Author: Abhinav Singh

I am an MBA student and a founder member of NXTInsight. I love to keep the track of smartphones, tablets, wearables and other similar gadgets, so that I could help my readers to make the right decision before buying a gagdet.

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Edit Audio, Trim and Merge Video on YouTube Capture [iOS]

The best free video editing tool available for iOS device is the YouTube Capture and in this post I will tell you all the reason to believe that. You can use this application to merge two or more videos, trim any recorded video or add any other audio in the background of the video and finally upload it directly on YouTube in your Channel. Let us see that how these features can be used.

All Editing Features on a Single Screen

The moment you launch the application, you will see ‘All videos’ which can be used to see all video available on your device, the video which have already been uploaded which highlighted whereas the rest will be accompanied by the option of edit and upload.

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Now tap any of the video which has not been uploaded yet and you will be taken to another screen where you will see something like the one shown above in the screenshot.

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Now at the top you have an option of Edit Music which can be used to change the audio in the background of the video. You can either choose any of the song available in the iTunes or you can opt to choose any of the tracks on behalf YouTube on that Application.

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There is a mini player in the screen which can be used to play it and check the preview of the video, from time to time after you make the changes. Below this mini player, you have the option to trim the video with the help of white bars. You can scroll them horizontally to trim it to any length.

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Lastly you have the ‘+’ which can be used to add any further video to that video. Once you tap it, it will ask whether you want to record a new video and add it to this or you want to add already available video on your iPhone.

Conclusion

If you are using all these tweaks over your iPhone 4 then it will be very slow and you will have to have some patience while dealing with the application. You can also opt to create a different channel if you want to upload a video in some other channel. I hope you will be able to take a good advantage of this feature, please let us know if you face any problem while using this application ‘YouTube Capture’.

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Tips

Show Chatheads while Watching Movie or Playing Game [Android]

Priorities for the users of Facebook Messenger vary a lot, some of them want those chat heads to be there all the time whenever someone pings and some of them don’t want them to disturb while they are watching a movie or playing a game over full screen. Don’t worry because we have a solution to this problem. Usually when you install Facebook Messenger for the first time then by default it will never let chatheads come up in between any of the applications which require full screen to operate (wherein you cannot even see time or the whole taskbar at the top of the screen).

How To Toggle This Feature

If you are a great chatter and don’t want to miss out on any notification from Facebook Messages then go to the settings options and then you will see the Option Off Chatheads.

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If you toggle the button to OFF then you will completely turn off this feature and then they will not appear anymore on your screen but if you wish to allow them in the games of movie player applications also, then tap on the checkbox to uncheck it and then they will literally appear in between any application on your Android device.

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Another thing I would like to notify that usually when you use the Facebook to check the Messages then on tapping upon any of the chats it will be pop out as the chat head but on disabling this chat head feature you will be directed to messenger application when you are try to read the chat in the Facebook Messenger.

Conclusion

This tip is good for toggling the chat heads as per your priorities. Please let us know if you face any other problem while dealing with the Facebook Chatheads or any other feature. You may use uninstall this Messenger application and do everything on the Facebook main application if you are not a big chatter there.

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Tips

[How-To] Set the Status in Google Hangout Application

One of the worst part of hangout application was not being able to set the status, which is really useful to convey a message that why you might not be able to reply to their messages promptly. And now luckily that feature is back in this application for both the platforms. When it comes to Android then this application has been updated with the SMS integration which was already implemented in Facebook Messenger (and I really hated this feature).

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What Type Of Status Can You Set

On iPhone you don’t have this integration but you can set the status of your hangout but with certain constraint. First of all the users in the Google Talk list will not be able to see that status, secondly you will not be able to set the status in form of any desired text rather you will have large number of icon displaying different kind of moods, which will be used to set the status.

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Thirdly you will also have the option to show that on which device are you using the hangout, whether it your phone, your laptop or your tablet. Another great point about this new update on this application is that if you are on a call and you are logged on hangout through the smartphone applications then you status will automatically reflect that.

Conclusion

These status can be altered in the Settings section wherein you will see a separate option for this ne feature. So these are some good features in the new hangout update, but I also wanted them to be reflected in the Google Chat section. Please let us know if you face any problem while following up with this tip.

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Apps Lists

[3-Must Apps List] Watchout, Neatly and Repix

This section will include the three applications which have been randomly selected and primarily which may end up satisfying three different needs of the users. As a short preface, I would say that today we have covered an application for the Twitter lovers, this application will give them a new interface and few more parameters to be busy with while tweeting on Twitter. Another application helps you to take a look at the 2 screen at the same time and this application is at-least really useful for me. The third one is an image editing tool (not the ordinary one).

App-#1 Neatly For Twitter

This application is for the Twitter lovers, most of the times when we enter the section of trends we do not get the trend topics of our interest. But this application will make sure that the trends which is really favorite to you should be attached to you all the time. You can also check the relationship between you and any of your followers or any other person at random. So, if that personal tweets usually about the same interest of yours then you can actually follow him.

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Moreover the new interface also looks pretty cool to me and change in the UI colors is always (once in a while). The only you might have to bear with is the rare of loading of the new tweets. I don’t follow much of the people so I don’t have any clue about it.

Download– Play Store | App Store (NA)

App-#2 Watchout

If you are really into the news articles all the time, then I am sure that while watching the TV shows or the movies you must be minimizing the episodes for a while and then checking the window. It may also happen that you are watching a wonderful movie and suddenly someone pings you for some urgent chat on your smartphone. This application will help you to do both the things at the same time and so you will not even have to pause the movie while chatting with your friends on your phone.

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A small section of your screen will be available for the real time camera footage by your smartphone. So, you will be able to watch your laptop from that section. Now, I know that there is not point of watching a good movie from that but hey!! That’s only for few minutes right (you can manage that) and look at the best part you will not have to pause the show and spoil the fun part.

Download– Play Store | App Store (NA)

App-#3 Repix

Now if you do not know much about the editing for the photos, then I will recommend not to use this application because there are other good alternatives available for you. This application is meant for pro (who are actually good at Photoshop) and can understand the meaning of all the effects that application provides. This application has good number of tools which can make slightest and perfect changes which are very difficult to differentiate by simple looking at it.

Download– Play Store | App Store

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Tips

How To Get unlimited Cloud Space to store data

I am going to tell you a smart tip which will help you to get this done very easily. Cloud storage is one of the most expensive storage media where you can store your data. There is no cloud service which offers free data storage. It started getting popular with Dropbox and now we have large number of options which includes Microsoft Skydrive, Google Drive and others. When a user creates an account over Google then he already gets a cloud storage space of 10GB for all the activities and files which are associated by using the Google services.

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10GB is a good amount of free space if you simply want to save only the important stuff over your account and if your account is old then you will have this free space as 15GB which is again really good. This 15GB will have all the mails available on the Gmail account and also the files uploaded on Google Docs. Now the Google Drive application for Android and iPhone has been recently updated which can help you to monitor multiple Google Accounts on Google Drive pretty easily.

How To Do It?

Whenever you getting out of space then you can create another Google Account for a new 10GB free of Google Drive space and then start uploading your files there. But make sure you share all those files with the primary account which you usually access all the time. So, through you are uploading from different ends, but you will be able to read and edit all the files from a single frame (this is from your primary account).

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The screenshot shows that I am sharing a file with my primary account and then using my phone to manage both the accounts at the same time. If you have the application installed on your tablet or smartphone, you will not even have to enter the passwords again and again but if you are using the desktops then you can open another account by using the incognito mode of your Google Chrome browser.

Problems You May Face.

You may face the problems like he handling of all those Google Accounts can be bit of a problem. So, try to set the same passwords for all those accounts.

Every time you upload any damn file!! There number can be huge but you cannot help it you will have to share every one of them with the primary account in order to take the advantage of the tip. So, upload all the files at once and then click the select all option to select all the files. Now click share and then share all those files atone. I think this solves your problem.

Conclusion

This will help you to get a good amount of cloud space for you. You can use the same method for Skydrive accounts also but I am not sure whether you can manage multiple account in their applications for android or iPhone. I hope this solves your problem to a certain extent. Please let us know if you face any other problem while using this tip.

Download Google Drive – iOS | Android

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Facebook Messenger Gets a new UI and Few New Features

Facebook Messenger has been updated with a new UI for iPhone and Android both and in this post we will talking about the updates in both the platforms. The UI is somewhat similar in both the platforms but there have been certain problem which users have reported in the Chat heads after installing this update. Most of these complaints and problems have been reported in the ratings and reviews section of Android on the Google Play Store and as far iOS version is concerned people are loving the new UI because it completely jells with the new UI of iOS7.

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iOS Version of Facebook Messenger

This messenger application completely takes over the chat feature on Facebook, in other words now you will not be able to chat via your Facebook application which is usually used to check out the notifications and newsfeeds. Whenever you tap the messenger section in the Facebook main application then it will take you to the new Facebook Messenger application.

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After chatting when you wish to go back to checking the newsfeeds or notifications then you will have to change the application which is somewhat annoying because initially it was much easier to switch between the application and the newsfeeds but they are 2 different applications.

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The application now also has the feature to sync with the contacts on your iPhone in order to show you that who all are available on Facebook Messenger.

Android version of Facebook Messenger

The UI is almost similar to what you would have read above in the iPhone section. In the older version any Facebook chat used to open in form of chat heads by now you are using some other application then only the chats will ping as the notifications in form of chat heads and from there you can choose the open to go to the main application to chat or else if you still want to be busy with the current application and then you can reply in chat-head itself and then close it.

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When you will see the contacts section of the application, then there you will find that all the friends who are online or active either on their cellphones or on desktop (and this will be clearly mentioned in front of their names). If you do not want to appear like that in anyone of your friend’s Facebook Messenger then you can toggle the button named Active to OFF which make you inactive in other Facebook Messenger application.

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Conclusion

Facebook Messenger is slowly increasing the degree of its integration with your smartphone, it has already done that with its application named Facebook Home on the Android devices and now it gets into the contact section for the iPhone users. Please let us know if you face any problem while using this application as we have seen many negative reviews recently for the users who have upgraded their Facebook application (especially for Android users).

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Hammer: Application to share and take Opinion of Others

Social networking is one of the most popular sector that has been growing over internet because people love to share their opinion, their good or bad news with their friends and the known ones over internet. Today I will be sharing an application which has its own social circle and which has been primarily developed to let you interact with new people who somewhat share the same opinion about the intellectual matters happening all around the world.

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Honestly speaking I avoid killing time on Facebook and I feel that Twitter is far better than that because Twitter is not much famous in my country and there are very less number of people over Twitter as compared to Facebook and so there are less number of distractions over Twitter as compared to Facebook. So I end up reading opinions from great scholars and orators about some of the very important topic and news happening round the globe and sometimes I also participate by stating my views.

How Does This Application Work

Hammer as an application is solely dedicated to the last 2 lines mentioned above in the paragraph. It will ask you a general question and based upon your opinion it will show that what others have to say about it. We will recommend you to directly choose the news section and then share your opinion about the latest topics. You can choose to change the topics by choosing a different category.

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One of the sections of this application will ask you a question and show you two options in form of images and you will have to select an option and once you select your option, you will see the result of the poll which will tell you whether you go with the majority or not. You can also leave a comment related to that question and you can also post or own question which can be also be shared over the other social networks.

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Conclusion

This application is unique in its operation and you will surely use it once in a while (even if you don’t get addicted to it).This application is really great for the Marketing research surveyors who will at least the get opinion about their questions from the 50 to 60 users. Please let us know if you face any problem while using this application, you can download the same on iPhone and Android smart-phone both.

Download Hammer – App Store | Google Play Store

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Google Now get Updated with Voice Based Commands and Reminders [iOS]

Google Search application on iOS device has been upgraded with some of the great new features which Android users were already enjoying for the past few months and now the features of this application on both the platforms are same. They have added the feature of location based reminders in the application itself.

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Google Now is usually used by the users when they are on the way to their offices as Google Now gives you the quickest route possible by checking the current status of traffic on the way. So, these location based reminders equipped in the same application are really helpful. Now whenever you are about to leave the house to you will never forget to leave the keys on the gate because Google Now will remind you of that.

All the iPhone 4S or above users will be able to do the ‘Googling’ (Google Search) with the help of voice commands. With the help of OK Google you will be able to set the reminders by the voice command. Example- if you want to be reminded of visiting a flower-shop whenever you meet your friend at Central Park, then just say “ Ok Google remind me to visit the flower-shop when I go to Central Park.”

iPhone users will also be seeing notifications from this application wherein it will intimate you when you will be missing out on any long awaited movie or game event or to tell you that there is a huge traffic logged on the way to your office. In other words Google Now has just gotten even smarter to help you in a better way. Please update the application to see these changes and take a look at the video which will explain you all.

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Tips

[App Of The Day #3] Kurrency-Convert your Currency on Real-Time Value

The reason I am writing about this application is because it is very simple to use this application and moreover this application does not have large number of features assembled into once which usually turns off large number of users (when these features are not aligned properly in the application). This application can help you to convert currency on the basis of the real time value. So, it will be a great application for the people working in forex department with iPhones as their smartphone.

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The whole application can be used from its primary screen, as you can see that the values are supposed to be filled in the slots available for the amount of the money to be converted. You can also select the type of currency and every time you do the conversion it will check for the present value using your internet and then tell you the answer.

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You can also save the currency conversions (which you use most frequently). I am using this application because I love to keep track that which country is selling the cheapest tablet or smartphone. Let’s say, iPhone is usually cheaper in US as compared to India and same is with the case of televisions when the rates in Dubai (UAE) and India are compared.

The application will also keep the track of the history of conversions which has been done on it. So, you can actually see the difference in the value of 100 INR in USD yesterday and today. A quick method to know that how much could have been saved/or already saved on 450USD when spending it in INR. Please let me know if you face any issue while using this application (though I am sure you will not).

Download: Kurrency | App Store

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Create a Favorite list in Chat list of Facebook Application

There is a very unique feature on your Facebook Application for iPhone which most of us do not know about. We have seen that on our desktop version of Facebook and on the mobile application our online friends section is divided into 2 parts. One of them consist of the online friends with whom we talk frequently as compared to the other friends in the list and the rest of the friends are available in other list of friends.

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Your mobile application gives you the provision of creating another list of friends in the same chat list which we be seen in that list all the time despite of the fact that they go offline or get online. This feature is online available in the mobile application version of Facebook and so you won’t find it in the desktop version.

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Open the application and then slide your finger towards left, the chat section will open up and then you will see an icon of favorites.

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Tap it and then add the user names below it, once they are added in the list they will always appear at the top of the chat list and will be there all the time, whether they are available online or offline. So, this way you can choose the number of users with whom you would like to chat frequently or leave a message on Facebook.

Please let us know if you face problem while dealing with this tip or if you are facing any other problem on your iPhone or Android device.