How To Improve Google Now cards (Jelly Bean) #AndroidTips #Android

Google Now is pretty useful right out of the box -- the more you use it, the better it will get at serving up useful information in an appropriate way (like pulling traffic and calendar information to figure out how long it'll take you to drive to your next engagement, for example). But if you're finding Google Now's abilities a little limited, try enabling Web history to give it more data to pull from. Visit history.google.com and click "Turn Web history on.” Before too long you'll be able to use Google Now for things such as sports scores and flight information. The service learns pretty quickly, too. For example, you'll find it letting you know what time you need to leave your house in order to make a flight. If the notifications become too distracting, you can adjust the priority level of each one from the Google Now screen. Just tap the three dots on the right side of the card to set it as normal (the phone will alert you with updates), low priority (the information will show up on the Google Now screen, but won't otherwise announce itself), or off.

How to Equalize your music on #Android #AndroidTips

Android's built-in Music app is pretty capable -- and for Jelly Bean users (both 4.1 and 4.2), you'll find the ability to equalize your music has been baked right in. Once you're playing a song, hit the three dots in the upper-right corner and select "Equalizer." You'll be able to select from presets such as "Folk" and "Heavy Metal," and you can even drag the five sliders yourself to fine-tune based on what you're listening to at the moment. Down below are extra controls: drag to adjust the amount of bass boost applied. There’s also a "3-D effect," some software processing that makes the music sound a little deeper. Those options are only available when headphones are plugged in, since they wouldn't make much of a difference to the sound quality of your phone's built-in speaker.

If your device isn't running Jelly Bean, check out the free "Equalizer" app in the Google Play store -- it offers many of the same features

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Newly Discovered Android Malware Was Downloaded Millions Of Times

Security firm Lookout has detailed a clever new bit of Android Malware lurking in the Google Play store. The good news: unless you’re downloading questionable Russian clone apps, you’re probably not affected. The bad news: that hasn’t kept it from being downloaded a few million times.

Samsung Galaxy S IV to come in black and white, up to 64GB of storage

Samsung’s newest smartphone is about to be announced later this month, most likely the Galaxy S IV, and rumors have obviously been flying off the walls as of late. We already saw some of what Samsung was cooking up at Mobile World Congress earlier this week, but it looks like the company will be pulling the “one last thing” trick come March 14.

Android Wrap: Photoshop Touch puts graphic design in the palm of your hand

Do you get random bursts of creativity at the most inopportune of times? Don't always have a computer nearby? Feel like your desktop computer's screen is maybe a little too big? Adobe's latest mobile app release can help you get creative on the go. .

A look at some of Chrome OS's latest bits of polish

The release of Chrome OS looms ever closer, but still there are a number of enhancements and changes being rolled in that should make for a somewhat nicer experience, and TechCrunch has highlighted a few. Perhaps most major among those changes is the ability to browse the internet without signing in, but if you want to update your bookmarks or save any form data you'll still need a Google account. There's a new side bar that appears to give access to other apps, replacing tabs on top, and it also adds in battery and WiFi strength indicators. There's also something of a debate going on regarding whether Chrome OS should have support for compressed archives (.zip and .rar files and the like). Right now the OS has no support for those files, which, as one contributor points out, is rather unfortunate given that Gmail itself generates zip files when you click "download all attachments." Let's hope someone at the Googs finds time to add that in so that future users aren't locked out of the joys of extraction.

Courtesy: Engadget

Google To Stop Selling Nexus One Online

In what seems like an apparent shutdown and of its Nexus One program, Google has announced that it will stop selling the powerful android device online. Apparently, this might be a confirmation that Google isn't too good with hardware and should probably just stick with making world class software
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Android 2.1 upgrade for Sprint's HTC Hero leaks out

Okay, so the Moment's Android 2.1 upgrade is official -- great. But what about the Sense-powered Hero? There's no firsthand word just yet other than the promise of a Q2 release, but there is a firsthand ROM (seemingly) floating around that gives us hope we'll here something from Hesse and crew any day now. Oh, yeah, and there is the cool part about being able to just grab the binary now and get your upgrade on without waiting, if you're as brave and impatient as we tend to be around here. Let us know how it goes, folks.

Courtesy : Engadget

Free Android Phones for Adobe Employees

Anyone following recent technology news will know about the serious rift between Apple and Adobe. So it should come as no surprise to anybody that the smartphone of choice at Adobe is not the iPhone

In what looks like a response to Steve Jobs' thoughts about Flash, Adobe is planning a full fledged demonstration of its Flash technology on Google's Android operating system at Google's I/O conference in May. Devices running this implementation are to be given out for free to some Adobe employees. Who and who gets these phones are still details we are not too sure about.
But truthfully, how would you rather demonstrate your competence than boastfully using what you claim. Thumbs up Adobe

Google release Maps application for Android

Google has released a new map app for its new Android 2.0. Am sure it'll be worthy of a 5 star rating cos it carries the "Google Experience"

Google Releases Android 2.0

Google has released the latest version of its Android operating system for Smartphones, the new android comes with a host of interesting features which software developers will be able to customize with their devices. Read more at

Acer Aspire Netbook Dual boots Windows 7 and Google Android

The sleek Aspire Netbook from Acer features what i would term "Rivalry in a Box". Though its a good idea and well "improved publicity" for Google's not so popular Android operating system. This for sure is good business for google whose Android platform has hitherto only been known on a few mobile platforms. The Aspire Netbook comes as the first portable PC to offer dual-booting to two different OS platforms from different Vendors. Though we've seen Linux/Windows hybrids, this is the first time we are seeing something like this on a very small scale.
So for anybody wishing to try their hands out on the Google Android OS, this is your chance