How to install Apps in your Android Smartphone without any Internet Data Package

January 19, 2014 By Satwant Singh Leave a Comment

Android Operating System, which is currently the most famous and grossing operating system, has a major feature that it, allows you to download and install third-party apps too. But by default, the use of unknown source applications is disabled in all Android devices because the company doesn’t want us to install the apps other than from the Android market. But you can easily enable it by following some simple steps (Described below in the tutorial). This capability of Android devices to accept third-party is quite useful in many ways. This feature allows you to download the APK files of the apps on your computer and then you can transfer them in your Smartphone and can install it.

This is helpful for those people, who prefer using computers to download apps instead of their Smartphones due to expensive and slow internet data packages. Moreover, you can also save your Smartphone’s internet data cost. So in this article, we’ll cover that “How to install Apps in your Android Smartphone without any Internet Data Package”.

Step 1: Get the APK file in your Computer:

Download APK File of the App you want to install in your Android device. If the app you want to install is from Android Market, then read the article “How to download APK files from the Google Play Store”.

Step 2: Install the App in your Smartphone:

To install the app using an APK file, you’ll need to allow your Android device to accept apps from Unknown Sources. For this, go to Settings>Applications and check the Unknown Source checkbox. Now, there are two methods of installing an App in a Smartphone by using APK file. Both the methods are explained below:

Method 1: By transferring APK file in your Android device’s memory:

Connect your Android device with your computer via USB drive or any other mean you prefer.
Now transfer the APK file from your computer to your device.
After complete transfer, you can disconnect your device with your computer.
Now using the file manager, find the APK file you transferred in 2^nd step from your device.
Tap on the APK file to install it.

Method 2: Using Android SDK and Android USB Drivers:

Download the both and Android USB Drives on your computer.
Connect the SDK in your computer with you Smartphone using USB drives.
Now go to Settings>SD Card>Phone Storage and uncheck the USB Storage checkbox.
Now in your computer, open the Command Prompt and type the following command:
adb install
/.apkIn the above command, instead of
type the path to the APK files and instead of type the name of the APK file.
Now it’s done! The app is installed in your Smartphone.

So this was how you can install the apps in your Android device with any internet data package. Do share your views in the comments below. Mean while check out “5 Best Alternatives of Google Play Store“.

Hide It Pro: Hide all of your Personal Data on your Android Devcie

August 13, 2013 By Satwant Singh Leave a Comment

Let me start by saying that privacy is the most important thing for an individual. We try our best to keep our personal data and information away from the eyes of others. On the other hand, we’re talking about android which is the leading Operating System today with over 850,000 applications and 48 billion downloads. Android Operating System scans all of your data like images and videos from you file manager and show it all in the Gallery. And anyone can see your gallery and so our images and videos. So where’s the privacy?

In this article, I’ll be showing you all that how can you hide not only your personal images and videos but also applications, messages and calls in your Android device. For this we’ll be using a third-party application “Hide It Pro” from the Google Play Store which allows you to hide all of your personal data easily and very cleverly. Hide It Pro is like another galley in your device which is accessible by only you. Others can’t even find this gallery.

Below is the proper guide of using “Hide It Pro”:

Setting Up:

Download the Hide It Pro from the and Install it.
After complete installation, you’ll see an “Audio Manager” icon in your drawer. Now you must be wondering that you didn’t download the Audio Manager. It should be Hide It Pro. Here’s the clever part comes, the actual Hide It Pro app is disguised behind this fully functional Audio Manager.
Launch the Audio Manager, you’ll see all audio managing functions with a message on the top “Tap and hold on the logo above to launch the actual hide it pro app. This message will disappear next time you launch the app.” So as it was in the message, tap and hold the logo and the actual Hide It Pro app will appear.
Now you have the Hide It Pro setup on the screen. You have two options to lock. One is Pin based and other is Password based. I’ll be showing the Pin based.
Tap on the Pin based option, type the Pin code and save it.
Now you’ll be asked to enter a recovery email. You can skip this setup but it’s better to enter an email in case you forget your Pin.
Now Hide It Pro app will make its settings. After complete setting up, it’s done. Next time you’ll try to access the Hide It Pro, you’ll have to enter the Pin.

Hide Pictures and Videos from Android Gallery:

Go to galley and open the picture (or video) you want to hide (You can select multiple files). Tap on “Menu” and then “Share”. You’ll see the “Audio Manager” option, tap on it.
Now you’ll be directed to the usual Audio Manager. As explained before, tap and hold the logo and the actual Hide It Pro app will appear. Enter the Pin to access the app.
After entering the Pin correctly, you’ll be asked to create or select the folder. Tap on create “Create Folder”. And then name the folder and select whether you want it as a folder or album.
Now the picture (or video) you selected before is hidden. You can access the picture by usual procedure of accessing the Hide It Pro app. There’ll be different categories for different media files.

Hide Apps:

To hide apps, you need a rooted device. If your device is rooted, then you can hide apps from “Hide Apps” icon on the main screen of the Hide It Pro app. But if your device is not rooted then you cannot hide the apps. You’ll get this warning when you’ll tap on Hide Apps icon.

Hide Messages and Calls:

To hide messages and calls, you’ll have to download the SMS and Call Blocker Plug-in. When you’ll tap on “Messages” icon from the main screen of the app, you’ll be asked to get that plug-in.

Other Main features of “Hide It Pro”:

Categorize media into folders of your choice
Delete, Share, Unhide or Move pictures between albums
Sort files by Date, Size or Name and sort folders by Count or Name
Gallery Zoom Features: Pinch to Zoom, Double Tap to Zoom, One finger hold and move zoom
Slide show with Fade, Zoom and Swipe effects
Send/Share Pictures
Special Optimization for low-end phones.
Disappear from the recent app list
Video Player with all important supports
Built in encryption tool
And lot more

So overall “Hide It Pro” is the best app which sets perfectly with our privacy needs. This app has been rated 4.8 out 5 which is really impressive and this clearly shows that users are really satisfied with performance of “Hide It Pro”.

So what are you waiting for? Download this app from and keep you all private data hidden and safe from others. It is certainly one of the best Android apps to hide personal data.

Transfer Files between your Android device and Computer without using any Data Cable (Wirelessly)

June 20, 2013 By Satwant Singh 1 Comment

Whenever we wish to copy some stuff from our computer to our Android device or vice versa, we have to connect the Android device with the computer by using a data cable. And has to do it every time when we have something to transfer, which is really bothering.

So you must be wondering that is there any way to transfer files between your Android device and computer without data cable? And the answer is yes, there’s a way. But the condition is that your Android device and computer must be connected to same WiFi network. We’ll be using an app “AirDroid” from Google Play Store.

Steps to use AirDroid to wireless transfer of files between Android and any OS:

First of all, go to the . Open the app and install it on your Android device.

After the complete installation, launch the app. Now, there are two ways to connect your device with computer. First by “Signing up/Registration” and second by “Scanning the QR code”.

Connecting by “Signing up/Registration”:

After launching the AirDroid app on your device, you’ll be asked to “Sign in or register” or to “Skip” the registration. Choose “Sign in or Register”.

You can register via your Google, Facebook or Twitter account. Complete the registration.

Now go to “web.airdroid.com“. You’ll see a window asking to Sign in. Enter your Email and password and click on Sign in. Keep in mind that before you Sign in to “web.airdroid.com”, first Sign in to AirDroid app in your device. Otherwise your device will not connect to your computer. After successful Sign in, your device will connect to your computer.

Connect by “Scanning QR code”:

When you launch the AirDroid app on your device, skip the registration.

You’ll see a camera button at the bottom with text “Scan QR Code”. Click on it.

Now go to “web.airdroid.com”. You’ll see a window with a QR Code on its right side. Scan the code from you device and your device will connect to your computer.

Now after your device is connected, you’ll be directed to a page showing icons like Messages, Music, Files, Call Logs, Camera etc. on left side and other information like memory and free space on right side.

To transfer any file from your computer to your device, click on “File” on the right side of the page. You can either drag & drop the files or folders you want to copy over there as show in the image below. Or you can select the file by clicking on the blue button (see the image below). You can also select the destination folder in your device where you want to transfer your file by clicking on dark black button (see the image below).

There’s another way to transfer files to your device. Open the “Files” folder from the icons and the go to the folder where you want to transfer your file. Click on upload and then either drag & drop or select the files/folders from “Select Files” or “Select Folder” button.

Now to transfer files from your device to computer, it’s about downloading them. Just open “Files”, right click on the file or folder you want to transfer to your computer and click on Download. Instead of right clicking on the file, you can directly click on the download button at the top right of the window. Folders and multiple files will download as a Zip file.

There are a lot other things we can do from “AirDroid” app. We can send and receive SMSs directly from your computer which means we don’t even need to touch our device to reply someone. We can also make phone calls, push URLs and share clipboards to our device. We can take pictures from our device; by clicking on camera icon you’ll able to see the camera screen on your computer. Also, we can locate and lock our Android device and swipe all of the data if it’s lost.

So overall, the “AirDroid” is an amazing app making our life a little easier. The beauty is that it works with any operating system. So you can easily connect to your computer without any software suite. It will also help you in case when Android device is not recognized by Linux. What do you think about this app? Share with us in comments.

Zoolz: Innovation In Business Cloud Back Up

December 10, 2012 By Abhishek Prakash 2 Comments

Cloud storage is a topic hot for years now. It just does not seem to be chilling down at all. Cloud computing and Cloud Storage were initially deemed apt only for small enterprises and start-ups. But with time, big and medium size enterprises also jumped in to the Cloud space. And it did not stop there as Cloud has entered the digital life of an individual as well. With free cloud storage for individual users, Dropbox and Ubuntu One have huge number of individual users. Rise of smartphones also gave a new dimension to cloud storage with apps like GCloud providing free cloud storage for backup.

Coming back to Cloud Storage for business, there are several products available in market that provides Cloud storage. When a new product enters the market, it has to provide something new as its USP which is not available with other existing products, for example Spanning provides a better way to back up Google Apps . Based on Amazon AWS, Zoolz is one such cloud storage provider which boasts of ‘Cold Storage‘ technology along with relatively inexpensive pricing.

Unique ‘Cold Storage’ technology:

In an organization, there are several files which are rarely accessed but still they are needed to be stored for future usage. Cold Storage is meant for such kinds of archived files. Why pay the same price for storage which you will be hardly using and thus the bandwidth usage for such files? Cold Storage is available at an unbelievable price of 100 GB for $3 per month. It takes some time in restoring the files, but that could be manageable considering that you don’t need to restore them very often.

Other Salient features of Zoolz:

Comparatively lower price than its competitors.
Secure and reliable with all the data encrypted with 256-AES encryption.
Backups are duplicated and stored over multiple facilities across the globe ensuring on-demand data availability
Image previews for pictures stored.
Private and secure collaboration
Web access to stored files
Continuous and scheduled backups
Powerful user management with different users with different access rights with easy to use interface.
Mobile access with iPhone and Android apps
Zoolz also offers Copy, Encrypt and Ship to handle big data and accelerate the backup process. It claims that Your files will be processed with zero knowledge to their data centers.

Worth Trying?

As an individual user, you may get various free cloud storage providers. Since Zoolz does not have a free version, you might be well off with other cloud services unless you have plenty of data to store safely, for e.g., if you are a photographer. It could have been a good idea to provide a free version of Zulu for at least individual users. In first few tries, Zulu seems more like Box. I could not try it with a large amount of data as I only tried the demo version, but it still seems to be keeping the promises. Small business users can give it a try as the 50 GB hardly costs $10 per month.

Review: Smart way of managing your Personal data with Personal

January 8, 2012 By Abhishek Prakash 3 Comments

In daily life we need to remember a huge number of things in almost every aspect from credit card number to house insurance number, from kids’ baby sitter’s detail to passcode of the alarm system. You buy an electronic product, you have to remember its details for e.g, manufacturer, serial number, purchase date, warranty expire date etc. You have a party scheduled, now you need to worry about the food items, guest list and if more than one person are hosting or collaborating then share the status with them. You have 22 characters long wi-f- password, your kids’, wife’s or friends’ allergies.

The list grows endless. As human mind has its limits in remembering things (unless you have something like a Beautiful Mind of course), it seems technology advancements are hell bent on solving the issues faced in keeping the details of your “personal data”. Personal is one such new product, in public beta, that tries to help you keeping the track of your personal details in a way that can ease your life big times. [Read more…]

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