How to View Google Maps Offline on Android Smartphone & Tablet
Ever wanted the power of Google Maps in your hands with you wherever you went; but for some reason did not have any 3G connection? Having it during a trip to a foreign land will surely be helpful.
Well, good news Andriod users, today we’ll teach you how to enable Google Maps offline on your Android smartphone.
Google recently released an update for Google Maps on the Android that enables you to select an area that can be made available offline. At the moment, this feature is only available in certain countries, but rest assured that Google will be improving it to be available worldwide.
How to Screen Capture Full Web Pages on your Mobile
When you need to screen capture full web pages, it’s easier to do it with your computer, be it manually or using any application or web application that’s available. But it will be handy if you can use it from your mobile phone, anytime you need.
Using an app to do a screen capture is fast and easy from your computer, and now you can also do a full web pages screen capture directly from your mobile phone with Web Screenshots, a simple web app that’s accessible via your mobile and it will do screen capture of an entire web page, not just a page that’s visible on your device screen.
How to Turn Your Speech into Editable Text
The era of speech recognition is here, as you can see more and more devices built with support for this technology. App developers are producing amazing apps to easy input, and they are always pushing the boundaries to enable better user experience – limits that go further than just turning speech to text.
Speech recognition helps you get results by asking questions or giving instructions to your devices without having to type. Since your devices can now ‘listen’ to you, why not have it record your speech and convert it into text? In this article, you will get to achieve that with the help of TalkTyper, a simple web app that does just that, so you can easily copy your speech in text format and save it elsewhere.
5 Web Services to Manage Multiple Facebook Fan Pages
There is really no reason to not have a Facebook Fan page for your product or services these days. It’s one of the easiest way to better engage and grow your fan base and customer count. One way of making your fans to continue liking your page is to provide them with the things they want to know about from you. It’s not hard to maintain your Facebook fan page with some help from Facebook’s scheduling feature. Oh, there is the feature to do that now. Very quickly, here’s how:
Scheduling posts on Facebook Fan pages
Write your post like you would normally do, but don’t click that Post button yet. On the left of the box, you will see a small clock icon. Click on it to start scheduling.
How to Keep Distracting Websites at Bay
Working on the computer with no restrictions to the Internet may give you freedom, and keep you away from stress whenever you need to free your mind, but at times, this could also distract you from work. You may not even notice that you are distracted – until you notice lower levels of productivity. I guess, some self-control is required at this point.
You can control your own access to the Internet on your own, for instance, by setting a prohibited time: a time when you cannot surf any particular website unrelated to work. This will take a lot of discipline and at times you might need some external help. We suggest SelfRestrain.
How to Convert Currency Directly On Your Mac
When you need to convert the amount of a currency exchange, what do you do? Do you search the Web for a calculator then punch in your currencies, the amount and get your figure? It isn’t very fast or convenient is it? This is especially so when you don’t have an Internet connection.
Won’t it be nice if you have an in-built app for that? Wait, you do! On your Mac you have the calculator app that allows you not to only do normal calculations but also convert currency.
How to Format Text on Google+ Statuses
Bored with the same plain statuses with no formatting features? Bored with not being able to emphasize points on your posts, apart from the regular "shouting via capslock"?
Add some spice to your status updates by formatting the text in your Google+ statuses. Here’s how you do it.
How to Replace YouTube Comments with Facebook Comments
Youtube is a great place to share videos, and once you get addicted to it, you’ll find that leaving comments can be fun too. But with the existing Youtube comments section, only you and the video audience will get to read your comments. And when too many people comment, your comments will be pulled down and be lost in the crowd.
To share your opinion on a video with friends, you need to hit the ‘Share’ button just below the Youtube video and select option to share on Facebook. But there is a simpler way to do this, with Facebook Youtube Comments. Facebook Youtube Comments is an extension for your Chrome browser that will add a Facebook Comments section on Youtube for easier sharing on your Facebook.
How to Turn Ordinary Photos into Extraordinary 3D Model
3D images still look appealing for some reason, but although there are many 3D software you can use to produce 3D images, it’s still difficult for the average users.
In this article, you will find out how to convert your photos into 3D with the help of 123D Catch, a web application that will convert your set of images into 3D models, so you can convert photos of birds, toys or anything into 3D.
How to Manage Google Docs from Your Windows Desktop
Google Docs works great with Gmail but it does not offer options to manage your files from your own desktop. Opening a browser and logging in to Google Docs to manage your files isn’t much of a hassle, but being able to manage those online files from your desktop would be more comfortable and easier.
Thankfully, now we have gExplore, a desktop application that not only allows you to manage your Google Docs files, but also upload, download, organize files and labels, encrypt files and more with Google Docs from your desktop.
