12 Apps For Longer Battery Life [Android]

There are plenty of different smartphones on the market these days and they come loaded with all sorts of features. From an elegant and beautiful design to a good quality camera for that fame-worthy selfie, all these features matter when you’re considering a new phone. But perhaps the most important feature of all is a long battery life. Recently, an IDC survey revealed that 56% of Android buyers, 49% of iPhone buyers and 53% of Windows Phone buyers said that battery life was an important reason for them while selecting a particular device.

Keeping this in mind, sometimes we can’t necessarily increase the battery life at the physical level so easily. However, we can lengthen the battery life by using apps which can minimize the power consumed by our smartphones.

In this post, we discuss 12 Android based apps that can help in conserving the battery life of your Android device.

Recommended Reading: 20 Essential Apps For Your Android Phone

1. DU Battery Saver

DU Battery Saver is a free app that can be used to increase the battery life of your device by up to 50%. It provides pre-set power management modes such as Long Standby, General Mode and Sleep Mode. You can also set a customized mode of your own defined settings for the smartphone. If that’s not enough, you can upgrade the app as well to increase battery life to up to 70%. For further details about DU Battery Saver, visit the official website of DU Apps [...]

Infamous - Rat Hacking Tool

Infamous is a group in hackforums that is well disciplined and highly skilled users. One of the member created this tool. Infamous Rat Hacking Tool is programmed in Visual Basic.NET and mainly composed of an Icon Changer, Binder, Pumper & Spoofer with a very excellent theme owed from Aeonhack.

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18 Blatant Product Placements In Movies & TV You Probably Missed

There is advertising everywhere. Commercials on TV, billboards across the highway, page long newspaper ads, the dreaded pop-ups of the Internet. Everywhere you turn you just can’t get away from the stuff. Whatever medium you can think of, chances are it’s covered with Verizon ads selling you its high-speed Internet service (Can I have my money now?).

Not even the world of escapism is safe from corporate advertising. Advertisers are quick to use a new medium to push their wares and this is no exception when it comes to TV and movies. In fact, in the process of writing this article, I have become more aware of how rife they are with product placement. Some inconspicuous, many blatant. In this list, we have for you just 18 examples of obvious and shameless product placement in movies and TV.

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Little Nicky

Adam Sandler loves to integrate product placement into his movies. In Little Nicky, we see the titular character being introduced to Popeye’s Chicken for the first time by his friend/talking bulldog, Mr. Beefy, where Nicky declares it as “f***ing awesome!”. A one off shout out is maybe acceptable but it became worst when later on in the movie it becomes an integral tool to defeat a demon horde, with said demon’s also declaring it as “the shiznit”, putting Popeye’s Chicken in the same pedestal of good as butterflies and fluffy things.

The Wizard

Probably the number one contender for biggest media attention seeker in the 80′s h [...]

DotNet String Obfuscator

     DotNet String Obfuscator obfuscates your Visual Basic or C# Project, thus, helps you to reduce the risk of being decrypted. It is to harden the difficulties of reading your code so that a script kiddie will not copy your work if they try to reflect it.

How to use:
1. Run Application
2. Open the project you want to obfuscate
  

3. After you open your project, the method of obfuscation will be unlocked. Choose what you want.

4. Then click "Appliquer" to begin the process and click the "Yes" button for start.

5. Success! Your source code has been obfuscated. You can see the result below the original source in the application.

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How Internet Acts Restore Faith In Humanity – Part III

It was not long ago that we highlighted some stories of how people touch other lives through the use of the Internet and social media. Since then, a lot more depressing news have surfaced, whether it is ongoing war in other parts of the world or the death of a beloved celebrity. Sometimes we even wonder if there’s any good news in this world left at all.

But of course there is. The magnitude of recent events may have overshadowed these stories or they might have simply not turn up in your radar. Whether it is a simple lost and found story or even a life-saving one, we hope that this selection of 5 stories depicting Internet acts will hopefully brighten your day and restore your faith in humanity.

Read also:

• Internet Acts To Restore Faith In Humanity – Part I
• Internet Acts To Restore Faith In Humanity – Part II

1. Reddit’s Photoshopping Skills

Nathen Steffel became a proud father to baby girl on May 30. His joy was short-lived as his daughter Sophia passed away 6 weeks later due to complications from a hepatic hemangioma, a live tumor in her liver. Heartbroken and grieving, Nathen wanted a photo as a reminder of his daughter and her short life. However, all he had were pictures of Sophia in tubes tethering her to life.

(Image source: Nathen Steffel)

Enter Reddit, known for being a cesspool of photos, memes, and photoshopped [...]

A Guide To Better Google Search Techniques

The Internet is so full of information that it’s nearly impossible to check its limits. That’s why, search engines were developed to maintain a search-able database of the web’s content. People employ the use of search engines to look up for information on the web.

In the midst of all search engines lies Google, the most popular and powerful search engine. You type in the query, and the search engine provides you with the search results. In most cases you’re satisfied but sometimes, you’re not. This is where learning the proper techniques to type in your search query comes in handy and this is what we’ll explore in this article.

Why The Need To Learn Proper Search Tech niques?

Everyone including students, researchers, writers, etc. requires information, and they use search engines for that very reason. People spend most of their time continuously looking for the right information because they’re not aware of the proper search techniques. Learning and using good search techniques will help you in the following ways:

• Better search results
• Saves your time

Note: Search queries or examples are included inside [ ] for better readability. Please do not include [ ] in your search query.

How To Use Google.com

Google is a smart and intelligent search engine with many exciting features. But not all the features are rolled out instantly for all versions. Google.com is always first to get feature updates, and then updates are provided in versions specific to different countries such as google.co.uk, google.co.in, or google.sh

Google’s version for your c [...]

20 Artists Who Took Art To The Next Level

Where there is an idea, there is a way to express it – at least when it comes to art. Artists can come in many forms disguised as your regular barista who can make amazing latte art, 2D and even 3D, digital artists who make stunning QR codes that jump out at you, or very patient people who make amazing origami strucures from paper or dollar bills.

Then, there are artists that create art out of non-regular materials, they create animal sculptures from fruit, silky and flowy sculptures from wood, and life out of inanimate resin. In this post, we’d like to look at 20 more artists who use very unconventional mediums to portray their love of art and skills.

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Toilet Paper Rolls. Anastassia Elias uses toilet paper rolls to create miniature scenes of life. She cuts out the scene from paper and places it inside the roll creating a silhouette of life inside a paper roll. (Image Source: [...]