Compass apps on android

This article is about the marvelous device that is literally with everyone on the planet: smartphones.

Chosen as #1 on multiple lists of 'greatest inventions of the 21st century', smartphones are a computer, watch, alarm clock, sticky note, calculator, telephone, messager, gaming console and newspaper all in one. In fact, in can be a whole lot more than that with the right apps. An android device, having access to the largest app store of all the popular operating systems, have a massive potential to go from a fancy phone to a device you just cannot live without.

I hope to introduce many of these insanely practical apps over the weeks, but let's start with something simple: A compass.

If you didn't know it already, the sensors in your device most probably includes a magnetic sensor, which can be used to make efficient and accurate compass apps. Smart app developers out there required no invitation when this sensor become commonplace, resulting the availability of multiple compass apps on the Google Play Store.

Some of the best include:

Compass, by gabenative
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gn.android.compass

Smart Compass, by Smart Tools co.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=kr.sira.compass

Both are up-to date, have a small download size (Less than 5 mb), totally free and absolutely reliable.
If you don't have one installed by now, go ahead and pick one. Right now. You never know when you're gonna get marooned.

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Tumblr, the micro blogging site owned by Yahoo, is known for it's constant flow of thought-provoking articles and hilarious jokes contributed by a massive international user base. But finding the absolutely best over-the-top blogs that will have you rolling on the floor laughing (Literally ROFL) will take some work. Thankfully, some guys have made it their mission to compile the best of Tumblr into one roller coaster ride of a website: http://best-of-tumblr.tumblr.com/

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These massive explosions in the sky that radiates more energy than entire galaxies and lead to the formation of black holes are a fascinating astronomical phenomenon.
Interested? Read about it here : http://www.space.com/6638-supernova.html

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Might wanna visit these, if you like playing the smash hit video game series:

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HTML entity codes

What are HTML entity codes?

Well, they are 'encrypted' forms of every character that can be displayed on the web, recognizable only by HTML. They are commonly used to bypass the browser botching up special characters when reading the HTML code, as HTML entity codes are converted to special characters and are not recognized as part of the webpage code.

They come in extremely handy not only for developers, but also common users when trying to print certain characters in blogs, forums etc that allow the WYSWYG(What You See Is What You Get) editor to be turned off.

Every character also has an ASCII code, which has it's own uses in programming and markup languages.

Here's a complete list of HTML entity codes and ASCII decimal and hex numbers of all characters:

http://www.ascii.cl/htmlcodes.htm