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CloudMagic, Best Mail client for iOS and Android

iOS and Android has lot of mail apps in which some provide Good UI but lack in performance, some are good w.r.t it's feature but lack UI and some doesn't even suit to be called as Mail Clients. I am sure that you believe in what I just said.

A friend of mine mentioned about CloudMagic Mail app some time during the end of October 2013 and I said, "Dude, all Mail clients are one and the same. It's better if I just stick with Gmail app"(Since I use only Gmails) After sometime, I thought let me give a try and headed to Play Store and searched for "CloudMagic". In the search results, first app which play store displayed was "CloudMagic - Free Mail App". Went ahead and installed it. After installation, it asked for login/Sign-Up. Since I already had an account which was previously associated with CloudMagic Search app, I just entered my credentials and logged in.

Wow!!! This was the first word which I said just by looking at the UI interface. As I started to look at all the features and facilities provided within the app, I was just saying 3 words. Wow!!! Awesome!!! and Beauty!!! Colours are just the way it is meant to be which makes it look clean and neat. No doubt why this app is currently in "Play Picks - Apps we love" section.

First thing which amazed me was the Search speed. I was running on 3G Aircel network when I did my first search. At first, I thought, network speed is brilliant but later realised that the speed with which the results are fetched are brilliantly fast and highly accurate. Best of all is, search across multiple accounts.

Next, Multiple Accounts. Gmail has already provided the feature of multiple accounts, but that is restricted only to Gmail, but this app provides facility to configure accounts of 8 different types. Earlier, they used to support max of 3 accounts and few days back, they increased it to 5.

All Inboxes My most loved feature. You can see all your configured mail accounts in the side drawer along with a special and most useful section "All Inboxes". It combines all mails from all of your accounts, arranges in decreasing order of time and differentiates mails of different accounts with different colours. You cannot customise the colour as of now.

Default "From" address This comes handy if you have selected "All Inboxes". It provides facility for the end user to set "From" address in "From" field by default when composing a mail.

Passcode Lock No need of any third party apps to secure your mails from unauthorised user. You can set a passcode lock which will be prompted to user whenever app is opened.

CloudMagic has integrated all of the above and all the features which every mail app must have. Looking forward to have some more facilities/features like the following which makes user experience much more awesome.

Swipe left and right to move/shift between mails.
Color Customisation support to differentiate mails from multiple accounts.
Report as spam.
Zooming option within preview.

Download:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cloudmagic-mail-app/id721677994?ls=1&mt=8

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cloudmagic.mail

Have your ever tried CloudMagic Mail app? If not, then give a try. I am sure you will like it. Leave your comments below.

Free SMS service by Google via Google Chat

Google has launched its free SMS service in India and other countries using which users can send SMS to people who are in their contact list for free. Google has reported saying that it will not charge for SMS but initially users will be provided with 50 free SMSes. Google would decrease this count by one everytime you send a SMS but the good thing is that when a user responds to text message, the count increases by 5.

If SMS count becomes 0(zero), it would ideally reset within 24hours or the user can buy the credit by paying for the service.

This service went live in India and other 51 countries on October 10th. Google has also provided service where-in the user can block receiving messages sent from Google SMS chat.

Programming on the go for Android with Android IDE

Yes. You're hearing it right. You can now develop applications for Android from your very own Android phone.

Text Editor of AIDE

AIDE is a Java integrated development environment for developing Android applications directly from your android phone. Developers can now write, compile, build and run the code directly from their phones. AIDE comes with a rich and well thought interface and adds most of the developer tools that you would use if you were running it on eclipse. AIDE has made best use of limited screen real estate to make it easy for developers to work on. AIDE provides features like error correction as you type, quick fixes, suggestions, syntax highlighting, code refactoring, project file manager, integrated logcat viewer and much more. It just takes one single click to create a sample code and start working on it. AIDE also supports .classpath files created by your Eclipse project. In lame language, you can just move the whole eclipse project to your phone without any hassle.

Integrated Logcat in IDE

AIDE doesn't just do things, it does things right. Even though compilation is a resource intensive task, AIDE works seamlessly without any lag. The text editor brings awesomeness with pinch-to-zoom and infinite undo-redo things.Even though AIDE is mainly aimed at tablets, it works fine on a smartphone. AIDE shows that the new generation smartphones are more than just fancy bird games.

It may not make sense to develop apps from scratch on a smartphone, but its compatibility with the eclipse project files bring some hope.

You can get it here on Google Play.

Google to DO LIST

To-do List is a list of tasks that need to be completed. It is a very helpful tool which provides additional support to memory. Although the name only implies a single list, it may involve more than one list. When one task is completed or satisfied, it is crosses off or checked. The traditional method of creating a To-do list, is writing down tasks on a paper using pen or pencil, usually in a notebook or clip-board.

What is Google To Do List?

Google being the foremost contender in web services launched To-do list online, which allows users to write tasks online just like writing them in a notebook. Google provides very simple and easy interface to create to-do list and thus helps a user immensely in organizing his/her personal activities. Here are some basic steps to create a to-do list in Google calendar (https://www.google.com/calendar/render?hl=en&tab=wc&pli=1).

First to start creating a to-do list in Google calendar, user has to sign-in using a valid Gmail ID.

Click on “My Calendars” and under that, click on “Tasks”.

Once you click on “tasks”, a task gadget will appear on the right side of your calendar.

Using the gadget, you can easily create to-do list according to your calendar.

Google has created the gadget and has blended it with a simple idea of due dates. Due dates are often prove to be very important. Thus you can use such due dates with your calendar assigning them to your tasks.

Using Due Dates in Google To Do List

Create a task on to-do list with a due date: You can do so by clicking in an empty space in month view and select the “Task” option.

You can also assign a due date to an existing task.

Once the task has been completed, a user can delete or mark task as complete by checking a box next to the task name.

Get the new Google Bar

Google recently went on a renovation spree to change the appearances of all the google services. Ever since the release of G+, google started rolling out new appearances to every other service they had.

Recently Google announced in its official google blog that google is now ready for its next set of change - the new Google bar which makes it easy to access different Google Services. Even though the new google bar is announced, it is still not rolled out for users but here is a simple tweak that help you get a head start in trying out the new google bar.

The tweak is to modify your cookie. All you have to do is follow these simple steps -

For Google Chrome users -

1. Add 'Edit this Cookie' extension to Chrome
2. Go to google.com
3. Click on the extension

4. Go to PREF section and change the value field to this

ID=03fd476a699d6487:U=88e8716486ff1e5d:FF=0:LD=en:CR=2:TM=1322688084:LM=1322688085:S=McEsyvcXKMiVfGds

5. Refresh the page

For firefox users -

1. Go to google.com
2. Press Ctrl + Shift + K
3. Paste the following into the text field and press enter

document.cookie="PREF=ID=03fd476a699d6487:U=88e8716486ff1e5d:FF=0:LD=en:CR=2:TM=1322688084:LM=1322688085:S=McEsyvcXKMiVfGds; path=/; domain=.google.com";window.location.reload();

For IE users -

Install Chrome, firefox or anything that evolved after dinosaurs!

Facebook now introduces "Subscribe" Feature

Facebook has now introduced its latest feature with the Subscribe button. The Subscribe button will appear on one's profile page just next to the Add as a Friend Button. Here's a quick look of where it is going to appear.

The 'Subscribe' button is similar to Twitter's Follow feature and somewhat similar to Google+ 's Add to Circle option. The person to whom you subscribe need not have to accept like in a friend request. But the person who subscribes to you will be able to view all the public updates on his news feed. Additionally, you can also view profiles of the people who have subscribed to you which means, no secret followers. Facebook in one of its post explains this feature to be most useful to celebrities. It says -

It is most useful for public figures like journalists, artists, and local politicians. For example, if you’re a journalist, you can use a profile to share your press coverage with your readers and ask them to post tips to help guide your research and investigation.

This is really good because celebrities and popular figures need not have to accept friend requests from infinite fans neither the fans have to wait for their friend request to be accepted. This feature is likely to attract more celebrities to appear on facebook.

If you want to have a Subscribe button on your facebook profile page, then you have to go to this site facebook.com/about/subscribe and click on "Allow Subscribers". This will enable the Subscribe button on your profile.

Ever since Google+ is released, facebook is on a spree of rolling out new features. The features provided by both the giants are more or less the same. Online forums are already discussing the genuineness of features as to who first introduced which feature. The discussion is taking egg or hen pattern, as no one knows which one came first, the egg or the hen. Same is in this case, no one can really tell who copied which part of the feature from whom.

Google Releases New Chrome App For using Gmail offline

Google's Chrome OS being entirely based on web apps, offline web apps are a necessity as there might be cases where internet connection is not available. So, Google has been working on building offline versions of its web apps such as Gmail, Docs etc. using HTML5 technologies. Today, Google has released the offline version of Gmail as a Chrome app.

The new app - called the Offline Google Mail - is based on the Gmail web apps for tablets. It uses HTML5 technologies to store your emails locally. This ensures that you can read emails, organize them or respond to them even when there is no internet connection available. Of course, emails you send when in offline mode will be actually sent when internet connection is available.

As mentioned before, this is available only on Google Chrome (or Chromium). It is not yet available for other browsers like Firefox, IE etc.

To start using Offline Google Mail, you have to install the app from the Chrome Web Store. Click on the link below.

Install Offline Google Mail

Once you have installed the app, open a new tab and you will find it under Apps. The next time you are without an internet connection, you can launch this app to access your emails. When internet connection is available, the app will sync with Gmail even if it is not opened in a tab.

Google is also bringing offline support for Calendar and Docs. The offline version of Calendar will allow you to view your calendars, reply to appointments etc. The offline version of Docs will allow you to view documents offline.

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Google launched music site - MAGNIFIER

The Giant Google has now come up with music discovery site called MAGNIFIER which will be surely loved by music lovers. They are neatly organized based on music genre. Free music can be found here.

All of the free music on Magnifier can be accessed through Music Beta, a service from Google that lets you upload your personal music collection to the cloud and listen to it on the web and your Android devices. You can add free music to your account by signing in and can listen it from web or android devices.

But the limit is that a user can add maximum of 20000 songs to his account. You can just upload the songs and listen from web browsers without downloading. Currently, this facility is only available for US users and that too with invitation only. This feature will be soon available for all users.

Gmail to come with a new login screen

Ever since the launch of Google+, Google has gone on to change the UI of lot other google products. First it was the google search itself and then blogger, then gmail(through a preview theme) and now the login screen for Gmail. The new gmail login screen was available for preview and here is how it looks -

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The new interface looks similar and matches the Google Search template. So google is probably planning to have the same interface to all the other google services.

Google's What do you love?

Have you noticed this new link under your google search page? Not your google.co.in but the global page, www.google.com?

Yes, this is one of the latest product of Google. What do you love? Click on it and you will be taken to the "What do you love?" page. Just another search page like google where you can put anything you want and google is going to pull in all the possible results from your keywords. Be it "ice cream" or "BMW", you get all the results displayed as snippets. You get the trends, videos from youtube, books from the Google books, Maps, patents and almost everything. This is really a beautiful feature and you must try it for sure.

The WDYL - What do you love? Front page. Simple and Elegant just like the Google

The results page of WDYL.

At the end of screen you find a "More Coming soon" box. So the feature seems to be still in its premature life form but it is google and it evolves before you see it.

Google+ have a huge problem with its photo tagging system!!

The most popular social networking site google+ has lead to a huge privacy problem .One of the best features about google+ is ,the way we can manage who see the things we share , with circles .Google+ has beaten Facebook in making it super easy to make sure that only intended people can see our updates.

As Google+ gains many users, a very serious privacy issue has been discovered with the way google+ manages with your photo albums.

Ofcourse google + allows users to keep private albums.In fact private albums are quite important in Google+ because photos taken using an Android device gets uploaded to your private photo album.

As one Google+ user has noticed, it seems like tagging someone on a photo means that he/she can see the whole album even if you have not shared it. This is not actually a bug – but rather a feature in Google+.

Facebook too allows users who have been tagged to see the photo. But people tag others in Facebook photos to let them see it. In the case of Google+ it it a bit different. The Google+ photo album is basically Picassa – the popular photo management tool. Since Picassa has been in existence much before Google+, people do not tag others on Picassa to share – they tag to organize their photos.

So basically what it means is that, if you try to organize your photos in a private album by tagging the people in the photos, not only they will be able to see every photos you in that album, they will be able to share it as well. If it happens with your Instant Upload album – that is the album to which Android devices automatically uploads your photos – others can see all the photos you have taken using your Android device.

This is simply a huge privacy problem.

Google+ is still officially in the field testing phase and let us hope they sort this out.

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Games to Google+ Coming SOON...

The most popular and the largest company Google launched Google+, a social networking site 3 weeks ago. Initially, there was only Streaming and uploading of photos and videos and now it has kept a major step towards the applications and games.

As we all know, Facebook is recently seeing a major fall due to the introduction of Google+. It has become like a rival for facebook. To fight against the Google+, facebook has come up with video chatting, group text chatting and enhancements in other stuffs. In the same way, to retain its position in the market, Google has kept a step ahead by introducing applications and games. This feature will be available for all the users very soon.

We being the users, have to see how Google will emerge with games and applications against the facebook's applications and games. All the best for both large social networking sites.

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Google acquires G.co domain - Official Google websites URL shortner

As Twitter, Amazon and etc... uses T.co, A.co respectively uses their own URL shorteners, Google too has come up with its own URL shortener service with G.co. Google still has goo.gl URL shortener service but it is for public use.

G.co is only for official use. Only the websites which will be owned by Google will have these links. G.co will not be available for public service. This service will help the users to clearly know which is an unofficial site and which is official site of Google.

Post to Google+ through SMS now - Only for Indian users

Google has a soft corner for the people in India. Or probably they have managed to understand the importance of mobile market in India. Because Google, in its Google+ has provided the functionality for Indian users (only) to update their Google+ status through their cell phones. This feature was already in facebook and looks like Google is on a spree to beat the facebook and grab some Indian population.

Enabling SMS Updates

To enable SMS way of updating the Google+ status, you need to do the following -

You need to first add your number to the Google+ settings. So go to your google plus settings page. Once you enter your phone number, then you will have the usual process of confirmation through a verification code sent to your mobile. Once your phone is verified, select the SMS radio button and you're done. The updates can be posted from your registered number by sending your update to +91 9222222222

Sharing Options

By default the update will be shared with all the circles but you do have some options to change the default. You have to append these tags likewise.

@[circle name]
To share with a specific circle, append your post with @[circle name].
For example: "Will see you at the game @soccerfolks".

@extended
To share with everyone in your extended circles, append your post with @extended.
For example: "Any SF restaurant recommendations? @extended".

@public
To share your post publicly, append your post with @public.
For example: “Any SF restaurant recommendations? @public”.

Public posts could be found in search.

@[email address]
To share your post with a specific person, append your post with @[email address].
For example, "In SF for the week @jazzguitar9@gmail.com" will be visible to jazzguitar9@gmail.com.

Security PIN

Google has always been cautious on security issues and hence you are allowed to add an optional security layer of entering PIN. If you set up a PIN, include the SMS posts and commands with the PIN. For example: "A1B2C3 Will see you at the game @soccerfolks."

SMS Notifications

You can also receive notifications on your phone through SMS by just checking the boxes that best suit you. This is also available in the settings page. Here's the snapshot -

This is how you enable Google+ SMS on your account.

Download Google Maps for offline view- Android

Good news for Android users. Most of the users use google maps and get to the right place. Many users will not have internet facility in their mobiles once they go out of home or go out of network area. So for such people, here is a good news.

Android users can just have everything right in their hand. Once you enable this feature, it will automatically stored locally in the storage space. When you are in need, just open up and get the route without data connection.

How to enable and start using it?

Visit the Labs section of the Maps application using menu button.

Enable the Download Map Area option.

Hit the ‘More’ button and you will see an option to locally store a map of the surrounding area.

That's it. You are done. Now you can use it offline. Hurray. Please do share this article and like us on our Facebook Fan Page.

Facebook Group chat and Video chat with skype

Facebook, a large social networking site has kept a major step towards the group chat and video chat by seeing Google's features. Moreover, G+ has created a hell lot of tension for the Facebook developers. So FB is trying a lot to push G+ down and retain first place in the world of social networking.

Facebook has come up with group chat option just like the Gmail's feature but they yet to come up with video chat which will be available very soon to all users as per the news provided by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Moreover, for the users who need group video chat, they will have to pay some amount for skype.

We have to wait and see whether Facebook video chat feature make huge impact on users when compared to Google's video chat and hangout feature of G+.

Move Facebook albums to Google+

Here is a interesting stuff which you will surely like. We all know that Picasa is the most used photo sharing app by everyone. Introduction of Facebook reduced the usage of Picasa. As the time went, Facebook became popular and all started to upload photos in Facebook rather than Picasa. Now Google came up with a classy Google+ and has given a revolutionary change to the users because of simplicity and ease of use with eyecandy look and feel.

But we, the users have a problem here. Th problem is the Photo albums. We have uploaded photos in facebook but Google+ uses Picasa. So the problem is how to move albums from facebook to picasa. For this problem, here is a simple solution.

Note: Works only with Google Chrome browser.

Steps to follow :-

Open this link. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/idiebfmmkhaffedkhjhapmagabcadjhc#

Click on "Install" button.

Now in top right corner, you can see a small yellow coloured icon names "Move your photos". Click on that icon.

Now you can "Login with Facebook" button. Click on this button.

Select the photos which you want to transfer and scroll down to end og the page and click on Upload.

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Get the new Android Market for your phone

Google has just announced the release of its new version of Android Market which is the version 3.0.26. Google said the new Android market will be rolled out with the new devices that are going to come. If you are an android owner and still waiting for the new version to hit your phone, then you’re probably missing all the fun. You can right away download this Android market from here and install it like any other application. The new android market has lot more applications and a whole new look. Here’s the video released by the Google -

New Android Market for Phones

<<Download link>>

Google Swiffy - Flash to HTML5 Converter

Google has launched its new service called Google Swiffy in the labs. Google was constantly involved in development of HTML5. HTML5 was revolutionary and has so many new capabilities that the flash contents are no longer needed as these can be coded using HTML5 tags along with some JavaScript. HTML5 enabled animations and interactivity in browsers and devices that did not support flash. Even the iPhone's iOS doesn't support Flash and hence HTML5 is a sigh of relief for the iPhone users.

If you have a website with lot of Flash objects and if you're worried of the new HTML5 invasion, then you don't have to worry anymore. Answer is Google Swiffy. Google Swiffy is a flash to HTML5 converter. It is still in its early version and hence not yet ready to convert complicated SWFs (flash files) to HTML5 and it may take some time for it to convert flash games and programs. But you can easily convert simple banners and animations that you have in SWF formats. Just upload the SWF file and get the HTML code. By converting SWF to HTML5, you can make your website view-able on any browser that supports SVG, JavaScript and CSS3.

The link to Swiffy is -

http://swiffy.googlelabs.com/

I just wish this comes out of the labs as a fully fledged SWF-to-HTML5 converter.

Google+ released today! Can it beat Facebook?

The much anticipated Google + has been finally released today. Having received invite, the first thing I felt was, Wow!

Google+ is the latest social networking from Google. It is hard to believe that it is from the 'makers of orkut' which has repeatedly failed (in a perpetual fail mode) in the past few years. It has all the features I wanted. It connects your Internet life. Be it Gmail, Google Reader, Picasa, Blogger or the Google Docs, you have it all at one place.

The interface totally rocks. It supports features like Circles, Hangouts, Sparks and much more. Circles are to arrange your contacts, keep your friends stay away from your bosses. You have complete and easy control over what you share, who can view it and what you want comments on. Sparks ignite a spark in you. It makes available to you, thousands of articles and other web stuff for you to read on. Once you fill your topic of interest, the google will pick up stuff from the web and spark your page content to read and share.

Google hangouts are the next coolest thing. They're like the groups on facebook. You can start a hangout and invite people to join it. You can have video conferencing with multiple people at a time, if you wish to. This probably makes it the only social network that allows video chat (of course next to orkut, haunted now). Photo uploading and sharing is very simple and very fast.

Google + has notifications, way of sharing things, the home page and most of other things similar to facebook that people have already tagged Google + as 'facebookish'. But it is still beautifully presented. The way things have been spread around are neat. Nothing has been overdone like they did with the Orkut ( the like thing of facebook imitated in orkut is an example of overdoing things ).

Here are some screenshots -

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Well google has still give a green signal to the Google apps and other applications like that on facebook. Once they're out, it is sure to beat facebook. What is your view?

Using Due Dates in Google To Do List

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