Avanos - emulate a guest user account on Android smartphones

Overview
‘Give me your phone to call your father, mine died’. Since that request came from my mother I had to comply but had shivers down my spine thinking what if she accidentally starts browsing through my photos, through my browser history, social accounts and so on. Not that I had...

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Claim phone charge expenses with 'Business Call Claim'

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IRS. If you’re an American the name crawls in your mind and then onto your spine making you shiver. It’s the Internal Revenue Service, the agency responsible of collecting taxes and enforcing the tax laws. Most countries have a revenue agency, a governmental institution that...

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Turkey Smash, play Whac-A-Mole with turkeys

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You might not recognize Aaron Fechter by his name but for sure you recognize some of his creations. First of all, one of his companies was part of the merger that created Chuck E. Cheese’s, a chain of pizza entertaining restaurants worth close to one billion dollars. Then, he...

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Make your phone last longer with DU Battery Saver

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In 1817 Berzelius, the father of the modern chemistry, named a newly discovered element ‘lithium’, after the Greek word equivalent to ‘stone’ (because of the stone-metal look this element has). If your chemistry is as bad as mine maybe these details don’t interest you much,...

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HiCarPlate, the social network for cars … and owners

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‘Back to the Future’ was one of those movies that you know you’ll never forget. I’ve watched the trilogy countless times and there is one scene that helped me on becoming a calmer driver. In part 3 there’s a scene where Marty gets a new truck and at an intersection he meets...

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Turn your smartphone into an advanced HD surveillance camera with 20:20

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I spent most of my childhood summers in the country at my grandparent’s house because the air was fresher, the food was natural and most likely because my parents were tired of raising a kid. No problem at all, I actually enjoyed those summers and now, when I spend most of my time in...

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Android review sites, the ultimate list to help market your app

As an Android developer you know by now that when you finish working on your app and get it published on Google Play the other half of work just starts, the work you like less: marketing. However this is an important part that influences the popularity of your app. If you rely solely on...

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‘Hit me, hit me, hit me’ and BlackJack!

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Sometime ago in our history someone thought of inventing a card game revolving around the number 21. Don’t know why 21 and always thought it had something to do with Americans and their ‘you cannot buy drinks under 21’ policy. However it seems that the first written reference of...

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‘Invaders from Antarctica’, shoot flying men à la ‘Crazy Chicken’

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You never forget a game that made history. I remember when I first discovered an Arcade machine for SpaceInvaders, the first shoot ‘em up game I played. It was a game room close to my school and for months to come a machine like the one below was where all my lunch money went...

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Automatically change your phone’s background with Advanced Wallpaper Switcher

Overview
Unless you’re Dexter (i.e. the sociopath serial killer) you feel emotion when watching images. I’m sure that you experienced at hundreds of times strong emotions when watching maybe family photos, scenery, war photos and so on. For me, the image below gets me everytime:
The...

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