Mobile Monday Uganda AppCircus 2013

Kampala is welcoming AppCircus again! On Monday 1th November the Uganda AppCircus will be under the Mobile Monday ‘Big Top’ hosted by Hive Colab. AppCircus is a global travelling showcase for innovative apps that brings together the global community of developer entrepreneurs and start-ups.

In only three years, AppCircus has organized more than 100 events in over thirty countries, building a community with over 20,000 users. AppCircus events give visibility to new app talent on a local and global scale. With its unique online incubation platform called Hack-at-Home, AppCircus connects app makers with business opportunities and helps them build innovative high quality apps.

AppCircus is not only an exposition of cool apps, but also creates the best atmosphere to enlarge your networks. If you can come to out Uganda AppCircus you will be where it's at! You should prepare yourself to witness the amazing creators of up to ten shortlisted products, each of whom will present a three-minute elevator pitch to a panel of jurors on the stage.

The winning app will receive a nomination to the Mobile Premier Awards during the Mobile World Congress in Barcleona 2014.

And from this pool of nominated apps twenty will make it to the big stage in Barcelona!

This event will take place at:
Hive Colab
90 Kanjokya Road
Kampala, Central Region
Uganda
Monday, November 11, 2013 from 5:00 PM to 8:30 PM (EAT)

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Discover your fitness Pal - Calorie counter and Diet Tracker

The logic behind Calorie-counting is simple.  Measure what you put into the body, measure what energy you burn and ensure figures adds up in line in your favour. This popular app takes the hassle out of that process. Users can scan food using a barcode to add calories to a daily sum. If your food doesn’t have a barcode, it might already be in the database. You can add regular meals with a tap of a button (handy if your breakfast is always the same) and input your exercise routine. Sticking with the app for a few weeks can be life-changing.

Price:  free

Platform: Apple iOS, Google Android, windows phone, Blackberry.

Available from iTunes, Windows phoneStore, Google Play Store, Blackberry World

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Announcing the best travel app - TripIt

For anyone who travels frequently, this is an absolute must.

Just forward your travel itinerary to your account and see it all in one easy location, from flight details to your hotel booking, with map reservation numbers and weather at your destination. If you fork out to become professional member, you also get notifications of flight cancellations and airport gates, often before your airline lets you know. 

This app has saved us enormous grief.

Price: Free or $50.99/yr for pro

Platform:  Apple IOS, Google Android, Windows phone, BlackBerry

Available from iTunes Google Play Windows Phone BlackBerry World

Have you used this app? Tell us your experience below.

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Angry Birds game

Destructive physics help make this a very charming puzzle game, and the great level variety seals the deal.

This a reason why "Angry Birds" is the most popular mobile game app in the world - the gameplay is simple, streamlined, fun, and is perfectly suited for short bursts of gaming while doing other things in life - such as waiting at a doctor's office, getting your oil changed, etc. 

And best yet, each game is only $.99 cents.

The good - The game is extremely fun physics, easy to pick up and play and has 200 plus levels.

The bad – Limited strategy and winning often requires luck.

Angry Birds Cinematic Trailer

    Newsflash: Angry Birds Extra Update - Out Now!

Find this game at 

Apple store  Google play  Windows Phone  Nokia Phone  BlackBerry  KindleFire  Desktop PC MAC Chrome Web store Intel AppUp

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Apple Inc’s new iPhones finally out

Apple Inc has released its new iPhones for sale on Friday, investors will be expecting a notable boost in sales of the smartphone, and the launch will also include China markets.


Apple will no doubt sell a lot of iPhones over the first weekend, with several analysts predicting sales around 6 million units or higher. This would compare well with the 5 million units the company sold of the iPhone 5 over its launch weekend last year, though the addition of China and the fact that this year’s launch includes two new devices skews the comparison. Apple will disclose opening weekend sales on Monday.

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Microsoft Launched MS Office App for Android Smartphones

Finally, Microsoft has launched the Office suite Application for Android devices as Office Mobile for Office 365. Now, You can access, view and edit your Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint documents from virtually anywhere. After the launch of Office app for iPhone, Microsoft takes time to release the Office suite for Android users. Already, the One Note is available in the Play store, now the Word, excel suites will give you the full-fledged MS Office experience in your Android Phone.

See Also: Get Microsoft Office 365 Home Premium or ProPlus for free for 30 days

You can download this Office app for free, but you should be an Office 365 customer to access the service. You can get the Office 365 subscription for monthly or yearly based on your interest.

Currently, the app only supports Android v 4.0 ICS and newer phones and also you can’t install in tablets for now. Like any other apps, you can install this app in your Android phone. However, you need to sign-in with your office 365 subscriptions details to install this in your phone.

See Also : Best 5 Free Alternatives to Microsoft Office for Windows, Mac and Linux

After the installation the app will give you the access to Word, Excel documents from your phone. You can also get the recent documents from your desktop computers that is stored in the SkyDrive. Office 365 users documents are stored in the cloud, so you can access any office documents from anywhere virtually.

Key Features of Mobile Office 365

Recent Documents : You can access the recent documents that you have viewed in your computer.

Email Attachments: You can edit the office documents that are attached in the Email messages

Great-Looking Documents: Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents look great on your phone, thanks to support for charts, animations, SmartArt Graphics, and shapes.

Optimized for phone :Word, Excel and PowerPoint have been optimized for the small screen of your phone.

Resume Reading: When opening a Word document from SkyDrive or SkyDrive Pro on your phone, it automatically resumes at the place where you left off reading, even if you last viewed the document on your PC or tablet.

Edit Offline: You can edit the documents offline once you get them from cloud. After you have connected to the internet, the changes will be synced in your cloud storage.

Download it on Google Play

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5 Tips to Speed Up Android Phone and Tablet

1. Clean up the App Cache

All Android Apps that will write their data in the App cache memory and use your system resources quite often and will slow down your Android phone. You can avoid this by clearing app cache in the settings of each app. However, if you have many apps, that will take time to clear your App cache manually.

You can use App cache cleaner to remove those files from Android system easily with one click. Here, we have previously written about the Best 5 Apps to Clean & Optimize to Increase the speed of Android Phones. Use those apps to clean app cache , unused files, residual files, search history and uninstalling apps. It can do more than you think.

2. Uninstall the Unused Apps

Apps makes the smartphone even smarter. While having too many apps will kill your system resources, because many apps will run in the background and access the processes always. Many background processes, certainly will slow down your Android Phone. To Fix this problem to get the Speed of Android phone again, you have to uninstall the Unused Apps.

Manage applications option, found under Settings > Applications > Manage applications

Also, you can use the Android Cleaner Apps to uninstall the Apps and their data.

3. Remove the Adwares, Bloatwares and Malwares

Like Windows Operating system, Android is so popular in smartphone Industry. Because of this popular and millions of apps in the Play store, Android is vulnerable to many security threats. The Attractive free apps may have install Adwares and even malwares in your phone.

The annoying adwares will use your valuable system resources to show the irritating ads in the home screen. To remove that you have to secure your Android phone with Mobile Antivirus Apps. Many Free yet best Security and Antivirus Apps are available in Play store. Just install the Android Antivirus apps and remove those craps from your phone.

4. Remove the Unnecessary Widgets

Just install the App launcher for shortcuts and remove those shortcuts. Also, the Widgets too have eaten your memory resources, so try to remove the unnecessary widgets from your Android home screen.

It will give you some amount of space and resources to speed up the Android phone further.

5. Turn off the Wireless data connectivity

Many Internet apps like Gmail, Facebook will always connect with Internet and using your data resources regularly. All that syncing will slow down your system and drain your battery power. Simply turn off the data usage and preserve some resources to gain the performance. Go to Settings >Data usage > Off.


Do you know any other simple tips to increase the speed of Android phones and Tablets? Share here!

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