5 FREE Twitter applications

Twitter is one of the fastest growing social media network that of any age can sign up, but with these list of Twitter apps comes with the Free and Paid apps, I’m here to give you some of the free Twitter apps you might want to use.

You might as well Follow me on Twitter at @NicoBugarin

HootSuite

HootSuite is an app designed for multi-taskers. It’s the most handy Twitter alternative app out there with many features and  simple layout and social media connection with Facebook, LinkedIn, and Foursquare. HootSuite lets you view two social media network like Facebook and Twitter in one app but don’t you worry about news feed clutter, this app lets you organize your news feed to avoid annoying and mixed up post and tweets.

I personally love this app and I do use this as my daily driver.

*FREE

UberSocial

UberSocial is the easy-on-the-go Twitter app for all. UberSocial can manage multiple accounts that lets you organize what you want to use and who you want to view, with its newly robust features that lets you view photos in landscape mode, movable, hide-able menu and many more.

*FREE and Pro version for $4.99

Echofon 

Echofon is a smart app that will function everything you need. Another Twitter app alternative for people on-the-go and wants speed and power with clean interface, fastest and smartest  features on a Twitter app and it is all available on any device. Speed and Power are everything with Echofon!

*FREE and Pro version for $4.99

Twitterrific 5

Twitterrific is one of the oldest twitter app out there it was founded in 2007 but it didn't stop there but Twitterrific still offers you modern interface for a twitter app and they just updated their Twitter client last April 10, 2014 with so many feature updates that I just cant put it up in just one article but what I love the most are the gesture controls to make your experience more powerful, filter tweets and you can view your favs, RT’s and new followers via Today View.

*FREE and with an In-App Purchase

Twitter

Twitter is the original app and universal app that is available on every mobile platform, this app client is still the best, reliable and perfect that contains everything you can see or view on the Twitter website. Twitter has the most features on any other client with the latest updates and bug fixes. Twitter is absolutely free and easy to manage with clean interface and works the same as the twitter website experience.

*FREE

Battery Saving Tips part 2

Another Battery Saving Tips to keep you and your phone running!!

I’m back again with tips to conserve your battery, the original post “Battery Saving Tips” with no more introductions, I will now share you these tips:

1. Short Screen Timeout

The simplest tip is here again, the screen timeout decides when your phone will turn off when it’s inactive, this tip can help your phone to conserve more battery life due to the short timeout.

2. Battery Saving Apps

You’ll find hundreds of Battery Saving Apps on your app store, these apps lets you know what kind of app is eating your battery and allows you to save battery consumption in just a click.

Battery Saving Apps are usually FREE on your app store, just download one and you’ll be ready to go, with these apps it can not only kill apps that drains your battery but it will also help you conserve more battery with its on board programs.

3. Airplane mode

All smartphones are designed to search for cellular signals even in limited areas which strains your battery and consumes more power, try switching it to Airplane mode and it will conserve more battery life,  when on Airplane mode your phone will cut the “Searching Cellular Signal” and take Note You wont be able to receive or make calls and texts when your phone is on Airplane mode.

4. Turn off auto refresh on your social feed (Twitter, Facebook etc.)

Staying in touch with the latest news is  great but It can reduce your battery life as well while refreshing the app continuously, without turning the Auto refresh on your social feeds, your feeds will automatically refresh at  the given time and will run the application even you don’t open it and I’ll help you turn it off, go to your socials and click “Settings or Options” and look for the Auto Refresh and turn it off to conserve more battery.

5. Don’t Text, Use and Talk when your phone is charging!!

Using it while charging will ruin your battery and it will make your phone charge more slower than ever.

Battery Saving Tips

Here are some battery saving tips to get you moving!

The days when cell phones can last for a week or 2 on a single charge are gone, completely gone in this generation of new phones. Smartphones are equipped with powerful softwares and features that can kill your battery in hours. Listing to music, playing games, posting pictures and tweeting is fun but the moment you see your battery % isn't fun at all.

Here are some tips on how to conserve your battery life with easy, simple steps and just spending some money.





1. Adjust your brightness
This simplest tip is being used by many. Adjusting your brightness to your desire, with bright screen comes a shorter battery life so try to adjust it to conserve more power.

2. Turn Off Vibration

Its a great alternative for silent mode, but did you know that Vibrate mode actually consumes more power than any ringtones, Vibrate mode sends tiny vibrations in your speakers that uses more energy and making your battery life shorter.

3. Turn off connections (Wifi, Bluetooth, GPS)
Connections that are turned on can cause your battery life not to last longer, ON connections continuously search for new signals and takes up energy from your smartphone. Before you leave your house or anything remember to turn off your Wifi or Bluetooth to conserve battery and just turn it On if you need it.

4. Clear out apps
Force shut your running applications, open and running apps are one of your enemies when it comes to battery drainage, clear all running app if you don't clear them they will just run on your phone and will surely take half of your battery life.

5. Turn off push notifications
Push notifications are important but you need to turn it off, constant updating and displaying messages and alerts still consumes energy. Limit or turn it off if you don't need it to prevent it from draining your battery.

8. Temperature
Our smartphones are not designed for hot conditions, our battery runs out when our smartphones are warm. Don't leave your smartphone under or direct sunlight or in your car.

This is the most common problem, leaving our phone inside our car without knowing it can damage our phones battery with excessive heat, before going out your car remember to always bring your phone with you and don't just leave it there.

7. Spare or External Battery (power banks)
This option can be a pain in your wallet but its worth it. Getting a spare battery or external battery can keep you moving, got drained battery? no problem just get the extra battery and put it on. External battery can be expensive but it can keep you for a long day. Just remember to buy from trusted External Battery manufacturer to avoid any accidents.

HTC: HTC One M8

Another show stopper device from HTC!!

The Taiwanese smartphone-maker announced its newest flagship device with the catch of " Beautifully Designed, Inside and Out "

HTC unveiled the HTC One M8 at a press conference in New York and London, Tuesday ( March 25, 2014) Showing off its high end built quality for its signature all aluminum body and a great specifications.

 Photo owned by: www.mobilechoiceuk.com

Check out my HTC: THE ARRIVAL article to know more!

With the new HTC One M8 that houses a larger screen size with 146.36x70.6x9.35 mm, 5 inches with Full HD 1080p (Hoping for a 2K display) The rather square built quality of the M7 was disregarded and has been replaced by the smooth round edges of the M8. The new One is much lighter that its younger brother that weighs only about 160g.

HTC also upgraded their flagship device with top-notch specifications that now supports Qualcomm^® Snapdragon™ 801, quad-core CPUs with 2GB of RAM with a storage of 16GB and 32 GB and a new addition of card slot expansion (MicroSD) that can handle up to 128GB of added memory.

The HTC One M8 will come with its UI the Sense 6 or as they call it the " 6th Sense " with added features like:

• Gestures control

- Double tap the screen to turn it on/off the phone
- Life the camera to eye level to open the camera

• Flip to mute

- Just flip the M8 over to mute the device 

• Hand-free calling

- Answer your phone by simple voice commands and by raising it to ear level

• Calendar

- The new calendar for Sense 6 will Sync everything from schedules, meetings, events, birthdays & get your daily notifications and daily reminders on the go

• Email

- With On-screen email support

• Music

- Dynamic background music with its visual themes

• Sense TV

- Use your phone as a remote controller
- Swipe 2 fingers to connect to your TV, Speakers and Stereos
- The new Sense 6 supports real-time sports updates

Audio:

"We set the standards to mobile audio" - HTC

The HTC One M8 still have the Best Audio for mobile with their HTC BoomSound with Dual front facing speakers. 

"Our BoomSound is 25% louder with more depth with built-in Amps to create rich audio that brings music and video to life" - HTC

Battery:

HTC said that the battery life of the M8 is 40% bigger that can last longer than the previous devices with its 2600mAh, It can last up to 20 hours for talk time and 496 hours for standby time. They added a battery saving mode called "Extreme Power Saving Mode" 

Battery %             Days/Week it will last

100%                              2 Weeks

20%                               60 Hours

10%                               30 Hours

5%                                 15 Hours

Camera:

2013 was the year of Selfies and now HTC brought high-end specs for its camera for the M8. The M8 now supports a 5MP Wide Angle front facing camera good for video chatting and great for Selfie lovers. (A Year of the Selfies yet again! Thanks to the HTC One M8.)

The most interesting hardware of the M8 is the Duo Camera

"HTC changed the conversation of Mobile Photography" - HTC

• Primary camera with the HTC's signature ULTRA PIXEL that can record 1080p Full HD Wide angle recording with HDR Video
• Secondary Camera it will capture the depth information of every photo you have taken, with the Duo Camera you can refocus any photo after taking it.

HTC Dot Case:

Photo owned by: blog.laptopmag.com

HTC M8 Doc case which shows the time and weather with the use of LEDs, the colors for the case will be available in Blue, Orange and Green.

HTC One M8 will be made available to 230+ carriers and 100+ countries. At the end of April it will be made available in some countries like Australia, United Kingdom, France, Germany, China, Taiwan and The US. If you want it now, go to Verizon stores walk in and walk out with the new HTC One M8.

Connectivity:

• HTC still have the 3.5mm stereo audio jack
• NFC 
• Bluetooth 4.0
• Wifi a/b/g/n/ac
• DLNA ( wirelessly stream media from phone to a compatible TV or Compurter )
• HTC Connect
• Micro USB 2. (5Pin)
• 4G LTE

Sensors:

• Accelerometer
• Proximity Sensor
• Ambient light sensor
• Gyro sensor
• Barometer sensor
• GPS

Others:

• Nano Sim
• Color availability: Silver, Black, Gold 

2014: Year of Wearable Tech!

Google: Android Wear

One wearable tech. is said to be the King of Smartwatches and that is Pebble, they are the pioneers of the Smart watch but what is Pebble? It's a watch that lets you connect your device that notify you for new alerts, mails, messages and many more. They released an updated version of the Pebble with the new Pebble Steel.

For added information, What is wearable technology? 

"Wearable technology (also called wearable gadgets) is a category of technology devices that can be worn by a consumer and often include tracking information related to health and fitness. Other wearable tech gadgets include devices that have small motion sensors to take photos and sync with your  mobile devices."  -Webopedia

We have a new contender when it comes to smart watch, Google announced " Android Wear " a version of Andriod which is designed for wearable or an Android Os for wearables. The Android Wear is an integration of Google Now but on your wrist with glans-able information and with just a swipe information that is really designed for your wrist.

LG and Motorola will be making smartwatches with the Android Wear OS. LG with its traditional square faced watch but Motorola is making the buzz with its Motorola 360 that Google used for its Android Wear promotional video, it is a traditional round faced smartwatch, it is very beautiful for a smartwatch that can suit your everyday event and we Thank Motorola for that design! We still don't have specifications for the Motorola 360 but I will update you as they release the specifications for the 360.

Motorola 360 - LG smartwatch

HTC M8: THE ARRIVAL

The HTC One was one of the best Android device of 2013. HTC changed the game with the One by changing its form-factor with its cutting edge design and a different custom skin of the HTC Sense.

2014 is the said year for another HTC device announcement. Rumor has it that HTC is working on another Flagship device that will debut this March 2014 codename M8 or the HTC Two.

The HTC M8 is getting lots of attention not because it is a new flagship from HTC but for the unique form-factor again and having new hardware features that you can only get from the HTC M8.

What to expect with the HTC M8:

Display:
The HTC M8 will be bigger than its younger brother having 4.7" but now the M8 will have 5" (1080 x 1920) Full HD screen size having the first HTC device to use on-screen buttons. Hopefully we can see a 2k display but if not it will be a 1080p display.

Hardware:
The M8 features more rounder edge rather than the square edge of the One with its pop-out buttons. The M8 will feature a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor, 2GB of RAM and having the 16/32/64 GB of internal storage and an additional of MicroSD slot, and YES it's true M8 will support a MicroSD slot up to 128 GB. HTC BoomSound was the best mobile speaker on the market and now the M8 will still support the BoomSound and we may see the M8 sport a fingerprint scanner and it will be powered by 2600 mAh of battery

Features:
Soft aware:
It will come with Android 4.4 KitKat and the new version of Sense, the Sense 6.0
Connectivity:
Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n/ac, 4G LTE, Bluetooth 4.0 with A2DP
Sensors:
Accelerometer, Gyro, Proximity, Compass


Camera:
The M8 will still support the HTC Zoe but can we get an upgrade from the original Zoe to Zoe 2.0? hopefully we can, the front facing camera having 2.1 MP. The main feature of the M8 is the Dual camera and is said to be an UltraPixel. The Dual camera is said to refocus the photo after it has been taken and we are still not sure about the main function of the Dual camera and hopefully they can incorporate a 4k video recording. We can all see the M8 has dual flash.

Accessories:
@evleaks has leaked an interesting case for the HTC M8 which shows the time and weather with the use of LEDs, the colors for the case will be available in Blue, Orange and Green.

Color availability:
Silver, Black, Gold

Release date:
Save the date now! It is officially confirmed.
HTC has issued invites for the launch for its 2014 M8 flagship device and may be called the HTC Two. It will be a global launch that will take part in New York and London.

Health Care: Feeding Program and Health Awareness Program

If you don't know I'm a medical student by day but a Technology blogger by night and I know this is not related to Technology but I just want to share this experience. 

Our Health Care subject conducted a Feeding program and Health awareness program at San Luis Daycare center last March 13, 2014 (Thursday) with our department the Respiratory Therapy II. 

We provided lots of activities not just Health awareness and Feeding program but we also conducted interesting games, health related role play and exercises, we aim to educate the children while having fun to make the program more interesting.

First we had our kiddy morning exercise, we did some stretching by doing head rotations, head tilt up, head tilt down, raising their hands up, hip bending and jumping jacks just to wake them up. Seeing them having fun is good sign that they are interested. 

Second we did a role play about a tooth cavity, we explained on how cavities can ruin their teeth and the consequence of having a tooth cavity because you can't eat, sleep and concentrate because of the painful felling of having a tooth decay. We can see in  their eyes that they are afraid of having tooth decay and we asked them, "What will you do to avoid tooth decay" (anong gagawin niyo para hindi masira ngipin niyo?) They all answered "We Brush our teeth" (mag toothbrush na kami palagi) it's great to see children listing and realizing the painful feeling of having a tooth decay.

Third we had games to make them more livelier and to make the program more interesting to children. The first game "Who is the best dancer" having our participants as children of course they're all the best dancers some did dance but some are shy you can tell that they want to dance but they're just shy because they have visitors, they did dance in the tune of Cha-Cha by Ryzza Mae Dizon. They did enjoy the games and the prizes.

Fourth and final program is the Feeding Program, we gave them nutritious food like Pancit having noodles with different varieties of vegetables, chicken sandwich and juice drinks. We aim to educate children to eat nutritious foods like vegetables, meat etc. and to avoid junk foods for them to be healthy and lively. After the feeding program we gave them loot bags with toothbrush, toothpaste, towels, and soap for them to use and apply what they have learned from the health awareness program.

As medical students we need to educate children as early as they can be to influence others on proper ways to health awareness and share to everyone to eat vegetables and not to eat junk foods for them to be healthy because one can influence others to participate in health awareness.

Having this exposure is a great experience for us medical students, sharing our knowledge to everyone and educating people about health awareness. This experience is very unforgettable meeting new people, encouraging children to do something they don't usually do and seeing them learning is a great experience even we're very tired preparing for the program but seeing them smile and participate can lessen our  weary. It feels like giving back without the presence of money but giving back in a meaningful way and educative way.

Thank you San Luis Daycare center for having us, Thank you Ma'am Rhein and Ma'am Maylene, Thank you Kuya Jay for providing our lunch and Thank you Respi II for making this Program meaningful and extraordinary.

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With Addete :)