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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The Best Live Wallpaper App for Mac

When it comes to that screen that pops up when your computer goes idle there isn’t much to it. It’s inevitable and that scrolling marquee from the 90s hasn’t changed much to the now slideshow of pictures. Mac has created something that is somewhat innovative and allows you to fully make the most of this simple screen. It no longer has to just be sitting there, useless and uninspired. Live wallpaper for Mac is something that now contributes to your life in a way no other screensaver or lock screen has before.

Live Wallpaper is the number one top paid app in 43 countries and in the top two in almost 100 countries. Obviously quantity doesn’t prove quality, but if that many people are willing to spend money on it, there’s a good bet there’s something to it. The app is simple. All it entails is a vivd, bright, beautiful image, a weather widget and a time widget. This tells you basically everything you would check on a smart phone after unlocking it in a single screen.

The app itself comes with 24 official themes and an infinite amount of community created and submitted entries. All of the themes are free to access once you have the app, and at only 99 cents, you can easily make it worth your while.

Customization is key in this app as well. With the ability to rearrange the time and weather widgets and resize them wherever you’d like and however you’d like on the screen, you can make it look however you’d like. You can also enter text to appear on the wallpaper as well. A bright message or inspiring note can be seen anytime the Live Wallpaper shows up.

If you have multiple monitors you can set a different Live Wallpaper to each screen as well. Although this app is almost as simple as you can get you still get the same guaranteed Apple app store quality, and an endless supply of user created themes to keep you busy and entertained. It’s well worth the entry price of just under a dollar.

Source: Live Wallpaper App for Mac

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Yandex.Store Great Alternative App Store To Google Play & Amazon App Store

So is it that you are looking for more than what Google Play Store can deliver, and you find the Amazon App Store leaving you in the cold? Check out Yandex, a Russian competitor to Google is here to rescue.

Yandex, the Russian search giant is now taking on Google by releasing an alternate Android App Store. The Yandex App Store, launched lately at the Mobile World Congress, comprises of more than 50,000 apps when it was launched, including some of the popular ones like Cut the Rope, Foursquare and Skype. The sum is a far cry  from Google’s approximately three quarters of a million. Considerably the Yandex App Store has been made available in several languages like Russian, Ukrainian, Turkish, Italian, German, French, Spanish, English and various other language support coming soon. Manufacturers and carriers can deploy and license the Yandex.Store for free, with the vendor only profiting via a cut of app sales.

Users can easily access the store for any of their Android devices, and after having a standardized account set up, they can have access to an incredible selection of mainstream applications. Several renowned titles such as Opera Mobile, Twitter, SoundHound, ES File Explorer, and Angry Birds are all there. The store had 50,000 + apps at the time of release and the number is still growing.

There are a large number of applications that are on display and free too, there are paid ones as well, with support for varied payment options such as credit card, and other options from countries around the globe including the US. The Store’s app itself is no stoop, either : It is more of an interesting mix of what is available on Google play Store and also some from the Amazon’s App Store. The Yandex.Store has collaborated with Opera to offer the backend support and several other existing apps. In general, there could be a lot worse, particularly, if you are using hardware that does not offer access to the official Google Apps. Russian users are most likely well aware with a Yandex’s suite of Android services and apps, including shopping, weather, navigation, maps, email and a lot more.

There has been an important revision been made to the Yandex’s Android Home-screen replacement, the Yandex.Shell, which has been made accessible on the Google’s Play Store. This version offers users with 3D animation, and various other useful features such as hiding unwanted apps, resizing he homescreen grid. It is free to access, but presently available in Russia. The customizable launcher is focused on smaller Smartphone manufacturers along with regional carriers.

Source: Yandex.Store