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You might be aware that Moto G is one of the most awaited phone in india and we have also listed it as best budget friendly phone.
Now FINALLY its about to launch, According @Motorola twitter handle 5th feb is the date for announcement.

Today leading online store Flipkart has listed Motorola Moto G with "Coming soon..." tag.
Moto G page on Flipkart

What you guys are thinking?
feel free to comment below.

Update : Its available now

Coming from chinese manufacturer Oppo N1 gave surprice to whole android world by Pre-Installed CyanogenMOD and some other cool features. Today Oppo launched the N1 in India for price of 39,999 INR. N1 is Oppo's first phone in India.

Lets check some major features and disadvanges of Oppo N1.
*5.9" Full-HD Super IPS LCD (373ppi)
*Android 4.3 Jelly Bean & CyanogenMod 10.2(Will get update of 4.4 & CM11)
*2GB RAM
*Quad-core 1.7 GHz Krait 300 CPU
*Adreno 320 GPU
13 MP Rotating camera with Dual LED flash, Autofocus.
*O-touch Touchpad on the back
*3610 mAh battery
*Premium class looks

Disadvantages
*Non expandable storage( 16/32GB options)
*Non user-replaceable battery
*Huge in size.
*Krait 300 is EOL and its not enough for a sub 40k phone.

Bottom line
Hardcore flashers/Modders (how to mod phone easily? )will find Oppo N1 as heaven. As CyanogenMod has a huge community support and its biggest aftermarket android OS as of now you won't need to wait for android updates new cool features.

1. Make a tinder nest out of any dry plant material that easily catches fire. You can use dry grass, leaves, small sticks, and bark. This nest will be used to create a flame out of the spark you create with the battery and steel wool.
2. Find a battery and locate the battery terminals. The terminals are the two circular receiving prongs located on the top of the battery. Any battery voltage will work, but 9-volt batteries will ignite the quickest.
3. Take your steel wool and rub it on the battery terminals. The finer the steel wool, the better for this process.
4. Continue to create friction by rubbing the steel wool on the batteries. This process works by creating a current through the tiny steel wires that then heat up and ignite. Another way to do this is to take a 9-volt battery and a metal paperclip and rub the paperclip on both battery terminals at the same time to create sparks. This is similar to how the wires in light bulbs and toasters ovens operate.
5. Blow gently on the steel wool as it starts to glow. This helps nurture the flame and encourages it to spread.
6. Once the steel wool is glowing brightly, transfer the steel wool to your tinder nest quickly, continuing to blow lightly on the nest until the tinder ignites, creating a flame.
7. Add increasingly larger pieces of dry wood to build your fire once the tinder nest has ignited into a flame and enjoy your fire.
   

1. You need tinder and wood ready, a AA battery and a gum wrapper (the metallic kind).
2. Cut or tear the gum wrapper into a thin strip
3. Fold the strip in half, then at the fold carefully cut it at an angle to form a point but still leaving you with an intact strip.
4. Now put the ends of the strip on each terminal of the battery, the shiny side facing the battery. At the part where the strip was narrowed down it will catch on fire.

1. Again, build a tinder nest using dry plant material.
2. Take your flint rock (a rock that emits sparks) and hold it between your thumb and forefinger. Allow about two or three inches of flint to extend past your grasp.
3. Grab a piece of char cloth between your thumb and the flint. Char cloths are small squares of cloth that have been turned into easily combustible charcoal pieces. If you do not have any char cloth on hand, you can also use lightweight tree fungus.
4. Take the back of a steel striker or the back of a knife blade (depending on which you have handy) and quickly scrape the steel against the flint. Continue to strike until sparks begin to form.
5. Catch the sparks with your char cloth and continue the process until the cloth glows like an ember. Char cloths are specially designed to hold a glow without catching fire.
6. Transfer the glowing char cloth to your tinder nest and gently blow on it to induce a flame.
7. Begin to add increasingly larger pieces of wood to grow your flame into a fire.

1. Notice whether or not there is enough sunlight to create a fire using this method. You generally need the sun to be unobstructed by clouds in order to utilize it with your magnifying glass. If you do not have a magnifying glass, eye glass lenses and binocular lenses work as well. Adding water to the lens allows you to create a more intense, focused beam of light.
2. Build a tinder nest out of dry material and set it on the ground.
3. Tilt the lens toward the sun until the lens creates a small circle of focused light on the tinder nest. You'll probably have to test out holding the lens at different angles to create the most focused beam of light possible.
4. Hold the lens in place until the tinder begins to smoke and flame. Blow lightly on the tinder nest to nurture the flame.
5. Begin to add increasingly larger pieces of dry wood to your tinder nest to create the fire size you desire.

1. I saw this method in a documentary a while back ago and thought it was pretty impressive. You need is a soda can, a bar of chocolate, and a sunny day.
2. Polish the bottom of the soda can with the chocolate. Open up your bar of chocolate and start rubbing it on the bottom of the soda can. The chocolate acts as a polish and will make the bottom of the can shine like a mirror. If you do not have chocolate with you, toothpaste also works.
3. After polishing the bottom of your can, what you have is essentially a parabolic mirror. Sunlight will reflect off the bottom of the can, forming a single focal point. It’s kind of like how a mirror telescope works.
4. Point the bottom of the can towards the sun. You’ll have created a highly focused ray of light aimed directly at your tinder. Place the tinder about an inch from the reflecting light’s focal point. After awhile you should have a flame.

1. Build a tinder nest out of any dry plant material. Again, be sure that the material can catch fire easily.
2. Find a piece of wood to use as the base of your hand drill, otherwise known as a fire board. You will drill on this wood piece to create friction.
3. Use a knife or any sharp object to cut a small, V-shaped notch in the center of your fire board. Make sure that your notch is just big enough to hold your spindle stick.
4. Place small pieces of bark underneath the notch. The bark will be used to catch an ember from the friction between the spindle and fire board.
5. Take your spindle stick, which should be a thin stick about two feet long and half an inch in diameter, and place it in the V-shaped notch in the center of your fire board.
6. Hold the spindle stick between your two flat palms and begin to roll the spindle back and forth. Be sure to push the spindle stick firmly down into the fire board.
7. Continue to roll the spindle quickly between your hands, pushing one hand forward and then the other, until an ember is formed on the fire board.
8. Transfer the glowing embers to a small piece of bark. You should have already placed a few small pieces of bark next to the notch for this purpose.
9. Place the bark containing the ember onto your tinder nest. Continue to blow gently on the tinder nest to fully transfer the ember and create a flame.
10. Begin to add increasingly larger pieces of wood to maintain a larger fire. Be advised that this method takes a while to create a fire, and requires physical as well as mental determination.

1. Again, make a tinder nest. Use any dry plant material you can gather.
2. Find an object to use as a socket such as a stone or a heavy piece of wood. The socket will be used to put pressure on the spindle.
3. Find a long, flexible piece of wood about the length of your arm. It is best if this piece of wood has a slight curve in it. This will serve as the handle of your bow.
4. Make the string of the bow using any strong, abrasive material that can withstand a lot of friction. You might want to use a shoelace, a thin rope or string, or a strip of rawhide.
5. Tie the string as tight as possible to each end of the bow handle. If there are not already natural notches in the bow wood to anchor the string, whittle small, straight notches into the wood in order to act as a groove for the string.
6. Find a piece of wood to use as the base of your hand drill, otherwise known as a fire board, and cut a small V-shaped notch into the center using a knife or other sharp object.
7. Place your tinder nest underneath the V-shaped notch. You want to have the tinder right next to base of the spindle so that you can easily create flames.
8. Loop the bow string around your spindle stick one time. Make sure you do so in the middle of the bow string to create enough space to roll the string back and forth.
9. Place one end of the spindle in the V-shaped notch in your fire board and then stack the socket on the top end of the spindle. Hold the socket with your non-dominant hand.
10. Begin sawing the bow quickly back and forth, holding the curved, wooden part of the bow in your dominant hand. This will cause the spindle to spin (hence the name "spindle") and create heat at the base of the fire board.
11. Continue to saw back and forth until you create an ember where the spindle meets the fire board. Make sure your tinder nest is close by.
12. Gather the ember you created onto a piece of scrap wood and drop it into your tinder nest. You may just be able to slide the ember off of the fire board into your tinder nest.
13. Blow on your tinder nest as you gradually add increasingly larger pieces of dry wood to create a fire.

1. One of the best hacks there is to make fire, since it is water proof, always lights incredibly easily, is an infallible additive for a tinder bundle (especially a damp one) and easily takes a spark directly from a ferro striker or metal match. Not only that, it can be used as an occlusive wound dressing, smokeless fuel for a hobo stove, to ease chapped lips and dozens of other things as well.
2. To make your fire starters, you just need two ingredients – vaseline (petroleum jelly) and cotton balls. Any brand of petroleum jelly will work, just make sure it’s 100% pure petroleum jelly. For the cotton balls, check the package to be sure they are 100% cotton. Artificial fibres will not take a spark.
3. Rubbing the Vaseline into a cotton ball is messy work. The fibers of the cotton ball pull apart some, and the Vaseline gets everywhere. A cleanest, easiest method is to put a scoop of Vaseline into a snack-sized ziplock bag, toss some cotton balls in, zip it up, then knead the Vaseline into the cotton balls.
4. You want to get as much Vaseline in the cotton ball as you can without completely saturating the cotton ball. It’s very important to have some dry fibers available to take the flame, especially if you use a firesteel or magnesium rod.
5. Finally you just need a spark either from rocks or better yet from a flint.

• Experience
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Tny2rPAoPc
• http://www.fieldandstream.com/photos/gallery/survival/fire/2006/10/seven-ways-light-fire-without-match
• http://www.primitiveways.com/fire_from_balloon.html
• http://www.artofmanliness.com/2008/04/29/9-ways-to-start-a-fire-without-matches/
• http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Fire-Without-Matches-or-a-Lighter
• http://practicalprimitive.com/skillofthemonth/vaselinecotton.html
• http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Make-a-Cotton-Ball-Fire-Starter/
• http://www.ramblinjim.com/articles/using-vaseline-cotton-balls-as-a-fire-starter/
• http://survivaltek.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/steelwoolbattlrg.jpg
• http://survivaltek.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/GumWrapper_Fire_Method.jpg
• http://sensiblesurvival.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/032bthumb2bon2bchar-cloth.jpg
• http://static.ddmcdn.com/gif/fire-starting-3.jpg
• http://candyaddict.com/blog/uploads/coke_chocolate_fire.jpg
• http://offgridsurvival.com/wp-content/themes/mimbo2.2/images//2008/05/hand-drill.jpg
• http://www.survivalschool.us/wp-content/uploads/fire-bow-method-115.gif
• http://www.thebrainworks.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/cotton-ball-fire-starter-1.jpg

App of the day: SetCPU
Price: 100RS.
Developer: MichaelHuang

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App of the day: Picsay photo editor.
Price: free / Paid
Main use : Faster photo editing with less powered phone.

Few days ago I shared Snaseed and VSCO cam which are good photo editor and camera app respectively. Today I'll share my view on light weight application Picsay pro.

This app is bright, colourful and fun, and it walks the line between childish and charming, coming out just perfect for getting good results with your photos. On the straight-up editing side, it offers the basic functions you would expect from an editing package such as sharpen, redeye, crop and straighten. Moving on from these functions, you can add and edit text and apply effects from Lomo and Tilt-shift to pencil sketches, among others. The cutting-out function works particularly well, and you can take pieces of one image and add them to another. The result is really natural and seamless, and it requires very little eff ort. The stickers make for particularly amusing results. A series of transferable cartoon objects such as hats and moustaches can be applied to your images; this is really great for making your own photographs to send to friends and family for birthdays and special occasions. Rather than looking kitsch and homemade, these images really come into their own and prove very addictive to play around with.

Believe it or not the main image I've used in this post is completely created with Picsay PRO.

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App of the day: Writer
Price: FREE
Main use: A simple writing app.
Size: Just 96KB

The Android platform offers lots when it comes to writing applications, and a trip to the Play Store will give you a whole host to choose from. Writer is one such app, but where it looks to carve itself a niche is in its simplicity. While the majority of apps like this off er advanced functionality, Writer focuses on one thing and doing it well -Simplicity.

Upon opening the app you're greeted by a sparse homepage, where selecting the "Welcome to Writer" document brings up a page of welcome text, written so that the formatting options are explained within. When you're ready, return to the homepage and start writing.  The design is the epitome of simplicity as you use your on-screen keyboard to type whatever you like, be it notes, ideas, to-do lists, book, blog post like this or anything else you might be working on. Text formatting is applied using hash tags, asterisks and other characters, allowing you to bold up and italicise words, add quotation marks and order your text into bullet points. While these options are welcome, it's disappointing that the special characters remain within the text once the formatting is applied.

P.S. - This post is written in Writer!

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App of the day : Endomondo Sports Tracker


Price : FREE or 275RS for PRO.


Prime use : Tracking sports and fitness.

There are tonnes of fitness trackers in Play Store, but despite such huge competition, Endomondo is still one of the best app out there. GPS accuratelymeasures each performence, with the Time Goal mode training you for improved results. With a pre-installed list of dozens of sports, it's capable of gauging your responses accordingly, distinguishing between cycling for transport and cycling as a dedicated activity, for example. Facebook integration, allowing your friends to comment on your updates, and in-app playback of your music playlists are both great if you feel in need of a spot of motivation. The only function that doesn't really work is monitoring stationary exercises, such as weight lifting, as it still tries to measure in distance. Hopefully updates will address that.

List of features.

PRO features:

• Interval programs: Choose from three programs or create your own and let the audio coach guide you


• Graphs: View graphs with your lap times, heart rate, speed and altitude throughout the workout


• Beat yourself: Set a previous workout as your goal and the audio coach will help you perform better this time


• Low power mode: Increase the battery standby time by using this feature for long workouts


• Pedometer: Use the step counter feature to track workouts when you don't have GPS coverage, e.g., indoor


• Customized Audio Coach: Customize how often you get audio feedback and what information is read aloud to you


• Time goal: Choose a duration for your workout and the audio coach will help you reach the time goal


• Calorie goal: Set a calorie goal for your workout and the audio coach will guide you.

FREE features:

• Track any outdoor sport including duration, distance, speed and calories


• Enter a workout manually, e.g., a treadmill run or weight training


• Get audio feedback for every mile or km while exercising


• Get live peptalks from friends


• See your route on a map


• Track your heart rate


• View history of workouts and study split times per km or mile


• Set a distance goal and have the audio coach speak to that as your target


• Sync workouts across multiple platforms (web entry, certain watches, file import - signup required)


• Share workouts on Facebook Timeline


• See your friends' latest workouts in real-time


• Race against a friend's time and have the audio coach help you perform better


• Compete on a specific route nearby and race against the route champion


• Follow your friends' latest activities with the social widget on your phone's home screen


• Keep a log of your music playlist for each workout


• Study routes nearby and use the map to navigate your way around


• Set the app to pause automatically when you are not moving


• Enable countdown.


• Customize the main screen to show the information that you find most valuable


• Get instant feedback by tapping your (wired) headset's media button


• Pause and resume a workout by long pressing your (wired) headset's media button

Get Endomondo from play store.


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What do you think, Endomondo is best fitness app out there or you like any other app?

App of the day : QuickPic
Price : FREE.
Prime use : A lightweight replacement for your stock gallery.
Pros : Light weight and lightning fast still free.

Most people only view their photos on the device they took them on so it makes sense
to make the viewing experience as pleasant as possible. That is exactly what this app offers.

QuickPic can either be used in addition to your stock gallery or can replace it entirely. Once installed, you can choose to openyour images through QuickPic or your standard gallery. If you're sold by it you could, if you have the option, make it the only gallery available on your device. The biggest benefit of QuickPic is speed. It is a lot quicker than any Android gallery and can handle hundreds of images without slowing down your phone, this is all because of robust cache system used in app. The images are presented in grids grouped by individual folders. Images are really bright and dynamic on the flick-throughpresentation mode. You can also choose which folders to include in your gallery and keep your private ones hidden.
You should also look at VSCO camera(capturing sharp photos) and Snapseed(editing photos with ease).

Thanks for the TIP Niraj Dodia.

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App of the day : Business Calendar
Price : Free & 75Rs paid version.
Developer : Appgenix Software
Aimed users :For those who want professional calendar quality on their Android phone.

Get Business calender pro from Play store.
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So you are rooting your phone? Or just want to be on safer side and want to backup your phone?
Here is how you can do it.

Requirements

• Android phone (running 4.0 or above)
  
• Computer (Windows, Mac OS X and few linux distros are supported)
  
• USB cable (it must support data transfer, usually one you find with your device out of the box will work)
  
• ADB drivers or Android SDK(comment below if you are unable to find your device drivers or do a GOOGLE search)

Procedure

1. Turn USB debugging on in settings-->developer options. If developer options are not visible then go to settings-->about phone-->click 7 times on baseband version.
   
2. Connect your device with your computer by using USB data cable.
   
3. Open command prompt in computer.
   
4. Type 'adb devices' (without quotes! To see your device is recognized or not)
   
5. Basically the command for backup is
   adb backup

   but there are many options for backups let see below and use one which you want. If you're aware of CMD then this will be easy for you.

   adb backup ( -f C:\xxxx.ab | -apk /-noapk | -shared / -noshared | -all | -system / -nosystem )
   -all will backup all apps
   -f *filepath* is used to describe path for backed up file.
   -apk will backup all apks too -noapk won't
   -shared will backup your external storages/sd cards too. -noshared won't
   -system tag will also backup system files too. -nosystem won't. -system is default.

   Example
   adb backup -apk -shared -all -f C:\mybackup.ab



6. After typing command hit enter, now your phone may ask for encryption password enter it or leave it blank and you are good to go.

How to restore particular backup.
Follow steps 1-4 above.
Now type
adb restore C:\mybackup.ab

You may need to enter encryption password you entered earlier.
You whole device will get back to that state while you backed up.

If you have any doubts use comment section below.