What is an Android Tablet?

As you read in a previous Googitechie´s article, Android was designed primarily for mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers. If you missed it you can find it here. The Motorola Xoom was the first device to run Android 3.0 also called as Honeycomb in 2011. The Honeycomb is the first version officially approved for Tablets. However, the first LTE Android Tablet appeared late 2009 and it was made by ICD for Verizon.
An Android tablet is a tablet PC. Microsoft used first the term Tablet PC in 2000 to describe a prototype handheld device with a flat touch-screen interface and a pen enabled. Nowadays, this mobile computing device is larger than a smartphone or personal digital assistant, generally you can find it at 7 inches (18 cm) or larger, and those devices are equipped with sensors, cameras, microphone, accelerometer which detects the physical movement and orientation of the tablet and also touchscreen, with finger or stylus gestures and a popup virtual keyboard usually used for typing, this great feature replace the computer mouse and keyboard.
A Tablet PC offer lots of great features, let s consider some of them:
1) Hardware: The physical elements that comprise a Tablet PC.
• High-definition, anti-glare display.
• Wireless internet connectivity (usually with Wi-Fi, but some Tablets can be sold with 3G or 4G wireless data access, then those Tablets require a Data Plan just like phones to access the Internet
• GPS satellite location.
• Front- and/or back- facing camera(s) for photographs and video.
• Lower weight and longer battery life than a comparably-sized laptop.
• Bluetooth for connecting peripherals and communicating with local devices.
• Docking station: Keyboard and USB port(s)
2) Software
• Minibrowser.
• Reader for digital books, periodicals and other content.
• Downloadable apps such as games, education and utilities.
• Portable media player function including video playback.
• E-mail and social media (such as Google+, Twitter, Facebook).
• Mobile phone functions (messaging, speakerphone, address book).
• Video-teleconferencing.
• Speech recognition (include voice dialling, call routing, speech-to-text processing, and so on)
3) Data storage.
• On-board flash memory.
• Ports for removable storage (such as memory cards)
• Cloud storage options for backup and syncing data across devices.
In 2012 Google introduced the Nexus 7 and Nexus 10 tablets. Hardware makers that have shipped Android tablets include now these companies: Acer, Asus, Samsung, Toshiba and Sony. the question is what is the best Android Tablet? The list below is considered the top 10 best Android tablets 2013.
10) Amazon Kindle Fire HD.
9) Amazon Kindle Fire HD 8.9
8) Asus Fonepad.
7) Asus Padfone 2.
6) Acer Iconia A1.
5) Barnes & Noble Nook HD.
4) Asus Transformer Pad Infinity TF700.
3) Sony Xperia Tablet Z.
2) Google Nexus 7.
1) Google Nexus 10.

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How to manage your Picasa Web Albums?

A previous article explained what is Picasa, if you have missed it click here. After you access the Picasa Web Albums, it is time now to upload your photos, and to do this click the “Upload” button located at the top of the Picasa screen. After that click “Select photos from your computer”, by doing this you can browse into your drives to select the image you wish to upload. You can add those photos to in an existing album if you already had it or to a new album. Finally, click the “Add photos” button to save the images to your Picassa Web Albums.
To manage your photos you can use click the ´´Actions´´ menu options and choose “Edit in Creative Kit”. this menu contains a web-based image editor that let you edit your photos graphically to make changes to the them. For example you can crop, rotate, resize, decorate, add effects and also a text box to your pictures with a wide variety of fonts. After, save your edited image by clicking “Save to my album” button. A pop up menu message will ask you if you want to “Replace” the original image with the new one, click on it or if you want click “Save a new copy”.
Do you want to share your photos, or keep them private? Then you should know how to manage the access of your Picasa Web Albums.
1) open the album you would like to change.
2) Select Actions and Album properties.
3) click the “Visibility” drop-down menu and choose one of these options below:
Public: Anyone on the web can view public albums.
Limited, anyone with the link: The album you have selected is now visible to anyone with the link.
Limited: Limited albums are visible to the people you specify. For example Google+ users under your permission.
Only you: Private. This album you have selected is visible only to you.
Do you want to embed a slideshow of your Picasa Web Albums on your website?
Please follow these steps below:
1) click your album.
2) Click Link to this album on the right-hand side.
3) Click Embed Slideshow and choose your slideshow settings, like the image size, captions, and autoplay.
4) copy the resulting HTML code, and paste the HTML in the source code for your blog or website.

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The best Google Chrome extension for download Youtube video.

What is the easiest way to download a youtube video that you like? If you are using google chrome browser you are lucky, because I will show you a easy trick you can use(as pictured, adding the download button below any Youtube video) to downnload youtube videos in many formats like : 720p (MP4), 480p (WebM), 480p (FLV), 360p (WebM), 360p (FLV), 360p (MP4), 240p (FLV), 240p (3GP), MP3 Convert. So to do this, just follow these steps:

1) Download the extension at http://www.chromeextensions.org/utilities/youtube-downloader-3/
2) After you download the Ultimate YouTube Downloader, go chrome browser menu, click settings and extensions.
3) drag the file you have downloaded put it where are located all of the extentions listed in Chrome browser.
4) A pop up menu will appear, click add to chrome.
5) Finally go to youtube, choose a video and you will see a change below the video. What is that? A download button or download menu appears, so click on it and download it. Enjoy!!!
VIDEO-How to Download Video from YouTube Using Chrome Extension, for more explanation.
How to Download Video from YouTube Using Chrome Extension by Kai_Yan

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