Some Useful Facebook Apps

Posted on September 28, 2011 by ShaikhRafia

With around 1800 apps on Facebook, it’s often difficult to select the best and the real (lots of duplicates) from this pool. Only for bookkeeping, there are almost 10apps with the same name and all of them try to reach over 46million users of Facebook claiming to be the best. After doing Best Facebook Games, we’re revisiting some more nice Facebook game play apps that we thought, might interest you. We encourage you to give us feedback and tell us about your favorite Facebook applications so that we could add them up in our posts too.

RockYou Games

Flash Facebook game apps from RockYou are a sure shot for the flash game lovers. RockYou flash games integrate with Facebook like no other game.

Bookshelf

There are many Facebook game apps to rate and review your book collection. Bookshelf isn’t an actual game app as the name suggests. But for bibliophiles sorting out book and rating, reviewing them is the ‘actual’ game so we thought to add one for book-lovers too. You can browse collections of your friends and those in your network. Bookshelf supports collection of books, games, music and DVDs. It also gives you pretty accurate suggestions based on your Facebook profile before even adding anything.

Food Fight

Food Fight is surely one silly Facebook Game app, but has attracted millions of users already. It’s a pretty simple game, You earn money daily and buy food from that money. But wait! You don’t have to eat it, but will toss at your friends! Sounds fun? Join Food Fight and party with hitting food.

Scrabulous

Ok logophiles, if you find laying out the board and setting up random letter tile distribution then Scrabulous is just for you. It’s not real time but actually real-time is not necessary as you Scrabble can be played one turn at a time.

Quizzes

With Quizzes, create quizzes about yourself and get to know what your friends know about you: your nicknames, favorite pets, your high school crush name and much more. Enjoy making quizzes and try your friends’ ones.

BandTracker

This one is very useful Facebook play app to let yourself up to date with all your favorite bands. You can track down over 200,00 different bands that when they’re coming to play in your area and what will they play. With BandTracker Facebook app you can also search out for some new music as it lets you see who your friends are tracking.

Do let us in the comments about the apps you think we have been missing in our Facebook App posts.

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Organize Appointments and To-Do Lists with a Stylish Desktop Calendar

Posted on September 12, 2011 by ShaikhRafia

If you’re looking for some Windows app that could let you organize your to-do lists, help you keep things manageable and schedule your routine than here is the solution. DesktopCal is a free calendar app for your Windows desktop. DesktopCal promises to help you manage appointments, to-do lists, schedules and much more.

DesktopCal is one overlaying calendar app that provides you with the facilities of organizing your files, folder according to the calendar dates. This app either uses your current wallpaper or takes multiple pictures from the specified folder and runs a slideshow for your wallpaper.

It is a pretty simple calendar app that blends into your desktop, is less obtrusive and very convenient to use as it doesn’t block the access to your desktop icons. DesktopCal takes half of your desktop space by default but you can change the size at any time according to your convenience and need. Apart from the size, you can adjust the size and months, week views to be displayed as personal ease and suitability.

Right click on the DesktopCal from the system tray to open the Desktop Calendar’s administrative options.

Whenever on a busy day you want to add a reminder note or schedule your routine, just double click on the date box and enter your text to add a to-do list. It quickly lets you jump into the future dates to add the reminders and to-do lists. DesktopCal is a rather flexible application as it doesn’t permanently stick to your desktop and be exited at any time and opened from the system tray again.

Right click on the floating button on top of the calendar to switch between dates, week, months and wallpapers.

In Administrative options, choose the Display tab to adjust transparency, background color of the calendar, rows for displaying weeks and months, etc.

Picture tab lets you add the pictures to be run in a loop as your desktop background. Capture from Desktop allows you to use the current wallpaper.

Manage to-do lists

Advanced tab gives you options for auto-start with Windows, language selection, etc.

The highlights of DesktopCal are Muliti-language support, quick double click access to adding reminders, and a rotating wallpaper for your desktop.

DesktopCal works on Windows Vista, 7 and XP. Have fun with the wallpapers while managing your schedule, setting appointments or adding to-do lists.

Snapshot source: DesktopCAL

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Top Five Applications for Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1

Posted on September 6, 2011 by Syed Hassan

Let us face it, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 is arguably the best Android tablet out there. Yes it has its fair share of drawbacks, but then again no device comes without a few or more than just a few shortcomings. Maybe that is a market policy, who are we to argue?

Whether it is the best or not is beyond the point at the moment as there have already been quite a few discussions regarding this all over the Internet. One thing is for sure though, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 brings better multitasking, better reading, better web browsing and music experience to the table. By the way, do not be mistaken: we say better so as to imply better than most, and not the best (Just a cautionary measure before you start to get the impression that we are here to start yet another tablet war).Since the Samsung Galaxy Tablet 10.1 is just such a darling of a tablet, let us share with you a list of five worthy Android Honeycomb applications to try on your Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. Here goes:

Opera Mobile 11

Since we have already established that the Samsung Galaxy Tablet 10.1 does a sweet job of bringing better quality of web browsing the table, Opera Mobile 11 has got to be the real deal in this regard. The Opera Mobile 11 is an alternative browser alright, but rest assured that you would easily prefer this over your standard web-browser. Being a fully-compatible Honeycomb version, Opera Mobile 11 delivers a satisfying web browsing experience on the move with better functionality and certainly better speeds.

Download it here

Quickoffice Pro HD

Although it comes with a hefty price tag of $16.99, Quickoffice Pro HD comes well equipped to justify its relatively high price (no violence featured). For those of you who love to create, access and share Word, Excel, and Powerpoint documents on the go, Quickoffice Pro HD is really a peach of an application to have.

Since Quickoffice Pro HD is a cloud-based Office suite you may feel free to hook up your Google Docs, Dropbox, Box, or MobileMe accounts to Quickoffice. To add a little bit more spice to the already scrumptious, speech recognition has also been added as part of key features of this very application. What this means is, if you aren’t comfortable with typing or who knows maybe you are stuck with some thankless favours like baby-sitting for example, and/or you don’t have a bluetooth keyboard, you may enjoy dictating blocks of text.

Download it here

Drawing Pad

When it comes to drawing applications for the Honeycomb devices, there are quite a few names in the market but none of them really impressed as much as the Drawing Pad. So what is so different about the Drawing Pad, that is the question. Well, this fancy drawing application dons a very adorable interface, unlike most. Selection of all sorts of drawing tools seems very life-like and really infuses a wonderful experience. Having said that, if the user wishes to paint using a brush a drawer opens that contains various colour-daubed brushes. Likewise, upon selecting colour pencils, a drawer full of colour pencils opens up before the user. All in all, the layout is pristine and undoubtedly, adds the element of fun and excitement to drawing.

Download it here

Electrum

Electrum is one Android application that can not go unnoticed by genuine music lovers. Being lightweight and very much affordable, Electrum manages to impress with a barrage of plug ins and satisfying music experience. Although the application is not designed for dedicated hardcore music fans; yet, it instills a true feeling of music and would suffice, nine out of ten times (on average), by providing the ability to build your own sample music set and then sequence it. It is worth mentioning here that a User Interface overhaul for the Honeycomb tablets has already been released.

Download it here

Angry Birds Rio

Angry Birds Rio requires no introduction really (Hopefully, that won’t anger the birds any more). It won’t be wrong to say that Angry Birds Rio is Citizen Kane of mobile gaming, which has now been ported to Honeycomb tablets. We are pleased to state that the Samsung Galaxy Tablet 10.1 handles the game, smoothly. In the main, Angry Birds delivers as beautiful an experience on the Samsung Galaxy Tablet 10.1 (Honeycomb) as it did on its predecessors.

Download it here

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IconCommands Lets You Play With Your Icons and Make the Screen Tapping for Friendly

Posted on August 19, 2011 by SalluHee

Remember the awesome LockGestures tweak that let you do stuff by just swapping over your lock screen of your iPhone, iPod or iPad? Well today’s game is somewhat the same, which is played by the new tweak IconCommands. This tweak brings you another side of playing with your screen and app’s icons.

The utility lets you define gestures from the settings, for 6 predefined tasks to which you can associate your gestures. The gestures here are not that complicated and just depend on how many times you tap your screen. The number of taps varies from 1 to 8, which lets you open an app, delete an app, hide an app, bring up the app’s info and much more.

It doesn’t matter which icon you are tapping on. It works on any tap with the predefined gestures. Altogether, the tweak works very well and fine, and if you find yourself frequently hiding and deleting apps, it could definitely save you some time. If you want to check out the tweak, you can get it from Insanelyi repo of Cydia for $1.99, and play Tap-Tap on your screen.

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Fool Your Friends By Updating Facebook Status Via iPhone 5 [How To]

Posted on July 18, 2011 by SalluHee

In between all these rumours about iPhone 5′s release date, and I am sure every one is still pretty much excited about when will it release and have their hands on it and finally put on a Facebook status telling the world that they finally got their hands on an iPhone 5. Well I am here to let that dream of yours come true right now you can put up a Facebook status from your iPhone 5. Don’t think I am being mistaken here, because I have a proof in the picture beneath as you can see it says ‘Via iPhone 5′.

Now you must be wondering howI got my hansd on an iPhone 5 and put up this status, or maybe you say that its some system error and its iPhone 4 in actual. Well, lets just stop thinking too much here and let me reveal the secret.

A very good Indonesian developer, for whom I should also use the word naughty, as he helped us in fooling around with our friend and made a Facebook Application with the help of which we can update our status and under our status comes a ‘Via iPhone 5′ to let us fool around. His name is Alfian Khoirul Bahroin and he made these kind of Apps not only for iPhone 5 but for many other devices. You can learn more about those by clicking on his name and getting redirected to his website.

So, coming back to helping you putting your status as ‘Via iPhone 5′ would be just a small tutorial.

Step 1: Go to Facebook Application ‘Via iPhone 5′ HERE.

Step 2: Press the allow button so that to grant access to App to post stuff on your wall, and in this case the status.

Step 3: After pressing ‘Allow’ in step 2, you will be directed to another page where you will see an empty box for your status as down here in the picture.

Step 4: Just write down the status that you will post with your iPhone 5 and click ‘Update Status’.

And that’s it. You have given shocks to several people around Facebook and now your inbox and wall will be full of questions as to HOW?

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Five Free Android Money Saving Apps

Posted on June 21, 2011 by SalluHee

Recently, I posted a list of some awesome iPhone Money Saving Apps that would help you save your finances from leaking out. However, we also have some Android lovers out there, so that’s why I should pile up a list for them too. There are several Android Apps that you can use to watch your accounts, track your income from Google Adsense, and save you money when there is something you need to buy.

So the list goes hereby:

Skype

This App was also there when I was talking about iPhone Apps, but I can’t help myself as this is one of a hell App which help you save on International Calls as well as free high quality calls to other Skype users, as well as instant messaging.

You can get your Skype HERE.

the app has identified the product, you can find local and online prices, reviews, specs. and more

Mileage

Another area where you would try to cut your cost down, is fuel usage, and this application is able to track your miles and gas usage history. So indirectly when you are aware of your usage of fuel, you will automatically try to control your expenses for transportation, and thus save some figures.

You can get your Mileage HERE.

Financisto

This App is the one that plays the main role in saving you some money. It allows you to add many different types of accounts (checking, credit, savings- and multiple ones of each kind) into the manager, schedule and monitor recurring payments, create a budget (short term, long term or even set up a “project” which would be great for vacations) and filter what types of information you want to view during normal viewing or when checking out one of the many reports available. Isn’t it awesome?

You can get your Financisto HERE

Google Shopper

This App comes out to be handy when you are in a mood for shopping. The awesome thing in this App is that it recognizes producets by photo, barcode scanning, and voice and text search, once the app has identified the product, you can find local and online prices, reviews, specs. and more. Now isn’t that wonderful?

You can get your GoogleShopper HERE

Currency Converter

I travel abroad once a year almost, and thus the Currency Converting is do hits me once in a while. If you are one of a person like me, this App is a must download for you. This App lets you know about latest rate as well as recent currency trends, which can help you in future trends estimation and make some money out of that, by keeping your money in a specific currency.

You can get your Currency Coverter HERE.

For the fun sake, I assume you already have saved much money to buy yourself one more awesome gadget. Well how about Motorola Xoom?

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Some Great Free iPhone Apps to Help Save Money

Posted on June 20, 2011 by SalluHee

Well, who wants to be categorized as one of those who waste money. Everyone wants to save money, as for me, I am always looking out for some crazy iPhone apps that can help me save money. So, I thought it would be a brilliant idea to pile up a list of the best iPhone Apps, and help you readers save some money too.

I have tried to cover different parts of life, where you might want to save money, and have suggested an iPhone App to help you in that area. And when we are talking about saving money, then why not start saving them with the FREE iPhone Apps that would help us save. So here is a list of those iPhone Apps which not only would help you save money, but even they themselves are FREE.

Well, let’s start saving some awesome money then:

- Communications

Skype:

This awesome App would never let you cost money if you get your friends on Skype and even is a great deal for International Callers as calls to landlines are really cheap as is international texting. So If you have international friends and family, this could save you a bundle, and it would be better to shorten it as that calls between Skype users are free, and peanuts to landlines or cell phones.

Get your Skype for Free.

- Groceries

Pushpins – Instant Grocery Savings:

Now you can easily check out the instant saving coupons available in the store and then they are automatically added to you shopper card and applied at the register. This would not only save you money by selecting the best deal, but also some time which you spend searching through the newspaper.

Get your Pushpins – Instant Grocery Savings for Free.

- Household Items

Scandit – Barcode Scanner & Comparison Shopper:

This App would help you get a hold on the best deal nearby for anything you think of. Whether its a Television, a Camera, a Book or any other usable item. You could again find App likes this alot out there, but this one is Free and of high rating.

Get your Scandit – Barcode Scanner & Comparison Shopper for Free.

Groupon:

Let me warn you first to not ignore this App by being down in the list, but this is actually the most-discussed savings App by far throughout the iPhone users. The idea of this App is to help you to find and purchase great deals in your area. It is a funny thing indeed getting the best deal would require you buy a coupon, but trust me, its worth it. This App would serve best for the people who live in largely populated cities.

Get your Groupon for Free.

- Applications

AppShopper:

So while we are talking about the best iPhone Apps to save you money, we would again consider getting the best deal of them Apps too. This App will help you grab the quality and discounted Apps. App Shopper is by far my favorite app in this category. Its really easy to use and the categories option in it is really handy, which help you search for exactly what you want. This would be a good deal for those users who are very fond of using different iPhone Apps

Get your AppShopper for Free .

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15 Free Apps For The iPad

Posted on June 6, 2011 by Shobz

It is a well known fact that Apps for the iPad are pricier than apps for the iPhone. It is easier to find more free apps for the iPhone than it is for the iPad. One can find free apps for the iPad but the quality leaves a lot to be desired. Fortunately there are still some good apps which are available for free for the iPad. We have combed the internet to search for some of the best iPad apps for you.

1. Dictionary for iPad

Dictionary is one of the best quality apps for the iPad. It is way better than the other Dictionary apps. It also provides offline access and allows for access to around 2 million words and 90,000 thesaurus entries. The fact that there is no need to go online to search for words is a huge bonus though you do need to go online if you want to find daily content, check the word trends, do a voice to text search and use the audio pronunciation feature.

2. Evernote (universal)

Evernote is a really efficient note taking app which has made waves for allowing users to save ideas in the form of documents, images and web clips. Evernote is a universal app and will work on both the iPad and iPhone. In my experience Evernote works better on the iPad as it looks better on the iPad’s big screen and makes it easy to take a look at all the saved material.

3. Kindle

The Kindle app is a great solution for all those people who do not have a Kindle Unit. It is termed as an alternative to Apple’s iBooks. The great thing about this app is that it gives you access to Amazon’s Kindle Store. The eBooks downloaded from the Kindle Store can also be read on the PC, Mac , iPhone,iPad and even your Kindle Reader. The only catch is that you have to be logged on with the same account you bought the books with. One more benefit of using the Amazon Kindle Store is that one can choose from a selection of over 950,000 books so you can’t go wrong with the Kindle.

4. Epicurious

I find the Epicurious app for the iPad to be really useful. There is something so great about this app that I drool each time I search for a recipe via this digital Cookbook App. It is like reading a large cook book which will be able to present any recipe you search for (or any recipe in its database). It gives you access to a large library of recipes and also helps you prepare a shopping list of recipes once you have decided. The iPad was truly made for drool worthy apps like these.

5. Twitterific

There are so many Third Party Twitter apps for the iPad so that it’s tough to make a choice. Earlier the best apps were Tweetdeck and Twitter’s Official app for the iPad. Those days are over as Twitterific is the best app I have seen so far. It has a beautiful simple interface which is total eye candy. It is very intuitive and allows for a pleasant tweeting experience. The only catch is that the free version has ads but then they are not pop up ads and tend not to be a distraction.

6. eBay for iPad

Everyone knows that eBay is the best place on the web to bid for and sell stuff. The eBay for iPad is beautifully designed so that the user does not need to use a browser to enjoy his/her eBay experience. The app is beautiful to look at and allows for fast loading. There aren’t many features available but eBay promises to implement more features in the future.

7. The Official Marvel Comics App

The iPad has proved itself to be a good e-book reader due to the sheer number of apps available for it. The Marvel Comics app is a great digital comic reader for the iPad. The resolution on the iPad is far superior to the iPhone. There are a few free titles available for the Marvel Comics app while the rest are available for a free. This is strictly for fans of Marvel Comics Characters.

8. Shazam

Shazam is the iPad version of the song identification service. There is no difference between the iPhone and iPad version except that the iPad version is free for a short period of time and that the resolution on the iPad is better. It is a good bargain for all those who don’t want to spend money buying the paid version of the app for unlimited tagging.

9. Flipboard

Flipboard is one of the most elegant apps for the iPad. it did so well that it was named as Apple’s App of the year. Its basic goal is to gain access to your social networking tools and turns them into magazines. All your tweets and updates are presented like they are in a print layout. It also does wonders with RSS feeds by presenting it in a magazine format. It is no wonder people have gone gaga over this app.

10. Google Earth

Google Earth is so popular that there is also an app available for the iPad. Even though it lacks the 3D effects of its PC compatriot it still does a great job on the iPad. It is quite handy looking at maps via Google Earth on an iPad than an iPhone any day.

11. Wikipanion for iPad

There is a reason why it’s great to have a dedicated app for certain websites instead of simply loading them via the browser. The Wikipanion for iPad is a great app which allows users to access Wikipedia on the iPad in a simple and efficient manner. The fact that there is a two pane landscape view which permits easy access to history and to save bookmarks makes it a winner. PS. You need to be online to gain access to Wikipedia.

12. Friendly for Facebook

Facebook has taken forever to create an iPad app. People tend to use their iPhone Facebook Apps on their iPad but then the fact that it is not a universal app which is optimized for the iPad leaves a lot to be desired. Fortunately for us Friendly for Facebook is here to fill the gap by making the iPad experience a joy. It may not be the official app but it is quite speedy and allows for multiple account support and customizable colors. The only catch is that it is ad supported as most free apps are. There is also a paid version of the app which does not have any ads.

13. Dropbox

Dropbox is termed as a service which lets you bring all your photos, docs, and videos anywhere. You can simply install Dropbox on any of your devices such as the PC, Mac or iPhone and share any of the files in the folders. The files are automatically synced and can be accessed from any other device with Dropbox. Dropbox accounts are free and come with 2 GB of storage space. If you want more storage space you need to pay up for it. the fact that you can easily move files from one place to another makes Dropbox an essential app.

14. Adobe Photoshop Express

Adobe Photoshop Express is a great app which allows users to go around doing simple stuff like With basic edits (crop, straighten, rotate, flip, levels and lighting adjustments), and applying a few effects. The great thing is that this app is free. It is really fast, does not crash and is very useful if you need to edit a picture on the fly.

15. WordPress

The WordPress app works well on both the iPhone and iPad. it is the official app from WordPress and is easier to use on the iPad. However the only limitation with this app is that it will let you compose text based posts and not work on any visual posts. On the bright side this is a handy tool which allows for editing existing content and managing comments.

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