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Turn Your iPhone Or Android Phone Into A Walkie Talkie With Voxer

If you’ve been searching for a cross-platform means of communication using voice messages, text and images that works on both internal wifi and cellular networks, then Voxer is the app for you. Voxer is designed to be a push-to-talk (PTT) walkie-talkie replacement that works on both local and global networks. Using the Internet and local Wi-Fi connectability, Voxer removes the restraints associated with radio frequencies while also operating as a standalone cross-platform messaging service that gives WhatsApp a run for its money. You can send voice, text and picture messages between iOS or Android devices – for free! 10-4 The age-old concept of a walkie-talkie that depends on a maximum operating range (the more you pay, the bigger the range) is still valid in many situations. If you’re taking a trip to the mountains or an area of exceptionally bad mobile signal, walkie-talkies and spare batteries will serve you well and smartphones probably won’t. To put it frank

Is MX Player The Best Do-It-All Movie Player For Android? [Android 2.1+]

That seems to be the overwhelming opinion of our readers whose recommendations placed the MX Player on our Best Android Apps page. But will you be one of the satisfied users of this do-it-all movie player for Android? That’s the purpose of this brief review. So, download and install the favorite and test it out with your favorite movie even as you scroll down to the end of this review. MX Player goes up against quite a few challengers like MoboPlayer, DoubleTwist, and then a few others like VPlayer, RealPlayer, and Meridian etc. It remains standing, and if download figures are anything to go by even wins the bout. When you go to the Google Play Store to install the app, you will see that nearly 230,000+ people have downloaded the free version of the media player. There has to be something good about it, right? The Do It All Movie Player MX Player comes packaged with all the popular codecs and video formats you can think of for instance – 3gp, avi, divx, f4v, f

How To Make Sure Windows System Restore Works When You Need It

So, you’ve just discovered that your computer is infected with some virus that automatically reboots your computer every time it starts up. Your local IT guy tells you to just boot the computer into safe mode and run System Restore. You race home with the little scrap of paper upon which you’ve scribbled his set of system restore instructions , and proceed to boot your computer and launch a restore. Confident that you’ve discovered the solution, and that this nightmare of an infected computer will soon be over, you finally make your way into the system restore utility and discover to your great dismay that your computer has absolutely no system restore points to choose from. How could this happen? How could you have gone for so long without realizing that your computer wasn’t bothering to take automatic restore points? It’s actually easier than you think, and happens far more often than people realize. System restore is not an automatic feature in Windows 7. Usu

How To Install More Operating Systems On Your HP TouchPad

Several months ago I turned my very nice tablet, the HP TouchPad, from a pleasant-to-use device into a handheld computing god thanks to the Android CM9 port of Ice Cream Sandwich. Since then, the device has gone from strength to strength, enabling me to enjoy movies and TV with Netflix, listen to the radio and of course play games and even do some work while I spent a week in the south west of England. Recently, however, it has come to my attention that there is yet more that can be achieved with this most flexible of tablets. Whether you’re persisting with the super-slick webOS and its limited selection of apps or if you’ve upgraded your pretty amazing tablet to Android 4.0, there are several alternatives that you might be interested in. Upgrade To Android First! Whatever you decide to do after reading this guide, you simply must start off by following my previous article on installing Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich to the HP TouchPad. This represents the optim

Windows 8 Is Almost Here – Here Are 5 Reasons To Upgrade

The next version of Microsoft’s world-changing operating system is preparing to hit the shelves. I know what you’re thinking: “ Already? ” It seems like yesterday that Windows 7 was the newest and coolest, but yes, it’s true. Windows 8 is just around the corner and there’s only one question that should concern you. Is it worth the upgrade? There are a lot of new features that are coming in this iteration of Windows, but change doesn’t always mean better; it just means different. Windows 8 is not just a bigger, better version of Windows 7. No, it’s trying to be a new beast altogether, and while there will always be a soft spot in my heart for Windows 7, some of the upcoming changes are quite good. Windows 8 Release Believe it or not, Windows 8 development began even before the release of Windows 7. Talk about looking ahead! That puts its birth some time in or before 2009. Over the years, there have been a number of preview versions released for public testing, including the D

Jellybean Not Available For Your Phone? Get Its Best Features With These Apps [Android]

Not all too long ago, Google released Android 4.1, named Jelly Bean. With it comes a lot of features, which you can look at in better detail by checking out this article. While it’s fantastic that all of this new technology is already released, the update schedule for most phones is far from acceptable. A large number of phones which haven’t even got the 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update won’t see the Jelly Bean update, and even those who do get the update might not see it until a year after Google released it, if not longer. So instead of waiting for either the update or a new phone, you can take advantage of some of the features it provides right on your current version by way of apps. Launcher & Lock Screen Jelly Bean hasn’t actually updated the launcher much, compared to Ice Cream Sandwich, but you may be running a 2.x version of Android or Ice Cream Sandwich with the Holo launcher removed (and probably TouchWiz installed as the replacement). If this is the case for you,

Everything You Need To Know About The Newly Announced iPhone 5

Today is the day we have all been waiting for. Apple finally jumped on the stage and announced everything. Months of rumors and speculations have finally been revealed. Apple finally announced the iPhone 5. As it turns out, most of those leaked iPhone 5 images were right on the money. So what did Apple say about the iPhone 5? Well the first thing they talked about was how thin and light it is. In fact, it is 18% thinner than the iPhone 4S and 20% lighter. Along with that, the iPhone 5 will have a 16:9 aspect ratio and a full four-inch screen. It will have a Retina display featuring a resolution of 1136 x 640. To compensate for this larger screen, Apple has updated the software. There is an extra row of apps on the home screen, and all of their native apps will be updated to use this extra screen space. For non-native apps, if the developer does not update them, they will be centered on the screen with black bars around the edges. Apple also improved the sensitivity of the to