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Tuesday 15 September 2015

Top 20 Free Apps for Android Beginners

Android apps are essential to the end-users experience. There are several categories of apps, but I am going to ignore some as they are limited in their scope (ie, apps that are games, or are only focused on those who root their phones).

I believe the average smartphone user is going to want to focus on improving the user interface (apps that are better than the stock apps that come on the phone), social apps (ie Twitter, texting, conferencing), and media apps (ie music, photos, news).

Below are those categories and the apps that I feel can improve the Android experience.

Disclaimer: There are hundreds of thousands of Android apps. This is in no way all inclusive and can change daily.

BETTER THAN THE STOCK ANDROID APPLICATIONS:

Text Messanging:

1 – Go SMS Pro / Handcent SMS / Chomp SMS / Google Voice.

They are all better than the stock messenger, in their own regard. The average user can be complacent with the stock messaging app, it does send texts and MMS (ie pictures) just fine after all, but for the user who wants more, and these are the apps to try.

To be fair, Google Voice should not be lumped in here as it does so much. This app should be on every Android device, period.

Browser:

2 – Dolphin Browser HD / Skyfire / Miren

Wait, three more suggestions? Yeap. Why? Because their all awesome in their own regard. The stock browser I find fantastic, it does what you need and does it well. Again though, Android allows the user to do a lot more.

Dolphin is great because of tabbed browsing, gestures (finger swipes to open bookmarks for example) and multi-touch.

Skyfire emphasizes playing video – even those that are not compatible with Android.

Miren is extremely fast, minimalistic UI, and a lot of neat features (scrolling with the volume button, swipes to go forward/backward, etc).

Gallery:

3 – QuickPic

I hate the stock android gallery. It is a CPU hog, slow to load and limited in features. It is frankly my least favorite part of Android. QuickPic by Alensw (there are several apps with that name) is amazing. It is extremely fast to load, you can exclude certain albums from displaying, very high resolution/image quality, and built in editing tools (ie cropping, rotating, etc).

The Launcher (your homescreen):

4 – ADW EX / LauncherPro / Go Launcher EX

There I go again, three suggestions. Most of these have similar features, but each have unique features. I prefer ADW EX because it allows me to use swipe gestures to open my notifications or to open a second hidden dock bar (a place to stash commonly opened apps). This allows my homescreen to be less cluttered. You can customize the layout a lot more as well (ie, instead of the standard 4×4 layout, you can make it as much as 10×10), overlap widgets, infinite scrolling, change animations, etc. The list of options go on and on. I strongly suggest trying a new launcher.

Camera:

5 – CameraZoom FX / Camera360 / Retro Camera / Little Photo

All of these apps have features above and beyond the stock camera. I prefer Retro Camera because it is free and it also has a very unique UI. I can take some pretty spectacular photos with it, with very little effort. I’m a sucker for black and white photos that have a vintage look though.

A reader also suggested Little Photo – which seems wildly popular but was not known by me – NICE!

Music:

6 – PowerAMP / UberMusic / TuneIn Radio / Google Music / Amazon MP3

Again, each have unique qualities. PowerAMP is great in that it plays most anything and has an equalizer. UberMusic is just sexy. TuneIn Radio allows you to stream music from all over the world. Google Music is great for its cloud capabilities – I love having my music sync and not be stored on precious memory space. Amazon MP3 also has cloud capabilities and offers free music.

Dialer / Contacts:

7 –Go Contacts EX

Not every Android has a smart dialer (when you start typing a phone number or contact name, it filters out your results). I find that hard to believe. Go Contacts EX not only has a great smart dialer, but the UI is great too. You can swipe left to right to change from the dialer to contacts for instance. The app can also be themed by simply downloading themes from the Market (most of which are also free)

Photos:

8 – TouchRetouch / PicSay Pro / Little Photo

We talked about the Camera and the Gallery, but what about editing photos? Ever have something in your shot that you wish wasn’t there. TouchRetouch is essentially a magic eraser for your photos. It’s pretty brilliant for an app on your phone and can easily remove objects.

PicSay Pro is more of an effects tool. It allows a tremendous amount of customization to your photos.

Keyboards:

9 – Swype Beta / Swiftkey X

Swype is hands down the most revolutionary keyboard out. I was afraid of moving to a phone with no physical keyboard, till I tried Swype. The beta is open and free, and it’s the best keyboard out, in my opinion. Do yourself a favor and register now. Most know that Swype allows you to move from letter to letter (not peck each letter), but it also has a tremendous amount of features. I’ve got a huge guide on this, please contact me if interested. Swiftkey X is another revolutionary keyboard in a different sense. It actively seeks the NEXT word you would type, and it learns as you type. So, the more you use it, the more accurately it can predict your next word. I’ve written entire sentences by simply selecting the word it thought I would use. These are both amazing and something I am certain an iPhone would love to have (avoiding some of the famous auto-correct iPhone typo blunders).

SOCIAL APPS:

10 – Plume

I’ve tried every twitter app out there, and none can touch the power of Plume. Feature rich it won’t let you down. Get this if you use Twitter, or start using twitter if you do not already! I’ve found it to be the best way to get brief bits of news information catered to me. So much so that it’s now my favorite feature of a Smartphone.

11 – GroupMe

A completely free way to keep in contact with a group. Send text messages (with your data plan – not a traditional text message), share photos, conference calling, etc. This is a powerful app that could serve teenagers to the executive on business trips.

12 – Google+

Say what it really is, a FaceBook killer. Google hit a homerun with their social network in my opinion, and the app is feature rich. Want to have private conversations, or share with the world? Want to instantly sync photos taken from your phone? Want to use an alternate messenger or video chat with up to 9 people? Get it.

TRAVEL APPS:

13 – Google Maps

The features of Maps is pretty robust, but it is the Navigation that is its strong point in my opinion. I had two Garmin GPS units that became junk when I got my first Android phone. Not only did the Navigation work better (accuracy of turn by turn directions) from my phone, but the GPS signal was more accurate. You can also use Places to find and rate places and Lattitude to locate friends near you.

14 – Worldmate

Short and sweet, a must if you travel a lot. Forward your confirmation emails and it groups all of your itinerary into an incredibly simple package. Organize your plans, change your itinerary, share your itinerary with people, get flight alerts or check on a flight, get reminders, it locates hotels near you and even brings in the weather. Seriously, if you travel, try this!

MISCELLANEOUS APPS:

15 – Beautiful Widgets / Fancy Widgets

Another benefit of Android is the widgets – an easy to find and attractive thing to have on your homescreen with relevant information. I enjoy knowing the time and weather near me, and these apps give it accurately and in an attractive way that can be easily themed to my liking.

16 – Alarm Clock Plus

If you use your smartphone as your alarm, for lunch or sleep – this is the one to try. Feature rich and known as one of the best. This will be better than the stock Alarm on the phone and incorporates weather.

17 – Amazon’s Appstore

There are many nice features about Amazon’s Appstore, including their review process (added security perhaps over the Android Market), but lets be honest… its best feature is that they offer a paid app for free every day. Sometimes these apps are pretty amazing too. On more than one occasion I have went and bought the app in the official Android Market when I wanted to show my support to a developer.

18 – Chrome to Phone

If you use Android, there is a strong chance Chrome is your browser on your PC. This dandy of an app allows you to press the button on your PC’s browser (using the Chrome to Phone extension), and instantly that page/document/download link will show on your phone. Amazingly simply and powerful.

19 – Wheres My Droid

Are you one that easily misplaces their phone? Once installed, this app lets you send a text to your phone if it’s misplaced to help locate it. What if you left your phone on silent… what if you are not near it? Well, not only does it turn the volume to max (just in case), but it also lets you get the GPS coordinates if you REALLY misplaced it. A must have on any Android in my opinion.

20 – Astro File Manager

With Android you have the ability to view and move files around. This is the best way to manage your files, make backups of important files, open zip/tar files, allow downloads from the browser, etc. Frankly, every Android phone should come with a file manager, but they do not. Even if your phone did come with a file manager, there is a strong chance that it is not as good as Astro File Manager.

This list is no way inclusive. There are MANY apps that I use daily that did not get a mention. Perhaps I will make an extended list with more categories next time. I would appreciate your feedback. If you know someone new to Android, shoot them a link to this… I’d love to hear what someone new to Android thought of this list.

Thanks!!

How to hack Facebook and Gmail accounts using Cookie

Today I am writing about a new topic on Techotoys - Cookie Stealing. I observed that cookie stealing is

neglected by some fellow hackers (even I was one of them). But, recently, I discovered that cookie stealing can be pretty handy to hack an Email account. In the following article, I have covered basics of how to hack an Email account using Cookie Stealing.

How to hack Email account:

If you are a newbie and don't know about cookie, then for your information, Cookie is a piece of text stored on user computer by websites visited by the user. This stored cookie is used by webserver to identify and authenticate the user. So, if you steal this cookie (which is stored in victim browser) and inject this stealed cookie in your browser, you can imitate victim identity to webserver and enter his Email account easily. This is called Session Hijacking. Thus, you can easily hack Email account using such Cookie stealing hacks.

Tools needed for Cookie stealing attack:

Cookie stealing attack requires two types of tools:

    Cookie capturing tool
    Cookie injecting/editing tool

1. Cookie capturing tool:

Suppose, you are running your computer on a LAN. The victim too runs on same LAN. Then, you can use Cookie capturing tool to sniff all the packets to and from victim computer. Some of the packets contain cookie information. These packets can be decoded using Cookie capturing tool and you can easily obtain cookie information necessary to hack Email account. Wireshark and HTTP Debugger Pro softwares can be used to capture cookies.

Update: Check out my Wireshark tutorial for more information on cookie capturing tool.

2. Cookie injecting/editing tool:

Now, once you have successfully captured your victim cookies, you have inject those cookies in your browser. This job is done using Cookie injecting tool. Also, in certain cases after injection, you need to edit cookies which can be done by Cookie editing tool. This cookie injection/editing can be done using simple Firefox addons Add N Edit Cookies and Greasemonkey scripts. I will write more on these two tools in my future articles.

Drawbacks of Cookie Stealing:

Cookie Stealing is neglected because it has some serious drawbacks:

    Cookie has an expiry time i.e. after certain trigger cookie expires and you cannot use it to hijack victim session. Cookie expiry is implemented in two ways:
        By assigning specific timestamp(helpful for us).
        By checking for triggers like user exiting from webbrowser. So, in such cases, whenever user exits from his browser, his cookie expires and our captured cookie becomes useless.
    Cookie stealing becomes useless in SSL encrypted environment i.e. for https (Secure HTTP) links. But, most Email accounts and social networking sites rarely use https unless vicitm has manually set https as mandatory connection type.
    Also, most cookies expire once victim hits on LogOut button. So, you have to implement this Cookie stealing hack while user is logged in. But, I think this is not such a serious drawback because most of us have the habit of checking "Remember Me". So, very few people actually log out of their accounts on their PCs.

So friends, this was a short tutorial on basics of how to hack Email account using Cookie Stealing. As I have stated, Cookie stealing has some disadvantages. But, I think Cookie stealing is a handy way to hack an Email account. In my next articles, I will post detailed tutorial to hack Facebook and Gmail accounts using Cookie stealing. If you have any problem in this tutorial on how to hack Email account using Cookie stealing, please mention it in comments.

Enjoy Cookie stealing trick to hack Email account...

Arrow Key Navigation for Blogger

Navigating through a website using the keyboard arrow keys is really useful as you don't have to look around

This is a really simple and clean widget and you can see a demo of this widget right on this page. If you use the Right and Left arrow keys, you will be able to navigate to different pages on this blog. This works not just on the post pages, but also on the blog’s home page and label pages.The Arrow Key Navigation Widget will be disabled when you are typing something into a text box on the blog(This was done to avoid the page from being changed when the user is typing something into a text box and uses the arrow keys to move around this text.).
Why should I add this widget

This is a simple light weight widget which doesn’t depend on any external libraries and it’s really easy to install as well. It will give users a better experience when they are navigating across different pages of your blog.They won't have to scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page and look for the Older and Newer page links.
How to add this Widget

You can add this widget by using the below one click installer.
the page for the Newer or Older page links. You might have already seen this feature on many top blogs.It’s really easy to implement this feature on your Blogger Blog.You just have to add the arrow key navigation widget to your blogger blog.

Add the widget to your sidebar or footer and the Arrow Key Navigation will be activated on your Blog.The Widget title won’t appear on your Blog. So you can give it any appropriate name which will help you in identifying the widget on the layout page.
How to let readers know of this Widget

You might want to add some text to your blog which suggests that your Blog can be traversed using the keyboard arrow keys.Something message similar to “Use the Left or Right Arrow keys to navigate through this blog” might help.
How to Remove the Widget

If you want to remove this widget at any time, you can do that by removing the Arrow Page Navigation Widget from the Layout page.
How this works

If you are curious about how this works, then below is the actual code behind the widget. The code listens for Keyboard inputs and if detects an Arrow Key event, it will redirect the user to the newer or older page. The code picks the newer and older page links from the Blogger’s Page Navigation Links.

<script type='text/javascript'>
document.onkeyup = function(event)
{
if (document.activeElement.nodeName == 'TEXTAREA' || document.activeElement.nodeName == 'INPUT') return;
event = event || window.event;
switch(event.keyCode)
{
case 37:
var newerLink = document.getElementById('Blog1_blog-pager-newer-link');
if(newerLink !=null) window.location.href = newerLink.href;
break;
case 39:
var olderLink = document.getElementById('Blog1_blog-pager-older-link');
if(olderLink!=null) window.location.href = olderLink.href;
}
};
</script>

Please share your thoughts queries or suggestions :-) and if you need further help do let us know.

To add this widget follow these steps:-

    First Go To Blogger > Layout
    Add a HTML / JavaScript Gadget
    Now paste the following code in it

    <script src='http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.2/jquery.min.js' type='text/javascript'></script>
    <style>
    #fanback {
    display:none;
    background:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);
    width:100%;
    height:100%;
    position:fixed;
    top:0;
    left:0;
    z-index:99999;
    }
    #fan-exit {
    width:100%;
    height:100%;
    }
    #fanbox {
    background:white;
    width:420px;
    height:270px;
    position:absolute;
    top:58%;
    left:63%;
    margin:-220px 0 0 -375px;
    -webkit-box-shadow: inset 0 0 50px 0 #939393;
    -moz-box-shadow: inset 0 0 50px 0 #939393;
    box-shadow: inset 0 0 50px 0 #939393;
    -webkit-border-radius: 5px;
    -moz-border-radius: 5px;
    border-radius: 5px;
    margin: -220px 0 0 -375px;
    }
    #fanclose {
    float:right;
    cursor:pointer;
    background:url(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NRmqfyLwBHY/T4nwHOrPSzI/AAAAAAAAAdQ/8b9
    O7O1q3c8/s1600/fanclose.png) repeat;
    height:15px;
    padding:20px;
    position:relative;
    padding-right:40px;
    margin-top:-20px;
    margin-right:-22px;
    }
    .remove-borda {
    height:1px;
    width:366px;
    margin:0 auto;
    background:#F3F3F3;
    margin-top:16px;
    position:relative;
    margin-left:20px;
    }
    </style>
    <script type='text/javascript'>
    //<![CDATA[
    jQuery.cookie = function (key, value, options) {
    // key and at least value given, set cookie...
    if (arguments.length > 1 && String(value) !== "[object Object]") {
    options = jQuery.extend({}, options);
    if (value === null || value === undefined) {
    options.expires = -1;
    }
    if (typeof options.expires === 'number') {
    var days = options.expires, t = options.expires = new Date();
    t.setDate(t.getDate() + days);
    }
    value = String(value);
    return (document.cookie = [
    encodeURIComponent(key), '=',
    options.raw ? value : encodeURIComponent(value),
    options.expires ? '; expires=' + options.expires.toUTCString() : '', // use expires attribute, max-age is not supported by IE
    options.path ? '; path=' + options.path : '',
    options.domain ? '; domain=' + options.domain : '',
    options.secure ? '; secure' : ''
    ].join(''));
    }
    // key and possibly options given, get cookie...
    options = value || {};
    var result, decode = options.raw ? function (s) { return s; } : decodeURIComponent;
    return (result = new RegExp('(?:^|; )' + encodeURIComponent(key) + '=([^;]*)').exec(document.cookie)) ? decode(result[1]) : null;
    };
    //]]>
    </script>
    <script type='text/javascript'>
    jQuery(document).ready(function($){
    if($.cookie('popup_user_login') != 'yes'){
    $('#fanback').delay(100).fadeIn('medium');
    $('#fanclose, #fan-exit').click(function(){
    $('#fanback').stop().fadeOut('medium');
    });
    }
    $.cookie('popup_user_login', 'yes', { path: '/', expires: 7 });
    });
    </script>
    <div id='fanback'><div id='fan-exit'></div><div id='fanbox'><div id='fanclose'></div><div class='remove-borda'></div>
    <iframe allowtransparency='true' frameborder='0' scrolling='no' src='//www.facebook.com/plugins/likebox.php?
    href=http://www.facebook.com/mybloggerwidget&width
    =402&height=255&colorscheme=light&show_faces
    =true&border_color=%23E2E2E2&stream=false&header=false'
    style='border: none; overflow: hidden; margin-top: -19px; width: 402px; height: 230px;'></iframe>
    </div></div>

    Change http://www.facebook.com/mybloggerwidget with your facebook page URL
    Now click on save button
    View your Blog or Site and you are done !

Need Help ?
Dear friends and respected readers if you need any kind of help about this widget then feel free to comment below Take Care !

Sometime last year, we had informed you folks about Google rolling out XML sitemaps for Blogger blogs.

Sitemap is an XML document which lists out all the URLs of your site in an XML format so that search engines can easily identify and crawl pages on your website. The location of the sitemap is usually specified in the site’s robots.txt file(which will be read by the Search Engine Crawlers).

If you look at the robots.txt file of any Blogger Blog, you will find that it specifies a new sitemap URL.
http://hackingmission.blogspot.com/sitemap.xml
If you take a look at this URL, you can see that it lists out the URLs of all posts on BP along with their last modified timestamp. This information will help the crawlers in easily identifying any new entries on your blog.

Managing Sitemaps on Google WebMaster Tools

Google can easily find out your sitemap URL by reading your robots.txt file, but in case you want to explicitly specify the Sitemap URL and see the crawl/indexing statistics, you can update the new Sitemap URL in Webmaster tools. To add the new Blogger Sitemap, login at the below URL using your Google account.

https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/

If your blog was already added to webmaster tools, then it will be listed on Webmaster tools, if not add it using the “ADD A SITE” button. Once your blog is listed on WebMaster tools, click on the site name so that it takes you to the Site Dashboard.

Though we couldn’t find any official announcement from Google/Blogger, it looks like this feature is now available on all Blogger blogs including those which use a custom domain name like this one.

Google’s domain registration service Google Domains is now available to everyone in the US.Google domains integrates nicely with many Website-publishing platforms like Wix,Shopify,Sqaurespace and

Google Domains is now in public Beta and is available only to users in the United States. The rest of the world might have to wait a little longer to utilise this service. If you are eligible to use the new Google Domains integration, you should see a “Buy Now” option in Blogger’s publishing settings.

When you login to the Blogger Dashboard, and navigate to the Settings menu, you should see the option under the Publishing section

Once you click on the Buy a domain option, you should be able to quickly set your BlogSpot blog to use a custom domain name which you buy. Custom domain names on Google Domains costs somewhere near 12$ per year.

In case you haven’t yet created your blog, you can log onto Google Domains, buy a domain name and use blogger as the publishing platform.

Weebly. Google’s own platform (Blogger) wasn’t supported initially, but Google has now rolled out support for Blogger. This would mean that publishing your Blogger blog to a custom domain will be a lot more easier.

Search box is always a better solution of
many problems of bloggers. It helps visitors
to access of many posts of your site
through such a simple key words. Visitors
can type their keywords in search box and
it shows all posts according to keyword.
So it is a good thing and get lots of benefits
to add it in your blogger blog / site.
That’s why today i am going to show such
a simple way to add custom search box in
blog / site. So let’s have a look on these steps.

First of all go Google Custom Search Page remember you have to logged in you Gmail or Google account now add your site URL and click on Create button as shown below

Now you can see a new page where three options come ‘Get Code’, ‘Public URL’, and ‘Control Panel’ if you want to customize button go to Control Panel but if you want simple and we also recommend you simple so just click on Get Code button as shown in below picture

Now Copy the script code as showing selected code in below picture

Copy the above code and go to Blogger > Layout > Add a HTML / JavaScript gadget
and paste the code you copied and click on save button adjust the gadget where you want to show search box we use it on top so you should also use it on top so visitor can find it
easily hope you like it !

Hello! to our dear users, I am your new helper, hope you all like my work. This is my first article for My Blogger Widgets and its on Top 5 Online Videos Sharing Websites - for bloggers. In hole world 60% peoples have used internet to watch free videos.We bloggers can get advantage of videos sharing websites. Just we have to work on some videos and upload them to free videos sharing websites with a link back to our blog. Here you will get a list of Top 5 Online Videos Sharing Websites. So! you can freely upload your videos to these websites. Also you can watch and download your favorite videos. If you want more traffic and better rankings of your videos then embed your videos in your blog posts.
How Videos Work for Generating Traffic on Blog ?

    Make some funny videos with your mobile/camera
    If you have some skills on videos editing then make some How-To tutorials
    Open any of below website and register/login
    Now upload your created videos and link back to your blog
    You can give links in description of videos
    Embed videos in your blog posts and share videos on social medias

Top 5 Online Videos Sharing Website

     1. Vimeo
Vimeo Is New Videos Sharing Website, It Allow To Its Users Tow Type Of Uploads, You Are Limited On Uploading For A Basic Account, Limitations Is here 500 MB Per Week Upload, You Can Upload 1 HD Video In 1 Week, You Can Upload 10 Videos Per Day, You Can Make 1 Channel 1 Group and 3 Albums Some Others And If You Have A Paid Account Then You Can Make Your Limits As You Like Visit This Site
     2. VEVO
Vevo Is Nice Videos Sharing Website For Music Lovers. Yes This Videos Sharing Website Is Only For Music Lovers You Can Freely Watch Your Favorite Music On This Free Platform, Musicians Upload There Work On Vevo For Getting Quick Response. Visit This Site

     3. DailyMotion
DailyMotion Is An Other Nice Videos Sharing Free Website For All World, You Can Easily Upload Your Videos And Download Your Free Videos From DailyMotion, But You are Limited To Upload Your Video In 2GB Of Space And 60 Minutes Of Time, SO Enjoy To Visit This Click HERE

     4. Veoh
Veoh Is A Very Nice Videos Sharing Platform Its Used By Top Television Channels One You Signed In To Veoh Then You Can Upload Any Type Of Video With Any Length, Because Veoh Give You Free Hand, Veoh Is A Internet Television Service, Visit Veoh

     5. MetaCafe
MetaCafe Is Another Super Videos Sharing Website For Free, With More Then 40 Million Unique Viewers every month, Nice Feature Is. If your content is popular among users and your video hit 20.000 views, Metacafe will pay you $5 for every 1,000 views. Good motivation for making cool videos, isn’t it?
Hope you like this little article for generating good traffic for a blog doing video marketing. I will make a full tutorial on video marketing after some days. This was a demo tut so stay connected.