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Top 10 apps responsible for your smartphone Battery drain

Karan S

Are you tired of your smartphone battery running out before the day is over? It can be frustrating when you expect your phone battery to last a full day, but it dies before evening. The most common culprit that drain your battery are the apps installed on your phone. You may be surprised to learn that some of the most popular apps are the biggest battery consumers. We discuss the top 10 battery draining apps. We provide tips on how to reduce battery drain while using them. Criteria for selection…

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How Google Maps Traffic Works?

Tarandeep Singh

If you live in one of the popular cities around the world, Google Maps display Live Traffic on the Roads, for the area you are viewing on the map. Not just the Live data, Google Maps can even predict the Future Traffic that would be on a particular Road/Route, for a particular, day/date/time combo. This prediction is made based upon the data that was available on same day, last week, last month or last year, based upon if it was a public holiday, a working day or just a normal…

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GPS & Reliable Indoor Position System IPS

Tarandeep Singh

You sure are amused by the GPS and location services that enable you do navigate, find places every single day of your life. Location is often most accurately determined using GPS aided by Wireless networks in the vicinity. From Self-driving cars, GPS navigators to portable smartphones, the Global Position System is not flawless, it has one fundamental flaw: It never works indoors. Low power, Long distance GPS Operation Well, GPS is satellite driven and its impossible for the signals to travel 20,200km and still penetrate through walls. The signal gets…

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HTML 5 Browser-based Turn-by-turn Navigation, Maps

Tarandeep Singh

Best Navigation apps are already there on Android and iOS as native apps, but what about the browser? TeleNav has developed world’s first and state of the Art HTML 5 based Turn-by-turn navigation system that can run on any modern mobile web browser. TeleNav’s native apps have been doing this for a while but the HTML 5 browser based webapp uses HTML5 location APIs along with Offline caching. The service would be free and is known to run on iOS, Android and WP7. At the time of writing, its available…

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3D Maps, Navigation in Augmented Reality on Android

Tarandeep Singh

Google Maps Navigation is most superior Navigation app ever created on mobile or GPS. It provides turn by turn directions along with streetview, providing details of whats around you. It get even better, developers have actually created a Navigation app that uses your camera and Navigates routes into Augmented Reality. If you love exploring worldwide maps in 3D, or are searching for a truly interactive navigation app for your Android device, then Route 66 Maps + Navigation certainly has plenty to offer than any of its counterparts. Route 66 is…

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How to Enable Google Maps Navigation outside USA

Tarandeep Singh

Google Maps Navigation provides a Rich mapping experience on Android. Not only it is the best Maps Navigation app on mobile devices, its the best across all GPS devices, and that too everything works with Offline maps. Due to some unknown reasons, Google has restricted the powerful Navigation capabilities just to US. StreetView of course is just available to few countries, but Navigation does so many things, so nicely. Developer Brut.all hacked the Google Maps android apk using reverse engineering tools to enable navigation and few other customizations. But the latest…

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Microsoft Street Slide: Pan through Street Maps

Tarandeep Singh

Google Maps has the user’s no.1 choice when it comes to mapping a location or finding directions. Sure their StreetView is awesome, but the latest one from Microsoft Research called Street Slide makes StreetView look inferior, under-utilizied — They missed out all the Panoramas. Often we navigate into streets and find it hard to recognize the Buildings with the immersive the 360 environment. Microsoft Research wants to change that. Street Slide, a research project, aggregates all the photos from 360 degree bubbles and stitches neighboring images into long panoramas. The Result…

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Car HUD Display Navigation, GPS Kit

Tarandeep Singh

Headsup display is the Future of Car Driving. BMW has brought it to our cars today, but, I’m sure most of you can’t afford it. There’s another way to get fancy integrated OEM heads-up display (HUD) GPS navigation system with Springteq: the WeGo all-in-one HUD navigation system. The first of its kind, the Springteq WeGo offers a Virtual Image in a HUD display system using the windshield as the medium, much like standard OEM HUDs, that too at a cheap deal. It can just plug into any existing vehicle and ready…

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Android Offline Google Maps

Tarandeep Singh

There is no limit to how many miles you have travelled on Google Maps Navigation. Recently Google announced that Google Maps Navigation on Android has guided 1 Billion+ miles in America alone, over the last year. Evidently, people love Google Maps more than other Mapping services like Bing maps, OpenstreetMap. I travel around 70 miles to work and use Google maps extensively for finding out best traffic conditions for my journey. Apart from that when I travel in the capital region, its hard to find routes, as I’m new to…

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