A new look Five free icon packs for your Android Launcher 2014

If  you look beyond just simple wallpapers, Android has a ton of choices for users to customize their device to their wants and needs. One of the easiest ways to do this is by choosing a unique icon pack. Here we show you the top free icon packs that you can grab for your Android device.

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Before we dive into it, a few house keeping items: most icon packs require a launcher such as Apex, Nova, or ADW installed to work. Make sure that whatever launcher you are using is compatible with the icon pack you’re downloading.  The installation itself is pretty simple after that: simply select the package once you’ve downloaded it from the Google Play Store through your launcher. There are more complex icon packs that require a little more intensive installation methods, but we’re only covering the simple ones here.

Min

The name says it all: Min is a minimalistic icon package that only takes its full effect if you remove the labels from the icons and choose them to displayed as monochrome. Purists might find that Min is their desired icon package as it brings a harmonized balance to the home screen without all the flash of colorful or oversized icons.

Min is a very, well, minimal icon pack. / © AndroidPIT

For many apps, there are specially design icons while other are automatically enclosed in a small circle with a white border. For those, the inner part of the circle contains a part of the original icon and gives the appearance as if you’re looking through a keyhole. Min works particularly well with a simple or plan wallpaper and is available for free on the Google Play Store.

• Compatible Launchers: Apex, Action, Nova, ADW, Smart
• Number of available icons: > 570  
• Size: 4.1 MB

Glaskart

Again, the minimalistic option reigns supreme here. The Glaskart icon theme is characterized by monochrome icons I different shades of grey. Each icon is backed by a semi transparent square with rounded corners; thus the icons are much more visible against the background.

Semi-transparent with a spalsh of conservative grey. / © AndroidPIT

Again, the effect of the semi-transparent grey app icon is highly dependent on the choice of the background image. A simple background makes a good option to get the full effect. Glaskart is compatible with the Nova, Go, and Apex launchers and is free on the Google Play Store.

• Compatible Launchers: Nova, Apex, Go
• Number of available icons:  > 750
• Size:  9.1 MB

Lipse Icons

Round and colorful is what distinguishes the Lipse icon pack from the rest. However, the colorful appearance is quite stylish: the icons don’t look overdone and there are no inflated 3D effects or highlights. Lightweight light-dark curves in the icons as well as a subtle shadow below the icon really make them pop out from the background.

Lipse highlights icons with a simple circle and stylish colors. / © AndroidPIT

Lipse is free in the Google Play Store, but doesn’t work with the Go Launcher. There is also a monochrome version of the app that is also available for download via Google Play.

• Compatible Launchers:  Nova, Apex, Holo
• Number of available icons:  > 500
• Size:  9.1 MB

Crumbled

This icon pack makes your App Drawer look like someone struck it with a heavy hammer once and then just walked away. The name definitely says it all as the icon pack make everything look as if it is about to fall apart.

As if you took a hammer and gave your App Drawer a good whack. / © AndroidPIT

The advantage of Crumbled is that it’s universal across all your apps and it automatically sets the theme across all your app icons to the Crumbled theme. This guarantees that each icon gets the Crumbled style and is also a very slim download at only 382 kilobytes. Crumbled is free in the Google Play Store.

• Compatible Launchers:  Nova, Apex, Holo, ADW
• Number of available icons:  None (Icon Mask)
• Size:  382 kB

Rust Icons

Rust Icons is more concerned with the rough and unpolished look. This icon pack lets you transform your home screen into a rough concrete wall. The app icons are classically implemented as circles making the overall appearance more uniform.

The charm of concrete: Rust icons.  © AndroidPIT

When laid against a black background the rough texture is very clear and easy to distinguish. The same can be said when used against the matching wallpaper that comes with the Rust package. Rust Icons, as with everything else listed here, is available for free from the Google Play Store.

• Compatible Launchers:  Nova, Apex, Holo, ADW
• Number of available icons:  > 475
• Size:  22 MB

There we go! Five free icon packs for you to choose from. What are some of your favorite icon packs? 

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How to block phone calls on your Android phone

Keeping in touch with family and friends has become easier and faster — thanks to our Android smartphone. However, not all people who can contact us through our mobile phones are people that we love and cherish; some are spammers, annoying strangers, telemarketers, and other unwanted callers. You don’t need to suffer these unwanted calls. Block them!
In this guide, learn how to block phone calls on your Android phone. You may also skip to our video guide below.

Built-in call blocking features

Most Android phones allow you to block contacts on your phone. The procedure can be unique on your Android phone. It varies from phone to phone.

Voicemail redirection on Nexus 4

Although not exactly a call blocking feature, the voicemail redirection feature on the Nexus 4 can be used as a call blocker of some sort. To redirect calls to voicemail, just select a contact from the People app, open the Menu, and select All Calls to Voicemail.
Calls from the selected contact will now be directed to your voicemail box. Also, if you don’t have a voicemail subscription or you haven’t setup your voicemail properly, the phone will automatically reject calls from the redirected contacts.

Call barring on Xperia T, HTC One

On the Xperia T and HTC One, call blocking is known as Call Barring, which can be accessed on either phone’s Call Settings page on the Settings menu. Here you can block all outgoing calls, outgoing international calls, outgoing international roaming, all incoming calls, or incoming international roaming calls from everyone. You will need your barring passcode in order to activate these features.

On the HTC One, there is another way to block calls — through the Phone app. Just open the menu in the Phone app and select Blocked Contacts. Then, tap the Add button to add a contact to block. You can either add a contact from the People app or manually enter a number to block.

Call rejection on Optimus G

To block calls on the LG Optimus G, go to Settings > Call > Call Reject. From there you can enable the phone’s feature to reject all calls. You can also create a rejection list that only blocks calls from contacts included on the rejection list.

Reject List on Galaxy S4

Users of the Samsung Galaxy S4 can take advantage of the phone’s Reject List, which keeps a list of numbers that are blocked.
There are two ways to add a contact onto the Reject List. The easiest way is as follows:

1. Open the contact’s page.
2. Tap the Menu button.
3. Select Add to Reject List.

The steps above will cause all of the selected contact’s numbers to be added to the Reject List. On the Contacts list, blocked numbers are shown with the blue universal “No” symbol.
If you need to block only some of the contact’s numbers, you can unblock the valid numbers through the Auto Reject List menu in the Phone app.

Another way to block contacts is to manually add numbers to the Reject List, as follows:

1. Open the Phone app.
2. Tap Call Settings.
3. Tap Call Rejection.
4. Tap Auto Reject List to open the list.
5. Specify an exact number. You can also add numbers matching a search string that you specify. For example, you can add contact numbers that start or end with the digits that you provide, or includes the digits specified.

Blocking Mode on Galaxy S4

The Samsung Galaxy S4 also has the Blocking Mode feature, which lets you limit phone calls at certain hours. To enable Blocking Mode, go to Settings. Open the My Device page, tap the Blocking Mode option, and from there turn on the Blocking Mode switch. You can select what features to block. You can disable incoming calls, notifications, alarm and timer, and/or LED indicator.
When blocking calls in this way, all incoming calls will be automatically rejected and you will not hear any ring or feel any vibration when there is an incoming call, but you will see a notification of the missed call. If you want certain contacts to be able to reach you even if Blocking Mode is enabled, specify them in the list of Allowed Contacts.

Third-party apps for blocking phone calls

If your Android phone doesn’t have an inbuilt call blocking feature or if it does but you find it lacking, you can choose one from the many third-party call blocking apps on the Google Play Store. Of particular note are the Mr. Number app, Call Blocker app, and Calls Blacklist app.

Mr. Number

The Mr. Number app is a free and ads-free Android app that allows you to block unwanted calls and texts on your mobile phone. This app protects your phone from spam, silence selected contacts, or even keep your phone inaccessible by the rest of the world.
Mr. Number also has a Remote Lookup feature that allows you to find information about an unknown caller in the U.S. The first 20 lookups are free and you will be charged about US$1.00 for the next 20 lookups. This app also has a Business Caller ID that provides information about callers using a business line.
Here’s a general idea of how to use Mr. Number:

1. Download, install, and launch the Mr. Number app. Tap OK to continue.
2. Verify your country. Select your country with your country code, and type your phone number. Tap OK to continue.
3. To begin blocking contacts, tap the “No” or prohibition symbol at the upper-right portion of the screen to access the block list.

The Blocklist contains three tabs: Hang Up, Voicemail, and Exceptions.

When a contact listed on the Hang Up tab tries to call you, your phone will automatically Hang Up the call. Callers listed under Voicemail will have their calls redirected to the voicemail box. You can add numbers to the Hang Up and/or Voicemail tabs in various ways:

1. Suspected spam
2. All private/blocked numbers
3. Choose from recent calls or texts
4. Enter a number
5. Choose from contacts
6. All numbers not in contacts
7. All numbers beginning with…
8. All numbers in contacts
9. All numbers

The Exceptions tab lists contacts that will not be blocked or redirected. So, if you want to keep in touch with your family and friends while keeping the strangers and spammers at bay, register your family and friends’ contact numbers under the Exceptions tab.
You can also block contacts right from the app’s main screen. Under the Recent tab, which shows the history of received calls and text, tap the Menu button beside each log entry and select Block Number. A popup will appear, asking you whether to block the contact or redirect all the contact’s calls to your voicemail. You can also mark it as a spam number and add a comment about the blocked contact number.
A notification will appear every time the app intercepts a blocked contact. The history of blocked contacts will be displayed under the Blocked History tab on the app’s main screen.

Call Blocker

Another handy call blocker app that you’d want to try is the free and ad-supported Call Blocker app. If you subscribe to the paid and ad-free version, you can enjoy premium features, including the Private Space feature that securely stores private SMS messages and call logs.
Here’s a general idea of how to use Call Blocker:

1. Download, install, and launch the Call Blocker app. Tap Agree to continue.
2. On the app’s main menu, tap the Blocked Calls button.
3. Tap the add button (represented by an icon of paper with check and X marks)
4. The Blacklist and Whitelist tabs will be displayed on the screen. Tap Add Number to add a contact. You can add a number via your contacts, call log, or SMS log, or you can type the number directly. Contacts listed on the Blacklist tab will be blocked (of course!) while contacts on the Whitelist tab will be exempted.

Calls Blacklist

Last but not the least on our list is the free and ad-supported Calls Blacklist, a very simple app for keeping a list of contacts that you don’t want to allow to contact your phone. An ad-free premium version is also available for about US$3.00.
To block calls with Calls Blacklist, just launch the app and add a contact number to the Blacklist tab. You can add a number via your Contacts, call logs, or messages log, or add numbers manually. And, that’s it! Contacts saved under Blacklist won’t be able to call your Android phone anymore.

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Tips to increase page views per visit of your website

In last month I had experienced to develop a website in which client give me the goal to increase page views per visit. He had social traffic and working on a CPM based network so it was important for him to get maximum page views. He had average 1.28 page views per visit and I had to make it at least 4. After completing this project i was able to manage 5.99 for social media traffic and 10+ for organic traffic.

"Number of page views per visit from social traffic is always less than organic traffic because these visitors tend to get for what they and then leave. Formula to calculate page views per visit is “total number of page views/total number of visitors”

Page views per visit indicates that whether your site have quality content and easy to navigate, or very dull. In SEO point of view increase in page views per visit indicates a better sign of site improvement.

How to Increase Page Views?

1) Interlink posts within the text

Whenever you start your new article review your own site to find some relevant posts and put them as anchor text in your article. Do not apply to many link otherwise google will be distracted from the original text. The best example of these types of website is Wikipedia. Wikipedia is the worlds most popular encyclopedia and it uses excellent internal linking.

2) Show related posts at the end of the post

Showing related posts should be an essential part of your website. But place is also important. Normally people show them into sidebar but it is beneficial if your posts have small content. The best place for related posts is at the end of the content. This placement will increase page views. If you are using WordPress then I will recommend WordPress related posts plugin.

3) Next , Previous and Random post links

Add next , previous post link after the post. This encourages visitors to see more pages. If your article is based upon just pictures and videos then best method is to float next, previous links as in the image bellow. It will increase page views and boost it up. I will write an article for adding fixed buttons stay updated.

4) Categories and Tags

Most of the users who visit your website comes for a specific niche so to give them an easy navigation add categories and tags link at the end of the article before related posts. It will make your site handy for users and increase page views.

5) Create a list of best and most popular articles

There are many methods to show popular articles. You can show them in a slider on the home page, in the sidebar or where ever you want. This will highlight your site content and user will click on it.

6) Create a series of article

Sometimes you wanted to write an article of 8000+ words, So it would be difficult for user to read whole article in one time. Try to break it in several parts and link whole series in the beginning of the article.

Conclusion

These tips will boost up your page views. Be aware that adding too many features to increase page views may increase page load time and according to google research 1 second delay in page load time can decrease 11% of your traffic

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Paint Joy Movie Your Drawing v1 9 1 Download APK

Description Free your creative with Paint Joy! ---- Paint Joy ---- Doodle drawing by finger with many brushes. Play back drawing like a movie with "MOVIE" mode, way to share your fun with others. Join the Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/groups/paintjoy * more than 15 brushes * movie mode to play back drawing * paint on ur photo * intuitive to choose color and set brush size * share via facebook, gmail, etc For ads-free version, please purchase PaintJoy Pro. ----- Kids Doodle ---- If youre looking for a doodle app for your pretty young kids, you may try "Kids Doodle", whose brush and color are randomly changed to present a colorful effect. Its usage is also tailored specifically for kids easy-to-use. "Kids Doodle" supports below features: * Supports several brushes, such as neon, rainbow, emboss, crayon. * "Movie" mode to play back the doodle like a movie * "Save" painting to SD card. * "Share" kids doodle via message, facebook, gmail, pisca, etc. * Shake phone to start a new doodle. ------ Sketch Paint ------- Freely sketch with this "Sketch Paint", and enjoy your masterpiece like movie playing back the sketch steps. Features: ☆ About ten brushes. More brushes will be avaiable in new version. ☆ Eraser ☆ Undo / Redo ☆ Pinch to Zoom In or Zoom Out ☆ Brush Pressure 0% - 100% ☆ Desktop-class color picker ☆ Save to SD ☆ Share by e-mail, flickr, MMS, etc.

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