Android Tips

Android Tip: Changing the text size in your browser

11 July 2011 Mei Yu

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For a long time I was browsing the net on my Android tablet feeling that the text size was too small for comfort but not knowing how to make it appear larger; now I have found out how to.

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Android Tip: Add a contact to your homescreen for easy dialing

08 July 2011 Mei Yu

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There are a few people that I often call from my Android phone. Rather than finding them in Favourites or Contacts I have added a shortcut to my homescreen so that I can lazily just tap on their name and start dialing.

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Android Tip of the Day: Activate the Power Strip to keep your device under control

06 July 2011 Mei Yu

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I was looking for a better way to control battery-draining features like the screen brightness, Wi-Fi on my Android 2.2 tablet, and I stumbled upon the Android Power Strip. It is one of the features that many people don’t know about; saving you the effort of having to install an extra app.

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Android tip of the day: adjusting screen brightness

04 March 2011 Aung Swee

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I was trying to figure out how to adjust the screen brightness of my Android device screen since it doesn’t have brightness or contrast controls by default like my desktop monitor. Adjusting screen brightness can help to conserve battery life. Not surprisingly, I found an app called Screen Brightness that does the trick.

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Android tip of the day: defend your battery

03 March 2011 Aung Swee

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It may be convenient to have your Android device online all the time, but the continuous connectivity consumes a lot of power and can lead to a short battery life.

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Android tip of the day: An easy way to import your PC bookmarks

28 February 2011 Aung Swee

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Importing your PC bookmarks to your Android device is not a big deal now. Install MyBookmarks which is free on Android Market. This simple tool supports IE, Firefox and Chrome and you can import all these bookmarks to your Android device with no time.

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Android tip of the day: How to install and setup a widget

11 February 2011 Tai-Pan

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I’ve realized that we’ve covered a lot of Android widgets now on Shanzai.com, but we’ve never offered a tutorial on how to install an Android widget. Here’s how you set up an Android widget on your Android device.

Android tip of the day: Browse and install apps from the Android Market website

08 February 2011 Tai-Pan

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Google has now made browsing and installing apps from Android Market easy peasy. The Google Android Market web store is like iTunes but without the hassle of wires and syncing with computers. Here is how you download apps from the Android Market website.

Android tip of the day: Tick to keep track of tock

04 February 2011 Tai-Pan

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Baking a cake in the oven and taking a quick nap at the same time… use a timer! Timers are handy, but most of them have a tacky interface. The Tick timer app has a super simple rotary wheel interface.

Android tip of the day: Delete history of multiple applications in one click

01 February 2011 Tai-Pan

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Many users have asked us how to delete Android Market history, call history, and browser history, etc. Of course they can be deleted in the obvious way, by clearing the cache in Settings. But if you want to bypass this multistep process and erase your history in a single step, use History Erase.


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