Here’s a quick tip for those of you with Android devices. You might be able to boost your battery life by changing your Wi-Fi sleep settings. You can look at the available settings by going into “Settings” then “Wireless & Networks”. Make sure that Wi-Fi is enabled in this screen and then tap on “Wi-Fi …
Category: Android
May 31 2011
Save Android Device Battery Life When at Home on Wi-Fi
- By Boydo in Android, Batteries, Connectivity, Mobile, Operating Systems, Power, Technology, Wi-Fi, Wireless
May 22 2011
Acer Iconia Tab: First Impressions
- By Boydo in Android, Apple, Browsers, Chrome, Connectivity, Google, iPad, Mobile, Operating Systems, Technology, Wi-Fi, Wireless, YouTube
Today on my trip out and about to Hornsby Westfield I dropped into JB Hi-Fi to have a look at what they had on display and was stoked to find that they had a Android Honeycomb tablet on show in the form of the Acer Iconia Tab. Prior to today, I had never see a …
May 13 2011
Google Music Makes its (Beta) Debut
- By Boydo in Amazon, Android, Cloud, Content & Search, Google, Music, Operating Systems, Storage, Technology
This might have flown under the radar for a lot of people but Google has released its cloud music service (potentially in response to Amazon which released its fully functioning service recently). As you might know, Amazon caused a bit of an upset upon launching its service and delivering songs bought through its online store …
Apr 23 2011
Cloud Music: The Next Big Thing?
- By Boydo in Amazon, Android, Apple, Cloud, Connectivity, Content & Search, Google, iOS, iTunes, Microsoft, Mobile, Operating Systems, Storage, Technology, Wi-Fi, Windows Phone 7, Wireless
The tech heads amongst us would be aware of the rumours of cloud music services from Apple and Google making the rounds at the moment especially after Amazon fired the first shot in the last couple of weeks (and may have upset the record companies in the process over licensing agreements). Apple already has the …
Apr 14 2011
Push Content to Android Devices with Chrome to Phone
- By Boydo in Android, Browsers, Chrome, Google, Operating Systems, Technology
Sometimes it can be a pain having to e-mail URLs or finding cross-platform bookmark syncing solutions when you just want to be able to quickly look at a webpage you are currently viewing on a mobile device. Perhaps you want to have the ability to copy and paste text from a webpage in Chrome on …
Apr 13 2011
Sometimes Other Android Devices Have Better Apps
- By Boydo in Android, Google, Operating Systems, Technology
For a while I’ve been looking for a decent weather app for my Samsung Galaxy S and had last week selected GO Weather which has a pretty good widget and a very attractive app complete with video backgrounds and detailed three day forecast. However, I have had a slight yearning to move toward a pure Google Android experience as you would expect using an untouched Android Open Source Project (AOSP) ROM.
Apr 12 2011
A Faster Way to Install Apps on Your Android Device
- By Boydo in Android, Apple, iTunes, Operating Systems, Technology
Here’s a quick tip for tonight. Sometimes, browsing the Android Market from your device can be a pain and, depending on the version of the Android Market you have installed, it can be slow and difficult to find what you want quickly. Luckily, there’s a fast and easy way to rapidly fire a stack of …
Apr 11 2011
Install Gingerbread (Android 2.3.3) on Samsung Galaxy S
- By Boydo in Android, CRT, Display, Imaging, LED, Operating Systems, Technology
There’s been quite a buzz lately about an official release of Gingerbread (Android 2.3) from Samsung and, in true style, there have been many leaked ROMs for the Samsung Galaxy S that have been gracing the web. Over the weekend, I decided to bite the bullet and put Gingerbread on my phone. To be specific, …
Mar 25 2011
BlackBerry PlayBook: RIM Apps or Android Apps?
- By Boydo in Android, Operating Systems, Technology, WebOS
As the tablet wars start to heat up there was an interesting teaser from RIM about the ability to run Android apps on their new PlayBook tablet. While the details are still a bit murky as to how this will work (either through emulation, “Just in Time” compilation or some other means) it does give …
- Android, app, Blackberry, HP, Palm, Palm Pre, PlayBook, RIM, WebOS
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Mar 23 2011
Attack of the Tablets
- By Boydo in Android, Apple, Connectivity, iPad, Mobile, Operating Systems, Technology, Wi-Fi, Wireless
If you have been following the tech news today, details about two of the more significant tablets come to surface today in the form of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and the BlackBerry PlayBook. The timing was good as the international pricing for the Apple iPad 2 was also released. As far as Australia goes, …
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