Travel Apps for Android

Is it vacation time and need to enjoy them? Android Market provides cool app for travel to find best agents and make your trip at much more comfortable rate. Android provides the top rated travel app as below.

Vacation Countdown

Planning for a vacation, then hope half of the enjoyments start while preparing for that. All the time you cannot move with a dairy that signifies the work to be covered on vacations. Vacation Countdown is a widget with which you can enter some of the details regarding your vacation such as departure date, things to be prepared and lots more. So it tick the time daily which makes you closer to departure time that attains more excitement, not only thriller but serves as a better remainder with some entertainment for you. In this application, many features they are served at free of cost but charged at $0.99. 

Flight Track by Mobiatad 

Are you often trying to engage to travel in flight, booked earlier at least six months before departure? There may be several changes in timing due to many reasons. Finding Hard to get updates regarding changes? Flight Track app provided at Android Market offers real time updates not only for local but for flights across worldwide. So, on any changes to the flight you have engaged may be alerted by this and according to your convenience you can make a change over or cancel them. They offer assistance in finding the new one. It has default link to SeatGuru.com to check out the seating arrangement. Providing these many useful features, they offered at $4.99 to users.

Google Maps

Google Map is designed to fix default in Android device, very useful to find places, resorts, lodging and lots more in nearby areas. You can use them either by typing or speaking. They offer you driving direction, walking distance and many more. Also make sure that your Google Map is updated to new place, if not then do it prior to departure to get the accurate results while traveling.

Booking.com

For vacation you are not only going to travel but also need to find a hotel to stay. If you are not a travel agent, and need to both travel and stay Booking.com provides you the exact way. Mostly Android app accounting to travel will let you know regarding travels, but won’t let you to have a look at hotels to stay. Booking.com along with travel allows to briefly look at more than 100,000 hotels for lodging. Also user are allowed to read and download all the information regarding the vacation, it eliminates need to carry a paper to provide the information to authority regarding your travel.

Restaurant Finder

You need to find a right place to have food according to your taste. Restaurant finder suits this situation well and let you know the resort nearby. Surely this app will be valuable during trip.

Trip journal

Often people struggle in on-going vacation is that to remember what are all the places needed to be covered. Trip Journal avails you the track list, record notes, pictures and avails the option to share among the social networking sites. They are available at $4.08 in Android Market. Install and make your trip easier than

5 Best Puzzle Games For Android Smartphones

Puzzle tending to use your brain to think a little deeper than usual. Interested in challenging your brain with puzzle? Puzzle games available at Android Market will full fill this wish. Find out the best puzzle game.

Unblock Me Free

Have you always been in a mentality that you are smarter enough to deal situation. This though can surely be destroyed by Unblock Me. Game is not tough at earlier level but crossing stages by stages let to get frustrated. Simple objective here is that move block out of the way of red block and move it out off. Prepare yourself for a frustrating challenge moving ahead in game.

Also try to compete with your friends and find out who free the red blocks at a much faster or shorter period of time. Also make a note that puzzle challenge more than normal while taking more from beginner to intermediate mode. Enjoy the fun.

Classic Tetris

Android Smart Phones purchased a way while should have come across Tetris. The current Android version also brings you back the fun and challenges of the older version. It appears solid in touch screen. When you search across Android Market regarding Tetris, both Android Tetris and classic Tetris are available. They are free, won’t cost you anything to download and you should be the right person to choose which suits you the best. Android Tetris controls take some time, but when you are to it then you will spin the block and massive eruption can take place in no time.

The Moron Test

Unlike the apps discussed above Moron is not available at free version. It has to be installed at $0.99 which helps to determine your inner potential. The game is as simple as eating a Banana, light hearted game which is fun to play with friends. Moron offers dozens of question to be solved to test your capability, sense of humor and intelligence. On installation it gets you through 7 levels comprising of 500 steps. Moron is fun to be played with and very simple. An important memo is that don’t take things serious if your score is little lower than others. Practice makes a man perfect. Try to play more and you will get many answers which reaches to score. You need not been a genius, but you should be no more a Moron!!!

Traffic Jam Free

Traffic Jam installation is at free of cost and resembles Unblock me. Are you interested in puzzling up your minds with more challenges, this app offers you that facility. Game is simple just you need to get the car out of traffic on its way down the street, puzzle get harder as you progress through the game, but fun to play with.

X Construction 

App installed at free of cost or at paid version. Both is versions are similar except the number of bridges you build and your ability to save the game. The full version can be installed at $1.35 in Android Market. Creative design are more important and be much creative as you can to pass a train through the building.

Husband and Wife Architects Create a Foundry for 3D Printed Sweets

Have you heard of Liz and Kyle von Hasseln? We’re going to go out on a limb and assume you haven’t. This makes us sad. You see, Liz and Kyle are architects. But not exactly your normal, average architects. No, they now specialise in the creation of sugar “buildings”.

Sugar Buildings? How Did That Come About?

They used to be focused on regular architecture until a friend’s birthday came along, and they decided to make her a special cake for the day.

Finding themselves without an oven good enough to bake a cake in, they thought they could instead use a 3D printer to produce one for her. Although it took rather a lot of trial and error, they eventually managed to produce a single cupcake topper, which spelled out her name (Chelsea) in cursive letters of sugar.

Sadly, it wasn’t ready until a few months after her birthday had been and gone, but hey – it’s the thought that counts, right? Chelsea “loved” it; the reaction they got was so overwhelmingly positive that the von Hasselns thought a business dedicated to it was viable.

And all this while still in uni!

The Beginnings of The Sugar Lab

Once the two of them graduated from university, they began to set the wheels in motion, deciding to start a mini design firm, specialising in the 3D printing of custom sugar designs.

Don’t make the mistake of thinking these are your everyday cake decorations – they are anything but. Taking less leaves out of Willy Wonka’s play book than from the portfolio of abstract architectural masters like Jim Jennings, The Sugar Lab specialises in unique designs and shapes, resulting in stark, white creations.

How Does It Work?

If you want something special for a birthday or special occasion, then you should visit The Sugar Lab’s website to get the process started. You are involved in the design at every step of the way – you tell Liz and Kyle your idea or theme, and they get it going.

They say that you can give them almost anything as inspiration, such as a cutting of lace from your wedding dress to a postcard from your favourite place. They will take it and weave its themes into the cake decoration. You will soon have your completed creation, a memorable, unique, bespoke cake.

What Does the Future Hold?

This most unusual of architect services has been going for just over two years now, but in the last six months or so, business has really picked up. The von Hasselns are saying it is finally beginning to take the form of a viable career option, something they are both very happy about.

So what is next for The Sugar Lab? Well, aside from their usual orders, they are currently working with “a well-known Hollywood bakery” to design and create a massive, four later cake, replete with 3D printed cake stand and sugar columns! Keep your eyes peeled, people.

How does a QR code work?

What is a QR code? 

Have you seen ads and visiting cards with these kind of prints imprinted on them?

Well these are known as QR codes (a) Quick Response codes. It is nothing but a matrix barcode (2D barcode) which was designed first for an automotive industry in Japan. Simple Barcodes are used for detecting information through optically by using machines. Barcode is actually an optical machine readable label which is used to retrieve information about the product or an item in which the label is attached. But QR code is totally different from the ordinary barcode; QR code may be developed or designed by four ways such as numberic, alphanumberic, kanji and bytes. They are used to retrieve various level of information about an item.


Comparison of 1D and 2D barcodes:

• These 2D barcodes contains a massive amount of information when compared to 1D barcodes.

• Another major disadvantage is that 1D barcodes needs powerful scanners whereas for 2D your Smart-phones are more than enough.
Some more examples for 2D codes are Maxicode and Datamatrix 

How does it work?

Ok now we’ve seen what’s a QR code let’s see how do they work.

These QR codes have two kinds of patterns namely the

• Finder pattern &

• Alignment pattern

Finder patterns are arrangement of squares that helps the scanner to detect the size of the QR code.
Alignment patterns are another arrangement of squares helps the scanner to detect whether the QR codes are distorted or damaged.

The scanners after scanning the code, analyzes the image. It calculates the ratio of black and white areas and calculates which squares are alignment squares and which squares contain the original information. Then the scanner either directs it to the main information source or the URL in which the main information is at stake.
QR code generators:

Another major ease with these codes are that these QR codes can be generated easily. There are many QR generators online for the access of public.

If you are interested in a simple business at your home then to make it more interesting you can generate your own QR code.

Here are some links that might help you in creating one

www.the-qrcode-generator.com 

createqrcode.appspot.com 

qrcode.kaywa.com 

qrcode.littleidiot.be 

These play a vital role in advertisements and website marketing. QR codes swept 1D barcodes off their feet and brought a big revolution in every major and minor industry.

Basically, QR codes are used for industrail purposes and also for consumer level advertising. Nowadays, a typical level Smartphone has a QR-code reader in it. You can convert your information over QR-code and you can transfer it to your friends and other circles. Even you can denote your URL via this QR-code and when the URL is detected by the reader, it will automatically opened in the browser of your smartphone. Finally, QR-codes are very simple and they are more effective for so many processes.

Lync app for Windows 8.1 gets an update

The new version of the suite of communication Lync introduces several features that should improve the overall ergonomics. Microsoft yesterday released an update of its Lync app for Windows 8.1. It provides a series of new features intended to improve the use of the service.

The first allows you to take control of split screens, applications and supports PowerPoint presentation during Lync meetings. Each user can control the volume of a call without changing the overall volume of Windows.

The update also allows you to take or reject an audio or video call from the lock screen where it displays the name and profile picture of the user.

The window of the Lync application can be resized to be displayed side by side with other applications in order to return to an application or a website. Finally; a tool to ease the search for contacts is available now.