Play and Sync Android Apps on Your Windows Desktop

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Android is one of the world’s most popular operating system for mobile phones. But unlike iOS, which also supports syncing of apps across other Apple devices, there is no Android OS for a PC. To use your Android Apps on Windows, Bluestack App player is a boon.


It is a software which comes with 10 preloaded Android apps and neatly works on your laptop or PC running Windows OS.


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The BlueStacks Apps when installed, are pre-loaded with 10 free apps. It usually shows up on the right hand corner of your desktop by default.Users can install upto 26 more apps and run them, getting a feel of how Android apps behave without actually using Android.The best part is users can synchronize their apps from Android phone to Windows PC with BlueStacks Cloud Connect.

It is a great way to synchronize and use Android Apps on Windows, which was not really possible. If you have a Windows computer and Android phone or tablet, then this software is a must.


The video below explains the features of BlueStacks quite well.


 


Do try out BlueStacks App Players for Windows and drop in your comments.


Link: BlueStacks Player


Related: 13 must have Android Apps on your Mobile Phone


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Google Buzz is shutting down; how to export your Buzz posts

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Google Buzz is almost at the end and Google is going to close this service completely. But for all those who are currently using it or shared hundreds of posts on it then here’s a Google tool for you where you can download all your Google Buzz posts and content. This service is Google Takeout. Using this service you can export your posts, photos contacts and other Google Buzz and Google+ profile data including posts you have posted on Google Buzz.

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To download all your data open the page:

https://www.google.com/takeout/?pli=1

Now you will see a page as shown in the screenshot above, click “CREATE ARCHIVE”. That will create a .zip file for all your data. Click Download to begin downloading.

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You have to enter your password once again to begin downloading; this will download all the content in a zip file with separate folders for each one of them. This is just like downloading your Facebook profile’s data. This is a useful tool as Google is shutting down its Google Buzz and I don’t think that even Google+ is going to survive for long.

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Customer Spotlight: Hawaiian Isles’ Helpful Emails

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As you know, the key to responses to your email marketing offers is a careful balance of helpful, relevant, interesting, entertaining, all-around saintly emails, written with the right audience in mind and tested for optimal performance.

Now, we could do the marketing-blog thing and throw that advice at you, wish you luck and go check our Twitter stream. But that’d leave you frustrated. So here, we’ll show you instead. A screenshot’s worth a thousand buzzwords, right?

One of our customers, Hawaiian Isles Kona Coffee, really strikes the balance between helpful email content and relevant offers. And they’re not a huge intimidating company whose output you could never match. They’re a hardworking small business with an ideal email campaign.

So here I present for your perusal and inspiration:

HI’s welcome email covers it all – sets expectations, requests whitelisting, invites feedback and provides an action to take (emailing questions).

By describing the exotic locales of the coffee’s origin, HI’s not only educates its readers, it plays into the American culture code for shopping – reconnecting with life.

If customers don’t properly store their coffee, it may spoil quickly, giving the product a bad reputation. These tips keep the coffee fresh and delicious – good for the customer, good for the company.

After several informative messages, it’s time for an offer. HI keeps their recommendation simple and clear.

Like the storage tips, these cleaning instructions not only educate the customer, they keep the coffee tasting fresh.

The same applies to the brewing tips – extra value, extra happy customers.

Now that readers know how to care for their coffee, it’s time to offer them another chance to buy some. Framed as a signature series, it’s evident why this offer is special.

Any readers who’ve ordered from the previous day’s broadcast can read up on some fun facts about their coffee while they wait for it to arrive in the mail.

At this point, the follow up series is done, but subscribers still get weekly offers and sale alerts.

They also get exclusive invitations and rewards, such as this offer for double reward points after a purchase.

So how are Hawaiian Isles’ emails so helpful? Well, they start by addressing this question:

“If you’re using my product (or service), what do you need to know to really get the best experience out of using this product or service?”

Then they answer the question that naturally follows, “What do you probably not know that, if you did, would lead you to buy more?”

There are a few things they can tweak to make their campaign even better, though:

The intervals between emails are rather short. Spread out the follow ups, and appreciation for the helpful information will last longer. (Plus, what if I haven’t cleaned my coffee pot yet?)The design of the broadcasts and follow ups should match. It looks like HI started using a new template for their broadcasts and just hasn’t updated their follow up design yet.

Otherwise, HI shows an impressive level of thoughtfulness. Do you know of any other email campaigns that make you sit up and take notice?

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Apple Store India is down, iPhone 4S coming soon?

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This is a quick post to update all of you with some Apple news. For all the Apple lovers in India, there might be a good news for all of us. The official Apple Store India i.e http://www.apple.co.in/store/ is down and they are updating their catalog. That means there’s a new Apple product on its way to India. The more possibilities are of the latest iPod Touch but that product is already on the Indian website of Apple. So the new product may be the latest phone by Apple i.e iPhone 4S. There’s also a possibility of Apple launching their new Macbook in India.

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The chances are low as the product is expected to be launched in India in December with 70 other countries but you never know what’s there on the mind of Apple. icon wink Apple Store India is down, iPhone 4S coming soon?

Stay connected for more updates.

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New Training Series: Tips and Tactics for Affiliate Marketers

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Listening to your customers and partners is a hallmark of successful businesses. It’s also one of our core values here at AWeber.

When we surveyed our affiliate partners recently, one consistent response was the desire for more support and training tools.

We heard you loud and clear.

Among the new initiatives we’re rolling out, we’ve teamed up with our friends at Affiliate Summit for a special free webinar: “Killer List Building Techniques that Work! (Email + Social)”.

Topics we’ll cover in this live, interactive webinar include:

Landing Pages – We’ll drill down into the “before and after” landing pages: the form pages where subscribers first opt into your lists, and the confirmation pages that serve as the jumping off point to your relationship with readers and prospects.

Autoresponders – List building doesn’t end with a new name. A strong first impression should be followed with successive touches that continue adding value and keeping subscribers engaged. Creative autoresponder series are perfect for that.

Social Media – Are you getting a decent amount of tweets and likes, but still need more fans and followers? How are you integrating opt-in email efforts with your social channels? This area is ripe for optimization with tweaks you can make quickly.

We’ll explore a variety of proven tips and tactics, look at real-life examples of what does and doesn’t work, and address your specific questions in our live Q&A session. We’ll also be looking for your input on future training session topics.

So if you’re looking to accelerate your list growth, reserve your spot today for “Killer List Building Techniques that Work! (Email + Social)” and join us on Thursday, Oct. 27 at 1:00 p.m. EDT.

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WordPress 3.3 Beta 1

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WordPress 3.3 is ready for beta testers.

As always, this is software still in development and we don’t recommend that you run it on a production site — set up a test site just to play with the new version. If you break it (find a bug), please report it, and if you’re a developer, try to help us fix it.

If all goes well, we hope to release WordPress 3.3 by the end of November. The more help we get with testing and fixing bugs, the sooner we will be able to release the final version. If you want to be a beta tester, you should check out the Codex article on how to report bugs.

Here’s some of what’s new:

Media uploaderImproved admin barFly out admin menus

Remember, if you find something you think is a bug, report it! You can bring it up in the alpha/beta forum, you can email it to the wp-testers list, or if you’ve confirmed that other people are experiencing the same bug, you can report it on the WordPress Core Trac. (We recommend starting in the forum or on the mailing list.)

Theme and plugin authors, if you haven’t been following the 3.3 development cycle, please start now so that you can update your themes and plugins to be compatible with the newest version of WordPress.

Download WordPress 3.3 Beta 1

And now, haiku.

Features almost done…

3.3 at Beta 1.

Test it now — have fun!

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Yes, You Can Put “Free” In Your Subject Line

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Thursday, Yahoo! released an email visualization tool. Updated every second, it shows the volume of email being delivered through Yahoo! users across the globe.

Click on the map, and it’ll zoom in to a breakdown of emails in that area (with all emails anonymized). Keep clicking, and it’ll display fascinating facts about Yahoo!’s user base.
You can also choose to either show or hide blocked spam messages.

But the visualizer’s not just fun to look at (though we’re crossing our fingers this is available as a desktop background very soon). If you click on the green “trending keywords” box, you’ll see something very helpful for email marketers:

In blue, you see the most common words in subject lines hitting inboxes by the second (though the data’s delayed by about an hour).

Then, if you click the green “show spam keywords” box, you’ll see a gray representation of subject line words for emails being blocked as spam (though probably not for the subject lines).

Now, we’re not suggesting you start copying and pasting lists of safe words and danger words.

We’re suggesting that, once you get over the awe of this lovely tool, you take note of these two observations:

Every time we take a look, the word “free” is hovering steadily in the “delivered” zone. “Free” subject lines are getting delivered. It’s safe.

So no more typing fr.e.e in your subject lines, okay? For one, your subscribers must think your ring finger has a nervous tic. For another, it looks more suspicious than the real word anyway.

If Yahoo is putting this information out there for anyone (spammers, desperate marketers, sane marketers and the general unconcerned populace) to see, they’re not worried about anyone gaming the system.

This suggests that the words you use in your subject line aren’t necessarily what flags emails as spam, and therefore, they aren’t the most important factor.

So instead of worrying exactly which words are “safe,” focus on which words are engaging and entertaining and make the sale.

Keep your focus on subscriber engagement, get whitelisted and work on building relationships – then watch your own subject lines show up in the Visualizer when you click the “queue” button!

What do you think? Helpful, or just a digital lava lamp?

If you notice anything else about the visualizer that email marketers should know, please share in a comment below!

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Today Apple’s iPod turns 10 [Video]

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ipod 10 years steve jobs thumb Today Apples iPod turns 10 [Video]When Steve Jobs returned to Apple, it was a company whose computers were over-priced and it was having serious challenges in the computer making business. Apple today is synonymous with the term ‘Post PC Era’ simply because they have moved away from the being computer makers towards making gadgets like iPod, iPhone and iPad tablets.

Apple has made a fantastic turnaround in the last 10 years so much so, that it has even overtaken Microsoft this year.

This turn around started 10 years ago, when Steve Jobs presented the iPod. The MP3 music player, which he perfectly described with the quote “A 1000 songs in your pocket”.

Also included below is a video of the event from 10 years ago; when Jobs introduced the iPod to the world.

It might be worth noting that even Apple fans were sceptical about Apple getting into the gadget industry away from its computer base.

Do drop in your comments.

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Customer Spotlight – The Wine School Of Philadelphia

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We like to think our customers are pretty cool. We talk to you everyday over the phone, through live chat and in emails. You leave comments on the blog, post to our Facebook wall and converse with us through Twitter.

So we went on a mission to find some of those cool customers and spotlight them and their business. This led us to Keith Wallace, Founder and CEO of The Wine School Of Philadelphia.

Keith runs The Wine School down in the Rittenhouse area of Philadelphia, where he and his team of instructors run classes for people ranging from the amateur wine aficionado to the professional sommelier looking to expand his or her repertoire.

Keith uses AWeber to communicate with his subscribers about classes, wines for sale and so much more.

Check out this awesome video where Keith talks about the greatest pairing of all time: wine and email.

And don’t forget to catch the extended version of the interview!

Do you have any cool stories that you’d like to share about your business in email? Tell us about it. Who knows, you could be the next one featured as an AWeber’s Customer Spotlight!

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10 Latest Smart Phones in India this Diwali!

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During this Diwali festival, I have decided to go and get myself a new smart phone. I started to do a little research and came up with a list of phones I could potentially buy. In my research, I found 10 new phones that are out there. So I thought I will share this list and approximate prices with you; so if you are looking to buy a new phone it would helpful. So here is the list of 10 latest smart phones you can consider buying this Diwali.

blackberry bold 9900 thumb 10 Latest Smart Phones in India this Diwali!The phone supports QWERTY keypad and has a touch screen. It does seem to be a phone meant for business with document viewer and Pushmail. It has a single 5 Megapixel camera.

Internal storage space is 8 Gb which is expandable to 32 Gb. It does have 768 MB RAM.

OS: BlackBerry 7 OS

Price: INR 33,000

I guess this phone is a little over-priced considering almost a similar phone BlackBerry Torch is priced a lot less.

Link: Blackberry Bold 9900

BlackBerry Torch 9810 thumb 10 Latest Smart Phones in India this Diwali!The BlackBerry Torch supports touch screen and also a QWERTY keypad. Its display screen is 3.2 inches. It has a single 5 megapixel camera. Storage space is 8 GB with support for Micro SD upto 32 GB.

It supports GPRS, WiFi and 3G connectivity.

OS: BlackBerry 7 OS

Price: INR 30,000

This phone is considered to the best BlackBerry phone out there.

Link: BlackBerry Torch 9810

Samsung Galaxy R thumb 10 Latest Smart Phones in India this Diwali!This phone handset has a touch screen, size is 4.2 Inches. It has 2 cameras with primary camera being 5 Megapixel.

It does support 3G and WiFi for connectivity. It has internal storage space of 8 GB and it supports Micros SD, upto 32 GB.

OS: Android 2.3 (Gingerbread)

Price: INR 26,000

The smart phone seems to be priced a tad too high and it might be worth taking a look at some other phones from Samsung in the same price margin.

Link: Samsung Galaxy R

Samsung Galaxy Plus thumb 10 Latest Smart Phones in India this Diwali!Galaxy S Plus has a touch screen, while it does support a display screen that is 4 inches. It has two cameras with the primary one being 5 Megapixel.

It supports HD recording and storage space is expandable to 32GB.  For connectivity it supports WiFi, 3G and GPRS.

OS: Android 2.3 (Gingerbread)

Price: INR 22,500

This phone is a good buy for its price, especially if one finds Galaxy R phones a little too expensive.

Link: Samsung Galaxy S Plus

LG smart phones P920 thumb 10 Latest Smart Phones in India this Diwali!The LG Optimus 3D has a touch screen, with 2 cameras with one of them being a 5 megapixel camera. Camera features that set it apart are ability to take 3D photos and stereoscopic photos.

It has 8 GB storage space while 512 MB RAM.

OS: Android 2.2 (Froyo)

Price: INR 35,000

This phone mainly caters to the market which wants to take and view 3D photos.

Link: LG Optimus P920

Sony xperia neo v thumb 10 Latest Smart Phones in India this Diwali!Xperia Neo V is considered to be a value for money phone. It works with touch screen and size is 3.7 inches. It does have two cameras with one being 5 megapixel. It has 2 GB internal memory.

OS: Android 2.3 (Gingerbread)

Price: INR 17,500

#7. BlackBerry 9330

OS: Android 2.3 (Gingerbread)

Price: INR 22,500

Link: Sony Ericsson Xperia neo V

HTC sensation xe thumb 10 Latest Smart Phones in India this Diwali!This is one of the latest phones from HTC in India. It has support for 3G, and runs on a 1.5 GHz Dual Core processor.

Its internal memory is 1GB which is a bit disappointing but does support Micro SD upto 32 GB.

OS: Android 2.3.4 (Gingerbread)

Price: Rumored INR 35,000

If you are a fan of HTC smart phones and want to stick with an Android, this phone is worth taking a look.

Link: HTC Sensation XE

Nokia 701 thumb 10 Latest Smart Phones in India this Diwali!Nokia 701 is also a value for money phone, and has a very good 8 MP camera. It is a touch screen phone. It does support 3G and Wifi.

The memory storage is a decent 8GB which is expandable.

OS: Symbian Belle OS

Price: INR 17,000

The phone is pretty good and has decent reviews. The single problem is that Nokia phones have not been received all that well and support for Symbian is considered uncertain after Nokia joined hands with Microsoft.

Link: Nokia 701

HTC Explorer thumb 10 Latest Smart Phones in India this Diwali!Another Android based touch phone from HTC, it does have 3.15 Megapixel camera and supports 3G. It does have a 3.2 inch display screen.

Internal memory is a disappointing 90 MB but I guess the low-cost of the phone makes it a decent buy.

OS: Android 2.3

Price: INR 11,600

Link: HTC Explorer

iPhone4 thumb 10 Latest Smart Phones in India this Diwali!You cannot compile a list of smart-phones without the iPhone 4. It has features like Facetime, retina display screen, 5 megapixel camera. It supports a host of Apps thanks to its iOS platform.

You can look up the complete guide to purchasing a iPhone 4 in India or wait it out until next year when iPhone 4S is expected to be available.

The price is INR 34,500 for 16GB and INR 40,900 for a 32GB phone.

Link: Apple iPhone 4 India

Whatever you choose to buy, do a good research on what exactly you want from your phone. On last thoughts, we should be expecting phones running Microsoft’s Mango OS by year-end.

Do drop in your comments and views about these phones. Also wishing all our readers a very Happy Diwali.

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