One app you should have on your phone is a barcode and QR code scanner. Here is a good one that is FREE…
Thank you for visiting
Tech News for You
QR Code Reader Free can read and decode all kinds of QR code and barcode, including contacts, products, URL, Wi-Fi, text, books, E-mail, location, calendar, etc. 🔍 You can also use it to scan promotion and coupon codes 💰 in shops to get discounts.
The thing that Samsung has that Apple and Google lack is a simple feature that prompts you to enter your lock screen passcode before you can turn off or reboot your phone. Follow the source link below to learn more why this is critically important.
Thank you for visiting
Tech News for You
Here’s Why It’s Harder to Steal a Samsung Phone Than an iPhone or Another Android
Pretend you’re a phone thief for a moment. You might be a pickpocket or a stickup kid, but you’re in possession of other people’s phones on a regular basis. Now ask yourself this: what’s the first thing you do after you steal a phone? Any real phone thief with half a brain would simply turn the phone
Many folks don’t know that you can change the app launcher on their Android phone. There are many good launchers to choose from and one of the most recent (popular) is Niagra. What is cool about Niagra is that you can launch any of your apps from the home screen (with one hand); without having to scroll through screens as you most often do with other launchers.
Thank you for visiting
Tech News for You
The traditional home screen we know was made more than a decade ago, where phone screens were smaller than your credit card. Smartphones keep growing, but not your fingers. The minimalist Niagara Launcher makes everything accessible with one hand and lets you focus on what matters.
Audiomack
Audiomack provides streaming and free download access to the newest and hottest tracks, right at your fingertips. Our free music download feature allows you to play your favorite songs offline, and our proprietary “Trending” section shows you the best albums and songs that are hot right now. Plus, you can listen to all local MP3s, WAV, M4A, AAC, and other local files right from the app.
Google launches Stack scanner app to help you organize your documents
Google Stack is being developed by Cristopher Pendrogal and Mathew Cowan alongside the rest of Area 120’s team, Google’s in-house incubator for experimental apps. Besides Stack, Cristopher and Mathew also worked on DocAI—an enterprise-grade application used to process and categorize data…
Are your Android apps crashing? You’re not alone (Updated: Gmail fixed)
The company says updating Android System WebView and Google Chrome via Google Play Store should now resolve the issue for all users. The Play Store listing for WebView shows Google has pushed out a new version of the apps (ver. 89.0.4389.105). Chrome has also received an update today.
Your Android Phone Can Automatically Notify You When It Hears an Emergency
Many different types of sounds can be identified. While you can disable some of these in Sound Notifications’ settings, these are the sounds the app will be listening for by default:
Smoke and fire alarms
Siren
Shouts
Baby sounds
Doorbell rings
Knocks
Dog barks
Appliance beeps
Running water
Landline phone rings
Safe Notes (Android App – Download from the Google Play Store)
Password-protected notepad that’s safe, fast, easy to use and ad-free!
âś” Protect notes and to do lists with password, and lock the whole notepad app with the PIN.
âś” Copy any text from your phone to your computer (app-to-browser).
âś” Write colorful notes, memos, emails, to-do lists, and encrypt them if you want.
âś” Custom note colors / fonts / text size / sorting order / etc.
âś” Sync notes online and access them both through a web browser and Safe Notes app.
âś” Taking notes with Safe Notes is as easy as it gets.
âś” You can sync individual notes with ProtectedText.com, and access them from this app and through a web browser.
âś” Safe Notes provides ultimate security – you don’t have to trust us, or any other third-party to be completely secure (read more under FAQ on http://www.protectedtext.com).
âś” Unlimited text size (up to ~250 000 characters per note)
âś” Search function
âś” Simple safe password encrypted notepad!
BlueStacks App Player 5.0.0.7129
BlueStacks is the first production desktop software that allows you to use your favorite mobile apps on a Windows PC. You can download apps like Angry Birds Space, Candy Crush Saga, Telegram, Temple Run 2, Evernote, or Documents to Go directly into Software or sync the apps from your phone using the Cloud Connect Android app. Basically this application is an Android Emulator. Play PubG or Fortnite mobile on BlueStacks App Player!
Top 10 Best Camera Android Apps – 2021
Every smartphone these days comes with its own camera application. Samsung includes its own camera on Galaxy smartphones, Google does the same for its smartphones, and so on. If you, however, don’t like the camera app that comes with your smartphone, you can change it.
25 temporarily free and 40 on-sale apps and games for Monday
Don’t miss out on the sales for 9th Dawn III, Rusted Warfare, and Icewind Dale Welcome to Monday, everyone. It looks like it was a busy weekend, and so we have more than a few notable sales to share with everyone.
The best mobile browser you should be using right now (it’s not what you think it is)
After weeks of testing mobile browsers, Jack Wallen has finally concluded which of those apps is the best of the best.
How to stop your Android phone from killing apps in the background
Something you might notice whenever you switch from iOS to Android is that you don’t get all of your notifications as soon as they arrive. This is thanks to the various tools that have been built into Android to help conserve battery life.Â
Simply select the feature and click on CREATE to shortcut. That’s it! Quite simple right? You can also use this app to launch an actvity from installed app. Apps and Activities: Create shortcut of installed apps and activities.
After an update in December, Barcode Scanner had gone from an innocent scanner to full-on malware! Although Google has already pulled this app, we predict from a cached Google Play webpage that the update occurred on December 4th, 2020.
Read more @ Malwarebytes blog
To this day, after over 30 years in computing, people still do not know how to “Cut, Copy and Paste”; and, I have found it to be one of the most difficult things to teach people. I consider it the most important process you can learn in order to master the computer (or smartphone) that will increase your productivity immensely. I encourage you to learn how to “cut or copy and paste”; you will not regret it.
Continue reading “Increase your productivity and learn how to “Cut, Copy and Paste”…”Every mainstream Android home screen app looks and behaves almost exactly like Google’s Pixel Launcher. It’s the trendsetter, like the Nexus Launcher before it. But when all your options are modeled after the same thing, that really takes the “custom” out of “custom launcher.”
Source: Gadget Hacks
NewsON is an app for your phone (Android/Apple) AND for Roku or Amazon that gives you the ability to watch live local news anytime, anywhere… For example, with NewsON, in my area I am able to pull down live feeds from Baltimore, Washington, Pittsburgh and Harrisburg. NewsON describes their service as “Free instant access to live or on-demand broadcasts from over 275 local station partners in over 160 markets”.
Tech News for You
PDF Unshare is a free PDF copyright protection utility that creates unshared PDF and UPDF formats to protect your PDF files from sharing, printing, editing, copying, or unauthorized access. This creative document protection tool also allows you to set an expiry date for the protected PDFs, and then all these documents would not be viewed after that date. Now entrepreneurs, book publishers, or educational institutions can easily protect their documents from unauthorized sharing to other people or publishing online with this handy application.
PDF Unshare is 100% FREE for personal / non-commercial use. Installs available for Windows (full and portable), iOS (Apple), and Android.
Source: PDF UnShare
It is a simple and straightforward app you can use on your phone to scan documents and export them as images. It even allows you to export scanned documents as PDFs.
I Love Free Software
You have to take my word on this. The best world news app for Android and Apple Smartphones (and devices) is “SmartNews”… It is one of the first apps I install on my phone and other supported devices (tablet, Chromebook, etc…). This app is a news aggregator that will automatically curate must-read stories in an attractive tabbed interface that is categorized. You can even customize and add specific news sources. Trust me, if you want the news as it is breaking, this is the news app to get…
Tech News for You
Source: SmartNews (visit this link to get an overview of the app and the download sources for your Android and Apple Devices).
If your Chromebook supports the installation of Android apps, then I encourage you take a look at (download and install) the Android app “Cx File Explorer”. The built-in file explorer (or file manager) in the Chrome OS has a lot to be desired; especially, when connecting to drives you have in the cloud (such as Google Drive, One Drive, Box and Dropbox) or when trying to connect to your network shares on your home network. I featured “Cx File Explorer” in another blog post (click here) and one of the things I wanted to experiment was to see how it performed on a Chromebook. Well, long story short… It is awesome. There is one thing you will need to do if you have an SD card installed in your Chromebook. In order for Cx File Explorer to see the SD card, go into the setting and toggle on, “Show system storage”. Once you do that, you can access the files on your SD card through the system files. In my case, once I toggled “on” the “Show system storage” setting, rebooted the Chromebook, the SD card showed up in Cx File Explorer’s home screen.
What I found with Cx File Explorer is that it works just as well as on my Chromebook as my Android smartphone. Definitely is a nicer file manager than what is built into the Chrome OS to the point that moving files around, etc… is much more easier and makes more sense.
Tech News for you
Source: Google Play Store – Cx File Explorer
Being a tech guy, having a good file manager (or file explorer) is a must. On our Android phones, the baked-in file managers they ship with the phones are rudimentary and in my opinion horrible. Then there are the third-party file managers that are a great step above, but what I have found is that many of these file managers (some good and some not so good) have become bloated to the point that they can leave a pretty big footprint on your device (and are not easy to navigate). So, I went on the hunt again in the Google Play Store and came across a file manager called “Cx File Explorer”. I almost overlooked it and I am glad I did not.
Using a web browser on any computer, you can access the files on your phone (and transfer them to any computer) using an Android app called “Recall”. First, install Recall on your phone from the Google Play Store. With Recall you don’t have to install anything to a PC or laptop to access your files. Just go to web.recall.im, scan a QR-code, and you can list, search, preview and download your files. End-to-end encryption, no passwords to lose. The “Recall” app, once installed and ran, turns your phone into a file server. Transfer of files uses end-to-end encryption for security and the developer’s web site touts the app is safer than using many of the popular online cloud services. Recall, at the moment appears to be relatively new; is FREE at the moment; but, if this app takes off (like I think it will), there will be a paid or pro option made available.
What I like about this list is that it exposes some great apps that you typically don’t see on “best lists” like this… You can take a look at these apps by clicking on the source link or graphic below…
Tech News for You
Wallpaper is one of the easiest ways to make your smartphone look unique. Almost all Android smartphones and tablets are pre-loaded with some default wallpapers to choose from. In addition to that, you can add images and themes from local storage. Android also allows you to set a different wallpaper for the home screen and lock screen. So, let’s see some of the simple and effective ways to change the wallpaper on Android.
TechOwns
Learn How To Change Wallpaper on Android Mobile/Tablet @ TechOwns
There are so many alternatives to the Google Chrome browser for the Android based smartphone, that it is mind-boggling. Right now, on my computers and smartphones, I am wrestling between Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge and Vivaldi. If you follow the source link below, you will land at Phandroid where you can take a look at “7 great browser alternatives to Google Chrome for Android”.
Tech News for You
Source: Phandroid – 7 great browser alternatives to Google Chrome for Android
An alternative to the Google Play Store, that is being recommended by Vivaldi, is UptoDown… You can read more at the Vivaldi website on why they have recommended this option…
While local files support has been available for the music streaming app for a while now, you had to do it from your desktop. But if they do roll this out eventually, your offline music library saved on your mobile phone or tablet can be added and synced even if you don’t have an Internet connection.
[ Limited Time ]
Source: Amazon Motorola Edge | Unlocked | Made for US by Motorola | 6/256GB | 64MP Camera
Chrome for Android has some hidden functionality lurking underneath the surface, and in this roundup, we’ll go over ten of the browser’s less-obvious features.
android police
Read About The 10 best tips and tricks for Chrome on Android @ Android Police
It’s free and also without ads and tracking, and you don’t even have to register or have any kind of account. Store your notes anonymously and encrypted in this simple and secure free online notepad. You can also use our Android app to access your notes conveniently from your Android device.
protected text
Source: Online Notepad – Protected Text
Source: Google play – Jot Notes Widget
While there are many great web browser apps available, finding the one that best suits your individual needs is not always easy. Luckily, there are plenty of choices out there when it comes to Android OS.
android headlines
See the roundup of the “Top 11 Best Android Browsers”
@ Android Headlines
[ Limited Time ]
Source: Amazon – Walabot DIY Plus – Advanced wall scanner, stud finder – For Android Smartphones
I have always had an obsession for organization; and as a result, when it comes to computers, phones, etc…, I love the ability to organize my stuff on these devices and make it visually appealing. I have messed around with just about every Android launcher out there and just recently I started messing around with a launcher called Square Launcher. This launcher is different in that it replicates the Windows 10 Metro UI (user interface). Once I downloaded and installed Square Launcher, it took me short time to learn my way around and before I knew it I had a visually designed Metro type interface on my phone (see below) that no one else has. How good is this app? I am buying this app ($4.99) to unlock the other features; it is that good…
If you are like me, you save a lot of internet based information. The problem is that you can get “discombobulated” and forget where you saved this information that results in that feeling of being disorganized. Recently, I came across a web based app called “Bublup” that works across multiple platforms (web, android, ios) that gives you the ability to keep links in the same folders as PDFs, photos, videos, GIFs, notes, and other files. In other words, you can visually organize anything with one application. Add the browser extension and you can rocket anything you save to Bublup. Here at “Tech News for You” I have been testing this application and have come to the conclusion that “Bublup” may just end up being the app of the year.
Source: Bublup
Time tracking software used by millions. Clockify is a simple time tracker and timesheet app that lets you and your team track work hours across projects. Unlimited users, free forever.
Install Clockify and track time from anywhere — everything is synced online.
Chrome • Firefox • Mac • Windows • Linux • Android • iOS
clockify
Source: Clockifyhttps://clockify.me
Bublup is the new modern visually appealing way to collect and save, not only links, but PDF’s, photos, videos, GIF’s, notes, emails and other types of files. These items can be saved in the same folders together, making it ideal for research and for establishing collections. A cool component of Bublup is when you save something, other relevant information relating to the topic you saved, will bubble up. There is also a method to import your bookmarks into Bublup from Chrome, Safari and Firefox. With a FREE account you get 3 GB of storage and if that is not enough, go for one of the paid options. So far, here at Tech News for You, we are liking what we see with Bublup… Almost forgot, you can create Roll web pages instantly from Bublup folders. Customize them easily into beautiful stories and collections of your content including links, photos, videos, GIFs, notes, PDFs, and other files. Bublup is available on the web, in your browser, and as an iOS and Android app.
Source: Bublup
