Hulu Plus for Windows Phone 8 Now Available

Streaming content from your favorite television shows, your favorite movies, and the most recent clips are all high quality and fast from Hulu. Hulu came out swinging as one of the top names in internet streaming content over the past few years and since then they haven’t looked back. Hulu Plus users can now access all of the unbelievable amounts of content they have available to them from their Windows Phone 8 device.

Windows Phone sometimes is the last to get these types of big name apps on their devices, but once the wait is over it is usually still worth it. The apps on Windows Phone 8 are very solid and high quality and the Hulu Plus app keeps that tradition going.

If you’re paying for Hulu Plus you have the right to access that content from anywhere and at anytime you want it. If you don’t then you’re just cheating yourself. Windows Phone 8 devices can stream content incredibly fast with their top notch processors and you’ll see that capability with the Hulu Plus app especially. You can also tap into WiFi and get incredibly fast, high quality steaming video as well.

There’s not a whole lot to say about this. If you are subscribed to Hulu Plus you already know all of the amazing content they offer for very cheap and this is simply another way to get all of that high quality video and content. If you love Hulu and have a Windows Phone, go check out the app today.

Source: Hulu Plus App For Windows Phone

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The Top 5 Best Android Apps for Backing Up Your Data

Backing up the things we have saved on our phones these days is becoming more and more important. We not only have incredibly vital information stored on these devices, but the overall function of our smart phones has taken over large aspects of our work and daily schedule. Here are the five best apps for backing up your data on your Android device

Titanium Backup Root ;

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The most famous and well used backup app available for Android is the Titanium Backup App. It is powerful, does everything you need from it and allows for heavier customization than most others. Never fear about losing your app data, or your phone memory with this app installed on your phone.

SMS Backup and Restore ;

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This app is for those of us who find our phone’s texting inbox filling up far too quickly and need to slim it down by deleting messages, but often delete some by accident. Sometimes we have very important things saved in text messages, yet when we delete them there is usually almost no way of getting it back. With the SMS Backup and Restore App, you can schedule backups to automatically occur and save your texts so that never happens again.

Go Backup Pro ;

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Another all around backup app, Go Backup Pro helps store and save user data, system settings, and everything else you would want protected on your phone. This app can be a lifesaver if your device ever becomes corrupted or a malicious app is downloaded that compromises your data.

Carbon – App Sync and Backup ;

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Carbon is a newer contender to the world of backup apps. Unlike the others we have discussed here it does not require root, which is a big plus for more general and simplified users of Android devices. Carbon is an app that works in the background and requires you do not do anything after setting it up, but still allows the safety of knowing your device is being synced and backed up.

Super Backup: SMS and Contacts ;

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This is a very good app for those of us who live by our Androids. Some of us that work with these devices hold our treasured texts and contacts and calendar dates all in one device and risking losing these can be a true nightmare. This app works to make sure that can never happen by backing up all of that data to your SD card or sending it out to your email inbox. This can really save the day if your phone is ever compromised.

 

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Days: Your Visual Photo and GIF Diary

With our world of modernized media and social media integration it is alarming the rate at which our everyday routines turn digital. Apps such as Facebook and Instagram make the world of our own and of our peers documented in a way that has never been done before. A new app called, Days, is working to create an even more intense bond between our lives and the way we record them. Days serves as a general checkpoint and documentation memory keeper for things we do all day long. With cameras on our phones we take pictures all day long. No matter how insignificant these photos stay with some sort of marker of what we were doing at that point in the day. This app goes to record all of these moments and store them in a way that will make your virtual photo and GIF collection into a daily diary of your own for you and others to see.

There is no other app like this out there. There are apps for pictures, diaries, GIF making, and social media, but never a combination that functions to this extent. The idea behind Days is that there are so many moments in a normal person’s life that go around the idea of that once or twice a day Instagram photo or Facebook status update. People live their lives and take pictures all the time so why not integrate the two into an app where they are stored and kept as a record diary.

This app isn’t like Instagram in the way it holds the photo at the highest pinnacle of the app. It’s not about applying twenty filters and making it look like something it’s not. It’s about recording that split second of your day over and over to recall exactly what you were doing, how you felt and where you were.

Go check out Days in the Apple App Store today and get on keeping track of your memories and your pictures for you and your friends to see.

Source: Days – Your Visual Photo and GIF Diary for iPhone

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The Number 1 Windows Phone YouTube App “Metrotube” Now Available for Windows 8 &Windows RT

Watching your favorite YouTube videos is a pastime that the generations of the modern era have come to accept as a part of life. Windows Phone users are left behind on some aspects of modern media due to the lack of availability for otherwise common apps on their platform. There is one app that is amazing for YouTube which is called Metrotube and has been out for Windows Phone for a while, gaining popularity the whole time. The same app Windows Phone users love is now available for the Windows 8 and Windows RT platforms.

This is a free app, so right off the bat it’s one you really can’t go wrong with. The app itself runs extremely well and makes browsing, searching, and getting the most out of YouTube incredibly simple and easy for anyone. The interface is well constructed for anyone who is or is not familiar with how YouTube works.

Metrotube is essentially how you would want YouTube to look if you were viewing it anywhere regardless of a mobile or a desktop monitor. It lays out the categories and opens them up in a touch environment the way you would want them to. This app leaves nothing to the imagination since there is a full 1080p option for viewing.

Windows may be left out on somethings but now other Android and iOS users might even be jealous of the way Windows users get to take advantage of Metrotube. If you have a Windows Phone, Windows RT or Windows 8 device make sure to go check out Metrotube today.

Source: Metrotube for Windows Phone

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iOS Style Music App for Android

If you love the interface for the iOS music player, but don’t have an iPhone then you’re in luck. iMusic – iPhone 5 Style is an app on the Google Play Store that allows you just that exact luxury. This is essentially an exact replica of the iPhone music app, but available for Android. It allows you to sort music, shuffle, create playlists and manage all of your music with the same touch responses and feel of the native iPhone app.

Even if you haven’t necessarily been overly familiar with the iOS music player, you can almost positively share the same lackluster response that every Android user has when using their music player. It is bulky, lacks options and customization, and really does nothing beyond an early 2000s mp3 player. If you are looking for something better, something more modern and something that allows you to have options you may never have even known existed, check out this copied iOS music player.

This app also comes in several languages so it won’t be difficult for non English speakers to use it as well which is an added bonus. Overall this is a simple, but great app. It’s a great music player, and better than any other I’ve come across that are native to an Android device.

Source: iMusic – iPhone 5 Style App for Android

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Switch to Windows Phone: An Android App to Help Migrate Systems

Switching between types of phones and operating systems can be a nightmare. Back in the days of clamshell phones and the times when simpler devices ruled it wasn’t a huge deal, but now it’s like losing a child. All of the hard work you’ve put into choosing, downloading, and perfecting apps has to be lost and never seen again. Windows Phone is attempting to make this transition much less stressful for potential Windows Phone users coming in from Android. That’s precisely what Switch to Windows Phone app does. The app searches your current device and allows you to see which of your apps are compatible on Windows Phone. This can then be saved and used to download all of these apps on a new Windows Phone device.

The name of the app kind of says exactly what the purpose is. It is only out for Android since most iOS users are pretty loyal to their devices and their operating system, and if they were going to switch, a switch from Apple to Android would be far more likely than a switch from Apple to Windows Phone.

The app itself works decently well, but has some weird issues. First of all, the list of generated apps it gives you will almost inevitably not include some you like. This is a weakness on Windows Phone end, and not the app, but the disappointment is still there. Also, the app won’t function if you have less than 50% battery, which is kind of ridiculous. If you need 50% battery to minimally run an app then the app has some serious issues of its own.

The app is getting torn apart in the Google Play Store currently. It has an overwhelming negative review score and is actually probably one of the worst rated apps I’ve ever come across. If you find yourself in the midst of a switch from Android to Windows Phone you might just be better off doing a quick search of your apps, rather than tinkering with this flawed app.

Source: Switch to Windows Phone for Android

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