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AwwPics: A Picbook for your Facebook

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The Social Networking website “Facebook” with more than 950 million users currently is really becoming an addiction to many people around the world. We chat and share our stuff like pictures and videos with our friends and relatives and then we receive so many likes and comments. And just like me, I’m sure all Facebook users will agree that they love getting more and more likes to their pictures.

Today I was just checking the Play Store for some new apps and luckily I found this cool app “AwwPics”. AwwPics is a new app in the Play Store like the title says a Picbook for your Facebook. This app is all about the pictures and their likes.  It’s like the newest way to explore the Facebook pictures and really won’t let you miss any cool one. Explore the coolest pictures of your friends, edit your photos amazingly and see the likes coming.

AwwPics

Feature of AwwPics:

  • Explore Pictures:

    Explore all the cool and amazing pictures of your friends from the “Explore” option at the top of the app. You can see the pictures as little thumbnails which can be sorted differently. You can sort the pictures of your friends according to Popularity and Trending. You can see pictures of yourself too which can also be sorted as Popularity and Trending but also Latest ones.SC20130706-121940

  • View and Like Pictures:

    When you open any picture from the “Explore”, you’ll see that picture under “View” option.  There you can like the picture by tapping on “Like” button on the bottom right or you can skip and see the next picture by tapping on “Skip” button at the bottom left.SC20130706-122506
    When you like the first picture, you’ll be asked that “AwwPics would like to post to your friends on your behalf.” Tap on “OK” and it’s done. Next time you’ll like any picture then there’ll be no message like that. Now you can see and like unlimited pictures of your friends.SC20130706-122548

  • Edit and Add Pictures:

    You can add your pictures directly from your mobile. This is one of the best features of AwwPics. You don’t need to use any other third-party software to edit your pictures before uploading to Facebook. AwwPics provide you with its own in-built Edit feature. Tap on the “Add Photo” on the top right corner of the app. You’ll be asked that you want to take a picture or want to upload from the gallery. Choose whichever you want to and then you’ll be directed to edit feature.SC20130706-142658
    With AwwPics Edit Feature you can orient and crop your picture to an exact size. There are many cool and stylish effects available for you. You can enhance your picture by using Brightness, Sharp, Saturate and Tilt-Shift. Also not forgetting the collection of various nice frames available and text you can add in different fonts styles and colors in your pictures.
    There’s another interesting feature that If you don’t have enough time to edit your pictures than you don’t have to worry about wasting time on editing. AwwPics provide some nice editing suggestions. You can select any one you like the most.SC20130706-144332

  • Edit pictures of your friends:

    Here’s the cool thing. You can edit not only your pictures but also pictures of your friends. AwwPics provide you with an option to edit pictures of your friends you view. While viewing the pictures, you’ll see a button at the top right like a magic wand with a picture symbol at back. Tap on that button to edit the picture. This feature is a great one. It allow you to present your friends their own pictures but better than the original one.  SC20130706-122506

  • Voice control for liking Pictures:

    This feature is what which really attracts me. You can like the pictures using your voice. All you have to say is “Like!” When you view a picture under View mode, say Like and the picture will be liked. To turn on this feature, tap on menu button and then on “Voice control: OFF”. After that you’ll see “Voice control: ON” there.SC20130706-154429

Pros:

  • Explore and Like Popular and Trending Pictures quickly.
  • Like Pictures using Voice Control
  • In-built Editing Tool

Cons:

  • No option of Commenting on pictures

Download AwwPics now and Get Started:

AwwPics is available for free to download on Google Play Store (Link is below). Just simply download the app and install it on your android device. Launch the app and then Login to your Facebook account. That’s it. You are ready to enjoy the Picbook of your Facebook.SC20130703-201918

AwwPics is really a great app which allows us to Explore and Edit pictures. It’s fast and smooth. Voice control feature is really the attractive one and also the option of editing the pictures of friends really brings another star for this app. But, you can’t comment on the pictures. Someone like me who really like to comment on pictures is not going to be satisfied with this app.

So what you think? Are you going to download this app on your Android device? Do share your experience with us in comments.

How to solve: This does not look like a tar archive

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Problem:

Sometimes compressed files are not what they look from the extension. Recently I downloaded a .tar.gz file (say, we call it as filename.tar.gz) but when I tried to extract it, it gave error. It went something like this:

command: tar xvzf filename.tar.gz 
output: tar: This does not look like a tar archive 
tar: Skipping to next header 
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

Reason:

The error says it all. This does not look like a tar archive. What does it look like than? The way to find it out is using “file” command in the following manner:

command: file filename.tar.gz 
output: filename.tar.gz: gzip compressed data,from Unix

Solution:

So here we go. a gzip compressed data. The best way to deal with it to use “unzip” command line tool. You can install it using this command:

sudo apt-get install gunzip

Now loaded with gunzip we are ready to tackle this file. First gunzip the file to a .tar file and then untar it using tar command somewhat in following manner:

gunzip filename.tar.gz 
tar xvzf filename.tar

Hope the post has helped you. Feedback, suggestions are most welcome. Enjoy :)

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