Get Official Skype App for Windows Phones

Skype is the popular software for making video calls throughvoice over Internet connectivity. We can make free video calls to our international friends. Microsoft acquired Skype before some months and released latest amazing version for PC users. While the Beta version of Windows Skype was released in February 2011 and that has some bugs. Now Microsoft fixed some bugs and released the latest Skype application for Windows Mobile users. 

Skype provides free voice and video calls to your family and friends. If you want to make calls outside of Skype users, you can make international calls in low cost with your Skype credit. Now Skype supports portrait video calling and support for joining audio conferencing also added in this version. You can block and unblock your Skype friends anytime.

Skype app for windows phones requires Windows 7.5 version or above versions. Currently Skype was tested and verified with seven mobiles are listed below.

1. Nokia Lumia 710
2. Nokia Lumia 800
3. Nokia Lumia 900
4. HTC Titan
5. HTC Radar
6. Samsung Focus S
7. Samsung Focus Flash

You can make video calls using on a 3G, 4G and Wi-Fi internet connections. The Skype app supports 18 languages are English, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Norwegian, Europe Portuguese, Brazil Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish and Traditional Chinese.

Download Skype for Windows Phone

Search Mobile Apps directly in Google Search

Smart Phones development is going amazingly andmobile developers release so many mobile applicationsdaily. Mobile apps getting good reach because apps make the users to a great usability of devices. If you are having a smart phone or a tablet, you need to search the apps in Google. Search engines display all results of the links that contains with your searched apps. There are so manymobile devices like Android, iPhone, Nokia and so on. You have to find out properly what app you want to download and it would be taken your little time. Otherwise some peoples go official sites of their mobile devices.

Google optimizes its search options for the latest mobile trending. Google made one separate option as “Application” especially for mobile and tablet applications. With this option you can search mobile applications and all other mobile softwares only in one place. So you can download your mobile apps quickly. If your mobile is Android or iPhone or Nokia, whatever you can get the mobile apps quickly.

How to Search Mobile Apps in Google?

Go to google.com and search anything then you will see the section "Applications" in left panel. Click on that once and you are ready to search mobile applications only. For instance you will search for IPL apps then you will find the all mobile apps related to IPL in the results. Then you can easily download the apps with just a few clicks. Results obtained from the important sites are google.com, apple.com, cnet.com, appbrain.com, androidzoom.com and informer.com

Finally you can set only Android apps to display in search results or set to your device specific only results. In the left side panel you will see the above list of sites that contains only for specific devices. Choose anyone to search mobile applications for your particularmobile device. This option more helps you to find out the apps appropriate to your phone.

Google Drive Launched – Get 5 GB Free Cloud Storage

Google officially launched much awaited their online cloud storage system Google Drive like Microsoft SkyDrive.Google Drive offers 5 GB free online cloud storage and it is integrated with Google Docs. You can store your filesonline and access it from anywhere on the internet and you can sync your offline files. Google Docs is built right into the Google Drive account, so you can work with documents, spreadsheets and presentations. If you share any document to others, you can post comments and reply to comments on any files like Pdf books, images and etc. 

Google Drive Features:

• Store everything and access anywhere – you can store any types of files and you can access anywhere on the web, in your home, office and also in your mobile devices

• Integration with Google docs - Create new documents, spreadsheets and presentations instantly

• Upload any files and give links in Gmail for larger files and upload photos to Google Plus directly from Google Drive

• Powerful search makes get your content faster by keyword search. Google Drive supports search on Pdf files and scanned documents with OCR technology.

• Supports to view 30 types of files. You can view Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator files also if you have not installed on your system.

• You can share files to anyone, but you can limit to who can see and who can comments for the files.

• Make a discussion to get feedback on your files.

• Every change of files will be saved with revisions of the files. So you can look back your files as far as 30 days automatically.

Google Drive is now available to Windows, Mac and Android devices. Google Drive App for iPhone and iPad devices coming soon. You can get started with free 5 GB cloud storage. If you want more space on your drive, you have to upgrade your account to paid account. When you upgrade to paid account, your Gmail account storage will also expand to 25 GB. That will be bonus storage for you. The Google Drive paid account prices are given below.

25 GB – $2.49/month
100 GB - $4.99/month
1 TB - $49.99/month

Google Drive Official site


Android Users – If you have Android Mobile or Tablet, You can download this mobile app. With this mobile app you can access your files on your Google Drive directly from your smartphones.

Download Android App for Google Drive

Install ClockworkMod Recovery on Sony Xperia X8, X10, X10 Mini/Pro

Installing Custom Recovery or ClockworkMod Recovery is important if you wish to flash custom ROMs. The best custom ROMs are the CyanogenMod and MIUI ROMs which can be installed only using ClockworkMod Recovery. So here is a tutorial to install ClockworkMod Recovery on Sony Ericsson Xperia X10, X10 Mini/Pro and X8. But before you do this, you must have an unlocked bootloader on your device. You can check our post on how to unlock bootloader of Sony Xperia X10, X10 Mini/Pro and X8. Also, make sure you have proper backup of all important data before you proceed.

Prerequisites

Before you proceed with any hacking activity on your phone, it is always better to have a backup of your important data.

• Backup all applications using ASTRO File Manager which also lets you store the backed up file on its servers.
• Backup all contacts to SD card.
• Most of the SMS applications let you back up SMS to your SD card. You can use Go SMS or Handcent which are the most famous ones

Steps to Install Custom Recovery on Xperia X10, X10 Mini/Pro & X8

1. Assuming that you would have unlocked the bootloader, you must be having Flashtool downloaded. If not, you can download it here.
2. Start Flashtool.
3. Connect your device to the computer. Make sure you have USB Debugging enabled. You can enable it by going to Settings>Applications>Development and ensure that USB Debugging is checked.
4. Your phone must be recognized by Flashtool. If it is not, you perhaps don’t have USB Drivers installed on your computer.
5. On Flashtool, click on the “plus sign” to install Recovery. You can see it in the image below:
   
6. In the dialog box which opens, select CWM 5 (ClockworkMod 5) and click on OK.
   
7. The installation begins and when Flashtool shows ”Recovery successfully installed”, it is finished.
   

In this way you can easily install ClockworkMod Recovery on Sony Xperia X8, X10 and X10 Mini/Pro.

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Make Your Samsung Galaxy S2 Perform Faster With Lite’ning Rom

The Lite’ning ROM for Samsung Galaxy S2 is one of the most stable and fastest ROM which runs on Android 2.3.4 XXKH3 Firmware. The XXKH3 is the official Firmware for SamsungGalaxy S2. Please note that this ROM is a custom ROM but it runs on the official firmware and hence stable unlike the Ice Cream Sandwich ROMs for Samsung Galaxy S2. In this tutorial we will tell you how to install this custom ROM on Samsung Galaxy S2. Make sure you have proper backup of all the important data before you proceed with the installation. Also, this ROM can be flashed only on Samsung Galaxy S2 Gt-I9100 and not on any other variant of Samsung Galaxy S2.

Features of Lite’ning ROM for Samsung Galaxy S2

• Fast and stable SGS II Gingerbread 2.3.4 ROM
• Based on official XXKH3 Firmware
• Blue themed
• Battery percentage
• CRT Screen-Off Animation
• Overscroll glow
• Better optimised apk’s, framework for more speed and free mem.
• GTalk with Video
• better camera
• fixed laggy browser
• Memory tweak
• Kernel tweaks
• SD card read tweak
• Zipaligned.
• Deodexed.
• Root + Busybox

Prerequisites

Backup all your applications using ASTRO File Manager. If you have rooted your Samsung Galaxy S2, you can use Titanium Backup for the same.

• Back up all contacts to SD Card.
• Make sure you have KIES installed.
• Disable Anti virus and other security apps
• Enable USB Debugging by Settings>Applications>Development and ensure that USB Debugging is checked.

Steps to Install Lite’ning ROM on Samsung Galaxy S2

Once you make sure you have backed up all apps and data on your phone, you can proceed with the steps to install XXKH3 on Samsung Galaxy S2.

1. Download Lite’ning ROM for Samsung Galaxy S2.
2. Extract the files to a separate folder in your PC.
3. Download Odin if you don’t have it.
4. Enable USB Debugging.
5. Turn off your phone.
6. Boot your phone into Download Mode. To do this, press the Volume Down button and Center button. While you press both, simultaneously pres the power button and your phone will enter into download mode.
7. Open Odin.
8. Connect your phone to the PC via USB. When you do this the ID:Com section on Odin must turn yellow. If it doesn’t don’t proceed to the next step.
9. In Odin, Press the “PDA” button, and select the md5 file.|
   
10. Also make sure you have checked Auto Reboot and F. Reset Time in Odin.
11. Click on Start and the ROM will be flashed to your Samsung Galaxy S2.
    

In this way you can install XXKH3 Firmware on Samsung Galaxy S2 and make Samsung Galaxy S2 Faster.