If you do real work on your Android smartphone or tablet, then you’re probably frustrated by the cramped virtual keyboard. Thankfully, it’s easy to attach a Bluetooth keyboard to your Android by following these steps: Step 1) Find any Bluetooth mouse, keyboard, joystick, or whatever device you want to use on your Android Step 2) Turn on Bluetooth from your ‘Settings’ menu under ‘Wireless & Networks’ Step 3) Turn on your Bluetooth keyboard and look for the device…
When you root your device, it’s difficult to tell immediately if the root was successful. Some people expect the phone to look completely different after booting into a rooted Android system. Others expect custom ROMs to already be available to them. The truth is: rooted Android looks almost identical to normal Android the first time you boot. That’s because you haven’t done any cool things to it yet – like install exclusive rooted apps or customize your Android using custom…
Any Android handset running Android 4.0+ can handle an Xbox 360 controller. Users can connect the Xbox 360 controller to their device using an OTG cable and control many of their favorite games using the world’s most popular controller. But unfortunately, not all Android games support the Xbox 360 controller (or any third party controllers). These games want you to use the clunky touch screen controls that are bundled with Android games by default. That means no PlayStation controller and…
A savvy photography-centric company recently introduced a cool photo-editing masterpiece of an Android app named Fotor. Amongst the multitude of photo-editing apps that populate the Android app market, Fotor is arguably enjoying one of the most successful campaigns to the top of the charts on Google Play Store. So What Is Fotor All About? Fotor presents itself with easy to use, intuitive and highly customizable features that both novice and experienced Android users can pick up instantly. The…
If you recently rooted your Android and installed the popular custom rom CyanogenMod 10, then you may have noticed a data usage problem. Specifically, users of CM10.1.0 RC3 are reporting excessive data usage when they check the Data Usage screen. And when I say ‘excessive data usage’, I’m not talking about a few megabytes over your monthly limit. Apparently, users who usually use a few hundred megabytes a month checked their data screen to find a situation like the one shown above,…
Obviously, YouTube is the most popular video website in the world for a reason. But there are some things I don’t like about YouTube, and its video recommendation system is one of those things. That’s a problem that a video discover app called Vodio seeks to solve. Vodio was released onto iOS last year and was recently released for free onto the Google Play Store. The app uses a special algorithm to identify videos that it thinks you, the user, would like. Here’s how Vodio…
Google Chrome’s Incognito Mode is one of the browser’s most popular features. With a simple keystroke of Shift+Ctrl+N, you can open a browser window that will save none of your information, including cookies, history, and cache data, after it’s been closed. We all know what Incognito Mode is mostly used for. But now, the popular feature looks like it will be integrated into the next version of Android’s most popular custom ROM. That’s right: CyanogenMod will add Incognito Mode to…
Over 1.5 million Android users have installed the Wi-Fi Tether App for Root Users, making it one of the most popular rooted Android apps available in the world today. Well, if there’s one fault with the WiFi Tether app it’s the fact that it is rarely updated. In fact, until today, the Wi-Fi Tether app had not been updated in nearly an entire year – which is eons in the world of mobile apps. Today, the new WiFi Tether app update adds the following features: -Added Samsung Galaxy…
E3 is the biggest gaming convention of the year. In 2013, the convention was dominated by Sony, Microsoft, and EA Games, all of which announced some pretty big things. But mobile gaming is bigger today than ever before, and there were a number of mobile developers happily showing off their wares at E3. These next-gen games were unlike any mobile games the world has seen before, with the most noticeable improvement being the phenomenal graphics capabilities available on today’s mobile…
For years, Apple has accused its tech rivals of copying the company’s hardware and software. Apple has even gone so far as to sue companies for billions of dollars. Well, it looks like the tables have turned. At the recent Apple WorldWide Developers’ Conference (WWDC), Apple revealed iOS7, the latest version of its mobile operating system for the iPhone and iPad. Interestingly enough, iOS7 marks a change away from the classic Apple iOS interface – which hasn’t changed since the…
