10 Free Apps for Photo Editing on the Move

Editing photos is like applying finishing touches to a painting. Photographs often don't look as good as they could unless you apply that finishing touch. Since most people use their smartphones to take pictures, we have shortlisted the best photo editing apps that you can use on-the-go to take your photography to the next level.

1. VSCO Cam (iPhone, Android)

VSCO (pronounced visco) Cam started out as a paid app but went free last year. It is one of the best photo editing apps on iOS and Android if you want advanced controls. VSCO Cam has a great collection of filters, which are better than those on Instagram. While some filters are free, you'll have to pay for many others. Don't let this dissuade you from trying the app, as the free filters are good enough for most people.
VSCO Cam's editing tools include brightness, contrast, saturation, tint, crop, rotate, sharpness, highlights, shadows, among a few others. As evident, it has enough tools for professional photo editing.
However, beginners will take some time to figure out how to use VSCO Cam because the app relies on icons and code numbers instead of words. For instance, filters have names like B1, X1, etc., which may be hard to remember initially. All editing tools are icons (sharpness is a triangle, saturation is a rectangle with a gradient, etc.) and it may take you a little while to go through all the tools and find what you need.

Click here to download for iOS
Click here to download for Android

2. Snapseed (iPhone, iPad, Android)

VSCO Cam has almost everything you'll need, but it isn't yet available on tablets. If you want a great photo editing app for the iPad, Snapseed is a good choice. Snapseed's interface is intuitive. Once you add photos to the app, select manual tuning and swipe upwards or downwards on the picture. This shows you different variables such as contrast, saturation, etc. Select any one and simply swipe towards the right to increase its value or in the opposite direction to reduce it.
This app is walking the tightrope between ease of use and advanced functionality. So far, Snapseed has got the balance just right. For power users, Snapseed has the selective adjust feature. This lets you change contrast, etc. on any part of the photo, without editing the whole picture. Snapseed's filters range from great (Grunge, Retrolux, Vintage) to average (Drama, Black & White). VSCO Cam has a better variety of tools, but Snapseed makes it easier to access all of its tools.
Snapseed is available for iOS and Android.

Click here to download for iOS
Click here to download for Android

3. Adobe Lightroom (iPad)

Lightroom and Photoshop are the reasons behind Adobe's iron grip on the desktop photo editing market. Lightroom for iPad isn't good as a standalone photo editing app, but it shines when used in conjunction with Lightroom for Windows or Mac. This means that you will need an Adobe subscription (around Rs 2,000 per month) to make the most of this iPad app.

If you are a subscriber or don't mind getting a subscription, Lightroom for iPad lets you synchronise edits between your desktop and iPad. The problem is that Lightroom for iPad lacks the advanced editing tools that are cherished by those who use the desktop app. If you want to make a quick edit, or apply a preset effect, Lightroom for iPad saves you the trouble of returning to your desktop. Lightroom is one of the few apps that support RAW files, which might appeal to those who use DSLR cameras. For those who want advanced editing options, Adobe's Photoshop Touch is a better (paid) alternative on the iPad.

Click here to download for iPad


4. Instagram (iPhone, Android, Windows Phone)

Apart from being one of the world's most popular photo communities, Instagram is a fast, hassle-free photo editing app. Its filters are adequate for most people, but not for power users. If you are into black-and-white photography, you might want to try other apps because Instagram's filters aren't the best.

Click here to download for iOS
Click here to download for Android
Click here to download for Windows Phone


5. Pixlr Express (Android, iOS)

Autodesk's photo-editing app Pixlr Express is quite useful when you want to remove unwanted spots or marks from photos. Whether it is dust on your camera's lens or flash burning out a small portion of the image, Pixlr Express is a good app for image correction. Available for both Android and iOS, Pixlr Express has easy to use tools, which help you touch-up images quickly. It has enough tools for power users too, coupled with Photoshop-like effects such as pencil, poster, sketch and halftone, among others.

Click here to download for iOS
Click here to download for Android


6. Flickr (iPhone, Android, Windows Phone)

Like Instagram, Flickr has a great community of photographers. Unlike Instagram, however, Flickr has advanced editing tools, which is better for enthusiasts. Another advantage is that Flickr doesn't restrict you to square photos. Its built-in filters are fairly good too. The only major negative is that Flickr's Windows Phone app isn't as good as iOS and Android variants.

Click here to download for iOS
Click here to download for Android
Click here to download for Windows Phone


7. Photo Editor by Aviary (Android, iOS, Windows Phone)

If you are a Windows Phone user, Photo Editor by Aviary is one of the best apps for tweaking pictures. Although the app still works well, you should know that its developers stopped updating the Windows Phone version last year. This app - under active development for iPhone and Android - also makes it easy to add text, drawings and stickers to your photos. Apart from these, it has all basic editing tools such as filters, effects, crop, rotate, etc. It doesn't have much in the way of advanced options, but that shouldn't be a problem for casual users.

Click here to download for iOS
Click here to download for Android
Click here to download for Windows Phone

8. Repix (Android, iOS)

If you like pretty apps, then both Repix, and the next app in the list, will appeal to you. Apart from great design, Repix has some cool filters, basic editing tools (brightness, saturation, etc) and even effects such as flares and posterize. If you want more filters or effects, you can purchase those through the app.

Website


9. Litely (Android, iOS)

Litely is similar to Repix, but it has fewer features and is easier to use. You can easily apply preset effects to any photo. A two-finger swipe shows you a before and after view of the picture. This makes it easy to see how an edit has changed the picture.

Website


10. Photo Studio (BlackBerry 10, Android)

BlackBerry users don't have access to many great photo editing apps. However, Photo Studio is a fairly good option for those using BlackBerry 10. It is a simple image editor that lets you take pictures and apply effects and frames to those. Although its collection of filters is better than those on Instagram, the app lacks advanced editing tools, apart from one that lets you correct RGB levels. This means that those who want fine control over their images will be disappointed. Photo Studio also lets you make collages and apply sketch effects to your photographs.

We hope that these apps helped you make your photographs look professional. In case we missed any of your favourite editing apps or if you liked our choice of apps, please leave a comment to let us know.

Click here to download for Android
Click here to download for BlackBerry

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How to Root & install Google PLAY Store in Nokia X Android Phone

Android is android and for all those who wanted to install the Google Apps Package and root the all new Nokia X Android Smartphone can now do the same. While Nokia unveiled 3 new android Smartphones which were Nokia X, Nokia X+ and Nokia XL in the recent Mobile World Congress event. The rooting has been achieved for Nokia X android device which will allow users to side load the Google PLAY Store and also other android apps like Google Now launchers etc. So after checking out the detailed list of quick pre requisites, you can now proceed on to check on what are the instructions with which you can apply the update.

Quick Pre Requisites:

·         Don’t use any PC tools for backing all the data present in your Nokia X Android Smartphone.

SMS – Currently there is no automated way to backup SMS
Contacts – Sync with the Outlook application,
Images, Songs, Videos, Files – Copy to internal / External SD Card,
APN and MMS Settings – Note down from the path “Applications > Settings > Wireless and Network > Mobile Networks > Access Point Names”

·         Enable the USB Debugging Mode in your computer from the path “Settings > Applications > Development > USB debugging”. Also, the minimum battery life should be a minimum of 40% or else there is a risk of device getting Turned Off in the middle of firmware update.

·         For applying this custom ROM firmware, you need to make sure that your Note 3 is rooted. To check whether your Galaxy Note 3 Android phone is rooted or not, you will have to check the same from Root Checker app.

Procedure to Root Nokia X Android Phone:-

• Download the Rooting APK, Google Apps APKs in your computer and place the same in your Nokia X Android phone. After downloading the zip package, all you need to do is to unzip to get the APKs.

• Connect your device to the computer with the help of original USB cable and place the APKs in your device.

• With the help of file manager app, head over to the placed APK and tap on the same to follow on screen instructions and root your Nokia X android Smartphone.

• Up next, head over to the Google Apps APKs which you have placed in the device to /system/app and change permissions for this files in the device.
• Up next, you need to install the Google Apps Package which you have earlier placed in the device.
• Now, all you need to do is to just open the Google Play Store app in your Nokia X android phone after which it will ask you to add your Google Account.

Download Rooting APK here

Download Google Apps APKs here

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Predator – A Software to Lock Your PC with a USB Flash Drive

We can use Pendrive, Memory Card, or any other USB device to lock our Computer. This is possible by using free software called Predator. Predator, a tiny Windows application which makes our USB Flash Drive more effective and interesting. Using Predator and our USB flash drive we can lock our PC/Laptop. The PC will automatically be Locked down when we remove the flash drive. But the Windows session will still be running.

How does it Work:-

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  Predator locks the PC when we remove the USB Flash Drive. It will darken the screen and the Keyboard and the mouse will become inactive.

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When we return back, then we just insert our USB Flash Drive and the Computer will be automatically Unlocked.

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  If anyone tries to access the computer in the absence, then we can see their activity in the log file. We can set alarm so that it will sound the noise if anyone tries to access the computer when it is locked.

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Predator uses the USB Flash Drive as an Access Control Device. It does not perform any type of modification in the existing data in the Flash Drive.

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Predator changes the Security codes record in your Flash Drive frequently. If any intruder copies the USB stick it will not work because in the same time the code of our own stick will change itself automatically.

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The Task Manager is disabled by Predator when we remove our USB Flash Drive. So that anyone cannot terminate any process in our Windows by Pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del or Ctrl+Shift+Esc.

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If we have lost our USB Flash Drive then we can unlock the PC by the Password we have set in the time of starting the software first time.

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If we want to replicate the logs with our Twitter account, then you have to allow on the PC to remotely monitor all access-control activity.

Downloads:-

Click here for 32 bit

Click here for 64 bit

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Install Cortana In Asha Phones (Bing bookmark app)

Microsoft has started providing updates for its windows phone users worldwide with the update to 8.1. the most awaited feature was Cortana, a personal digital assistant just like Apple’s Siri and Google Now in Android. Cortana uses bing as its search engine and it replaces the bing app in Windows phone 8.1. Read more about Cortana here.

 

Nokia Asha smartphones (or feature phones) runs on a new Nokia Asha OS, an updated version of Nokia’s S40 platform. As it is a feature phone,and has just 64MB ram, it is impossible to use voice assistants like Cortana or Siri as they wont perform like they do in iOS and Windows Phone 8.1.

 

I have created an app that runs on almost all Nokia S40 phones, especially Asha 501. This is a simple app that opens the bing search page in the phone’s default browser(Nokia Browser) as Cortana is powered by Bing. This app can be used to search in Bing.com, nothing much. But, yeah, its really nice to see a Cortana logo in your home screen. Whoever takes your phone will surely be amazed to see A Cortana logo in the phone.

 

   

 

NB: THE MENTIONED APP IS SUCCESFULLY INSTALLED AND WORKED ON MY NOKIA ASHA 501 DUAL-SIM AND NOKIA 112. I WONT BE RESPONSIBLE IF ANY MISHAPPENINGS OCCUR TO YOUR PHONE. DOWNLOAD AT YOUR OWN RISK.

[INSTALL FACEBOOK IN LANDSCAPE MODE IN YOUR ASHA PHONE]

 

Steps To Install

1. 1. Open the below icon with UC BROWSER(recommended) or OPERA 8
2. 2. Press DOWNLOAD
3. 3. Press SAVE (not OPEN)
4. 4.Select a folder in your memory card or phone memory
5. 5. Press OK
6. 6. Make sure the download is full and close the browser
7. 7. Navigate to the downloaded file (cortana_by_vivek_jar)
8. 8. Long press on the file and RENAME it to (cortana_by_vivek.jar)
9. 9.Now open the file, it will get installed.
10. 10. Now open and enjoy.
11. CREDITS: shinewap.mobi

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Xaiomi to Launch in India this year

 
China’s third biggest smartphone maker Xaiomi announced its launch in India this year via its official twitter handle. Famous for its smart user interface and aggressive pricing, is coming to 10 countries including India. The tweet said "Xiaomi is coming to 10 countries in 2014! Malaysia, Philippines, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Russia, Turkey, Brazil and Mexico...". The announcement came after the company renamed it official website from Xiaomi.com to Mi.com. Founded by Lei Jun, the Mi1 smart phone was first announced in august 2011, shipped with Xaiomi’s MIUI firmware which is based on android and resembles samsung’s TouchWiz and Apple’s iOS. Xiaomi Mi3, which is the last one launched, comes with a modified Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor and is tested as the worlds fastest Android smartphone. It runs on MIUI, which is a stock and after market android firmware for smartphones and tablets. More details regarding the launch are not yet revealed by the company, but is sure to be launched in 2014 itself. It will be launched in India only after Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines and Thailand.

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Install Facebook App in Landscape Mode in Full-Touch Asha Phones

Hello everybody, here I am posting on "How to make your Facebook app landscape?" Well, sadly, this method cannot be done to the official Facebook app that came pre-installed with the device as it is a signed version and the .jar file cannot be accessed from the phone memory. So here I have used a handler app of an old version which works perfectly in the phone. As this is an old version, the official app don’t mess with this one so you are able to use two facebook apps in your phone which is very helpful for those maintaining two facebook accounts at a time. The new Asha phones has got a really good keyboard but the 3" scren ruins the fun of typing. But you can type freely if you hold it horizontally.

The method  is so simple and can be done with the help of a computer. As i have provided the app below for you to download, I will explain briefly. Unpack the .jar file to a folder and open the MANIFEST.MF in notepad. Now include one more line, “Nokia-MIDlet-App-Orientation: landscape”. Now save the file and carefully repack all the files to a .zip file and rename it to jar format. This can make the app run in landscape mode.

But what I have done here is a little more intresting. If you hold your phone in portrait mode and open the app, the app opens normally in portrait mode and if you hold it horizontally and open the app, it will open in Landscape mode. Instead of using “Landscape” in the code, I have used “Manual” which is making the app so cool. The code is “Nokia-MIDlet-App-Orientation: manual”. The app makes use of the proximity sensor and open accordingly to the phones position. The boring Facebook icon is also changed and I have used the icon of Facebook-Home app for Android. I know, now you can’t wait to modify the app.

[Releated read: Learn how to remove Ads from games in Asha 5XX phones]

   
  
As I've said earlier, App has been uploaded for you to download. Follow the steps carefully to download.sorry for these low-quality screenshots.

NB: THE MENTIONED APP IS SUCCESFULLY INSTALLED AND WORKED ON MY NOKIA ASHA 501 DUAL-SIM. I WONT BE RESPONSIBLE IF ANY MISHAPPENINGS OCCUR TO YOUR PHONE. DOWNLOAD AT YOUR OWN RISK.

hahaha..chill brothers.. believe me I have been using this app for the last 3-4 months
And once again i am concluding with the steps  to follow in order to get the app.

1. Open the below icon with UC BROWSER(recommended) or OPERA MINI
2. Press DOWNLOAD
3. Press SAVE (not OPEN)
4.Select a folder in your memory card or phone memory
5. Press OK
6. Make sure the download is full and close the browser
7. Navigate to the downloaded file (fbmod_by_vivek_jar)
8. Long press on the file and RENAME it to (fbmod_by_vivek.jar)
9.Now open the file, it will get installed.
10. Now open Facebook app and enjoy.
(HOLD YOUR PHONE STRAIGHT TO OPEN IT IN PORTRAIT MODE, HOLD IT HORIZONTALLY TO OPEN IN LANDSCAPE MODE and remember to untick “Show On Start” which comes in the first screen after installing).

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Basics to Android App Modification

Android is a complete operating environment based upon the Linux® V2.6 kernel. Initially, the deployment target for Android is  mobile-phones including smart phones and lower-cost flip-phone devices. Creating apps for android is not easy as it seems. You need to have deep knowledge on some programming languages.For a start, the most important thing is your desire to learn. There won’t be many opportunities for you to learn development from third party institutions and also,if you are serious on it, try getting a Certification directly from Oracle. Almost all of the successful developers out there had learned development with their own effort and with the help of internet.

Basically I am also a newbie to this field with a small base on java programming language. I have searched a lot about the basics but not satisfied with the google results. The results from XDA were also a little complicated. And at last I found this post from XDA's senior developer Dark Wraith. And In my view, it’s the best one I have seen for a good start. The document(.pdf) is loaded with basic introduction to the some programming languages and the development. Best of Luck.!
you can also visit the thread to his post(link included in the document), download from below.

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