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How to Open an SD Card in Windows

An SD (Secure Digital) card is a popular nonvolatile memory card format. Nonvolatile indicates the SD card is getting more popular for retention of nonvolatile information. Nonvolatile means the information is not lost even if there is no electrical power in the card. And this card is slim enough to be a perfect solution if you are thinking to expand your favorite Android smartphone’s memory.

Any Android user can access SD card from a laptop or a desktop PC, but reading SD card on the PC needs an SD card reader app. No problem here since Android has a connecting interface for the PC and the card. This process of connecting is called mounting and has the following easy steps to work on any version of Windows:

How to connect (mount) the SD card

Step 1. Use USB to connect the Android smartphone to the PC. The phone should display “USB” connected message in the top-left side of the screen (no special drivers are necessary for this).

Step 2. Click on the notification icon and then on “USB connected” bar. A message will appear “Select “Mount” if you want to copy files between your computer and your phone’s SD card.” Click the Mount on the screen.

How to browse a mounted Android SD Card

After connecting the Android device to the computer, the phone will appear in Windows as a simple “Removable Disk.” The name of the driver is not important since it will be different in different configurations. Usually the SD card will be under the name E.

How to copy/delete files on SD card

This procedure works as an ordinary Windows procedure of copy/paste, drop/paste and delete.

How to disconnect (unmount) the SD card from PS

Attention: After finishing your work, be careful to follow the unmounting procedure, otherwise your information on the card can become corrupted.

Step 1: Find the corresponding drive (which is your Android phone) in Windows Explorer, right click on it and choose “Eject” (similar to disconnecting a USB card).

Step 2. On the phone itself, choose “Turn off USB usage,” and that’s all. Ready.

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December 9, 2011 | 0 Comments More

Android is Ahead of the iPhone Now

“Android is ahead of the iPhone now,” said boldly Google’s Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt today at LeWeb conference in Paris. But interestingly, while he was announcing this, the majority of his listeners were holding nothing but various kinds of iPhones and therefore it is not surprising that no storm of applause and hurrays were heard after he said this. In fact many had quite skeptical looks on their faces. But this fact, seems, did not stop Schmidt, who explained he is making these statements because of “unit volume, ice cream sandwich, price is lower, there are more vendors.”

While Google Chairman can say this because he has to say it, Apple remains one the most popular brands currently all over the world. The amount of iOS applications available now on the market is overwhelming, and many Android apps are being developed on the example of iOS soft. But Schmidt does not agree with this and says, “My prediction is that six months from now you’ll say the opposite.”

At the end Schmidt said they had thought of a mobile technology very much like a computer platform, but things changed now, because they understood they are dealing with devices meant for communication.

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December 8, 2011 | 0 Comments More

Fahrbot Mobile Creates Undelete for Android

There just can’t be a human PC user, who sooner or later would not start looking for a software to undelete their accidentally lost files. So there are thousands of applications now available to download for restoring lost files.

The Fahrbot Mobile known for being the developers of the feature-packed Call-Master applications has released a beta version of a file recovery tool for Android called Undelete. It lets you easily restore any kind of deleted information from the phone’s internal memory and the SD card and it’s the first application of its kind to work on Android.

The company though gives a warning that not all files will be restored, since they may have been deleted far too long ago for the application to discover and restore them. The app works quite straightforward. First you have to be the root user, and then let it scan the desired location and see the list of discovered files, the location from which they were deleted and their size. After which you can command the app to restore it, and Undelete will place it right where it was deleted, if the file is not corrupted or damaged of course. Badly though the developers cannot guarantee its smooth working at this stage, so they are warning to use this application with caution.

The app can be downloaded from Android Market for free.

November 28, 2011 | 0 Comments More

Google Denies any Malware Threat to Android

If you remember, last week Google’s open-source software leader Chris DiBona announced there is absolutely no need to worry about the reported malware threat to Android. DiBona particularly stressed the Android software is programmed in a way it prevents situations with viruses like they traditionally happen in PC’s. Going further, he called those who make anti-virus applications for Android, RIM and iOS “scammers and charlatans.”

On Google+ DiBona posted the following, “Virus companies are playing on your fears to try to sell you BS protection software for Android, RIM, and iOS. They are charlatans and scammers. If you work for a company selling virus protection for Android, RIM or iOS, you should be ashamed of yourself.”

To answer these allegations, Dennis Maslennikov, malware analyst at Kaspersky Labs, said, “Today malware for Android devices is one of the biggest issues in the mobile malware area. The growth of numbers of malware for Android is significant in the last 5 months. In June we’ve discovered 112 modifications of Android malware, in July – 212; August – 161; 559 in September; 808 in October.”

Obviously  parties differ on the definition of what malware exactly is. DiBona defines them as viruses in the traditional sense, and emphasizes that they are not a threat to Android, so there is no use to market a software under “anti-virus” name.

Anyway, software security companies stress they are making a software capable of fighting Trojans and other threats like phishing.

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November 24, 2011 | 0 Comments More

Android Experiences Unprecedented Growth Of Malware

Google’s Android is said to be undergoing a continuous growth of malware. The number of malicious applications directed specifically at Android has increased now by 472 %, Juniper Networks says. The climax of increase so far has fallen on September to October period.

Juniper particularly reports, “The majority of malicious applications target communications, location, or other personal identifying information. Of the known Android malware samples, 55%, acts in one way or another as spyware. The other major type of attack, which make up 44%, are SMS Trojans, which send SMS messages to premium rate numbers owned by the attacker in the background of a legitimate application, without the person’s knowledge. Once these messages are sent, the money is not recoverable, and the owners of these premium rate numbers are generally anonymous.”

Most of the malware comes from third party websites, and Google says it still has no possibility to completely stop the incoming malware because of the open nature of Android OS. Applications written for the latter are not checked and the source code is open, so that opens the door for malware spread. Interestingly, from thousands of malicious applications, nearly half contain spyware meant to gather personal information from the phone. Two websites are currently under particular focus, mmoovv.com and samsunggalaxy-s.ru, as hosting many applications, which contain viruses, particularly Trojans.

And though Google hasn’t made any announcements concerning this issue, it is a guess that the company is very well aware of what is going on, and will sooner or later bring about a working initiative to stop the spread of malware.

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November 21, 2011 | 0 Comments More
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