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Top 7 Android apps for office life

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Top 7 Android apps for office life

Apps are rapidly revolutionizing the way we go about our day-to-day lives. App stores are brimming with a range of office-friendly apps, so we’ve scrutinized the Google Play store and compiled a list of the top 7 Android apps that will transform office life. Here they are…

Office Suite Pro 7
A must-have app for everyone, Office Suite Pro 7 works in-line with Microsoft Office. Featuring all of the key features of the PC version of Microsoft Office, this app enables you to view, edit and create Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel documents. You can store the documents to your device or simply send them on to others. Overall, this app is great for anyone who works out of office.

CamScanner
CamScanner transforms your smartphone’s camera into a scanner. Use the app to take photographs of important documents and the app will optimise them, making the documents clearer and more readable. You can then share the scans with others via email, making this the perfect app for anyone working on-the-move who needs to send important documents back to HQ.

SwiftKey
Everyone has experienced the soul-crushing moment of spending an eternity typing out a lengthy email, only to accidentally delete it and have to start again. Install SwiftKey and make this a thing of the past. The clever keyboard remembers the words you type, so if you start a sentence with the same word, the keyboard will finish the sentence for you in the same way as before – you’ll never lose important work again!

RemoteView
RemoteView is the perfect app for anyone working at home or while traveling. Simply install the RemoteView agent on your office computer and the RemoteView app on your smartphone or tablet. This clever app will then give you access to all of your files and programs on your office computer, from the convenience of your portable device.

Dictadroid
Dictadroid transforms your tablet or smartphone into a professional quality Dictaphone. Forget trying to scrawl down notes and minutes – use the app when in meetings to create recordings of everything discussed. If someone misses a meeting, you can share the recordings with others through emails, making it an essential app for any office.

Dropbox
Install the Dropbox app and never forget another important document again. Save your documents, photos and videos to the Dropbox and easily access them on your other devices like a tablet or mobile. Your document will even be securely stored on the Dropbox website, so if you do lose a gadget, all is not lost.

Schedule Planner
Organise your time with the Schedule Planner app; an absolute must for office life. This great app allows you to input all of your scheduled meetings, tasks and events, and it creates a handy timetable that will give structure to your day too. Set alarms and reminders to help you meet deadlines and check off each task on completion. The app also produces charts to illustrate what you planned to do against what you actually completed, monitoring your productivity.

All of these apps are certainly very useful tools in aiding and simplifying office life.

4 Awesome Mobile Phone Fun Facts

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4 Awesome Mobile Phone Fun Facts

Cell phones have been with us long enough now that they’ve started to seep into the popular mindset. As a result, a lot of weird things are popping up when it comes to mobile phones. These phones have a history now, one that continues to be written. It’s one that might surprise you.

The First Smartphone
The first smartphone is credited to a phone that showed up in 1993 at Florida’s Wireless World Conference. The phone was over a pound in weight! It was kind of a combination of a phone and a PDA, and it had one of the first LCD touchscreen displays ever. This was a big deal at the time, since it was a phone that combined a lot of different devices that were still being used. For example, the phone was advertised as being a wireless machine, a page, an “electronic mail device”, a calendar, an address book, a calculator and even a sketch pad. It cost around 900 dollars. If people tried imagining how many different devices their smartphone could be split up into these days, they might never stop talking.

20 Feet of Radiation
The electromagnetic radiation from a cellphone travels up to 20 feet around the phone. This will affect anyone within the radius. Most scientists say this won’t affect anything, but it is contested a bit in the Scientific community. So when you’re walking around during your day, just imagine a 20 foot bubble around everyone who has a phone!

Totally Free Phones
Some phones are actually 100 percent free. It’s something called the LifeLine program, and it’s designed to help poor people stay connected. It targets families that make 150% of the Federal Poverty Guidelines or less. So this means that anyone who’s on food stamps or other programs from the government will likely qualify for one of these free phones and service. Many of the programs, depending on the area, will also let you buy more than the allotted free minutes per month at a much reduced rate. And even more than that, some of them even have very reduced rates on Internet access as well.

911 “Butt-Dialing” is a Serious Problem
This has probably happened to you or someone you know before. You’ll suddenly receive a phone call from a friend, but when you pick up your phone, you don’t hear anything on the other side no matter how many times you ask. Or, you might hear them very faintly talking, or running, or making some other noise. Upon repeated inquiries, you might get a sheepish friend on the line who put their phone in their pocket, and then through a lot of moving around, had pushed buttons with a non-finger part of their anatomy by accident which resulted in you being called. This is funny for most people, but the National Emergency Number Association has reported that it can be a serious problem. They apparently get as many as 70% of their calls as being “phantom wireless calls” in some areas. Part of the reason for this is that the 911 sequence won’t lock on most phones due to its emergency nature.

5 Popular Online Games To Kill Your Boredom

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5 Popular Online Games To Kill Your Boredom

Almost everyone on earth these days have a smart phone or tablet or at least a PC on which they play games to kill their boredom or simply pass the time when they have nothing else to do. Playing games, either online or offline are by far the best methods to entertain yourself without having to depend on others.

A few years back, gaming lovers were required to download huge games and install them on their PC, which required a great bit of disk space and RAM. Most of the people were required to spend money and upgrade their PC to be able to play these games on their PC. Now the scenario has changed, the phenomenon of Online Games has completely changed the way people used to play games on their PC or Smartphone.

People can now play their favorite games without having to install anything on their PC. All they need is a web browser and an internet connection to play online games.

There are millions of games available online on thousands of websites. This huge variety ensures that you never get bored of online games. As, soon as you feel bored of one game, you would just start playing another game. In this article, we are listing five of the most popular games of recent time that you can play right now online and have some ultimate fun.

Angry Birds Star Wars:
Angry Birds is not only available for Smartphone or tablets, you can play it online as well. This Angry Birds Star Wars is a sequel to Angry Birds, which became immensely popular on the internet. This game will give you a completely different experience while playing, as the characters will appear based on star wars characters.

The Felix Jump:
This exciting game requires the player to jump down in order to avoid being hit by the objects. While jumping down, the player collects white points and balloons that increase their points. The game developers have launched quite a few updates of this game as well recently.

Save Harry:
In this popular game, the player is required to save the prince from a Las Vegas Hotel. The main goal is to prevent you from being seen on numerous cameras installed in the hotel. There are multiple levels to play on and the player is required to collect various items on his way to the prince as well.

Free Rider 3:
In this exciting game, the player is supposed to continue riding and avoid getting falling down. Falling down means you lost your chance. Choosing the track and moving right left is the key to play this game successfully.

Snail Bob 3:
This is quite a simple Puzzle Game that is popular because of its exciting and challenging nature. The task in this game is to guide the snail to reach the destination and complete each level one by one. In addition, the player is supposed to collect quite a few times along his journey.

There are various other games as well that are equally liked by millions of people around the world, but these 5 are on the top of the list according to various surveys taken up in the last couple of years. So whenever you are feeling down, open up your PC and start playing these online games.

6 Terribly Obvious Reasons Why Apple Mac Sales Are Suffering Big Time

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6 Terribly Obvious Reasons Why Apple Mac Sales Are Suffering Big Time

Apple has enjoyed a good run so far, but they are definitely experiencing some problems and it doesn’t look like it’s about to stop any time soon. Sales of their Macs are beginning to crumble and they are quite rightfully worried. We’re going to take a look at some of the reasons why this might be the case and you can decide for yourself whether or not they are likely to pick back up.

The iPad is too similar
Part of the problem is the success Apple is having with their iPads. Not only have they completely destroyed the rest of the tablet market, but they are also having a serious impact on the amount of Mac Books Apple are selling. This is because the high-end iPad is very similar to their laptops and most people don’t feel they need to spend money on both because it’s not worth it.

The new Mac Pro will be expensive
Have you seen the specs yet for the latest Mac Pro they are releasing? There are some powerful components running under the hood and it’s going to please a lot of people, but the question is whether or not it will please everyone. The reason is because it’s obviously going to cost a lot of money and some people might decide they don’t want to spend that much when they don’t need to.

They are focused on mobile
The mobile market is going to take over the world whether we like it or not. Apple knows that is where the money is, so they are putting most of their resources towards this. Mobile and tablet sales are going to keep increasing and they need to make sure they don’t miss out. Anyone with a website can see that more people than ever are viewing their site from a mobile device.

We want different things
Do you remember how much we loved laptops a few years ago? We still love them, but maybe not as much as iPads and iPhones. Apple shot themselves in the foot by giving people something so different, yet so amazing. Our tastes have changed and it’s going to be hard to convince people they still want a laptop, especially if they just use it to consume information.

Costly to produce
Macs are getting more and more expensive to produce. You maybe get upset when the price of gas goes up, but I bet Apple gets equally upset when the cost of components increases. It means they make less money per sale and you can’t just expect them to increase their prices because the customers won’t go for it. It doesn’t help that competitors are happy to make smaller margins to compete.

The Easiest Way To Speed Up A Computer

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The Easiest Way To Speed Up A Computer

There’s a really easy way to speed up a computer. It applies to almost any computer, even laptops, but it does cost a bit of money. (But not too much.) What is it? More RAM.

More Memory Speeds Up Computers
Computer memory, also called Random Access Memory (RAM), is where every active program on your computer wants to store its data. That’s because RAM is more than 100 times faster than a traditional magnetic hard drive, so when a program needs to send information to your computer processor to perform some action, the action gets done much quicker if the information started out in RAM.

My first computer only had 512 kilobytes of RAM and, to be honest, that seemed quite sufficient. But today’s computers typically start with 2 gigabytes of RAM—that’s about 4,000 times as much RAM as my first computer 25 years ago.

Are computers 4,000 times as fast today as they were 25 years ago? No. Back then, some programs ran slow; today, some programs still run slow. What’s changed is what we expect our computers to do. My first computer only displayed text; today, computers routinely display incredible graphical effects. They also processes enormous amounts of data relatively quickly and multitask incredibly well. All of these are possible because newer programs (such as Windows) were written to take advantage of the increase in RAM in the typical computer.

Why You Need More Than The Minimum RAM
Each version of Windows comes with a minimum RAM requirement. For example, I believe Windows 8 requires a minimum of 2 gigabytes of RAM for desktops. (There are different requirements for Windows 8 Mobile on tablets.)

That’s the amount of RAM Windows itself requires, but if Windows uses most of your RAM, you won’t have much memory leftover for other programs. I’ve long adhered to the recommendation that you should always have twice the RAM in your computer as required by the operating system.

But even more RAM is better because, as a percentage, less and less is dedicated to Windows, so programs get more headroom.

Since some programs, such as image and video manipulation programs, need a lot of headroom, they typically use your hard drive as spare RAM—a process known on Windows as paging. (On Linux and Mac OSX, it’s often called swapping.)

Since your hard drive is several orders of magnitude slower than RAM, programs slow down significantly when they start paging. The more memory you have, the less paging your computer needs to do.

How Much Memory Do You Need?
There’s an easy way to figure out your specific memory needs. Think about the time when your computer ran the slowest; what programs were you running and what tasks were you performing? Try to replicate that experience and then open the task manager by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Delete. Go to the Processes tab and see how many megabytes or gigabytes of paging (“Paged Pool”) your computer is using. If you had that much extra RAM, you would significantly speed up your computer.

Awesomenauts- A 2D Multiplayer Online Battle Game

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Awesomenauts- A 2D Multiplayer Online Battle Game

Awesomenauts is an online battle arena video game and played by many players at the same time. The game was developed by Ronimo Games and it was made public on May 2012 for Xbox and PlayStation while for PC it was released on 1st August 2012.

Nauts(Characters) in Awesomenauts
A player before started playing game gets several Nauts or characters in this game to choose from. Each of character possesses their common attack and two particular moves. Players of one team cannot select the same character twice; however, the same character can be selected by players of different teams. This game also offers costumes for the character which a player can get as game rewards or download it. Before started playing game, each team should have 3 players and if the slots of team are not filled with all the players then computer controlled players can be used. These computer-controlled users can be replaced by the players once they log in.

Gameplay in Awesomenauts
Awesomenauts offer split screen gameplay mode for 3 local players and a common map is available for all the three players. In this map players can see the distinctive layout of the levels of Awesomenauts as well as blue and red bases at opposing sides of map and three turrets on every side. However Awesomenauts is a multiplayer online battle video game but its gameplay components comes from fighting games and 2D platform.

In the battle match between teams of 3 players, the main aim is to destroy the Solar collector of opposing team and at the same time defends their Solar from the attack of that opposing team. In order to destroy the collector of opposing team, it is necessary to destroy all of their automated turrets. Each team gets the cooperation of droids which are regularly built automatically. However these are not much strong enough but they can be used to attack droids, players, collectors or turrets of enemy team by permitting the players to focus on their target. The winner of the match is one who first destroys the collector of opposing team.

In this battle match players are pitted into the arena and have aim to collect Solar that comes in their way. The Solar can be collected by killing the droids, players of enemy team and by destroying the turrets. If an individual player kills the enemy team’s player then he will get a big reward and experience. Also depending on the number of collected Solar, a team earns health points and goes level up.

Two Special Features of Awesomenauts
Awesomenauts offer two special features to their players. One is, players can get experience after each match that depends upon some factors like kill/death ratio, lost or won matches and other factors. In every experienced level, a player is allowed to get new arena Nauts together with perks which he selects for the character. Second one is, ranked servers are used to play most of the matches through which the performance of a player can be tracked. A league number is assigned to each of the player which is then used by matchmaking to make the matches online.

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