Install Android Apps on PC using Youwave Emulator

Method 1: Install Android Apps on PC using Youwave Emulator

Steps  1:

Download the Youwave Emulator from here (Choose the version according to your need here I am using Home Edition).

Step 2:

Install You wave on your PC, but before installing this, uninstall Virtual Box if it is  installed in your system.

Step 3:

Now run the You wave emulator and wait until it completes booting of Android OS.

Step 4:

After that you will find Android interface in Youwave emulator as shown below.

Step 5:

For installing the android application in the  emulator just go to the menu which is at the top of the screen.

After that you will find menu screen as shown below.

Step 6:

In the application menu, click on first most app i.e. Browser and type “https://play.google.com/”.

Note : You must have a google play account for downloading apps otherwise create it.

Step 7:

Login with your google play username and password and search the name of application in play store.

Here i am searching for twitter app for android you can search according to your need, after finding the app click on install button and wait until it installs.

That’s it

Method 2: Install Android Apps on PC using Youwave Emulator

Step 1:

First of all download the apk file of your desired application in your PC. Here i am having Android Assistant apk file.

Step 2:

Now copy that application (apk file) to the “C>Users>Username”,

Step 3:

Open You wave emulator and click on redraw icons from view menu as shown below.

Step 4:

After following the above step install the app from sidebar as shown in below image.

Finally you have installed Android Assistant application in your Youwave emulator. So above both methods are working, just try them and don’t forget to share…

How to Run Android Apps on a PC Using Bluestacks

BlueStacks App Player is a versatile program that bridges the gap between mobile and desktop by allowing users to run their favorite Android apps on their Windows or Mac OS X devices. An innovative "Cloud Connect" feature allows you to push apps from your Android device to Bluestacks, and vice versa. First released to the public in 2011, the program has continued to grow, and is currently free for download in its current beta form. Want to get a taste of Android on your desktop? Here's how to set up BlueStacks, as well as a rundown of some of its controls and interesting features. Be sure to check out the BlueStacks review from our friends at LAPTOP, too.

1. Installing BlueStacks

Download BlueStacks App Player for Windows

Download BlueStacks App Player for Mac OSX

Download BlueStacks Cloud Connect for Android

BlueStacks App Player is available for Windows and OSX computers, and is a quick, compact install to your boot drive (there's no option in the installer to go to a different drive or directory). The only choice you make during the install is whether to allow the program to make notifications, as well as the option to opt in to BlueStacks Spotlight, which holds daily app giveaways.

2. The Home Screen

Once installed, BlueStacks will boot up to its Home Screen, where you can access your installed apps, look up apps in the "Top Charts," search for apps, and access settings. You can use the mouse for basic touch controls here, with clicking and holding to simulate basic tap and swipe controls. From here, we'll need to do a bit more setup before you can get around to installing apps. You'll need to set up access to the Google Play store and associate a Google Account with BlueStacks.

MORE: 30 Best Apps for Rooted Android Phones

3. Setting up the App Store

With BlueStacks installed, the first thing you'll want to do is associate a Google Account so that you can get onto the Google Play store and download apps. Go to "My Apps" and click on "1-Click Sync Setup," which will bring up a wizard interface that will guide you through the process. Basically, you'll need to either create a Google account, or sign in with your existing one.

4. Setting up BlueStacks Cloud Connect

An optional step for users with an Android smartphone or tablet is to set up BlueStacks Cloud Connect, an app that allows you to push apps from your Android device to BlueStacks, and vice versa. Download Cloud Connect for your Android device, and then go to the Settings button on BlueStacks and click on "Cloud Connect".

If you have an Android phone, input an email address as well as your phone number. You will then receive instructions via email and SMS on how to connect your phone to Bluestacks, push apps, and sync SMS.

If you're running an Android tablet, you instead just use an email address to synch BlueStacks with your device. After registering BlueStacks Cloud Connect, you should receive an email containing a PIN number, which you input into the Cloud Connect app.

You should now be able to push apps between your device and BlueStacks. You're essentially istalling the same app on your desktop and mobile device, without syncing app data (such as login credentials or game progress). Still, it's an easy way to copy apps from your device to BlueStacks, or vice versa.

MORE: 40 Free and Useful Android Apps

5. Installing & Running Apps

If you're not going to sync apps to and from your Android device, you can just use the built in App Search to search for and install apps from Google Play, Amazon, or 1Mobile.

It may seem confusing at first, but BlueStacks won't let you get to its three built-in app markets directly. You'll need to go through the App Search button. Type in the name of the app you're looking for, and it will search 1Mobile, Amazon, and Google Play for matches, and give you the option to install apps from any of the above three stores.

Once you've accessed one of the three app stores, you can then navigate that store. Within Google Play, for instance, you can take advantage of the store's search and other features.

Once you return to the Home Screen, your newly installed app should be ready to run. BlueStacks can run an impressive variety of apps from social networking tools and multimedia apps to games. However, BlueStacks won't run everything, so expect a little trial and error for compatibility.

6. Controls & Settings

You should now have everything you need to install and run apps from BlueStacks, so we'll finish up with some extra notes on in-app controls, as well as settings. Unless you happen to be running a touchscreen rig or a Windows 8 tablet, you're going to need some way to approximate pinch to zoom, as well as tilt controls.

Pinch to Zoom: Control +, or Control -

Tilt Controls: 'Z' or 'X' can be used to simulate tilting a device left or right.

BlueStacks supports the use of gamepad controls for many apps, which will be a godsend for users looking to play Android games on a PC. Plug in your controller, and Bluestacks should inform you if a particular app supports a controller.

Finally, the Settings menu (gear icon) contains assorted system settings for language, keyboard settings, contacts and account management, and an app manager for uninstalling applications and setting their default sizes.

There's your quick visual tour of the BlueStacks App Player. It may not run every Android app perfectly, but BlueStacks puts you just a mouse click away from thousands of compelling choices.

MORE: How to Backup Your Android Device

FUNNY BUGS IN MICROSOFT

FUNNY BUGS IN MICROSOFT

Bug#1: Can you CON?

There is some kind of a bug in Windows that will not let you create a folder named “CON”. Go on, try it yourself!
Go to desktop >> Right click on an empty area >> Hover over “New” >> Click on “Folder” >> A folder with the name “New Folder” created >> Single click on “New Folder” and you can edit the name >> Rename the folder as “CON” >> Click somewhere else.
You will notice that the name reverts back to “New Folder”. Wicked heh?

Bug#2: What did Bush hide?

This is a bug with Notepad. All you have to do is type “Bush hid the facts” without the inverted comma’s in Notepad and then save it and reopen it. Do it in Notepad, not in MS-Word. They are two different things. Try it yourself!

Open Notepad.exe >> Type in “Bush hid the facts” >> Save the file anywhere >> Reopen it and 
have fun!

Bug#3: The MS-Word trick

This one is a more popular bug. Many of you might have read about it. It was even featured in ‘One Night @ The Call Center’ by Chetan Bhagat. All you have to do is type “=rand(200, 99)” without the inverted comma’s in Microsoft Word and see the fun. It will print “A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy little dog” many times automatically. It definitely has something to do with the Randomize function. Try it yourself!

Open a New Microsoft Word Document >> Type in “=rand(200, 99)” >> Press Enter >> See the fun!

BUGS IN WINDOWS 7,8

[Did You Know] Ultimate List of Windows 7 Bugs and Goof-ups

Following are some interesting bugs and goof-ups which were accidentally found while beta testing Windows 7 builds. These bugs also exist in final version of Windows 7. You can use following simple steps to recreate those bugs:

BUG 1: Task Manager Maximize Option Bug

Actually its a kind of goof-up and can be found in Windows Vista and 7. To re-create this bug or goof-up, simply follow these simple steps:
1. You need to open a dialog box having only Close button in titlebar. You can open RUN dialog box, Taskbar Properties dialog box or any other.
In this example, we are going to launch RUN dialog box. You can open it from Start menu or press WIN+R keys together.

2. Now open Task Manager by right-click on Taskbar and select "Start Task Manager" option. You can directly open it by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+ESC keys together.
3. Now go to "Applications" tab and right-click on Run dialog box entry and select "Maximize" option.

The first bug is that since RUN is a dialog box, there should be no Maximize option available for it as you can't maximize a dialog box.
Second bug appears when you click on Maximize option in Task Manager. It totally ruins the GUI of RUN dialog box and stretches the dialog box to fit the whole screen as shown in following screenshot:

Funny! Isn't it?

BUG 2: User Picture Disappears from Start Menu after Resizing Taskbar

1. Unlock the taskbar by right-click on the taskbar and uncheck "Lock the taskbar" option.
2. Now resize the taskbar and drag it to the maximum height. Now click on Start Menu and user picture will disappear from the Start Menu.
3. That's OK. Since there is not much space available on the screen, that's why Windows doesn't show the user picture. But now resize the taskbar again and set it to normal height.
Now the bug appears, Windows still doesn't show the user picture in Start Menu even though we have restored the taskbar height:

4. To restore the user picture, you'll need to drag-n-drop the taskbar to left, right or top of the screen and then restore it back on bottom. Now user picture will start showing in Start Menu.
You can watch both above mentioned bugs in action in following video:

BUG 3: Windows 7 Classic Theme Bug

The second bug is related to Classic theme. Its also present in Windows Vista.
To recreate the bug, first change the Windows theme to Classic from Desktop Properties and then follow these steps:
1. Open My Computer and then open any drive. It'll activate the "Left Arrow" button as well as the drop-down Arrow which is called "Recent Pages".

2. Look carefully at the screenshot. The buttons and their background image both are misplaced. Either the background image should be moved to right by a few pixels or the buttons should be moved to left by a few pixels to fix their positions.
3. Anyway its not a big deal. Now hover your mouse cursor over the drop-down arrow and you'll see following:

The background image and the drop-down Arrow both are moved again to the left by a few pixels upon hovering the cursor over the arrow. Which makes the situation worst.
4. Now click on the drop-down arrow and amazing, the whole background image will disappear:

NOTE: This bug has been in fixed in SP1 for Windows 7.

BUG 4: User Picture Disappears from Start Menu

1. Click on Start ORB (Start button) and make sure that Start Menu contains at least one program shortcut in left side pane which is expandable (look at the small black arrow).
2. Now expand the program shortcut by clicking on the arrow or by hovering the mouse cursor over it.
3. Once the Tasks list is shown, hover your mouse cursor on any other program shortcut so that the Tasks list gets disappeared.
4. Now the bug will appear. The user picture will disappear from the top of start menu. Even if you hover your cursor over any item present in right-side pane, the user pic will not appear.
If you exit from start menu and re-open it, the user pic will appear again.
NOTE: This bug has been in fixed in SP1 for Windows 7.

BUG 5: Items Reappear After Deleting From Navigation Pane in Windows Explorer

1. Open Windows Explorer and try to delete an item (Libraries or Homegroup) from Navigation pane. Right-click on the item and select "Delete".
2. It'll show following message:

3. Click on "Yes" button and the item will be removed from Navigation pane.
4. Now exit Windows Explorer and re-open it and voilla, the deleted item will reappear in the navigation pane.
So what's the point of deleting an item if it reappears in the list?
Bug:
1. If we delete an item successfully, then why does it reappear in the list?
2. Try to delete "Computer" from navigation pane, you'll get the same message but it'll not be removed but if you had Computer icon on Desktop, it'll be removed.
Goof-up:
Why the deletion message says that "Are you sure you want to delete the icon from Desktop?". Are we deleting icon from Desktop? NO, we are deleting from navigation pane.
It seems Navigation pane in Windows Explorer takes the data from Desktop, that's why the message asks to delete the icon from Desktop.

BUG 6: Notepad Statusbar Bug

This bug is present in almost all Windows versions including Windows 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, Server 2008, Windows 7, 8 and Windows 8.1.

Check out following article to read more about this bug:
Notepad Statusbar Bug Found in All Windows Versions

BUG 7: Taskbar Context Menu Bug

This bug was found in Windows 8 but later we noticed that its also present in Windows 7. This bug causes the Taskbar context menu to appear behind the Taskbar.