Turn Off Your Alarm Clock by taking Selfie!

Some of us might have difficulty in waking up in the morning and thus it is normal for us to set an alarm clock to remind us to wake up every morning. If this needs to be done on a daily basis, why not make it fun? Therefore, instead of using the normal alarm clock which only can produce an irritating sound or song or vibration, why not using a creative alarm clock which needs you to take a selfie to turn it off?

“Snap Me Up” is a creative alarm clock which force you to take a selfie of yourself before it can be turned off. However, the app is not the only app which needs you to do something different to turn off the alarm clock, there are already alarm clock available in the market which force you to do something like solve a puzzle or get up and spin around to turn it off.

The app comes with an interesting built-in face detection feature to prevent you to take a blurry picture of yourself. You can also set the camera to face front or back. The selfie which you took will be saved in a photo album with the name “My sleepy snaps”  with the date and time of when the photo was taken so that you can laugh it off later on. The only annoying thing is that it comes with an advertisement at the bottom of the app.

Currently “Snap Me Up” is only available in Android from Google Play Store while the iOS version is on the development stage.

Turn Off Your Alarm Clock by taking Selfie!

Energy Efficiently & Keep Device Cool: EaseUS Coolphone App

There are many apps that you have heard and used for battery saving on your android smartphone. Another app has arrived in the market that promises to keep your Android device cool and saves your battery life.

EaseUS Coolphone is app that works for keeping working temperature low for the android smartphone as well as reduces energy consumption. Do you have heard any app that can keep your smartphone cool?

When your phone is getting temperature for multitasking or for any heavy game, this simple app can control the heat. Although MTK and Snapdragon chips promise to keep the device cool, it will generate heat on it.

For that reason, EaseUS Coolphone is a perfect app to simply the users experience and keeps the tasks in real time. Trust on the app and do not think how it will work. The manual input is not more efficient than an app’s work.

EaseUS Coolphone will always monitor those apps that your device is running. Moreover, it closes the background apps automatically as well as optimizes system settings to reduce the processor on the processor. “Smart Controller” feature of the app will always save storage and battery of your smartphone.

EaseUS Coolphone is an ad-free app that will always controls your smartphone and gives full energy and storage.

Energy Efficiently & Keep Device Cool: EaseUS Coolphone App

Research project Cider allows unmodified iOS apps to run on Android

To put it simply, Cider can be used to make iOS apps think that they are still running inside the iPhone. It is an operating system compatibility layer and it allows iOS applications to run on Android devices. The credit for this goes to computer science students of Columbia University.

Sider tricks iOS applications and makes them run on Android. Its quite remarkable because Android runs on the Linux kernel whereas Apple runs on the XNU kernel.

 

 

This is what the young team from Columbia University had to say in their research paper:

“Cider enhances the domestic operating system, Android, of a device with kernel-managed, per-thread personas to mimic the application binary interface of a foreign operating system, iOS, enabling it to run unmodified foreign binaries.”

They used different techniques to make the iOS apps run on Android. They tried using many binary compatibility techniques including diplomatic functions, which make domestic libraries available to iOS applications, and allow iOS apps to use an Android device’s hardware and software resources. They also tried compile-time code adaptation to run unmodified iOS code on an Android.

In this video we see a modified Nexus 7 (2012) which is running Cider on the Android operating system. It is able to run both Android and iOS apps, and the Android launcher treats iOS apps like Apple iBooks and Yelp as if they were native Android applications.

Cider does have some limitations though. As of now, iOS applications that depend on features like bluetooth, camera, or GPS have limited to no compatability. Another limitation is that Cider has a bit of lag when running iOS applications. There is still more work to be done on some things but it still looks impressive.

Cider is just a prototype made as a research project. There are no plans for more development on the app but cross-platform compatibility between Android and iOS is of huge interest right now. It is very likely that this could become funded and continue as a fully funded project in the near future.

Research project Cider allows unmodified iOS apps to run on Android