American Red Cross Releases Second App Following First Aid, This Time Dedicated To Hurricanes

Just under two months ago, the American Red Cross released a genuinely impressive app called First Aid. As you'd guess from the name, it's an app dedicated to helping you through medical emergencies; what you wouldn't guess from the name is just how good of an app it is.

Ditto for the organization's eponymous new app, Hurricane. Dedicated to helping you monitor and prepare for hurricanes coming through your area, the app looks every bit as well done as First Aid, and comes with a long list of features:

- Step-by-step instructions let you know what to do even if the cell towers are down and the power is out.
- Monitor weather conditions in your area or those of loved-ones with location-based alerts for the U.S. and its territories from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration(NOAA).
- Let family and friends know you are okay with the customizable “I’m Safe” alert for Facebook, Twitter, email and text.
- Find open Red Cross shelters in your area when you need help.
- Stay safe when the lights are out with the Hurricane Toolkit, including a strobe light, flashlight and audible alert functions.
- Prepare for the worst by learning how to assemble an emergency kit for your family in the event of power outage or evacuation.
- Empower your family to stay safe and remain calm in an emergency by learning how to make and practice an emergency plan.
- Earn badges that you can share with your friends and show off your hurricane knowledge with interactive quizzes.
- See an illustrated history of hurricanes in your area.
- Learn the difference between a hurricane warning and watch.
- Know how to what to do about food and drinking water when your area has been impacted by floods and power outages.

  

Not only is the app well-designed and highly functional, but it's free of ads and comes in at the low, low price of $0.

Hurricane - American Red Cross

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Official Twitpic App Released For Android

Though the service's popularity has been waning since competitors sprang up (and Twitter itself jumped in the game), Twitpic remains a major host for images on Twitter. They're not going down without a fight, either, and the company has released its official Android app dedicated to sharing photos on Twitter. With a UI heavily inspired by the Twitter app itself (duh), it allows you to browse through photos hosted by Twitpic on your Twitter timeline, as well as edit and share your photos.

The first ever photo sharing site for Twitter comes to Android! Twitpic is the easiest and best way to share your photos and videos with your Twitter followers.
★ Quickly and seamlessly share your photos and videos with all of your Twitter followers
★ Edit your photos with beautiful filters and easy to use enhancement tools
★ Browse your Twitter photo timeline with photos from people you follow in a beautiful interface
★ Browse photos from the most popular Twitpic users
★ Manage your Twitpic photos and videos in your own timeline

  

The app was released a few days ago and has an average review score of 3.6 right now - not exactly great. Still, it's seen a huge number of downloads in the past few days, and about half of the reviews are 5 stars.

Twitpic

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30 BEAUTIFUL FREE ANDROID WALLPAPERS TO ENHANCE YOUR HOMESCREEN

Today we are presenting the 30 Beautiful Android wallpapers, designed by some of the finest and most creative artists around. Android Phones  are most popular and coolest Smartphone in the world. The only Smartphone which lets down the Apple iPhone to #2 and presently rulings over Smartphone world. Many people use android Smartphone for entertainment or work and has become a very nice gadget. Everyone that needs one a way to personalize so first step is a nice wallpaper that will decorate the screen. So we compiled the list of the best Android wallpaper that will help you in choosing the perfect one for your Smartphone screen.

The wallpapers have a 960×800 pixels in resolution and are usable on the all Android Smartphone. As every android Smartphone provides the feature to crop an image to fit the device I don’t think you will face and Smartphone resolution issue.

So, let’s begin our article with:

1. Open Those Doors

2. Looking for Higgs Boson

3. Halloween On a Little Planet

4. Eggs

5. Android Wallpaper

6. White Tree

7. Berry Wild

8. May Flowers

10. Autumn Leaf on Tarmac

11. Angel And Demon

12. Apple Vs Android

13. Fish in the Bulb

14. Starfish and Stone

15. Nature Color

16. Nuclear Water

17. Color Drops

18. Grasshopper

19. Infinity

20. Fire Abstract

21. Bass

22. Zippo Colors

23. Paradise

24. Dark Road

25.  iOS Android

26. Concha

27. Heineken beer

28. Milkyway

29. Beautiful Nature

30. Comaro 2

Note : Above shown wallpaper dimension is not actual, Simply click on the name of the Android wallpaper to get the original dimension which is 960×800 pixels.

We all know that there are thousand of Android wallpaper available over the web, but we gather some of the best under the same hood. And if you have any good wallpaper don’t hesitate to share with us.

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HOW TO INSTALL ANDROID OS ON YOUR NETBOOK

n this article, we are going to deal with the tutorial that helps us to install the Android operating system on our Netbook. I think you might be aware of the fact that Android OS is one of the most used Smartphone and Tablet OS, which provides us with millions of options to enhance our productivity. You must be wondering what I am talking about.

Yes, of course it is one of those crazy ideas that help people to try something that which others can’t even imagine. Is it possible to install the Android OS which is a Smart Phone and Tablet based OS on a Netbook that which normally works on Windows or Linux or Mac based OS?

Does the hardware of our Netbook support it?

I hope, for all these questions this tutorial will definitely answer. So, let us jump into our tutorial on How to Install Android OS on your Netbook.

1. Download Android X6 onto your Netbook. There are various versions that are available and make sure you download the version that is compatible with your Netbook configuration and other hardware requirements.

2. The downloaded ISO file should be copied to our USB drive which helps us to boot from it. Using the program like UnetBootIn helps you to do this.

3. Now, boot your Netbook from your USB drive. For safety in order to know whether your Netbook is compatible for the Android OS which you’ve downloaded, just select the Live CD mode that does the job in confirming about the compatibility. If you are confident enough select “Installation” option to continue with the process.

4. After booting, you’ll find a partition select dialog, you can either select the existing partition or create a new one or modify the existing. You cards, etc., which helps you to save your OS on your Netbook.

5. Android-x86 can co-exist with the OS that is present in our Netbook or information in the selected partition. If the partition is formatted, you have to choose “Do not format” option which saves your data from extraction, else you can choose the file system types.

6. The next screen will be about the Grub loader confirmation; you need to select “yes”. Now the installation process will be started.

7. Once the installation is done, select run Android-x86 directly or you can reboot your Netbook to run it again.

8. You are done, now you’ve successfully installed Android OS on your Netbook.

If you are interested in knowing about how to install Android on PC and I hope you’ve enjoyed our tutorial and stay tuned for more updates.

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