Saturday, January 16, 2016

A Comprehensive List of Apps for iOS

This is the list of apps I have installed on my phone and would recommend any user to try.
  1. Adobe Reader
  2. Airdroid
  3. Aldiko
  4. Barcode Scanner
  5. BBM
  6. Bing
  7. Blogger
  8. Box
  9. Bump
  10. CDE
  11. Chrome
  12. Cloud Print
  13. Copy
  14. Cortana
  15. Cubby
  16. Device Manager
  17. Drive
  18. Dropbox
  19. ES File Manager
  20. ES Task Manager
  21. Evernote
  22. Facebook
  23. File Commander
  24. File Manager
  25. Fing
  26. Firefox
  27. Flava
  28. Flickr
  29. Flipboard
  30. Foursquare
  31. Gmail
  32. Goggles
  33. Google Earth
  34. Hangouts
  35. HipChat
  36. Instagram
  37. Keep
  38. Kobo
  39. Line
  40. LinkedIn
  41. Maps
  42. Messenger
  43. My Tracks
  44. OneDrive
  45. OneNote
  46. Opera
  47. Path
  48. Pinterest
  49. Play Books
  50. Play Games
  51. Play Movies
  52. Play Music
  53. Play Newsstand [Play Magazines]
  54. Pocket
  55. Pulse
  56. Pushbullet
  57. Quickoffice
  58. Quora
  59. Scatter
  60. Skyfire
  61. Skype
  62. Snapchat
  63. StumbleUpon
  64. SugarSync
  65. TeamViewer
  66. Telegram
  67. Translate
  68. Trello
  69. Tumblr
  70. Twitter
  71. Umano
  72. Viber
  73. WhatsApp
  74. Wikipedia
  75. Wordpress
  76. YouTube
  77. Zite
Optionally, you might want to try the following:
  1. AeroFS
  2. Banjo
  3. Bitcasa
  4. Buffer
  5. Circle
  6. CloudMagic
  7. CloudMe
  8. Cloze
  9. Evomail
  10. Fetchnotes
  11. Github
  12. Glide
  13. Hike
  14. Highlight
  15. HootSuite
  16. Jongla
  17. MapFactor
  18. MapQuest
  19. Maverick
  20. Onavo
  21. Orkut
  22. Otixo
  23. Schemer
  24. Scribd
  25. Skitch
  26. SocialCam
  27. Sphere
  28. Springpad
  29. Tango
  30. Touch
  31. Waze
  32. Wisepilot
  33. Zello
Music:
  1. SoundCloud
  2. Apple Music
  3. Gaana
  4. Saavn
  5. 8tracks
  6. Spotify
  7. Pandora
Accessibility:
Tether
MacID
Scribe
Scatter
Xender

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

A Comprehensive List of Apps for Android

This is the list of apps I have installed on my phone and would recommend any user to try.
  1. Adobe Reader
  2. Airdroid
  3. Aldiko
  4. Barcode Scanner
  5. BBM
  6. Bing
  7. Blogger
  8. Bump
  9. CDE
  10. Chrome
  11. Cloud Print
  12. Device Manager
  13. Drive
  14. Dropbox
  15. ES File Manager
  16. ES Task Manager
  17. Evernote
  18. Facebook
  19. File Commander
  20. File Manager
  21. Firefox
  22. Flava
  23. Flickr
  24. Flipboard
  25. Foursquare
  26. Gmail
  27. Goggles
  28. Hangouts
  29. Instagram
  30. Keep
  31. Kobo
  32. LinkedIn
  33. Maps
  34. My Tracks
  35. OneNote
  36. Opera
  37. Pinterest
  38. Play Books
  39. Play Games
  40. Play Movies
  41. Play Music
  42. Play Newsstand [Play Magazines]
  43. Pocket
  44. Pulse
  45. Pushbullet
  46. Quickoffice
  47. Scatter
  48. SkyDrive
  49. Skyfire
  50. StumbleUpon
  51. SugarSync
  52. TeamViewer
  53. Translate
  54. Trello
  55. Tumblr
  56. Twitter
  57. Umano
  58. WhatsApp
  59. Wikipedia
  60. Wordpress
  61. YouTube
  62. Zite
I assume Google Search and Voice Search are pre-installed on all devices along with Google Text-to-Speech, Google+, Gmail, Drive and Maps.
So is News & Weather. Google Currents' functionality is provided by Play Newsstand
Optionally, you might want to try the following:
  1. AeroFS
  2. Banjo
  3. Bitcasa
  4. Box
  5. Buffer
  6. Circle
  7. CloudMagic
  8. CloudMe
  9. Cloze
  10. Evomail
  11. Fetchnotes
  12. Github
  13. Glide
  14. Hike
  15. Highlight
  16. HootSuite
  17. Jongla
  18. MapFactor
  19. MapQuest
  20. Maverick
  21. Onavo
  22. Orkut
  23. Otixo
  24. Path
  25. Quora
  26. Schemer
  27. Scribd
  28. Skitch
  29. Snapchat
  30. SocialCam
  31. SoundCloud
  32. Sphere
  33. Springpad
  34. Tango
  35. Telegram
  36. Touch
  37. Viber
  38. Waze
  39. Wisepilot
  40. Zello
Games:
Scrabble
Strata
UNO & Friends
Weave
Wordament

Accessibility:
Gesture Search
TalkBack

Quick Link to Apps installed on your phone - https://play.google.com/apps

Saturday, December 7, 2013

Number System Conversions - Handy Coding Tricks

1. Decimal to Binary and other number systems

Integer.toBinaryString(int);
Integer.toOctalString(int);
Integer.toHexString(int);
Integer.toString(int number) // base 10
Integer.toString(int number, int radix)

Examples:
Integer.toBinaryString(15); // will return "1111"
Integer.toString(15, 2); // will return "1111"
Integer.toBinaryString(123); // will return "1111011"
Integer.toString(123, 2); // will return "1111011"
Integer.toOctalString(15); // will return "17"
Integer.toString(15, 8); // will return "17"
Integer.toOctalString(123); // will return "173"
Integer.toString(123, 8); // will return "173"
Integer.toString(15); // will return "15"
Integer.toString(15, 10); // will return "15"
Integer.toString(123); // will return "123"
Integer.toString(123, 10); // will return "123"
Integer.toHexString(15); // will return "f"
Integer.toHexString(15).toUpperCase(); // will return "F"
Integer.toHexString(123); // will return "7b"
Integer.toHexString(123).toUpperCase(); // will return "7B"
Integer.toString(15, 16); // will return "f"
Integer.toString(15, 16).toUpperCase(); // will return "F"
Integer.toString(123, 16); // will return "7b"
Integer.toString(123, 16).toUpperCase(); // will return "7B"

2. Binary to Decimal and other number systems

Integer.parseInt(String decimalstring); //base 10
Integer.parseInt(String decimalstring,int radix=10);
Integer.parseInt(String stringrepresentation,int radix);
Integer.parseInt(String binarystring,int radix=2); // Binary to Decimal
Integer.parseInt(Integer.toString(Integer.parseInt(binarystring,2),8)); //Binary to Octal
Integer.toString(Integer.parseInt(binarystring,2),16)); //Binary to Hexadecimal

Examples:
Integer.parseInt("15"); //will return 15
Integer.parseInt("12345"); //will return 12345
Integer.parseInt("1111",2); // will return 15
Integer.parseInt("1111011",2); // will return 123
Integer.parseInt("10101",2); // will return 21
Integer.parseInt("17",8); // will return 15
Integer.parseInt("173",8); // will return 123
Integer.parseInt("123",8); // will return 83
Integer.parseInt("CAFE",16); // will return 51966
Integer.parseInt("BABE",16); // will return 47806

3. Other manipulations - Octal to Hexadecimal and Hexadecimal to Octal

Integer.toString(Integer.parseInt("123",8),16); // will return 53
Integer.toString(Integer.parseInt("123",16),8); // will return 443

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Apps for Windows Phone

Oh! You are on Windows Phone? Wow! Did you try exploring the store?
Or browse through the apps in this Essential Apps collection?
Thats so amazing! If you havent, take time to try out all the apps by Microsoft first - here
How many apps do you have? Not many.. Awww! Whatever you do, get acquainted with OneNote.
Or install Evernote.

First of all, install this app, recommended by me and my friend. it provides Shortcut Tiles for frequently used Settings

I am frustrated, so frustrated i dont even want to make a new post to my blog.
There is NO Gmail or Hangouts app for Windows Phone.
I would like to sincerely request all the app developers in the Google team out there to do something, so that Windows Phone users too have access to the services offered by Google.
[3rd-party Gmail App link here!]
Everyone deserves an app for his/her device. You have to deliver equally. Atleast provide an official Google Talk app, why should consumers rely on 3rd-party apps like GChat? What about File Sync and File Sharing via Google Drive - you talked about unified storage. Its going waste now! :-(
[3rd party GDrive Apps - 1 and 2!]

No official Google Maps for Windows Phone, but loads of unofficial ones - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
You must try Waze! or MapQuest!

Dont worry, i have a list for you to try out! Go get Google's only app for your platform first! Needless to stay, still saying, install the Google Search app! By the way, dont ditch the Bing Search App!

For those of you who cant stay without Google's Products and Services (like me), you gotta use unofficial apps as listed -

I dont want to comment about the official YouTube app [made by Microsoft though, not Google] since it keeps going alive and off again and again.
[Kind of a cold war - Microsoft blocks, Google updates, Microsoft unblocks, still there has been a steady war of words between the two - "reasons are crafted", HTML5 stuff ..blah.blah. ]

Wait, I am not talking about WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, FourSquare, etc.
Not even Hike or LINEWeChat or Skype. Instant Messaging is a mess everywhere.
Lets talk about news aggregation apps, where you are sure to learn something new or gain knowledge
rather than spending time typing on that touch keyboard for quarrels and discussions on IM groups.
News - There is NO Pulse, NO Flipboard for you, try Weave or use Bing News!
Better off try Zite!

Weather - If you dont like AccuWeather, which would be too rare an occurrence , try Bing Weather!
There are other apps too - Bing TravelBing Finance or Bing Sports, if you like.
Since Google Translator is not available for your device, Bing Translator will come handy.
It takes time, but things have now arrived in time - Bing is here!
Get the Bing Maps app back in place using this or this, in case you have a Nokia Lumia!
I havent tried this app WizTiles, but i'm lovin' it!

Thanks to Windows Phone’s efforts over the past few years, Bing now has an expanded home in the mobile space. I love Bing Wallpapers! Fire that app everyday and you shall have a good morning! :-)
In this blogpost, I am talking about apps worth exploring.

Photography - I am sorry, but there's no Instagram for you! But you do have Aviary.
You may try Oggl, Camera360, FhotoRoom or Photosynth.
Nokia Lumia's Cinemagraph, Panorama, PhotoBeam, SmartShoot, etc. are good too.
Relief, there are official apps for Tumblr and Flickr! :-)
Before all that, you MUST install FreshPaint! Its just awesome!

Try FunctionPlotter, PeriodicTable if you are a science freak,
Music - Try Deezer, Spotify or Pandora if you love to explore some music!
Breaking News - TeamViewer just launched a new app for WP8 users!

So that was a scanty app store collection for you, you have any ideas [like I do],
contact me via comments or get started building your apps right here.
Microsoft made a WYSIWYG WebApp for AppDevs called "Windows Phone App Studio"
Follow the 4 simple steps - Idea. Content. Style. Use as mentioned here. Get

Ready. Set. Go. Done!

Web Browsing - Tired of using IE [Internet Explorer] again on your Windows Phone, u think there's no other choice? You're wrong. There's UC Browser for you! Maybe you can find Opera Mini or Opera Mobile too! Nokia users you have got Nokia Express, what else do you want?
Do you use a Windows 8 device, then you must try this Windows Phone app for Windows 8 [PC]!

I shall list more apps as i find time to crawl and do research on the whole new app ecosystem!
Let me get back to my Digit Fast Track to Windows Phone [written a year ago, for WP7] - to understand the evolution of WP from WP& to WP8 and anticipate the future of Windows Phone.
RIP MeeGo! And now, RIP Symbian

An advice - Make good use of SkyDrive! It alone does the job of Dropbox & SugarSync!
[No official mobile apps for these cloud storage services for the Windows Phone platform; Maybe they aren't coming any soon either. So start developing yourself. You already have free access to their API. ]
Cloud Storage / File Sync : No cloud storage provider provides official apps for Windows Phone except Box. Btw, you can try these 3rd party apps - dropboxDropbox or FileBox, Caramel for Sugarsync. Wait. There's another cloud storage service Copy for you!

Update: Apps for Windows Phone can be download manually and transferred via other media [Bluetooth/USB/WiFi/etc] from the official Windows Phone website as .xap files
(like how iOS uses .ipa files and Android uses .apk files) and hence, cracked apps too might be available if you search using better tools and appropriate keywords.

You must try TouchDevelop. And dont forget to send feedback - SuggestionBox to Microsoft!
This platform is heating up fast, it is just lukewarm yet. Android and iOS, watch out! Others, please maintain silence. Who knows the future of Blackberry? Palm webOS is already dead. Bada & Symbian are history. Maemo is obsolote. MeeGo couldnt stand up for a fight. Taizen packs a punch. Lets wait for FirefoxOS devices in common man's hands. #Geeksphone

Wanna try access/transfer files from the PC - Try Tonido for WP here, Also available for iOS, Android, BlackBerry! Just like BTSync!

If you use iOS, try out GDrive.
PS: This Dictionary app for Windows Phone is just awesome.

Saturday, August 17, 2013

Google Mnemonic Links - SubDomain Redirects! #Semantics

Google mnemonic shortcuts/shortlinks -

Here is a list of All Google Products you have ever used -> Link
And here is your Dashboard, use google.com/dashboard to avoid the mouse.

Google Accounts at accounts.google.com
(Google Account Activity Reports at google.com/settings/activity
Google Admin Page at admin.google.com
Google AdWords at google.com/business, ads.google.com & adwords.google.com
Google AdSense at adsense.google.com
Google Alerts at alerts.google.com
Google Android Device Manager at google.com/android/devicemanager
Google App Engine at appengine.google.com
Google Apps for Business at google.com/aapps.google.com & google.com/enterprise/apps/business/
Google Apps for Education at google.com/enterprise/apps/education/
Google Apps Status at appsstatus.google.com or google.com/appsstatus
Google Blogger at blogger.google.com, blogger.com or blogspot.com
Google Blog Search at blogsearch.google.com
Google Bookmarks at bookmarks.google.com
Google Books at books.google.com, book.google.com or print.google.com
[To perform, advanced book search, use this link]
Google Calendar at calendar.google.com
Google Chrome at chrome.google.com or chrome.com
[The Google Chrome Web Store can be accessed here -> https://chrome.google.com/webstore ]
(Google Chrome Sync at google.com/settings/chrome)
Google Cloud Platform at cloud.google.com
Google Cloud Print at google.com/cloudprint
Google Code at code.google.com
Google Contacts at contacts.google.com or google.com/contacts
Google Developers at developer.google.com or developers.google.com
Google Docs at docs.google.com or doc.google.com or documents.google.com
Google Drive at drive.google.com or gdrive.net
(Google Drive Storage Summary at google.com/settings/storage)
Google in Education at google.com/edu or google.com/education
Google Earth at earth.google.com or google.com/earth
Google Enterprise Search at google.com/enterprise/search/ & mini.google.com
Google Finance at finance.google.com or google.com/finance
Google Games at games.google.com {obsolete/discontinued}
Google Groups at groups.google.com or group.google.com
Google Hangouts at hangouts.google.com or hangout.google.com
Google Helpouts at helpouts.google.com or helpouts.google.com
Google Hotel Finder at hotels.google.com or hotelfinder.google.com
Google Image Search at images.google.com or image.google.com
Google Keep at keep.google.comdrive.google.com/keep or google.com/keep
Google Mail at mail.google.com, googlemail.com or gmail.com
Google Maps at maps.google.commap.google.com or google.com/maps
Google Maps Preview at yp.google.com or google.com/maps/preview
Google Mars at mars.google.com
Google Merchants Center at merchants.google.com
Google Mobile at mobile.google.com or google.com/mobile
Google Moderator at google.com/moderator
Google Moon at moon.google.com
Google Movie Showtimes at movies.google.com, movie.google.com or google.com/movies
Google (Play) Music at music.google.com or google.com/music
(Google Now at google.com/now)
Google Offers at offers.google.com or google.com/offers
Google Patents at patents.google.com
Google Photos at photos.google.com or photo.google.com and picasaweb.google.com
Google Picasa at picasa.google.com or picasa.com
Google Places for Business at places.google.com or google.com/business/placesforbusiness/
Google Play at play.google.com or google.com/play
Google Plus [Google+] at plus.google.complusone.google.com or google.com/plus
(Google Postini at postini.google.com)
Google Public Data at publicdata.google.com
Google Reader at reader.google.com or google.com/reader {obsolete/discontinued}
Google Scholar at scholar.google.com or google.com/scholar
Google (Apps) Script at script.google.com or google.com/script
Google Search at search.google.com
Google Security at security.google.com
Google Shopping at products.google.com, shopping.google.com and froogle.com
Google Sites at sites.google.com
Google Sky at sky.google.com
Google Slides at slides.google.com
Google Spreadsheets at spreadsheets.google.com or spreadsheet.google.com
Google Street View at google.com/streetview
Google Tag Manager at tagmanager.google.com
Google Talk [now Hangouts] at talk.google.com
Google Toolbar at toolbar.google.com
Google Translate at translate.google.com or google.com/translate
Google Transparency Report at google.com/transparencyreport
Google Trends at trends.google.com or google.com/trends
Google Ventures at ventures.google.com or googleventures.com
Google Videos at videos.google.com or video.google.com
Google Voice at voice.google.com or google.com/voice
Google Wallet at wallet.google.com or google.com/wallet
Google Web Designer at google.com/webdesigner
Google Webmasters at webmaster.google.com

More:
google.com/archivesearch for Google Advanced News Search
google.com/searchhistory for Google Web Search History [Also, history.google.com]
or google.com/psearch for Google Personalized Search

Checkout Google FreeZone at freezone.google.com or use
the link - http://www.google.com/intl/en_in/mobile/landing/freezone/

Feel free to give Feedback to Google, get started right here!

Help improve Google’s products
Sending your feedback is very easy using Google Feedback. Just click Send feedback or Report a bug, enter a description, highlight and/or black out parts of the page, and click Submit to send your feedback straight to Google.

View all the feedbacks you have ever given by accessing this Report Log!
If you want to read something, read Google's Terms of Service!

While you use other services/search engines like Microsoft's Bing, do the same there in the name of humanity so as to provide better, improved and efficient search for the future generations. The whole world will remember you and praise your efforts! 

Thursday, August 15, 2013

Cloud IDEs


"Software Factories" and "Component Markets" are now dead.
Ever-used Call-back functions in Javascript? Worked with Clojure? Tried WIMP?

Okay. Back to Coding! We all code. We code in the day and in the night. We code at college and back at home. I think code while having food and dream code while travelling. So code is the primary entity. 
But code has to be written, typed, tested, reviewed and modified, optimized so that the whole universe of things evolves and a whole new revolution is set in motion and the momentum keeps things going. There's no force. It just needs an impulse. A Spark! A thought! An idea and thats all!

So we code hard! And maintain or possess multiple copies of the code to roll back or start from scratch.
Come Web IDEs that do all this online.

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

OwnCloud Research Survey

Whats OwnCloud?

OwnCloud is a private cloud storage service project with an accompanying open source code repository, started by Frank Karlitschek, that used WebDAV. ownCloud isn't just about syncing files. It syncs not just files but contacts, calendars and bookmarks across devices. It even features music streaming features! it has about 4e5 users. ownCloud enables businesses to host their own, on premises or remote, cloud storage while maintaining regulatory and compliance needs. Can be put to good use for educational purposes and implemented in University campuses.

OwnCloud Mobile Apps - Android & iOS
Github Link

Gotta read this and this!