Track Habits Like Calories To Develop & Reinforce Them [Giveaway]

Weightloss and dieting are considered one the hardest things to stick to. For anyone wanting to lose weight, or bulk up, it’s hard to follow a taxing new exercise routine and watch what you eat. Those who are beginning to take their first steps towards fitness will find that there are a slew of services, apps, and communities that they can turn to for help, support, and advice. For other habits that get less attention, there isn’t much out there in terms of a helpful app. Meet HabitBull, an app dedicating to helping you track your habits and stick to them. The app has been available on Android for well over a year and we reviewed it back in May 2014. HabitBull has a whole new look is now available for iOS. The developers are generously offering a free upgrade to premium to our readers. Details at the end.

HabitBull is essentially for developing habits and sticking to them one day at a time. The app isn’t restrictive in any sense so you can create just about any sort of habit. It does feature broad categories for sorting the habits you’re trying to beat, or develop. Additionally, it also lets you color code habits by type which is useful if, for example, you have habits you want to develop and also ones you want to quit. You can set the good habits to Green, and the bad ones to Red.

For every habit you add, HabitBull asks you to set a success parameter for it. It can be simple like a Yes/No or you can quantify it e.g. drink 8 glasses of water daily.

HabitBull also comes with stats. Lots and lots of awesome stats. You can check out your running streak for a week or a month and spot which days you slagged off and which ones were good. Additionally, you can set a ‘success’ date. It takes about 66 days for something to become a habit and you can set a reminder/alert/goal for when you reach that point for a habit. You can of course edit it to be longer or shorter than 66 days.

The app is pretty great on a free plan but with premium you can backup your data to a cloud service, sync data to multiple devices, track up to 100 habits, export data, and be eligible to get all future features introduced for premium users.

Free Premium Upgrade:

To claim your premium account with HabitBull, follow these steps;

1. Install the app and sign up to use it.
2. Email HabitBull at habitbull@gmail.com with the subject “HabitBull Premium – AT” and include your email address (the one you used to sign up) in the body of the email
3. Your account should be updated immediately. Log out and log back in again to start using premium features
4. This offer is valid until November 30, 2015 (GMT+1)

If your account isn’t upgraded, wait 24 hours, send another email to HabitBull.

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Check Who’s Received & Read A Message In A Whatsapp Group

The great thing about text messages is that they don’t send a ‘Seen’ report back to the original sender. You can always ignore a text message and if your carrier has the right kind of bad reputation, you can even get away with saying you never got a message. Just about any messaging service that sends messages over the internet has a ‘seen’ feature; iMessages, Facebook Messenger, Whatsapp, Viber, etc all make it hard to avoid conversations. It’s hard to ignore a message in a one-on-one conversation though it is much easier to do so in a group chat. If you use Whatsapp and often have long conversations in groups, you might want to know if certain messages were read by all members of the group or not. Here’s how you can check.

Open a group chat in Whatsapp and tap and hold on the message you want to check the status of. Depending on what platform you use Whatsapp on, you will see either an ‘i’ button, or an ‘info’ button appear. When you tap the Info button, the screen will show you which people in the group have received the message, and which ones have read it. After that you have to remember who is in the group and recall who isn’t in the ‘Read By’ list.

 

If the message has failed to deliver to certain members of the group, then the ‘Delivered To’ section will show all members that received the message. This works on a per-message basis i.e. you can check the delivered and read status for each message.

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Get Android Marshmallow’s Doze Feature On Older Android Versions

Battery life is one of the major factors that we take into consideration when buying a smartphone. All smartphones, as far as the marketing for them goes, boast a ridiculously long battery life on a single charge but it’s always far from the truth. Battery life depends on what apps you use on your phone and how long you use them. It also depends on which apps you allow to run in the background and how much they tax your battery while they are in the background. Android Marshmallow introduced a new feature called ‘Doze’ that helps conserve battery life by turning off background app refresh. The feature is fully automated and you can’t decided when to turn it On or Off. All you can do is exclude certain apps from the Doze feature. If you’re running an older version of Android, anything older than Marshmallow, and would like to use the feature, Doze is a free Android app that does the trick. You do not need to have  a rooted device for the app to work.

Install the app and run it. The app turns On automatically, much like the feature in Marshmallow. It lets you whitelist apps so that they will continue to run in the background when your device enters Doze mode. It is worth mentioning that you should keep the Android System app whitelisted because that’s what the official Marshmallow feature does.

The app itself will run in the background and turn Doze mode On when your battery is low. The difference between the app, and the feature as implemented in Android Marshmallow is that you can turn it On and Off at your own discretion.

Feature wise, it does what the feature it aims to mimic does but there’s definitely room for improvement. I’m surprised there isn’t a schedule feature here so that a user can automate when the device goes into Doze mode. The schedule feature could allow a user to set a time slot for entering Doze mode, or a battery limit after which the mode should be activated. That said, for anyone looking to get the feature on an older device, or one that hasn’t received the upgrade just yet, Doze is a very clean, well-designed app to do the trick.

Install Doze From The Google Play Store

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Use The Mono Audio Channel For Better Sound When Using One Earbud

Music helps us concentrate on work but with you can’t always have your earbuds in when you’re working. It annoys anyone who needs to talk to you. Simply getting your attention while you work and listen to music turns into a chore for people and it impedes work. The safe way to go about it is to perhaps only listen to music through on earbud. Listening to music with just one earbud doesn’t make for a great experience but it doesn’t have to be that way. Simply switch to the Mono audio channel and you will have an infinitely better listening experience through just one earbud. Here’s how to switch to the Mono channel on iOS, Android, and Windows.

Mono Audio Channel – iOS

iOS has perhaps the easiest way to switch to the Mono channel. It has a switch that does the trick and you won’t be so lucky when it comes to Android devices and Windows 7+.

Open the Settings app and go to General>Accessibility and turn on Mono Audio.

 

Mono Audio Channel – Android

There’s two ways to switch to the Mono audio channel in Android. The first is the easy option which comes in the form of a system setting you can turn on, similar to how it’s done in iOS. Unfortunately, the setting isn’t available for all devices and perhaps not at all in the newest version of Android.

To check if the system setting is available, go to the Settings app and in General>Accessibility, look for a Mono playback option under the Audio section.

If, as chance would have it, you don’t see the option you will have to make do with changing how music is played by your music player. We recommend using VLC player here as the default music player in Android 6.0 doesn’t have a special playback option for headphones.

Play a song in VLC and tap the more button on the action bar. From the equalizer screen, select Headphones and you will have a much better listening experience from just one earbud.

Windows

Right-click the speaker icon in the system tray and select ‘Playback devices’. Double click your headphones listed under devices and go to the Enhancements tab. Turn on Headphone Virtualization.

Next, head over to the Levels tab and click ‘Balance’. Reduce the sound from one speaker (earbud) the one you aren’t using to zero and enjoy music from the one earbud better.

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How To Add A Custom Action Button To Quick Settings In Android 6.0

The quick settings added to the Notification Panel in Android 5.0 were very popular but they came with no customization options. As of Android 6.0, an experimental customization option has been added that lets you add custom tiles to it as well as remove and rearrange the default ones. For the average user wanting to add a custom setting using the experimental option requires an app. Meet Custom Quick Settings, a free Android app that lets you add a custom quick settings option to the Notifications panel in Android 6.0. Since the app is a one-size fits all solution, and it is geared towards making the process of adding a custom setting as simple as possible, it is limited. The setting you add can launch an app, open a URL, and add toggles for data connection, the volume panel, and sync.

In order to use Custom Quick Settings, You must be running Android 6.0 to do so. You don’t need to root your device, however, you do have to enable the System UI Tuner option.

Once you’ve enabled System UI Tuner, open it and tap Quick Settings. Scroll to the bottom and add a custom tile. Name it CUSTOMTILE0. Launch Custom Quick Settings and check the ‘I have done this’ option and tap ‘Continue’.

  

Next, start customizing the tile. Tap the plus button on the main screen in Custom Quick Settings and assign the new action button a name and action. You can also assign it an icon and the app comes with a rich library of different icons to choose from.

You can assign two actions to a single button; a click (single tap) action, and a long click (tap & hold) action. With the Launch App action, you can choose to launch an app from a list of all installed and system apps. With the Launch URL option, you can enter a URL that the button should open, and with the Custom Toggle option, you can choose from the list of supported toggles which one you want to associate with the button.

  

Custom Quick Settings relies on an experimental Android feature so there is a chance it might effect device performance. Try it out at your own risk.

Install Custom Quick Settings From The Google Play Store

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How To Exclude Apps From The Doze Feature In Android 6.0

Android 6.0 comes with a brand new feature called Doze that preserves battery life. It turns On by itself and you can neither opt-in nor opt-out of it. If Android thinks your battery charge needs saving, it will step-in and take measures to preserve it. One of the things Doze does to preserve the battery is to stop background notifications. You will continue to get background notifications from Hangouts but most if not all apps will not make the cut. If you have a different app that you want to rely on for important messages, or just have a few you would like to exclude from the Doze feature, you will have to explicitly tell Android 6.0 to leave it alone when it turns Doze On. Here’s how.

Open the Settings app and go to the Battery preference. Tap the more button on the action bar at the top right, and select ‘Battery optimization’ from the menu.

On the Battery optimization screen, switch to the All apps list from the drop-down to view all apps on your device. Tap an app and from the menu, set it to ‘Don’t optimize’ to exclude it from the Doze feature.

Needless to say, if you exclude too many apps from Doze, the feature itself will not be much use to you so choose carefully. The apps you chose to exclude from Doze will appear in the Not Optimized list. Google Play Services is the one system service that is excluded from Doze automatically and because it handles essential services on Android, you cannot include optimize it.

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Have Your Phone Call Out To You Every Hour So You Don’t Lose It

We’ve all misplaced our phones at some point. They’re super thin and as each millimeter of their thickness is shed with a new model, they get easier to lose. It’s getting so you don’t have to let the phone slip between the crack in the couch and cushions to lose it. You can instead lose it by accidentally shutting it in a book. We once reviewed an app called Marco Polo for the iPhone that allowed you to call out to your phone if you had lost it but the app had one downside; it taxed your battery. Butterfingerz is an app for both iOS and Android that calls out to you after every hour so that if you can’t find your phone, you can follow the sound to it.

Butterfingerz is endorsed by part-time actor and full-time zombie killer Norman Reedus who is featured on the app as a chibi character. The app not only calls out to you at one hour intervals, it also says Ouch! if you drop it.

Go to the app’s settings and in the Sound tab, select how sensitive the device should be to being dropped and select the idle time after which the app should call out to you. The maximum time you can set is one hour. The app supports quite hours during which it will not alert you to pick up your phone.

The app has different responses for  calling out to get your attention, and for announcing that it has been dropped.

The app offers in-app purchases that allow you to purchase call outs in Norman Reedus’ voice. You can request voices by other celebrities as well. I can’t say for sure how much effective a lure this is going to be for generating revenue but the app is still better than what Aaron Paul endorsed.

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Find Which App Uses The Most Memory On Your Phone In Android 6.0

You have no doubt observed that some apps, mostly those that are games, consume more battery life than others. This is true for just about any device whether it’s a laptop or a mobile phone. Android phones are no different. Games will obviously tax your battery but apps also consume a device’s memory i.e RAM. How slow or quickly an app runs, how good multi-tasking is on your device depends on the available RAM on said device. As of Android 6.0, users can now simply look up which apps are taking up the most memory on their device and optimize how they use the app so that the device runs more smoothly. Here’s where you can look at the RAM usage for all running apps on your Android phone.

Open the Settings app and tap Memory. You will get an overview of how much RAM is available on your device and how much of it is currently in use.

Tap ‘Memory used by apps’ and you will get a complete list of apps that are currently running (both system and third-party apps). Tap the drop-down that says 3 hours and you can view RAM used by each app for the last 6, 12, and 24 hours.

Tap an app to look up how much memory it uses on average and how frequently it is run. Needless to say apps that are always running will use more RAM.

 

Based on this information, you can quit the apps that tax your device too heavily and have it run more smoothly. If you have the Facebook app installed, it’s likely going to be one of the biggest memory hogs (as well as battery hog).

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How To Configure Do Not Disturb Rules In Android 6.0

Android 5.0 introduced Do Not Disturb; a feature that allowed you to silent all notifications on your phone for a specific time on certain days. The feature at the time was called Interruptions. As of Android 6.0, it has been renamed to Do Not Disturb and it now comes with configurable rules. The rules allow you to create multiple scenarios that will trigger Do Not Disturb. These rules may be based on time, or an event in your calendar. The feature is very basic but exceptionally useful nonetheless. Here’s how you can create rules for the Do Not Disturb feature in Android 6.0.

To create a rule for Do Not Disturb, go to the Settings app and under Sound & notifications, tap Do not disturb. On the Do not disturb screen, tap ‘Automatic rules’. You will see the pre-configured rules listed there. The rules let you configure a separate time for Do not disturb to turn on during the weekends and the weekdays, or during an event. When turning Do not disturb on for an event, you can select which calender’s events it should turn on for.

If the pre-configured rules do not meet your needs you can create your own rules. Tap Add Rule to create a custom rule; name it, and choose whether it will be triggered at a certain date & time, or during an event.

For rules based on an event, you can specify which calendar’s events should trigger Do not distrub. It doesn’t let you choose a specific event from the selected calendar as a trigger which is very disappointing. The rules based on time let you set any day and time slot for triggering Do not disturb. You can turn these rules on or off at your own discretion.

Rules for Do not disturb are definitely useful but they could have allowed more flexibility. Perhaps an app will come along to help leverage this.

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How To Set Up App Links In Android 6.0

Apps like Facebook and Twitter come with their own built-in browsers so that you can open links in your feed without having to switch to your browser. It makes it easier to return to your social media feed of choice and lately, these apps have been making improvements to their in-app browsers so that users have a better reading experience. That said, nothing opens a Facebook link like the Facebook app, and the same can be said of Twitter links. Android 6.0 makes opening these links in their respective apps much easier. You can set Twitter and Facebook (and just about any app that can open links) as the default app to open certain links from the more actions menu. This new feature is called App Links and here’s how you can use it.

To explain how you can set an app link, and to show how it works, we’re going to use the Twitter app as an example. Go to the Settings app and tap Apps. Tap the cog wheel button in the action bar to get to the Configure apps screen. Here you will see an option called App links. Tap it and go to the app you want to manage links for.

Twitter has a list of basic links that it can handle; all those on the mobile and web domain for twitter, those pertaining to Twitter cards, and ads on Twitter are supported. You need only tap the App Links option here and set it to ‘Open in this app’

The effect this change has is when you tap the More button on the action bar when opening a Twitter link, you will see an option to ‘Open in Twitter’. Tapping it sends the link to the Twitter app where you can read it.

 

If an app link has not been set, the option will instead read ‘Open with…’ and ask you which app to open the link with. You cannot add supported links. It’s something the app developer has to define which makes this option irrelevant for browser apps.

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How To Revoke Individual Permissions For An App In Android 6.0

Security, especially when it comes to apps, has always been a huge concern for Android users. Every now and then you will see new reports of malicious apps being present in the Google Play Store. Malicious apps exist and they do make it to the Play Store and on to our devices. Unfortunately, a malicious app is only discovered after it’s been around for a while. One way to keep ourselves safe is to limit what permissions an app has. Some apps might ask for additional permission as you continue to use them, or after they have been updated. If you ever feel an app is asking for too much access to your device you can always revoke it and as of Android 6.0, you can individually manage app permissions for any app and revoke them selectively. Here’s how.

Open the Settings app and tap the Apps preference. You will see a complete list of apps here. Tap on the app you want to manage permissions for to go to the App info page for that app. Scroll down and tap App Permissions.

You will be taken to the App permissions screen for that app. Everything that the app has access to is listed here with a switch to turn access off. Revoking access is that simple and as you can see in the screenshot on the right, you have individual control over each permission.

Be warned though, the permissions can only cut an app’s access off to your information (and device sensors) but if the app backs data to its own servers cutting access only means it won’t get any more data from your device.

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Customize The Quick Access Toggles In The Notification Panel In Android 6.0

My dad uses an Android phone and he knows the basics of it. One thing he’s always had a problem with is the toggles in the Notification Panel. He manages to tap the WiFi toggle and turn it Off, and then he wonders why the internet isn’t working (or who turned the internet Off on his phone). I’ve often wished I could just get rid of some of those toggles and it seems someone at Google has heard my silent prayers. In Android 6.0 there is a new experimental feature that allows you to customize which toggles appear in the Notification Panel. You can not only remove a toggle but also rearrange how they are ordered. Here’s how.

As I mentioned earlier, the feature to customize the toggles is an experimental one so you will need to enable System UI Tuner to use it.

Once you’ve enabled System UI Tuner, open it and tap Quick Settings. Here you will see every toggle that appears in the Notification Panel. To delete a toggle, tap and hold it until the Add File icon is replaced with a Delete icon. Drop the toggle on to the Delete icon and it will no longer appear in the Notifications panel. If you accidentally delete a toggle you didn’t mean to, simple tap the more button at the top right and tap Reset.

To rearrange the toggles, simply drag and drop them one over the other. The WiFi and Bluetooth toggles can reside on the same row, or on rows of their own. The others can appear with two other toggles in their respective rows. Both Bluetooth and WiFi toggles serve as dividers. Resetting the toggles will also reset their order.

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How To Enable The Invert Colors Toggle In Android 6.0

Back in Android 5.0 (Lollipop) the toggles in the Notification Panel were a major addition. These toggles allowed users to quickly turn On/Off some of the most frequently used settings on the device like Bluetooth and WiFi. It also had a toggle that let you use the flash on your phone as a flashlight. With Android 6.0 (Marshmallow) there’s a new toggle in the Notification Panel called Invert Colors but it is greyed out so that you cannot use it making you wonder why it’s there in the first place and what exactly is it going to take to get it to work. To make the Invert Colors toggle functional, you need to turn it on in the Settings app. Here’s how.

Go to the Settings app and tap Accessibility. Find the Display section and turn Color Inversion on here. The colors on your screen will invert immediately. Don’t turn the feature off. Instead, pull down the Notification Panel and open the toggles. Invert Colors will no longer appeared greyed out. Tap the toggle to turn it off.

So long as the Color Inversion setting is on in Accessibility, the toggle will be active in the Notifications Panel and you can invert colors, or return them to normal simply by tapping the Invert Colors button. If you turn Color Inversion off from the Accessibility setting, the toggle will return to its previous in-active state.

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How To Enable System UI Tuner In Android 6.0

Android 6.0 is slowly rolling out to devices and it certainly comes with lots of new features that you will want to explore. Some features in Marshmallow are experimental and hidden away unless you decide you absolutely want to, have to, need to, try them out. These new experimental features reside in a preference in the Settings app called the System UI Tuner but you won’t simply see the preference there if you open the Settings app. System UI Tuner, because of the experimental nature of its settings, has to be enabled first. Here’s how.

Pull down the notifications panel. Once the panel is open, swipe down once again until you see the toggles. Once the toggles are visible, you will see a cog wheel icon at the very top (next to the profile button). Tap and hold it for a few seconds and then release it. You will be redirected to the Settings app and an alert will tell you that the System UI Tuner has been added.

 

To remove System UI Tuner from the Settings app, follow the same steps for enabling it. Once you release the cog wheel icon, you will once again be redirected to the Settings app. An on-screen alert will tell you that the System UI Tuner has been successfully removed.

As for the settings inside the System UI Tuner, remember that they are experimental. Turning them off is incredibly easy but while you have a feature enabled, it may effect your battery life, among other things.

For anyone who likes Easter eggs, when you press and hold down the cog wheel icon in the Notifications Panel, it starts turning. I don’t know if it did that in Lollipop since I never had much cause to hold that particular button down but it does it in Marshmallow and it’s neat to watch.

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Stop Android 6.0 From Saving Your Passwords To Your Google Account

Android 6.0 comes with lots of new features and one of those is Smart Passwords. What does Smart Passwords do? Well it takes your passwords and syncs them to your Google Account so you never ever lose them again, ever. It sounds great, right? Google will have all your passwords and everything you use requires a Google account. It’s basically a version of ‘One Ring to rule them all’ that fits our world. The feature unfortunately is turned on by default when you upgrade to Android 6.0. In Android Lollipop a similar feature existed that saved your Wi-Fi password to your Google account. With Android 6.0 it takes things further and stores passwords entered in apps and websites. If that alarms you, here’s where you can turn the Smart Passwords off.

Open the Settings app and scroll down to where you see Google. Do not go to Accounts and tap Google there. In the Personal section of settings, there is a dedicated setting for Google and that’s where you need to go. Inside, you will see all sorts of information that is synced to your Google account. Scroll down to the very bottom of the screen and tap ‘Smart Lock for Passwords’.

There are two options here; the Smart Lock for Passwords saves your passwords for both websites and apps that you’ve signed into to your Google account. This is what you need to turn off to stop passwords from being saved to your Google account.

The Auto sign-in option will allow other apps to use login credentials saved to your Google account to log you in. For example, if you have Facebook installed on your device and you download an app that requires Facebook login, the app will go ahead and use your Facebook credentials and log you right in. You may be redirected when it asks for permission to access information on your Facebook account but if it doesn’t require information and only needs to authenticate you, it’s likely you won’t know it’s done that until you’re already using the app.

The auto sign-in feature sounds scary but it isn’t if you compare it to the Smart Password feature. Auto sign-in relies on APIs that developers will integrate in their apps. Authentication will take place via APIs so what you essentially have to worry about is downloading and installing an app that might be malicious (and those do exist in the Google Play Store) and likely to misuse this feature.

If you do decide to use the feature, it comes with a nice white-list that you can populate with apps you want to exclude from the Smart Password feature. Excluding an app will mean its password is not saved to your Google account.

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How To Access The Built-In File Manager In Android 6.0

A few years ago, Android used to come with an app that made it possible for users to browse files stored on their device. Whether it was the internal memory or a memory card you wanted to access files on, the app let you do it. It was basic but unfortunately it soon disappeared. Users have since used file browsers that are available on the Google Play store but as of Android 6.0 Marshmallow, there is once again a default file browser available on the system. Accessing it is a bit tricky though because it’s not a stand alone app as you would expect it to be. Here’s how you can access it.

Go to the Settings app and scroll down to the Storage & USB section. Tap it and scroll to the very bottom of the Internal Storage screen where you will see an ‘Explore’ option. Tap it and you’re in.

The file explorer is incredibly basic; it makes navigation between folders fairly easy, has a search feature, and you can view the folders and files in a grid or list layout. You can also sort files by name, size, and date modified.

To delete, share, or move a file/folder, tap and hold to select it. The share and delete options will appear in the action bar. The folder icons are not impressive. The photos appear with small thumbnail previews. The UI is almost sad in terms of the theme and the interface. That said, having a native file explorer is great.

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