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Store your music in the cloud with Samsung Music Hub

efriend — Sun, 11 Nov 2018 00:08:17 +0000

After the release of Samsung Galaxy S3, Samsung has launched an online music streaming service called Music Hub. The new service offers music streaming, radio recommendations, storing your favorite music. Now you can upload your music collection to the cloud and access our entire catalog of millions of songs. You can enjoy personal and genre radio and discover new music every day with customized recommendations. One of the best news for the music lovers is, the Music Hub is free and offers 19 million songs. Users can listen to 30-second previews of all songs and can buy songs and albums. The Music hub can automatically sync with your music library (iTunes or Windows Media Player). With music hub, you can store your music in the cloud, stream millions of songs, listen to radio personalized just for you, and explore new music. Music Hub’s Cloud Locker gives you up to 100 gigabytes of storage that is accessible on 3 devices.

Samsung’s Music Hub will be offered for free. The Music Hub Premium, costs per month. The upgrades help to get unlimited streaming, a recommendation engine, personal radio and Scan, and Match Cloud Locker, which lets you upload your music to the cloud. The Premium version will allow users to upload and access their entire music collection from anywhere and also enjoy unlimited streaming and tune in to customized radio stations. The Music hub enables users to create playlists, search for new music, share songs with friends, view lyrics and album info and can also create personal radio stations. The Music hub will initially be available on the Samsung Galaxy S3 in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the UK. Another important feature is, a 100 GB of cloud storage offered with the Premium Music Hub and access to a library containing 19 million tracks are also offered. Other features are, scans your songs and matches those already in the Music hub catalog so they play at a high audio quality. You can directly upload any unmatched songs so you can access even your rare or personal recordings. If the Music Hub is not already on your device, you can download it from Samsung Apps.

Visit Music hub at https://www.samsung.com/us/musichub/

A Free App to chat without any cellular signals or Internet

efriend — Mon, 07 Apr 2014 04:07:21 +0000

In these years chatting and messaging apps gaining popularity. You are all familiar with popular chatting apps like WhatsApp, Kik, Snapchat, Skype,etc.. The biggest drawback of these apps is it requires a cellular service network connection or an active internet. Here is a new app that doesn’t require a cellular service network connection or an active internet to communicate with others, the app is FireChat. The FireChat app lets you communicate with others in close proximity without any service provider or Internet. The secret behind the app is, the FireChat works based on a technology called ‘wireless mesh networking’. The app is working as “off-the-grid”. This new technology will help to tie together thousands of devices with built-in radios and make it possible to be online without having to charge for the network access. Here is the screenshot of the app in action.

The new app will change the way people communicate with others. As it requires no internet or cellular connection the app will be cost-effective, secure, and affordable to your pocket. The present problem with FireChat is its range is limited. The current iPhone app users have only been able to send text and photos to other FireChat users within a range of 30 to 100 feet. If you are using Snapchat and other apps, the texts and photos sent on Snapchat will be saved, but on FireChat, nothing saved that transmitted through FireChat. All content vanishes once the app is closed. More secure! Isn’t it? Another advantage of FireChat is it allows all its users to remain anonymous.

The app is available for Android and iPhone. You can download the FireChat for iPhone and for Android from the links.

Use Instagram Directly From Your Chrome Browser

efriend — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 12:57:14 +0000

Instagram needs no introduction. In one sentence it is a free photo sharing program that allows users to take photo, apply digital filter and share the photos to different social networking site. It is a fast, beautiful and fun way to share your photos with friends and family. Snap a picture with your smart phone or iPad or tablet camera, choose a filter to transform its look and feel, then post to Instagram. Share to Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr too. Hands down, the best Instagram Extension for Chrome. Browse your feed and friends, like and comment and so much more. Use Instagram directly from your browser. Super familiar Instagram interface makes it easy to browse, like, and comment on all the photos from your feed. Click on any name or hash tag to browse through.

Earlier Instagram apps are available for Apple’s OS and also for Android. Using the app you can pick from one of several gorgeous filtered effects to breathe a new life into your mobile photos. Transform your everyday moments into works of art you’ll want to share with friends and family and finally share your photos in a simple photo stream with friends to see and follow your friends’ photos with the click of a single button. All things possible with these free apps.

But earlier we don’t have any app to share or access Instagram from your browser. Here is a cool Instagram app which helps you to share photos to Instagram from Chrome browser. Once installed the app can access from top of the Chrome toolbar.

How is your experience with Instagram from your browser? Can you recommend related apps for other popular browsers?

Watch Videos Using Cool Android Video Apps

efriend — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 04:14:19 +0000

Now Android devices are getting more and more popular. Most of use some type of Android device to see pictures watch movies and play games. There are a number of apps to do the things. But we are all noticed that some apps outperform others with the quality of video it offers, the supported file type that it can handle or the available features associated with the device which makes viewing videos in Android devices add more fun. Here is cool list of eight android video viewing apps arranged in an arbitrary order. Go though it find the best player that can do more for you. If you can find some new stuffs or fantastic stuffs, let me know about it. So our readers can also can get in to it.

VLC Direct

Easy and Powerful Stream Client and Server application.This is the only application of the entire market that can stream videos and music in both ways:
* From Computer to Android
* From Android to Computer
You don’t have to transfer your videos, songs and photos anymore.

Mobo Player

Watch any of your videos on a phone without conversion, anytime and anywhere.It feature the best playback experience and quality. Thisvideo player supports:
All video formats (need to choose “software decoding” mode in most cases)
Popular subtitle formats such as SRT, ASS, and SAA
Subtitles built in MKV, MPV, MOV, and others
Multi-audio streams and multi-subtitles
Playlists and continuous play on same type files
Videos streamed through HTTP, RTSP protocols
Media libraries and sort videos by type
Thumbnail displays of videos.
This player can easily play formats like mvk/h264/720p,1080p/aac,ac3,vorbis.

MX Video Player

MX Video Player is a video player to enjoy movies on your Android device. it plays almost every video files and every subtitle files with multi-core decoding capability.

a) MULTI-CORE DECODING – MX Video Player is the first Android video player that performs multi-core decoding. According to test results on dual-core devices, it shows up to 70% performance improvement over single-core decoding.
b) CPU OPTIMIZE – Provides CODECs and Rendering Engines highly optimized for processors including ARM® NEON and NVIDIA® Tegra 2.
c) MULTI-TOUCH VIDEO ZOOM – You can easily zoom video using multi-touch.
d) SUBTITLE SCROLL – When you scroll subtitle text, video playback position also will be changed to the text show-up position.
e) CLEAR TEXT – Increased subtitle text readability with ticker border and shadow.
f) FULL HONEYCOMB SUPPORT

Meridian Media Player Revolute

The most functional and customizable player for your video and music in phone.The video and music player with most customizable space.Convenient gestures to control.Advanced media folder settings, you can set including and excluding folders — in ANY DEPTH. Not only one level under /sdcard now.PlayQ rather than playlists, can handle videos, music, and their MIXTURE. Also, you can put a folder, an artist, an album or like that into a PlayQ.

Other features:
– ID3 editing
– .srt subtitle support
– Song rating, can synchronize with PC in Pro version
– Play video as music, for your music videos
– Toolkit to rescan SD card, clean media database
– Folder browsing and index browsing
– Customizable tabs.

mVideoPlayer

mVideoPlayer is a video player replacement application available for Android, with a lot of useful and handy features and a nice and clean interface it greatly improves on Android’s built-in video player.The application is freely available here on the Android market, so make sure you give it a try if you have a burning interest in watching movies and TV-series.

RockPlayer

RockPlayer is high performance, almost all formats media player with a lot of functions. It saves your time and disk space to transcoding or format converting. Just put your video on sdcard or click the URL in browser to watch it. It load .srt external subtitle with same name of video automatically and support .m3u playlist. But the lite version is advertisement support.

QQPlayer

Mobile QQ player is a video player application running on Android smartphones that supports all the popular formats of videos on the market, including AVI, FLV, MP4, 3GP, MKV, MOV and etc. In addition, QQ Player also supports SRT, SMI plug-in subtitle and MKV embedded subtitle, as well as multiple audio tracks switching. Its smart core technology auto detects video formats and makes it much easier for you to enjoy smoother, better quality videos with limited resources and smaller screen.

Videos

Official video player for Android Market movie rentals.Official player for the movies you rent from Android Market. Select from thousands of movie titles in Android Market and begin watching instantly — no wires, no syncing, no hassle! Make your movie rentals available for offline use on your supported Android device so you can watch even when you’re not connected.

Which Android App you are using to view videos on you android device? Which is the best android app which can view almost all type of file formats and can view videos in HD format?

Read Google Books on your iPhone,iPod, iPad and in Android device.

efriend — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 07:08:14 +0000

One of the finest offering from Google till date is the Google books. I you are an avid reader, a scholar or a student, Google books is the finale stop for a good source information. You can read hundreds of books online. Do you want to read Google books in your iPhone, iPad, iPod or in your Android device. Here is a cool app which helps you to read Google books easily on your portable device.

All you want is to download the free Google Books app to start reading over 3 million eBooks on the go. The iPhone and iPad app comes with a lot of features like, great reading experience, Change font, search within book, information about book,Night-reading mode,Offline reading mode,Millions of books in every imaginable category, from the New York Times® bestsellers to favorite classics,Over 2 million free eBooks available instantly, Free preview pages, etc.

iPhone, iPod App features

Stores up to 8,000 titles on average (based on 16GB model),Recommended for iPhones with 256MB memory or above
Mobile eBookstore
Search within book
Adjust text size, typeface, line space
Night-reading mode
Free samples of books
Information about book
Offline reading
Worry-free archive

iPad App features

Stores up to 16,000 titles on average (based on 32GB model)
Native iPad interface app for optimal reading experience
Mobile eBookstore
Search within book
Adjust text size, typeface, line space
Night-reading mode
Free samples of books
Information about book
Offline reading
Worry-free archive

More about the iPhone/iPad App ; Download App for iPhone

Android App

Use Android App to access 3 million eBooks Google Books to read on the go. Build your eBooks library in the cloud with Google Books: jump right into a bestseller or select from nearly 3 million free eBooks. Personalize the reader to your liking, pick up reading where you left off on your phone or computer, and settle down with a great book on your Android phone.

Android App Download