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The Vine vs. Instagram Competition In the last week of June of this year, the network of Instagram and Facebook had a debut video that is controversially new. After which they made a showdown with Vine and Twitter for these two products are mostly similar but have key differences that set them apart and at each other's throats. These two apps are different in the following ways. Source : techcrunch.com The length of Instagram's video clips is fifteen seconds while vine is six seconds. The longer limit of time is supposed to ration a good longer portion of time to shoot videos as opposed to Vine's six seconds. This is good but according to the press it really depends if the film is either interesting or boring because if it is boring it’s quite pointless to have fifteen seconds of a shot of film.  Shooting the film is quite the same for these two apps but there is also a difference. With Vine you can touch anywhere on the screen and it will shoot. Wi

Now there’s no need to burden your hectic business life with expensive fax appliances and ink costs or bother about replenishing reams of paper. Because, to assist your enterprise and help you relax, here comes eFax - the nifty internet-run Android application . Presenting a thorough evaluation of eFax (2013): Version Rudiments a) eFax (2013) edition was released (upgraded) on 13th February 2013 making it version 2.1.2. b) The app measures 2.1 megabytes in size, requires Android version 2.2 or higher in order to operate, and may be utilized on all supported mobile devices and even desktops. a) eFax (2013) may be downloaded from the Google Play portal at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.j2.efax&hl=en Pricing and Other Conditions After installation, the app may either be used via a 30-day sample period or straightway through two paid plans that are described below: 1) eFax Plus : This plan comes with a monthly usage pr

Good morning folks. Today, we're going to be looking at five essential Android apps for travelling . While some of these apps will be more or less useful depending on what kind of travelling you're doing, there are enough general purpose apps here to make this worth your while. Let's get started, shall we? 1. Waze Waze is a rather clever driving app that offers a unique advantage - real time traffic data and incident reporting. While other apps (including the default Google Maps ) include some variant of traffic data, Waze goes a step further by allowing users to make both active and passive contributions to this data. For starters, your position will be anonymously shared with Waze servers. When multiple Waze users are stuck in a single location while using the app, this route will automatically be flagged as having poor traffic and the routing and ETA will be adjusted accordingly for everyone using the service. Waze also allows you to mark specific causes of

If you have made the investment to own a smartphone, as many people around the world have, then it would be silly not to take advantage of your device and harness its full potential. While smartphones have a whole range of possibilities, it is probably the range of smartphone apps available across many platforms that are the best way to turn your handset into an essential lifestyle tool. We looked at the apps that you need to enhance your smartphone and revolutionize your life, once you have them you will wonder how you ever managed without them. Google Chrome This is a must have for anyone who uses Chrome as their desktop browser, and for iPhone enthusiasts it is probably a slicker option than Safari. Make the most of Chrome by synchronising your device to your desktop so you can take your bookmarks and browsing history with you wherever you go. Dictionary.com Even the biggest intellects upon us can stumble across words that we are unclear of when reading

With everyone owning mobile gadgets and the deluge of software applications , monitoring the functioning of mobile gadgets is gaining significance. This is where device management applications or mobile device management (MDM) software comes into play. They monitor and manage mobile gadgets that are installed by mobile operators and service providers by distributing applications and protecting the configuration and data settings for all mobile gadgets. This helps MDMs to minimize maintenance expenses and company risks. While users of iOS devices make use of iTunes to manage their devices from Windows, Android users have different software options. With smarter gadgets and faster WiFi connections there is virtually no need to connect one’s gadgets to the computer every time one needs to synchronize files and folders on an Android device. Today applications are available to synchronize files and folders without wires and permissions from gadget users. SnapPea is one such ap

When I'm writing articles, I have two big loves: Android and Coffee. Today, I'm combining those interests into a single article about Coffee Apps , where I'll be looking at the best Android applications for coffee aficionados. Let's get right into the selections! 5. Hidden Menu Coffee Drinks This is a rather clever app that shows you twenty-five 'secret' drinks available at Starbucks. All are essentially modifications of existing drinks, but given the vast amount of combinations it's nice to have some good recommendations. While I'm not sure how well my barista will take to these, I'm definitely keen to give them a try. Thankfully, the app shows both a Starbucks standard chart of what you want as well as the plain English definition. This app is free, but there's a paid variant that offers 75 variants and costs £0.61. 4. Coffee Recipes This is a coffee recipe app, showing off so many different espresso-based coffee recipes. Whi

I t’s high time that we threw away the default contacts in our cellphones . Nowadays you can get hundreds of beautiful and capable contacts apps in iTunes Store and Google Play , here are the 5 apps I think which are superior than the built-in contacts app. Smarter This app requires you to register with your email, and it allows you to sync with iCloud, Gmail, Yahoo email, Outlook, Calendar, and import your contacts from Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Another highlight is that Smarter will organize your contacts upon how frequently you contact him/her, no need to manually set them in order for a more convenient call, pretty smart, right? It can also pull all the activities related to this contact together and display them to you, including the emails, SMS, and calls, also the involved calendar event. It is free to use, and available on both iOS and Android . Contacts+ Once you run this app, it will show your contacts in latticed interface, a bit like browsi

Smartphone in your hands definitely looks prettier and when they click high quality pictures then definitely they make you highly popular. And now-a-days the industry is flooded with n number of apps that can make your photography experience even more worthy. At times people find it really difficult to choose that which app will make their right position in your mobiles. It’s difficult to choose which app will make your pictures a great featured one. So let’s seek out the best smartphone apps that can make your photos look even prettier and attractive. Adobe Photoshop Express Adobe Photoshop is one of the pure photo editing elements that has prevailed in almost all the PCs from a long time. And the same is now in your phone as an editing app. Though the app doesn’t do all that its elder cousin installed in your computer does, still it proves itself to be fine enough. But there is no doubt that it will help you well to edit your photos. Apart from the common

The advent of numerous innovation communication devices has brought a revolution in international journalism arena. Nowadays, journalists work since dawn to midnight for covering their day-today stories. In this way, it has become necessary for field reporters to use ultra modern devices to store and compose the ongoing news contents. Surprisingly, smartphones  have made it simple. Now, you can get all the needed applications in your smartphone and cover an ongoing event easily. Stunning Smartphone Applications for Field Journalists: Magisto Video Editor: This application is useful to make editing of your recorded videos and images. You can make needful changes in your content. At first, this video editing application was published in mobile reporting guide of UC Berkeley. Since then, it has been beating top video editing applications, including Apple’s own iMovie. You get the freedom of mixing two different videos and audio files with the help of this smartphone a

Smartphones are great helpers in our daily lives, more than helpers; they tend to facilitate almost every aspect of our daily life, ranging from keeping a check on our kids to meeting our work deadlines. So there is no denying that we have become majorly dependant on our smartphones to get our day to day hassles out of the way. But how much time do we really spend using smartphones on improving ourselves? Technology has been a major helper in business and chores but when it comes to using them to upgrade the way we live, fix up those horrible spending habits, keep track of health and fitness, how many of us can claim we can do that? By now, all those who own smartphones, from the housewife noob to the seasoned elderly, know how to install anti-cell phone spyware and detect keylogger presence on their sets, but there are other things to learn when it comes to our smartphones as well. For those of you who find this idea refreshing, here are 5 apps that will help you break o