cool consejos n trucos relacionados a smartphones, tabletas y equipo

Fresco a la Google Play Store and iOS App Store, Masatu is an innovative and fun-filled social photo-sharing app based on the concept of sharing location-based time capsules. A time capsule created via Masatu can be filled with photos as well as personal messages, and shared publicly, privately or just with selected friends. You can create multiple time capsules, and the content modification privileges of each individual one can be altered to allow or disallow anyone to add their own personal messages or photos to it. In either case, all the content within a capsule can be opened by the selected audience only at the time specified by the creator. Once a time capsule is unlocked, usuarios can view the hidden content in a simple list, or enjoy shared moments through an interactive augmented reality view, provided they are present at the location of sharing at that very instance.

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What makes Android different from many of its competitors is the degree of customization it offers its usuarios, which goes to the extent of even letting usuarios choose what is essentially the primary user interface of any operating system – the home pantalla Launcher! Con Android, you can choose from a plethora of available launchers offering a diverse user experience range, and it’s just as simple as installing the launcher like any other app. In what follows, we will take you on a feature tour of some of the best Android launchers available, to help you choose the one that’s right for you.

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Looking to bring some much-needed flair and functionality to your Android dispositivo’s lockscreen? Try pantalla junkE – a multifunctional, slider-based custom Android lockscreen replacement app. Through a well-crafted & sleek UI, pantalla junkE keeps you apprised of the total number of notifications for unattended text messages and email, and missed calls. Además, it lets you directly unlock to your caller, messaging or mailing app right from the lockscreen. Para ello, all you need to do is move the slider to the icon of any one of the supported categories, and you’re ready to check your missed calls, mensajes de texto, and emails. Sin embargo, the slider constitutes just a small portion of the entire lockscreen. Above the slider, you’re presented with the slideshow of the image thumbnails fetched from some of the latest news feeds of the hour pertaining to various news categories or topics. Tap the thumbnail, and you’re ready to explore the news details, or bookmark it to read it later.

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If virtual DJs aren’t your thing, you might be pleased to hear that the iRig Mix mobile música mixer is now shipping. You can forgo hefty price tags and still mix your own tunes for $99.99 with up to two iDevices at a time, audio from guitars, MP3 players, CD players and the like. In addition to physical controls for volume, gain, treble and bass, the mixer is accompanied by a roster of free Apps to help with production, performing and recording. Para Android fans wondering where their own version of these Apps son, IK Multimedia thinks the Android audio engine has too much latency (check the comments section) to handle its real-time processing, but consoles you with the fact that the hardware is compatible with most devices. Hit the jump for the press release. Wiki wiki, y’all.

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Clickfree is a trusted data backup/restore solution provider for Windows and Mac devices. Not only is the company known for its user-friendly applications, but also features several rugged, plug-and-play USB drives that come with the capability of automatically backing up their entire data or just specified content stored on your computer’s hard drive. In an attempt to target the fast-flourishing mobile market, the company has decided to provide Android usuarios with a nifty local and online data backup solution in the form of Clickfree Backup. This neatly-built app presents you with arguably one of the best methods to instantly backup your crucial Android data – photos, música, vídeos, documentos, Apps, marcadores, contacts and calendar events – to your dispositivode almacenamiento local (SD card), as well as Dropbox. Además, the app sports a built-in content viewer that lets you natively preview photos, música, documentos, bookmarks and videos from your backup instances. That’s no todos; it also lets you reinstall your favorite Apps sobre su Android dispositivo right from within the local backup, or from the cloud. Detalles a seguir.

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It’s likely overkill for those interested only in some basic tablet modding, but the folks from Liquidware (no strangers to the DIY scene) have a new bit of kit that should please those looking to take on a more ambitious project. Dubbed simply Amber, the kit is described as “80 percent of the way to a tablet” — you’ll get a 1GHz ARM Cortex-A9 processor, a 7-inch capacitive display and a customized version of Android 2.3, but no pesky casing to get in the way of any other additions you see fit to add. That convenience comes at a bit of a cost, Aunque. The Amber will set you back anywhere from $983 Para $1,674 depending on the kit you choose. Head on past the break for a quick look at it on video.

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If you look at all the different ways people can modify their Android software and all the various kinds of hardware and operating systems, do you know how many different platforms you’ll find? Apparently, there are nearly 4,000 “distinct” Android devices in the wild right now. You read that right – four thousand. You think iOS has that many?

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There are many manufacturer-created user interfaces for Android, and sadly, most of them are unpleasant.

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This is Part One of a two-part series on Disassembling Android. 

Android conquered the world in 2011. Hundreds of thousands of usuarios activate Google’s mobile operating system every day, a growth rate unprecedented in any era of computing. This extraordinary strength has carried into 2012, pero Android is not the brazen warrior it was a year ago, and its vulnerabilities are starting to show. Is the world’s leading smartphone platform ripe for disruption?

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Android smartphone and tablet browsers sometimes load mobile versions of Web sites. On native Android navegadores, you can try the about:debug trick to change the user agent to force desktop sites to load. You can also use an alternative browser, like Dolphin Browser HD, which lets you easily change the user agent in its settings.

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