How to Download Android apps from Play Store directly to your Computer

Android devices rule the mobile device market these days. Android users are increasing day by day in the world and so is the app market for Android. Google has an official app market for Android apps named as Play Store, as you all know it. Play Store comes preinstalled in any android device and you can download any app from the Play Store or app market directly to your android phone. The Play Store is accessible from non-android devices also like Computers running Windows or Linux, but the app cannot be downloaded to your computer directly from the Play Store. Have you ever wanted you could download an Android app to your computer and then install it into your Android device later? There are some other marketplaces which provide android installable apk files which you can download to your computer and then transfer to your phone, but they carries a high possibility of carrying viruses, keylogers or other threat. Soit is advisable to install apps from Goolge Play Store only. But what if you want to store the app to your computer first? Yes there is a way you can download Android apps from Play Store to your PC. Here is the steps:

    Go to Google Play
    Select your app
    Copy the app URL.
    Go to apk Downloader.
    Paste URL and Download.

Step 1: First go to Google Play and search for the application you want to download.

Step 2: Search for the app you want to download and go to that apps page.

Step 3: Copy the URL from the address bar of your browser.

Step 4: Open a new tab on your browser and open apk downloader. You can type http://apps.evozi.com/apk-downloader/ or go directly from here>> 

Step 5: Paste the URL to the box shown in the below picture. Click on Generate Download Link.

Step 6: After generating the Download link, Click on Click Here to download button to start downloading the app. This will store the apk file to your hard drive and you can transfer it to your phone later. That’s it. Enjoy!!

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5 Countries with Worlds Highest Internet Speed

[This is a compilation of list of 5 countries that enjoys highest internet speed in the world.]

1. Hong Kong:

Speed: 63.6 Mbps

Hong Kong has the worlds fastest internet speed. It has blazing fast internet, an average
peak speed of 63.6 Mbp megabits per seconds. At this speed you can download HD movie in about 2 minutes.

2 Japan:

Speed: 50 Mbps

The home of Nintendo and Sony had the second fastest internet speed, thanks to the high-speed fibre optics that run through many parts of the island nation. Japan’s average peak broadband speed reached an impressive 50 Mbps, which was more than 170% faster than the global average

3 . Romania:

Speed: 47.9 Mbp

When last checked in on Romania,it was ranked No. 5 and was the only country to see its average fall from the previous quarter. The country is now back on track, andhas elevated itself with an averagepeak speed of 47.9 Mbps. That’s 160% faster than the global average. Romania’s average was 9% higher than the previous quarter

4. South Korea:

Speed: 44.8 Mbp

Serious PC gamers who want to dominate in StarCraftneed fast, low latency internet connections. They’ll find that in South Korea, home to consumerelectronics giants Samsung and LG. The country’s average peak hit 44.8 Mbps, about 143% faster than theglobal average. It was the only region to lose speed compared with a year ago,

5. Latvia:

Speed: 44.2 Mbp

Smaller countries are easier to blanket with high-speed internet, which is one of the reasons why Latvia consistently ranks high on this list. The average peak broadband speed was 44.2 Mbps, about 140% faster than the globalaverage.

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How to install Android 4.2 (JellyBeen) on a PC, Laptop running Windows, Linux or Mac

This compact tutorial is about how to install Android 4.2 Jelly Bean on a computer running Windows, Linux or Mac or other operating system. This tutorial describes the installation process in snapshots and every caution is taken to make it easier.

          Android being the most widely used mobile operating system, rules the smartphone and tablet devices market all over the world. You can find Android really usable with handy features and tools integrated to it. Android rules the market of smartphones, tablets and phablets operating system in terms of users. Most devices in the world run Android today, more than iOS (operating system that runs on iPhone) and Windows Phone. Android runs on a specific technology called Dalvic Virtual Machine, so useful for mobile devices. However, Andorid can be installed on a PC running on Intel x86 architecture or similar. In this compact

tutorial, I am going to show you how you can install Android 4.2 Jelly Bean on a computer running a Windows operating system or a Mac or in a Linux box. I will make the things point to point ans step by step.

Requirements:

You have a computer running a full featured operating system, let it be Windows, Linux or Mac or Solaris or whatever operating system you are running. Now you want to run android Jelly Bean on it. You will basically need these things to use Android on your PC.

1.Oracle VM VirtualBox

2.Android x86 4.2 Image

How you play the olympics:

Step 1: Download Virtual Box from the official website. Download the version specific to the operating system you are running. After download is complete, you know that you are going to install Virtual Box on your Computer. So you installed it.

Download

from official website

click to download

Step 2: You have one important component now to run android on your PC. Now you need the most important one, the Android x86 4.2 Jelly Bean ISO image. Download it from below.

Download ISO

Android

click to download

Alternatively, you can go to the x86 Android official site and download a copy of ISO image from there.

Step 3: Installation of Virtua Box is done, you have downloaded the Android Jelly Bean x86 ISO image and you are ready to go. So you are looking for the next step. Open Virtual Box and select New.In the dialog box enter the name as Jelly Bean or Android or as your wish and select

i)Type : Linux

ii)Version : Other Linux and select Next.

Step 4:

In the next dialog box enter the memory size as your wish. You may grant as much as memory you want depending on the RAM you have installed on your machine.Note that minimum 512 MB is required to run Android Jelly Bean. So give accordingly and select Next

Step 5:

In the next dialog box select create a virtual hard drive now. Then select VDI and select fixed or dynamically allocated as your wish and create the virtual drive. I recommend you to choose dynamically allocated option because it will not be occupying extra space even if you are not using them.

Step 6:

Select Virtual device and select settings, a dialog box appears. In the dialog box select 

i)Storage->Storage Tree->Empty

ii)In the attributes section give the full path to the Android 4.2 x86 ISO file you have downloaded and check

Live CD/DVD, then click OK.

Step 7:

Now hit Start to start the virtual machine. In the next screen select Install Android-x86 to hard disk.

Step 8:

In the next screen select Create/Modify Partition. Then create a new primary bootable partition and select write. After finishing, select quit.

Step 9:

Now install android in sda1 and select type as ext3 , choose 'Yes' for installing grub.

Step 10:

After installation completes, remove live ISO of Android Jelly Bean x86 from Virtual Box and reboot your virtual machine. Now you can boot into Android 4.2.2 and ready to use it on your computer. Your Android 4.2 Jelly Bean is up and running.

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How to install Android on a PC running Windows, Linux or Mac

---- This Tutorial is dedicated on the topic How to Install Android 4.0 Ice Cream

Sandwich on Windows,Linux,Mac. This is a detailed and step by step tutorial with snapshots which will help readers to install android on a PC in the easiest way. ----

Android is a powerful and robust operating system for handheld devices like mobile phones or smartphones and tablet PC's. Android is common in devices nowadays. Android is built upon a monolithic Linux kernel and hence is really powerful and secure operating system. this tutorial is on how you can install Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich on a Personal computer running a Windows, Linux or a Mac OSX operating system. If you cannot afford to buy a tablet running android or you just don't want to buy one, yet you can try Android on your home PC. That is really cool. Since Android is a collaborative open source project, hence android can be downloaded for free of cost and anyone can use it as per his/her convenience. Installing android on a PC is easy but not the same as installing Windows or linux to your PC. Here I will show you how you can install Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich on a PC and experience the power of Android and have fun with it.

To Install Android 4.0 on a PC, you need VirtualBox installed in your host operating system.

Follow the given link and Download the appropriate(If you are running Windows, download Virtual Box for Windows 32 or 64 bit as per the architecture of your system. If you are using Linux or Mac then download accordingly.) version of VirtualBox for your system:

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

Install Virtual Box. If you need guidance to install Virtual Box, please refer to the official website of VirtualBox.

The next thing you need is the Android operating system cd. Download Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich ISO from this link:

Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.ISO

Now, run Virtual Box and follow these steps to install Android in your system.

Step 1: Click on 'New' tab.

Step 2: A new Window will appear with Title 'Welcome to the new Virtual Machine Wizard'. Click 'Next'.

Step 3: Enter any name you like for the Name of the new Virtual Machine. Select 'Operating System' as 'Linux' and Version as 'Linux 2.6'. Click 'Next'.

Step 4: Select the Base Memory size (keep it at least 256 MB) and press Next.

Step 5: Check 'Start up Disk' and Check 'Create new hard disk'. Click Next.

Step 6: Keep 'File Type' as VDI(VirtualBox Disk Image) and click 'Next'. For Storage Details, keep it as 'Dynamically Allocated'.

Step 7: In the next section, make the virtual hard disk size as 8 GB. Click Next and then press Create button.

 Now a new Virtual Machine is created. You now need to install Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich to this virtual machine.

Step 8: Select the newly created virtual machine and click on 'Start' button shown as an arrow -> in the menu. The 'First Run Wizard' will open. Click 'Next'.

Step 9: In the next window, under 'Media Source', browse to the ISO file of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich which you downloaded earlier. Click 'Next' and then 'Start'.

Step 10: The Android Installation Wizard will start. Use the Arrow key of your keyboard and scroll to 'Installation - Install Android x-86 to Hard Disk' and hit Enter. Alternatively you can try Android without installing choosing the first alternative.

Step 11: The installation starts. After few seconds, the installation prompt you to select a partition. Select 'Create/Modify partition' and hit 'Enter'. Next you need to hit Enter>Enter>Bootable>

Step 12: Use your arrow key and go to [Write] in the following screen. Hit 'Enter' and in the next prompt, type yes and press Enter.

Step 13: After writing the partition table, go to [quit] and press Enter.

Step 14: In the next Screen, select the first alternative and hit Enter. Next is the 'Choose Filesystem' menu. Use down arrow key and select 'ext3' and then press OK. Then cofirm formatting by pressing 'Yes'.

Step 15: Confirm installing 'Boot Loader GRUB' by hitting 'Yes'. in the next prompt Click 'Yes' to install system as 'Read/Write'.

After the installation is done, hit 'Run Android-x86'. Voila!!!You are done. You now have Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sanwich installed in your virtual box.
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How to add a speaking welcome message to your computer?

Have you ever wanted to hear a welcoming voice from your computer when you log into it just like you see in the movies? Would not it be cool if your computer welcomes you in a beautiful voice whenever you log in to your PC? Yes, absolutely. I also like to have fun with the small tweaks in my PC. So how will you make this happen? 

How your computer will speak? Well, I will show you a small trick using which you can make your computer welcome you at the start up. We will use a simple vb script to do this thing. Let me tell you that, this trick will be applied only on Windows computers, i.e. running Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7 operating systems. Unfortunately this will not work on machines running a Linux flavor. So, let’s move on with the tutorial.

Method I : Downloading the small .vbs file.

·         I have created one vb script file which is ready for you. You can download the .vbs file from here.

·         After downloading, locate the downloaded file and open it with Notepad by right clicking on it and selecting Open With > Notepad.

·         You have to do a minor change in the script

·         Replace the text “Welcome message” with your desired welcome message like Hello or Good morning or Good day or anything you want to hear from your computer and in place of “YourName”, write your real name and save the file.

Alternative Way : Creating your own .vbs file.

1.       Open any text editor like Notepad, Wordpad or Notepad++.

2.       Copy and Paste the following code to your text editor.

---

Dim message, talk

message="Welcome Message, YourName"

Set talk=CreateObject("sapi.spvoice")
talk.Speak message

---

3

.       Save the file by clicking on File>Save as  . Give any name in File Name and select All Files(*.*) in Save as Type tab. Give a .vbs extension to the file. E.g. Welcome.vbs.

Now your primary work is complete. Now you have to place the file you have just created to its appropriate place. If you are using a Windows XP operating system, then navigate to the path : C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup  or if you are using a Windows Vista or Windows 7 operating system then navigate to

C:\Users\ YourUserName\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup.  I am assuming that C is your system drive. If not, then replace C with your system drive letter and replace ‘YourUserName’ with your computer user name. Copy and paste the file you have downloaded or you have just created. Now you are done. The next time you start your PC, it will welcome you with its mechanical female voice along with your name. To check, you can reboot your computer.

For best result, you can change the sound scheme of your computer to ‘No Sounds’. To do so, follow these things:

If you are using a Windows XP system:

      Go to Control Panel.

      Switch to Classic View.

      Click on Sound and Audio Devices.

      Click on the Sounds tab.

      In the Sound Scheme option, select ‘No Sound’.

      Click Ok to save.

If you are using a Windows Vista or Windows 7 PC:

      Go to Control Panel.

      Click on Hardware and Sound.

      Then Click on Sound. Another window opens.

      Click on Sounds tab.

      Select ‘No Sounds’ from Sound Scheme option.

      Apply and press Ok.

You are done. Enjoy.

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Download and install Laptop driver easily using Slim Drivers.

We have all heard of device drivers. But do we know what are these drivers and how do they work? Well, in computing terms, a device driver is a computer program that allows higher-level computer programs and applications to interact with a hardware device e.g. the mouse, keyboard, video board, monitor etc.

But how do they interact with the hardware devices? The driver typically communicates with the hardware device through the computer bus. Without going into the details, we can say that you need to install device driver programs into your computer to get full throughput and utilization of your system.

If you own a laptop, then you might be aware of the driver softwares it required to run the operating system functionalities well. Drivers for performing various tasks improve performance of your computer and give you convenient use of all resources in your computer. Have you recently purchased a laptop and having problem getting the drivers for it? You may have searched the net for your laptop drivers and got frustrated when you have found nothing useful to you. May be you have downloaded some drivers those which are not compatible with your laptop model. If you search for drivers in the official website of your brand, you may get some drivers there but you may not get all device drivers that your machine needs to have installed say graphics solutions as an example. So how will you find it and where? Searching for only device drivers and getting it for the right device and right version is not so easy. When I purchased my first HP laptop, I faced the same problem. The seller told me that they will not give me any device driver CD bundled with my laptop, because it was a DOS version and no other operating system was preinstalled on it. When I installed Windows 7 on it, I had to search for the device drivers like audio device and graphics drivers. But hardly got a solution in the official HP website. I got some driver softwares which did not run on my machine. So I tried for alternative solutions and I got one. Here is a simple solution to your needs. I will show you step by step how can get drivers for your Notebook in a single place. You will be able to get regular update to your PC drivers after following these steps.

1.       Connect to the internet and download Slim Drivers from Slim Ware utilities website. This is freeware software and you will have to pay nothing to obtain a copy of this.

You can download the software by clicking here.

2.       After downloading, run the setup file and install the software. You may need to be connected to the internet becauseit might need to download latest update of the software version.

3.       After installing the slim Driver software by following the installation instructions, reboot your computer and run Slim Drivers. It should look like following.

4.       Click on “Start Scan” to scan for missing and broken drivers in your computer. The available driver update for all devices in your computer will be displayed. Select one by one to install driver. It is recommended that you create a restore point to your system before installing the driver. You will need to check for driver updates periodically to get the latest updates to your drivers.

After installing Slim Drivers, you need not to download and install all device drivers manually, just Start Scanning your PC with Slim Drivers and it will tell you what device drivers you need to install. After clicking install on specific Driver software, it will automatically download the software for you from the best known source. After getting it downloaded, you just need to follow the installation instruction of the driver.

There are other softwares too in the market for this purpose which works similar to Slim Drivers, but you may not get one without cost. You have to purchase one. So my recommendation is that use Slim Drivers which is freely available software. All you need is an account with Slim Ware utilities.

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