Are you bored with your regular white ear-buds that came with your iPod? Want a more personalized or professional headphone design that is more in tune with your audiophile status? Whether you want headphones for work or play, make a statement with them, especially if you are going to have it on 2 to 3 hours a day.

In this line-up, we have gathered 20 extremely cool and creative headphone designs. Some are concepts, others ready for purchase, but all are colorful, bold and different. You no longer need to compromise style for function. Be hip, be seen, be admired.

1. Sound Like Chocolate Scented Headphones

2. HØR by Sigve Knutson

3. HALO by Jongha Lee

4. Wesc Franscois Dransart

5. APPLE HEADPHONES by Riccardo Fissore

6. Monster Diesel Vektr On-Ear Headphones

7. SOL REPUBLIC / TRACKS SERIES by Formant Studios

8. Ashcraft Aria by Ashcraft Design

9. Digital Design Tools by Alexander Knorr

10. JUNGHOLZ Kopfhörer by Kristina Düver

11. Porsche Design Headphones by jules parmentier

12. Headphones by Oscar Estrada

13. Nixon Headphones

14. Guitar Ear-O, Headphones by Carina Ostermayer

15. Limited Edition Headphones – Eurocase by Gimena Ochoa

16. Parra Headphones

17. i-Mego Headphones

18. Wooden Headphone by Etienne Coutable

19. Custom Headphone Design by Jonathan Marquez

20. Headphones “Sock” (Concept 2011) by Stefan Steevy Burlacu

For most users, their device’s built-in keyboard app is good enough but aside from autocorrection, stock keyboards have little to no extra features. This is where alternative keyboard apps can come in to fill in the gap. We have here 10 Android keyboards that will make you drop your original soft keyboard in a heartbeat.

If your fingers are too large to tap on the right letters, some of these apps let you swipe for better accuracy. Others learn the way you use words and can even predict your next letter based on your favorite words. A fan of customization? We have apps that let you personalize the look of your keyboard, the background or even the QWERTY layout.

If any of these features interest you, here are 10 Android keyboard apps – some free, some paid apps with free trials – you should check out.

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1. SwiftKey Keyboard

SwiftKey Keyboard has advanced text-predicting capabilities, which learn and adapt to the way you type. It learns from the way you type on your Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, Yahoo, SMS and blog to improve its predictions. You can also use its swipe input to type entire sentences in one motion by gliding over the space bar in between words.

SwiftKey supports more than 60 languages. [$3.99; 1-month free trial]

2. Swype Keyboard

Swype keyboard is the original swipe input keyboard. Swype has features such as Living Language, which updates your dictionary with the latest trending words. Like SwiftKey, it features next word prediction and adapts to the way you swipe. Swype also allows you to perform quick tasks such as Select All, Cut, Copy and Paste by simply swiping on the keyboard.

Swype supports more than 60 languages (and 20 dialects). [$0.99; 1-month free trial]

3. touchPal X Keyboard

TouchPal X offers both tap and swipe input. It also has a feature called TouchPal Wave, which allows you to write a complete sentence in seconds by simply dragging the first word down to the spacebar and then swiping between the suggested words that appear over the keys. It can also integrate with Twitter, so you can tweet directly from the app, and has support for Emoji.

The keyboard has support for over 70 languages. [Free]

4. A.I.type Keyboard Plus

A.I.type Keyboard Plus features comprehensive text prediction and correction abilities. It suggests, completes and corrects words based on what you’re typing. It can also correct your input so you don’t have to worry about typing precisely. In addition, A.I.type Keyboard Plus allows you to customize your keyboard by changing the colors, fonts, themes and background image.

A.I.type Keyboard Plus supports over 35 languages. [$3.99; limited free version]

5. MessagEase Keyboard

MessagEase changes the way you type using a tap-and-slide interface. The most common letters are strategically placed on 9 large keys; the other letters are activated with slides. A game is provided to help you adapt to the keyboard faster. MessagEase Keyboard also features gestures for basic operations such as Select All, Copy, Cut and Paste to let you type more words in less time.

MessagEase claims to be language independent, and supports 18 different keyboard layouts. [Free]

6. Siine Shortcut Keyboard

Siine Shortcut Keyboard is a shortcut keyboard. You can set up shortcuts for commonly used greetings or phrases. It also features built-in clock and calendar views that let you very quickly input text related to dates and times. You can also create custom emoticons and use them quickly using emoticon shortcuts.

Siine Shortcut Keyboard supports 10 languages. [Free; $1.05 to unlock calendar view]

7. Perfect Keyboard Pro

Perfect Keyboard Pro aims to provide a fully customizable keyboard. It allows you to change the colors of the keyboard buttons, background, text and even word suggestion font. You can even customize the layout of the keyboard itself, the intensity of the haptic feedback as well as the style and volume of the keypress sounds.

Perfect Keyboard Pro supports over 35 languages. [$2.99; limited free version]

8. GO Keyboard

GO Keyboard is a multi-touch keyboard that supports swipe input. In addition, GO Keyboard learns and corrects you as you type, and features next word prediction on top of Emoji support. One of the best aspects of GO Keyboard is the theme support. There are more than 60 themes currently available for GO Keyboard, with more added weekly.

GO Keyboard supports 39 languages and multiple keyboard layouts. [Free]

9. Adaptxt Keyboard

Clean and minimalistic, Adaptxt Keyboard has three different auto correction modes, plus a TextExpander-like feature and a Share Key that allows you to post directly to your social accounts. It also features a swipe input option and even a classic T9 phone keyboard option. The premium version ($0.99) allows further customization of the keyboard.

Adaptxt Keyboard supports 81 languages, and up to 5 dictionaries can be enabled at once. [Free]

10. Kii Keyboard

Kii Keyboard is the keyboard to beat. With support for alternate layouts such as Compact QWERTY, T9, Dvorak, Azerty and Colemak, Kii also features numbers in an extended top row. The keyboard supports GO Keyboard themes, Better Keyboard themes, and CyanogenMod10 themes. You can also customize the font, colors and background image of the keyboard yourself.

Kii Keyboard supports 35 languages. [Free; $4.25 upgrade for full features]

Are you bored of having to switch your phone to silent mode every time you start work? Do you have a date and you want your phone to automatically go silent just in case you forget to do it yourself while at the cinema? Or maybe you’re the type that remembers to silence your phone but forgets to turn the volume back up afterwards?

The solution? Try Silence.

Silence toggles sound volumes and system settings automatically based on a predetermined schedule. With Silence, you won’t have to worry anymore about forgetting to silence your phone during an important meeting or having to go through the routine of silencing your phone every time you start work.

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Setting Up Silence

First, download and install Silence from the Play Store. Open the app and press Add New Event.

If you create a new event, you can name the event, set the start and end times, the frequency of the event, and how long you need the event on repeat.

If you’re running Android 4.0 and above, Silence can also integrate with your phone’s calendar to work together with an existing calendar event.

After setting up the event, you can customise Silence. Silence can:

• Change your ringer, notification, media and alarm volumes.
• Toggle airplane mode on or off.
• Toggle WiFi on or off.
• Toggle mobile data on or off.
• Toggle Bluetooth on or off.

You can also choose what Silence should do after the event. For example, you can choose the "Change back" option to have Silence change the setting back to the original state. Press Save to save the toggle settings and then press the Save button at the bottom of the screen to save the event itself.

Limitation

Note that the app has a few limitations. Firstly, the app can’t whitelist contacts yet. This may be important if you often expect important calls or text messages, or have contacts that you cannot afford to ignore. Secondly, you won’t be able to set ringer and notification volumes separately if you’re running stock Android 4.0 and above. That feature requires either an earlier version of Android or a custom ROM that separates the two volumes. The free version is supported by ads, but there is an unlocker which removes the ads at $1.99.

There are many CSS3 properties that are still experimental. An experimental CSS property uses vendor prefix, and as we already know, each browser has their own prefix; Firefox uses -moz-, Internet Explorer uses -ms-, Chrome and Safari use -webkit-, and Opera uses -o- (which has been switched to -webkit- as well).

The problem is, unless you are utilizing Compass, including vendor prefix is tedious. The requirement is also varied for each browser, and whether we should include the prefix (or not) becomes a question worthy of consideration.

If you are using Sublime Text though, here is an easier way.

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Installing Node.js

First, we need Node.js installed in our system. The installation package is available for Windows, OSX, and Linux, which you can download here. If you are unsure if you have it or not, run the following command in the Terminal.

 node -v 

If it is already installed, it should return the version, as shown below.

Installing AutoPrefixer

The Autoprefixer is developed by Andrey Sitnik. It is then ported to Sublime Text package by Sindre Sorhus.

I recommend that you install Package Control for easier package installation. You can go to Wbond for the official instructions. After that, you can hit the Command + Shift + P keys and select "Install Package". Then search for Autoprefixer.

Hit enter to install.

Using AutoPrefixer

AutoPrefixer comes with a default setting, as follows

 { "browsers": ["last 2 versions"] } 

But, we can personalize this to meet our own requirement.

Autoprefixer uses the CanIUse.com database for adding the prefixes. CanIUse.com lists CSS3 as well as HTML5, JS and SVG support statistics in the browsers including the use of vendor prefixes. And as we can see from the default setting, Autoprefixer adds prefixes for the last 2 versions as well.

If we take CSS3 Transition as an example, it will add the prefixes for the Webkit and Opera browsers.

And if we set it for 7 versions back, like so.

 { "browsers": ["last 7 versions"] } 

It will also include the -moz- for Firefox

To include the prefix you can hit Command + Shift + P and select Autoprefix CSS, like so.

Now, you can simply write the standard CSS3 syntax, and this plugin will include the prefix for you in a snap.