Posts

Showing posts with the label apps

aTorrent - Best Android Torrent Client

Image
Most of the time there is no electricity in my Country. I am using that time to watch movies on my phone. It is easier to run phone and Wi-Fi router on battery backup than the computer so I started searching for best torrent client for Android phone. My verdict is aTorrent . aTorrent comes in three versions: 1) Free 2) Pro 3) Beta . So this matches rich set of audience. The client itself uses beautiful Android Holo Light theme. Features The must feature that makes this the best torrent client for me are: Download on Wi-Fi only Download only when external power is connected Speed limit Rich notification Easy, beautiful and rick UI Apart from these, the app  comes with: * Torrent search dialog * Magnet links support * Open torrents right from browser * Add torrent from file * Choose download folder * Partial download (choose files from torrent) * Multiple parallel downloading *  Supported protocols: BitTorrent P2P, DHT, Advanced DHT...

Earthquake And Android

Image
I live in Kathmandu and it is one of the dangerous city in terms of earthquake. Mother nature reminded us this fact yesterday with 6.8 Richter scale earthquake with epicenter in Sikkim, India (281 km). There was few casualties and damage. While I'd always want to get an earthquake alarm like this , its somewhat out of my budget. They have numerous advantages from detecting earthquake before few seconds to auto shutdown of alarm. You can check the page yourself for the complete set off features. Here I will share a couple of Android apps that I reckon will be useful in case of earthquake. Vibration Meter  by  Smart Tools co Vibrometer uses the phone sensors to measure phone's vibration or the earthquake, and shows a reference. I did some testing by putting the phone on flat desk and simulating earthquake by shaking the desk. With right calibration the app was quite impressive. But unfortunately alarm feature was availab...