Android 4.1 Jelly Bean Updates Arrives For Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE & HTC One X

Indeed, at present, HTC has been on a roll lately! But HTC recently stared rolling out HTC One X and Sprint HTC EVO 4 G LTE for Android 4.1 Jelly Bean updates. The Android update bring’s several performance and enhancement, including fast animation and several bug fixes as well. The Face unlock feature and Wi-Fi authentication also improved for good performance.

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Some other improvement and features included like:

Enhancements/Fixes:

  • WiFi Authentication Improvement
  • Personalized ringtones
  • Calendar event description hyperlinks and calendar reminder improvements
  • Addition of Sprint Connections Optimizer
  • Upgrade to Android 4.1.1 (Jelly Bean) with HTC Sense 4+
  • Improved Browser performance
  • Face Unlock Improvement
  • Application Improvements to YouTube, Google+, Gmail, Maps, and more
  • Improved Camera including Auto Portrait and Sightseeing Mode capabilities
  • Improved Gallery with ability to display photos and video albums according to when or where taken
  • Tap and Go function to connect the phone to select Beats Audio speakers
  • HTC Get Started support to allow device set up from a computer

However Android 4.1 already enable users to use Google Now, Google Search (improved), Weather, News, Location. The Voice command app designed to profile multiple forms of information.

If you are Sprint marquee handset user, you can manually update your device to Android 4.1.1  via “Settings > System updates > HTC software update > Check Now”

Best Free Android Live Wallpapers For Christmas

This year’s Christmas Celebrations will not be the same because this time, Android brings you some really exciting wallpaper applications that will completely transform the look of your android phone and will give you new feeling. There are several different wallpaper applications available on Google play and all with different and interesting features. This article is a review on some of the most liked android wallpaper applications for Christmas.

3D Christmas Live :

It is one amazing 3D wallpaper app that features the most beautiful Christmas trees and it also has a countdown to Christmas and New Year. The free version lets you to explore and set background wallpaper of your choice. The paid version is also available on Google play for $2.08 that offers some more advanced features and maximum customization to your wallpaper. It will let you to choose displays like Christmas tree, Fireworks, snow and many more. For instance if you choose Christmas tree, you can make changes to your tree and decorate it in your own way.

[app]com.jetblacksoftware.xmastreewallpaperfree[/app]

Christmas HD Live :

These are also wallpapers for Christmas with 3D graphics that will take you to a wonder world. An important feature is that it will consume your phones minimum power. It is also very simple to use.

[app]com.droidmindz.hdchristmaslivewallpaper[/app]

Christmas Rink Live :

This has a winter and Christmas theme that displays characters skating on snow. It also shows Santa Clause skating with people and it allows you to speed up these characters. You need to download it to experience this on your phone and see what magic it offers.

[app]com.the7art.skatingrinkwallpaper[/app]

Snow Live :

It features snow falling and Christmas trees and also allows you to control the snow according to what suits your mood. You can control the falling speed of snow, change its shape and there’s a lot that you can customize. There are 4 different displays that you can choose from.

[app]eu.krisskringle.wallpaper.snow[/app]

Merry Christmas :

It is another magnificent app for this festive season that displays snow man, Santa Clause and everything related to the Christmas.

[app]com.droidofdroid.merrychristmas_diy[/app]

Christmas Silent Night :

This wallpaper gives view of a joyful Christmas night and it will take you to the world of fantasy. It features snow, sparkling lights and the moon and stars shining on the sky. You can tap to control all of them.

[app]com.accesslane.livewallpaper.christmas_silent_night.lite[/app]

These wallpapers will give life and energy to your phone. Download these apps to experience the magic they offer. Have fun!

Finally! Google Maps Now Accessible For Apple iOS

Google has recently launched the official Google Maps application for the iOS devices, right after 3 months Apple swapped its previous mapping service with a native mapping application.

Google Maps Director for Mobile, Daniel Graf stated on the official blog that the Google Maps application is now officially available at the Apple’s App Store for the 4th generation gadget iPod Touch and iPhone with software versions iOS 5.1 and higher.

The application has been made available in 29 different languages and over 40 different countries including Japanese and Chinese.
Users all around the globe have been waiting for the Google Maps app on the iOS devices. The release being made today, Google Maps app is here, available to users in the App Store. The app as has been premeditated from the ground up to bring in the precision and comprehensiveness of Google Maps with an extremely friendly user-interface that helps users find what they are actually looking for much easier as well as faster.

With the release of the iOS 6 version, Apple replaced the Google Maps app with a native Apple Maps app, in part to bring down its dependence on Google.

On the other hand, Apple Maps was not much appreciated as some of the mapping services lacked the accuracy and details earlier originated in Google Maps. Accordingly, Cupertino has amplified and improved its efforts to hire developers who could improvise the program and Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO even declared an explanation to iOS consumers for the unplanned initial effort.

Soruce: Apple Store

Access 1Password 4 iOS Now Via the App Store!

Scheduled for launch on December, 13th, the 1Password, latest version has now been made available at the App Store. This latest version of the app brings to users a host full of updated features, and has not been made available for only $7.99, which is 50% less than the typical price of the security app by the atebits software.

The 1Password will help generate strong and unique passwords for every single sit you get to visit on your iOS gadget, protecting all your confidential data behind a distinct master password It offers superior security features with a military grade 256-bit AES encryption, and makes use of the standard iOS libraries to ensure that there are simply no 3rd party security or backdoors gaps. In case, your iOS gadget is stolen or lost, the 1Password supports an Auto-Lock feature, which makes sure that all of your data is secured and protected.

You can easily backup all your information in the 1Password, imperative and confidential information such as access codes, bank account numbers, Passport info, notes, Store credit card numbers, passwords and a lot more. You can mark such items as your favorites, or easily organize your data strongly into different folders. You can easily search within the apps for more attachments, and even make them view within the 1Password application.

There is even an integrated browser for online shopping, logging into sites, secure surfing, which provide users with an access to their 1Password vault data without even jumping to Safari. With this feature, you can automatically fill up address info, credit cards, and browse through multiple tabs safely.

Moreover, 1Password also offers iCloud support, enabling users to easily sync their data across the enabled gadgets, and also offers the ability to utilize the feature of Dropbox across the 1Password apps on Android, Mac, or Windows PCs.

This is the universal app which has been made available now to users, it runs perfectly fine on iPod touch, iPhone and iPad. Once you are going to purchase and install on your iOS gadgets, it will not ask for any other hidden fees or subscription

Source: iTunes Store

Now Save Web Contents to Google Drive with the New Chrome ‘Save to Drive’ Extension

Google has announced an update to Chrome just today that allows you to save directly the contents of the website to Google Drive in just no time. Google Drive is software by Google that was released on April 2012 that lets you to save files, transfer them instantly to all the other devices and access them from anywhere. It comes with a memory space of 5 GB and requires subscription to get more space.

How It Can Be Done :

You can save the web contents by using the new extension feature added to Chrome that is called ‘Save to Google Drive’ Extension. It can be done by either using browser action or the context menu. The content that you can save can be an image, a document, the whole web page, only the hyperlink and many more. It requires only right clicking the content. It will then move to the Google Drive and you can easily access it afterwards from any other device.

Features :

In addition to this, the feature offered by the update includes the options that allow you to control and use the contents you saved in the way you want. For instance, you can rename the files, move them to other folder or can even share it with anyone. Moreover, the saved images can also be managed and organized with the help of the available choices like Zoom, fit to page and much more. The tools are also available that can even enhance the image you saved.

Google always comes up with something interesting to offer to the world and it is always more user friendly than its previous version. The update offered by Google today is one of its kinds making people’s life simpler and it also saves on their precious time.

Soruce: Google Chrome

The Version 18 of Firefox Does Not Supports Animated Theme

Firefox is a popular web browser in the world and a great number of people rely on it. It has been declare by the Firefox developers recently that their latest version will not support background-animated themes known as ‘Persona’ as they were available on the previous versions of Firefox. According to them, the reason behind this change is that the animated themes affect the overall browsing experience as the browsing speed becomes slow. This happens because animated themes are very heavy on graphics, have very large pixels and size and it takes a lot of time to load them. On the other hand, many people find these animations attractive and they consider it a unique feature in Firefox. It enhances the browser and makes it eye-catching. This is the reason Firefox provided this feature to its browsers on the previous versions. People could easily download different themes before and for free. Now this feature is not available with the new Firefox and this change is made so that users can surf the web with better speed and improved performance.

However, Firefox people explains, targeting their animated theme fans, that they are working on finding a solution to this problem and that they are striving to find a way to bring back the animated themes to its browser with no compromise on speed. They have also told that before they come up with the solution, their animated theme fans can still benefit from this feature by downloading an add-on called Personas Shuffler. This will keep the animated themes moving without being stuck and it will support the animated themes quite well. Users can still download themes and beautify their browser in the way they like.

Firefox values their user benefits and they will definitely come up with an update that will please all its users.

Soruce: Firefox Blog