10 Things you are not doing right with your smartphone

Smartphones are now a part of your daily life and so as your personal life. A smartphone carries lot of your personal data and it is always under a threat to be leaked.

Android KitKat home launcher apk

looking to try out the new Android KitKat launcher, but not looking to wait for the launch, you can install the launcher of the all new Android version with just a few installs. Just visit XDA-Developers and follow the instructions and download the files and install.

iOS 6 to iOS 7, gif animation

Well just in few days time the classic iOS 6 look will transform into a flat iOS 7 style. Here is the gif image from gadgetlove.com, showing how Scott Forstall’s design gets transformed into Sir Jony Ive’s new Design.

iPhone 5 tops the used smartphones market as well

Well buying or selling your old phone is a common thing with so many options available, if you are looking to sell an iPhone 5 you can expect a good value and if you are looking to buy a used iPhone 5, you need a strong budget.

The iPhone 5 has the Highest Trade-In Value in the united states at $315 followed by Samsung Galaxy S4 at $250.

The HTC one X and iPhone 4S are following the list with values of $220 and $200 respectively.

Now shared photo albums in Facebook, update rolling out

Facebook is one of the top places where people share there personal photos of trips, events and so much more, every happy moment of your life end up as a Facebook album. Facebook has rolled out a new update to the photo albums, which will now, not only let your friends view the album but also allow some selected ones ( the ones you select not Facebook :P ) to upload photos into that album.

Now if you were on a trip with your friends and you all captured some memories of the visit, no need to upload many different albums on every profile ( your own profile and your friends will also upload in their own profiles ) and tag people to let them know. Facebook's new album feature will allow you to create an album and then you can add friends to that album who can also upload to that same album, without creating a new album on their respective accounts.

This is a very nice update, now you will have just a single place to get all the photos from your friends who were on the last trip with you.

An alarm clock that will make you poor if you don't get up early

Well jokes apart, to be realistic this app will not make you poor, until you are a student and rely on your low budget pocket money. There are situations everyday in the morning, getting up from bed, your phone keeps on ringing and you keep on hitting snooze. Well here is a comic solution to the problem,

the comic below shows that whenever you hit snooze, it will take money from you. So if you love your sleep, in 3-4 days you will surely run out of pocket money.

Older People are boring and younger are more friendly

Now there is mathematical proof that as you grow older you become more boring and less friendly. Mathematician Stephen Wolfram analysed data from Facebook to calculate the data science of the World of Facebook. He found out that as the age of user increases the number of Facebook friends decreases, indicating that ether you are getting boring or you are afraid about being in new unknown virtual relations, more likely is that as you grow older you tend to understand people better and realising the virtual relations are not doing any good for you.

Tablets are almost the new PCs

Some of the mobile insights are clearly indicating that the tablet shipments will soon be overtaking the PCs. The estimate is that in 2015, tablets are likely to sell more compared to PCs and this is quite obvious, as tablets are the perfect fit for the entertainment needs.

Best practices for the first date : infographic

Here is an infographic from match.com showing what people generally do before their first date. It also shows the most common ways how people meet in which the percentage of meeting someone through a friend is a little higher than the online dating sites.

Android is from Facebook, what if users start to think that way

This might not come to life but what if it does? at least in Larry Page's nightmares, Facebook will be taking over android with their own OS in years to come. With Facebook Home for Android Facebook is turning your Android phone in to a Facebook phone.

how Facebook buying Instagram effected twitter : infographic

Facebook bought Instagram for 1billion US dollars, it might sound like a big amount for an app but it was a good one. After Facebook bought Instagram Twitter was the site which got effected by it the most. Before the buy twitter users used to see the shared photos in the timeline but not any more and one needs to click on the link and then are redirected to Instagram.

Why playing Video Games is a good thing

You might consider that playing games is not a good thing, making you un-social and sticking to computers or consoles. Well playing games is not that bad for your life, in fact playing games can add some positive elements to your life. playing games can improve collaboration and problem solving skills and 63% of parents do believe that gaming is a positive part of their kid's life.

OMG friend request from mom on Facebook

The studies have shown that 50% of all the parents on Facebook are there to keep an eye on their kids. Now the data is showing that the number of moms on Facebook is increasing year by year, the number of mom accounts have increased to 72% in 2012 from 62% in 2011.

Apps to make your valentine's day unforgettable

The day is finally here the one u were waiting for, but if u want to make this day unforgettable then you must try moving to the cloud. Hang on, no, not fly to the clouds, its a tech blog and we are talking technology, so this is about the tech cloud. So here is an infographic with the apps you need to try out to plan your day of love. First start up with Coby to plan your dinner and movie for the day, then time for finding some good Valentine gifts from Pinterest.

Is texting hurting your Grammer?

We all are into texting and to make the message short or we can say to cut down on cost we have evolved our languages as well. We not only use the texting language while we are texting but this new language has found some new usages as well, using it in IMs, emails, social networks and other places. We are using it, if not more than the proper english language at least more than we are reading books about English.

Apple iWatch design, this is how the next gen watch may look like

There are some rumors floating about a watch from Apple which will most likely be called as the iWatch. Apple is making a watch, but do we need a clock…? we always carry our phone with us and that can tell us the time. Sometimes I do prefer watch over phone at times when the phone is not allowed, mostly in some sot of exams but they are not many.

Apple and Google loosing trust of American Customers

Apple and Google are one of the most trusted brands but the time is changing for both Google and Apple at least in the US. It may be because of the other brands improving their services but what about these two tech giants? According to Ponemon Institute's privacy report the two companies wasn't even able to make it to the top 20 of the list in which Apple was 14th and Google was 19th last year.

A day when an asteroid will hit the Earth : Infographic

Well you must have seen this in some movies and also might have read about an Asteroid hitting the Earth and the life ending. Just hold on don't make your last wishes, its not happening any time soon, so relax and enjoy this infographic from Zachary Vabolis.

Apple becomes the second phone maker in US

Apple recently overtook LG to secure the No. 2 slot in the phone manufacturing brand and this is not about just smartphones, this include both smartphones and feature phones.

Pac Man in the universe

Astrophotographers Bob and Janice Fera took a photograph of a nebula at Eagle Ridge Observatory in California, which looks like the yellow eater of the 80’s video game Pac Man.