Apps are the key to the smartphone everyone uses the apps for their smartphones with their requirements. 

Of all the apps available today for different platforms, GlobalWebIndex has listed the top 10 apps most actively used by the 969.49 million strong global smartphone population.
According to data released by GlobalWebIndex, Google Maps is the most used smartphone app, with over 54 per cent of the global smartphone population using the app in the last month. Apple Maps is nowhere to be seen but Nokia's Ovi Maps clocks 9 per cent of smartphone usage and ranks No. 11 in the chart.

Though the Facebook mobile app may seem to be the most widely used app by smartphone users, but it is ranked a distant number 2. The app is used by 44 per cent of global smartphone users, Google Maps is a good 10 per cent ahead.

After topping the list with its Google Maps app, Google also takes number 3 with YouTube (35 per cent) and number 4 with the Google+ Mobile App (30 per cent).

Top 10 most used smartphone apps: Google Maps beats Facebook by a mile

Though the Facebook mobile app may seem to be the most widely used app by smartphone users, but it is ranked a distant number 2.

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Weixin/WeChat makes it to number 5 and the research reveals that the Chinese-based service is being actively used by the 27 per cent of the global smartphone population.

At number 6 is Twitter's mobile App with a 22 per cent active usage, closely followed by Skype and Facebook Messenger, with both scoring 22 per cent.

 

Online messaging service WhatsApp is used by 17 per cent of the global smartphone population and takes the number 9 spot. While WhatsApp is very popular in India, it is worth noticing that Weixin/WeChat and Facebook Messenger are more widely used globally.

At number 10 is Facebook-owned picture app Instagram, which has been actively used by the 11 per cent of the global online population in the last month.
Twitter's video-sharing app Vine still has long to go to catch up with Instagram and is also behind Foursquare, Shazam, Flickr and Yelp. Vine is ranked at number 17 and is used by only 2 per cent of the global smartphone population.

lastest Top ranking of global apps used in smartphones
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Can't miss !

Smartphones without the apps are useless.There smartphone companies try to find the best mobile apps for their platform.The apps make the smartphone more smarter
Here is the list of Must have apps for all platform or Os.

BreakupText

Need to break up with someone? There’s an app for that. Called BreakupText, the app helps you end your relationship the easy way with a few taps on your smartphone screen.
To get started, you simply have to tell the app whether you’re breaking up with a man or woman, a serious or casual partner, and why you’ve decided to move on. Enter a phone number, and BreakupText takes care of the dirty work for you.

Dollarbird

Keeping track of your finances can be a daunting task, so Dollarbird simplifies the process of tracking what you spend, and where you spend it, by plotting each expense on a calendar; that way, you can look back and see where and when you spend the most money over the course of a month.

Walk Up

Always find yourself hitting the snooze button in the morning? A new app called Walk Up forces you to walk around before turning off. The app uses the built-in accelerometer in your iPhone to determine if you’re out of bed, and then makes you walk a predetermined number of steps before it will turn off.

 

FindIt

A new iOS app called FindIt launched this week in the App Store. The application helps you search your phone for content according to person, time or type. Searches span across your phone, Gmail, Google Drive and Dropbox, so you can always find the file you need, when you need it -- even if you don't remember where it's stored. This is one of my favourite app also.

Google Play Games

 

 Google launched Google Play Games,with changed UI a hub for discovering new games, tracking achievements and playing with friends. Only for Android, the app makes it easy to discover hot new games, as well as compare scores with friends.

Drive Assist

Want to know what the weather is going to be like on your route? Interested in how much time you’ve really spent in traffic? Drive Assist is a mobile app for iOS that brings such detailed information -- similar to what you might get in high-tech cars -- into any vehicle. The app is capable of displaying your speed, a compass, weather conditions and a map to your destination. An integrated music player also lets you control your tunes.

Words With Friends Free

Words With Friends Free is the ad-supported version of the Scrabble-like game by Zynga. In the game you can compete against your Facebook friends, others using the service and strangers.

Swiftkey

On Tuesday, SwiftKey unveiled SwiftKey Cloud, (to know more) a new suite of services that improves how SwiftKey works on your device, and also syncs that experience across all your devices through the cloud.
What's more, phrases you frequently use in other places (e.g. Facebook and Gmail) are brought into the app as suggested words. Popular phrases of the day in the news and on Twitter are also suggested.

Hipstamatic Oggl

Hipstamatic Oggl arrived for Windows Phone this week, offering users the ability to upload pictures to Instagram for the first time. Much like Instagram, Oggl has a number of different filters that can be added to photos to give them a different look. Unlike Instagram, those filters are chosen before you take the picture, although you’ll also have the option to update the lens and film speed afterwards, as well.

Post your comment below If u have agree with me and you can post your favourite app also !

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INSIDE IPAD

BREAKDOWN Of IPAD-Getting under the hoods

Since tablets are light and compact, their primary purpose is mobile computing. This means that they must have suffi cient battery life despite the large display screens and touch interface. Here’s the hardware that helps manufacturers make that happen.

Components That Consists of The tablet IPAD:

PROCESSORS  OPERATING SYSTEMS

@   STORAGE SPACE     @  TOUCH SCREEN UI  @   SENSORS @  CONNECTORS

@   CAMERA

The Cost Of Making A Single Ipad Can cost upto $499-$699 So why such a huge price for it lets see inside it:

processor:

The brain of any tablet is the processor that powers the core working of a tablet. Most tablets today are powered by the processors from ARM or those based on Intel’s x86 architecture. A typical chipset based on the simple ARM architecture can handle 4 million instructions per second at 8 MHz (ARM1) to a maximum of 220 million instructions per second at200 MHz (ARM9E). The architecture is licensed to a host of companies to develop their own processors, including the Qualcomm Snapdragon, the Samsung Hummingbird, Nintendo, Nvidia Tegra and the

Apple A4.

Os

The heart of the tablet is the operating system. The most prominent OSs for tablets include the iOS (a proprietary

OS for Apple devices)

Storage Space:

Tablets come with varying memory capacities,starting from 2 GB (Wespro Epad) to as much as 64 GB (Apple iPad) built-in storage space

Touch Screen:

A touch screen user interface is a bit different from the graphical user interface primarily due to the touch-based inputs The iPad features a proprietary UI developed by Apple, there is the TouchWizUI from Samsung, and the Sense UI by HTC.

Source  info:apple 

Sensor

---The touch screen in a tablet is not pressure-based,relies on several sensors.

===The high-end tablets include an accelerometer, ambient light sensor and temperature sensor. The accelerometer ===or the gravity sensor helps to change the orientation of the screen in terms of how it is held.

===The ambientlight sensor adjusts brightness and contrast of your tablet screen with respect to lighting conditions.

===The temperature sensor intimates you of your battery heat levels.

CONNECTORS

Most of the tablets offer several ports like the USB and HDMI, a plus audio connectors and SD card and SIM card slots. However, the iPad is one of the few tablets that sports only one outlet that doubles as a charging port for the device.

Camera

Tablets usually feature a front camera for video calls on-the-go. The camera quality ranges from VGA quality right up to 8 megapixels.

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Backup Contacts ,Message ,App of Iphone

First of All I have two Methods To Backup  your important Things Just Like iCloud and Through itunes.iCloud Is An Cloud Service for Iphone,You Can Use It To Back uo All Your Important Content into it.While iTunes requires Pc an An USB cable to connect on which The itunes has been installed.

BACK UP THROUGH iCLOUD:

You can use Apple's iCloud service to back up your phone's data (contacts, app settings, messages and images) to its servers. To enable this feature, click on Settings > iCloud > Storage and Backup > On. Alternatively, to back up your data manually, click on Storage and Backup > Backup Now.

BACK UP THROUGH iTUNES:

To back up your iPhone through iTunes, connect it to a PC on which iTunes has been installed. Once your device is identified, click on the iPhone shown in iTunes and select Backup.

HOW TO RESTORE YOUR PHONE

Whether you are setting up a new iPhone or restoring it after a factory reset, you are provided with three options: Set up as a new iPhone. Restore from iCloud (will require a Wi-Fi connection). Restore from iTunes Backup (will require a cable connection to your computer).

 

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Trouble Shoot Your Iphone:

How To Reset Your Iphone

The Iphone Has A Better understanding Of The Software And hardware But Sometime Some Apps can Cause Harm to your Phone.Since Your Phone Conatins All Important Contacts,Apps There Might Be Some Problem That Can Cause Your Phone To just reboot and becomes fine.
But even if the occurances are rare, there might be times when apps start crashing, and the device seems slower than usual.

If you not want to lose all the data be sure to create the backup of it the methods of creating backup are here:

http://digitalinspiring.blogspot.in/2013/06/how-to-backup-conatcts-message-app-for.html

Restarting the phone is likely to solve some issues. To do this, press the Power button for a few seconds and then use the slide-to-power off option on the screen.

Problem:

If the problem persists, you can try resetting the device back to its factory settings.
 To do this, go to Settings > General > Reset.

In Reset, you are provided with several options...
If the issue you are facing is minor in nature, like a laggy phone, for instance, reset your handset using Reset All Settings. Don't worry. This option will not delete your data or the apps you have installed.

If your problem is a little more serious, where your phone restarts by itself or freezes during use, try Erase All Content and Settings.
 If your phone has frozen, you can try a hard reboot:

Hard Reboot: 

Press the Power button and Home button simultaneously. Keep both pressed for around 10 to 15 seconds. Release the buttons when you see the Apple logo on the screen. Your phone will reboot.

 

If your iPhone isn't booting up, hard reset it through iTunes (data will be lost).
Reset Trough Itunes:
Open iTunes on your PC or Mac and make sure it is updated.
 Then, connect the phone to your computer. If the phone is switched on, iTunes will recognize it. If it doesn't , keep the power and home button pressed. iTunes will then detect the device in recovery mode. Follow the onscreen instructions on your PC to complete the reset and restore process.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1414

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Truth behind the Logo-The Apple

Apple Logo with tagline think Different Has Already Made Something inspiring in us also make the designer stand apart from all other.The Apple logo is one of the most famous logos in the world. Apple fans not only put this logo on their vehicles to show their loyalty, they go to the extreme of tattooing themselves with it, a level of dedication very few brands achieved. The logo is admired for it's simplicity and many meanings that people attach to it. It's timeless. For 30 years it has been unchanged and I expect at least another 30 before anything drastic will be done to it.

Many More Tattoos of the logo has be evolved!!!!

Apple Logo as  tatoo

When Jean Louis Gassée (executive at Apple Computer from 1981 to 1990) was asked about his thoughts to the Apple logo he answered:
One of the deep mysteries to me is our logo, the symbol of lust and knowledge, bitten into, all crossed with the colors of the rainbow in the wrong order. You couldn't dream of a more appropriate logo: lust, knowledge, hope, and anarchy.
The True details of The Apple Logo is here to follow:
 The details was reterived when I read an interview from the designer itself.

Rob Janoff, the designer of the original Apple logo, he will tell you all about his design.Early 1977. The agency got the account (Apple) sometime January. The logo was introduced with the new product Apple II in April of that year.He was working for an advertising and public relations agency called Regis McKenna and he was an art director.

Early rob janoff

Rob Jonoff 

The first time must have been that first year. It was before he was getting his company started. So it was just Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Mike Markkula. He was the elder guy who corralled these young entrepreneurs. And I think it's because Mike Markkula is how the account wound up at our agency. Steve was friends with my boss Regis McKenna.

The First Apple Logo

Description:
Really there was no brief. But the really funny thing was the only direction we got from Steve Jobs is: "don't make it cute". There were briefs on subsequent jobs. First there was the logo, then there was an introductory ad and a sales brochure for the upcoming introduction. But it was pretty lose at that time. There was a previous logo to my logo. It was a logo done by Ron Wayne who was a very brief partner of the two Steves early on. He later took a buy-out, because he was a little concerned about the financial obligations he might have. He had a young family and the other guys didn't. (The First Designer) Ron did a pen and ink drawing of Sir Isaac Newton sitting under an Apple tree with a poem all around the border. And, I think when Steve Jobs started to get serious about the Apple II and getting a prototype for the design of the shell he realized that logo would not do. So he needed a new logo.


New Logo:

Firstly,There were two versions of the apple logo was developed .One with and one without the bite. Just in case he thought the bite was too cute. Fortunately Steve jobs went with the one that gave it the most personality with the bite. Frankly it was a no brainer and you would miss the mark if you don't show some kind of an apple. When I presented I showed him several variations. Striped version, solid color version, metallic version. All those with the same shape

Steve liked the idea, because he liked things that were outside the box. And, it's not so revolutionary now, but it was a little different then. However he did get a lot of opposition from one of the higher account executives at agency. He was sort of working against me on the meeting where he presented the work to Steve. He made a comment that if this new company went ahead and produced stationary in all these colors they will go bankrupt before they start the business. That was kind of the attitude that he  was facing from the agency. But Steve liked it right off. steve is  a pretty perceptive guy as we later learned and steve liked the uniqueness of it as well. Also, he should add that the idea of a computer going into people's homes was a little bit threatening because up to then computers were for big businesses, who were highly technical and sensitive and all that stuff. Most of the personal computer products that were coming out at the time had very techno names. TRS-80 and things like that, so that's why the name Apple was so golden because it was basic and not technical and to go with that the colors were very important.

The Bite Of The Logo:
They are really interesting, but he was afraid it didn't have a thing to do with it. From a designer's point of view and you probably experienced this, one of the big phenomena is having the experience of designing a logo for whatever reasons you design it, and years later you find out supposedly why you did certain things. And, they are all BS. It's a wonderful urban legend. Somebody starts it and then people go "oh yeah, that must be it".The Idea was Nothing But he wanted to show it as the apple ,without the bite it was looking as the cherry,so he liked the bite version of it.

His Tips While Designing a Logo of youngster: 

                                             ----------     by  Rob Janoff ---------------------
The main thing is to make it simple, because designers especially young designers tend to over-design or clients want too many things in there. I think people who tried to work a logo too hard, having too much meaning, wind up with something that's too complex. Logos usually have to be interpreted from very-very small to very-very large and that's not always easy. So, I think simplicity and readability is key. You're designing for an audience who really doesn't care as much as you do and unless it catches their interest right away they are going to pass right over it. So having it very readable is also important. Capturing the audiences imagination by having something revealed to them as they look at the logo is also important. Also, it's an opportunity to give whatever you're trying to portray a personality — this is something I try to do.

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