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Chrome Remote Desktop For Android Launches, iOS Version Coming Later This Year. Chrome Remote Desktop for Android is now available on the Play Store, allowing anyone with an Android device to connect to and control their desktop (Windows or Mac) via the Chrome Web app in the Chrome browser.

Chrome Remote Desktop For Android Launches, iOS Version Coming Later This Year

They say that an iOS version will be coming “later this year”, and access to Chromebooks is still in the works. The desktop version of , but this is the first time it has come to mobile. It’s entering a crowded market as Microsoft has had Remote Desktop applications for Android and iOS since last October. Still, many users trust the brand name behind Google Chrome and are willing to take this app out for a spin.

It gives you full access to your desktop, allowing you to get to anything just as you could if you were sitting in front of it. There are a bevy of options out there for remote desktop access. You can download Chrome Remote Desktop for Android from the Google Play Store and set up Chrome Remote Desktop right now. Between Is A Digital Space Just For Two, With Chat, Calendar, Photos & Notes. If you are in a relationship, the person you talk to the most is your significant other.

Between Is A Digital Space Just For Two, With Chat, Calendar, Photos & Notes

In case both of you use Android or iOS phones, then download Between now to make your communication simpler and easier than ever. Between is many things rolled into one. It’s a chat app for the two of you, it’s a shared calendar, and it’s a place to quickly send each other those everyday things like a photo or a shopping list. Everything is saved, everything is searchable. It’s an app that just works. Connecting Between Setting up Between is easy. Stop Waiting For Links to Load: Link Bubble For Android Saves You Time. Some annoyances in life are so subtle that we hardly notice.

Stop Waiting For Links to Load: Link Bubble For Android Saves You Time

How Can I Override Silent Mode With a Text Message? [Android] People set their phones to silent or vibrate mode when in meetings, lectures, theaters, or anywhere else where it would be rude if the phone made noise.

How Can I Override Silent Mode With a Text Message? [Android]

But what if there’s an emergency and someone needs to quickly get in touch with you? We’ll show you how to have your Android phone override silent mode and play an alert when a text message containing something like “Emergency” or “SOS” comes through. There are multiple ways to do this and we’ll cover two. You can easily use a free app created just for this purpose or take the geekier route and create a task using Tasker. 4 Android Anti-Theft Solutions Compared: Which Is The Best?

Losing your phone or having it stolen really sucks.

4 Android Anti-Theft Solutions Compared: Which Is The Best?

If you have an iPhone, the free Find my iPhone app can help you out, but what is an Android owner to use? Well, you have a bunch of options in the Google Play Store, and we’ll be looking at four of the best. Anti-theft apps like Lookout, Cerberus, Prey, and Android Lost offer a wide range of options for finding or protecting your device: GPS location, sounding an alarm, locking the phone, wiping the data completely, and more. Pocket : Queue.

Five apps that can make your Android a better PHONE. Modern Smartphones are more powerful than most computers that were around just, say, ten years ago.

Five apps that can make your Android a better PHONE

So why does it sometimes seems like they can do a million things except function as decent phones? This post will present five FREE Android apps that will make your Android a better phone. (1) Contacts dialer, which makes it a lot easier to find and dial the contact you want when you want to, (2) Callflakes, a nice missed call notification service with a variety of useful functions, (3) Simple Dialer Widget, which embeds a dialer and/or list of contacts as a widget inside your launcher, (4) Criticall, which lets you make exceptions for specific contacts when your ringer is muted, so that it is audible when they call, and (5) Call End Tone, which simply confirms that you hung up and your call has ended, potentially saving you from embarrassment or wasting valuable minutes while your call is still not terminated. 1.

Contacts Dialer: makes making that call that much easier 2. 3. 4. 5. Five apps that can make your Android a better PHONE. Out of Memory? What You Need To Know About Managing RAM On Your Android Phone. Have you ever gotten to the point with your tablet where things start to get bogged down a little?

Out of Memory? What You Need To Know About Managing RAM On Your Android Phone

We often like to boast about the CPU and superior memory of our mobile devices, but there is nothing more frustrating than when that zippy little mobile device starts to lag behind when you’re trying to open apps or run demanding games and applications. So, what’s the solution? How do you optimize the operation of your Android phone or tablet so that it runs just as slick and fast as when you first bought it? There are actually two major schools of thought here. A very large majority of tablet users believe that the only way out of such a bogged down situation is to go through running tasks and to kill all of the apps and services that you aren’t using.

Not quite. Jerry goes so far as to suggest that people should throw away their task killer apps and stop worrying so much about memory. Let’s face reality here. Catch Notes: A Full-Featured App For Portable Note-Taking [Android] Portable notes have saved my life on more than one occasion.

Catch Notes: A Full-Featured App For Portable Note-Taking [Android]

Not in the literal sense – thank God! – but in this day and age, when information is being thrown around at such high speeds, it’s hard to keep track of everything without forgetting bits here and there. Once I decided to start taking notes, it all became easier. But one question still burns: where should I jot my notes? For a long time, I carried around a Moleskine notebook and wrote down my notes by hand. Take To Social Recommendations And Tagging For Discovering Android Apps With Hubbl. Just a few days back there was this news item (in fact, multiple news items) which said that Google Play now has 700,000 apps.

Take To Social Recommendations And Tagging For Discovering Android Apps With Hubbl

It has caught up with Apple’s ITunes. The combined figure could easily hit 2 million before your next birthday. Even 700,000 apps sounds too much for a lifetime. The thing with discovering great apps is that they need to go viral to catch attention. They often need to be backed by promotional blitzkriegs, or the hand of God. How To Read Magazines On Your Android Phone Or Tablet. One of my favourite pastimes is reading.

How To Read Magazines On Your Android Phone Or Tablet

When I was a boy I would often read the blurb on the side of the cereal box over breakfast (despite instructions not to read at the table), a habit that extended to road signs and even the small, tiny details on the back of toys and games about where the manufacturer was based. You might call it obsessive (I call it inquisitive) but it’s something I just can’t stop doing: I love reading. Given the amount of research I find myself doing here at MakeUseOf that’s not a bad thing, but recently I’ve found my office space becoming encroached with more and more magazines. The obvious solution is to bin them, but then I lose a potentially valuable resource.

So it’s time to think outside of the box and choose the second most obvious solution – forget about buying physical magazines at all, instead opting for digital alternatives. Browser Magazines Zinio. Keep Track Of What You Need To Get Done With Taskos [Android 2.0+] Our lives can get extremely busy at times, and we’re glad that we have our smartphones to help us get things done and keep everything organized.

However, although we have very capable smartphones, they need to be loaded with the right apps to have it do what you want in the way you want. The Google Play Store boasts a number of highly capable to-do list apps, which are necessary to keep track of what is done and what remains to be done. However, there are a few that definitely stand out, and Taskos is one of them. About Taskos. Manage Your Passwords On The Go With KeePassDroid [1.5+] With a 4.6 rating out of over 13,000 reviews and with over half a million installations, it is no wonder that KeePassDroid founds its way into our coveted list of Best Android Apps.

If you are not yet using this fantastic, free, cross-platform password manager, right now is the time to start. I mean, today, right after you finish reading this post. Seriously. Why Buy A Kindle When You Can Use The Kindle App For Android? There are many people who aren’t keen to buy a Kindle or similar e-book reader simply because they already have a similar multi-purpose device like a tablet or smartphone. You might be one of these people – and I agree that this attitude completely makes sense. Why carry around a Kindle when your phone can do a great job of letting you read eBooks? There are several great eBook applications for Android, but today we’ll take a closer look at the Kindle’s nearest counterpart: The Kindle App for Android. Reading Material On Kindle App For Android The Kindle application for Android is not just for books.

As well as purchasing books, magazines and newspapers, there is a lot of free content available through the Kindle store. 10 must have FREE Android apps (part 1) My recent switch from iOS to Android has given me the chance to discover some fantastic new free apps. Of course there are staple apps like Dropbox, Skype, etc. that everyone knows about already, but this post is NOT about these. Rather, I would like to present relatively unknown but terrific must-have programs for your Android.

This week’s theme: staples that everyone should have. (1) MoboPlayer, (2) AirDroid, (3) TouchPal Keyboard, (4) Gesture Search, (5) Dolphin Browser, (6) MoboLauncher, (7) Any.Do, (8) Pocket, (9) InstaMusic, (10) Viber, and a bonus entry, (11) Weather Underground. 1. MoboPlayer: play any video file format without conversion. How To Video Chat Between An Android Phone And A PC. Chatting with mobile phones is nothing new. Folks have been using instant messaging on their mobile phones almost as long as there have been mobile phones.

Video chatting, on the other hand, is only really starting to take off in a big way now that mobile data networks are really starting to expand in bandwidth. Trying to squeeze streaming video from a 2 megapixel camera over a 2G mobile data line was one thing, but streaming 5 megapixel video through a 4G data network or higher is a whole different story. If you’re running an Android, you’ve got lots to choose from for sending and receiving IM through your data network instead of using up your allotted texts. Fring or Imo are two good options. Swype For Android, Reviewed: A Hassle To Install, But Is It Worth It? Whenever I see an iPhone user laboriously tapping away a text message or an email key by key on that tiny 3.5″ iPhone screen, I cannot help but feel a tinge of pity (or is that glee?

Hard to tell apart sometimes, especially when it comes to my attitude towards iPhone users). I’ve long since fell in love with sliding/swiping keyboard, as my SlideIT review from a year ago shows. Search For Free Alternatives To Paid Android Apps On These 2 Websites. How to automatically sync your PC folders with your Android. Best Android Apps. Advertisement.