Making the Best out of Your Windows Phone: Apps

Making the Best out of Your Windows Phone: APPS

Microsoft brought in its windows series a quite long back before we all came to know about it. But it caught the eye only with the Windows Phone 7.5( known as Mango). Windows Phone 8 came with a new breath of life fixing some major issues n the windows phone such as the Bluetooth and gave a lot of customization. Along with that there is a ever growing app market. In recent times the App store n the windows phone has been flowing in with a ot of new and official apps. But it still needs a lot more to come. Till then here are some good apps different from the regular and essential ones to make best out of your Windows phone.

1. Weather Flow

By far the greatest weather app for your windows phone. It provides exciting settings for your live tiles and also your lock screen with some amazing weather wallpapers for your lockscreen. You may have to shell out 110 bucks from your pocket to get it but it is also available for a 3 day free trial. You can also keep an eye on the deals to grab it for half the price.

link: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-in/store/app/weather-flow/ae13c46a-eed5-4c1a-8873-160c1635bbfa

2. WPCentral

Windows Phone Central is a informative website about your windows phone. The application provides similar functions by keeping you updated about any news from the Windows phone community to all of the latest apps and games in the market. you can also sign in to your Mobile Nations account to comment on posts and forums. The application is available for free. But you can also get a paid version where there are some added functionality such as the live tile.

link: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-in/store/app/wpcentral/e6c3c78a-4382-e011-986b-78e7d1fa76f8

3. TV show

Tv show is one of the essential apps for all those out there who do not want to miss on their favourite TV show and series. The app provides you the information, season by season episode guide and also updates for the upcoming episodes . The app also has paid version where you can get a lockscreen functionality that updates and shows the episodes to be telecaston your lockscreen.

link: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-in/store/app/tvshow/b5bef1ca-d649-e011-854c-00237de2db9e

4. Connectivity Shortcuts

Connectivity shortcuts is used for placing useful settings shortcuts on your start screen. This helps in getting rid of the long way where you go to settings and find individual settings. It provides you with shortcuts like Buetooth, Wi-Fi, Data Connection , airplane mode and location. You can alo customize the metro tile for individual setting.

link: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-in/store/app/connectivityshortcuts/430cf007-731f-4357-af7b-b897bff25a2c

5. Bing News 

Are you a habitual news reader but couldn't afford to turn the pages of your morning news paper in the rush to work. The bing news app provides you with news and with live tile that updates itself with latest news . you can get news from various sources.

link: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-in/store/app/bing-news/9c3e8cad-6702-4842-8f61-b8b33cc9caf1

6. Battery Sense

The major problem in all of the smartphones today is the battery drain. You just cannot get enough battery life out of them. for this reason you need a good app to monitor your battery life constantly. Battery sense provides you with a lot of stats such as the average battery life, average battery consumption rate etc. You can also pin the app to your start screen to get view about your current battery percentage. Alerts are also present that tell you when there is a quick battery drain.

link: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-in/store/app/battery-sense/d4818006-d50c-4cdd-aef2-b5c9290d6fd3

7. myAppFree

myAppFree is all you need if you are thinking a paid app for free. myAppFree provides you with a paid app free for one day the app gets updated everyday so you can get a lot of paid apps for free. This is must have app for all of the windows phone users.

link: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-in/store/app/myappfree/74afd67c-9710-4ed5-8b83-c06fa6402410

8. Wikipedia

This is not the official Wikipedia app for windows phone rather its unofficial made but a cool one to get. It provides the regular search option along with features to pin your favorite articles to the start screen. it has a beautiful UI .

link: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-in/store/app/wikipedia/fd40c569-2681-48df-9ff3-53ffd80aa9b5

9. SysAPPpusher

This app is useful for getting updates of official apps for Nokia Samsung and HTC,

link: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-in/store/app/sysapp-pusher/19d44d9e-f18e-4df1-9bce-36335242ed2e

10. Photosynth

Photosynth a cool app by Microsoft to create 360 degree images from Your windows phone. This app also lets you to share the image to your friends by email and you may also publish the image for public view in the photosynth site.

link: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-in/store/app/photosynth/ef860a79-5f68-4ed6-aa21-c038d1a55517

ios7 On YOUR Android Device

ios 7 On Your Android Device

With the recent launch of IOS 7 Operating System, Apple has created a huge buzz over domination of providing the most user friendly, graphically astonishing and highly creative softwares. The IOS 7 is being adopted by the users of Apple at a even more higher pace than the ios 6 which tells us its success story. Haters are gonna hate, But for those of you who like the Apple's new ios 7 but couldnt enjoy its beauty because of the few lesser bucks in your pocket , here is a cool new way to get ios 7 style theme on your Android Device. These are a few apps and there plugins that can be used together to create an ios 7 style feel.And beleive me its worth a look.

1. Espier Launcher IOS7 

play store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mobi.espier.launcher7

This is one of the coolest launchers you can have for ios7 style home screen and menu on your Android Device. It provides various setings such as changing the layout and the number of icon rows you want to have on your screen. The distinguishing feature of this launcher is that it customizes the icon very beautifully with a round edge. Other launchers providing the ios7 theme were unable to provide such fine finishing.

2. Espier Notification

play store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mobi.espier.launcher.plugin.notifications

Espier Notification provides notification for your Android device in ios style. You can chose from apps that can show the notification. Moreover you can also chose th style of notificaton that you want to have such as like an alert, banner or simple notification. You can also chose the applications to show notifications under the lockscreen.

3. Espier Screen Locker IOS7

play store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mobi.espier.launcher.plugin.screenlocker7

Espier Screen Locker provides the ios7 lock screen along with notifications. You can also set up a password for your lock screen.

4. Easy Controller- Control Center

play store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.shere.easycontroller

One of the most outstanding and easy to use feature of he ios7 design is their Control Cener which gives easy control to features like data connectivity, wi-fi, brightness etc. The easy controller provides these functionalities in your Android device with the same native design as in the ios7. You can access the control center from any app by swiping up from the bottom of the screen

                           

How to create your own bootable USB for Windows in simple steps

How to Create Your Own Bootable USB For Windows

The data in our systms often become crampled and stuffed and there is no need of it . Or maybe the case with you is that the system is working too slow because you had no anti virus protection on and now the Virus own your system. In that case you would obviously like to get your system cleaned once for good. But dont trust those idiotic cleaner programs. They dont do shit. But getting a system formatted is not easy cup of tea for most of us. So here is how you make a bootable USB drive with WINDOWS Operating System. Creating a Bootable USB drive is easy and the speed of installation is also higher. Just follow these easy steps.

Step 1: Download POWERISO 

You can either download from the given link or search in google

http://www.mediafire.com/download/hnbf5p7dvb4xvlo/PowerISO5.exe

Step 2: Install PowerISO

Install the PowerISO software

Step 3: Attach USB drive

Attach a USB drive that has size more than the image file of the Operating System 

Step 4: Quick format the USB drive

Quick format your USB drive in NTFS format

Step 5: Open the POWER ISO software with Admin rights

Open your Power ISO software By right clicking and Run as Administrator. Continue Unregistered.

Step 6: Create Bootable USB

Under the TOOLS tab select create bootable USB drive. Select the image of the Windows Image you have . If you do not have a image file for Windows Operating System download from given links

Windows 7: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-in/windows/answers?tId=7d964b05-2be9-4800-bc7f-3ca30356fc3d

Windows 8: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-in/windows/answers?tId=eac28620-204e-498d-ae6a-ce5c28300591

Step 7: Select the Image file and USB  drive

You may select the source image file from the location where you have downloaded the image file for Windows. If the USB drive is not already selected select your desired USB drive and click start. This will take 20-25 Minutes depending on the size of the image file. 

Step 8: Complete 

after completion you may remove your USB drive and use it as a Bootable USB drive for installing Windows.