Drive Smarter by Connecting your Smartphone and Car

Automatic is an iPhone app that pairs with a little piece of intelligent hardware called "Automatic Link". The Link plugs into your car's OBD-II port, connecting your phone to your car's onboard computer while you drive.

All cars since 1996 have an OBD-II port, and most cars are compatible with Automatic Link, Check Here if your car is compatible with Automatic. 

Automatic is a Smart device, helps you make small changes to your driving style that can lead to huge savings on gas overtime. 

Automatic can detect many types of serious crashes using built-in accelerometer  and Contacts Local authorities and also call your loved ones.

Automatic connects to your Car's onboard computer and helps explain any "check engine" problems and explains what is the problem. 

With Automatic you don't need to remember where you parked your car, Automatic Does. 

Find out more about Automatic Here.

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How to Convert your Sound files to Professional Audio standard

Auphonic is a free service which helps you convert your Sound files to a Professional Audio standard with its web-service and uploads to your favorite Cloud services like Youtube, SoundCloud, Dropbox or your FTP location. 

Auphonic does Automatic Audio leveling, normalization, noise reduction and encoding and cleans up to a Professional Standard and sends your Audio/Video to your podcasting Service and you can also backup your podcasts from your cloud drive .

Auphonic is a free service, Its one of the must have Service for all the Bloggers, Broadcasters, Podcast creators, and Screencasts.

It balances levels between speakers, music and speech to new broadcast standards with noise reduction and filtering of disturbing low frequencies and uploads  your formatted file to Dropbox, FTP, SFTP, HTTP, WebDAV, Amazon S3, YouTube, SoundCloud, Libsyn, Blubrry and Archive.org 

Auphonic has also have Mobile App's for both iOS and Android with on-board recorder. 

Source: One Thing Well

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Must have Creative apps for iOS

iPhones and iPads became most powerful and popular educational/presentational tools , A Case Study demonstrates iPad's are widely being used in Educational and professional presentation / learning. To take advantage of more creative and interactive presentations, these are very few must have iPad/iPhone apps. 

• Pic Collage  ( Free , Compatible with iPhone/iPad) 

 Pic Collage lets you arrange your photos into frames - or get creative with freeform collages, cutouts, boarders, stickers. Its just like photoshop with your fingers. This App is useful for the ages from 5 to 100 with free pic Collage and dress up your photos.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pic-collage/id448639966 

• FlowBoard ( Free, Compatible with iPad ) 

FlowBoard is a Story Telling and Presentation App that allows you to make side-scrolling presentations with images, text, videos, pdf's and links. FlowBoard allows to share an idea, tell your story, present a document right from your iPad.  It also allows you to create your with your content in the cloud like Google Drive, SkyDrive, Dropbox.

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/flowboard-touch-publishing/id630717527

• Funny Movie Maker ( Free, Compatible with iPod/iPhone/iPad ) 

Funny Movie Maker - Replace your face instantly and create hilarious movies to share with friends. Choose any face photos of friends, celebrities, politicians or even yourself and record videos by replacing their mouth with yours, Adjust the pitch of your voice and add music to complete your movie. By using this you can make even your pets talk, or your body parts talk and share it with your friends and family. 

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/funny-movie-maker-replace/id430623298 

•  TouchCast ( Free, Compatible with iPad, soon for Desktop ) 

TouchCast , Its a new way of experiencing the Web inside Video,  It's unique Authoring environment allows you to effortlessly add any thing from web, images and other interactive features into your video. In a simple words, you can create a responsive , fully browsable and live Videos, just like having TV Studio at your home. 

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/touchcast/id603258418

• J2E-Just2easy ( Free, Compatible with iPod/iPhone and iPad ) 

J2E is an online creativity tool purely designed for education purpose, It brings the power of web 2.0 presentations into your life.  It's so easy to use, versatile yet so powerful, You can add text to speech to your master peace and you can do realtime collaboration with other j2e registered users at same time.

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/touchcast/id603258418 

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Battery life after iOS7, Tips to Save Battery on iPhone

Awaiting iOS7 has been Officially released to all the Compatible devices of Apple. Ofcourse iOS7 is soo neat and yeah sexy :) 

As per Apple iOS7 has been optimized to increase the Battery life, Well there are many folks facing Battery Drain issues on the iPhone 4s/5 .  

Here are some simple clicks where you can improve some of the features with out losing the key features of the iOS7. 

• Close All Background Running Applications after done using it. 

• Disable Background App Refresh:  It's one of the feature contributes to suck the Batter life. To Disable it, Goto Settings --> General --> Background App Refresh 

• Disable iAds:  If you are not too fancy about getting location based Ad's , Disable it to save some Batter.  To disable it, goto Settings --> Privacy --> Location Services --> System Services 

• Disable Reduce Motion:  This feature will reduce the motion of the User interface , icons and alerts.. You can save some more by disabling it. by navigating to Settings --> General --> Accessibility --> Reduce Motion

• Turn off unused Location Services : yeah, we need Location Services to be enabled for better user experience of iPhone, But we can same some battery life by disable Location Services for the Apps which we don't use often.

• Finally, By Turning off Bluetooth, Wi-fi , Air Drop when we are not using with just one swipe . 

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How to close Background Apps on iOS7 ?

To get a better battery life as well as better performance for iPhone, its always advisable to close the Background running Apps on iPhone. 

Up to iOS6 , when you double click on home button it will give you little "x" option on each application to close the Apps, Its little different on iOS7. 

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1. Double click Home button on iOS7 installed iPhone and you will see Back ground Running Apps like below.
   
   
   
   
   
2. Select the application you wanted to close and swipe Upwards, like below.
   
   
   
   
   
3. Also, we can close Three Applications at same time, Just place your 3 fingers on 3 Applications and swipe upwards at same time. 
   
   
   
   
   

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Apple iPhone 5S/5C, Everything you need to know

Model5S                                                           5C

For the first time Apple has released two iPhone model as opposed to their traditional iPhone release, so all of you might started thinking which iPhone to buy this year ?

To make everyone's life little easy, here are the most details you need to know ?

iPhone 5S	iPhone 5C
Silver, Spray Green, Gold	White, Pink, Yellow, Blue, Green
Height/Width/depth: 4.87 x  2.31  x 0.30	Height/Width/depth: 4.90 x 2.33 x 0.35
Weight:  112 gms	Weight :  132 gms
A7 Chip with 64-bit Architecture M7 Motion coprocessor	A6 Chip
Finger Print identity Sensor	--
True Tone Flash/ For Great Camera	LED Flash
$199.00 with 2 Yr. Contract	$ 99.00 with 2 Yr. Contract

You can visit Apple Website for the more details between these two phones along with iPhone4s.

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Apple's New iPhone 5C/5S expected to Release on September 10th ?

Today Apple has sent out Invites for a news events which is going to takes place on September 10th , where we are expecting to see next iPhone(s) .

This Year Apple's Tag line is just simple with out much clue's "This Should brighten everyone's day."

As per the sources, this event is going to be takes place in Apple's Head quarters in Cupertino, Calif, instead of San francisco.

Many of them strongly expected to bring two new iPhone models both high-end and low-end model ( iPhone 5s and iPhone5c ) . Also its expected that they are going to release the phones in different colors as shown in the above Picture.

Stay tuned for the more details on September 10th , 10 AM PST .

Source: cnet

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