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Amazon Music App Review: 1,000,000+ Free Songs on Any Device

July 23, 2014 / / 1,552 Comments

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In this video I’m going to show you the Amazon music app where you can get access to millions of songs and hundreds of playlists for free directly on any device. If you are looking for a way to download free music legally onto your smartphone or tablet then this is the app to go with. This is the Amazon music app and it gives you access to like millions of songs, hundreds of playlists for free if you are a Prime member. So if you’re an Amazon Prime member you will be able to get this. If you’re not a Prime member you can get a free 30-day trial of Amazon Prime by visiting MyTechMethods.com/prime. That will take you to the page where you can sign up for that free 30-day trial of Amazon Prime where you can get access to all this music. I’m gonna show you this app real quick and how it works. So when you first open up the app and you login to your Amazon Prime account you see this little screen here. And this is the songs, albums, and playlists screen where you can browse through all the most popular songs and albums. You even got the genre drop down menu where you can select individual or specific genres or leave it on all genres. And then you got your playlists tab over here. You can go through the playlists. You got your albums. You can check out all the albums, and you got your search function here where you can search any phrase like any artist name or song name or album name to see if it’s available on the prime music app. And if you tap the Menu icon you got more options here. You can view your library so anything that you saved to your library from the prime music you will be able to view here by artist, playlists, albums, and songs, genres. Then you got your Downloads. So let’s go ahead and download a song or an album just for the sake of this video. Let’s say I wanna search for, No let’s say I wanna go to the alternative rock albums and see some albums here that I want. Or I can do my search function. I’ll just tap on an album here. And this album is available on Prime. It’s got that little check mark and the Prime logo here. So that means I can add this album to my device for free, download it. So what I want to do is add album to library, and it’s gonna add all the songs on the album to my library. And I just go back to my library and I can go on artists or albums to find that. I’ll just go to Artists and find Fun. This is the album that I just added to my library. And I can stream it for free by clicking the play button or shuffle button. Then I can also download all the songs by swiping to the left on each individual song and then clicking Download. So if I do that I can download songs from that album directly onto my device for free, and I can listen to it wherever I’m at. So not only do you have unlimited access to all the prime music for free you actually have this thing called Prime Playlists as well. You can go in here and choose all the playlists that are on prime and listen to them for free on your device. So that’s my review of the Amazon music app. You can click the link in the description below to find the link to this app for your device. Also again you can find the link to the free 30-day trial for Amazon Prime if you’re not an Amazon Prime member so you can get access to this app and all this music. So I hope you enjoyed this video, and I wish you all the best with your brand new music. Thank you so much for watching. Make sure you give this video a thumbs-up and subscribe to my channel. Keep having fun out there, and I will talk to you later.

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10 Awesome iPhone Apps You Probably Don’t Know About

May 27, 2014 / / 1,563 Comments

Inspired by this Reddit thread, here are 10 awesome iOS apps that you probably don’t know about! (in no particular order)

  • FastCustomer – With a single tap, FastCustomer will navigate the phone tree to nearly any company’s department – like tech support or billing – then it will ring your phone once it has an agent on the line for you.
  • NextDraft – Dave Pell, Internet wit and news addict, provides a smart summary of the day’s 10 most fascinating news stories.
  • Places I’ve Pooped – A little gem that helps you track all the places you’ve pooped in the world. Expand your territory, mark everywhere you’ve visited – bombs away!
  • RunPee – Tells you the best time to take a bathroom break during your favorite movies without missing the best scenes. Also provides a synopsis so you know exactly what you missed.
  • Zombies, Run! – An immersive running game and audio adventure. Delivers a story straight to your headphones through orders and voice recordings while you are on your run – and when you get back home, you use the supplies you’ve collected while running to build and grow your base.
  • Songza – (Bought by Google) Working? Relaxing? At the gym? Songza plays you the right music at the right time.
  • SongPop – Fun music guessing game. It plays a clip from a song, and you must answer it as fast as you can to beat your opponent. Pretty addicting.
  • Aviary – A fun & simple way to make beautiful photos in seconds. Use professionally designed filters, creative stickers and frames, touch-up tools and more to create amazing pics.
  • CamScanner – Takes pictures of documents and converts to PDF. Helps you scan, store, sync and collaborate on various contents across smartphones, iPads, tablets and computers.
  • TuneWiki –(Removed from US Store) Great lyrics app. Play your music or radio with scrolling lyrics.

What’s your favorite app that almost nobody knows about?

By Andy Slye

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20 iPhone Apps That Will Change Your Life

May 11, 2014 / / 1,602 Comments

Here are 20 iPhone apps (in no particular order) that will change your life!

20 iPhone apps that will change your life!
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In no particular order these are 20 iPhone apps that will change your life!

Google Maps (free) – Turn-by-turn GPS app that makes navigating your world faster and easier.
Waze (free) – a fun, community based mapping, traffic & navigation app. With millions of drivers from across the globe joining forces to outsmart traffic, save time, gas money, and improve daily commuting for all.
Alien Blue (free or paid) – a feature packed client for browsing Reddit. It has been developed from the ground-up for an intuitive touch-screen experience.
Pocket Casts ($3.99) – a powerful Podcast manager for iPhone and iPad.
Feedly (free) – The more you read, the more you know. Feedly delivers all your favorite sites in one place.
Google Voice (free) – Access your Google Voice account right from your iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Send free text messages to US phones and make international calls at very low rates. Access your voicemail messages with transcription.
Full Fitness ($1.99) – Becoming and staying fit has never been easier with the help of Full Fitness. Hundreds of exercises are explained with clear pictures, videos, and text instructions. Fantastic workout tracking app.
MyFitnessPal (free) – the fastest and easiest-to-use calorie counter app. With the largest food database of any iOS calorie counter (over 3,000,000 foods), and amazingly fast food and exercise entry, it’ll help you improve your weight and hit your fitness goals.
Pocket (free) – Over 10 million people use Pocket to easily save articles, videos and more for later. With Pocket, all of your content goes to one place, so you can view it anytime, on any device. You don’t even need an Internet connection.
Evernote (free) – an easy-to-use app that helps you remember everything across all of the devices you use. Stay organized, save your ideas and improve your productivity. Evernote lets you take notes, snap photos, create to-do lists, scan business cards, record voice reminders–and it makes everything searchable, whether you are at home, at work, or on the go.
Balanced (free) – Struggling to make time for all the little things that matter? Join over 100,000 others who use Balanced to stay motivated & focused on what’s really important in life.
Lift (free) – Lift provides personal coaching for any goal by giving you daily motivation, expert instruction, reminders, and celebrations.
Dropbox (free) – Dropbox lets you bring all your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily. Access any file you save to your Dropbox from all your computers, iPhone, iPad, and the web. With Dropbox you’ll always have your important memories and work with you.
Musi (free) – Musi lets you stream audio directly from YouTube, build playlists, and share music with your friends. You can even stream and listen to music when your device is locked.
Mint (free) – Mint.com allows you to track, budget and manage your money all in one place, so you can see where you’re spending and where you can save. Open an account, add your bank, credit, loan and retirement accounts and Mint will automatically pull in and categorize your transactions. It’s safe, secure and easy to keep your personal finances organized.
Udemy (free) – Udemy is the world’s largest destination for on-demand, online courses. Whether you want to get promoted, break into a new industry, start a company, further a passion, or just accelerate your life, Udemy has a course to help you get there and get there faster.
RetailMeNot (free) – The RetailMeNot Coupons app makes it easy to save in store and online with thousands of coupons and deals to the places you love to shop.
Relax Melodies (free) – Can’t sleep? In 20 minutes you will, or less. Introducing the most popular sleep aid app. Start sleeping now and enjoy full nights of sleep like you haven’t in a long time.
1 Second Everyday ($0.99) – Imagine a movie that includes every day of the rest of your life.
GasBuddy (free) – Find the cheapest gas near you.

What is one app that has changed your life for the better?

By Andy Slye

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How to Save Battery on iOS 7

April 23, 2014 / / 0 Comments

In this video I’ll show you how to save battery on iOS 7. All of these tips apply to any iOS 7 device: iPhone, iPod, and iPad

Tip 1: End all background running apps once a day. To do this all you have to do is is double tap the home button and swipe up on each app to end the background process. This will save battery when you’re not using it.

Tip 2: Enable airplane mode when you’re not using the network or the cellular data on your device. So normally when I go to bed I just swipe up to enable airplane mode by tapping on the airplane icon. It shuts off all data connections and saves battery life.

Tip 3: Enable auto brightness or just lower your brightness level overall on your device. Go to settings then go to wallpapers and brightness and you can enable auto brightness if it’s not already enabled. Also you can just turn down your overall brightness there using the scroll bar. Keep auto brightness enabled to extend battery life on your iPhone, iPod or iPad.

Tip 4: Disable Bluetooth and Airdrop if you’re not using those features.

Tip 5: Disable any unnecessary notifications in your notification center. Go to Settings then Notification Center and disable any of these that you do not need notifications for. You can choose to disable all of them or just certain ones depending on which app it is so you can customize it to your liking.

Tip 6: Disable unnecessary location services. So in Settings go to privacy and then location services you can choose to turn location services on but only turn it on for certain apps. I disabled location services for any app that does not need it. A lot of these apps don’t need your location information. That’ll save battery life for sure.

Tip 7: Disable unnecessary system services. Scroll to the bottom and tap on system services and disable these three options: diagnostics and usage, location-based iAds, and popular near me. These three apps are basically unnecessary for the majority of iPhone users so turn those off. Also turn off frequent locations.

Tip 8: Limit ad tracking. Under Settings go back to privacy and at the bottom you see an advertising tab. Tap on that and make sure that your limit ad tracking is enabled. You want to limit the ad tracking that your iPhone is doing in the background.

Tip 9: Disable Diagnostics & Usage reports. Go into Settings go to General go to About scroll to the bottom and go to diagnostics and usage and make sure that the “Don’t send” is checked. If you want to send that stuff and be a good citizen you can leave it on “Automatically send” but if you want to maximize your battery life you can change that.

Tip 10: Reduce motion. If you don’t care about the parallax 3D effects on the background and the transition effects for the app’s closing and opening go to Settings go to General, Accessibility go down to Reduce Motion.

Tip 11: Disable background app refresh. Go into settings then general and then tap on background app refresh. Disable it for all apps or enable it and then enable certain apps like I have. I turned off background app refresh for apps that I do not want to update in the background. That’ll save battery life especially when you have a lot of apps open at the same time.

Tip 12: Disable automatic updates by going into Settings go to the iTunes and App Store option. Here you can disable automatic downloads and automatic updates for music and apps. Also you can disable cellular data so it doesn’t use your cell data to do automatic downloads.

Tip 13: Configure Spotlight search settings. Go to Settings then go to General tap on spotlight search and here you can disable spotlight search for any app that you want. You can customize this list for any app that you do not need spotlight search for. Uncheck it and spotlight search will not index that app which will save battery life.

That is how to save battery life on iOS 7. I hope you enjoyed the tips. If you have any other tips that I didn’t cover or I missed just leave a comment below. Make sure you subscribe to my YouTube channel. Thanks for watching!

By Andy Slye

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How To Jailbreak iOS 7 Untethered with Evasi0n (iPhone, iPad, iPod)

December 29, 2013 / / 1,552 Comments

This video shows you how to jailbreak iOS 7 on an iPhone, iPad, or iPod. The first step is to connect your device (your iPhone, iPad, or iPod) to your computer, and when iTunes opens select “Back Up Now” to make a backup of your device. It’ll only take a few minutes. Step number two is to restore your iPhone, iPad, or iPod to the latest iOS version (during this video it’s 7.0.4). While it’s connected to iTunes click the “Restore” button. As long as you just made that successful backup you can click “Restore and Update” and it’ll restore to the latest version of iOS so you can do the jailbreak. Restore your device from the most recent backup that you just did.

Next, go on your device and disable any passcode lock that you have on it if you have one. You can re-enable it once you’re done with the jailbreak. After you’ve disabled your passcode lock, go on your computer and visit evasi0n.com and download the jailbreak application for your operating system, Mac or Windows. Click the Download button to download it to your computer then double-click the application to run it. Make sure that your iPad, iPhone, or iPod version is supported by the jailbreak.

If you don’t already have your device connected to your computer go ahead and do that right now. Let it sync to iTunes, and then once it’s connected click the jailbreak button. The jailbreak process will begin, and it will take a few minutes to complete. During the jailbreak process your device will reboot several times. When it says to, continue by unlocking your device and tap the new evasion 7 icon. It’ll come up and go right back down and reboot. The device will reboot one last time, and evasi0n says that it’s done. After the final reboot you will see evasion complete some final tasks while it completes the jailbreak.

Now you can go into your device and go to the last page and you should see Cydia. Tap on it to open it. It’ll prepare the file system. Once your device re-springs it’ll come back up. Go back into Cydia one last time then choose User. Complete any upgrades if available. Your iOS 7 device is now jailbroken! You can go into Cydia and start adding all the tweaks and apps that you want. Enjoy!

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