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[App Review] WPS Office is Kingsoft’s beautifully repackaged office suite. Office suites are nothing new to Android, but they have definitely come a long way.

Since the late 1980s, Kingsoft has developed and operated a successful office suite. Writer, Presentation, and Spreadsheets have been at the heart of Kingsoft Office for years. Now, the office suite has a name that matches its focus. WPS Office is Kingsoft Office repackaged, and it is as beautiful and useful as ever. The app is fully capable of being used on a phone, but Kingsoft has optimized it for tablets. The amount of files that WPS Office can operate with is impressive. One of my favorite features that WPS Office has is the preview page for a file. It was mentioned before that the three letters in WPS Office’s name represent the three programs. The experience is very smooth. There is seemingly no stutter when moving across something like a massive spreadsheet, something that many mobile office suites have a problem with.

Play Store Download Link » See more articles by Justin Herrick. Best apps for streaming photos, videos, and music from your Android device to Chromecast [October 2014] Google’s Chromecast is a fantastic device.

It’s one of the easiest ways to stream and share content onto your television screen, including making it simple to cast radio stations, shows on Netflix, or your G+ photos onto a bigger display. At just $35 bucks, it’s the simplest way to get media onto multiple screens. The only drawback? Chromecast’s lack of support for locally stored content. Sure, Chromecast boasts all of the ways you can sling your subscriptions to your television without a huge box and lots of wires and cables, but sometimes you want to view some homemade videos and photos.

Potential Beta Can Sync Your Battery Life Across All Of Your Devices And Look Good Doing It [Hands-On] Every now and then an app pops up that looks like it was designed entirely for people like us.

And by us, I mean tech reviewers, enthusiasts, and people who just somehow end up with more gadgets to maintain than we know what to do with. In this situation, it can be challenging to keep up with all the electronics and make sure each device is charged enough for use. Potential is a new app (still in beta) that can keep track of everything's battery life from a single location, and with its slick Material-inspired design, it looks good doing it. 5 best Android apps to create a gif. Gifs have become one of the most popular ways to communicate on the internet.

Pretty much any social media site worth their salt supports them and you’ve no doubt seen people post links to gifs. They’re great for instant and quick humor. They’re even better when used as a reaction (called reaction gifs) as a little three to five second gif often relays your opinion and reaction better than words do. If you’re up to the task, here are some Android apps that let you create a gif on your own. GifBoom: Animated GIF Camera [Price: Free] First up is GifBoom and we included this one because the GifBoom website is one of the most popular gif sites out there. Fixie GIF Camera. Skype Qik lets you replace text conversations with instant video messaging. Microsoft is expanding the number of apps made by its Skype team today with the Skype Qik video messaging app, designed specifically for mobile devices running on iOS, Android and Windows Phone.

The app is scheduled to launch today for all three platforms. So what is Skype Qik? Basically, it's a way to send quick video messages to friends that may or may not be online at the time, instead of the real time video chats that are supported by the regular Skype app. Microsoft says: "It's easy to swap video messages with groups of friends and show everyone what's happening down at the pub, catch up on the latest gossip, or make everyone jealous with your thrift shopping finds. Sponsored App Review: TakeBack. Description: TakeBack is an Android app that lives up to its name; it allows you to take back text messages that you didn’t mean to send.

You know those times where you’ve sent the wrong message to completely the wrong person? TakeBack is designed to prevent those awkward conversations and situations that often follow. They’re often not all that amusing to endure and we all slap ourselves when we’ve done it. How TakeBack works is by sending your SMS messages to a server first, before they’re sent to the other person’s phone. Sponsored App Review: TakeBack. 5 great Android sleep apps to help you get a good night's rest. True Skate Trailer iPhone iPad iPhone Touch Android. Snowball Bringing Conversations Together.

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However, this doesn't mean the process doesn't feel tedious at times. The processors and sensors inside our handsets our so powerful, why can't they simply lock and unlock the device as we take it out of out pocket?! After all, if we're taking it out, it is dead obvious that 90% of the time we intend to use it, and the other 10% we may leave it on a table, or to charge, or whatever.

While smartphone manufacturers haven't worked in this automated functionality yet, Android developers have. Meet Pocket Lock, an app that's designed to do exactly what we described - unlock your device when you take it out, and lock it when you leave it in. 1. 2. 3. The best password managers for Android. The number of online accounts we all have nowadays is staggering, and the task of keeping them secure is even harder to wrap your head around.

Rather than sticking with the old school "pile of sticky notes" route, there are several great app and service options for keeping all of your passwords safe and private. Going further, they'll even help you create strong passwords that are tough to crack even if they do get into the wrong hands. Fresh Meat: 10 new Android apps worth checking out. New apps need lovin’ too, right?

Every day there are thousands of additions to the Google Play Store, but many go unnoticed and never receive the attention they deserve. Todoist Karma comes to mobile in the latest Todoist update. Todoist is one of the best to-do list apps on Android.

In fact, we’ve had it featured on our best productivity apps list and our best free Android apps list. Today they have announced an update that will bring Todoist Karma to mobile. For those who may not know, Todoist Karma is an algorithm built into the service that grades you based on your productivity. As you add more tasks and complete more tasks, the score goes up. You also accumulate more points by doing things like setting recurring tasks and using labels. Alongside the update to mobile comes a Todoist Karma update across the whole platform. Top 10 Best Android Wear Apps Monthly – October 2014 Edition. Android Wear has been on our wrists for some time now, and there are now enough apps out there to provide users with a somewhat daunting amount of choice. So, how do you know which music controller is really better than Google’s?

Which app is the best for keeping track of those runs and walks? Hopefully, a new monthly Top 10 will help answer those questions as well, in the future, highlight some of the more interesting an unique Android Wear apps. So, let’s get started, shall we? Wear Mini Launcher. Featured: Top 10 Best System Information Apps For Android. Many of you may not be super technical when it comes to your phone. But others do want to see what frequencies the device is running at, as well as what specs it has.

And there are a ton of apps out there that can do that. Some are nice looking apps, and others are not so much. Let’s get on with the list. System Monitor. Offline maps on Android: comparing HERE and Google Maps. Say hello with BBM Voice. Best text messaging SMS replacement apps for Android. 5 best Android apps to create a gif. Instapaper is now available for free, launches new premium subscription. Folr - location tracking app to keep up with family & friends. By Antonio Wells Sep 19, 2014 4:11 PM – Install Folr is a location tracking app for keeping up with family and friends.

It allows real-time tracking of other devices along with history of places visited. There are several useful scenarios for an app like this; use it as a family tracker, for the jealous type- track a spouse or mate, even keep up with friends. Let’s delve more into the app… Price: Free, Offers in-app purchases. Trustlook Antivirus & Mobile Security - guard your Android against malware. By Antonio Wells Sep 16, 2014 6:06 AM – Install Trustlook Antivirus & Mobile Security aims to help protect your Android phone or tablet against malware and viruses.

Simply scan and treat potential threats. In addition, it automatically scans newly downloaded apps and privacy settings, back up contacts, call history, and text messages to the cloud plus online browsing filters. We’ll tell you about the security protection of this app in this review! Price: Free. Update makes Expensify even more indispensable for expense tracking.

Cosmos lets you browse the web without a data connection, sort of. Cosmos for Android is a browser that makes clever use of text messages to load up basic versions of websites even without an internet connection. The app was created in just 36 hours by four students during the MHacks IV hackaton on September 6. The browser sends the URL of a requested page to a backend system built with Twilio and Node.JS, which loads up the content of the web page, strips it from images, CSS, and JavaScript, compresses it, and sends it by SMS back to the phone, at a rate of three messages per second. Flynx Browser (beta) - Indie app of the day. Flynx Browser is a floating web browser. That means that pops up in its own window and you can access it without leaving the application that you’re currently in. Instapaper is now free to use, with new premium features and social community.

Sponsored App Review: iGenApps Apper. Trustlook Antivirus and Security review. As smartphones continue to grow into the world’s leading computing platform, online security and malware on Android have become issues some users are forced to face. BitTorrent Bleep is a P2P messenger that provides end-to-end encryption. BitTorrent is looking to make communications more secure with the launch of a new P2P service called Bleep. Cosmos for Android lets you browse the web without an internet connection. Here in the US most of us are constantly bathing in glorious LTE, or at the very least, 3G data connections. That’s not the case everywhere on the globe. 15 best camera Apps for Android. Accompli arrives for Android: intelligent email wrapped in calendar and cloud storage.

Accompli, the intelligent email, calendar and cloud storage sharing app has earned accolades on iOS for the few months it's been available at the App Store, and is now arriving with a brand spanking new Android version. What Accompli tries to accomplish is climb your most important emails at the top of the inbox, pushing the fluff down. How to upload your own file to Google Play Books. Androidcentral. Androidcentral. Introducing TapPath for Android. Sony released Exclusive Underwater Apps for Xperia Smartphones [Video] Sony Mobile released 6 Apps that showcase the water resistance of its flagship Xperia smartphones. File Expert HD Android App Review.

Web PC Suite (Android App Review) Android keyboard app shoot-out - Fleksy, Minuum, Swiftkey, and Swype battle for glory. Installing a custom keyboard app is a coming-of-age ritual for every Android user who's tired of functional, but limited stock keyboards. With the Google Play store becoming home to an ever increasing number of third-party keyboards, and iOS 8 strapping up to get them very soon, we felt it's time to hold a bloody, dusty spaghetti western shoot-out between the four most popular keyboards in the Android community.

We're talking about Minuum, Fleksy, Swiftkey, and Swype - keyboards that represent the past, present, and future of touch-screen typing. We will do a quick check-up of each contestant from four angles - look and feel (how nice they look and behave), control efficiency (how efficient we felt their input methods are), typing efficiency (how well they perform in actual typing, and misc features (what else they offer besides, you know, keyboard-ing). Then we'll hand them the guns, throw them in the arena, and award the last keyboard standing in each category. Let the games begin! 1. Say hello to messages on Pinterest. Sponsored App Review: Fleksy Keyboard. Commandr for Google Now. 10 best music player apps for Android. Yahoo Aviate review. 5 reasons you should really give Minuum a try.

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Easy Screen Shot Sharing with WebScrapbook. Google Camera 2.2.024 for Android [DOWNLOAD] Lookout Introduces Theft Alerts, A Feature Set Similar To What Other Security Apps Have Had For Years. How to clear app defaults on any Android device. 1Password is coming to Android on June 10th; app is free through August 1st. How to use two numbers in WhatsApp at the same time. Best Podcast apps for Android. Turn your Lens Blur images into 3D live wallpapers with this app. How to turn off notifications in the Android Secret app. Androidcentral. Gmail for Android update lets you save attachments to Drive. Best Android educational apps and games for kids [May 2014] Androidcentral. Pushbullet now syncs your notifications across all of your devices.

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