It’s 7 pm and your neighbors are going to be over for dinner in another hour or so. You’ve finished up with the salad, appetizers and main course preparations and are merrily breezing through your chocolate cake recipe when the realization strikes you. Your kitchen has run out of cocoa powder and flour, and all of a sudden your dream dinner plans have been held hostage by a dessert crisis. It’s no secret that the life of a head chef is almost as disciplined and intense as that of an army…
When two sides of the same coin of technology, i.e. privacy and hacking collide, it’s a tough war that collectively sends negative ripples in the lives of users, corporations and government. Over the past few years, this privacy and data security issue has also started encompassing portable devices like smartphones and tablets. Keeping this under consideration, the Photo Locker Android app has been designed to cater to the concerns of people around the world who exchange gigantic volumes of…
On the lines of Endomondo and Runtastic Android applications, comes another app to help you run your way through a healthy heart and lifestyle on the whole. Designed by popular health apps developer Noom Inc., Cardio Trainer is an integrated cardio app for your Android device that ensures you live a longer life and develops a stronger heart through exercise and rigorous training. It comes with a module designed to provide you the best running experience and motivation to help you shed unwanted…
Say what you want about your fancy Android tablets, but it’s no replacement for a piece of paper and a pencil. But if you’re in some awful place without a pencil and paper nearby, then worry not! Because it is now possible (and extremely easy) to turn your Android tablet into a sketchboard. Today, I’m going to show you exactly how to do that using an app called ArtFlow. Step 1) Download ArtFlow here for free Step 2) When you start up the app for the first time, you’ll see a…
As a kid, comic books and strips were something we all looked forward to keeping track of with great joy and enthusiasm. Even today, some of us still love collecting the latest edition of comics as a hobby or casually glance across the morning newspaper cartoon section to amuse ourselves. For comic buffs and even casual readers, Garfield and Calvin are two of the most recognizable and celebrated icons that have brought regular doses of entertainment as comic strip characters in our lives.…
Movies have been the ultimate entertainment choice of the people and a fantasy vehicle of escape into dreamland for millions of movie lovers around the world. They are found everywhere today and give us a plethora of choices to dive into and enjoy. The movies at the theater don’t know what to play and as the ardent movie buffs that we are we come to loggerheads with our minds and analyse pros and cons of the movie on picture. So where do you go when in two minds with your mind battling it…
With a massive surge in global population and technological evolution, the rise in demand for energy resources has multiplied by several folds. The invention of automobiles was one of the landmark moments in society that helped in facilitating its transition to the fast-paced, ‘blink and you miss it’ lifestyle we see today. Hence, a consequent increase in demand for energy primarily in the area of fuel consumption and electricity generation was inevitable. The energy revolution has kicked…
Some Android apps are useful. Other Android apps are funny. And then there are some Android apps that just shouldn’t exist at all. TechHive.com recently wrote an article featuring over a dozen Android and iOS apps that “don’t need to exist.” Here are some of the highlights: 5) An app that finds users in a park in San Francisco When you think of a hipster American city, you think of San Francisco. Or maybe Portland, which is just a little ways up the coast and seems to have taken in…
I know mobile technology is here to stay. You know mobile technology is here to stay. And now, it looks like Kim Jong-un knows it too. That’s right, Kim Jung-un, leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, has embraced the mobile revolution. North Korea has developed three Android tablets over the past few years, but few Westerners have ever actually seen the tablets – which are almost certainly manufactured outside of the impoverished hermit kingdom. Finally, one western…
I’ve written about Chromecast a few times over the past week. It’s a cool Google-created Dongle that turns your dumb TV into a Chrome OS-powered Smart TV. But what if you don’t want a smart TV? What if you don’t want to tweet over your TV or pay for a Netflix subscription? Well, Chromecast is useful for a number of different reasons. Here are some reasons to buy Chromecast that you might not have considered: 5) Use it for traveling Unless you stay in some fancy hotels, you’re…
