Gadget Review: Mikey Digital external microphone for iPhone/ iPad

Review by Rob P. 

Why do you need an external microphone for your iThing? Well, if you’re an average user, you probably don’t. But if you’re a journalist, researcher, musician, student or podcaster, the Mikey Digital might just be the gadget for you.

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Review: Assassin's Creed Pirates (iPad)

Review by Matt S.

I'm not sure why, but the big publishers seem to struggle with coming up with compelling ways to bring their important franchises to the iPad. EA has both hits and misses in equal measure, and Activision has only made token efforts with its Call of Duty franchise.

On the other end of the spectrum is 2K Games, which is more interested in releasing premium-priced and full featured itirations of its games. Good on the producers over at 2K for that decision; it's good to see some publishers understand that there are genuine fans of gaming with iPads. Somewhere in the middle sits Ubisoft. It doesn't exactly produce AAA-games on the iPad, but what it does do is take its popular franchises and produce "mobile" titles that far exceed the normal quality of such things. Exhibit A - Rayman Jungle Run and its sequel. Not a "full" Rayman game, but a darned fine runner with all the Rayman charm packed into a small download.

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Best Android and iPhone Apps to Make Money and Earn Rewards

Every day we are using so many apps on our smart mobiles to help us in completing our tasks and some apps to entertain us.Most of the apps are paid and some them are free.Although its paid we tried to get it for free in any other means.! what if any app that pays you return when you use them? Yes Continue reading..!

Yes there are some apps  which will reward with gift cards and with real money for using those apps! Here we have mentioned some apps which can pay for you in return if you use them.
Note: we did not test all the apps on our own we have listed here the best apps based on our friends reviews.

1.FreeMyApps:

This is available for both the iOS and the Android users,User will be rewarded with Amazon and Google play store gift cards and many more gift cards to try the apps.Note the more apps you try the more you are rewarded and you get more apps the more you use the downloaded apps on your mobile.

• Android users can Downlaod here
• iOS users can get this from Here

2.FeaturePoints: Free Gift Cards

This app is same as FreeMyapps which pays you to try the apps on your mobile. Feature Points rewards the uses to try the apps for atleast 1 min on your mobiles and Feature Points not only rewards it's users but also to pays to it's users via Paypal. The best thing you can do to get more from this app is to refer your friends to Feature Points! You will be rewarded with 50% of the points earned by your friend!.

• Android users can get the app from Here
• iOS users can get from Here

3.Iconzoomer:

Shoot the pic,send it and earn! Take the photos of that asked in your assignments. Assignments will be like  Show us what you are eating for dinner?

Whats color shoe are you wearing today? some other general questions.

You can earn for every assignment you complete and get paid via Paypal. Another interesting feature is you can donate the money you earned to UNICEF.

• Download for Android
• Download for iOS

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4.Check Points:

Here you need to scan the bar code of products you buy when you step into grocery or shooping malls you can also earn points by refering you freinds.

Simple task like scaning bar code of coco coal,olay etc.

• Download for Android
• Download for Iphone

5.Shopkick:

Shopkick is shopping app that help you to find best deals in near to you.You can earn points when you purchase or even by scanning bar code of product.The points you earned will make money for you.Payment mode is paypal or any rewards.

• Download for Android
• Download for Ios

6.Cash King:

Download and Play some New Games,watch video Ads ,Register on some sites and get paid through paypal.

• Download available for only Android

7.Npolls

Make Money by answering questions.You can earn 20 cents per survey.Choose the topic the suits for you and start sharing your opinion.

• Download for Android
• Download for ios

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How to Save or Increase Battery life in Android and Iphone

It is the kingdom of android based smart phone's in the present day not only in our country but all over the world. Smart phones are being a part of our lives, occupying a major role in our daily basis with their presence. Since they have hugely attractive features and many more services, almost everyone agrees to the fact that smart phones are indeed smart. Apart from all these advantages, android phones hugely face a problem, that is battery run out. The apps and services which we use, eat and cut down the battery life of the phone and we have to plug the phone to the charger again and again.

Would you like to find out a solution for this problem and increase the battery life of your phone? 

Here are a few steps, which you should  follow initially.

1. Disable unwanted notifications.

2. Disable location services which you don't need.

3. Reduce the brightness of the screen.

4. Reduce the auto-lock time to minimum value[30sec-1min]

5.Turn off Wi Fi when not needed.

6. Turn off blue tooth when not needed.

7. Turn off push email or internet access when not needed.

8. Close applications that may be running in the background. [these eat up a lot of battery life].

• In any IOS device, double-press the home screen button and hold your finger on any icon on screen until the icons start wriggling and then press the minimize button to close the apps running in the background.

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• On any Android devices, go to Settings>Applications>manually select and shut down all the apps running in the background.

Apps That Helpful to Save Battery life of your Mobile

Apart from these ideas, there are many battery saving apps which you can install in the devices. these apps notify you when any service consumes more battery life and gives you alarms when you have to plug in to the charger. i would like to present to you, top three apps, which implement battery-saving strategies whenever you are not using the phone.

1.2X Battery Saver:

If you want to increase the battery life on your android device, immediately download the 2X battery saver app. it is available in completely free of cost from the Google play app store. First and foremost this app always displays the battery level,usage and estimated battery life remaining in the status bar on your mobile screen, so that you can constantly keep track on  it.

2X battery saver is awesomely efficient by its features like it helps increase the battery life of your phone by automatically switching off the Internet feature(3G,4G and Wi Fi) when your screen is locked. The constant use of internet on your phone, even when your are not using it, can drain your battery life quickly. then the 2X battery saver will come into the picture switch off the internet and conserve your battery charge.

The best part in this feature is that it only turns off the internet access but not effect your phone calls or text messages. To ensure that you do not loose any important work like emails and new updates, this app will keep enabling the internet access on your phone at predefined periodic intervals of your choice. In case of any active downloads, this app does not switch off your internet.

2.JuiceDefender:

Another amazing app that increases the battery life on your android phone is JuiceDefender. You can download it in the Google play app store. It works in a similar way as 2X battery saver but also is equally efficient.

3.Battery Doctor Pro:

For IOS and android users, one of the best battery management apps is the batter doctor pro, which is available for free in the app store. Once installed, the app shows you in a status bar about your battery life and estimates how long the charge will last under different usage conditions like talk time,internet access, apps etc.

The best feature of this app is that it allows you to perform a full-cycle charge of your battery so that your device can get more accurate reading and your battery charge can be increased.

So the above three apps are the top techniques to improve and increase battery life on your android phone.However, using anything within the limits is always important which applies here too.

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Review: The King of Fighters '97 (iPad)

Review by Andrew M. 

The king of the arcade games was the fighting games. There was always something appealing about going into a local arcade, whacking a dollar into the machine and button mashing your way to a victory. When fighters made the jump onto the console, they got a fresh lick of paint, but they held onto that brawling, button mashing goodness that made kids flock to the arcade.

However, the experience when playing these fighters at home was also different. I loved playing on the arcade machines. Perhaps because I was fighting for the most value out of my money as possible, but there was something different about the console experience, and I do think fighters lost something core to the experience as the arcades died away.

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Review: BIT.TRIP RUN! (iPad)

Review by Max S. 

Imagine running through an odd, magical world where monocle-wearing hills with eyes sitting on clouds (they are referred to as “Cloud Titans”) watch you as you jump, slide, and kick your way through joyously rhythmic level after level. Sound familiar so far? It should - that's BIT.TRIP at its finest. But then, suddenly, everything stops working. The music continues playing as the rest of the game grinds to halt and in no time at all you are dead and are forced to restart the level. That is not the platformer of the year I love.

Enter BIT.TRIP RUN! on iOS, the quasi-remake of Runner2, a fantastic console and PC title that released earlier this year. Not a whole lot has changed gameplay-wise in the move to mobile, but everything from the menus to the controls have been adapted to fit the touch screen interface of the iPhone and iPad. Other mobile additions include not-entirely unwelcome in-app purchases in the form of extra levels, silly costumes, and virtual gold, and iOS-specific leaderboards and achievements.

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Review: Gary Chalk's Gun Dogs (iPad)

Review by Matt S.

Tin Man Games is the indie workhorse of the iOS games market; every couple of months it releases a new gamebook title, and every couple of months I get hooked on the genre all over again.

If you've never played a gamebook, then you're probably younger than I am, but for the children of the 80's, the gamebooks were our single-player RPGs when we weren't able to get a group together for some Dungeons & Dragons. In the absence of narrative depth in the early PC RPGs and the likes of Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest, we instead read (and played) Fighting Fantasy and Lone Wolf. Tin Man Games has made a specialty out of the gamebook genre on smartphones and tablets - a natural platform for digital reading. What's especially exciting about these digital gamebooks is that they're often NEW books, and the prospect of new gamebooks is enough to excite the nostalgic amongst us.

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Top 10 Best Free Messaging or SMS Apps for Android iPhone and Windows

Text messaging was a big surprise for the mobile phone producers of the world. Many of them did not even mention that their phone had an SMS function in their instruction manuals. Then came the Internet where instant messaging became popular, but social media such as Facebook destroyed most online chat rooms and instant messaging was forgotten once again. Now we have a mixture of both, because people are able to instant message a person on their phone in a very similar way that they send an SMS text message. This explains why messaging and instant messaging apps are so popular; here are ten of the most popular messaging apps.

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1. Nimbuzz

This app is packed full of features, and if they only made it a little more sophisticated then it would be a world beater. It is able to make video calls and voice calls. It also gives you access to chat rooms and has IM functions too. You can play games on it and you can buy credits to call landlines, although why you would do this when you have a mobile phone in your hands is a mystery, but the option is still there if you need it.

2. Rounds

This is a video calling app that you can use with your iOS or Android, and it allows for real-time messaging. It allows for interactive activities including video chatting, text messaging, interactive game play and interactive video watching. It offers a different video chatting experience by adding more interactive features than most do, which makes it a good personal use video chatting and messaging app.
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3. Google Hangouts

The text function on this app has replaced Google Talk, even though the text function is a little basic. You may make free conference calls on this by having numerous people within your video or audio call. And, you may do most of their functions for free.

4. Voxer

The fact that this app applies so much dedication to voice messaging is one of the main reasons why it is not just viewed as yet another chatting app. It allows you to play back voice messages that you have received, even though the voice chatting functions are all streamed live.

5. Skype

This is the most popular chatting app on the list. It has a strong interface, and is known quite widely. This is good because it means more people are likely to have Skype and so are able to talk to you on it. You may use simply the voice function, or you may use the video calling function too. It is also available on most platforms including on desktop platforms, plus as a communication client, it is pretty reliable.

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6. iMessage and FaceTime

Both of these apps make up a complete service. The two are supposed to form one big app, but nobody has seen fit to meld them yet, even though they have 250 million users and 2 billion messages are sent per day. The sheer numbers of this Apple-only app are enough to convince most people that the app is worth a try.

7. Snapchat

This is a popular messaging app that Facebook soon released its own version of. Its best feature is how quickly it allows a user to share photos as well as messages. From start to finish it takes less than ten seconds to get one image from one phone to another. Photos and messages may also be presented as stories which do not expire in the same way that regular messaged images often do. 

8. Viber

This was created from the ground up as a mobile app, which means it is better suited to most mobile phones. This is great for video chats and it very reliable too. It is stripped to basics when it comes to IM functions, but it is not really to the apps detriment. They have also started offering a premium service too, and have created a desktop app too so that people may communicate between mobile phones and desktop computers.

• Download Viber For PC

9. BBM

There is an Apple-only app on this list; it seems only fair that there is a Blackberry-Only app. however, this year it was also launched on the Android and iOS too. It is a basic app but is very popular with Blackberry users, and has some pleasingly simple and basic voice and video calling functions, along with some nice IM functions too.

10. ChatON

This fun little app is full of weird but original ideas and features. It is not the easiest app to control or use, but it is by no means difficult to understand, use or learn to use. It even has a translation service that allows you to chat (text-chat) with other people who are not using the same language as you. This app was developed by the technology company Samsung.
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Author’s bio:The article was provided by Sonia Jackson who writes for http://www.royal-essay.com. She answers all your questions about writing and editing.

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Review: Luxuria Superbia (iPad)

Review by Matt S. 

Tale of Tales continues to prove that it is the preeminent developer of games that are not just artistic by accident; they're developed specifically to be art. And they're an eclectic team to say the least; after such dark projects as The Path and The Graveyard, Luxuria Superbia couldn't be more of a thematic foil. This game is positively filled with colour.

It's also a not-so subtle metaphor for the act of pleasuring a women. In Luxuria Superbia your job is to delve into the depths of a flower and stimulate it by rubbing on buds as they appear on the screen. The more stimulated the flower is the more colourful it becomes. In practice it's a little like a scrolling shooter, and points are accumulated by keeping the flower simulated. The twist is that if you oversimulate it the flower will climax and its game over.

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Review: Flowmo (iPad)

Review by Matt S. 

Flowmo lasts for around 30 minutes and in that time there's not a second of the experience that fits a conventional description of what constitutes a game. There's no definable characters, there's no linear narrative. It's abstracted in the extreme.

And it's wonderful.

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Review: Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse HD (iPad)

Review by Matt S. 

I would never have thought that the developers and publishers of this game would have thought to release it on a platform with virtual controls. As a remake of a early-era game, Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse HD is the kind of platformer that requires precision skill across small and often rickety areas. And for many that kind of platforming is a no-go without physical buttons. 

But it works. It really works. Castle of Illusion is without a doubt the finest platformer available on the iPad, and the perfect experience to have sitting on your iPad for play on the go. It might not be the longest game, but for its price point, it's genuine quality.

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Review: Joe Dever's Lone Wolf (iPad)

Review by Matt S. 

Of all the nostalgic trips I've have on my iPad, Lone Wolf could have been the mightiest of all. As a kid I bought, read and reread Joe Dever's fantasy choose-your-own-adventure games more than anything else I read, I suspect. As Fighting Fantasy was proving to be the most popular gamebook series in the mainstream, it was Lone Wolf that was occupying my time.

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Review: Galaxy Factions (iPad)

Review by Sam M. 

In yet another casual strategy game for tablets, Galaxy Factions tasks you with commanding an outpost that has been charged in getting rid of the pirate colonies that have illegally settled nearby. Galaxy Factions takes the basic attack and defense formula we’ve seen before, and tries to mix it up.

You first have to build a base, your home of operations. From here you mine for resources that can be used to build defensive weapons, troops to attack other bases and buildings that will help your base function. The more walls and turrets you build the harder your base will be to destroy. That being said if your base lacks offensive power, then you won’t be able to destroy enemy bases.

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How to Fix No service and Searching Error in iPhone

Often times, the most problematic issue Iphone users face is the "No service and Searching.." status, in the network area of their phones. This happens especially in the case of IOS 6, which was discovered to be the most common issue in the recent times. As soon as you upgrade your IOS to 6.1 or 6.1.3, you cannot unlock your phone. Even if there is no simcard, it shows No service status.

In this article, I would like to show you how to fix the "No service and Searching..." issue in the versions of 6.especially in Iphone 3GS, 4G and 4S.
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Follow the steps very very carefully, and get best results.

1.Connect your Iphone to the system after you see the No service or Searching... status as soon as you upgrade your IOS version.

2. The only solution to unlock your Iphone is to jailbreak it. In order to do that, you have to 

•  Download a jailbreaking software called as Red Snow version 0.9.15b2 available Here. 
•  Download the required IPSW which is the software which will be updated in your device. Since we are using the IOS 6 version, download IPSW 6.0 Here. It will ask you to specify your device and the version for the download to start.

     

3. Make sure you remove your simcard from the device. This is for keeping your device protected from hacking. 

4.After downloading the above two softwares, open RedSn0w and click Extras on it as shown in the picture.

5. Click next and select the option "Select IPSW". This will allow you to select the downloaded    

IPSW 6.0

6. It will say that your software is successfully installed. Now click on next. A warning is displayed then, which you have to check very very carefully.  

Now read the rules carefully and check the manufacturing date of your device, by checking the serial number on your simcard tray. Remove the simcard tray from the device and check the serial number. 

Carefully click on yes or no depending on your serial number.

7. Next it will direct you to the selection screen, where the options are provided which you would like to install on your device. Select "Install Cydia" and "Install Ipad Baseband" and click yes if your device is an unlocked one. You can see this in the picture.

8. Now a little complicated stuff appears. If you are jailbreaking your device for the first time, you have to be very careful doing this. The RedSn0w now asks you to put your device in DFU mode. Switch off your phone and click Next. 

9. Three steps to put your device in DFU mode:

•  Hold the Home + Power buttons on your device simultaneously for 10 seconds.
•  Release the Power button without releasing the home button. Continue holding Home for another 10 seconds.
•  Release Home, and your screen should stay completely black. If so, chances are you successfully entered into DFU mode.

                                              

10. . Now click on Back and come to the main screen. Your device is all set to jailbreak now. Click on the JailBreak option.

• This will take upto 2-3 seconds and your phone starts rebooting as shown in the picture. 

                                               

11. Keep your phone aside, Sit back and relax. You have crossed the tough hurdles. Do not worry, this process of jail breaking may take upto 10-15 minutes. You can see the following codes running on your device and a Pineapple icon on your device, which is a positive sign of things working. 

Wait till your device restarts. 

12. As soon as your device restarts, it will be unlocked. Open Cydia, which you already installed on your device. Let it download the packages. And do not forget to save the SHSH blobs available. Select the User option in Cydia.

13. Click on Manage and then click on Sources option. 

14. Click on edit and add the Source package as shown in the  first picture. 

And then go to search and search for Ultrasn0w fixer 6.0. Install it. 

. Go to search again and search for ultrasn0w. Install it too.

15. Restart your device and put on your simcard. Your device should detect the network by now if everything goes well. You can also put your phone in airplane mode and get it back to normal to make it work. 

Also check the status of the version and baseband, go to Settings->About.

I hope this article works for many. If you still could not figure it out, do not do many experiments on your device, take it to a near service centre. But for most of the devices, this should work. 

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Review: Garfield Kart (iPad)

Review by Matt S. 

Ever since the original Super Mario Kart, it's been far to easy to throw a collection of loved characters together in a package where they race around tracks in karts throwing random weapons at one another.

Typically these games have been less than successful because a good racing game isn't that easy to produce. It needs balanced physics, well-designed tracks and thorough play testing in order to make sure that everyone's favourite character has half a chance of winning.

Against all odds Garfield Kart isn't that bad. In fact, it's quite enjoyable.

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Review: Treasure Seekers 3: Follow The Ghosts (iPad)

Review by Andrew M. 

G5 Entertainment definitely knows its niche in developing games that have worked well for years as time-wasters on computers. Whether they are games for people that aren’t inclined to dedicate the time that an AAA game demands or that don’t really see the appeal of more adrenaline-filled games, they are entertaining because once you start playing, there is an innate need for you to finish the game, even if it is little more than a digital version of the I Spy games we played as kids. The point-and-click adventures and hidden object games are G5's wheelhouse and the Treasure Seekers series has been successful enough that we have a new sequel in Treasure Seekers 3: Follow The Ghosts.

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Review: Shape Jam (iPhone)

Review by Andrew M.

Recently I succumbed to the advertising on several of the Podcasts I listen to and started playing Lumosity. It’s a good app, a little restricted for people who don’t want to buy a yearly subscription, but overall pretty good. Basically the idea is brain training by giving you a random assortment of games every day and you have to beat your previously highest score. Loading up Shape Jam, it feels like you are playing just one Lumosity game but with the added twist of playing against someone online.

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Review: Chainsaw Warrior (iPad)

Review by Andrew M.

One of the best things about the tablet market today is ability for developers to take our childhoods and turn them into iOS apps. I've got fond memories of epic games of Monopoly, Trivial Pursuit and Risk, and now I can now relive it anywhere. Not being into the card based adventure games or adventure board games as a child, Chainsaw Warrior was a new experience for me and so I get to play this newest iOS recreation with eyes untinted by nostalgia. While I had more experience with traditional board games, these games also translate from the physical to the virtual very well, offering fans of the game a chance to relive the time that many were able to first experience games.

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Review: Pocket God: Ooga Jump (iPhone)

Jumping right out of its sandbox, Ooga Jump takes the Pocket God franchise to new heights; literally. Developer Bolt Creative has taken advantage of what the mobile phones are best at doing to give players a new way to experience its popular franchise. While you've seen everything this game offers elsewhere before, there’s a lot of enjoyment to be found all the same.

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Review: Batman: Arkham Origins (iPhone)

Review by Chris I.

With the console release of Batman: Arkham Origins just behind us, I stumbled across the iOS version of the title, noticed that it was a free download and decided to give it a go. Without any knowledge of the game prior to the download, I went into the title, well, blind as a bat to what I'd be doing. Once the darkness lifted, I’ve found that I’m enjoying myself quite a bit with this mobile title.

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