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Samsung officially announced it’s the Galaxy S4 Mini smartphone yesterday not having the patience to wait till the 20th of June. Just a few days back, the company had launched two devices namely, Galaxy Star and Galaxy Young while the former has been claimed as the cheapest Galaxy smartphone. This baby Galaxy S4 comes in LTE, HSPA+ and dual-SIM variants and this implies that Samsung is planning for a huge launch for this device in comparison to the launch of the Galaxy S3 Mini. It will also accompany many features that are embedded on to the Galaxy S 4 which includes camera features, S Health, S Translator and WatchOn. Check out the detailed discussion of the specs and features of the Galaxy S4 Mini below.

The Galaxy S4 Mini is an optional dual-SIM device that supports 2G, 3G as well as 4G (LTE - GT-I9195) network. The device is well designed, built with a 4.3 inches (~256 ppi pixel density) Super AMOLED capacitive multitouch touchscreen display resembling a resolution of 540 x 960 pixels along with 16M colors. It runs on Google’s Android v4.2.2 Jelly Bean operating system and is powered by Dual-core 1.7 GHz Krait processor, Qualcomm MSM8930 Snapdragon 400 chipset and Adreno 305 graphics processor. It is provided with accelerometer, gyro, proximity and compass as sensors.

This Mini device accompanies an internal memory of 8 GB (5 GB user available), 1.5 GB RAM for the 3G model and 2 GB RAM for the LTE model. It also supports external memory via card slot which is expandable up to 64 GB. The device flaunts with an 8 MP rear camera resembling a resolution of 3264 x 2448 pixels with the features of autofocus and LED flash. It is also embedded with a 1.9 MP front facing camera and the whole camera setup of the devices features Geo-tagging, touch focus, face detection, HDR and panorama. Video is supported on the device with 1080p@30fps.

Its connectivity features include GPRS, EDGE, HSDPA, 42 Mbps, HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps, LTE, Cat3, 50 Mbps UL, 100 Mbps DL, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, dual-band, DLNA, Wi-Fi Direct, Wi-Fi hotspot, Bluetooth v4.0 with A2DP, LE, EDR, NFC and Infra-red. Its sound setup is enabled with the common alert types such as Vibration, MP3, WAV ringtones along with a loudspeaker and a 3.5mm audio jack. It supports video in MP4, DivX, XviD, WMV, H.264 and H.263 player formats and supports audio in MP3, WAV, eAAC+, AC3 and FLAC player formats. Moreover, like the usual smartphones, it supports Messaging via SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM and RSS along with HTML5 browser.

Other miscellaneous features of the Glaxy Mini device include Stereo FM radio with RDS, GPS with A-GPS support and GLONASS, Java MIDP emulator, SNS integration, Organizer, Image and video editor, Document viewer, Google Search, Maps, Gmail, YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk, Picasa, Voice memo and Predictive text input (Swype). The device is boosted by a Li-Ion 1900 mAh battery and measures 124.6 x 61.3 x 8.9 mm (4.91 x 2.41 x 0.35 in) in dimensions while it weighs 107g (3.77oz). Well, the Galaxy S4 Mini has been scheduled to be released in the month of July this year.

One of the best merits of owning a smartphone is being able to capture the current screen of your device. While Samsung has embedded a lot of amazing features into its new Galaxy S4 device, most of the users would like to save a screenshot because of its beautiful display. For this, you don’t need to root your S4 or install any third party apps. There are two methods to capture a screenshot. While one method is quite conservative to most Android users, the other method is a common and well known method to users of previous Galaxy devices. Go through the below discussions to know the methods of capturing screenshots on Galaxy S4 and also check the video tutorial.

1. Firstly, you need to place the palm of your hand on the screen of your Galaxy S4 device. Remember to unlock your hone before doing this as it will not work on a locked screen.

2. Next, you need to swipe your hand across the screen in directions, left and right. While doing this, you will hear a camera shutter sound followed by a notification displayed on the screen saying “copied to clipboard”. With this, your screenshot will be saved to your photo Gallery.

Note: Prior to the capturing of screenshot using this method, you should ‘turn on’ the “Palm motion” option. In order to turn this option ‘on,’ you have navigate through ‘Settings’ > ‘Motions and gestures’ > ‘Palm motion.’ Here, enable or disable the “Palm motion” option.

Another alternative method to take a screenshot on the Galaxy S4 device is to simply press and hold the ‘lock key’ and the ‘home button’ simultaneously till a camera shutter sound is heard. Once you hear this sound, know that your screenshot has been saved to your Photo Gallery.

You can choose any of these methods to capture a screenshot on your Galaxy S4 but the shots captured will be saved to the Photo Gallery in both the cases. These methods will work while you are on the home screen and also when you are using applications. These methods are also likely to work for the Samsung high-end smartphones such as Galaxy S3 and Galaxy Note. Share your opinions below if you find these methods as useful. 

The Google Glass is one of the biggest buzzes on the web and as you know, there are positive buzzes and negatives too. The main issues of the buzzes lay behind the privacy issues of the Google product and simple individuals you and I are not entitled to try out Google Glass as there are only a limited number of devices. In addition to these, there are some insignificant issues that the program is just an invitation and the hefty price which is about $1500. Well, you and I have got an option to do and it is run the Google Glass on our Android phone or tablet. In fact, you won’t be able to mount it on your head but all you can do is play with its interface and check out the stuffs in it.

Special thanks to Zhuowei Zhang, because of whom different parts of the Google glass can be installed on to your Android powered device via .apk files. An .apk is the file extension for a standard app file format like the .exe on Windows. In order to install the .apk files, you will have to make sure that your device is capable of installing.apk from locations other than Goolgle Play and you can do this by navigating through ‘Setting’ > ‘Security’ and the “Unknown Sources” should be checked. With this, you will be able to install apps from various sources other than the Google Play Store.

Browse to https://github.com/zhuowei/Xenologer and download the glasshome-modded.apk and install them on your device. With this, the basic ‘Glass Home’ screen will appear and when you start the Glass Home app, the “standard” Glass home screen will appear along with the clock that real Glass users see projected onto their eye. Here, you need to speak out “OK Glass” in order to access the menu and the most amazing thing is that you just need to speak out to try other stuffs in it.

Next, you need to install the camera, hangouts as well as the maps modules and this will make the Glass Home app to carry out interactions, start hangouts and access Google Maps with the camera (even only the front facing camera). While trying maps, the problem you are likely to face is not being able to cross the initial warning screen; this may tell you to keep your eyes on the road. Another issue is that Hangouts crash on Android 4.2 because of the variation in the fundamental Android code. Of course, you won’t be able to experience the complete Glass but you can get the feel of the stuffs and things it can do.

1.   Firstly, you need to decide the app store to which you are going to submit your app and the wisest thing to do is to prefer one among the popular app stores. 

2.   Each app store has its own merits and demerits. Hence go through the merits and demerits of 6 major app stores and then decide which app store to prefer.

3.   There are varying registration charges and policy restrictions in various app stores. Some stores charge a very high fee for registration while some other stores enforce severe policy restrictions. So, you need to decide accordingly.

4.   Calculate and plan out your budget as you must have shelled out some money in the development of the app and you will have to spend some more for registration.

5.   Register yourself to the desired app store. There are many stores that allow you to submit your app after the registration is done but they also provide you with some guides, sample codes and handy software development tools.

6.   Remember to read the fine print before you submit your app. Go through the entire terms and conditions set by the app store, read carefully and understand them so that you have positive chances for the approval of your app.

7.   Go through your app once again and test your app thoroughly so that you make sure that there are no bugs and issues.

8.   Check whether your app is functioning properly or not as many apps have been rejected earlier because of working failure.

9.   Make sure you have not used any kind of copyrighted material like photos, videos, logos in your app because this would result in instant rejection.

10. Create a unique icon for your app, something eye-catchy so that it is easily spotted by users when your app is displayed in the store. Give a detailed view and description of your app. 

Today, app stores are widely popular and these facilitate the app developers to showcase, market as well sell their apps. The app stores are also accessed by various customers and web users who search mobile apps in order to purchase or download them. As you know, there are a good number of app stores on the internet and each app store has its own distinguishing feature on grounds of presentation, price, etc. Even the same apps are showcased and rated in different ways in each app store and this brings a lot of thoughts whether to buy or not in the minds of the customers. Lets checkout the best app stores by dealing with the merits and demerits of some major App Stores today’s market.

This App Store was created by Apple Inc., the manufacturer of Apple devices such as iPod, iPad, etc in order to let its customers to download free as well as paid applications from the iTunes Store onto devices like iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.

Merits: This is perhaps the biggest app store in the web having above 1,00,000 applications and accompanies the widest category of apps starting from fun apps to the most serious ones. This app store features a large number of free apps while the paid ones are reasonable too. The biggest merit is the iTunes as no other app store provides this.

Demerits: In this app store, apps with the maximum download or the most downloaded apps are showcased significantly. If you are an iPhone user, the only recommended store from where you can install apps for your device is the Apple App Store. This store holds duplicity of a good number of apps in their ‘lite’ versions. Lastly, the recent inclusion of policies by Apple is much restraining.

The Google Android Market, now know as Google Play wasn’t much popular in the initial days but now it has grown up into a large hub of apps and is quite popular. According to experts, this app store is likely to dominate the all time prevailing Apple App Store.

Merits: The Google Plat Store features nearly 250,000 applications and here, the developers just need to pay a low fee of $25 in order to register. Hence, if you are a developer, you can register paying less and do check important things to do before submitting your app to theGoogle Play Store. This is the app store where apps are available at low costs and as a matter of fact, each thing in this store is categorized finely.

Demerits: You will have to think over the quality of apps after you check them and the most important thing is that this app store is only applicable for 29 countries, as set by Google. The developers from other exclusive nations can only submit free apps and according to the experience of many developers, the app store is broadly split.

The BlackBerry App World is running since April 2009 when it came up live to the web and has established itself as one of the potentially strong app stores making available more than 3500 apps. The showcasing of apps in this store is finely arranged with categories making the search of apps easier.

Merits: The showcasing of the apps is neat and finely arranged in systematic categories and this is in fact, the only app store that supports Paypal billing. Above all, this is the only app store that pays its developers 80% of the sales.

Demerits: Products are much expensive as it features high-end apps and complains of issues in the installation of apps keep in rolling by customers. Users of certain countries (not all) are enabled to have access to the store and for registration as a developer, it takes $200.

The Nokia Ovi Store has its center of attention on 5 main categories which are Games, Maps, Media, Messaging and Music. The services of Ovi can be accessed by Nokia mobile, Nokia Ovi Suite on PC and through the Web.

Merits: The showcasing of items in this store is neat and fine, hence user friendly and the most amazing fact about this store is that developers need not pay in order to register. The developers’ apps are promoted by Nokia with no extra fee.

Demerits: The one and only demerit about this app store is that it showcases only a few apps currently.

This store came up with a good number of apps in less time but the Microsoft Windows Marketplace for Mobile is not that impressive like other app stores. Well, it has some positive sides as well.

Merits: The apps presented here are all well tested and this store is capable of featuring nearly 400 apps in one single month.

Demerits: Every individual developer has to pay a fee of $99 for registration while developers are limited to some countries only for access. The developers are allowed to sell their apps one single country and if a developer intends to feature an app in more than one country, he or she will have to pay an additional $10 per country. Each user is enabled to try apps freely for 5 times with no costs applied but after the 5th try; he or she needs to pay $99 per try further. The apps displayed in this store are only applicable on 6.1 and 6.5 OS

There is a big pro of the Samsung Application Store as it supports Pocket PC platforms such as Symbian and many others. The apps here are tested well and are kept with proper record. Time and time again, the Samsung Application Store gets into various promotional events such as contests in order to provide significant prize money to the winning developer.

Merits: The user interface of this store is clean and is well designed with each listing or item costing just $10. The apps are tested well before presenting them on the store.

Security and protection is a necessity in the world of social networking, especially in the post-Timeline era of Facebook. Timeline facilitates access to your profile where your past activities, posts, photos and likes are displayed. Any Facebook user such as your friends, friends of friends, colleagues, employees of your company, your boss, etc can have a glance at your profile. With this Timeline feature, Facebook has brought changes in some other stuff including the security settings. If you are concerned about the visibility of certain things of your profile, then you need to take heed and go through the below discussions. In fact, Facebook’s timeline is an open invitation to a lot of Facebook users but the social network has also provided some ways to get rid of them. Enlisted below are the best ways to secure your Facebook account.

You can have access to the ‘privacy settings’ from a gear icon situated at the upper right corner of your profile or the header bar or next to your name and Home button (See image below). When you click on it, a menu drops down and offers you a number of options from which you need to chose ‘Privacy Settings’ in order to change the security of your profile. Select ‘Timeline and Tagging’ to change what can be seen and by whom on your timeline. With this, you can set the limit of users who can see your timeline to just your ‘friends.’

For security options, Facebooks also introduced its best security setting which is by a simple click you will be able to set your profile in such a way that are able to review all the things that you are tagged into before they are posted on to your Timeline. This implies that your friends will not be able to see any awkward images of your without your knowledge or approval. Well, you will find another gear icon situated next to button ‘Activity Log’ button (see image below) and this icon is a tool that enables you to visualize your profile from the outlook or point of view of your friends and other Facebook users. With this tool, you can check out the things visible on your Timeline and to whom your stuffs are visible.

The Samsung Galaxy Tab is one of the best tablet devices launched by the South Korean company and it runs on the Android 2.2 Froyo operating system of Google. It flaunts with a 7-inch screen resembling a resolution of 1024x600 pixels and as a matter of fact, at that point of time, was a rival of the Apple’s iPad. This Tab grants many amazing features such as Adobe Flash 10.1, Samsung’s Social Hub app and Media Hub content services. It also enables advertisers to portray cross-channel ad campaigns throughout the Mobile Web. Being a magnificent device, developers can write a good number of apps for it. In order to know the procedure to develop apps for the Samsung Galaxy Tab, go through the discussions below.

Once you are done with the above discussed instructions, know that you have learnt the procedure to to develop apps for the Samsung Galaxy Tab.

DISCLAIMER: Note that you are following these instructions at your own risk and make sure that we are not liable for any damage caused to your device due to the instructions provided in this guide.