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Android Studio Shortcut in Ubuntu 16.04

Create Launcher Icons https://romannurik.github.io/AndroidAssetStudio/icons-launcher.html Android Studio on Ubuntu When you install Android Studio on Ubuntu, you have to go to the android studio folder and run studio.sh, to create Shortcut file in Ubuntu 16.04 create file ~/.local/share/applications/AndroidStudio.desktop Add In this


Download Apps from Google Play with a browser extension

In previous post we have checked how to download APK directly from Google Play using Evozi Apk Downloader. Do you know we can do the same with Chrome/Firefox EXTENSION APK Downloader Follow the steps for install APK Downloader add-on in


Finding Your Phone With the Motorola Keylink

Motorola on Wednesday announced a new keychain accessory called Motorola Keylink, which can pair with your smartphone and can find it within a radius of 100 feet. It works both ways, and can help find your keys also. The Motorola


Latest WhatsApp now lets you disable read receipts

WhatsApp introduced a new feature recently that showed two blue checkmarks next to messages when a message was read by recipients. Now the newest version of WhatsApp for Android (version 2.11.44) allows you to disable the new receipts under the


Apple releases online tool to fix escaping iMessage purgatory easier

Apple has released a tool that should remove the hoops people have had to go through to stop their SMS messages being trapped in iMessage after switching to Android. The two-step Deregister iMessage tool reduces the difficulties some people had


Blue tick on WhatsApp: Your msg has been read

WhatsApp just made ducking a text impossible! The messaging service has introduced a feature that will now confirm to senders that their texts had indeed been read. The check marks that appears next to sent text will turn blue as


Android co-founder Andy Rubin to leave Google

Google said on Thursday that Andy Rubin, co-founder of its Android mobile business and head of its nascent robotics effort is leaving the company. Rubin will start a company to support startups interested in building technology-hardware products, Google said in


Truecaller launches new app, Truedialer, a smart dialer app for Android

Developers of Truecaller Caller ID app has launched Truedialer, a smart dialer app for Android. It was launched for Windows Phone 8 few months back, it recently got updated with real-time Caller ID features for Windows Phone 8.1 users. It


Download Firefox 34 Beta arrives with ‘Firefox Hello’

Firefox Mozilla updated the beta version of its browser to version 34 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. Firefox Beta build from Mozilla and this time it’s coming with a new Firefox Hello real time communication client, which will now


Facebook tries anonymous chatting app, Rooms

Facebook announced the launch of its own anonymous messaging app, called Rooms. With this, the social networking giant has entered a domain, which is an increasingly crowded field, considering various start-ups, which revolve around anonymous messaging. Facebook’s app is a