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Last year, I bought the HTC One X, which is packed with powerful processors and GPUs, but now I find my android device has gotten slower though it wasn’t earlier. It is really annoying me. I tried my best to solve the problem by myself and discover there is a pretty simple and easy solution for it. Below is a list of useful how-to tips to make your Android Phone run faster! Enjoy!
1.  Using task killer apps
You can disable all the unwanted activities and apps with the Task Killer app. But you should be wise while using task killers. Do not use task killers to close all open apps at a time, close only unwanted apps like games and useless apps. Never force close apps like Gmail, gallery, etc. because it makes your phone lag as when you open those apps again, they needs to be loaded back again to your ram. So keep those apps open which you use often. The best task killer app I used is called Advanced Task Killer.

2.  Uninstall unnecessary apps
This is one of those things that isn’t absolutely necessary, but will also definitely help speed up your phone a bit. You should make a list of usable apps and get rid of others. As a result there will be some free space for seamless running of other apps. To uninstall an app, go to the ‘Setting’ > ‘Applications’ > ‘Manage Applications’ (may vary) and uninstall it.

3.  Clean Up Your Android Device
Cached files can readily build up on a smartphone or tablet, taking up vast amounts of excess storage space and make your android devices become so slow.  Caches Cleaner App for android allows you to clean your android devices by removing unwanted files and histories etc. and boosts android speed as new. Several days ago, I have introduced you the 5 Best Caches Cleaner Apps for Android to clean up your Android device, just pick your favorite one.

4.  Restart your Android Device
Just restart your device if your android device suddenly gets slower while being used. It may not be a great option to opt for, but usually it works. Just switch it off and then again turn it on now check the device out.

5.  Remove Unnecessary Widgets, Limit widgets and app shortcuts
Widgets may be useful, but Android users tend to overdue it sometimes. It is recommended that you use minimum number of widgets possible, so as to get maximum efficiency. Do not spam your homescreen with unwanted widgets and more app shortcuts.

6.  Do not use live wallpaper
Yes, they’re cool. But it slows down your smartphone, especially those running older hardware! Live wallpaper takes up battery life (just like widgets) and since effectively it’s a video running in the background, it uses up RAM and processing power. Instead, go with a static wallpaper.

7.  Root and Overclock
Another useful method is to root your phone, and then overclock it, with softwares such as SetCPU. This will reduce battery life, but give a major increase in speed. You should be careful, so as to avoid bricking your phone. Softwares such as Once Click Lag Fix for Samsung Galaxy S can also give a major performance boost after rooting.

How do you speed up your Android smartphone or tablet? Have you run into any other scams we haven’t mentioned here? Leave a comment and let us know!

Google yesterday officially announced its new note-taking service, named Google Keep, which allows users to sync notes and to-do lists across your computer, phone and tablet using your Google account. But now the app right now is only available for android devices running Android 4.0.3 and up, or through the Google Drive Web site. Today here I will introduce you how to get started with Google's new note-taking app Keep.
Of course, in order to get started with Google Keep on your android device, you should download the Android app and install it on your device in advance. You can find the tool at drive.google.com/keep or in the Play Store for Android 4.0 and up.

After installing the app you'll be prompted to select the Google account you want to use with Keep. Once that's done, you can begin keeping notes. There are four different methods you can use to enter a note:

• A quick note directly from the text box on the initial screen.
• Add a checklist by tapping on the check mark icon.
• Create a voice memo by tapping on the microphone. All memos are instantly transcribed, keeping both the audio and text in the note.
• Add a photo as a note by tapping on the camera.

At any time you can add a checklist to an existing note by tapping on the menu button and selecting "Show Checkboxes."

You can also add a photo to any existing note by tapping on the camera along the top of the screen. Any photo you add has to be taken at the time you add it; you can't add previously snapped photos from your Gallery.

Once you're done with a note you can archive it by swiping in either direction across the note.
To rearrange notes you simply tap and hold on a note and drag it to where you want it. You can change the layout between multicolumn and single-column view through the menu.
Now There are two widgets included with the app. The first widget will place a shortcut bar to create notes with, and will let you scroll through your existing notes directly from your home screen. The second widget is only a shortcut bar. Should you be using an Android device running Android 4.2 or later, you'll be able to add either widget to your lock screen for quick access to your Keep entries.

The Google Drive page for Keep is pretty straightforward. You can add, edit, archive, and delete your notes with just a few clicks, mirrors the basic function as the Android app.
The combination of various note types is nice; a checklist for shopping, photos to help you remember something, and voice notes for when you can't type a long note. But can it beat alternatives like Evernote, which now had 34 million users? The answer is no and There's some work Google need to do with Keep.

Source: Google via CNET

Samsung galaxy s4 has been officially announced last week and is packed with a number of pretty amazing new features. The Galaxy s4 sports a 5-inch full-HD display with an impressive 1920x1080 resolution, and pixel density of 441ppi. Thanks to its faster processor (1.9GHz quad-core or 1.6GHz octa-core), large screen and Smart pause feature, you will embrace the best experience when you are watching a video on Galaxy s4. But due to Galaxy S4 just support limited video formats, and people from androidfroums have problem about how to play MKV videos and more video formats on Android phone, So here we are going to talk about how to play MKV, AVI, WMV, MOV, M4V and more videos like YouTube videos on Galaxy S4 freely(Android phones include).


1.  Download a video player on your phone
Download a video player on Samsung galaxy s4 is the simplest way in order to watch most of the common videos on the handset without conversion, anytime and anywhere.
We can install video player like Mobo Video Player, MX Video Player, QQ Video Player or V Video Player on the Galaxy s4, as they all can play MKV, AVI, WMV, MOV, FLV movies and videos on the device.  So when you know this you'll get it easy to play your favorite MKV or other formats movies or videos on your phone.

2.  Getting help from computer
If you want watch videos of all kinds on Galaxy S4 like iTunes M4V movies (usually the .M4V movies on iTunes are DRM protected) or Xvid, DivX, RM, MTS, M2TS videos on the Galaxy s4, we aren't able to watch iTunes videos or movies on Galaxy s4 without authorizing. The key to make it possible to transfer iTunes M4V videos or other videos to the device is remove DRM from iTunes .M4V videos, and then convert the iTunes M4V movies or other videos formats to MP4 with H.264 codec by using a video converter. And here I recommend you to use this HD video converter, because it can convert videos at fast speeds and high quality.

3.  Save YouTube HD Video to Samsung Galaxy S4
Today lots of people prefer to enjoy different kind of videos on YouTube like news, movie, music and others on their android phones, so how can we watch HD YouTube Videos without any limitless? There are many method that we can use and the best way is save the youtube videos on our device. Getting help from computer could make YouTube downloading be much easier, such as use a free youtube downloader just go to online download sites like keepvid.com or savevid.com/ .

Here is the official Galaxy S4 YouTube videos from Samsung:

Apart from watching videos on my powerful android phone, one of my favorite things is using different kinds of HD wallpapers to refresh my home screen, and they can readily make a dull looking screen really stunning in a matter of seconds. Now the good news is that there are dedicated apps available in the Android app market which can help you find exciting HD wallpapers. Here are 5 really good HD wallpaper apps for Android which I think are among the best.

1. PicSpeed HD Wallpapers 500,000
This is the fastest wallpaper app with over 500,000+ images. All backgrounds are high quality, high definition images. In my eyes, this is the best HD Wallpaper app, which offers the biggest collection of top quality wallpapers, images and pictures.
Features:

• Browse over 500,000+ hd wallpapers, Save hd wallpaper
• Favorite hd backgrounds,Category / Subcategory easy to use structure, Search among categories
• Share wallpapers hd, List or Grid picture viewing
• Feedback / Report a problem dialog, Amazing and fast user interface

2. Wallpapers HD
“Wallpapers HD” is a cool new app that brings all the best HD wallpapers and backgrounds to your Android device, and it is the ideal solution to get free high resolution wallpapers. The most important thing is that it is totally free.
Add the innovative Colors function, and you have the best free wallpaper app for your Android phone!
Unique features of this app include:

• The innovative, unprecedented "Colors" function allows you to sort the beautiful wallpapers based on your favorite color!
• Get your black wallpaper or pink background, choose from amazing blue, black and white, green, dark wallpapers, and get thousands of cool red, yellow, colorful backgrounds. Free on your Android phone!
• New cool wallpapers are added every week.
• With the "Lucky!" button, you can try your luck fishing your cool free wallpapers in the entire, vast collection of images.
• All HD wallpapers can be sorted by category: abstract wallpapers, nature wallpapers, flower wallpapers, sea, sky, animals, beach wallpapers, texture, vintage and many more!

3. Backgrounds HD Wallpapers
The app contains 10,000 awesome unique designs and New Backgrounds added daily. The app is very simply designed and is elegant and easy on the eyes. Categories include: Funny, Cute,  Quotes, Sunsets, Beaches, Cars,Girly,  Guys,Games,Flowers,Models, Love,Christmas,Military,Money, Sports,City,Scary,Money,New Years, Music, Movies, Animals, Space and so on. It's wonderful.

4. Cool Wallpapers HD
Now new pictures are added by the minute to always keep you entertained and to fill your photos library with tons of cool images! With this app, you can save these cool Android wallpapers in one of two ways:
1) "Save to Gallery" OR
2) "Set as Wallpaper"!
Awesome Features:

• Intuitive and FAST navigation through a beautiful gallery.
• Categorized images!
• Search through wallpapers using keywords
• Share wallpapers via Facebook, Twitter, or Email!

5. Wallpapers and Backgrounds HD
The OGQ HD Wallpapers has huge selections of unique and high quality images with category support. It is the Fastest Wallpaper app with easy and intuitive user interface.
Features:

• 1,600+ Unique & High quality images Hand Picked by OGQ
• New Unique & Superb quality Images added Daily
• The Fastest Wallpaper app with easy and intuitive user interface
• Search wallpapers by category, popular, favorite features
• Easy to share beautiful images through SNS such as Facebook, Twitter

Beside those wallpaper apps, you can also try to search "HD Wallpaper" in Google Play to get more different wallpaper apps. At the same time, I am very glad to see if you would like to share your favorite via comment.

See also:

• Best 5 Christmas Live Wallpaper Apps for the Android in 2012

For most people, there must have been countless times when you have settled down on the sofa to watch a film but less than a minute you want to take a nap as you feel tired, at that time you may feel in trouble to pause from the comfort of your sofa, So want to pause just on the sofa? And sometime on the way to work, you suddenly find that you have leave some important documents at home so you need Email the forgotten file from your home to office. What we can do when face these problem? Can we control computers with our android phone or iPhone ?

So with the popularity of smartphone, whether iPhone or Android phones, there are a list of apps that can make it happen. With these apps, you can control your computer by your phone in remote. Here is a look at some of the best tools for android phone and iPhone. Just check one you like most.

Android
TeamViewer is the incredibly useful app for remote access, which enables you to control your PC or Mac from your Android device no matter where you are and you can also benefit from gaining access to your private home computer to edit documents or use particular software while you are on the road.

After install the client software, you need to use a short numerical code and password to gain access to your PC/Mac from your Android phone. You can transfer files between computer and mobile too, and the app works over 3G and 4G as well as Wi-Fi.

Watch the video Tutorial or this article to help you if you have a problem to start use this app.


PocketCloud Remote RDP / VNC is a similar powerful program that let users control Remote desktop access to Windows and Mac OS from Android device. And PocketCloud Remote Desktop Pro version are also provided, at a price of $14.99, which let you Access your files, pictures, and applications like Outlook, Word, Photoshop, games or any other program.



GoToMyPC also offers many of the same features just like TeamViewer, but to use this app, you'll need a monthly subscription (a 30-day trial is available if you want to test it out). GoToMyPC gives you the freedom to go anywhere you choose and connect right to your Mac or PC by take your Android phone or tablet.

If you have less ambitious needs and simply want to control a particular program over your home Wi-Fi, there are a number of dedicated apps for the likes of iTunes and Remote for VLC. Google's own YouTube Remote lets you play and pause videos on your computer, as well as queue up clips, search for more content and get information about what you're watching. Finally, Unified Remote covers a host of applications on the Windows platform, including Spotify and Windows Media Center.

iPhone
Apple offers its own Remote app for controlling just about everything in iTunes—movies, music, search—from your iPhone iPad, or iPod touch. It's free to install and easy to set up to work with a PC or Mac.


If you need full remote access for your computer, then LogMeIn is a free app which can tunnel in to any PC or Mac with the client software installed, which can remotely control your PCs and Macs over WiFi/3G/4G with the free app.
Keyboard and mouse shortcut keys are included, so you can perform just about any task you could if you were right in front of the computer. If you upgrade to a paid-for LogMeIn subscription, you can access additional features, such as file transfers, but the free plan will be enough for many users.

There are other apps also offer similar function like Splashtop Remote Desktop, at a paid price of $2.99, and PocketCloud Remote Desktop, which is free to use. There are more choices for iPhone users, compared to Android.

As on Android, program-specific remote controllers are available as well—you can pick up apps for VLC, Windows Media Center and Winamp, to name a few