How To Use your Android phone as remote control for YouTube

In the past, we had written many tutorials on YouTube. We always like the ideas behind the user friendly features of almost all Google products. YouTube continually does innovations in the same area. As a result, we are going to explain this awesome tutorial on using your mobile phone as remote control for playback of YouTube videos.

This feature is helpful, when you are not in front of the computer, and still you are watching the video. You can just browse through the videos in your mobile device, and when you hit Play, the video just plays in the computer.

Follow these steps :

- Download the Android App from Playstore.

- Once you install, give the appropriate Google account credentials in the Android Device.

- Open YouTube, and Sign In with your Google account username and passwords (Make sure that the same credentials are used in Android Device).

- Open the URL : http://www.youtube.com/leanback  . The following UI Shows up.

Youtube Leanback UI

- Note that you can only use arrow keys for navigation, hit the down arrow , and select “My YouTube“.

- Click right arrow, and You will get a option to Sign In or Pair . Select it.

Pair YouTube remote

- After selecting Pair, You will be displayed a screen with QR Code and the pairing Number.  Screen looks something like this

- Note that pairing is only one time operation per device, You need not have to do this every time.

- Open the Application you installed in phone, In the Pairing Code input field, You can manually enter the code displayed or click the camera icon to scan the QR Code.

- Upon successful pairing, your device name would appear in the list as shown below.

- The Android App now displays the recently played videos , You can select any video, the video starts playing in computer.

- Hit the Play, Pause, Seek buttons in the mobile screen,  to control the playback of video.

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How To Build traffic for newly created blog

Building readership or the audience is the main concern of any blogger. It is really challenging to build considerable amount of good audience . And not to forget, there is no shortcut to build traffic instantaneously.

Many firms around the world , promise to generate the traffic for your website or blog. These methods are not going to work in long term and you will also have the risk of your blog being banned completely from the web sphere.

How To choose a blog title ?

Blog titles are really important in building regular visitors. If your blog name has following things in the blog name, It is unlikely to attract international, or the permanent visitors.

- Your name in blog domain name

- Country specific domains

- Domain name which is completely unrelated to blog title

So, think , spend sufficient amount of time in giving name to your blog.

How To Monetize your blog?

Monetize or in other words, publicizing your blog is the next step. We will explain each of these methods in detail

Search Engines: Search engines play major role in building traffic to your blog.  As an example, 90% of the visitors to this website land from search engines. Assuming that you have good content in your blog, you will get good traffic from search engines.

When we talk about search engines, obviously Google is the first thing which comes to our  mind. Submitting your blog to Google can be done by registering to Google Webmaster Tools

Before submitting your blog to Search engines, it is important to consider the following points , and make sure that they are in place

- A proper sitemap.

- Posts , content in the website have meta keyword descriptions.

- RSS feed.

- robots.txt file in the root directory, with appropriate permissions for the crawlers.

- Website is up and running, and none of the pages return 404 error.

Once the website is verified, Google starts indexing your contents. Submitting your blog to other search engines are all similar. Important search engines  : Google, Yahoo, Bing, Baidu and Yandex.

Blog Directories :  blog directories act similar to the search engines. Many people do search for the information in plenty of blog directories, and the probability of your blog is being read by other people in the blog network is high. Blog directories help you to build the network with other bloggers also good number of backlinks to your blog.

Many people do write comment on the blog posts, give feedback on the posts.  Some of the popular blog networks are

- Techorati

- Indiblogger

- Networked Blogs

Blog directories provide a platform to understand how good is your blog performing in the web world. Technorati rates the blogs based on relevancy of your blog posts with respect to the discussions that are happening in the blog sphere. This rating is called, Technorati Authority for the blog, higher is the technorati authority  number, better is the blog. You can as well monitor your Blog Rank , among the blogs that are present in Technorati.

Indiblogger does provide a similar feature, they call it as IndiRank.  IndiRank is number between 0 – 100 , they rate your blog based on the Alexa Rank of your blog, MoziRank , Number  of Juice Passing links and the post frequency.

Feedburner , Twitter and Facebook integration:  Once you have sitemap in place, you can register to your blog to feedburner. Most of the blog directories fetch your posts as feeds, so it is important to integrate your blog with feedburner. Register Here and follow the step by step instructions.

Feedburner provides multiple options to socialize your blog.

- Enabling tweets to be updated automatically once the feed is updated

- Enabling email subscriptions to your blog

- Send email updates to your subscribers

For Facebook integration, you can login to Networked Blogs  with your Facebook username and passwords. Provided you have a Facebook page for your blog, you can easily make networked blogs to update the post details as soon as you update the blog, on the wall of your Facebook page.

Other Important tips

If you have done all the steps specified above,  be patient and wait . Continually  monitor all the above tools to see if there are any issues , if there are fix them immediately. Focus on

- Writing quality contents to the readers

- Try not to copy from other blogs

- Write valuable comments on other blogs

- Choosing right layout for the blog is equally important

We provided these tips based on our online experience, We are still learning! We will provide much more details in the upcoming days .

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AppReview Solar Charger: Trick behind the android app

Android smartphones have made their way to the top position of the leading smartphones board within a short span of time. The variety of features, free apps and mainly the google sync makes Android smartphone irresistible. But as with majority of the smartphones in the market today, with great features comes a great need for power.

A lot of battery saving and monitoring apps have been roaming around in the Android market lately, offering features such as battery level monitoring, battery details and saving battery life by stopping the unwanted services and processes. But recently we came across a new app which claimed to charge Android when it is exposed to sunlight, so we decided to let you the trick behind the app named Solar Charger.

1 : The app claims that it does the following.

Features:
Detects the amount of light
3 different solar panels
Vibrates when charging starts
You can prevent the device from going to sleep mode
Nice charging animation

Future updates:
More efficient solar panels up to +50%
Tablet support
Samsung support

In the pro version:
Fart sound while charging
Samsung tablet support.

2 : When you run the app, it displays a solar panel on your screen along with a battery indicator and a meter of some sort. If you are in a dark place or at night it asks you to expose your device to direct light.

3: When you place your device in direct light, the phone vibrates once and the battery indicator in the application shows as charging.

Trick Exposed

Ah come on guys, right after hearing about this app you might have thought that this is impossible, same pinch as I thought the same. How can an Android device be charged by an onscreen solar panel, if you would all have thought that it is a fake, you were right.

Just look at this screenshot of the app description from the developers themselves, when you click on read more

Ofcourse it is a fake app and it will surely not charge your smartphone battery, but it is a cool trick to show to your unsuspecting friends, trust me some of them will fall for it.

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[AppReview] Bob ClockD3: A Beautiful Clock Widget for Android

Having a smartphone with good features has become a trend and is becoming a necessity in the present world scenario. A new smartphone is always explored to test its potential or performance. Some time after you have owned the smartphone, most of you will start looking for some basic apps that are frequently used and are a part of our day to day life.

One of the widgets that falls under this category is the clock widget. No matter whether if we have a wrist watch or a inbuilt time display on the screen of the smartphone, we always desire for a beautiful clock widget which will don our homescreen. I found one such simple and beautiful widget in the market and thought I would review it for you.

Introduction

Bob ClockD3 is a simple lightweight clock widget type application. It displays the time in a hour/second split view along with AM/PM, the day and date. It is a pure widget type application, meaning that after you have installed the application, you will not find it among your installed apps listing, but it can be accessed only in the widgets menu.

Screenshot of BobClock widget on home screen

Features

Bob Clock has a few basic but useful features, all the features that you would expect and need from
an Android clock application. When you add the widget on your homescreen for the first time, the
following options appear

Options that come with BobClock

* Color selection for the minute and hour display

* Lowercaseo or Uppercase display of text

* Three layout options for date

* Four display size options for date

* 24hr or 12hr mode for the clock. 12hr mode is set as a default

* Launch clock option for launching similar clock applications by clicking on the Bob ClockD3 widgeton your screen.

Conclusion and Rating

BobClockD3 is an app that is beautiful to look at and simple to use. It has all the features that
you will ever use in a clock application. It even launches up the android clock application if you
click on the widget, so an easier access to the inbuilt clock app where you set your alarms, use
stopwatch or see the world time. On the downside it eats up quite a bit of your screen space, 3*2
that is space needed for 6 application ashortcuts on your homescreen. Also it is not resizable nor
is there any option for custom sizes.

Our Rating : 4/5

If you guys have stumbled across some good apps on the android market(Google Play Store), please write to us and we will surely try our best to respond earliest to our convenience. until next time

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