Install Android apps in Desktop [how to]



If you are using Android Smartphone and are in love with its applications and games,  you may want to use it on your desktop too. The other way, even if you don’t have Android phones and you may still like to enjoy its applications. In whatever cases there is a solution, an application called “BlueStacks – app player for Windows” will fulfill your wish. BlueStacks apps might be the great options for people who like to enjoy Android apps in desktop and don’t have an Android phone and Android powered tablet.  All you need to do is download and install BlueStacks application on your PC . This application is for free and you can find it in Google Play. BlueStacks, app player for Windows, is thus one of the best simulators for testing out Android apps.

BlueStacks - app player for windows (full screen mode)

BlueStacks – app player for windows (full screen mode)

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List of iPad & iPhone Simulators or Emulators



There are many tricks to test your website, web service or apps for iPad and iPhone even without owning the gadget. iPad and iPhone Emulators or Simulators are all around us because of popularity gained by the iOS Desktop iPhone Emulatorvices. Once again we list here some of really useful and free simulators for iPad and iPhone, some of them are emulators as well; and some of them are just iPhone eye candy simulators (jut for your eyes). Most of these simulators are not interactive with apps; and just good for party tricks not for actual iOS functionalities.

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[How to] Extract GPS coordinates in Google Maps

The simplicity of Google maps is made so with some necessary features hidden. Whether you want to commute on your daily route or want to save coordinates for trekking, or whatever your intension of getting GPS coordinates of the locations is, there are a couple of work-arounds to extract latitude and longitude information from Google maps. You can save these coordinates, store/process from an excel sheet and then import to your application or GPS device.

Extracting GPS Coordinates from Google Maps

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Setting up Exchange ActiveSync on your Mobile Phone

Do you often use email, calendar, contacts and other office productive things on your multiple devices? You want to update a contact in your iPhone and get the same in your email’s contact list. Or do you want to add your Facebook account’s latest event to your mobile phone’s calendar feature. Keep reading if you want them.

Usage: 1. I want to add a contact to my phonebook in my mobile phone, and have it updated on my laptop’s Outlook and also on my online Contact lists.

Many of modern smart phones use Syncing features now, be it Exchange ActiveSync (Microsoft Services) or Google Sync. In this article, we try to solve how to set up Exchange ActiveSync or Google Sync in your mobile phone (a generic mobile phone in spite of special mobile phone, for see setting for individual hand set ) which have an ActiveSync icon in your mobile’s menu.

Google Apps account with 2-step Verification, how to guide

Google has finally has launched the 2-step verification authentication method for increasing the security of your Google Apps accounts which they initially released for Gmail services. Now that the famous 2-step verification is available for all editions of Google Apps for Apps users, once the domain administrator has enabled the feature in their Google Apps control panel. turn on 2-step verification

For those using Google Apps Standard Edition (free version) and not yet been able to get the 2-step verification, you can request for the service. First lets discuss, what is 2-step verification?

2-step verification is a security feature implemented by Google for its services which helps to protect the user’s Google account from unauthorized access, mean even if someone else who knows your account’s password. So, 2-step verification prevents (if not, tries to do so) password cracking, stealing or gesticulating by implementing verification codes.

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