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Monday, 29 July 2013

Send Rage Troll Faces as Messages on iOS with RageBoard

Sometimes chatting with friend with texts is not enough and since words can’t express our true emotions we use emoticons and other things. Emoticons like Emoji are added as additional keyboard to the default iOS device keyboard which can be accessed by pressing the globe icon beside the keyboard. Similarly we can make our communication more expressive by sendingrage faces which are trending these days on the entire web.

Rage faces like the troll faces are there on the entire web whether it is Facebook or other social site, as these provide some comic but extremely real expressions. You can also use these troll rage faces to communicate your emotions to the other guy but to be able to send the faces you need to add them first in your phone. You can either add each face you receive to your gallery or just add this keyboard called RageBoard.

RageBoard is an additional keyboard that you can add in your phone so that you can select any rage face from the lists of every mood and send to your buddy via message. RageBoard provides around 350 faces and expressions to select from, and you can also jump to any category easily too. There are many categories to choose from like angry, annoyed, happy, neutral, rage, troll, worried and others. Just select a face, type some text and send it to your friend.

RageBoard can be used with many applications like messages, whatsapp, twitter, Facebook and Facebook messenger etc. If you are unable to see the face clearly, you can keep it tapped for longer time to zoom it before selecting. The RageBoard is available to only jailbroken devices but can be received by any device whether or not jailbroken.

You can add it to your phone from the BigBoss repo in Cydia for $4.99 which, in my opinion, is pricey. May be you can find any other app for lesser price but if you really wish to use it frequently, then you might want to pay this price.

Set Auto Replies for Text on iPhone with AutoResponder 2

I don’t know what but the maximum number of texts I receive are when I am either driving or sleeping. Funny it is, but it’s a common scene with many users. How many times it has happened to you that you are busy with something, can not look into your phone and receive some urgent text from your wife? Well if you don’t reply to it you are gone

Although people can leave a message in a voicemail to you but what if they are waiting for some response from your end? Wouldn’t it be great if you can set up some auto replies for all the messages that goes unattended for some specific period of time? I am sure this would help many people like me.

Well if you are using an iPhone then this can be done easily by using an app from Cydia store called as AutoResponder. This app was supported to all the old iOS firmware but for all those with iOS 6+ , the developer had updated the app and it now comes as AutoResponder 2.

Using this app, you can set up the auto reply from your iPhone to those who send a text to you and if it goes unattended for some specified amount of time. To be able to use this app, you will first need to setup the configurations (as shown).

The Delay option specifies the time for which if the text goes unattended by you, the phone may send the auto reply to the sender. You can also set the message that is sent automatically. If you decide not to send auto replies to some people, then you can add exceptions in the Whitelist section, just make sure that their numbers are complete with country and state codes.

The app is available in Cydia store but for small amount of $1.5. So if you know that this app is going to benefit you a lot then you should definitely don’t mind spending this amount. The app works great and the messages are also sent instantly.

Hide the Currently Playing Songs Info from iPhone Lock Screen

This goes for all the iPhone users and for all those who have always wanted a way to disable orhide the music and the songs being played on their phone from the Lock Screen. Whenever you play some song on your iPhone the song information like the Album name, artist name and the song image is displayed on the iPhone Lock Screen.

This is sort of an added feature that helps us in knowing which song is currently being played just by looking at the phone but this sometimes can minimize our privacy. There can be times when you wish that no body can find out which song you are playing, to add to your privacy or simply you wish to have a cleaner interface on your iPhone display.

So whatever be your reason, this post will help you in hiding the songs information from the iPhone lock screen. There is small tweak for this purpose called as Secret “Now Playing” (yes with the quotes in the name) and as the name suggests, this app will let you disable the Now Playing songs information from the iPhone lock screen.

The app can be downloaded free from the Cydia store but you will first need to configure the app in the settings after installing before it is able to take control. So just go the Settings, where you will find the app settings. To configure the settings, Enable the app from the first button as shown. Now you will get more options below which will hide the information from the lock screen making the phone look lot cleaner.

Remember you can hide or show following items using this utility, album artwork, song name, song artist and the song album. So if you liked the app get it for free from the BigBoss repository.

Keep Record of your Debts, Loans and Bills with I Owe You

I know how difficult it can be to keep a track of all your debts, loans or the borrowed itemsespecially if you are someone who is not good at this thing. Say you are eating out with your friends or just visiting some place where you have paid the bill of the entire gang, now it can be difficult to keep a track of the loans. Moreover it doesn’t look good to remind the other person of the money spent by you. Trust me even this small amount of money can make big difference in your savings.

So we have come across a cool app for this purpose (yeah, I know an app for this purpose too). The app is called as I Owe You (or short as IOU) and what this will do is it will keep a track of all your debts owed to you and by you in a nice and convenient manner. Not only this, it will also keep reminding the involved people by sending out the periodic notifications.

IOU is not only limited to money, it can be something else too whether a book, some task or be it anything. With IOU you will not forget about that book you gave someone or who owes you for a lunch. It’s even possible to keep track of loans and periodic bills – all in this single app. To make the usage simple and convenient at all times and places, this service is available in many platforms like Android, iOS, Windows 8 and Internet.

How to Use:

• You just need to visit the homepage (link at bottom), sign up for the free (or premium) account and you are good to go. To access the service at all times, you may also download the mobile app.

• Now if you wish to create a new entry, you need to click the green + sign, select from either Money or Thing and then add the details as necessary.

• When you save this record, it will be synced with all the platforms automatically.

• You can also choose the notification settings.

If the debt gets paid, you can easily mark it as Paid and remove from the list. Isn’t it really useful for people who like sharing items?

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Turn your iPhone Camera into Search Engine with CamFind

If you have been thinking that your iPhone camera is only for clicking photos and shooting videos then I must tell you that you are mistaken. There are many more stuffs that the phone camera is capable of doing. From capturing the moments, to scanning the barcodes or using as a document scanner, your camera can do wonders. This article will let you know how to use this camera to find anything on Google just by shooting with it.

If we ask most people “how do they search for an item in Google”, a common answer would be by typing the query on Google but do you know that traditional text-based search will be almost obsolete in the near future? People are using smartphones and tablets to have the Internet at their fingertips while they’re on the go, not while they’re sitting at the office.

This is why, today, we can make use of voice based search to find anything on Google. Now here is an addition to that, you can use your mobile phone camera to initiate a visual searchon Google too. Didn’t get me? Well, you just need to click anything (almost anything) with your iPhone camera and the identified image will be directly searched on Google for various related results. All with the help of this app called CamFind.

How CamFind works?

All you need to do is just shoot something you want to enquire about, let CamFind recognize it for you and the related search results will be provided right there on your phone. For instance, if you take a snap of the movie poster, CamFind will show related trailers to the movie, local show timings, links to IMDB and other related stuffs.

CamFind can also work as a translator to you. Say, you are in a new place where you can’t understand signs in the local language, so just take a snap and let it translate the results for you. (Note: Do take care while doing this as it might change your language settings, thus it’s better to know how to change the language before trying this feature).

CamFind also helps to scan the barcode just like RedLaser and also incorporates voice search feature in case you don’t wish to use the visual search feature.

The app is currently available only for iOS users and is free. If you like the app then you can try it and if you don’t then you can just save time of typing terms in your mobile browser.

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Add Colors to your Recent Calls in Call Log with Prime for iPhone

Recent Call Activities also known as Call logs is an important feature of a phone as it helps us to not only record the call activities for certain time but also provides more detail about the call. You can find all the missed, incoming and outgoing calls with their duration here for some period of time depending upon the phone you have. iPhone also records the call log in the Recents tab of the Phone app and displays all the missed calls in Red color.

Color coding can be helpful as by just looking on the display casually you can find out which call you missed and which was received, however the iPhone, by default, shows only a small identification icon next to the number. It would have been great if there was some option of turning the call logs into color coded numbers just like the missed calls.

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Well if you have a jailbroken iPhone then you can achieve this result with the help of a small tweak available in Cydia called as Prime. Prime lets you turn your iPhone call log numbers into color coded numbers for easy recognition of the missed, incoming and outgoing calls.

To be able to use Prime, all you have to do is just download Prime and install it in your iPhone. You don’t need to do any settings to activate Prime as it gets activated automatically. By default, Prime colors the outgoing calls as Green and incoming ones as Blue, and if you don’t like the color coding this way then you have to cope up with it as there is no option to change the color lol.

However there is a color change option in the settings of the Prime app which will only let you change the color of the date displayed besides the number. If you make any changes to the app then you will need to first close the Phone app once and restart it to make the changes come into effect.

The app looks good and comfortable to the eyes and if you liked it too then you can get it for free from Cydia. Prime works on iOS 6 or later firmware.

Record FaceTime Video Calls on iPhone, iPad and Mac

All the iOS users and the Mac users would agree to one thing, FaceTime is the best video calling app available for Apple users so far. There is no denying the fact that the video and audio quality available in FaceTime is also awesome. If you think that FaceTime is just anothervideo calling app like Skype, then you surely need to try it. It is the call quality and the convenience of calling someone that makes this app the most used app among the Apple lovers.

Well video chatting to someone on FaceTime is one thing and keeping the memories last forever is another. It can happen to you that you need to record that session of the FaceTime so that you can see that later, what shall you do in that case? Well if you are also looking for something like that then this post will help you.

There are lots of tools available to record video calls but most of them are paid. It is not a bad thing to pay for something if it is really worth it. Here are three ways of how you can record your FaceTime sessions with your friends.

On iPhone and iPad:

If you are using FaceTime on iPhone or iPad (which most of us do), then you should try this app called Display Recorder. It is a great app for the purpose of recording screen when you are on iPhone and iPad.

Display Recorder works great and records the audio and video of the FaceTime sessions which you can view and use later. The app was first launched in Cydia but seeing its popularity it is now available in the App store as well. So just head over to the app store and download this app.

On Mac:

If you like using FaceTime on your Mac, then do try this tool called IMCapture. This tool works great to record video and audio sessions from FaceTime, Skype, Yahoo Messenger, however it is not completely free.

You can still use the tool with some restrictions and if you want to use the full version then you can buy it from the website.

On Mac (again):

You can also make use of any screen recording tool on your Mac if you don’t want to pay for any tool like the one stated above.

Saving FaceTime sessions should be easy now, isn’t it.