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Top 5 Best Battery Saver Apps for Android Smartphones
Everyone wants a better battery life for their smartphone. But the bulky applications running on your smartphone are just eating away your battery, but do not worry we have a collection of best battery saving apps.

These apps will not only extend the life of your handset, but could also improve its overall performance.

1. Juice Defender (Free/Paid)

With almost endless options, Juice Defender is the all favorite app on this list. Juice Defender is free app but it also comes in Plus and Ultimate versions. Depending on what level of control you are looking for. It can turn mobile data off automatically, and most of all, it can extend your battery life for long periods of time.

Main Features of JuiceDefender
- Multiple Preset Profiles
- Easy UI
- Home screen Battery Widgets
- Smart Brightness control
- 2G/3G auto toggle and Wi-Fi auto control
- Battery Consumption Optimization
- Comprehensive Connectivity Scheduling
- CPU scaling when phone is idle
2. DU Battery Saver (Free/Paid)

DU Battery Saver has many intelligent options that provide more advantage over other battery saving apps.

There are various intelligent mode and pre-set options that you can set up to minimize your phone’s battery usage as possible. DU Battery Saver also comes with many inbuilt home screen widgets.

Main Features of DU Battery Saver
- Home screen widgets
- Multiple preset profiles
- One-Click Optimization
- CPU Frequency management
- Healthy charge manager
–> Also Read: 7 tips for improving your smartphone’s battery life <–

3. Easy Battery Saver

Easy Battery Saver is a powerful manager app specifically designed to extend battery life and optimize using habit. It saves your battery by intelligently dealing with phone’s network connectivity, screen time out and screen brightness. Also, the considerable sleep schedule setting will save your battery when you are sleeping.

Main Features of Easy Battery Saver
- Multiple Modes
- Visual Battery status
- Battery consumption list of real-time running items
- Simple, interactive and helpful tutorial
- Notice of how to use battery better
4. Battery Doctor

Battery Doctor also features a built-in task killer to get rid of the apps taking extra space and power in the background.

This battery saver Android app actually shows information very accurately. One of the best parts of this app is it accurately gauges battery levels, you actually have an idea of when your device is going to run out of battery, based on previous your consumption patterns. Pretty much like a deadline.

Main Features of Battery Doctor
- Battery Level Gauges
- Task Killer
- Unique three-charge cycle that boosts battery life
- Widgets that improve battery performance
- Device software and hardware information
5. Battery Widget Reborn

Battery Widget Reborn comes with better design, Dashclock Extension that lets you activate you camera flash to use as a flashlight. It also has features like power saver mode etc. There are a few power saving options that automatically kick in during the night while you’re sleeping, such as turning Airplane Mode on. Overall, it’s one of the more useful battery saving Android apps, so check it out. If you want a Battery Widget Reborn for free you can try its beta version.

Main Features of Battery Widget Reborn
- Circle battery level indicator
- Shortcuts to Power-Summary/Background Sync/Wifi/BT Settings
- Status bar notification of battery status
- Prediction (estimation) how long battery lasts
- Automatic airplane mode during the night charging and discharging chart
- Optional charging and discharging chart
- Power related toggles: Wifi/Bluetooth/Background Sync/Airplane mode
- Customizable notification priority
So these is our top 5 picks for Battery saving apps, you are using any other app do let us know in comments and we will add it also
Mar 6, 2014
6 Ways to Spot Movies that Worth your Time

Regardless of the race, people have a soft heart on movie viewing. Movies have long been helping people see the world in different light. Unconsciously, it is bridging some cultural and distance gaps between nations. Yet, as a usual scene in life, there are ones made in lesser taste.

In order to filter the movies that worth your while, money and anticipation, here are some guides to quality movie watching.

Read Reviews

It is favorable to check the internet for some movie reviews before jumping in the ticket booth. Though people have different view on beauty, you can somehow gauge the quality of the movie from the review of some essay writers. Meanwhile, be careful not to jump on the sites of spoilers. Otherwise, you will have the most boring film ever made. I can recommend imdb.com and rottentomatoes.com because these two websites are comprehensive and do not spoil the movie.

Check out Promos

There is nothing more relaxing than to watch a worth remembering movie free. Check out promos, free screening and phone friends who have access to media. Most of the time, free screening opens during film festivals. Or you can actually join contests to win movie tickets. There bloggers who do this kind of contest. Even the social media account of an upcoming movie sets a contest so that they could give away movie tickets. Just be on a constant look on different social media sites like Facebook.

Watch Online

If you are so into upcoming movies, you must pause for a while and do some rewind. Watch movies made before your time and see what’s behind them. You will be surprised to see movies you never imagined have existed. It’s also important to educate yourself about movies made before you were born. You will discover different movies who have moved the society into tears or anger. Who know, you might turn into a movie buff or a cinephiles.

Watch at off-peak times

If you are after saving, you can see a movie a week after its first-full show. Most of the time, movie houses slash down prices after the peak. Also, you may try to watch during mid-day so you won’t be wasting your time falling in line with the excited ones. Just manage your schedule accordingly.

Watch with Friends

You are not just having a good time, but you are slashing down excess spending if you watch movie with friends. Most of the cinemas are giving away discounts for group viewing, so it’s your chance. Besides, it’s really a good thing to watch a movie with your friends because it will be a form of bonding time. Why not grab it, right? It won’t hurt.

Watch alone

If you are about to watch an extra sensible movie, then you must go alone. There are movies that require full attention, so don’t dare bring a girl friend.

Movie time is always fun to do and you should make it a habit; whether you are watching it on big screen or in the comfort of your home.

About the Author:

Lissie Mason majors in Creative Writing. She likes writing, watching movies, travel and three cups of coffee a day. Elizabeth juggles her time between academic works and writing for uk.bestessays.com. Among her favorite films are The Godfather, Inception and 3 Idiots.

Mar 2, 2014
MWC 2014: HTC Unveils Desire 816 And 610, Power To Give Initiative
HTC announced their new “flagship mid-range” phone, the Desire 816. They also made a couple announcements reminiscent of the ones Nokia used to make that focus on other actions and initiatives that can be taken to improve the well-being of others. HTC also confirmed that it will launch the successor to the HTC One on 25 March.

Desire 816

While HTC Desire 816’s price and availability are still being kept as a secret, but the smartphone will have a 5.5-inch HD (720×1280 pixels resolution) display and be powered by a 1.6GHz quad-core Snapdragon 400 SoC processor with 1.5GB of RAM. With 8GB of internal storage with support for microSD cards up to 128GB, which may just be the highest expandable memory capacity handled by any smartphone. With the presence of a brand new HTC Sense 5.5 UI on top.

HTC Desire 816 will also have a 13-megapixel f2.2 rear and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. The handset ditches the firm’s Ultrapixel camera technology, earlier in the HTC One series. The smartphone is having a 2600mAh battery, is just 7.99mm thick and weighs 165g. HTC Desire 816 will offer LTE and HSPA+ (up to 42Mbps) for connectivity options.

Specifications for the Desire 816:
- 1.6 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor
- 5.5 inch 720p display
- 1.5 GB RAM, 8GB storage, microSD expansion card support up to 64GB
- Bluetooth 4 with aptX and 802.11 b/g/n WiFi
- 13 megapixel rear camera and 5 megapixel front facing camera
- 2600 mAh battery
- Dimensions of 156.6 x 78.7 x 7.99 mm and 165 grams
Desire 610

The HTC Desire 610 is a smaller device, with a 4.7″ qHD screen. The Desire 610 has an 8MP camera and is powered by a Snapdragon 400 chipset. It has a fairly large battery too, 2,400mAh, which surprisingly is only a bit smaller than that of the phablet. Also having 1 GB of RAM, 8GB of storage, and a microSD card slot.The handset is scheduled to hit Europe sometime in May.

These devices both show a lack of capacitive keys, suggesting on-screen buttons. They also come with BlinkFeed and dual-frontal speakers with BoomSound, so expect these to provide a One-like experience at a fraction of the cost once they’re available.

Specifications for the Desire 816:
- 1.2 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor
- 4.7 inch qHD display
- 1 GB RAM, 8GB storage, microSD expansion card support up to 64GB
- Bluetooth 4 with aptX and 802.11 b/g/n WiFi
- 8 megapixel rear camera and 1.3 megapixel front facing camera
- 2040 mAh battery
- Dimensions of 143.1 x 70.5 x 9.6 mm and 143.5 grams
Power to Give

At MWC, HTC also announced its new Power To Give initiative, which will allow users to volunteer a bit of their smartphone’s computational power to good causes. When your device is charging, connected to WiFi, and your battery is over 90 percent, you can allow it to download small bits of data, process it, and upload it back to a server. Just like the Intel’s initiative. Your device will assist projects related to cancer, AIDs, and clean water research. The app will work with the HTC One series, Butterfly, and Butterfly s, along with select other devices such as the Galaxy S4, even though that phone can already use Samsung’s own Power Sleep app.
Feb 25, 2014
MWC 2014: Samsung unveils the Galaxy S5
Samsung finally revealed its Galaxy S5 smartphone at an event during the MWC in Barcelona. The water-resistant phone will go on sale April 11 with features including a longer-lasting battery than the S4.

The design of the Galaxy S5 has finally away from the cheap plastic feel with having a new textured polycarbonate rear that comes in four “Modern Flash” colors – Charcoal Black, Shimmery White, Electric Blue and Copper Gold. But still would have been nicer to have a metal design.

Fingerprint Scanner and Heart rate sensor

The Galaxy S5’s fingerprint function requires to swipe down on the home button and can be used to not just unlock your phone but to also lock and unlock certain files and apps. It will also authenticate purchases online.

Samsung has also included in a heart rate sensor to complement both its new S-Health app and pedometer to help you stay healthy and see whether your workouts are actually doing anything for you. It is located just below the camera at the back which reads your fingertip to grab your pulse in a short while.

Camera

The main camera will have a resolution of 16 megapixels with 4K video capabilities It now supports real-time HDR processing for better photos in mixed lighting.

Battery

Battery will last 20% longer than its predecessor and the addition of a new Ultra Power Saving mode that limits your phone back to basic functions with a black and white screen to conserve battery.

Display

The 5.1-inch Full HD display on an AMOLED screen.

Android 4.4.2 KitKat with Samsung’s user interface fully intact.

The IP67 water and dust resistant rating means that the phone can cop a bit of water with no worry, being rated to survive under 1m of water for 30 minutes.

Galaxy s5 Specs:
- 5.1-inch full HD Super AMOLED display
- Android 4.4 KitKat
- Qualcomm 2.5GHz quad-core processor
- 16GB or 32GB of storage
- 16-megapixel rear camera/2.1-megapixel front camera
- 2800mAh battery
- 21-band 4G LTE
Feb 25, 2014
MWC 2014: YotaPhone with dual screen launched

Russian handset maker Yota Devices has revealed details of its second gen e-ink display equipped YotaPhone at MWC 2014 in Barcelona.

The new YotaPhone solves what was arguably the biggest problem with the original’s innovative concept – interacting with the e-Ink display. Previously, this was done by a series of gestures on a touchpad along the bottom of the e-Ink panel. But on the new YotaPhone, the panel is fully touch-enabled.The rear panel is 4.7″ large, and have greater pixel density than the previous model.It is also integrated with a light for the rear panel for using it in the dark.

“A full touch second display opens a tremendous number of unique user cases for YotaPhone users. You can look and not just get information from the second display, but can interect. You can respond to email or SMS messages, you can do a lot of things,” Vlad Martynov, CEO of Yota Devices

The idea behind having this always-on e-ink display was that it shows up notifications and updates without draining the battery.But with new YotaPhone, it’s now possible to respond to notifications and carry out actions (like making calls, messages etc.) without switching across to the main display at all.

Also, there’s a power saving mode that allows you to switch off the front display and just enable the back display.

Yota says the new YotaPhone will go on sale in Russia and EMEA markets in Q4 2014, with US and Asian availability following in the next quarter or two.

YotaPhone Specs:

5-inch (1920 x 1080 pixels) HD OLED 442 PPI display

Quad-core 2.3 GHz Qualcomm processor

8-megapixel camera on the back

2-megapixel front-facing camera

2550 mAh battery

Feb 24, 2014
MWC 2014: Nokia launched its first android phone series X, X+ and XL

Nokia has finally launched its series of Android phones at MWC 2014, The low-cost devices are running a forked version of Android laden with Microsoft services, as well as the ‘Fastlane’ UI as on Nokia’s Asha.

The aim is to make the Nokia X a bridge to high-end Windows smartphones under the Lumia brand. It will ditch many of the Google services that come with Android, which Google lets phone makers customize at will.

“More and more people are buying smartphones for less that 100 euros,” said Stephen Elop, Nokia executive vice president.

However, as the Nokia X is not an ‘Android’ device in the exact sense as it doesn’t have Google Play certification, apps need to be loaded onto the device from Nokia’s own app store, which provide special section for apps that run on devices in the Nokia X family. Other than loading apps via Nokia’s app store, users will also be able to download them from third-party app stores like Yandex or side-load an APK directly onto the device from a computer.

The first of the devices are the Nokia X and Nokia X+: both feature 4.0-inch WVGA displays, while the X+ will be slightly beefed up. Internally having a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 SoC with a 1.0 GHz dual-core CPU, a 1,500 mAh battery, dual-SIM support, as well as a 3-megapixel fixed-focus camera and a microSD card slot. The X has 512 MB of RAM and 4 GB of storage, while the X+ comes with 768 MB of RAM.

“The essential reason in Microsoft being interested in Nokia mobile phones and not just Lumia is that they are also [looking to] connecting the next one billion [people] to the cloud; to their cloud services like Skype and Outlook and such.

Feb 24, 2014
MWC 2014: Huawei launched its first Firefox OS phone Y300
Huawei made its debut in world of Firefox OS with Y300. The phone was showed at MWC 2014. The device runs FFOS 1.1 with its focus on stability. Regardless, the Y300 looks like much like its sibling FFOS devices in software and general build quality. The FFOS UI appeared mostly same on the Y300,

It’s the first Firefox OS device to have dual cameras: a 5 megapixel camera on back and VGA for the front.The Huawei Y300 has a black, all made up of plastic with a power button up top and the headphone jack, volume keys on the right edge and a micro-USB port at the base.

Donot confuse with Huawei Ascend Y300, the android smartphone its Huawei Y300 with FFOS. It seems Huawei is using the same basic spec as the earlier Android smartphone for its Firefox debut.

Features of Huawei Y300:
- 1GHz dual-core Snapdragon 8225 processor
- 4-inch WVGA display
- 512MB RAM
- 1,950mAh battery
- 5 megapixel camera on back & front VGA. camera
- Firefox OS v1.1
There’s no specific release date for Huawei’s Y300 yet, but expected a retail launch within the next couple of months. Price tag is also yet to be unveiled , But it would a affordable phone
Feb 24, 2014
How to fix Windows 7 Not Genuine Error

If you are not using a genuine version of Windows 7 or other using a pirated copy. You will notice “This copy of Windows is not genuine “displayed at the bottom of the screen, If you are also facing the same problem then no need to worry about, we have an easy guide that will help you to fix . By providing this guide we are not encouraging or promoting piracy. So, The best way to solve this problem is to buy a genuine copy of windows 7. This guide for the people who can not for any reason are unable to buy brand new windows.

How to fix‘Windows 7 Not Genuine Error’

Method 1: Fix Not Genuine Error using Command Prompt

1, Go to Start menu, type cmd and then right click on cmd and click on the Run as Administrator

2: Now in the command prompt (cmd) window type “SLMGR –REARM”

3: Press Enter and wait till it executes

4: Now a dialogue message box will appear asking you to restart your system. Click Ok to restart your system.

5: That’s it. When you restart your system you’ll not see any message like “ Not genuine error” anymore

Method 2: Fix not genuine Error using Remove WAT Utility

1: Download this WAT utility and Extract it

2: Now. Right click on “WAT Remover” and select run as Administrator

3: Now click on Remove WAT

4: Then click on OK to confirm

5: Wait for the process to complete and then restart the computer. .

NOTE : Do not download and install the “KB971033” Windows update as it will nullify the WAT Remover action. It is recommended to disable the Windows Update feature in your PC.

Hope this guide will help you fix the Windows 7 not genuine error. If you face any problem then report to us. We will be very much happy to guide you.

Feb 23, 2014
Best Rainmeter Skins for a customized Desktop Experience

Windows Desktop customization app Rainmeter has a pool of various configuration options, informational tools, and settings that let you customize almost every square pixel of your desktop exactly how you like it—plus it looks fantastic. It’s powerful and effective once set up.

Rainmeter can take a bit of time to set up, so it’s not clear how awesome your desktop can really be if you put your mind to it.

The primary purpose of this program is to run skins that come in various styles, sizes, user interfaces and levels of complexity with sometimes-interactive window, which appears over the desktop normally, collects and displays information such as RSS feeds, weather forecasts, battery power, control media player and applications etc.; like widgets on an Android run device.

How to Install Rainmeter and its Skins:

1) Download Rainmeter.

2) After installing download Rainmeter skins according to your wish.(or choose from skins given below)

3) After that press right click and copy all the documents remaining on the desktop but be careful about that all the files should kept in a zipped folder.

4) Then Copy and paste all those files in the skins folder which will be available to you in the document folder.

5) Restart the app and then do right click on the tray icon.

6) Further, select the ‘configuration’ option and enjoy the special experience of new downloaded skins.

7) Or, you can also right click on the tray icon of Rainmeter and after right click there will be a option of layouts, it will show every installed skins name you can just click anyone you like to apply and after that restart the Rainmeter.

Here are the best Rainmeter Skins:

Omnimo

Tron

Rainmeter Desktop

End of The World

Futuristica

Darkness Falls

Electric Space

Orange Glow

There are many other rainmeter skins and themes available. Go, Explore.

Share your favorite skin with others.

Feb 22, 2014
Intel “Ivy Town” 15 Core Xeon E7 Processors Specs Revealed

Intel has revealed details about its upcoming microprocessor for enterprise servers at the International Solid State Circuit Technology Conference. The chip will feature up to 15 cores, all-new topology as well as enhanced RAS [reliability, availability, scalability] features.
The yet to be launched “Ivy Town” Intel CPU series is one of the chips that makes such high performance and capacity levels possible.
Known as Xeon E7-8800v2, it is made for business servers and other enterprise applications, particularly high-end workstations.
The chip is a 15-core model (64-bit Ivy-Bridge cores), which means that the system can use 30 threads, thanks to Hyper-Threading technology.
The cache memory is a massive 35.7 MB (shared L3 cache), and the overpowered spec sheet continues with a high-speed serial I/O interface.

The Ivy Town processor’s high-speed serial I/O’s includes of 40 lanes of PCI Express (2.5/5.0/8.0Gbps), four lanes of direct media interface (DMI) (2.5/5.0Gbps), and 60 lanes of QPI (6.4/7.2/8.0Gbps) interface to connect with other central processing units (CPUs).The floor plan of the Ivy Town chip is considerably different compared to today’s multi-core chips and is driven by the ring bus routability and latency, as well as the chop requirements to different core counts. The cores and associated L3 cache are organized in columns of five with the ring bus segment embedded.

Also Read: Intel Haswell : 4th Gen. core CPUs

The DDR3 memory controllers (and there are two of them) bear mentioning as well, each featuring two memory channels with 800MT/s – 1867MT/s effective frequencies (normal DDR3 modules) or 2667MT/s speeds (to connect to a memory extension buffer using voltage-mode single-ended / VMSE interface).

The processor includes 4.31 billion transistors and is manufactured using 22nm process technology. The design supports a wide array of product offerings with thermal design power ranging from 40 to 150W and frequencies ranging from 1.4 to 3.8GHz.

The Intel Ivy Town LGA 2011 Xeon E7-8800v2 CPU should be released at some point this year.

Intel ‘Ivy Town’ Specs

15 Cores (64-bit Ivy-Bridge cores)

30 Threads

Cache Memory: 35.7 MB (shared L3 cache)

4.31 billion transistors

22nm process technology

Power: 40 to 150W

Feb 18, 2014