-commerce website. In comparison to a usual business day, Amazon India said it sold 40 times more iPhone units on first day of the sale. These sales helped Amazon drive momentum and engagement to several of its other services. Amazon Pay, the payments service from the company, saw 20 times more traction during the sales, while plenty of new users bought a Prime subscription service. As we reported rece...

JioPhone bookings will officially open on August 24 (both offline and online), but certain offline retailers in the Delhi-NCR region have already started taking pre-orders for the handset. This means that you have the opportunity to make your JioPhone booking ahead of millions of people across the country, provided you have an offline retailer near you taking pre-orders right now. Gadgets 360 spoke to one such retailer to find out the offline booking process, the documents you need to get your hands on the phone, and tentative delivery dates, and other important details. Notably, the Rs. 1,500 refundable deposit only needs to be paid at the time of picking up the handset, so, you don't need to have that amount ready when pre-ordering. Read on to find out everything you need to know. Jio Phone booking with Aadhaar number To book JioPhone, you will need to submit a copy of your Aadhaar card with the authorised Jio retailer, whether it is a store around the corner or a Rel...

Facebook has a new home for original video content produced exclusively for it by partners, who will earn 55 percent of ad break revenue while Facebook keeps 45 percent. The “Watch” tab and several dozen original shows will start rolling out to a small group of U.S. users tomorrow on mobile, desktop and Facebook’s TV apps. By hosting original programming, Facebook could boost ad revenue and give people a reason to frequently return to the News Feed for content they can’t get anywhere else. Watch features personalized recommendations of live and recorded shows to watch, plus categories like “Most Talked About,” “What’s Making People Laugh” and “Shows Your Friends Are Watching.” Publishers can also share their shows to the News Feed to help people discover them. A Watchlist feature lets you subscribe to updates on new episodes of your favorite shows. Fans can connect with each other and creators through a new feature that links shows to Groups. Facebook says it plans to r...

SoundCloud has just closed the necessary funding round to keep the struggling music service afloat. CEO Alex Ljung will step aside though remain chairman as former Vimeo CEO Kerry Trainor replaces him. Mike Weissman will become COO as SoundCloud co-founder and CTO Eric Wahlforss stays as chief product officer. New York investment bank Raine Group and Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund Temasek have stepped in to lead the new Series F funding round of $169.5 million. SoundCloud laid off 40 percent of its staff last month, with 173 employees departing in an effort to cut costs. The company only had enough runway left to last into Q4, and today’s investor decision was viewed as a do-or-die moment for the company. Now it will have the opportunity to try to right the ship, or sail into an established port via acquisition. SoundCloud declined to share the valuation or quantity of the new funding round. Yesterday, Axios reported the company was raising $169.5 million at a $150 m...

After a number of leaks, and a possibly accidental confirmation by AT&T last week, the Samsung Galaxy S8 Active is now official.  The Galaxy S8 Active will go up for pre-order from tomorrow, August 8, before it sees an official availability at AT&T stores across the US from August 11. It’s coming in Meteor Gray or Titanium Gold and will set you back $28.34 for 30 months on AT&T Next, adding up to a total of around $850 — the same as a Galaxy S8 Plus. The unit is also eligible for up to $200 in credit when you trade in an eligible smartphone, and can save you money on the purchase of a Gear S2, Gear S3, Samsung TV or another Samsung phone when you make a purchase (more details on those offers will be available in store or at the link at the bottom from tomorrow). As had been previously rumored, the Galaxy S8 Active arrives with largely the same specs as the regular Galaxy S8, with a few notable differences; namely, the inclusion of a 4,000 mAh battery (comp...

1. Earn from PTC sites If you are trying to earn money online & need only small extra income less than $200 (Rs.12,000) then PTC sites are the best way to start. Here you need to click & read the advertisements for 10 to 3o seconds & get paid for each & every advertisement you view. There are many sites where you can register & make money by reading ads. All sites are free & there is no investment at all. 2. Become a Captcha Solver If you have more time then you can add further income in your pocket by working as a captcha solver. This is the one of easiest way to earn money online. As a captcha solver, you need to read the captcha images & type the exact characters. You need to be very fast in order to earn better income. You can get paid up to $2 for every 1000 captchas you solve. 3. Earn Money from Survey Here you can make money by completing small surveys which takes 5 minutes to 30 minutes depending on the requireme...

Since Samsung introduced its first Smart TV in 2008, every year has brought changes and tweaks on how Samsung Apps are accessed and used via the TV's onscreen menu system, which is currently referred to as "The Smart Hub". It may not be immediately evident how to find Samsung Apps on your new Samsung TV.  Alas, there is no Samsung Apps button on the remote.  Here are some pointers for how to use, purchase and download Samsung apps. Samsung Smart TV owners can now stream Steam games straight to their TVs thanks to the new Steam Link app.  Currently in its beta mode, the Steam Link app can be found in the Samsung app store and currently supports 1080p resolution at 60 frames per second, with Steam Controller and Xbox 360 controller compatibility (both wired and wireless).  Valve apparently plans to introduce 4K streaming and additional controller support in the future, most likely after the app exits its beta period later this year.  Samsun...

As you enter the world of internet you will find many ways of earning money online.Besides youtube there are more easiest ways of earning money online.If you want to work less and earn more then this article will surely open up your mind! The first one is earning through blog/website,2nd by earning through shrinking urls ans the 3rd method is to earn by uploading files to PPD sites. 1.How do you earn from a blog/website? First of all you will have to create a blog/website using blogger or wordpress.Creating blog/website on blogger or wordpress is totally free.So after you create a blog you will have to post enough content on your blog and get your blog approved from google adsense or any other advertising site.In this way you can earn money by placing ads on you blog with zero investment. 2.Now the 2nd way of earning is through shrinking urls. You will find many such websites on the net that pay you when someone opens the link that is shrinked by you.One of t...

WASHINGTON: Feeling stressed during the workday? Playing video games may help, say scientists who suggest that engaging in such enjoyable activities during short breaks can help employees recharge themselves. People regularly experience cognitive fatigue related to stress, frustration, and anxiety while at work. Those in safety-critical fields, such as air traffic control and health care, are at an even greater risk for cognitive fatigue, which could lead to errors. Given the amount of time that people spend playing games on their smartphones and tablets, researchers wanted to evaluate whether casual video game play is an effective way to combat workplace stress during rest breaks. Researchers from University of Central Florida in the US used a computer-based task to induce cognitive fatigue in 66 participants, who were then given a five-minute rest break. During the break, participants either played a casual video game called Sushi Cat , participated in a guided rela...

NEW DELHI: Looks like the Galaxy Note 8 isn't the only device Samsung is readying to launch on August 23. It's been reported that the company could launch a new wearable device along with its latest flagship smartphone. As spotted by Android Headlines, a new fitness band going by the moniker 'Samsung Gear Sport' has passed FCC (Federal Communications Commission). It is worth mentioning that since the product has passed FCC, it will in be -- in all likeliness -- ready to be released. Also, Samsung used last year's IFA trade show to introduce a new Gear fitness band and this year it could do the same. IFA 2017 starts in Berlin on September 1 and will go till September 6. No concrete details about the Gear Sport have been revealed. However, the listing says the device will support Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, which is pretty much the standard for a fitness band. The device may run on Samsung's own Tizen OS. Since the device has 'Sports' in its name, it co...

In a breather to its rival Samsung, Apple has decided to give its Touch ID security solution for its forthcoming "iPhone 8" handset a pass and will instead rely on face unlock feature for all works, an analyst has said. The move has left the door open for Samsung to bring the similar technology in next year's Galaxy Note 9, AppleInsider reported. According to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple has "cancelled" plans to embed a fingerprint recognition solution in the next-generation flagship iPhone. "The analyst left embedded Touch ID off a list of standout 'iPhone 8' features published in July but did not indicate that Apple had abandoned the initiative altogether," the report quoted Kuo as saying. The analyst said Apple would swap out capacitive sensing technology with an optical solution capable of accepting readings. The prediction also contradicts the reports claiming that Apple was building an under-glass fingerprint sensors a reality...

The Nokia 5 is a mid-range Android smartphone priced at Rs 12,899. The handset is powered by the latest Android 7.1.1 Nougat OS and will also get the Android O update this year. Nokia 5, the offline-exclusive smartphone from HMD Global is expected to hit retail stores by August 15. HMD Global had reportedly delayed the availability of the Nokia 5 and online-exclusive Nokia 6 in order to fulfill the demand for its budget Nokia 3 handset. According to a new report on Indian Express, the Nokia 5 will become available for purchase starting August 15. The pre-bookings for the device began on July 7 from select retail outlets in Delhi NCR, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai, Kolkata, Pune and Kozhikode. At the time of the Nokia 3 launch, HMD Global had confirmed that its Nokia-branded smartphones will be available offline from over 400 exclusive distributor networks covering more than 80,000 stores. It also claims to have after sales service centers across 300 locations in the c...

It wasn’t that long ago when pretty much the only things that went viral were cute cat videos and “Charlie bit my Finger”. That, and maybe, a few chain-mails that threatened you with disastrous consequences if you didn’t forward them to 20 unfortunate souls in your contact list within the next 24-hours. However, with the advent of online social media, the type stuff that goes viral has expanded vastly, from memes to tweets and from conspiracy theories to apps and everything in between. One such app that recently went viral and got everyone talking is ‘Sarahah’ and, if reports are to be believed, is all set to become one of the most downloaded apps ever. So, what is Sarahah and why is there so much buzz around it? What is Sarahah and Why is it in the Headlines? The Sarahah app was created by Saudi Arabian developer Zain al-Abidin Tawfiq who originally started Sarahah.com to allow employees to anonymously share their honest feedback about their company without feeling restr...

Whenever I am free, most of my time is spent on YouTube. Just like everybody else, I also go down YouTube’s rabbit hole, playing on any video which might seem interesting. Once in a while, I might find a video which is just too good and is screaming to get shared. Thankfully, YouTube gave us the ability to share videos on the different social media platforms. However, if you don’t want to share the video publicly, but just with some friends of yours, the only option was to share the link of the video through different messaging apps. If you had ever tried to do that, you must know that the whole process was a big mess, both for the sender and the receiver. It seems that YouTube was also aware of this problem, as they have just launched a new share feature which is pretty cool. In today’s article, we are going to show you everything there is to know about the YouTube’s share feature and how to use it. What is YouTube Share? As you could have guessed from the name, YouT...

In what reads like science fiction becoming reality, researchers at the University of Washington have been able to successfully infect a computer with malware coded into a strand of DNA. In order to see if a computer could be compromised in that way, the team included a known security vulnerability in a DNA-processing program before creating a synthetic DNA strand with the malicious code embedded. A computer then analyzed the “infected” strand, and as a result of the malware in the DNA, the researchers were able to remotely exploit the computer. The results were published in a recent paper. “We wanted to understand what new computer security risks are possible in the interaction between biomolecular information and the computer systems that analyze it,” the researchers wrote, led by Tadayoshi Kohno, a professor of computer science at the University of Washington. The basic structural units of DNA are called nucleotides, and they’re stored as letters A, C, G, and T. Sequ...

After the OnePlus 2’s very lukewarm response, there was much rejoicing when the OnePlus 3, and later the OnePlus 3T, turned out to be a return to form for OnePlus. With the company’s attention now on the OnePlus 5, however, it might not come as a huge shock that Oliver Z, OnePlus’ head of product, confirmed that the OnePlus 3/3T will not be given major software updates following Android O. In an interview with OnePlus’ community manager, Oliver confirmed the eventual move, though the phones will still get security patch updates “for the foreseeable future”: Android O is going to be the last Android version update we’ll release for OP3/3T. We’ll continue to release security patch updates for the foreseeable future, and offer support for individual application updates. On one hand, I understand that, the OnePlus 3/3T will have gotten two major software updates by the time Android O lands, a schedule that even Google adheres to with Nexus and Pixel phones. Also, at least OnePlu...

There have been a lot of conflicting reports about the upcoming version of Android. Few days back, a report suggested that the release of Android O could be delayed by few weeks. Now, a new piece of information is suggesting that Android O will debut on August 21. Android O was supposed to launch in early August 2017 and now popular tipster Evan Blass claims that the operating system will be officially launched on 21 August. Earlier info had said that the newest version of Android will receive it’s name on the 21st( on the day of solar eclipse) and now we hear that it will be launched as well on the same day. Some Features of Android O Who wants better battery life? Android O will soon include features under the banner Vitals, including security tools, OS optimizations and tools for developers to better suite your device usage. At Google I/O 2017, the Android team announced Google Play Protect, think of it as a virus scanner for Android apps. So far, the team reports having ...

6 best file sharing sites to earn upto 20$ per download. If you share files with other users and couldn’t pay for your bandwidth (Internet Bills) than there is an easier and profitable method to earn from it. There are few companies that pay you for uploading files on their system. You can earn up to 20$ for every single download. You might be thinking, “Well, who would pay you for just uploading files?”. The answer is, Have you ever observed advertisements on file sharing sites like Mediafire or 4shared? They actually make money out of your files, and doesn’t give you a single penny of it. As per reports, a file sharing site makes an average of 1$ out of every single downloads. Even you can Earn online. If you want to provide your files for free than its OK but let me remind you, You gotta pay your Internet bills too. A famous proverb read as “Nothing comes for free.” You can earn from your uploads without Annoying the users, which is a WIN WIN situation. Most of th...