Cool tips n tricks related to smartphones, tablets and computer

You’ve all probably heard about Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia for readers by readers. Seriously, who hasn’t? If you often find yourself on the website, looking through its massive database of articles, you should know you can do the same on the go with WikiView for iPad. It incorporates most Wikipedia features and even provides additional features like saving an article for offline reading, removing those pesky references at the bottom of the page, searching articles by location via a world map and much more.

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Looking to bring some much-needed flair and functionality to your android device’s lockscreen? Try screen junkE – a multifunctional, slider-based custom android lockscreen replacement app. Through a well-crafted & sleek UI, screen junkE keeps you apprised of the total number of notifications for unattended text messages and email, and missed calls. In addition, it lets you directly unlock to your caller, messaging or mailing app right from the lockscreen. For this, 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, text messages, and emails. However, 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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It’s a strange day when some of the biggest news about the latest release of an application is a feature’s removal, but this is the case with the latest version of FeedDemon. Some months ago, google announced plans to make changes to its Reader service and this has ultimately led to FeedDemon removing the sharing features that relied on this particular service, but google+ mostly been picks up the slack. The most recent version of FeedDemon also has a number of other changes and additions that are worth mentioning.

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An iOS app that handles PDF files might not sound like something too exciting, but PDF Reader Pro has so much more to offer. The app lets you view PDF files on your iphone or iPad, but that’s not all it does. It rises above the crowd owing to the staggeringly large number of additional features it has on offer and is undoubtedly one of the best if its kind out there. PDF Reader can handle images, videos, HTML, iWorks files, common document formats and, of course, PDFs. Most of the formats compatible with the app can be converted to PDF with a single tap, regardless of the file’s size. In addition to all this, PDF Reader Pro comes with some amazing sharing options, and you can get files in and out of the app over WiFi, via email, iCloud or just about any other cloud service you can possibly think of. The app’s reader is sleek, and comes with a lot of options to improve your reading experience.

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An iOS app that handles PDF files might not sound like something too exciting, but PDF Reader Pro has so much more to offer. The app lets you view PDF files on your iphone or iPad, but that’s not all it does. It rises above the crowd owing to the staggeringly large number of additional features it has on offer and is undoubtedly one of the best if its kind out there. PDF Reader can handle images, videos, HTML, iWorks files, common document formats and, of course, PDFs. Most of the formats compatible with the app can be converted to PDF with a single tap, regardless of the file’s size. In addition to all this, PDF Reader Pro comes with some amazing sharing options, and you can get files in and out of the app over WiFi, via email, iCloud or just about any other cloud service you can possibly think of. The app’s reader is sleek, and comes with a lot of options to improve your reading experience.

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Reading a publication on an electronic device rather than a paper book has been termed both better and worse by different groups of book lovers. Paper book readers argue that reading a book using an electronic device, such as Amazon’s Kindle or Barnes & Noble’s Nook, does not ‘feel’ as right as reading a paper book. Whereas, a very strong argument against paper books is their effect on the environment, as massive amounts of trees are needed to produce that amount of paper. Nevertheless, the fact remains that eBook software they do not reproduce content exactly as intended by the author. Blio is an eBook reader that lets you read the books just as their authors formatted and designed them. Other than reading books, the application allows you to manage your eBook library, bookmark favorite books, look up the meaning of words and phrases within books on the internet, highlight selected content, add notes and more. You can also use the built-in text-to-speech feature to let the application read books aloud. More on Blio after the break.

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Adobe Reader is undoubtedly one of the best PDF file viewers out there (Adobe is the company behind the format, after all), but the problem with Adobe PDF Reader is that it is not a lightweight application. Low -end PCs often take a lot of time while rendering PDF documents within Adobe Reader, and therefore, most people like to use third-party applications for reading PDF documents. We at AddictiveTips love previously reviewed Sumatra PDF Viewer, a lightweight PDF reader for windows. However, unlike Adobe Reader, SumatraPDF and other lightweight PDF viewers do not provide users with PDF document preview in windows Explorer. PDF Preview is an application for windows 7 that lets you preview PDF files within windows Explorer without changing your default PDF viewer. It also installs an additional PDF Viewer to read PDF documents, but it doesn’t require you to change PDF file associations to get the preview. More on PDF Preview after the jump.

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Owing to its importance for a large number people, google Reader has got a variety of clients on almost all major platforms. As iOS has the most apps in its App Store, compared to all other smartphone platforms, it makes sense that it has got a respectable amount of google Reader clients as well. Mostly a service’s client is considered good if it provides all the features present in the original offering. There are many iphone apps that do that pretty comprehensively, but the newly released Newsify goes a step further, and brings a whole new interface to google Reader on your iphone. This elegant app displays all the items in your Reader account as part of a personalized newspaper. Apart from that, you can manage all other aspects of your feeds with complete ease and convenience.

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With so many Web sites to follow, I find myself relying on my google Reader regularly. Unfortunately, I also find that many RSS snippets will cut off right when I’m about to get to the good stuff. This is generally because the sites want you to click on their links. I understand the reasoning behind it (and am guilty of it myself), but this sometimes leaves me with 10 open tabs to read, making me wander and lose focus on 10 different Web sites.

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Won’t it be great if you could read full-text feeds within google reader, without having to open all those extra tabs? google Reader is a popular RSS and Atom feed reader that displays partial content for certain feeds. In order to view full-content, you have to right-click the links and open them in new tabs. This process can not only be time consuming, but also causes the tab bar to get cluttered after a while. google Reader Inline is a chrome extension that makes things easier by converting truncated feeds into full ones automatically. It loads full-form articles within the google Reader frame, so you no longer have to open new tabs to view full content. Moreover, you can even view the original article in a neat page that is overlaid the current one. You can then click anywhere outside the page to go back to your feeds.

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