Tag: Android

Chrome Beta for Android Smartphones

After making a switch back to Android (for the time being) and getting back into the platform ecosystem from the perspective of daily usage I thought I’d make a web browser recommendation. Since Android first appeared on smartphones, we’ve always had a web browser available on it but it wasn’t the Google Chrome browser that …

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How to Swap Android Keyboards

Here’s a quick tip for those Android users out there. Some Android smartphones come preloaded with soft keyboards unique to the manufacturer each with their own various nuances and capabilities. For instance, Samsung keyboards have had “Swype” built into their soft keyboards which has allowed you top drag your finger over the letters of a …

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Incoming Gadget – Samsung Galaxy S III

Samsung Galaxy S III

Yesterday, I picked myself up a new Samsung Galaxy S III upon its launch given that I had found myself in a bit of a dire smartphone situation. My Samsung Omnia 7 has had a repeated history of corrupting its memory after a couple of months and the only solution to get it working properly …

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Spotify Arrives Down Under

This is already old news but I thought I’d write briefly about the arrival of Spotify in Australia yesterday. I did use this service myself a while ago by getting around the regional lockout but after some time it didn’t work properly. Now that the service is now available I am now turning off the …

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Kickstarter Watchlist – Pebble Smartwatch

Pebble Smartwatch Colours

Here’s another gadget initiative that the iPhone and Android smartphone users out there might fancy as an auxiliary screen or control for their devices. The Pebble E-paper Watch is not quite the “Dick Tracy” watch that people have been after but I reckon it’s pretty close and a whole lot more. In short, this is an app-extensible …

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BitLocker and iPods – Will They Blend?

Leading on from yesterday’s article about BitLocker and the unfortunate situation that Mac OS X users find themselves in when BitLocker to Go is enforced at work when using USB devices we should also consider one popular USB device, the iPod. It may be a lesser known fact that iPods will use either HFS+ or …

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Mozilla Creating Boot2Gecko But Why?

Seems like a slightly crowded field these days for mobile OS market share. Up front we have Android and iOS while BlackBerry OS and Symbian are slowly being sucked into a black hole. Meanwhile, Windows Phone is carving out a small niche for itself prior to Windows 8 hitting the scene as WebOS is stuck …

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Windows on ARM Comes with Office 15 Baked In

For people seriously considering a Windows 8 tablet as their next tablet OS here is something that might sweeten the deal a bit. While the iPad has built in viewing capabilities for Microsoft Word documents, Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint slidepacks the ability to edit them as part of the base operating system is absent. The …

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Restart a Stuck Samsung Galaxy Tab

Today I was helping someone officially upgrade the firmware on a couple of devices (specifically a Samsung Galaxy S and the original Samsung Galaxy Tab) and unfortunately the Galaxy Tab had seized up and would not respond to any inputs. Even holding in the power button wouldn’t wake the device up from its seemingly infinite …

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Demo Windows Phone on Your iPhone or Android Device

It’s almost a two horse race these days for mobile phones for consumers and the enterprise between the iPhone and Android handsets but don’t let that stop you from getting a squizz at Windows Phone. If you want to give the Windows Phone interface a go on your phone just browse to http://aka.ms/wpdemo and tap the screen …

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