Android Tips and Tricks.

Search on your Android using gestures

droid — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:31:53 +0000

Google gesture search allows you to draw a letter to find a contact, a bookmark, an application, or a music track on your phone.

No more scrolling or fiddling with the keyboard to call someone!

Gesture search on Google Labs.…

Auto control the ringer volume without hurting your battery

droid — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 08:01:01 +0000

Lower the volume or put the phone in vibrate mode when in class or at work.

Add your schedule to Timerrific and control volume, wifi and brightness based on the time of the day.

Turn the speakerphone on/off automatically

droid — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 03:05:07 +0000

When on a call, the app UpSoundDown allows you to easily switch your phone to speakerphone mode by turning your phone upside down or by laying it down.

Detailed screenshots.

Set your background image in style

droid — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 03:19:13 +0000

Download Floating Image.
Open and slide to browse your images and interesting photos from Flickr.
Select an image and long press it to set it as your background image.
Select the Fullscreen option from the menu to see

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Backup that final missing piece of information to Gmail

droid — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 05:23:15 +0000

If you format your phone, its now easier than ever to get back to normalcy:

All installed applications are stored in Market > Downloads
All your email and contacts are in your Gmail
Todo’s are in your Google

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All your friends still on AIM? GTalk not cutting it for you?

droid — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 06:07:35 +0000

AIM client from AOL should work nicely for you.
It integrates with Facebook chat and can update your Twitter/Facebook status too.

Take a web page on your computer “to go”

droid — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:23:37 +0000

The below bookmarklet converts the URL you are on to a QR code.

Drag the below link to your bookmarks bar.
Click the bookmarklet on any page.
Scan the image in your android device and you can take the

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Publish the track you run on and race against yourself

droid — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:11:02 +0000

Softrace lets you race against your opponents. Its among the Android developer challenge winners. Softrace website.

Sportypal lets you measure yourself and has an accompanying website to share your tracks.

If all you want is to track…

Want to waste time playing a game with five other people on your phone?

droid — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:53:34 +0000

Download “What the Doodle”

An Android Developer Challenge 2 winner.

Lock your Phone and find its location if someone steals it

droid — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:51:39 +0000

Wavesecure locks the phone and sends you a message with the phone’s location.
You can also send a custom message to the person who has the phone.