New Google Maps for Android and iOS, makes exploring places easy

Starting this week, Google is giving a new Explore option to Google Maps on Android and iOS devices. Whenever users want to discover places around their area, all they need to do is tap on the Explore option to the bottom right corner of the map on the phone’s screen. Users can explore areas other than around them on the map too, so that it makes easier to plan for a vacation or a holiday.

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Explore displays places that are nearby to the user; user can set what “nearby” means to him. He can set a place that takes 5 min walk or a 15 min walk as “nearby” and according to the Settings, Explore displays the places around him and it is also very smart to suggest places based on the time of the day and the climate at a given time.

“So you don’t have to worry about wandering over to a breakfast spot for dinner or arriving at a park just in time for a thunderstorm. You’ll get the best results when you’re signed in with location reporting and history turned on“, says Taj Campbell in a Google Maps blog post.

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Angry Birds for iPhone gets updated with Bonus Episode of 15 new levels!

The original Angry Birds game for iOS is now updated with a Bonus Episode which gives 15 new levels to play on iPhone or iPad.

The survival of the Angry Birds is at stake. Take revenge on the greedy pigs who stole their eggs. Use the unique powers of each bird and attack pigs and fight their defenses. Each level requires logic, skill and force to solve.

There is also a one-time option to purchase the Mighty Eagle within the app. This helps when players get stuck in the game at any level.

New features in the updated version 4.2.0 of Angry Birds are:

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Angry Birds for iPhone gets updated with Bonus Episode of 15 new levels!

The original Angry Birds game for iOS is now updated with a Bonus Episode which gives 15 new levels to play on iPhone or iPad.

The survival of the Angry Birds is at stake. Take revenge on the greedy pigs who stole their eggs. Use the unique powers of each bird and attack pigs and fight their defenses. Each level requires logic, skill and force to solve.

There is also a one-time option to purchase the Mighty Eagle within the app. This helps when players get stuck in the game at any level.

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How to check how much space apps take up on iPhone

You try to download a new app from the app store and suddenly you find that no more space is available in your iPhone. In such cases or in general, you would like to know which of the apps installed in your iPhone are consuming how much storage space. This post helps you with that. Read on to know.

How to check how much space apps consume on iPhone :

1. From the home screen, go to Settings

2. Tap on General

3. In the General menu, tap on Usage

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Skype allows free group video calling for Windows 8.1

Skype is now bringing free group video calling facility for Windows tablets and Windows 2 in 1 devices that run on Windows 8.1. This Skype group video calls allow 10 users to participate in a video call at a time. For more flexibility, three most talkative people of the video call, including the user who owns the Windows device will be shown at the same time. Any persons video will be shown up as soon as they start talking.

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The Championships, Wimbledon 2014 official app on Android and iPhone

Its Wimbledon time again! The 2014 World CUp is all set to take off and all tennis fans might be getting ready to cheer for their favorite player. Today is the day 1 for The Championships, Wimbledon 2014 at London, UK and while the heat is still up, let us take a quick look at what the updated official Wimbledon app on Android and iOS has to offer.

The app on iPhone and Android says it brings live action to its users. The features of this app on both the platforms are:

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Family Sharing for iOS devices on iOS 8

Recently, at the World Wide Developers conference (WWDC) 2014, Apple announce its iOS 8 officially. There were many new features included in the iOS 8 that will take the iOS users by surprise. One of those is the ‘Family Sharing’ feature.

Family sharing is a feature that enables multiple iOS devices like iPhone or iPad to share stuff like calenders, reminders, apps, music, iBooks and more without sharing accounts with one another. 

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iOS 8 to support third party keyboards

One of the surprising features of the iOS 8 is its compatibility for third party keyboards. That means, developers can create and users can install some third party keyboard apps on their iPhone or iPad running on iOS. More surprising is that ‘SwiftKey’ and ‘Fleksy’ are going to be one of those apps already!

SwiftKey is one of the most popular keyboard apps on Android platform. Swiftkey has already released its SwiftKey Note app in the App store for all the iOS users to have them a taste of its product.

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BBM for iOS gets an update

The BBM for iOS has received an update changing the version number of the BBM on the iOS devices to v2.2.0.19. So it’s time for folks who use BBM on their iPhone, iPad or iPod touch to update it on their devices.

Features of BBM are:

• It will always be connected. No necessity for an app to be opened to launch it.
• Users can know when the messages sent are delivered (D) and read (R) – This is one of the best features that lacks in other messenger platforms.

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How to block Facebook game requests on iPhone and iPad

It would be pretty annoying to receive game requests or app requests from friends on Facebook, especially for somebody who does not play a particular game,or no game at all on Facebook. This post will show how to block such requests for all the apps/game or a single app/game on Facebook.

To block all the game/app requests from Facebook on iPhone and iPad:

1. Launch/Open the Facebook app on the iPhone or iPad

2. To the bottom right of the screen, tap on the ‘More’ option (the bars icon).

3. Scroll down the options till “Settings” is seen and tap on it.

4. Tap on “Notifications”.

5. Scroll down to “How you get notifications” section and tap on “Mobile Push”.

6. In the options that open, uncheck the “Application requests” and “Application Invites”.Make sure that the box beside these options do not have a tick mark.

With this, the iPhone or iPad user will not receive any  app/game requests in the future. But by doing so, you will not receive any of the app requests or suggestions. To block a particular app request.....

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How to delete duplicate songs from iTunes

If the songs stored in iTunes library are more and if the music is often made to sync from the computer or mac to the iTunes and then into iPad, iPod or the iPhone, then there are chances of duplicate entries of songs into the iTunes music library. It can be a tough task to sort out the duplicate songs if searched through the entire iTunes library one-by-one.

Instead, a more easy way to find out and delete these duplicate songs from the music of iTunes library is available in the iTunes options itself. Actually, two such options are available for user’s comfort. These two ways are explained in this post.

1) To find and delete all duplicate songs from the iTunes library

2) To find and delete exact duplicate songs from the iTunes library

To find and delete all duplicate songs from the iTunes library:

1. Launch/Run iTunes application in the Windows or Mac

2. In the top menu bar that appears in the iTunes window, click “View”.

3. A drop down list of options appear on the screen and in those options, select “Show Duplicate Items”.

4. Then, all the duplicate song tracks will be displayed in the iTunes window.

5. To delete the required duplicate songs,

• For Windows users, press and hold Control key (Ctrl) and with the help of mouse select the songs to be deleted.
  After the duplicate songs to be deleted are selected, leave the Ctrl key and drag all the songs to trash.
• For Mac users, press and hold Command, and with the help of mouse select the songs to be deleted.
  After the duplicate songs to be deleted are selected, leave the Ctrl key and drag all the songs to trash.

The disadvantage of this option is that, iTunes will display some songs as duplicates even if they are the remix or some other version of the original song. So, there is a risk of removing a song that is displayed by iTunes as duplicate, but in reality it is an entirely different version from the original song.

This is where the second method of removing exact duplicates come to the rescue of the users.

To find and delete exact duplicate songs from the iTunes library:

1. Launch/Run iTunes application in the Windows or Mac

2.  Then do one of the following:

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How to backup contacts from iPhone

To backup all the contacts from iPhone, users now have a free app called “My Contact Backup” available on the iTunes for free to download and install. This app has the following features in taking backup of the contacts from iPhone:

• No internet connection required. This app emails the file consisting of all the contacts to the user specified email address.
• Restoring the contacts back into the phone is easy. It does not require any other app to restore the backup file.
• This app can be used not only on iPhone, but also on iPad and iPod touch.
• A reminder can be set within the app so that the user gets reminded periodically to take backup of the phone’s contacts. Presently, weekly or monthly reminder is available within the app.
• The contacts that will be taken back up can be saved as vCard (VCF) file or CSV files. File in any of the above format can be emailed to the specified email address.

Get this app from the App store on iTunes here: My Contacts Backup

• Once the app is installed, it will be seen as “MC Backup” on the user’s iOS device.
• Tap on it to launch the app and a screen which shows the total number of contacts in the phone appears.
• Below the number of contacts, a green button option saying “Backup” will also appear.
• Tap on the backup button and the app starts to create a backup file of all the contacts. A progress bar appears at the bottom of the screen.
• When the backup file is created, the app will prompt the user to email the file.
• An email address can be specified by the user in the space asked for the mail address and the

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How to remove unused app icons on iPhone

When there are too many apps installed in iPhone, the screen of the phone gets clumsy with all the icons of  apps on it. Users may want to remove some of the rarely used or unused application icons from their iPhone. But not many of the iPhone users know how to do this.

To remove any unused icons from the screen of the iPhone,

• First tap on the icon that is to be removed.
• Then that icon starts shaking and an “x” mark appears on the shaking icon.
• By tapping on that “x” mark, the unused app icon can be deleted.

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