[Deal] Learn the ins and outs of Android and Web development with the Learn to Code Bundle
Usually the deals here at AndroidGuys are either a set price, or they are a giveaway. There are some deals however, that fall in that “in between” margin. This is where The Learn to Code Bundle sits. You’ve probably heard about the likes of the Humble Bundle. In case you haven’t, it’s a bundle of games and apps where Indie developers are looking to get their apps noticed. So in order to bring everyone to their apps, you essentially set your price for the bundle apps.
Pay What You Want isn’t a new concept, but it’s one that is great no matter where you go. Of course there’s a minimum, so you can’t just pay a couple pennies, and get all the goodies. But the “Pay What You Want” price is so good that you can’t miss out on the deal. The case is the same for today’s deal.
- AngularJS: From Zero to Hero
- Become a Professional Python Programmer
- Build Responsive Real World Sites with HTML5 & CSS3
- Become a Certified Web Developer
- Learn Linux in 5 days & Level Up Your Career
- PHP & MySQL Web Development From Scratch – Build 5 Projects
- Advanced Ruby Programming: 10 Steps to Mastery
- Git Complete: The Definitive, Step-By-Step Guide
- Learn Cloud Computing with AWS
As of the writing of this post, you can get nine different courses, all which teach you different aspects of Android and Web development, for only $11.40. That’s an insane price for what you get, and when you consider that all nine courses cost over $1500 when sold outside of this deal, that’s an astronomical amount of money you’ll be saving.
Additionally, there have been over 1000 bundles sold, and for an average price of less than $5, why not give it a shot? Even if you get started, and decide this isn’t for you, you’ll only have spent less than a cup of Starbucks, so….what are you waiting for? Over 92 hours of interactive training for only $11.40 is a deal that just can’t be passed up.
Drop us a line below and let us know what you think about this great deal, and whether you signed up for it or not. You can find this, and many other great tech bargains through our Deals page. Backed by StackCommerce, there are daily promos, giveaways, freebies, and much more!
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Become a developer with about 92 hours of classes and pay what you want for it!
Becoming a developer is no easy feat, but there’s good online tools out there that can really help you get ready for your next career venture. Today the AA Deals Store has a learning bundle that promises to have you coding in about 92 hours of class time. Surely, that sounds expensive, but it’s super cheap. Well… actually, it’s as cheap as you want it to be, because you set your own price!
Wait, what? You heard that right, the AA Deals Store allows you to pick your own price for this massive ‘Learn To Code’ bundle. But what do you get, exactly? Well, the course includes 9 classes that are valued at a total of $1,539, so you are definitely in for an impressive discount.
Here’s the list of courses:
- AngularJS: From Zero to Hero ($299)
- Become a Professional Python Programmer ($199)
- Build Responsive Real World Sites with HTML5 and CSS3 ($199)
- Become a Certified Web Developer ($199)
- Learn Linux in 5 Days & Level Up Your Career ($197)
- PHP & MySQL Web Development From Scratch – Build 5 Projects ($149)
- Advanced Ruby Programming: 10 Steps to Mastery ($99)
- Git Complete: The Definitive, Step-By-Step Guide ($99)
- Learn Cloud Computing with AWS ($99)
So, do you really get all this for any price you want? In short… not really. There are some limitations, but you still get to pay very little. The trick here is that you will get more courses if you beat the “average price”, but that is sitting at only $10.61 right now.
Just keep in mind the average price will continue rising as more people buy the bundle, so hurry up and get it ASAP if you want the lowest possible price for the complete bundle. What are you waiting for? Go sign up!
Apple Shares ‘Someday At Christmas’ Ad With Stevie Wonder and Andra Daye
A day before Thanksgiving is celebrated in the United States, Apple this morning shared a new Christmas-themed ad for 2015, featuring a handful of Apple products and starring artists Stevie Wonder and Andra Daye. The 90-second ad centers on Stevie Wonder and his family preparing for the upcoming holiday season with the help of a few Apple devices.
The artist uses a handful of Apple products and applications — like a MacBook and GarageBand — to put together the holiday-themed song “Someday at Christmas” along with Andra Daye and some younger members of his family. Of course, a handful of other Apple devices, including the Apple Watch, can be spotted in the ad.
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Black Friday App Deals Include Pixelmator, Linky, Lost Within and More
Just ahead of Thanksgiving and the busy Black Friday shopping holiday in the U.S., some app developers have discounted their iOS and Mac apps for a limited time.
We have been tracking App Store price drops on our sister website AppShopper and found early deals on popular apps Pixelmator, Linky, Lost Within and more.
Pixelmator for iOS [Direct Link] has been discounted from $4.99 to $1.99, which is 60% off and the image editing app’s lowest price since it went on sale for 99 cents in July 2015.
Pixelmator is a powerful, full-featured, layer-based image editor that lets you touch up and enhance images, sketch and paint, as well as create advanced image compositions on iPad and iPhone alike.
Pixelmator for Mac [Direct Link] is also on sale for $14.99, which is 50% off its regular price of $29.99. The OS X image editing app last went on sale for $14.99 in April 2015.
Pixelmator takes full advantage of the latest Mac technologies, giving you speedy, powerful tools that let you touch up and enhance images, draw or paint, apply dazzling effects, or create advanced compositions amazingly simple. Once your images are ready, access them anywhere with iCloud, send them to iPhoto or Aperture, email, print, share, or save them to popular image formats–all right from Pixelmator.
Linky for iOS [Direct Link] is on sale for 50% off during Black Friday week, lowering the app’s price to $1.99 from $3.99. The popular link, text and sharing app was last discounted to $1.99 in November 2014.
Linky lets you easily share webpage links, images and text extracts to Twitter, Facebook and App.net from your iPhone and iPad.
Write your post, choose which preferred social networks and Linky will do the rest! You can connect Linky to Twitter, Facebook (Profiles and Pages) and App.net.
Amazon Game Studios has discounted Lost Within for iOS [Direct Link] to $1.99, which is over 70% off its regular $6.99 price and the app’s lowest price ever.
The high-rated iPhone and iPad survival game, an Editors’ Choice on the App Store, last went on sale for $2.99 in October 2015. Read our Lost Within review on TouchArcade.
From the developer of Prey — Survive a haunted asylum and its monstrous Inhabitants. Confront a legendary killer who prowls the abandoned wards. Scavenge and create makeshift weapons or conserve your resources and employ stealth tactics to sneak past the lurking horrors. When all else fails, run for your life or find a place to hide. To escape, you must uncover the asylum’s dark mystery: the shattering secret that led to its condemnation. There are many doors, but there is only one way out.
Todo for iOS [Direct Link] is on sale for 99 cents, down from $4.99. The popular to-do list and task management app was last discounted to $1.99 in October 2015, but 99 cents is the app’s lowest price ever.
Todo – The ORIGINAL To-Do and Task List is the world’s first, and one of the most popular, powerful, and award-winning to-do list and task manager iOS apps ever—now on Apple Watch! Todo is used by millions of individuals, families and teams for GETTING THINGS DONE.
Also on Sale
– Door Kickers: $4.99 → $1.99
– AG Drive: $3.99 → $1.99
– The Cursed Ship, Collector’s Edition (iPhone): $4.99 → Free
– The Cursed Ship, Collector’s Edition (iPad): $6.99 → Free
Follow our Black Friday roundup to keep track of the best deals on Apple products and accessories.
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WhatsApp gets starred messages, rich preview links and more in latest update
WhatsApp, one of the most popular mobile messaging services on Android, is getting quite the handful of useful features in its latest update. New in version 2.12.367 is the ability to star messages to find them later, support for Android Direct Share, and rich previews when sending links.
First and foremost, the ability to star messages has been a heavily requested feature for some time, so we’re sure many users will be happy with this one. All you need to do is simply tap and hold on any message in a chat to star it, allowing you to easily find it later (similar to a bookmark). You can even browse your starred messages by navigating to the Chats tab > Menu > Starred Messages. It’s a small feature, but will definitely come in handy.
Also new in WhatsApp is the ability to send or receive links with a rich preview. You can also choose to send links without rich previews if you so choose.
See also: How to get WhatsApp on your tablet
Lastly, WhatsApp has added support for Direct Share, which was introduced in Android 6.0 Marshmallow. Direct Share allows you to share things with more specific targets. For instance, if you’d like to share a link with a contact in WhatsApp, in the past you’d need to click the share button, scroll down to WhatsApp, select your contact and send the link. Now that WhatsApp has built in support for this feature, you’ll quickly be able to choose a specific WhatsApp chat directly from the share menu. How neat!
This big ol’ update is now live in the Google Play Store, so head to the link below to grab the latest version.
T-Mobile giving Sprint customers transferring to the Uncarrier an extra $200 for free
T-Mobile this morning announced that Sprint customers will get an extra $200 for every line they switch over to T-Mobile. This comes as the second gift in T-Mobile’s month of holiday giving, otherwise known as Uncarrier Unwrapped.
In addition to this holiday promotion, Sprint customers still qualify for T-Mobile’s Carrier Freedom promotion, where the Uncarrier will give you up to $650 per line to pay towards Sprint’s early termination fees (ETFs) and other remaining balances.
T-Mobile announced its first holiday gift earlier this week, revealing that existing T-Mobile Simple Choice customers will get unlimited 4G LTE data through March 2016.
With this second holiday gift, Sprint customers transferring four lines to T-Mobile could get as much as $800 extra on top of the Carrier Freedom promotion.
Be sure to keep an eye out for more T-Mobile gifts, as the Uncarrier still has a few more holiday surprises up its sleeves for AT&T and Verizon customers.
source: T-Mobile Newsroom
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HTC One A9 announced for India markets, pricing and availability still unknown
HTC today at a press conference in New Delhi, India announced the launch of the One A9 in the region. The Taiwanese-based company originally announced its latest flagship device in late October, and unfortunately, hasn’t been impressing financial analysts.
As a quick refresher, here’s what the One A9 has in tow:
- Snapdragon 617 Octa-core CPU
- 5-inch Super AMOLED 1080p display
- Gorilla Glass 4
- 3GB of RAM
- 16/32GB of internal storage
- microSD support
- 13-megapixel rear camera with OIS
- Front 4MP UltraPixel camera
- HTC BoomSound
- 2,150mAh battery
- Android 6.0
HTC oddly didn’t offer any details on pricing or specifics on availability in India, but the company did indicate that there was a two-week deadline. That said, consumers in the region could see the device up for sale very soon.
The One A9 (review here) is the first device outside of the Nexus lineup to have Android 6.0 right out of the box, and it’s also one of the few handsets said to get incredibly quick updates.
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HTC announces that the dual-SIM Desire 828 is coming to India
HTC today hosted a press conference in New Delhi, India, first revealing that the One A9 is on its way to the region. During the press conference, the Taiwanese-based company also revealed that the dual-SIM Desire 828 would soon be available to buy in the region as well.
Here’s what you’re look at, specs-wise:
- 5.5-inch Full HD 1080p display
- MediaTek MT6753 octa-core CPU
- 2GB RAM
- 16GB ROM
- microSD support, up to 2TB
- 13-megapixel rear camera, f/2.0 aperture, and OIS
- HTC UltraPixel front camera, f/2.0 aperture
- 2,800mAh battery
- Android 5.1
HTC at the press conference didn’t reveal any details on pricing or availability, but indicated that the device could be available at retailers within two weeks. The handset will be available in Dark Gray and Pearl White.
This particular smartphone launched in China earlier this month for CNY 1,599 (USD$250).
It’s a decidedly mid-range handset, but has some excellent specifications that’ll be able to handle anything thrown at it. We’ll be sure to keep you updated as to when pricing and availability is posted.
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US regulators delay law that will make electric cars more noisy
Electric cars are famous for how quiet they are compared to regular gas-guzzlers. This is good for noise pollution, bad for pedestrians — especially the visually impaired. Manufacturers are well aware of the issue, and solutions like Toyota’s proximity notification system are becoming more popular. What’s not in place, yet, is industry-wide legislation to ensure all EVs and Hybrids have such a safety feature built-in. A law requiring cars have automatic audible alerts for pedestrians proposed in 2013 is in process, but Reuters reports the U.S. Department of Transportation that’s just been delayed until at least March next year — it was originally planned to come in to action this fall. The law would cost automakers an estimated $23-million in the first year to implement.
Source: Reuters
Samsung Gear VR review (2015): A no-brainer if you own a Samsung phone
When Samsung and Oculus debuted their Gear VR headset almost a year ago, the companies made it clear the device wasn’t yet ready for the masses. Billed as “Innovator Edition” models, the original Gear VRs were intended mainly for early adopters. They only fitted a limited number of phones — the original was designed just for the Note 4; the second for the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge — and were also quite pricey at $200 per headset. Just last week, however, the two companies released the first-ever consumer-ready version of the Gear VR. It’s smaller, lighter, cheaper (only $99) and is compatible with more phones (the Note 5, S6, S6 Edge and S6 Edge+). But, more importantly, its content library has exploded, with more VR apps and games than ever before. Virtual reality has finally gone mainstream, and there’s no better way to get started than with the new Gear VR.Slideshow-342906
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