How to download YouTube videos on Android phones

There are many softwares available to download YouTube videos on PC but there aren't much option on Phones and incase you wanted to grab a video or mp3 of the latest video, there is an app for it.

Tubemate is an application which can help you download YouTube videos to your phone, provided you have an Android device, Tubemate let users download YouTube videos in desired video format that is available on the site weather it is mp4, 3gp, FLV, 720p, 1080p or any other available format supported.

It also have option to convert to mp3 if you want to fetch a song,
it also support resume downloads.

It is an add supported app.

TubeMate is not available on Google Play because google won't allow app that screw its Products.

You can download the app from the below link

TubeMate

How to enable Android Device Manager on your Smartphone

It's been a week since Google introduced Android Device Manager for letting android users tracking Location of their Android Device have misplaced or lost it from the web , it allow the users to Wipe their phone data incase they don't want the theif to access their data, it also allow to ring the device in full volume overriding their any silent or vibrate setting incase it has been misplaced.

For this feature to function you need change the settings on your Android Device by enabling location services and opting to Android Device Manager option in the Security settings.
It is available for device running Android version 2.1 or above.
It seems to be available in settings once the play store is updated.

As far as the remote wipe feature is concerned you just need to use 'Erase Device' option and then you will be given a warning and after you confirm it your device will shut down and reboot into recovery and
preform a factory reset.

Note: You won't be able to track the device once you use this option since you will be not be signed to google services anymore.

Although the feature is promising it can be result in unwanted loss of data if someone gets control of your google account linked with your android smartphone so make sure not to share your password with others and enable the two way authentication on your google account.

Do let me know if you have enabled it in comments and feel free to ask any tech related questions.

Download the new Android camera app

The Camera App which is available in the google edition of One and S4 can now be downloaded on any Android phone running version 4.0 and above.

It doesn't requires any root access.

The features or functionality it adds varies device to device.

The new version features Photosphere, a helper tool
for panoramic photos that appeared in 4.2, but it
works on more devices. Also, the app lets you use
your phone's volume rocker to take photos. The
new settings menu lets you switch flash modes,
choose front or rear cameras, adjust the white
balance, and tweak exposure times.

So if wanna give a try head over here

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Install a Custom ROM on your android device

A custom ROM is a version of Android which third-party developers build for android device.  They are meant to replace what is known as the stock ROM, or the version of Android that the manufacturer provided on the device. 

There are many advantages of Custom ROM

- increases battery life
- removes bloatware
- increases performance
- upgrade the current OS version to the latest or the desired version 
It has few disadvantages too 
- invalidates warranty
- hardware failures such as camera, Bluetooth

If you use a Custom ROM from a trusted source these downside except the invalidated warranty should not come up. 

Where to find Custom Rom for your device

The two most trusted source of Custom ROM are CyannogenMod and XDA-developers Forum

CyannogenMod is the most popular and reputed they offer custom rom for most of the devices out there.
Their Rom mostly increases performance and battery life
and give enthusiast level performance settings.

If you don't find it here you can look up in XDA developers forum

It is used various developers who works to make best ROM out there , it has sub forum for every android device out there.
But be cautious to usr it because this roms are made by individuals and there is no guarantee for its success.

So only use those for which the developer has claimed its stablity and hardware support and others users have shared their success with it.

After you have found the Custom ROM for your device and is ready to install

The first step is to flash a different recovery called
ClockworkMod Recovery onto your device.

There are tools like heimdall and fastboot to help you for it.

The next step is to actually flash the custom ROM onto your device.

Once the .zip file for the ROM is
downloaded from the Internet and uploaded onto
your phone’s storage via USB cable, you’ll need
to turn off your phone and then turn it on to boot
into the recovery. Booting into recovery takes a
different button combination than just the Power
button, and this varies among devices as well. To
cover all devices, you’ll probably be fine if you
simply hold all the physical buttons on your
phone while pressing the Power button, such as
Power + Volume Down (and Up just to be sure) +
Home (if it’s a physical button).
Once the recovery has loaded, you’ll need to
navigate its menus to wipe the phone and then
flash the .zip file onto the device.

For ClockworkMod Recovery, the correct options are
wipe data/factory reset and install zip from
sdcard.
Once this has completed, reboot the device normally and it should load your custom
ROM.

Let me know in the comment if you have installed a CustomROM in your device, and how is your experience with it.

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Samsung Galaxy S IV vs HTC One: Reviews

The two giant flagship android smartphones the One and GS IV have been launched this month and certainly they are competing against each other to be the best android smartphone.

The reveiws are out and coming, here's a look at what the reviewers has to say about them:

Engadget's Brad Molen :

"While our geek senses keep tingling at the thought of so many market-topping specs
contained within the same chass is, we also aren't overjoyed, per se, with excitement.
The design doesn't feel fresh, especially not next to the HTC One, but we can't deny that
it's an improvement over the GS3."

TechCrunch's Jordan Crook writes:

At the end of the day, it’d be foolish to think
that the Galaxy S4 isn’t a top-notch phone.
Where specs, performance and software
innovation are concerned, the company is
clearly making strides. But in playing with
this phone for a while, adjusting to the new
features, trying to make the most of them,
and sometimes failing miserably, I keep
returning to the idea of “Keep it simple,
stupid.”

Wired 's Michael Calore:

"But all that business of waving your hand or
moving your eyes to scroll while reading — it
only works in the crummy Android browser.
It does not work in Chrome, where I do all of
my browsing. It doesn’t work in Google
Reader or Flipboard or Instapaper or the
Kindle app, where so much reading happens.
Looking away from the screen doesn’t pause
a video in YouTube, only in the Samsung
video player."

Ars Technica's Florence Ion:

"None of this takes away from the
performance of the Galaxy S 4, though. It's
an extremely solid phone, and it's going to
be hard to go back to the S III after a week
with this one. It feels great to hold, it's
comfortable to use throughout the day, and
it takes much better photos than its
predecessor. The aluminum ring on its
chassis makes the handset look more
modern than its predecessors. The display
doesn't hurt either—it's really something to
look at. Samsung definitely has another hit
on its hands."

The Verge's David Pierce :
"The Galaxy S4 is fast and impressive, but
it's also noisy and complex. The One is
refined, quiet, comfortable, beautiful, and
above all simply pleasant. I love using that
phone, in a way I haven't experienced with
anything since the iPhone 5. That's why,
when my contract is up in June, I'll probably
be casting my lot with HTC instead of
Samsung."

ABC News's Joanna Stern:
"I just wish Samsung had put that same
attention into the design of the physical
phone. The HTC One and the iPhone 5 are
simply better-designed and crafted pieces of
hardware."

The New York Times's David Pogue:

"And the S4 is still made of plastic —
lightweight and grippy, but not as classy as
the iPhone’s glass or the HTC One’s metal."

Steve Kovach of Business Insider:
"As long as you don't mind a bunch of
plastic, you'll be perfectly happy with the
Galaxy S4."

So, there you have it Samsung Galaxy S IV can't impress the tech experts and HTC One seems to have the upper hand but only sales will say who wins the battle.
Anyways GSIV will out sale the One is probably sure, but HTC has made a really Impressive Android phone no doubt.

Zoom in more than preset limit on Google Maps

Google Maps is used by millions of people around the world and most of us wants to get a more closer view of the object we are viewing but Google has some preset limit upto only which we can view the imagery, but using a simple trick we can get a much closer look of it in some places on the map.

First open a particular place you want to get a closer view, then Zoom in as much as it will let you
by clicking on the "+" sign.

When you have zoomed as much as you
can but not to street view (if the
location you're looking at even
has street view), look over at
the white space just to the top
left of the map....where the little
printer and chain link buttons
are.

Click on the chain "link" button.
That will show open a box with a
long URL to the map you are
looking at and another box with
some HTML code to embed.
Leave the HTML code.
Copy the long URL and paste it
into your browser's address bar,
but don't hit enter to go to that
URL yet. Instead, click to edit it
and scroll all the way to the
right. It should end with
something like "&z=22". Change
the 22 to 23 ("&z=23") and hit
enter.

If Google Maps has
imagery at that higher zoom
level it show up.
It doesn't work for all locations,
however.

We can view some high-res images from them
not available to us by default.

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How to Boot a Android device in Safe Mode

If you’re experiencing frequent crashing,
freezing, or battery life issues, on your
android device you can
boot into safe mode and see if the
issues still happen there.
In safe mode, Android won’t load
any third-party applications.
This allows you to troubleshoot your device.
From safe
mode, you can uninstall misbehaving
third-party apps.
How to Boot in Safe Mode:
To reboot into safe mode in Android 4.1
or later, long-press the power button
until the power options menu appears.
Long-press the Power Off option and
you’ll be asked if you want to reboot
your Android device into safe mode.
Tap the OK button.
On older versions of Android, long-press
the power button and then tap Power Off
to turn off the device.
Turn on the
phone or tablet by long-pressing the
power button again. Release the power
button and, when you see a logo appear
during boot-up, hold down both the
Volume Up and Volume Down buttons.
Continue holding the two buttons until
the device boots up with a Safe mode
indicator at the bottom-left corner of its
screen.
In safe mode all the apps you have manually
installed will not load so you can find the
application which is causing you the trouble,
try uninstalling the recently installed app and
see if problem persists.

You can exit the safe mode by simply turning
off your device normally and restarting.

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