Favorite Gadgets: April 2014

Monday, April 28, 2014

Apple - iPhone 5s - You’re more powerful than you think

Follow the link to find out more about the apps in this commercial.

Apple - iPhone 5s - You’re more powerful than you think

Sunday, April 27, 2014

Gifprint - Convert Animated Gifs to Printable Flipbooks

This site lets you turn animated gifs into printable flipbooks!

Gifprint - Convert Animated Gifs to Printable Flipbooks

The Rasterbator

Turns an image into a poster!

The Rasterbator

Screenr | Instant screencasts: Just click record

No need to install anything! This allows you to record what is your screen and broadcast it.

Screenr | Instant screencasts: Just click record

Mathway | Math Problem Solver

This web site allows you to solve a variety of math.

Mathway | Math Problem Solver

Beat spam with the best disposable e-mail service.

Need an E-Mail to sign up for something and then never need it again? This site will give you an e-mail address that will self-destruct in 10 minutes.

10 Minute Mail

Dashboard - IFTTT

Here is an interesting service. It works on Android, iOS, and from the Internet.

IFTTT lets users mash up different services into "recipes" that can do
things like automatically download new Facebook photos you're tagged in
to Dropbox, send starred emails to Evernote, or call you in response to a
text message so you can escape a bad date. But connecting it to a
device extends the possibilities even further.

Dashboard - IFTTT

Saturday, April 26, 2014

How To Move Tumblr To BlogSpot

Here a couple of articles on how to import Tumblr posts into Blogger.

How To Move Tumblr To BlogSpot

Tumblr2WordPress: Export Your Tumblr to WordPress

Wordpress2Blogger conversion utility

Handy utility

Wordpress2Blogger conversion utility

Online Etymology Dictionary

Find the history of any word with this web site

Online Etymology Dictionary

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Getting Started With Windows Phone Development - CodeProject

Here is a tutorial that will be handy

Getting Started With Windows Phone Development - CodeProject

Monday, April 21, 2014

Essential Tweaks for Your New Samsung Galaxy S5 - Tested

I just got the the Galaxy S 5 and I like it .Here are two links that I have found useful!

11 Essential Tweaks for Your New Samsung Galaxy S5 - Tested

Galaxy S5 Features: What to Enable and Disable

Friday, April 18, 2014

How to write once, and test encrypted data storage for Windows, Mac, Linux, Solaris, Android and iOS - CodeProject

Android App To Browse A Website - CodeProject

Good article on app for a particular web site.

Android App To Browse A Website - CodeProject

Reaction GIFs - Say it with a GIF!

Need to find the perfect animated gif to express emotion!? Try this site!

Reaction GIFs - Say it with a GIF!

How to use Onedrive Features in a Windows Phone 8 Application - CodeProject

This article goes over how to use One Drive in Windows 8 Applications!

How to use Onedrive Features in a Windows Phone 8 Application - CodeProject

Monday, April 7, 2014

Microsoft's universal Windows apps run on tablets, phones, Xbox, and PCs | PCWorld

Here is something that’s come up.
Microsoft has decided to not die and hit Google and Apple harder. Last week, Microsoft
announced Universal Apps. Using Visual
Studio 2013, you can write one app that will run on PCs, Tablets, and smart phones
running Windows 8 (and Xbox One). This
means that a Windows tablet might be a reasonable alternative to use for field
recording and impacts any future mobile
developing you are going to do .

Here is some more information:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2138625/microsoft-introduces-universal-apps-that-scale-across-phones-tablets-and-pcs.html

http://blogs.windows.com/windows/b/buildingapps/archive/2014/04/02/windows-store-universal-windows-app-opportunity.aspx

http://www.zdnet.com/build-2014-here-come-the-universal-apps-7000027978/

http://www.theverge.com/2014/4/2/5574596/microsoft-universal-apps-run-across-windows-tablets-phones-pcs

Building Apps Across Windows 8 Platforms -- Visual Studio Magazine

Adding sound to your HTML5 games for Intel® Architecture-based Android* devices - CodeProject

Introduction to Article

Sound is one of the most significant components for building interactive
games. A game requires not only a high caliber of graphics and alluring
story line, but also sound impacts to awe the players. Adding sound
effects to your game/application not only enhances its entertainment
value, but also contributes to the application’s/game's general cachet
of quality.

Adding sound to your HTML5 games for Intel® Architecture-based Android* devices - CodeProject

Using the touch screen in your HTML5 games on Android* devices powered by Intel - CodeProject

Introduction to the following article

With the dramatic acceptance rate of smartphones and tablets has come an
enormous shift in the way spontaneous experiences are delivered on
these touch devices. Native application developers have incorporated
touch events to improve the user experience and change the way users
interface with their content. Mobile devices such as smartphones and
tablets generally have a capacitive touch-sensitive screen to capture
interactions made with the user's fingers. As the mobile web evolves to
enable increasingly sophisticated applications, web developers need a
way to handle these events. For instance, almost any fast game requires
players to press several buttons at once, which, in the perspective of a
touchscreen, infers multi-touch.

Using the touch screen in your HTML5 games on Android* devices powered by Intel - CodeProject

Windows Communication Foundation v 4.5 released with lots of new
features and we have already highlighted those features in previous WCF Tutorial.
Now, we wanted to dive deeper and explore each new feature in more
detail. Here in this WCF Tutorial - Part 1, we are going to discuss the
following two new features in more details:

Simplified Generated Config Files

Validating WCF Configuration

New Features in WCF 4.5 - Part 1 - CodeProject

Faster page rendering by downloading JS/CSS before server generates full page - CodeProject

Intro:

When a dynamic page is executing on the server, browser is doing nothing
but waiting for the html to come from the server. If your server-side
code takes 5 seconds to perform database operations on the server, then
for that 5 seconds, user is staring at a blank white screen. Why not
take this opportunity to download the Javascript and CSS on the browser
simultaneously? By the time server finishes doing its work, server will
just send the dynamic content and browser will be able to render it
right away. This optimization technique can improve the performance of
any dynamic page that takes some time to finish its job on the server,
and has some js and css to download.

Faster page rendering by downloading JS/CSS before server generates full page - CodeProject