Saturday, February 9, 2013

Top Must Have Free iPhone Apps Series [16-20]

Top Must Have Free iPhone Apps Series [16-20]

16. Around Me


Around Me figures out where you are and lists local stuff - banks, bars, petrol stations and, er, Apple Retail Stores. The app's reliance on Google Maps info means there are gaps, but it's nonetheless handy to have installed when in unfamiliar surroundings, and the 'augmented reality' landscape mode is amusing, if flaky.

Around Me

17. Dictionary.com - Dictionary & Thesaurus


Over two million definitions, synonyms and antonyms are available in the palm of your hand with this free, offline dictionary and thesaurus. The app is fast and efficient, includes phonetic and audio pronunciation of words, and its interface seems perfectly suited to the iPhone.

Dictionary

18. Air Video Free


Air Video Free can stream (and convert as necessary) video from any computer running the free Air Video Server. You only get access to a small number of items per folder or playlist, but some careful planning can get around that limitation.

Air Video Free

19. Adobe Photoshop Express


If you're looking for Photoshop-style power, Photoshop Express won't impress. However, if you're after a quick, free, highly usable tool for making edits to your iPhone photos, Adobe's app is ideal. Use it for cropping, straightening, exposure adjustments, colour effects, sharpening and more.

Photoshop

20. iHandy Level Free


One of the tools from the excellent iHandy Carpenter toolkit app, iHandy Level Free turns your iPhone into a spirit level. By default, it'll show just how wonky your device's accelerometer is, but tap the calibrate button and you get an accurate and great-looking level.

iHandy level free

 

 
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Top Must Have Free iPhone Apps Series [11-15]

Top Must Have Free iPhone Apps Series [11-15]

11. Twitter


The official Twitter app might lack some of the features found in the likes of Tweetbot, but it does provide a sleek and simple means of using the service. It also directly mirrors the latest navigational scheme on the Twitter website.

Twitter

12. Comics


In all honesty, Comics is a little awkward compared to using it on an iPad, but you won't find a better comics experience on an iPhone. The app is free, as are dozens of downloadable comics - and once you run out of those, many more are available to buy. Reading works on a frame-by-frame automated 'zoom' basis, and is surprisingly usable.

Comics

13. Wikipanion


The Wikipedia website works fine on iPhones, but a dedicated app is a better bet. Wikipanion is a freebie which gives you quick access to article sections, in-article search, viewing options, bookmarking, and the ability to tweet about whatever odd fact you've just unearthed. Also, wonderfully, there are no ads.

Wikipanion

14. Evernote


Clients to access the popular Evernote service for storing notes and ideas online are available for so many platforms that we half expect a ZX Spectrum app to be announced tomorrow. On the iPhone, Evernote is efficient and usable, enabling you to rapidly scan your notes and also create new ones.

Evernote

15. Kindle


With iBooks on the iPhone, you might wonder why you should bother with Amazon's Kindle. After all, the app's not as pretty as iBooks, nor is there an integrated store (you buy in Safari and sync purchases to the app). However, Kindle offers a massive selection of books compared to Apple's app and the reading experience is great.

Kindle
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Top Must Have Free iPhone Apps Series [6-10]

Top Must Have Free iPhone Apps Series [6-10]

6. National Rail Enquiries


For anyone commuting by train, National Rail Enquiries is a handy app to have installed. There's journey planning, timetables and a location-aware 'next train home' option, along with progress tracking, so you can see when a train's likely to show up. It's not as usable nor as pretty as UK Train Times, but it is broadly similar - and five quid cheaper.

National Rail Enquiries

7. Skype


FaceTime is a great alternative to standard voice calls, but it's no good if you're trying to contact someone without a Mac or compatible iOS device. Therefore, Skype remains an essential download. The interface is simple and usable, enabling anyone with a Skype account to make free calls to other Skype users and cheap calls to anywhere in the world. If you're on Pay and Go, this is particularly handy, but the app also enables iPod touch users to utilise their devices for calls.

Skype

8. Movies by Flixter


Although some aspects of cinema listings app Movies by Flixter are disappointingly US-centric (notably regarding details on upcoming movies and DVDs), it succeeds where it matters. Select a film and the app figures out where you're located, lists nearby cinemas, and displays times your chosen film is showing. Efficiency can be further increased by pinning favourite cinemas to the top of the list.

Movies

9. TonePad


Virtual pianos and guitars are all very well, but purely digital musical toys are more suited to Apple handhelds. TonePad is the best of them, using a grid-based interface that enables you to turn notes on and off and compose pleasing and harmonious loops; your creations can be edited, saved and uploaded to share with other users.

Tonepad

10. Thomson Reuters News Pro


There are many free news apps, but Reuters News Pro offers a breadth of coverage that makes it a winner. Preferences enable you to tailor the app's output to the UK, and the toolbar provides swift access to news, pictures, videos and stock markets coverage.

Reuters
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Top Must Have Free iPhone Apps Series [1-5]

Top Must Have Free iPhone Apps Series [1-5]
There are now hundreds of thousands of apps available for your iPhone 5, iPhone 4S, iPod touch and iPad, and, surprisingly, many of the best are free.

The following list showcases our pick of the 70 best free iPhone apps, and includes iPhone applications for social networking, travel, news, photography, productivity and more.

Most of these apps are also suitable for the iPod touch.

If your top free iPhone apps aren't covered, tell us all about them in the comments.

You can also take a look through the top 10 free iPhone apps with our nifty video.

1. Facebook


The world's biggest social network brings a tightly honed experience to the iPhone and iPod touch, but nonetheless still enables you to access your contacts, feeds and other important information. This sense of focus makes it in many ways superior to using Facebook in a desktop browser.

Facebook

2. PhotoSynth


We did a bit of a double-take on seeing Microsoft's name attached to this, not least given the lack of a price-tag. But PhotoSynth is a really great panorama app; it's user-friendly and fun to use, especially when watching your panoramas take shape while you capture them.

Photosynth

3. RunKeeper


The prospect of Nike+ but better and for free might sound unlikely, but that's what RunKeeper provides. Previously split into 'pro' and 'free' versions, the developer now generously includes all the features in one free app.

That means you can spend no money, yet use your iPhone's GPS capabilities to track your jogging and cycling routes, and examine mapping and details of your pace and calories burned. Activities can be shared online, and treadmill runs and other exercise details can be entered manually.

Runkeeper

 

4. Pulse


RSS has a reputation for being a rather dry technology, feeding you dull lists of headlines. Pulse flips RSS on its head, providing streams of feeds that grab your eye with photographs. It's perhaps not for the hardcore RSS crowd, but if you follow a small number of feeds, it's a great choice.

Pulse

5. Dropbox


Plenty of apps exist for transferring content between your computer and your device, but Dropbox is free and easier to use than most of its contemporaries. Dump files you want to sync in a folder on your computer and Dropbox for your device will enable you to access them, download them for offline viewing, and, in many cases, view them.

Dropbox

 
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Thursday, February 7, 2013

Share Direction And Bookmark Location with Pin Drop

Share Direction And Bookmark Location with Pin Drop
Have you ever been to a place where you think you will visit the place again? Or you’re looking for a simple solution to share a direction/location with friends without directing them via phone call?

Pin Drop

We know that we can bookmark a webpage so we can re-visit the page again. As for a location, we can try Pin Drop iPhone/iPad app to drop a pin on current location as a bookmark in a map.

In short, Pin Drop allows you to bookmark a place with a pin on a map so you can refer it back when you want to re-visit the place. Furthermore, it also allows location sharing in between friends or anyone. It is definitely your second brain for places.

Pin Drop can be used via:

Use Pin Drop as iPhone/iPad App


Using Pin Drop as an app is straight and simple. First of all you have to install Pin Drop app from iTunes. After that, create a free account with Pin Drop so you can backup all your pins to cloud.

Pin Drop iPhone/iPad App

You’re allowed to add categories for your pins, such as restaurant, bar, coffee house and etc for easy search.

To drop a pin, tap on "Drop Pin" button on bottom. Your current location will be displayed and you may tap on "Set Pin Location" to bookmark it. After that, insert details for the bookmarked location with name, category and description.

Pin Drop iPhone/iPad App

To refer back bookmarked pins, tap on "Pins" or "Categories".

The best part of Pin Drop is it supports driving and walking directions from current location to a particular bookmarked pin. You may use it as GPS device.

Use Pin Drop as Web Application


Web app version of Pin Drop supports more features than iOS app. If you think the screen on iPhone is too small, you can always use the web version and sync them afterwards.

Pin Drop Website

Here, you can drop pins on the map, or search for a place or address. You’re allowed to create unlimited numbers of colour coded categories to keep your pins organised. Filter by category, distance and time since the pin was dropped.

Pin Drop Website

You can also create a curated list and share pins with friends by email, text, Facebook or Twitter.
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Create Photo Collage/Grid-View Of Your Facebook Friends

Create Photo Collage/Grid-View Of Your Facebook Friends
You can create Photo collage of your facebook friends. Click here to visit the site that lets you to do so. then Click on Friends tab. Proceed to More tab. From “Choose an option” dropdown, choose any of the dashes “—” . Your Facebook friends collage is right on your computer screen.

fb-photo-collage
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How to Schedule Facebook Messages

How to Schedule Facebook Messages
Sendible lets you schedule Facebook messages ahead of time so you can send messages to your friends, customers or colleagues in the future.

Here is a screenshot describing it in detail.

sendible

 
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How To Host webpages on Google Drive

How To Host webpages on Google Drive
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Tuesday, February 5, 2013

20 Facebook Tips/Tricks You Might Not Know

20 Facebook Tips/Tricks You Might Not Know


  1. How to Update Facebook without Using Facebook


    hellotxt and Ping.fm both introduced features that let Facebook administrators update Facebook Pages.

    hellotxt


  2. How to Schedule Facebook Messages


    Sendible lets you schedule Facebook messages ahead of time so you can send messages to your friends, customers or colleagues in the future.

    sendible


  3. How to "Friend" Someone on Facebook & Hide It From Your Status Updates


    A short tutorial on Makeuseof to guide you how to hide Facebook status updates and keep that fact confined to your closer friends.



  4. How to Create a Photo Collage Using Pictures of Your Facebook Friends


    Click on Friends tab. Proceed to More tab. From "Choose an option" dropdown, choose any of the dashes "—" . Your Facebook friends collage is right on your computer screen.

    photo_collage


  5. How to Know When Facebook Friends Secretly Delete or Block You


    This service has been discontinued. X-Friends is a unique tool for tracking friends that disappear from Facebook.

    X-friends


  6. How to Display Selected Pictures Only on your Facebook Profile Page


    A little-known feature in Facebook that lets you decide who shows up in that Friends box. Click that "edit" pencil in your Friends box and type the names of your best friends in the box that says "Always show these friends"

    friend_photos


  7. How to Remove Facebook Advertisements


    This Greasemonkey script – Facebook: Cleaner removes many of the annoying ads and updates that unavoidably appear on your Facebook pages.

    ads


  8. How to Syncs Photos of Facebook Friends with Contacts in Microsoft Outlook


    OutSync is a free Windows application that syncs photos of your Facebook friends with matching contacts in Microsoft Outlook. It allows you to select which contacts are updated. So you can update all contacts at once or just a few at a time.

    outsync


  9. How to Display Facebook Statuses on WordPress Blog


    The following method make use of Facebook status feed and WordPress RSS widget to display Facebook Statuses on WordPress blog.. It will also work for self-host WordPress blogs.

    statuses


  10. How to Post Your Blog Posts to Your Facebook Wall Automatically


    Wordbook allows you to cross-post your blog posts to your Facebook Wall. Your Facebook “Boxes” tab will show your most recent blog posts.

    wordbook


  11. How to Access Facebook Chat on Desktop


    Gabtastik and digsby let you keep Facebook chat sessions open on your Windows desktop outside of your regular web browser, using minimal screen real estate and system memory.



  12. How to Create Quiz on Facebook Easily


    LOLapps provides quiz creator that can be employed to conjure up these popular personality quizzes that are so widespread in Facebook.

    lolapps


  13. How to Hide Your Online Status on Facebook Chat from Select Contacts


    Facebook has integrated friends list with Chat and you can also choose which of these list members get to see you online.

    hide


  14. How to Get Facebook Updates on Email


    NutshellMail consolidates your Facebook accounts through the inbox you use the most.

    nutshellmail


  15. How to Update Facebook Status from Firefox


    FireStatus is a status update utility for multiple social networks, including FaceBook.

    firestatus


  16. How to Get Facebook on Your Desktop


    Seesmic Desktop, Facebooker, Xobni, Facebook Sidebar Gadget, Scrapboy and Facebook AIR application are desktop applications that allows you interact with your stream just as you would on Facebook, but without the browser.



  17. How to Delete, Cancel and Terminate Facebook Account and Profile


    A simple guide to terminate, delete or cancel Facebook account, together with the Facebook profile easily.

    terminate










Kay is a tech-savvy and regular writer at Hongkiat.com. He also maintains K-Director, a technology blog. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.



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How to Share Flickr Photos to Facebook

How to Share Flickr Photos to Facebook
Today in the continuation of Facebook tricks tutorials we are going to teach you how to to share Fllickr Photos to Facebook using online available tools.

Flickr2Facebook is an unofficial Flickr to Facebook uploader(bookmarklet) which allows you upload photos to Facebook from Flickr.

Here is an image illustrations to make it more clear.

flickr2facebook

If you have interesting tips/tricks related to Facebook, please feel free to share in the comment box below.

 

 
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How to Download Facebook Photo Albums

How to Download Facebook Photo Albums
This week we want to cover some interesting things you can do on (or with) Facebook; inclusive of tricks that are not documented or unknown to many, as well as tips to stay connected better with your friends.

Here is how you can download your facebook photo albums.

To be able to download your facebook album go to, FacePAD: Facebook Photo Album Downloader , it allows you to download your friends’ facebook albums, Events albums, and Group Albums, en masse, with the click of a button.

below is an descriptive image to give you a better idea.

facepad

If you have interesting tips/tricks related to Facebook, please feel free to share in the comment box below.
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