Lux Auto Brightness: The Automatically Adjusting Comfort in Lighting

Lux is an app that I have been waiting for for a long time. Tons of computers and mobile devices have those tiny little light sensors for one reason or another on the front, but rarely they seem to be utilized to the extent that they should. There is finally an app, Lux Auto Brightness, which takes that little sensor and makes it have a big, useful role.

We’ve all found ourselves in that position where you’re using your device either late at night or early in the morning and the screen is just too obnoxiously bright. It’s like staring into the sun after living in a cave for a few months. Sometimes even just in a dimly lit room the glaring glow of a smart phone screen can be blinding. This is where Lux comes in. The app will automatically detect the level of outside light and adjust it to make it much more comfortable to look at. If it is incredibly bright outside, it will pump up the output to make the screen visible, but if it is dark, then the screen will dim to make it easier on the eyes.

Not only does this light adjustment make it less harsh on your eyes and reduce the strain that you’ve been suffering from all of this time, but it also helps to conserve your battery. Most of the time I think we can all agree that the screen on our phones is too bright. Now it doesn’t have to be and that wasted battery life can be saved for other actually useful purposes.

Lux also has a little test drive feature which is perfect for those who want it, but want to try it out first. This is a luxury that is basically impossible to find with paid apps. This is particularly important for this app because the light sensor on phones or devices isn’t exactly the big selling point and sometimes the performance is sub par. If you try this app out and realize your sensor simply isn’t up to the job of what you need it detection wise, you have fifteen minutes to just say, forget about it and get a full refund. That is ample time to play around and see if Lux is right for you.

Google Play: Lux Auto Brightness for Android

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Asus Padfone Infinity revealed with 5-inch,1080p screen, Snapdragon 600 CPU

ASUS recently announced the ASUS PadFone Infinity, the next-generation gadget work well as a phone and a tablet. Don’t worry its not a separate tablet and smartphone, The ASUS PadFone Infinity is a 5 inch LTE device that converts a 10.1 inch tablet device when docking into the PadFone Infinity Station.

The ASUS tablet features a Android 4.2 with metallic design, which is 10.4mm thinnest with up to nine hours battery life. The processor has been upgraded to Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 chipset with a quad-core Krait 300 CPU clocked at 1.7GHz, 2GB RAM, 13MP Camera with 2MP Front-facing Camera, 2,400mAh battery, 1280 x 800 resolution with 3G HSPA+ connectivity.

The PadFone Infinity will be available in March 2013, at cost $249 USD per unit for 8GB and $290 USD for 16GB additional storage device.

CoPilot Navigation for Windows 8 Devices Now Available

In the world of operating systems on the market for mobile devices the big two are Android and iOS, but there is a third contender that is gaining some traction in the market. Windows 8 phones and Windows 8 devices are becoming something that large scale app companies have to consider, compatibility wise, on the market. The last time ALK Technology had the chance to go for Windows 7 integration, they opted to simply focus their attention on full Android device compatibility. Now, they have gone the other way and decided to make Windows 8 on their list of compatible operating systems.

This is big news for those who love the flawless help in finding their direction from CoPilot apps but use Windows 8 devices. Previously they would be simply out of luck, but now they can have the same awesome interface and spot on direction as the rest of the mobile world.

Some of the amazing components of CoPilot that the Windows 8 community can now enjoy are:

  • ActiveTraffic – which calculates the fastest routes based on actual live traffic flow information
  • CoPilot ClearTurn – which makes turning through intersections that are busy or blocked safer
  • On screen speed limits and speed warnings
  • Multiple Route, simultaneous planning/drag and drop instant editing

An app like this can struggle in the world of free services such as Google Maps, and Apple Maps, but somehow they have managed to not only stay afloat, but stay on the lead of innovation. CoPilot is one of those companies and services that has been around for over a decade and has evolved in every way it needed to to stay current and competitive. If the past and present are any indicator, CoPilot will be staying right on the cusp of integration as mobile devices grow and evolve. Getting this app on any device, now including Windows 8 devices, will make your trip planning and navigation a breeze.

Source: CoPilot Web Blog

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Huawei Ascend P2 running Jelly Bean 4.1 equipped with 13 megapixel camera

Huawei recently announced the Ascend P2, its new Android device equipped with Android Jelly Bean 4.1, 4.7 inch HD display. Huawei Ascend P2 is the sequel to the Ascend P1 smartphone, which released in Europe last summer. According to Huawei Ascend P2 is the world fastest smartphone with hi-silicon K3V2, quad-core 1.5 GHz processor.

“Ascend P2 is the perfect combination of elegance and power, and further proof that there’s no need to compromise when desiring a perfect smartphone,” Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei Consumer Business Group

Ascend P2 smartphone included interesting specification like 13 megapixel camera, Gorilla Glass 2 layer, 2420 mAh batter, 1080p video recording, HDR available on both videos and images, 3G with HSPA, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS & NFC and much more ..

The new smartphone will be available in two basic colors black & white. and expected to launch in Q2 of this year 2013 about 400 Euro per unit.

Fresh Paint: The Best New Painting App for Windows 8

The world of “finger painting” or digital painting has been exploding in recent years. Not only for simply recreational scribbling, this method of creating art has been tackled by some of the greatest names in modern art history. Unleash your potential with the newest and best painting app for Windows 8.

Fresh Paint is the latest release for digital art on the Windows 8 app store. It has a shockingly realistic feel if you’ve ever worked with paints. It is great for anyone from a child who simply wants to put colors on a blank canvas to the highly critical art student or artist. The potential for creating very high quality, realistic art is there, but it is also a venue for simple creative flow.

The best part about this app is the real feeling of the colors and paints. You can pick multiple colors of paint from your pallet and choose how and where to mix them just like real paints. This is not only a great tool for teaching children art, but color theory as well. The options for various style of brushes and canvases will give you an even wider array of choices to create your own art. Not only can you choose the tooth and the style of the canvas, but you can also import images saved on your device to paint over.

Personally, I love to mess around with digital art and doodling and painting anything that comes to mind in real life and on tablets and mobile devices. This is one of the best apps for all around user friendly art creation that I have come across. With the options to expand the app and get even more add-ons for children or to teach you how to paint, the options are endless.

Source: Fresh Paint for Windows 8

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Status Snapper: The Google Chrome Extension for Capturing and Saving Facebook Posts

Everyone these days has a Facebook. Whether it’s your grandma or younger sister, people are posting things to Facebook everyday, usually multiple times a day. There is always that time when you see something on there that you wish you could easily just take a screen capture of and share with your friends on Facebook. Well, now the day has come where this can easily happen with just a few clicks.

Status Snapper is an extension for Google Chrome. This extension works in perfect harmony with Facebook and allows you to quickly snap a picture of your screen to share on your own Facebook. Usually doing this before required not only the screen capture, but then to open that captured screen in an image editor to blur or remove the names and specifics from the capture to make it anonymous. Sharing other people’s names without their permission is simply poor taste. The great thing about Status Snapper is that it not only captures the screen, but also in the same step blurs and removes names and places from the newly saved image. All of this being done by the extension itself makes this otherwise tedious task much more simplified. You can also choose what pictures and identifying information is blurred and what is not.

Finally share those hilarious or interesting statuses with just a click of a button. Take a snap of the whole Facebook screen on your monitor to share with everyone you know and make it anonymous at the same time. After you take the image simply click, “Finish”, and have the shot saved as an imgur. This takes all of the previous guesswork and needless excess out of sharing a screenshot of your Facebook. It’s a very simple, but well refined and great app.

Source: Status Snapper for Chrome

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