Green Kitchen the Best Vegetarian Recipe Guide for iOS

Vegetarian cooking is something that intimidates most people. Meat being the center “protein” of a meal is what most people think of when they prepare a meal. It doesn’t have to be that way, and for health reasons, shouldn’t be that way! If you have an Apple device you owe it to yourself to explore the amazing resource of Green Kitchen, the most all around, award winning guide to vegetarian cooking. Get your cooking skills in check while improving your health with this amazing guide.

Vegetarianism carries a lot of connotations with it. Most people think of it as eating grass, eating bland granola and eating nothing but fruit. As a vegan myself, it is my personal interest to make people realize that not only for health reasons, but moral reasons considering vegetarianism is a great choice. Even if you just want to experiment and see how good vegetarian food actually can be, you can check out Green Kitchen and get some of the best and most noted amazing vegetarian meal recipes around.

There are over 75 recipes included in this app and they all come with amazing, simple to follow directions and have great guides and images to make sure you are doing everything right. Since vegetarian cooking is tricky to a lot of people this kind of guide is priceless. They also break down the recipes into sub categories such as vegan, grain free, gluten free and all other sorts of alternative diets within vegetarianism.

As with most iOS apps the interface is seamless and incredibly simple but effective to navigate. You can get through all of the recipes as easily as you want and find exactly the right one from the bold and high quality images of the pictures. I can’t promise your food will end up looking as beautiful as in the pictures, but if you follow the directions they will be just as delicious!

Source: Green Kitchen Vegetarian Recipes for iPhone

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Removing Albums from Your Picasa Gallery: A Step by Step Tutorial

Picasa is a great photo sharing and saving app with a few critical pitfalls. One of the major downsides is that every time you upload a photo using the app it saves it as a separate and new gallery instead of making them all into one uniform gallery. This can get quite old quite fast and create a network of galleries that’s incredibly difficult to manage. Here is a step by step guide on how to manage and delete those pesky albums from your Picasa.

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The first step in solving this issue is to cut the sync between the Picasa app and the internet. The best and easiest way to do this is to go into your settings, then your Google accounts. This will open up a window of items showing what can be synced with check boxes next to them if you want them synced or not. Find the one for “Picasa Web Albums” and uncheck the box next to it.

Doing this will not have any ill effects in terms of deleting photos, the ability to upload photos or instant upload with other social media accounts. The only thing this will do is stop the ability of sync to Picasa and the appearance of all of your pictures in these separate galleries.

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Although the first step will allow you to not have any new albums created with the sync of Picasa, those crazy amounts of albums you already have will still be there. This means to get rid of them you need to clear the Gallery data. This can be simply done by going to the phone settings, then the application manager, then scroll over to the “gallery” page and hit the “clear data” button.

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The last step in the process is the most simple so the hard part is finished. Not that there really was a hard part, but you get the idea. Simply go to the page where the gallery is on your phone and refresh. When it loads your nightmarish gathering of galleries should be no more! You can finally have a cleaned up, organized version of your photos and find them when you want them.

This was a simple tutorial, but as always any questions can be gladly answered. If you use Picasa you’ve probably encountered this situation before, and if you need to get around it this is the easiest and most effective way.

Download Free Rdio App For Windows Phone

Rdio, a free service that will let you discover your favorite track with unlimited music streaming, on-demand and also ad-free right on your Windows Phone! The app has more than 18 million tracks available and more are added weekly, you can instantly listen to the popular hits, old favorites and new releases While you are in a mood to listen to something new, follow all the taste-makers, artists, friends and make their favorites find ways to your ears. You can have your own playlist that can be shared with your friends, and can be synced to your devices for listening to them offline. The app offers more of a human-powered music breakthrough. It has a complete universe of music available for about what you would prefer paying for just an album. The app offers a subscription based service. You can get it on your Windows Phone by browsing through the Windows App Store or signing up at Rdio.com.
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Rdio recently has released an update which makes the app Windows Phone 8 friendly. Microsoft Corporation has done a great job with the Xbox Music service but present it is yet not a cross platform and that bothers many users. Rdio will enable streaming playback via the Web, a wide range of Smartphones and also through several music appliances such as Sonos.

Users can sign up for a free trail just as Xbox Music to see if they like the service before they subscribe, for Rdio they can a timeline of 7 days.

As Rdio has been exceedingly active to develop its own app, the latest version released if now compatible with Windows Phone 8 too. The primary updates are:

  • Compatibility with Windows Phone 8
  • Improvised Online Playback and streaming
  • Browse Recommendations
  • Enhancements to Metro Interface

If nothing tangible is there, there has been no word on Windows Phone 8 that has been released to the Windows Phone Store. Not just this, but the front page still shows the Windows Phone 7 version, isn’t that crazy? Many users have been contacting them for clarifications, as what has  been changed and what not.

In case you do not have Rdio, you can access the app for free from the Windows Phone Store for all devices. Start off with a trial period before you subscribe for it from the app too. Enjoy your music even when you are on the go!

Source: Rdio Windows Phone

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Files App for Apple Devices: One Stop Shop for All of Your Files

Everyone with an iPad or iPhone has had those problems at one point or another where you are trying to read, view, or just open a file that won’t seem to cooperate or is for some reason incompatible. Then you go through the hoops and ladders of trying to figure out what the issue is, what you need to download, and what there is you can do to fix it. This is a pain, but thankfully, Files App is a great new app that hopes to eliminate all of that unnecessary stress from that kind of thing.

Files App is simple, just like any really useful app. It basically does exactly what you expect it to. It will be your go to app for everything and anything related to a file. It can open and read and PDF or Office suite file without a problem. It can also be the best photo or video viewer you have in your grasp. But, it doesn’t end there. Not that it’s trying to unthrone iTunes, but it also has a great music listening in app service which caters to your library and can help create and customize playlists, shuffle, and even airplay.

One of the best features is that you can simply drag and drop files right from your computer into Files App with any default browser and have them directly transferred to your phone or device. This eliminates all of that guesswork with linking and not getting exactly what you needed done from some confusion of compatibility. It can also be linked directly to a Dropbox, Google Drive, or Box account for easier syncing as well.

The app is simple and so is the interface. At first glance and the first time using the app you’ll know exactly what you’re doing and where you’re going. Do yourself and your files a favor and grab Files App from the app store today.

Source: Files App for iPhone

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Videobrary: Movie Organizer App for Windows 8 Phone

Videobrary is an app for Windows 8 Phone that enable users to catalog their very own video library. Separating TV series and movies is a nice feature of this app, and the data being saved on is relatively extensive. The posters could have been saved as the wallpapers but it does not happen  to be a deal breaker. The app is free to access and works for all the Windows Phone 7 and 8 version. The app is available in Windows Phone Store.

The Videobrary app is very simple to use, and allows you catalog your movie collection. It has an extremely simple user-interface and all of your movie database will be restored on Dropbox. While you are considering an easy way to catalog your entire movie collection, opting for Videobrary may be worth!

With this layout, you can have one page listings of your TV services or movies that are indexed in alphabetical order. When you want to add a movie to your collection at Videobrry, all you have to do is to tap over the ‘+’ sign that is at the botton of the main page. You can also pull up a search engine where you can search Allocine, Cinoche.com or IMDB for your movie and TV series.
You can make the searches by a title or keywords. Later on, you can tap over the correct TV show or movie from the search results to add it to your movie collection. You can add the related information concerning the media type such as BetaMax, VHS, BlueRay, DVD, etc, and any other notes on the TV show or movie.

From Videobrary’s main pages, you are provided with 3 button control. One helps you to add title, second one to search your database and third one to help you randomly generate a title from your collection library for times when you just do not know what you should watch. As you start off with this menu, you will b provided with an option to restore all of your Videobrary files using Dropbox, access settings, download missing posters if any. The settings will help you determine your default search engine and also set up Dropbox account information.

In general, Videobrary happens to be any easy approach when you are considering cataloging your own video library. Separate all of your favorite TV series and movies. Just download the app to your Windows Phone 7 devices and enjoy!

Source: Videobrary for Windows 8

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Google Hindi Input now in Google Play Store

There was a big breakthrough in the foreign keyboard app world in the past few days. The Google Play Store released the input for Hindi which can be used for Android devices. This big step now allows speakers and writers of Hindi the ability to write naturally and have their input translated or made into Hindi.

Hindi is one of those languages that millions of people speak, but doesn’t usually get the coverage or widespread acknowledgement that other largely spoken languages get. This is not only a huge step forward in proving how important Hindi is to the masses, but is a very good gesture by Google and the Android world to show how they have not only not forgotten about their Hindi users, but are willing to go that extra step to cater to them.

The app essentially installs a toggle button to the keyboard. This button can either make the keyboard stay the normal default English one, or make it so that the keyboard will translate the English letters directly to Hindi as they are typed. The only negative about this app is that there is no actual Hindi plugin associated with it. If your phone cannot read Hindi then you need to either upgrade, or have a plugin downloaded to get that capability.

The same features with normal Android applies where the long press brings up alternate versions of characters and the paging button can help you navigate through longer texts. The thing about this app is that it detracts nothing from the regular, great Android interface it simply makes it more relevant and exponentially more useful for Hindi speakers.

 

Google Play: Google Hindi Input for Android

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