Track smartphone use with QualityTime

Hoping to boost productivity or at least find out how much time you spend staring at your smartphone? QualityTime for Android is an app that will help monitor your smartphone habits. It can let you know how much time you spent using apps or how much you use your phone in general. The more you use it, the more you find out about your smartphone habits. It can let you know which days you use your smartphones the most and what apps you use at different times of the day.

If you want to control your particular use of an app, QualityTime can even warn you if you’ve used up the boundaries you’ve set. It has a “take a break” mode that will lock you out of certain apps for a given amount of time. But in case you need to use an app because of an emergency, you can do so with pre-approved apps.

Source: AndroidCommunity | Download: Google Play Store (Free)

Google now tracks voice and mobile search history

Google is constantly updating your Account History page to get more information about what you use their products for. These are used to make suggestions for autocomplete as well as Google Now. But if this isn’t something you’d like them to track, you can opt out through your Account History page. From that page you will be able to pause or even just view your voice search history as well as other information from your smartphone and tablets. You just need to select “Manage history” to delete the stuff you don’t want to be seen.

Source: Google | Via: Lifehacker

Any.Do releases standalone app for Mac

If you’ve been looking for a standalone app for Any.Do for OS X, then your wait is over. The app now has a desktop version. It is, however, rather similar to Any.Do’s web app, the difference is you get offline task management, which is important to some. It will also sync with Any.Do apps you use on other platforms. You can still create task lists, share the lists with others, and attach notes. Unfortunately, it doesn’t take advantage of OS X Yosemite features like preview widgets in the notification bar. It would’ve been nice if they took full advantage of the OS.

Source: SlashGear | Download: Apple iTunes App Store (Free)

Samsung tipped to be using own camera module for S6

It looks like Samsung will be parting ways with Sony for its smartphone module, if rumours are to be believed that is. Samsung is reportedly going to use its own module for the 20-megapixel rear camera of its upcoming Galaxy S6 flagship. It will have optical image stabilization as well. We wouldn’t know though if it has the same image quality as the Sony modules, and if the rumour is true. We just have to wait a bit until Mobile World Congress to find out the truth.

Source: Ubergizmo