Personally, I love Microsoft’s new interface dubbed “Modern UI”, aka Metro UI. Launcher8 can simulates the same “Modern UI” on Android phone, and will bring you a new experience with the brand new UI style along with live tiles. Installation and configuration of Launcher8 is somewhat simple. Install it from Play Store and run it. You can configure each tile – its size, color, app association, and icon by long pressing and tapping on edit option....

If you can’t access your cloud storage service, it might be due to your problem or your service provider problem. Here is how to check the status of the popular cloud storage services such as Dropbox, SkyDrive, Google Drive, iCloud and Box. Dropbox: To get uptime status of your Dropbox, just go to http://status.dropbox.com. It will give status of web access and client access as well as details of updates....

Thewindowsclub released a portable and useful free tool called Clean Desktop that will help you clean up your unused desktop icons in Windows 7 & Vista. Just run the tool, it will scan & detect desktop items which have not been used in the last 30 days and list them down. The unused items are not deleted but moved to a folder on the desktop. Alternatively, you cans also opt to delete the unused items directly....

In this simple tutorial, we show you how to disable Google Now Launcher App Suggestions feature. Of course, app suggestions is a handy feature to access your most used apps quickly, but if you do not want to display your frequently used apps at the top of your app drawer, you can simply disable the feature. To disable/enable “App Suggestions”, open Google Now Launcher, go to Settings and under “Home Screen”, toggle the “App Suggestions” to off position....

The latest version of the Google Chrome browser for Android features the New Tab button on the toolbar. You can see the new + button between the address bar and the Tab switching icon. It helps you open a new tab quickly without going to the menu. ALSO READ: Add Google Password Manager shortcut on Android phone’s Home screen Now, if you do not want the New tab shortcut but instead need a Share button or Voice search shortcut, you can change it in the setting....

Android Q official wallpapers are extracted from system images and available for download in 1080 x 1920 Pixel resolutions. There are 15 wallpapers in total, which are taken out from Android Q Beta 1. Below is the download link for the wallpaper pack. After downloading the zip file package, extract the zip file to get the wallpapers. Android Q is seems likely to be the best Android version yet with extensive privacy protection and new features....

The special edition includes updated high definition graphics, a new musical score, new voice-overs, an art gallery, and an in-game hint system. Interested iPad uses can download Monkey Iceland 2 Special Edition – LeChuck’s Revenge lite free at iTunes store.

If you have installed this application, there is no need to use the inconvenient (sometimes) Monitor’s OSD menu anymore; Display Tuner is a much more convenient than that. Moreover you can make different profiles for color settings like Films, Text, and Games. Display Tuner will allow you to easily change the color settings, with a hotkey. The freeware program supports all monitors whose settings can be changed from Windows. The supporting video cards include nVidia, ATI, Intel, S3, SiS, Matrox, etc....

However, now you can enjoy the new look of Gmail with a simple trick. Here is how you can enable Gmail new look. Log into your Gmail account, click option menu, and choose Mail Settings. Choose Themes and select the theme named Preview (dense) themes. That’s it! [Via]

An XDA member Jishnu has created a flashable zip file, which you can flash on your Nexus 5 to improve the video, audio and image quality. By adding these tweaks, you can set JPEG quality to 100 %, JPEG compression to 0, JPEG medium quality to 100, JPEG low quality to 100, get improved picture color tone to warmer side, set audio bitrate to max possible (288000kbit/s) and many more....

After a recent update, many Samsung Galaxy phone users are complaining about an odd behavior on their device. Their Galaxy phone starts vibrating randomly as if a notification, but actually, there was no new notification on their device. This issue isn’t just affected a particular series of devices. It arises on different Samsung Galaxy phones, such as Galaxy M30s, Galaxy A50, etc. run One UI. If your Samsung Galaxy phone vibrating for no apparent reason, there is a temporary fix for it....

You can simply fix the SD card issue on KitKat Android devices with a free app SDFix. The app modifies a system config file and restores the old behavior of Android OS. To use this app, your device must be rooted and have updated with stock Android 4.4 ROM. Using SDFix is simple. Once installed, all you need to do is launch the app, go through the onscreen instruction and reboot your device....

Unfortunately, due to the changes made in Android Oreo, the app stopped working with Android 8.0. These are most likely related to Treble. However, Chainfire updated the FlashFire app (v0.71) to support Google’s latest Android 8.0 Oreo. The new graphics driver used in this version is now deal with Android Oreo. For your information, the on-device firmware flasher FlashFire is originally developed for Nexus and Samsung Galaxy devices, but now its supports most Android devices from various manufacturers....

It is a known fact that the Android 9 Pie update will not be available on all phones, but that does not mean you cannot taste some of its visual pleasures on older devices and android versions. For example, you can bring the Quick Settings Panel that shown on Android Pie on any Android version. It is splendid, eye candy and easy to go through. Power Shade (Notification Bar Changer & Manager) lets you replace the old Quick Settings Panel and Notification Shade to like the one shown on Android Pie....

If you have spent several minutes trying to find features in Office ribbons that would have been at your finger tips in Office 2003, here is a simple solution to get accustomed to the new ribbon interface. The lightweight solution UBitMenu emulate and/or activate the Office 2003 menu in Microsoft Office 2010 and 2007 (Word/Excel/PowerPoint). UBitMenu does not hide the ribbon interface, but adds the classic menu as a new ribbon....

This tutorial shows you how to get the full Ambient Display with lift to wake function on your rooted Nexus 5 by flashing Ambient Display zip and installing Gravity Screen. For enabling Ambient Display and lift to wake function on Nexus 5, your device must be updated to Android Lollipop. Also, custom recovery like CWM or TWRP need to be installed. Before you get start, the Ambient Display on Nexus 6 is a feature we first saw showcased on the original Moto X....

The boot animation (animation that is displayed while starting or booting your device) of Sony’s Xperia Z can be easily applied to any rooted Android phone. Every brand has its own unique boot animation and Xperia Z’s boot animation looks cool. See preview of Xperia Z’s Boot Animation below. If like the above boot animation and yours is a rooted phone, here is how to apply Xperia Z boot animation to your device....

You can use one of the Infrared (IR) cameras on the Google Pixel 4 to take night vision photos, but there is no direct method to access the IR Camera on the device. The open-source camera app HedgeCam 2 lets you take night vision photos using the Infrared camera. To take night vision photos using Google Pixel 4 IR camera, install the HedgeCam 2 app from Play Store. Launch the app and double tap on the front/back camera-switching icon to enable the IR camera....

Thanks to a simple and accessible technique by an xda-developer DooMLoRD. He discovered a method to root Xperia Z on Jelly Bean 4.2.2 firmware (10.3.1.A.0.244) and this work on both locked and unlocked bootloaders. The trick is by using the older kernel for which the root works and then root the device and then flash back to the newer kernel. Read below guide to know how it is. This is only for Xperia Z (C6602/3) FW 10....