Top 5 Launchers of 2013

Here are the top 5 Android Launchers for 2013 in ascending order. Download them in Google Play store and make your phone trendy and on par with modern world!!

#5 Smart Launcher:

 Smart Launcher is an innovative launcher characterized by a minimalist design, low memory usage and an user-friendly UI that let you start any application with a few taps.

 It has some of the following benefits:

1. Main screen with quick start
2. Ready to use without much configurations
3. Support Live wallpapers for different sizes
4. Fast search
5. Landscape mode
6. Easy access to app's info

#4 Bazooka Launcher:

Bazooka is based on Cyanogen’s Trebuchet Launcher — which comes stock with modern CyanogenMod ROMs.

Benefits:

1. Fast and stable
2. You can quickly download and apply themes
3. Gesture support
4. Fancy lock screen 

#3 Ez Launcher:

It is a cool launcher app which makes convenient to operate and organize your phone

Benefits:

1. Genius app lets you access the most frequently visited apps.
2. It automatically categorizes your apps
3. Quick search is enabled to search your app easily
4. Pre-loaded app manager tool
5. Useful and handy widgets 

#2 Action Launcher:

Benefits:

1. A sliding quick drawer for instant access of all your apps.
2. Translucent navigation and status bar
3. Quick search which allows to search apps and music directly from action bar.
4. Strong play store integration.
5. Full Tablet support
6. Icon pack and Icon scaling support.

#1 Next launcher 3D:

Next Launcher 3D gives you a new experience of 3D vision pushing back traditional flat launcher.

Benefits:

1. Fancy 3D effects with smooth experience.
2. 3D transitions of home screens.
3. Mind blowing and stunning 3D screen preview
4. Build unique icon style by changing  size,angle, and location of that icon
5. Shinny border experience for screen transitions
6. Floating mode of icons.

Here is a video regarding these launchers:

Find your Lost Android Phone

A lost phone is worrisome. You would fear that someone misuse your phone pushing you in serious troubles. I'm not talking about SIM, because you can block that. But what if you have very vital information stored in your phone??! Then definitely it is a serious issue. Prevention is better than cure. First of all implement the following steps:

1. Go to Settings->Security->Device Administrators->Android Device Manager
2. Tap on it and activate it.

• Now if your phone is lost, go to google play store. 
• There you can see a gear like button on the top right corner of your page, click on it and select Android Device Manger

You have 3 options:

Ring: You can ring your phone

Lock your phone

Erase all data: This will erase all data but not SD card. Also  Android Device Manger wont work if you erase the data

Facebook Themes

The other day I was searching for some apps in google play store and I found themes for Facebook. It was surprise to me but that did last only few minutes because of the poor layouts. Themes shown in gallery and themes applied to facebook account were different. Also facebook icon i.e.  is completely removed and the new layout is completely misplaced in some themes...so be selective in choosing these themes and not all are good! For those who want to try have a look:

1. Go to chrome webstore and search for Facebook themes and download the one with facebook icon shown here: .
2. Now after installation type chrome://extensions in address bar and search for facebook themes.
3. In options click on explore and install your favorite theme it takes just a second!
4. Go to your facebook account and you can see the applied theme.
   
   
   
   
   
   
5. If you want to switch to default, just go to installed tab and click on disable!

Restore Whatsapp Messages

We all use Whatsapp and no doubt we love it!! But some times we accidentally delete our important messages in Whatsapp! And you don't know what to do next.
There are two methods to restore those messages.

Method 1:

1. First of all, go to sdcard/WhatsApp/Databases in your sdcard. 
2. Here you will two files for example: msgstore-2014-01-07.db.crypt and msgstore.db.crypt. Rename the second file i.e. msgstore.db.crypt by adding some word.
3. After that select the file msgstore-2014-01-07.db.crypt and rename it to  msgstore.db.crypt
4. Finally, go to Settings/Applications/Manage applications/WhatsApp and click on Clear Data.
5. Now open WhatsApp and it asks to restore messages. Click on restore.

Method 2:

There is also another method using web application called Recover Messages. Visit that site and click on Select SQlite File to upload your msgstore-2014-01-07.db.crypt file and select Scan. (Don't forget to check the box I accept the terms of use) It takes few seconds and you can read all your messages.

The drawback in this second method is that messages are not restored in your chat history instead you can only extract and read them!

Download java sdk

Downloading java is not similar to any other interface. For example to download turbo C, you just need to download turbo C software and no need to make any changes in your computer. But for java to work we have to make some changes as Java applications are typically compiled to bytecode (class file) that can run on any Java virtual machine (JVM) regardless of computer architecture.

 So just follow the steps give below:

Step 1: To download java click here. Make sure that you download Java SE (Standard Environment) not netbeans.

Step 2: After that you will get two filles: 1) jdk1.7.0_45 2) jre7

If you type javac in your command prompt it says that java is not recognized even if it is downloaded in your system

Step 3: Goto to jdk1.7.0_45----->bin------->copy the location of the file.

Step 4: Goto my computer and right click to go in properties.

Step 5: Then in advanced settings click on environment variables and click on new.

Step 6: Give the name exactly as "Path" (without quotes) and paste the address that you have copied in step 3 and click on OK.

Now go to command prompt and type javac. You will see all the files related to java!

A video is provided here. You can follow it if you are bit confused!

Understand Computers!

Computers have become an important and indispensable feature of our lives. Ever since its inventions few decades ago and the subsequent introduction of the Internet, it has become an essential tool for many students and adults alike. Computer is used at work and even at schools which usually have computer laboratories. Computers are every where

Its not late to start learning computers now! Of-course even a 4th standard child operates computers these days. But to sustain in this computer world one should know how to use a computer rather its background processes. A person who concentrates on such processes obviously becomes a future computer scientist or computer engineer. Even they start their career by knowing how the computer works!

So you should understand your machine!! For that I advice to download a book called "Windows 7 Dummies" if your OS is windows 7 or "Windows 8 Dummies" if it is Windows 8. Click on below links to download it for free.

Windows 7 Dummies

Window 8 Dummies