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Aug 7, 2012
Best 5 free Ringtone Maker applications for your android
The top most collection of Ringtone maker free android applications. Compose your own ringtone, Cut the ringtone from any song, manage your audio files and record your sound and make some ringtones of it.
Here are the 5 best Ringtone maker apps.
Here are the 5 best Ringtone maker apps.
1. Ringtone Maker Advance
Description
Create your own ringtone,alarm,or notification sound from an existing audio file.
Record new ringtone by youslfe.
Features:
#Make you own ringtone by youself.
#Create you own alarm, notification ,ringtone from existing audio file.
#Manage you audio file.
#Play the audio file.
#Record a new ringtone by your phone.
#Set as contact ringtone surpported.
2. Droid Ringtone Maker
Description
Millions of popular MP3 ringtones is available at your choice for free now!
"Droid Ringtone Maker" is your best choice, if you want to make your own ringtones.
Create your own ringtone, alarm, or notification sound from an existing audio/mp3 file.You can get any ringtone you want.
√ Beautiful UI, easy to edit your ringtones;
√ Convert your favorite songs into ringtones;
√ Record your own original ringtones;
√ Its easy to make your own alarm tones, caller tones, and notification tones;
3. MP3 Ringtone Maker PRO V2
Description
The best Ringtone Maker . Set as ring, notification sound, assign to contacts and share with your friends! Millions of popular mp3 ringtones and sounds is available at your choice for free. You can also create your own ringtones from mp3 sound files.
4. Myxer
Description
Access all your favorite Myxer content, anytime or anyplace!
- Create custom ringtones from the music stored on your phone, or by recording your voice
- Browse, preview, and customize FREE ringtones from Myxer's huge catalog
- Cut the precise section of the track you want to set as your ringtone
- Select from the most popular song sections as chosen by other Myxer users
- Browse millions of free and premium MP3s and download straight to your music player
5. RINGME elegant Ringtone Maker
Description
RINGME is an alternative Ringdroid with elegant design, and more enhancements to come in the next updates.
now RINGME allow user to Share Ringtone via email, wifi, bluetooth, etc ...
- add a media browser which allow user to browse through audio files in external storage,
- an external storage can be either built-in storage or sd card, in case there are both, sdcard could be inside the folder external_sd/ (e.g Samsung Galaxy SII)
- use the Home button to quickly go back to external storage root while browsing
- user can filter hidden files (in Settings)
You can find more apps from Genie Nin by clicking Android icon inside!!!
Use RINGME to edit MP3, WAV, AAC, and AMR audio files and create ringtones, alarms, and notifications from them.. More below...
Tips:
- long-press on an audio file from the main screen to delete it.
- copy audio files to your SD card using a USB cable, or get MP3s using the Amazon MP3 application.
- tap anywhere on the waveform to start playing at that position.
- while playing, tap the word Start or End to quickly set the start and end markers to the current playback time.
- Use the jog wheel for more precise adjustments.
If you are already use any application and familiar with the working of application, then please comment out your review.
Aug 2, 2012
Free VLC Beta (NEON version): A better VLC Player for Android
The very first beta of VLC Player for Android has just been released for devices sporting an ARMv7 CPU with NEON Support. The VLC Beta Player is intended for “power users,” allowing them to fully customize the player.
The VLC player is already a cross-platform application and can play almost any multimedia format. The application is not just limited to supporting local video and audio playback but also supports high quality online streams.
Just like its desktop counterpart, VLC Beta Player for Android still features the same old functionality and features that veteran users have grown to love. The app is still able to render High Definition media up to 1080p and it is still an opensource project for users who are planning on modifying the application.
Since VLC is known to play a wide variety of videos, users will never have to worry about installing additional software, especially the codecs.
On the app’s main interface, you will find that it is split into two, the video and the audio parts. As soon as you launch the application, it will scan your device for all the local media content available and will place those files under the relevant tabs. Users can also manually search media content or locate a specific network stream that can be accessed from the bar on top.
Selecting the menu button lets you toggle between directory and media view. There is also the settings page on which you can find the various options, like hardware acceleration, headset detection, search history, and other important audio and video tweaks.
In the Video tab, you can long-press a file to reveal detailed information about media such as video resolution, frame rate, video codecs, and file size. Long-pressing an album will let you play all the tracks it contains.
On the negative side, VLC Beta Player for Android still has a lot of catching up to do. Although the app does perform well in playing most file types, it does however lack its effectiveness in playing high-quality 1080p videos. In addition, some users have also complained about how the app uses so much battery power for just a short amount of time.
Considering the app is still in its beta stage, these setbacks are just normal and could be weeded out when the final version hits the market. Overall, VLC Beta for Android could be the media player that we all have been waiting for.
You can download your copy of VLC Beta (NEON version) absolutely free on the Google Play Store.
Android app review: Free LogMote Android app for passwordless logins via QR code scanning
A password is meant for security, preventing unauthorized people from accessing private and important information. Still, it doesn’t guarantee absolute protection, for it also has its own limitations.
For instance, you are not protected from keyloggers that can grab your login data anytime. Furthermore, if you have numerous online service accounts, remembering all those passwords without mixing them up is quite a challenge, except if you have a photographic memory.
This is where LogMote comes in handy, providing a password-free log-in service where you access web services on your desktop through QR code scanning. We have already reviewed Uniclau, another app of this sort, but LogMote fills in some of the features that the Uniclau app lacks.
LogMote is an all-in-one solution to your password needs: managing all of your online service accounts, password backup or recovery, and its highlighted feature: QR code-based authentication, logging you in by just scanning the QR code on your browser’s screen with your phone’s camera. It’s essentially a solution for passwordless login to your acounts.
The service that this app and Uniclau provide is more or less the same, but LogMote brings in a bunch of new features that Uniclau doesn’t. For instance, Uniclau is only compatible with Google Chrome but LogMote works with Mozilla Firefox, Safari, and Google Chrome, providing password protection for a variety of users.
Using LogMote
Using LogMote requires you to install the desktop plug-in or browser extension and of course, install the app on your mobile Android device. In contrast, Uniclau only requires a browser extension but LogMote’s desktop plug-in comes in pretty handy. It allows you to backup/restore personal LogMote data locally.
Once you are done setting up, you just register a valid email address and configure the password mechanism that you prefer.
Aside from the classic password, the app provides you with three access code options: color sequence, pattern drawing, or a numerical value password. Once you have set up your access code, the app then sends a LogMote recovery QR code to your email in case you forget it.
To use the app in accessing your online accounts, you need to add them yourself to the app. It requires some time to configure all your accounts (especially if you have hundreds) but it’s better compared to Uniclau where you can only access accounts supported by the app. You can also tinker with the app’s notification settings of the app to your liking.
Once everything is in place, you just need to tap on the “Start LogMote” option and scan the QR code on your browser with your mobile Android device. It’s very convenient and safer compared to typing in passwords manually. Additionally, the access code that you configure in the app serves as your master password, making it even more convenient for you.
The free version of the app already gives you ample handy features, but you can also subscribe to a three-month or one-year plan to enjoy automatic online backups of your personal LogMote data, an ad-free interface, syncing of multiple devices, and the amazing feature of locking your computer remotely using your mobile Android device.
Try the app today by downloading LogMote free from the Google Play Store.
Best 10 audio and sound equalizer applications for Android
Music has always been a great source of entertainment. Whatever your calling in life is, music plays many roles many aspects of your public and private life.
If you want to take full control of how your music sounds, then you’ve arrived at the right page.
In this post, we feature some of the best sound and audio equalizer apps for Android. These apps can help you improve your listening experience by letting you change the sound level settings of your phone or tablet’s sound output.
Equalizer
Equalizer offers different options to customize the music or audio from your phone. It has its 5-band level equalizer that allows you to adjust the audio just the way you want it. It doesn’t matter what type of music you want to customize. You can choose rock or hip hop, and the same feature can be readily used.
The app also has 11 stock presets. Some of these are the Classical, Dance, Flat, Folk, Heavy Metal, Jazz, Pop, and many more. These presets are also given additional options other than the 5-band level equalizer. All you have to do is long press on the preset of your choice to check additional customization options.
Equalizer is equipped with the Bass Booster, Virtualizer, and Reverb Presets features, which allow you to see and adjust the intensity of the sound. If you want to get the best results, then using a headset would be a great help.
To add more color and life to your music experience, the app provides users with beautiful homescreen widgets. You can either choose to use the available widget skins on your device or download additional skin types. Moreover, Equalizer also supports various music players like Winamp, WIMP, PlayerPro, and many more.
Voodoo Sound
Armed with the Smart amplifier and Headphone amplifier, Voodoo Sound gives users the luxury to set the volume of a certain sound to whatever degree they like.
This app only works if your device uses a custom Android kernel that implements Voodoo patches. The app is intended for earlier devices such as the Galaxy S, Nexus S, Galaxy Tab, and Asus Transformer. The paid version, called Voodoo Sound Plus, does not require a custom kernel but requires root.
Voodoo Sound has a Bass Boost option which allows you to amplify low frequencies of a sound. You can either choose to amplify a sound at a Sub-bass, Standard, Medium, or Small Speaker level.
Since the app is equipped with bass options, Voodoo Sound can output loud volumes and quality sound of your chosen audio. Sound improvement options like the Microphone Gain Preset makes it a perfect match for people who enjoy loud and clear audio streaming.
Music Volume EQ
With over 4 million installations, the Music Volume EQ app proves to be a great companion any time you feel like listening to your favorite music. The app is equipped with a media volume control and a 5-band equalizer for easier sound adjustments. Bass Boost and Virtualizer effects are also available, allowing you to amplify and spatialize audio channels.
The app gives you a live reading of your current music volume. This means you can fully monitor how loud your music is, and control the exact volume you’re comfortable with.
Music Volume EQ app has a stereo led VU meter which looks like a bar graph and displays audio readings from your phone. Additional features of this app include homescreen widgets, saving custom presets, 9 equalizer presets, and lock media volume feature. The app also works with several music players like Winamp and Google Music, Poweramp, and many more.
Volume Equalizer
With the Volume Equalizer app, you don’t need to worry about spending a couple of minutes adjusting the audio of your device. By going into the settings screen, options like music, incoming call alerts, notifications, talking, alarms, and system volume can all be accessed with just one tap. You don’t need to go to several pages to modify the entire audio settings of your phone. This app provides an easier way to do that in one go.
Say, for example, you are waiting for an important call, but have to put your phone on silent mode while in a meeting. Typically, you’ll need to set up several pages into silent mode to make sure that none of your previously programmed sounds, like the alarm, would ring. Otherwise, you might cause unnecessary interruptions.
In situations when you can’t turn off your phone, Volume Equalizer will allow you to manage your phone volume to normal, silent, or vibration mode, in the easiest and fastest way possible. All you need to do is to set up the app’s widget on your phone’s homescreen beforehand, and you can already change your phone’s audio setting anytime you want. You also have the choice to show either one or three speakers on your widget icon.
Winamp
Winamp is one of the world’s favorite media players, and it is available for Android. In relation to the topic of this app list, one of Winamp’s very powerful features is its 10-band equalizer through which you can set and adjust the sound levels of your phone’s audio output.
Apart from that, it supports access to online radio stations with SHOUTcast allowing users to choose and download the music of their choice. This app also doesn’t have any ads, so that is a very big plus point.
Winamp supports free music downloads with Spinners’ MP3 of the day. You can choose which among these songs you’d like to adjust.
Core features of Winamp include free wireless syncing, access to over 50 SHOUTcast radio stations, persistent player controls, lock-screen player, and many more.
You can also browse for your favorite songs, artists,albums, and playlist shortcuts. If convenience is what you’re looking for, then Winamp will surely be one of the best picks.
MusicFX
If you need bass boost, equalizer, and 3D experience on headphones, check out the MusicFXapp.
Audio enhancements are automatically activated after you install this app, and you can immediately perform app customization.
MusicFX is actually an extension of the stock Android music player, which supports a rich set of presets for its equalizer. Examples of these presets include Classical, Rock, Pop, and many others. The presets increase the quality of the phone’s default player’s audio, which makes it everyone’s music buddy. The app also has a 5-band equalizer.
The app requires access to the Bluetooth configuration in order to perform the enhancements you desire. You will also need to have access to the Internet to get the latest updates from the developer.
jetAudio Basic
jetAudio Basic is a music player which supports up to 32 equalizer presets. It’s equipped with Wide, Reverb, X-Bass sound effects, and an Automatic Gain Control that prevents fluctuations between tracks.
As a music player, the app can play almost any type of digital music file formats like MP3, WAV, MOD, FLAC, WV, and many more. This means a wider choice of audio files which you can explore and adjust using the app’s built-in equalizer.
Complementing the app’s 32 equalizer presets is its 20-band graphic equalizer which can be used to customize your whole music experience. This, in turn, gives you the feeling of being in control of everything you do to your audio files.
The fun doesn’t end there. With the app’s advanced playback functions, like playback speed control, crossfading, and Automatic Gain Control, you’ll surely savor the wide options you’ll have in enhancing the audio quality of your devices.
Some additional features include 2 new lock screens and 6 new app widgets for a more enjoyable way of customizing your music page.
AnEQ Equalizer Free
Another way to make easy sound and audio adjustment is by using AnEQ Equalizer Free. Like some of the other equalizer apps, AnEQ Equalizer Free is equipped with a 5-band equalizer which is displayed in full screen to provide better view of your current music’s audio levels.
You don’t need to do anything other than to install the app for you to start exploring its features. Once installed, the equalizer will automatically run in the background and process your global audio output. The EQ presets can also be viewed on a different page. Presets include the Low Pass, High Pass, Sony, Mids, High, Low, Peak, and Edelstahl. These presets will let you store and later recall any settings you’ve set on a certain function or audio file.
AnEQ Equalizer surely is a mixture of simplicity and great sound quality all packed in a single free app.
PlayerPro Music Player Trial
A music player equipped with a 5-band graphic equalizer with default or customizable presets,PlayerPro Music Player Trial will make you enjoy everything about your audio files.
Do you want to try crossfading one music file with another? With this app, you can easily manipulate your device to crossfade either manually or automatically. The app also has the Bass Boost control, Volume control, and an optional Virtualizer control, which allows screen widening.
The app gives users a fun way of exploring the possibilities that they can do with their audio files through providing more choices. For instance, if you’re looking for the latest song hits in Asia, you can always check the app’s Smart Playlist Editor. This will guide you to several criteria which might help you in your choice. Artists? Albums? Titles? Everything can easily be sorted. From these criteria comes a wider choice of music you’d like to apply audio adjustments to.
PlayerPro DSP Pack
PlayerPro DSP Pack is armed with features you’ll probably never get tired of using. It has a 10-band graphic equalizer with 15 default presets. You can customize these presets by editing, renaming, or deleting them. You can even create a new preset if you like.
The pack, however, is not a standalone app. It is a free plugin app for PlayerPro Music Player.
PlayerPro DSP Pack provides quality performance in audio enhancements. It is equipped with a Bass Boost Control, Visualizer control, and Volume control that works perfectly with other tuning parameters. It is even claimed to provide better decoding performance than Android’s native decoding of music files.
The app supports various file formats like MP3, MP4, WMA, FLAC, and many more. Since it is dependent on the Android Media Scanner and Media Store for playback, it will only play files that are native to your phone.
PlayerPro DSP Pack also supports gapless playback and crossfade. Crossfading can be done either automatically or manually, depending on your choice.
Android phones and tablets have become adequate, even better, replacements for standalone media players. By using sound and audio equalizer apps, you gain firmer control of how your Android’s audio sounds like. Check out some of the best sound and audio equalizer apps for Android that we’ve featured in this post. Which of these are you currently using? Or are you using another one not on our list? If so, share to us your experience of using that.
Aug 1, 2012
Nexus 7 Commercial Series: Jelly Bean Tips
Another day, another Nexus 7 commercial from Google. Today’s Nexus 7 commercial centers around the Android Jelly Bean 4.1.1 popular features and a few useful tips and tricks.
In Jelly Bean, you’ll have a hard time circumventing the face unlock feature after you enable ‘blink check’ which asks the user to blink, determining if a human is being used to unlock the phone instead of a photograph. Next, they highlight Google Now, arguably one of the best features of Jelly Bean. Google Now gives you just the right information to you when you need it, automatically. Next, they demo Voice Search, also known as the “Siri competitor” which just happens to blow that iOS gal out of the water. Lastly, the commercial demonstrates beautiful new home screen widgets and the revamped notification system.
What’s your favorite Jelly Bean feature?
FCC tells Verizon to pay $1.25 million and unblock tethering apps
The FCC reached a settlement with Verizon Wireless that will result in customers being able to download and use tethering apps from the Google Play Store. This act will also allow customers to WiFi tether without incurring the $20 fee for enabling your phones mobile hot spot feature. In addition, Verizon Wireless, the nations largest carrier, will have to pay the U.S Treasury $1.25 million and implement a compliance plan to ensure this does not happen again.
Under the terms of today’s settlement, Verizon Wireless will make a voluntary payment to the Treasury in the amount of $1.25 million, and has committed to notifying the application store operator that it no longer objects to the availability of the tethering applications to C-Block network customers in the operator’s online market. Verizon Wireless has also agreed to implement a compliance plan, requiring
that:
In addition, the company recently revised its service offerings such that consumers on usage-based pricing plans may tether, using any application, without paying an additional fee.
- employees will receive training on compliance with the C Block rules;
- future communications with application store operators regarding the availability of applications to Verizon Wireless customers will be reviewed in advance by legal counsel; and
- Verizon will report any instances of noncompliance with the rule at issue that might occur during the two-year term of the plan.
The FCC’s ruling is a result of the 2008 C block auction in which Verizon bid on and won use of the 700mhz spectrum, which they use for LTE service. If you remember, Google was also in the running for this air space. Google decided to back out of the auction if and only if the FCC put a stipulation on the final purchase agreement. That stipulation was to allow customers to freely use devices and applications of their choosing while accessing this frequency, thus keeping the network ‘open’. Verizon has been blocking tethering applications for quite some time from the Google Play store, which is against the spectrum purchase rules. The FCC did what they had to do.
With that said, rarely in life do we find things that are truly free. The FCC ruled that Verizon Wireless was not allowed to block the download and use of 3rd party tethering applications. Just because you can run easily launch and run these applications now does not mean that Verizon Wireless isn’t cooking up a scheme in the background to monitor tethering usage.
Please proceed with caution before racking up the MB’s and GB’s on your data plan until we get full clarification.
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