So you have your shiny new T-Mobile G2X and you’re already bored with it, wish it was a little faster, and/or want to get rid of all the software that happened to come on it that you’ll never use (T-Mobile Mail? Really?!). No problem. All you have to do […]
*At the time of writing this, there are no custom ROMs available, but this is how you would load them once they become available (unless something drastic changes, then in that case we would redo the video). Also you can use this method to flash custom Kernels, etc. as well.
Laughing at iPhone users for having their every move recorded by their iPhone? Well, you may want to bite your tongue cause, that’s right, Android tracks your moves as well. Your Android device records your location and even Wifi checkins and saves them to the device’s cache (for a
So you saw all of the tracking information that Apple keeps from your iPhone? You want to do something about it? Well, you can either jailbreak the device and then remove the phone’s ability to be tracked altogether, or you can do this procedure to encrypt the tracking data so
Curious where Apple has been tracking you? Want to know exactly when your iPhone checked in? Using a special open source program developers, Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden, have created a way for you to check to see where your iPhone has been tracked. You’d be surprised how far back the
Typing on your tablet just not what you hoped it would be? Want to change that on-screen keyboard to something that suits your needs? No problem. In this how to we show you how to do just that. Take the Android stock keyboard and replace it with any of
Now that we have access to the microsd access via a custom kernel, Koush has released his Clockworkmod recovery image for the Motorola Xoom. What can you do with a custom recovery, you ask? Well, you can create and restore backups of the entire system, ability to flash kernels, and
Sick of seeing the same wallpaper everytime you look down at your phone? Well, with a quick app from the Market, you can do just that. Simply download the wallpaper changing app, put images in a folder on your SD card, choose the interval to have the wallpapers change,
Want to be able to transfer all of your music, pictures, videos, and other fun stuff on your Blackberry Playbook onto your Windows PC and vise versa but don’t want to use the USB cable? No problem. RIM came up with an easy way to do just that with just
So even though Motorola hasn’t officially fixed the MicroSD card slot on the Xoom to enable it to work, some hard working developers at XDA Developers managed to fix it anyway. Here’s how to get it done. BIG THANKS TO THE TIAMAT TEAM AND BIG THANKS TO JASON TYLER FOR THIS
What are gestures? Well, they are basically anything you do on the device involving touching it with your fingers. Things like tapping an icon, swiping across the screen, etc. are all gestures. Ah, but there is more. RIM, it would seem, added a few hidden gestures to the list,
Just like with most other purchases from retailers, apps can be returned for a refund if you don’t like them. Android handles this in a very basic way; you hav15 minutes to try out the app and decide if you want to keep it or not. Very straight forward and
So maybe you don’t have the Android Market on your device, or maybe the app you want just isn’t in the Android Market for whatever reason. How do you install an app that isn’t in the Market? Well, Android uses these small files call APK’s to install your app in
So maybe you’ve seen one of these square barcodes that have a bunch of dots in them somewhere and wondered, “What the hell is that mess?” Well, that mess is called a QR code, which stands for Quick Reference Code. A QR code is basically a barcode like you find
So for most I’m sure copy and paste is quite a basic feature, and well, it is. But it can be kind of tough getting used to how to do it on a device with a touchscreen instead of a mouse if you’re not sure how to do it.
