5 Best Free Apps To Hide Pictures And Data On Android Devcie

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So today we’re talking about the top applications to hide pictures and videos on an Android device. Obviously no body wants their personal stuff to be seen by any other person. Now a day’s many users use a hiding app to for such purpose. There are many free applications available in the Android market which allows us to hide our personal stuff like pictures and videos. And there are some which are capable of hiding not only pictures and videos but also messages, contacts etc.

I looked up in market to find top 5 best app to hide pictures, videos and some other stuff like messages, calls etc. I installed many apps on my phone to find out which one is the best. After my experience with different apps I’ve listed below the 5 best apps to hide pictures downwards.

5 Best Free Android Apps to Hide Personal Data:

KeepSafe Vault:

KeepSafe Vault gives you the power to control the access to the pictures and videos. It is mainly the photo and video locker which hides the pictures and videos in a secret gallery without any storage limits. There are Pro feature which you’ll be using for free. The only problem is that this app will hide only galley content. No messages, calls etc. This app Is rated 4.8 out of 5 in Android market and we rate it 4.4 because KeepSafe cannot hide messages and contacts.

KeepSafe

Highlighting Features:

  • Hide Pictures and Videos
  • Pin Pad access
  • UN-hide pictures from KeepSafe
  • Add pictures from Facebook app to KeepSafe
  • Share Picture from KeepSafe
  • Safe Send: Show Picture to friends for a limited time
  • Rotate and Zoom features
  • Free Slideshow feature
  • Disappears from the “Recent Apps” list
  • Multi-select feature for fast hiding, un-hiding and sharing
  • Fake Pin: Choose another Pin as Fake Pin, in case your friends force you to open KeepSafe Vault. The Fake Pin will show pictures with which you have no problem in showing to your friends.

Download “KeepSafe”:

Hide! A Secret Vault:

This app is new in the Android market. I thought to give it a try and find it really useful. A secret Vault to guard pictures, videos, messages and contacts. Just like KeepSafe this app too hides our personal stuff in a secret galley without any storage limits. And Pro features for free. The only reason behind a better rank than KeepSafe is that Secret Vault is capable of hiding messages, contacts and call logs too. But as it’s a new app, still need some time to improve more and get better. The Average rating of Secret Vault on Android market is 4.4 out of 5 and we rate it the same 4.4.

Hide! A secret vault

Highlighting Features:

  • Hide pictures, audios, videos and other format files
  • Pin Pad access
  • Disguise Pin for times when you get caught
  • Disappear from the “Recent Apps” list
  • UN-hide pictures, videos from Secret Vault
  • Vault to hide messages and contacts
  • Hid Call logs
  • Option to hide app to keep away from the eyes of others.

Download “Hide! A Secret Vault”:

Super Vault:

Super Vault was firs a Picture hiding software but the developers have added the option to hide messages, contacts and apps too. Super Vault has an integrated fast image gallery, fast video gallery and a file explorer to browse the pictures, videos, and other files. The hide files section has image hide, video hide and other file hide modes. This app is rated 4.5 out of 5 in Android market. We rate it 4.6.

Super Vault

Highlighting Features:

  • Conceal pictures
  • Hide videos
  • Hide files of any type
  • Hide messages
  • Hide call log and history
  • Multiple file hide
  • Save Password recover via emails
  • Fast galleries to hide pictures and videos
  • Folders in vault mode
  • AES encryption

Download “Super Vault”:

Vault-Hide SMS, Pics & Videos:

Vault-Hide makes it easy for to have fully control over your privacy. Just like Secret Vault and Super Vault, this app allows you to hide not only pictures and images, but also messages, Facebook messages, contacts etc. There are some interesting features like Vault camera which will automatically hide the pictures and videos. This app is rated 4.5 out of 5 in the Android market and we rate it 4.8 due its some interesting features.

NQ Vault-Hide

Highlighting Features:

  • Hide Pictures and videos
  • Hide contacts and call logs
  • Hide messages
  • Vault Camera
  • Hide Facebook messages
  • Dashboard

Download “Vault Hide”:

Hide It Pro:

Hide It Pro occupying the top spot in our list is really the best app out there. Hide all your personal data like pictures, videos, messages, calls, apps etc. You can also browse privately. This app cleverly disguised as “Audio Manager” in the app drawer. The Audio Manager is fully functional and can be used to manage audio of the device. There’s a secret way to access the actual Hide It Pro which is by long pressing the on the Audio Manager Title. This app is rated 4.8 out of 5 in the Android market and we rate it the same 4.8.Hide It Pro

Highlighting Features:

  • App disguised behind a fully functional Audio Manager
  • Media Categorized into folders of your choice
  • Multi-select hiding and un-hiding
  • Delete, share, un-hide and move pictures between albums
  • Sort files by date, size or name and sort folders by count or name
  • Gallery features: Pinch to zoom, double tap to zoom, one finger hold and move zoom.
  • Slideshow with effects
  • Disappears from “Recent Apps” list
  • Lock Screen options: Pin and Password
  • Built in Encryption tool
  • Plug-ins for messages, calls, browsing and locking apps
  • Special optimization for low end phones.

Download “Hide It Pro”:

So this was the list of top 5 free apps to hide pictures and other stuff on an Android device. Readers are welcomed to comment below their precious advices and comments below.

Top 5 Social Media Sites for Your Business

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If you own and operate your own business, one of the most important details is to market your company. Doing this on a wide scale basis is essential so that you can ensure that people know about the business and your company can expand to a larger audience. With everything being digital in this day and age, the lifeline of any successful business is to integrate it into social media websites. More than ever, both individuals and businesses are relying on social media to market themselves. As a business owner, it is important to select the right social media websites to reach the right audience for your company and its services and/or products. The following are considered the best social media sites for businesses.

LinkedIn:

is essentially the Facebook for professionals. Not only is it a must for individuals who are looking for new employment, but it is also excellent for small businesses. You can connect with other businesses in your field or in related fields and advertise the various services or products your company provides to the public. You can find potential clients or customers and engage in chats with other professionals in the same field. You can also find potential new employees who may want to join your staff and can encourage your current employees to create profiles on the site for additional marketing of your business.

Facebook:

is a big favorite social networking site for many. Not only is it good for individuals to connect with others, it is also ideal for marketing your business as it can reach a huge spectrum of people and other companies. If you get certain Facebook friends to like the page, your business can be promoted even farther as their friends will see it, which can certainly draw interest in your company and its products or services. The more people who give your page a “like”, the more traffic your business page will receive and more people will view your posts. Facebook is so important, as it also gives you the opportunity to post photos, videos and even coupons for your business.

YouTube:

is essential for any business as it allows you to market the company via video. It gives individuals the chance to see and hear details about the business directly from a live person instead of simply reading it or seeing stationary photos. If someone likes a promotional video for your company, they can even share it on their social media pages, which can draw more traffic to your YouTube page.

Twitter:

is another great social media site to use to promote your business. While it only allows you to use 140 characters or less per post, you can get your point across and let the public know what new services or products your company offers and inform them of any specials. You can even rely on TwitLonger, which is part of Twitter and allows you to use more than 140 characters.

Pinterest:

is one of the newest social media sites and is essential for business as it is expanding in popularity on a daily basis. It allows you to connect with others based on specific interests, so if you highlight your company’s services or products, you can attract potential clients or customers who are interested in what your business has to offer.

Author bio: David Larson, with Intelligent Search, is a computer enthusiast. He enjoys reading and writing about technology. He also enjoys hiking and being in the outdoors with his family.

5 Best plugins to make Gedit more powerful [Linux]

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The default text editor that comes with Ubuntu or Linux Mint is Gedit. A simple yet powerful text editor that makes Notepad (Windows’ default text editor) look like loser when it comes to features. That said, I wonder why Microsoft never tried to improve Notepad, any ideas?. Anyways, though Gedit itself is quite powerful and recognizes many programming languages, still there are many plugins available for free that makes Gedit much more powerful.

How to install the Gedit plugins?

Install the gedit-plugins package. This package contains a great deal of gedit plugins apart from what is already present in Gedit (but not enabled by default). Open the terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and type the following command:

sudo apt-get install gedit-plugins

Once you have the plugins installed, you can access them by using the following steps:

  • Open Gedit text editor
  • From the Top Menu, go to this path: Edit->Preferences
  • Here go to Plugins tab. You will see the list of plugins available here. You can enable or disable, by checking the box next to them, as per your requirement.

The best Gedit Plugins:

Okay! Here comes the list of best Gedit plguins that, in my opinion, are extremely useful especially for programmers. The numbers given to plugins don’t mean that one is better than other. Its just to keep a count.

1. Session Saver:

When you work on a project you might have several files open at the same time and when you are logging off you might feel a need of saving the session so that when you login again and open Gedit you will have all your files back together in the editor. This saves a lot of trouble for you as you don’t need to find the same files again and open them individually.

2. Code Comment:

You just cannot write a program without using comments (If you do, you my friend, are no programmer). This plugin lets you comment or uncomment using short cuts Ctrl+M and Ctrl+Shift+M respectively. The good thing is that it recognizes the language you are using and comments accordingly for e.g., // for C++ or # for Shell scripts.

3. Snippets:

You find a few lines of code is needed to be written at several places. Snippet is the plugin for you. You save the code snippet and place a trigger on it. Trigger is like a pet name of the snippet. Now you can use the saved code snippets by just using the trigger name and tab. It will automatically complete the code.

4. Bracket Competition:

Remember Eclipse or any other IDE? All of them have this beautiful feature where when you type a bracket and it automatically puts the closing brackets. This plugins give you the same feature in Gedit as well.

5. Embedded Terminal:

This plugin embeds a terminal in the bottom of the Gedit. So you can run your commands and have a look at the editor at the same time. Extremely useful if you do not have access to multiple monitors.

There are many more plugins as well. Honorable mentions would be External Tools, Word Competitions, File Browser, Character Map.

What are you favorite Gedit plugins? Do share it with us.

Ten things idiots do on Facebook. Are you one of them?

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I am forced to write this post after seeing so many “idiots” around me on Facebook doing weird things. Like real world, there are few etiquettes which one should follow in the cyber world, but again, like real world, some people just don’t give damn to the manners or they just are not aware that such manners do exist. Believe me there are lots of stupid things people do without even knowing it. In this post I have compiled top 10 things what idiots do on Facebook:

1. Use caps lock all the time:

How many time have you seen a person posting in upper cases? a few time for sure! Using Caps lock is equivalent to shouting but few people around us prefer to “shout”, always. They forget that they can turn that caps lock off or they simply don’t care like these two jerks here:

2. Like your own status, link, photos and whatever:

Seriously, what are you? A self obsessed narcissist? How does it sounds in Facebook ticker: “XYZ likes his/her own status”. Give a chance for others to like your status and links. Don’t be a despo.

3. Auto Update Facebook status from Twitter:

One needs to understand that Facebook and Twitter are two different kinds of Social Networks. On Twitter you keep on sharing stuff every minute, it is acceptable. Facebook is not the same. You don’t go around flooding your friends’ feeds by auto posting all your tweets as your Facebook status.

4. Spread Hoax:

I know Facebook encourages to share. I also know that you are a concerned citizen but it doesn’t mean you will share whatever craps you find might be “helpful” for public. These hoax include Facebook charging money, hidden camera stories and Facebook donation for sharing pictures and other stuff like this. Use your mind and Google (if you have doubts, check on Hoax-Slayer) before doing such idiotic stuff.

If Facebook has to donate money it will simply donate it. It won’t ask and keep an account of that gross looking picture. Grow Up.

5. Add any fake profile in the friend list:

Yes, there is a very beautiful girl in a sexy pose on the display pic and that is the foremost sign that it could be fake. Oh! She has more than 1000 friends. Most certainly fake. But you don’t care about it because you are a one despo looking for single girls all over the Facebook and/or internet. So you add or accept the request and go on commenting on her pics and liking whatever craps that profile (most probably used by an ugly-looking male) posts. Find out more about how to find fake Facebook profile.

6. Play Farmville/Mafia Wars and such other craps:

Fine! You like to play these games but why bother others? Why send them request to save your lost sheep in Farmville? Most of the people don’t give a damn if you were attacked by some goons in Mafia Wars. If you are such a game addict, create a separate Facebook profile just for playing these games and stop bothering other people in your friend-list before they start blocking you.

7. Update each and every activity on Facebook status:

So, you get up and wish Good Morning to everyone. And then you tell them what are you eating in breakfast, what are you watching, what are your day’s plan. Keep updating it hourly basis. More, also tell them how many times you pooped. Describe that in detail too! For God sake, get a life. Updating the status about interesting things, news, events or funny quotes is one thing but it is not your diary where you record each and everything.

8. Share your love, break-ups and fights:

Aww… You are a love bird. You lover her/him so much that you keep on posting love quotes throughout the day.

Oh! you had a fight. Both of you are not on talking term and now updating your Facebook status hitting out at each other directly/indirectly.

Oops.. you broke up. Now the whole world has to suffer from sad heart-broken status update.

Grow up attention seeker.

9. Pay tribute to every celebrity (without thinking of course):

Though you might have never been able to buy an original Apple product but it was your social responsibility to pay homage to Steve Jobs. You updated your status, changed your profile pic to apple or of Jobs. You shared photos praising Job’s vision and achievement.

Now you see other pics complaining that there are millions of children dying of hunger. You share the pic with hungry child on one side and Steve Jobs on the other. How great of you.

Now comes Dennis Ritchie. You might have never used Unix all your life, never programmed in C and before this day you never knew that there exists such a person but paying a tribute is a must for you. Stop being a &%$#@.

10. The rest falls in this category

There are many more crazy stuffs. List is long and increasing. This point is left empty to take care of rest such things. I encourage you to share the 10th point.

Top Facebook Tips and Tricks

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Facebook is not only the leading website in the world of social media; Facebook has also become the go-to site for many businesses to promote their product. Most people know that they can display whether or not they are online. Here are some Facebook tips and tricks that you probably were not aware of that are very useful. [Read more…]

Britney Spears geared up to take the top spot on Google Plus

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Last week Google CEO Larry Page overtook Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg as the top followed person on Google Plus. This week saw another change as Pop Star Britney Spears toppled Mark for the second position. It seems like now Britney is heading for the top spot lagging behind Larry by around 40,000 followers. The statistics can be found on socialstatistics.com [Read more…]

Larry Page finally overtakes Mark Zuckerberg while Snoop Dogg closes in on Google Plus

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From the early days of Google Plus an unconfirmed profile of Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook co-founder) dominated as the most circled profile outnumbering the official page of Google co-founder Larry Page. But it seems like the happy period is over for Mark as Larry finally overtook him this week (last week of Oct 2011) and topped the chart as the most followed person on Google+. [Read more…]

Top 5 Free Applications for Nokia 5800

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Nokia Ovi Store is growing day by day and now a days it has a decent collection of Application and Games. I have Nokia 5800 for past one year and I like to experiment with the application and games available on the Ovi Store. In this post, I’ll list 5 of my favourite absolutely free, full version applications. No need of data connection to use these applications. (If you cannot connect to internet on your phone here is a little hack which can help you in downloading the application directly on computer from Ovi store: Download from Ovi Store to PC)

1. FingerPrint V3.0:

Use your fingerprint to unlock the phone, this is NOT just for fun! V2.8 enables you to block all key press when FingerPrint screen is on top! When the FingerPrint screen pops up, you need to touch your finger to the screen to be ” scanned ” for your identity, there will be vibration and beep sounds during the scan. The phone will be unlocked not depend on whose finger it is, but on how many beeps or vibrations since your finger touch the screen ;-)

Here is the download link: http://store.ovi.com/content/47358?clickSource=browse&contentArea=applications

2. Guitar Chords+:

Chords+. Never be forced to pull out your computer or a bulky chord book just to look up a guitar chord again. Featuring handpicked fingerings of more than 160 chords, Chords+ also explains how to play ” slash ” chords such as D/F# and the mechanics of sliding common bar chord shapes up and down the fretboard to form dozens more.

Here is the download link: http://store.ovi.com/content/63289?clickSource=browse&contentArea=applications

 

3. F-Secure Anti-Theft for Mobile:

With F-Secure Anti-Theft for Mobile you can be sure that your personal and confidential information won ’t be misused by anyone. If you suspect your phone is missing you can remotely lock it or wipe the data so that your private text messages or pictures don’t end up in the wrong hands. You can also locate your phone or the person holding it remotely.

Here is the download link: http://store.ovi.com/content/22205?clickSource=browse&contentArea=applications

4. Best Screen Snap:

Freeware application that allows you to capture screenshots on your smartphone and save them to a file or send them to friends or to your desktop computer.

Here is the download link: http://store.ovi.com/content/1540?clickSource=browse&contentArea=applications

 

5. Nokia Photo Browser:

Nokia Photo Browser is an experimental photo browser that makes viewing your photos quick and fun. NOTE: this is an experimental prototype that may break, change or disappear at any time. You can contribute at http://betalabs.nokia.com

Here is the download link: http://store.ovi.com/content/3612?clickSource=browse&contentArea=applications

 

Hope you liked the post. Would you mind sharing your thoughts on the post and your favourite applications?