Top 10 Best iPhone Games of August 2013

1. Hay Day

Hay Day is a new farming game developed by Supercell. Harvest crops and build bakeries so you can trade wholesome goods at your own Farmer's Market. Raise and care for cute farm animals and improve your farm with different tools. Play with your friends on Game Center and Facebook. Your farm will look beautiful and feel alive!



2.Can You Escape

Are you up for a new challenge? Solve puzzles and find objects that will help you break out of the rooms. Escape and advance to the next floor. Challenge yourself in this popular fun puzzle game. 

3. Heads Up!

If you watch Ellen Degeneres’ TV show, then you’ve probably seen her play Heads Up! Heads Up! is Ellen’s game that has been turned into an app. The game can be played with two players or in a fun group setting. Players will pick from a large selection of “decks,” which include categories like celebrities, singing, characters, accents and more. One player will place the smartphone on their forehead, while other players will need to describe what the word is. If a player guesses the word correcting, the player holding the smartphone will tip the smartphone forward, which will bring up the next word.

4. The Simpsons: Tapped Out

The Simpsons: Tapped Out is a city building game developed by Electronic Arts. Homer wiped
out Springfield and its up to you to rebuild it! Help Homer find Marge, Bart, Lisa and the rest of his family. Complete taste and earn donuts! Visit your friends and party down at Duff Brewery. The Simpsons: Tapped Out is super fun!

5. Plants vs. Zombies 2

In Plants vs. Zombies 2, Zombies are slowly making their way to your home and you must have a defense line and use your gardening skills to stop them. Bonk Choy, Bloomerang and Lighting Reed are some of the new plants that will defend your lawn. Collect coins and purchase power-ups that will take your game to new dimensions. See how long you can survive in the hit action-strategy adventure game! 

6. Bloons TD5

Bloons TD 5 is a tower defense strategy game created by Ninja Kiwi. Players can select game modes from easy, medium and hard. Players will test their skills on a new jungle track. Although this game doesn't have any soldiers or towers, an army of monkeys will need to pop balloons. Each balloon you pop gives you more cash so you can upgrade. Players have the ability to record and share videos with friends and family on social networks. Compete with your friends and share high scores via Game Center social network.

7. Running With Friends

Zynga launched Running With Friends, a 3D action arcade game for iOS devices. Players can outrun and outscore their friends. You’ll need to dodge charging bulls, flying barrels, and speeding cars in order to reach the top of the leader boards. Running With Friends is a fast-paced game, and players can compete in three rounds, trying to outrun opponents. Just swipe the screen vertically and horizontally to dodge bulls, and other objects.

8. Clash of Clans



Clash of Clans is an addictive strategy game developed by Supercell. Build your own village, train your army of mighty fighters and join thousands of players in epic battles online. Defend your village with cannons, towers, bombs. The quest isn't over until you lead your clan to victory!



9. Fetch

Fetch by Big Fish Games, Inc. is about a boy named Milo who loves his dog Bear and is a kid-friendly app filled with adventures. As you work your way through this animated app furry friends will come to life. The more you play the game the bigger chances you have of saving Bear. Fetch was released in 2013 and comes in 11 different languages. 

10. Colormania

See if you can guess the colors of the most popular icons. Test your memory with 20 levels and over 200 mystery icons to solve. If you guess wrong you will lose one life.

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1/ TripIt

The TripIt app helps road warriors manage their trip itineraries all from one handy console, from flight e-tickets to car reservations. TripIt can even read PDF e-tickets to pull out the necessary flight information you need to travel on time.

Other travel information such as maps and directions are also available on the app. If your flight gets cancelled or delayed, TripIt can even help with alternatives from other airlines to accommodate your change in plans.

Also available: TripIt Pro, which is like having your own personal travel assistant for £34.49/year. Especially helpful for frequent travellers, TripIt Pro monitors your flights for potential airfare savings, and sends you status alerts and other helpful reminders while you're travelling.

The latest version of TripIt also includes; photo uploading so you can add photos to your trip objects, and a very useful local search and itinerary map, and the ability to search for restaurants, activities, and points of interest near your trip items.

Free (The Pro version is available for £34.49)

2/ Cisco WebEx Meetings

With Cisco's WebEx Meetings you can take your Web meetings anywhere in the world. The app allows you to join and participate in WebEx conferences directly from your iPhone.

WebEx Meetings allows you to view a presentation, document or application shared from another computer, and if you are a host of the meeting, you can start your meeting from the iPhone and then assign presenter privileges to one of the attendees who joined on a computer.

Free

3/ LinkedIn

Find and connect with more than 160 Million members worldwide, read the latest industry news, keep up-to-date with your groups, and share content with your network from anywhere.

The LinkedIn app has just been updated to version 5 and has had a whole raft of new features added. The latest version allows you to;

• Sync your calendar to get LinkedIn profile information about the people you're meeting with.
• View and save recommended jobs.
• Read the latest industry news.
• Keep up-to-date with your groups.
• Share content with your network.

Free

5/ Instapaper

If you are like us, then there are tens of articles that catch your eye every day, but most of the time, you just don't have time to read them, there and then. With Instapaper you can make a note of the article and then read it at your leisure in your own personalised Instapaper newspaper.

What's even better is Instapaper doesn't need a connection to the web for you to read the articles, all the articles are stored offline, so even when you're 30,000 feet up you can still read those interesting articles.

Instapaper is very simple to use, just click on the "Read Later" button at the top of your browser's navigation bar, and then open up the app. If you want reading suggestions, Instapaper also has a list of the community's most-read stories.

£1.99

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6/ Evernote

Evernote is an easy-to-use, free app that helps you remember everything across all of the devices you use. Stay organised, save your ideas, and improve productivity. Evernote lets you take notes, capture photos, create to-do lists, record voice reminders--and makes these notes completely searchable, whether you are at work, or on the go.

Evernote Premium extends the functionality of Evernote and offers additional features including, additional bandwidth, offline editing, editing by multiple users and a PIN lock on the Evernote app.

Free (Premium is available for £2.99 a month to £31.99 for a year)

7/ Dropbox

With the Dropbox app, you can take everything that matters with you, wherever you go. Dropbox is a free service that gives you 2Gb of cloud-storage to save any documents you want, from PowerPoint presentations through to spread sheets, photographs and videos.

After you install Dropbox on your computer, any file you save to your Dropbox will automatically save to all your computers, your iPhone and even the Dropbox website. You can then read your documents when you're out and about. Save photos or videos to your Dropbox and share them with colleagues in just a couple taps.

And because everything is saved in the cloud rather than on your iPhone or on your PC if you accidentally leave your iPhone in a taxi, your stuff remains safe and secure.

Free (for first 2Gb of storage, additional storage can be bought starting at 50Gb £69.99)

8/ Skype

The Skype application for iPhone brings you all the power of Skype in a mobile-friendly format. The main advantage with Skype is there are already so many people on the network that it's a virtual business no-brainer.

By using Skype over your phone's Wi-Fi data connection you can make voice and video calls for free with other Skype users, and as long as you don't eat too much into your phones data allowance, you can also make free voice and video calls over your phones 3G network.

Price: Free

9/ Dragon Dictation

Nuance's Dragon Dictation, is a fast, simple to use speech-to-text dictation package. In a nutshell, you talk, it types.

Fire up the application, start talking and your words magically appear as text, which you can then cut and paste into any application you want.

Powered by Dragon's award-winning NaturallySpeaking speech-recognition software the app claims it's five times faster than typing on the keyboard. However as the speech recognition is handled via Nuance's servers rather than the iPhone you do need to be connected via 3G or Wi-Fi for the app to work.

As well as cutting and pasting text you create in Dragon Dictation, there are also quick links to more common apps, so you can update your Facebook status, email notes and reminders to yourself, or Tweet to the world with just your voice and two clicks.

Free

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10/ LogMeIn

Smartphones can do a lot, but there's no substitute for a proper PC or a Mac. LogMeIn allows you to remotely control your PCs and Macs over Wi-Fi/3G so you get all of your desktop applications running on your iPhone.

To make it work, you need to install LogMeIn on your broadband connected Mac or PC - there's a free version - and then download the app on your iPhone. It's a ten minute pain-free process and after that you can remotely access your files, run your applications and control your desktops from anywhere.

Free

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Top 5 Map Apps for Firefox

1: Quick Maps

Quick Maps has 4 stars out of 5 from 38 user reviews in Firefox's add-ons library. The add-on has a total of 45,048 users.

This app from Mapify adds in-page Google Map frames to website street address listings. Just hover your mouse over or highlight and right-click on the physical street address listing on a Web page within Firefox and an elegant Google Maps frame will embed on the Web page with the map and location label.

It also provides a highlight and one right-click Google search based on the address highlighted. Pretty.

2: Google Shortcuts - All Google Services at a Glance

Google Shortcuts has 4 stars out of 5 from 311 user reviews in Firefox's add-ons library. The add-on has a total of 124,912 users.

Soeren Rinne's Google Shortcuts app simply adds Google services buttons, including one for Maps, next to the address bar on the Firefox browser.

The default setting is to create multiple buttons, including ones for Maps, Gmail, the now defunct Google Reader, Calendar and so on. However, from the app's settings icon, remove the ones you don't use. Retaining the Maps button only provides a speedy one-click Google Maps launch.

 3: Bing Maps powered by Microsoft Silverlight

Bing Maps Powered by Silverlight has 5 stars out of 5 from one user review in Firefox's add-ons library. The add-on has 70 weekly downloads.

If you're a little bored with Google Maps, BillVo's Bing Maps for Silverlight may make a welcome change. This app simply adds a Bing Maps SL option in the Firefox Search dropdown next to the address bar. Choose it to generate fluid map results from an alternative provider.

Both Microsoft's Bing Maps and Google's Maps use their own, unique aerial shots, so you'll see subtle detail differences, including clarity related to lighting based on time of day and other variables.

4: Google Maps Terrain View

Google Maps Terrain View is not yet rated and has no user reviews in Firefox's add-ons library. The add-on has seven weekly downloads.

This app offers functionality similar to that delivered by our No. 3 spot, Bing Maps Powered by Silverlight, except that this is a Google Maps Terrain option for the Firefox Search dropdown.

Simply choose the option to have the search engine default to Terrain rather than Satellite or Map. It's a useful solution if you're performing multiple searches for locations for the purposes of outdoors activities in which hills are important.

 5: Locator - Locate on Google Map

Locator has 4 stars out of 5 from 32 user review in Firefox's add-ons library. The add-on has 7,672 users.

Here's an alternative to our No. 1 position Quick Maps that uses a highlight-and-right-click selection method rather than hover-over. It also produces a pop-out map in a new window rather than a map in an embedded frame.

It's a slightly less elegant solution, which is why it's in a runner-up position. At the same time, however, the new-window functionality does allow for map re-positioning on the screen and is consequently good for the screen real-estate-challenged.

5 Best Weather Apps for Google Chrome

1: Full Screen Weather

Full Screen Weather has 4 stars out of a possible 5 from 2,533 reviewers in the Chrome Web Store. The app has 952,524 users.

Without a doubt, this app offers the best-looking weather maps out there for desktop, even if it is a little peculiar to navigate.

This Wunderground crowdsourced app is simply a straight mash-up of Google Maps along with satellite or terrain detail -- and superimposed radar, satellite weather or reporting weather station data. Thousands of data sources are included, such as hobbyist stations and remote automated stations perched on mountaintops. Drill-down for super-local observations.

 2: Rain Alarm

Rain Alarm has 4 stars out of a possible 5 from 304 reviewers in the Chrome Web Store. The app has 81,331 users.

This app warns you of precipitation headed your way. Set your location and some parameters, like a search radius, and the app will alert you. You may have to adjust sensitivity and search interval, but it does usually work.

Alternatives include looking out of the window.

 3: WeatherBug

WeatherBug has 4 stars out of a possible 5 from 3,016 reviewers in the Chrome Web Store. The app has 608,449 users.

A good, solid, all-round weather extension with animated graphics. A close-by weather cam will display in the animated window if available. An additional add-on for Windows gives you severe weather alerts in your taskbar.

Detailed observations include must-haves like humidity, monthly rain and an interesting rain rate for the day. All useful stuff.

 4: Uber Weather

Uber Weather has 4 stars out of a possible 5 from six reviewers in the Chrome Web Store. The app has 3,490 users.

Here's a Google-driven weather map that includes layers like ski resorts, driving directions and traffic. It's not quite as elegant as the other apps we've included, hence its runner's-up position. Still, it is remarkably interesting to see traffic snarl-ups created by weather, and it's a tool you can use to pick alternate freeway commute routes based on rain-dumping weather cells.

 5: YoWindow Weather

YoWindow Weather has 5 stars out of a possible 5 from 4,467 reviewers in the Chrome Web Store. The app has 190,747 users.

"Quirky" would be a good one-word description for this very popular extension. Clicking on a button adjacent to the address bar creates an animated "living landscape" that reflects the weather.

Choose from weather layer-superimposed pastoral scenes, cityscapes and other scenes -- or make your own with any photo -- and the weather animates in real-time, a bit like looking out of a virtual window. A time scroll lets you project a forecast graphically. Fun, if you've got time on your hands.

Unexpected features in iOS 7

CHANGE THEME :

You cannot  actually change the theme of the new design, but   you can change the feel of your iOS 7 device to much extent that can be only through just by changing the background. Because of  changing the background the look of the lock screen, the dial pad when making a call, and the pass code screen are changed  by letting the background colors show through.  You can try different backgrounds.

CALENDER DAILY QUICK VIEW :

Now, to bring up the day's events at a glance, you need to hit the search magnifying glass at the top of the screen. It's not exactly intuitive, but I'm relieved it's still there.

Hiding Newsstand :
Newsstand is useful for finding magazines and other reading materials, and you can set up subscriptions so you get new issues of periodicals such as The Economist every week. But in previous versions of iOS, people who were not interested in reading magazines on their iPhone couldn't put Apple's Newsstand app in a folder to save home screen space. The concept behind it was that Newsstand already was a folder of items itself and you couldn't put a folder into another folder. 

Fortunately, in iOS 7, you no longer need to deal with work-arounds. Newsstand finally can be placed in a folder. It's even useful for those who use Newsstand all the time because you can drop it into a more general news folder to have a central location for all your news sources.

Quitting multiple apps
Sometimes you have to quit apps and the old method of double-tapping the home button and long-pressing the app to go into jiggle mode was kind of a tedious process. In iOS 7, you now can double-tap the home screen and flick the app preview thumbnail upward to quit. It's a bit faster, but in playing with my iPhone during the review I made another discovery.

Not only can you flick to quit an app, you also can use three fingers to quit three apps at a time with the same swiping motion. This will let you make sure apps aren't running processes in the background when you want the full power of your iOS device and it's a much faster method.

Infinite folders
In ios 6 and earlier versions, you could only have up to 16 apps in a folder. This might be OK if you don't download a lot of apps, but if you're like me, you were forced to make folders like "Games 1" and "Games 2" if you wanted to organize your home screen.

Now, in iOS 7, you can put an infinite number of apps (or until you have no more storage space on your device) into a folder so you can truly organize your home screen. iOS 7 organizes your apps into groups of nine, and you can swipe to move on to each page. This should help limit the number of home screen pages you have to navigate and make for a more organized layout.

Make iOS 7 more readable
One thing I've been hearing since the update is that people with less-than-perfect eyesight have some trouble reading the thin fonts in the new design, especially when they're in front of bright backgrounds (Calendar app, I'm looking at you). Fortunately, there's a fix.

If you have trouble reading the fonts in iOS 7, go to Settings > General > Accessibility, then touch the switch for Bold Text and also the Increase Contrast switch right below it. It will require a restart of your iPhone, but now reading should be a lot easier -- even in the Calendar app.

Using the compass as a level
The compass app is a neat tool to have on your iOS device to help you get your bearings when you're outdoors, sailing, or doing any number of other activities. But a new feature of the compass app in iOS 7 will help those who work on things around the house with a feature that acts as a level.

To keep your household handywork from coming out crooked, you can now swipe to the left on the compass, and you get a digital level tool. With this page open, you can set your iPhone on a table you might be making or even on its edge when hanging a picture, and you'll be able to tell if it's truly level.

Micromax launches Canvas Tab P650 with 8-inch display for INR 16,500

Micromax has announced the addition of an Android tablet to its Canvas device line-up today in the form of Canvas Tab P650. This new tablet sports an 8-inch display and will retail for INR 16,500.Top 10 android running games

According to a press release issued by the company, Micromax Canvas Tab is powered by a 1.2GHz quad-core processor and runs on Android 4.2.1. It also comes with 5MP rear camera, 2MP front shooter, 1GB of RAM and 16GB of storage with microSD card slot.

In addition, Micromax P650 packs 3G support, Wi-Fi, and 4800 mAh battery. Coming to the software tweaks, Micromax has pre-loaded Opera mini, Spuul, Music Hub, M! Live , and M! Security apps on the tablet. The tablet also comes with features like video pinning to home-screen support, Smart Pause, and pop-up browser.

“With Canvas Tab, we are offering Indian consumers a unique combination of superior technology complemented with unmatched style. It reinforces our commitment to massify and democratize technology by empowering the consumers with the best and most unique innovations that offer great value for them,” said Rahul Sharma, Micromax Co- Founder.

According to Micromax, it is now available across major retail stores in Blue and White colour options.

Jet Airways launches official Android app in Google Play

Indian airline Jet Airways has launched its official Android app in Google Play. Available for free, the application includes the expected features like flight ticket booking, flight status check and flight notifications. In addition, users will be able to enrol in or access JetPrivilege account directly from the app.


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Many essential features like flight check-in (although present in the app) are not working right now, which we expect will be added in the coming weeks/ months.

“We are excited to launch our Android app which is a result of a multi-level collaboration between Jet Airways and Google. This is another step in leveraging the potential of mobile technology to offer substantial convenience and ease while adding great value to our guests’ overall experience while they interact with the airline,” said Sudheer Raghavan, Chief Commercial Officer, Jet Airways.

MapmyIndia adds real-time traffic updates in Android app

MapmyIndia has announced that its Android app now shows real-time traffic updates for select cities.  The feature seems to have been made live in the last update, which was pushed on September 6 to the app; the company was probably removing any last minute kinks before officially revealing about the feature.



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The cities for which you can now check real-time traffic data using MapmyIndia app are Delhi-NCR, Mumbai and Bengaluru. It is a surprisingly small number of cities and the company should have at least included traffic data for all tier-1 cities.

We checked out the feature on our phone just now and it seems to be working fine but overall the whole MapmyIndia app is too slow and seriously needs a revamp. Given the fact that Google Maps already offer traffic data for a lot more cities and along with free voice-guided navigation support, there is hardly any reason why anyone would want to use MapmyIndia app.

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Micromax to pre-load BBM for Android on Canvas smartphones

Micromax has announced that it will pre-load BlackBerry Messenger for Android on its Canvas-series of smartphones beginning first week of October. The existing users can download the app from Google Play once it goes live on September 21.

“We have built a strong mobile ecosystem for our users, which not only drives them to buy our products, but also builds a connection with the brand by massifying and democratizing technology in India. Bringing one of the most popular mobile messaging services with BBM on our smartphones is yet another effort to expand our bouquet of messaging services for our consumers to connect and communicate seamlessly with their loved ones,” said Deepak Mehrotra, CEO, Micromax.

While, this news is good for BlackBerry and Micromax, I am not sure how useful it is for the consumers when BBM for Android is going to be available for free in Google Play.  It will just increase the amount of bloatware on the smartphones for the consumers who don’t want BBM.

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Google improved chrome for ios with Improved voice searxh ans gcoogle apps integration

Yes ..Google has updated a new layer of intelligence in chrome for ios which lets you to use pronouns . This capability has benn already introduced for desktop and android .


But more cool feature is that users can easily log into the Google apps with just a click and so many apps like youtube, Google maps , gmail, Google drive also take directly to the native apps  from browse's settings menu.

It has also redesigned chrome to match apple' s ios 7 design.

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