How to Expand Storage of Nexus 7 and Other Android tablets?

Tablets are becoming more popular these days and you can do almost everything on it. Meanwhile, with the development of technology, the good quality of entertain contents, such as photos, music, movies, and games, need much storage to keep them. In general, the storage capacity of most tablets ranges between 16GB, 32GB and 64GB. Nexus 7 offers 16GB and 32 GB options without SD card.If you want more storage, then how to do it? Indeed, there are some tips helping you increase the storage of Android tablets. Following are the details.

USB OTG Cable
The USB OTG cable is a USB cable On-The-Go,allowing the mobile device connect with other USB device such as a flash drive.This way is very easy and you just need to plug the OTG cable in the Android device and the other port of the cable connects with a flash drive or a USB drive and then you can save your content to the flash drive.That means your Android tablet is the host and the flash drive acts as your storage.

Online Storage Service
For the majority, this way is the effective and simple way to get more storage capacity with storing the files online. You can find many good online cloud storage services that offer free space for you.With the app that is provided by online cloud storage service, you can easily upload and download files directly from your tablet.

Popular online storage service: COMODO Cloud(free 5GB)，SugarSync(Free 5GB)， Dropbox(free 2GB),Box(free 5GB),JustCloud.

Kingston Wi-Drive
When you use the online storage service, you may need a high speed internet connection, so if you think it is hard for you, you can use Kingston Wi-Drive to extend the storage. Kingston Wi-Drive hardware is a portable USB Flash storage device that allows you to wirelessly stream digital media content (such as music, photos, videos, etc.) to your Android based tablet or smartphone, available for both Apple and Android products. It offers you three two storage capacities – 32GB, 64GB and 128G.It is an easy but perfect solution for expanding storage and you just need to connect with it use the USB cable and then you can use it.

For this way, you need a Kingston Wi-Drive hardware, Wi-Drive app, a USB cable, AC adaper, an AirPlay compatible Android device.It doesn’t support 3G,

GoFlex Satellite
Just similar as Kingston Wi-Device, GoFlex Satellite device lets you wirelessly access all your movies, photos, music and documents on your Android device. It offers a larger storage capacity than Wi-Device and it works for both your tablets and PC. Better, it comes with built-in battery backup of up to 7 hours and a single USB connection specially designed for tablets. All you need do is turn on its power and connect it with your Android tablet via the USB port or wirelessly with built-in wireless network. Then you have got an external 500GB storage capacity. You can take more than Take more than 300 HD movies with the increased storage.

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How to Sync iTunes with Android to Enjoy iTunes Music on Android Device?

If you use iTunes,but you don’t have a iDevice but Android device instead, or you come from iPone/iPod/iPads and have massive clean & organized music with iTunes, then you need to sync iTunes with Android although they are actually not friendly with each other. But indeed,there are some methods to help you do that.Just get the details in the following.

DoubleTwist

DoubleTwist is a two-part application; one part runs on your Android device with a media player for your convenience, the other runs on your computer and automatically locates your iTunes library and populates its own list for syncing.

• Download DoubleTwist and install.
• Click "Library -> Import iTunes Playlists" to add the playlists in your iTunes library.
• Connect Android Device to computer via USB. Enable USB file storage. Select your Android device under the "DEVICES" in the left pane.
• Drag and drop the playlist to your Android phone in the panel and start syncing.

iSyncr and PlayerPro Music Player

iSyncr is an Android application for both Windows and Mac that synchronizes your iTunes playlists to your Android Device. PlayerPro Music Player is a music player which is compatible with iSyncr.

• Download and install iSyncr to your Android device. Download the version for the operating system running on your computer.
• Run the iSyncr app on your device. Go to the app’s home screen>Settings,enable “Play Count Logging” and “Auto Clean Playlists” Then connect the device to computer using a USB cable.
• Install the iSyncr in computer .Enable "Sync iTunes Album Art" and "Remember Selected Playlists" from the option button, and “Remember Selected Playlists” will help you not have to re-select your playlists every time.
• On the list of playlists, check those playlists that you want to sync, then click the Sync button.
• Download and install PlayerPro Music Player from the Android Market. 
• Run the app,go to Menu> Settings, then Go to Music Library > Scrobbling, select "Simple Last.fm" from the list. Go Go to Music Library > Rating System, and select "iSyncr" from the list. Go to Look and Feel and enable “Prefer ID3 artwork”.

AirBind

AirBind is a freeware app which allows you to sync your iTunes library to your Android device over Wi-Fi.But it can only sync iTunes Plus music which is DRM-free music.

• Download and install the PC or Mac client and then launch AirBbind on your Android device.
• The AirBind will automatically find your iTunes library , and it will start to sync with only one mouse click.

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How to get rid of annoying mobile ads on your Android Phone

Sometimes when you try to download android apps from Google play app store or play downloader games like Angle Bird, they sometimes push annoying ads to your smartphone, and you find it really boring that you want to remove all the annoying ads on your android device. But how to get rid of these annoying mobile ads on Android Phone?

Being a long android lover, I have discovered a list of good tips and powerful apps for you here. If you have the same problem, Follow the Tutorials to have a try and you will find it really useful.

1. Download free app called AirPush Detector

AirPush Detector is the app that detects other installed applications to see which apps appear to use notification ad frameworks and users can easily uninstall them.

The app can't block ads, but at least it can tell you which apps are causing them. So you must uninstall the app to stop the ads.

Now for the trick

• After you've detected and deleted the apps which push ads, head to the Google Play Store.
• Once inside the Play Store, tap on Settings.
• Inside Settings, uncheck "Google AdMob Ads”, this will make sure that you will no longer receive targeted ads from Google.

Apart from AirPush Detector, there are similar apps in Google Play Store like Adblock Plus or AppBrain Ad Detector.

2. If your phone is rooted, you can try AdFree and AdAway. Both of the apps are free.
AdFree removes most ads in the browser and other apps. It does this by nullifying requests to known host names in the system hosts file, and AdAway is a similar app like AdFree.

3. To some extent, in my eyes, the ads are there to support developer to keep Develop innovation product. If you really want to remove them, the easiest way is to use your phone offline whenever you are using the add supported app.

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