Gallery Excluder: Exclude Unwanted Folders

In our 50th post last week we promised we will do a post on how to exclude images/folders from showing up in your smartphone Gallery, and we remember this was the second most demanded post by our readers. So, although we don't do app details/reviews that much; here is one for our lovely users. Gallery on your smartphone is home for your so loved pictures so it makes much sense not to clutter it, or at least not show much clutter in there....

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Google Drive To Drop-Box?

Google finally launched the much awaited cloud storage service: Google Drive. A place whee you can store your files, access them anywhere, share them with friends or colleagues and also work on the files simultaneously. Simply put, upload and access all files in the Drive. Google Drive comes with a free space of  5GB which can be extended to 25GB for $2.49/month, 100GB for $4.99/month and even 1TB for $49.99/month. Also as a gift...

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Dropbox Allows Easy Public Sharing

So, what's new in this and why is this on our site? Lets start by the latter. We are covering this news as Dropbox updated the Android app as well and we use (both web and app version) the service a whole lot than we initially thought we would. As for what's new in Dropbox providing a share feature; well we agree Dropbox seems to have always had the share feature but there is a subtle upgrade to this feature that we just loved the moment we noticed...

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Facebook Android App Updated

If you haven't yet updated your Android device to the new version of the Facebook app or aren't aware of the availability of the new version, here is a quick FYI for you. The new version of the app is #1.9 and here is the link to play store where you can download the app. And, yes just a little more, here is the change log for you: - Improved performance and various bug fixes - More messaging features like creating group messages...

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Affiliate Ads For Blogger

The picture above explains pretty much what is there about this topic. But there is one bad news apart from the main topic's good news that you see here. We will go first with the good news details and then briefly discuss (rather mention) the bad news right before we end the post! Through your Adsense account you can now make money by promoting relevant products in your post. Once your blog readers see those ads and go on to buy the advertised...

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When Facebook Added Microformats

Late last year Facebook very quietly added support of microformats to its data download feature. In case you are not aware of the data download, Facebook allows you to (in real essence) backup your all data from the social network, including your photos, any urls that you may have shared, all your wall posts and comments etc etc... Previously the exported data was just a zip file bundled with all the data from your profile. Making it nothing...

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Facebook Timeline Profile Pic Size Increased

Some time back there was news doing the rounds when Facebook made its photo viewer pretty much the same as the one that users were used to on Google plus. And then while it was just like yesterday that we detailed on the cosmetic changes that Google made to its social network, we were still thinking of why Google chose to put that size for the profile pic and quite a contrast for the cover photo. Well, it seems we will have to pause that thought...

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Facebook Email And Timeline Address To Merge

Hopefully by now you all have your user ids chosen in your Facebook settings. Facebook has announced that it will soon start updating the different user addresses on site to make them more consistent. Which simply means that the address which is so much part of your timeline URL and the one that people send mail to you on Facebook will be the same after this change is rolled out, which should be soon. The announcement came last week from the company...

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Google Plus Gets New Look

In its attempt to be on top of the social media with its so much in news product; Google Plus; Google rolled out a new look to it last week. The move was slow to start and in a 2 day span virtually everybody was rolled over to the new look. Towards a simpler, more beautiful Google is how guys at Google put it, who now claims that the new look has been rolled over to around 170 million users. Seems the platform is being used by quite a few out there....

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Viadeo Raises 24 Million EUR

Viadeo, the French parent company for ApnaCircle, and the closest competitor to LinkedIn announced today the realization of a fundraising round of 24 Million EUR. This is believed to be the largest European Tech investment in the past 12 months. Viadeo is currently the world's 2nd largest PSN after LinkedIn is still a leader in France and China. Its Indian partner company ApnaCircle is the leading Business and Career Networking site...

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Facebook Buys Instagram

A photo sharing app, a social media giant, food for bloggers like us ;) and a lot of whys and what-fors!! Not a tough puzzle is it!! All combined together to create a deal that many experts are putting as a defensive one: Facebook bought the 2yr old photo sharing app Instagram for a whooping 1bn USD. The deal marks the biggest one in Facebook history in terms of money spent.Although all smart phones allow the social sharing from nearly all of their...

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Instagram On Android: Who's NOT Loving It

Ever heard any Android user complaining about the iPhone app? Don't think we have! OK, and what about the reverse? Before you reach for an answer, we have one for you right here.  Android and iPhone have always been a tussle ever since Android started its recognition journey in the smart phone market. You could get virtually all the apps on an Android device that are available on an iPhone. The only thing seems missing was the photo sharing...

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Android ICS Rolling Again

Sometime back (nearly 2 months now) we put a post introducing the new Android version that may be due this summer. Code named Jelly Bean! We did mention at that time that Google is yet to roll out the ICS (currently at version# 4.0.4) to all types of devices and in more countries than it did at that time. Well, the news is that Google has announced its rolling ICS OTA updates (again) to more devices and in more countries as well. You may remember...

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