The World Cup is fast approaching and there are a ton of football (I guess soccer if you’re in North America) games that will be played very shortly. We’ll show you how you can get a schedule of all the matches right into your Google Calendar so that you don’t have any excuse for missing any of the action.
Linking the World Cup scheduled with your Google Calendar is actually done very easily. First you’ll need to visit the web version of the service, so head over to Google Calendar and log into your Google account, if you haven’t already done so.
On the left hand side of your calendar, you’ll see a list of Other Calendars which when you click on, will have a drop down menu.
To get it on your mobile device, you’ll have to first head on your mobile device and fire up the Google Calendar app. From there, go into your Settings and click on the account in which you linked the World Cup schedule. From there, you’ll see that list of calendars and that the World Cup schedule is unticked for synchronization. Make sure to tick this box and then when you head back to your calendar, you’ll see the schedule on your mobile device.
You can now use the Google Chrome on your iPad and iPhone to save web pages as high-fidelity PDF documents. The PDFs can also be remotely delivered to your other mobile devices.
Just like the desktop version of Chrome, you can now the Google Chrome browser on your iPad or iPhone to download web pages as PDF files without requiring a separate app. The menu options aren’t very intuitive though so here’s a quick walk-through.
Save web pages as PDFs with Chrome on your iPad and iPhone
Print Web Pages as PDFs with Chrome
While you are inside Google Chrome, tap the Menu button and then choose the Print option. Choose Google Cloud Print and you’ll see a list of all your Android and iOS devices that also have Chrome installed on them. Choose the Save to Google Drive option instead and a PDF version of the current web page will instantly get saved to your Google Drive. Alternatively, you can pick any of your other Android /iOS devices under the Google Cloud Print menu and the PDF file will remotely download to that device. You’ll have to open Chrome on that other device to access the PDF file. If the PDF printing option isn’t working on your iOS device, make sure that you are signed-in with your Google Account and that Chrome to Mobile option is enabled. This is available under Menu -> Settings -> Google Account (your email address) -> Chrome to Mobile. One more thing. It is also possible to save web pages as PDFs directly on your iOS device, bypassing Google Drive, but you can’t export that file into other PDF reading apps like iBooks or even your Mail application. Chrome internally uses the Quartz API of Apple to generate PDF files – the page layout is well preserved but the hyperlinks won’t work inside the PDF.
Where can you get a list of every ad that you have clicked on Google? Where should you go if you don’t remember your administrator password? What are your interests as determined by Google?
Here are 10 important links that every Google user should know about. They are tucked away, somewhere deep inside your Google dashboard.
1. Create a new Google Account using your existing email address. The regular sign-up process uses your @gmail.com address as your Google account username but with this special URL, you can use any other email address as your username.
2. Google creates a profile of yourself based on the sites you visit, your Google+ account and other signals. They try to guess your age, gender and interests and then use this data to serve you more relevant ads. Use this URL to know how Google sees you on the web.
3. Google lets you export all your data out of the Google ecosystem. You can download your photos, contacts, Gmail messages and even your YouTube videos. Head over the the Takeout page to grab the download links.
4. If you ever find your content appearing on another website that is using one or more Google products – say Blogger, AdSense, Google+ or YouTube - you can raise a DMCA complaint with Google against that site to get that content removed. This wizard can also be used to remove websites from Google search results that are scraping your content.
5. Your Android device may be reporting your recent location data and velocity (are you moving and if yes, how fast are you moving) back to Google servers. Head over to the Google Maps website to see your entire location history and you also have the option to export this data as KML files that can be viewed inside Google Earth or even Google Drive.
6. Google records every search term that you’ve ever typed into their search boxes. They even keep a log of every ad that you have clicked on various Google websites.
7. You need to login to your Gmail account at least once every 9 months else Google may terminate your account according to their program policies.
This can be an issue if you have multiple Gmail accounts so as a workaround, you can setup your main Gmail account as the trusted content for your secondary accounts. Thus Google will keep sending you reminders every few months to login to your other accounts. Not available for Google Apps.
8. Worried that someone else is using your Google account. Go to the activity report to see a log of every device that has recently been used to log into your Google account. You also get to know the I.P. Address and their approximate geographic location. Unfortunately, you can’t remotely log out of a Google session.
9. This is a complete list of web apps, browser extensions, Google Scripts and mobile apps that have any read or write access to your Google data. If the permission level says “access to basic account info”, it basically means that you have used your Google account to sign-in to that app.
10. This is important URL for Google Apps users. If your Google Account ever getshacked, use this secret link to reset your admin password. You’ll be asked to verify your domain name by creating a CNAME record in your DNS.
Google Maps version 2.0 is now available for the iPhone and your iPad as well. You can download the updated Maps app from the iTunes Store. One of the most useful feature of the new Google Maps app is that you can download any area of the map for offline use. The offline mode has been available on Google Maps for Android for some time and now iOS users too will be able to navigate the maps without using data or in areas that have no cellular connectivity.
How do you download an area on Google Maps? That’s a little tricky.
Search for a place in Google Maps and zoom in such that all the area that you wish to cache locally is visible on the screen. Now tap the search box and type “ok maps” without the quotes. Tap the Search button on the keyboard and all the visible area will download to your iOS device almost instantly.
You cannot cache a large area of the map in one go but you can obviously divide that area into multiple parts, virtually, and download them one after other.
The process of getting a refund for an app purchased on the Play Store can be a rather arduous task, and even though Google has a 15-minute grace period in place for those who wish to get their money back, things can get a little trickier after that time has passed. Sure, contacting the developer sometimes works, but if the dev chooses to ignore your protests, you’re pretty much on your own. Now, though, Google has stepped in somewhat, and if you are in pursuit of a refund for an app or game, check the steps involved below.
Often, we make purchases in haste, but while, for the most part, we can draw a line under 99 cents or even a couple of dollars, things start to get a little bit more real with an investment of ten bucks or more. Thus, if you feel you’ve been mislead on an app’s contents or found the experience of using it to be buggy and generally not to standards, Google is now playing a more central role in ensuring you get your refund.
Without further ado, here’s what you’ll need to do in order to secure a refund.
Step 1: Fire up your Web browser and head over to the Google Play Store.
Step 2: Next, hit the settings icon located in the top right-hand corner and select My Orders.
Step 3: You’ll now be met with a list of your digital purchases. Locate the app you wish to be refunded.
Step 4: Hover over it with your mouse, and tap the button that subsequently appears. Then, select “Report a problem.”
Step 5: Thereafter, you’ll be met with a new pane with the drop-down option “I’d like to request a refund.” Select it.
Step 6: Type in your reason for the refund request, and hit the Submit button.
After you have completed the above six steps, you will receive an email notification from Google, which will let you know of whether your refund has been processed. This can take up to 48 hours, so if you don’t hear anything straight away, don’t worry.
So, there you have it. If your Play Store purchase really isn’t up to par, be sure to run through these steps, and you will, in most cases. be able to get a refund.
Android apps are packaged as APK files. You can use any File Manager app to copy these files from the computer to your Android device and then touch the .apk file to install, or sideload , the corresponding app on your device.
There are various reasons why you may want to download the APK installer of an Android app from the Google Play store:
Google Play Store says that a particular app or game is incompatible with your Android device though you know that the app would work just fine.
Sometime an Android app may be not be available for download in the Google Play store of your region or country.
An app is listed on the Google Play store but you want to install that app on another Android device, like the Amazon Kindle tablet, that doesn’t have the Play Store.
How to Download APK Files from Google Play Store
Evozi, an Android app developer, offers a one-click online APK download app that lets you download the APK installed of any Android app that’s listed on the Google Play store. The downloader app can be accessed at apps.evozi.com.
To get started, enter the web URL of any app listed on the Google Play store and click the “Generated Download Link” button. The APK download app will fetch the APK file from the Google Play store and will host it on its own servers from where you downlaod the file.
Since the APK files are directly fetched from the Google Play Store, it’s unlikely that the Android App will be infected with any malware. Also, to prevent app piracy, the APK downloader only lets you download free apps and games from the Google Play store, not the paid ones.
Google has a new standalone camera app available in the Google Play app store, and it can be installed on any smartphones or tablets running KitKat 4.4 or higher. The new app will also be rolling out to other devices in the future according to Google, so that might expand beyond just KitKat to those on other versions of Android. The app offers a 100 percent viewfinder to show you exactly what you’re shooting without blocking the view with interface elements, and also offers a few trick modes for taking pictures including Lens Blur, Panorama, and Photo Sphere. Lens Blur offers background defocusing effect like those introduced by most smartphone manufacturers on their latest generation flagship smartphones, so it’s nice to see that kind of stuff democratized. The Lens Blur feature in practice is kind of tricky to get right, as it required you shifting your phone upwards while remaining centered on your focal point. Samsung’s requires holding your phone in the same place for a while but produces more reliable results in my experience, and HTC’s needs its dual camera hardware in the new HTC One M8 but offers up strangely similar finished products. If used in the right circumstances, Lens Blur works remarkably well at mimicking the kind of depth of field you can capture from DSLRs. Photo Sphere offers the ability to capture full, 360 degree immersive snapshots and is an extension of the kind of feature you’ll find from Panorama, but not limited to the horizontal plane. It’s the first time Google has made this available to non-Nexus devices, so check it out. I tried installing this on a Galaxy S5 without issue, and it’s a nice alternative if you’re not a fan of or are overwhelmed by the options of the stock offering of whatever device-maker you’ve chosen. Some users on Twitter report having issues getting the app to recognize your phone’s camera hardware, but a quick reboot should do the trick. Source :- techcrunch
This is an updated list of the top Android Apps that have amassed more than 50,000,000 downloads on the official Google Play store. The data has been screen-scraped from Google Web Search and the Google Play store. You can also download the raw data as an Excel sheet.
Click to zoom Legend: The blue bars indicate the average user rating of an app while orange reflects the total number of users that have rated that app on the App Store.
Facebook is only non-Google app in the Google Play Store that has been downloaded more than 500 million times. The others are Gmail, YouTube, Google Play and Google Maps that are mostly pre-installed on Android phones.
The 50m+ list has 65 apps but the one app that enjoys the highest average user rating is Brightest Flashlight, a free app that turns your Android phone into a torch.
Facebook has been rated by over 8 million users while 4 million Android users have added their ratings for WhatsApps Messenger on the Play Store. No other app comes close.
Google has just rolled out a bill reminder feature on Google Now for Android. According to Android Police, the feature is integrated with Gmail, and generates a card that shows the name of the biller, the amount you owe, the payment due date, and an option to view the email from the billing company.
According to an earlier APK teardown, Google Now has code snippets for keeping track of information such as minimum payments, last month’s bill, and previous balances. However, it is not yet clear if the features are included in the new update, or if it’s scheduled for future release. It also seems like the reminder feature works better with some billers. No word yet on whether some companies will receive support to allow users to execute actions through Google Now. Eventually, Google Now could allow customers to pay their bills through the reminders.
Since it first appeared in the summer of 2012, news about the potential features of Google’s digital personal assistant have come out at a rapid pace. Just over the past few months, revelations have pointed to Google Now’s potential uses for keeping track of your friends and your parked car.
Since this involves sensitive financial information, we recommend putting a lock on phone’s screen. It seems like the account information would be partially hidden, but you can never be too safe.
