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"Just root it" is something youve probably heard said if youve spent any meaningful time hanging around a hardcore Android user. But, unless youve spent too much time lingering in the darker corners of the internet, you probably get lost when people start comparing ROMs. As Android phones have taken off, rooting (the process of getting super access to your phone, and being able to change it as you see fit) has become an increasingly mainstream thing to do. The driving factor behind this is the manufacturers: to stamp their own seal on devices, big Android smartphone makers like Samsung, HTC and Sony put a skin on top of the regular Android OS, changing the look and feel, and often replacing stock Android apps with changed varieties. In the first case, then, some users dont appreciate the bloatware – theyd rather have a clean, unskinned version of Android, as they often run faster, and Googles apps are arguably superior to the manufacturers offerings. But ski...

In our weekly column on crowdfunded projects, we look at sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo to find new and interesting projects. Thats because in the last couple of years, some of the most exciting developments in technology have come not from the established players, but from small teams with big dreams - like the Pebble smartwatch and the Oculus Rift. One project hoping to make it big is the AnyMote Home - this small IR device can connect to your smartphone or tablet using Bluetooth, where a companion app can be used as a smart remote. The AnyMote has profiles of over 800,000 devices, and the makers say they are still adding more. Theres also a learning function, where you can teach it to recognise other IR remotes that are not already supported. The app can also integrate with services that support Wi-Fi, such as XBMC, Sonos and Roku. The way it works is simple - you just launch the app on your phone or tablet (both iOS and Android are supported), and connect to the...

This tutorial concerns, in fact, every device powered with the MIUI rom and espcially those who had inadvertently chosen the Chinese Language and dont know anymore how to switch back to their desired language. Here are the steps : Step 1 : Once you have power up your device, wait until you are on you home desktop and click on the menu button Step 2 : Click the encircled area Step 3 : Click the encircled area Step 4 : Click the encircled area and choose your desired language

Getting busy in life if you are not taking care of your health so do not worry, now you take care of your smartphone apps. T here are many apps in different apps stores now. Which have been created keeping in mind your health. We show you  a many apps that will be able to help you for your good health. 1. Run Keeper - Keeper runs through app you can control your entire days activities. These can be used as a physical trainer. Through the application of the calories you burn throughout the day with activities such as walking and cycling can check the speed. This routine can help you and your body. They will take care of you. 2. Sports Tracker - Sports Tracker app via many games as you mount climbing, paragliding and can be used in boat racing. It also lets you check your breathing rate and temperature can. Some of these will help you make the body healthy. Through your body temperature, the usefulness of these problems. 3. pedo meter - through the apps you can measure your foot. ...

Our smartphones are like our skin these days, they go wherever we go and they also experience all the daily weather conditions we experience. One of those weather conditions aside the sun, rain and snow we experience is the Dust and smartphones are not immune to it. Its very easy for smartphone screen to gather dirt, dust and germs over times. If you wanna know how much the screen of a smartphone suffers, try locking at it with a microscope or remove the screen guard and compare it to a new one; you would be amazed at the difference in colour and neatness. So, how do you clean and get rid of filth on a smartphone screen without damaging the screen? First thing is to use a cloth to clean the screen. However, not anyhow clothing material can be used. Some cloths will not only create scratches on the screen but would also not do a fine job in cleaning the screen the way it should. This non-recommended materials include abrasive clothes such as tissue paper, paper towels, linen materials e...

The NSA spying scandal is far from over, as new reports emerged that the U.S. intelligence gathering agency has cracked security codes protecting all major smartphones. German weekly Der Spiegel reported that both the National Intelligence Agency and its UK counterpart GCHQ have set up special teams to spy on smartphone users, as part of their efforts to obtain info on any potential security threats. The German publication quoted internal documents of both agencies, which revealed that special so far, their efforts focused on cracking the protective measures on BlackBerry, Android and iPhone devices. Special teams were set up for each type of device and they collected information such as contacts, lists of calls, text messaging traffic, location and others. But the documents obtained by Der Spiegel do not contain any indication of mass surveillance of smartphone users. They hint that the techniques were only used to spy on specific individuals, according to the Germa...

In order for your Android phone or tablet to host a USB device such as an Arduino, you need a USB On-The-Go (OTG) cable. You can buy these for a few bucks online, but if you have old USB cables around it’s more fun to make one!  Step 1: All you need are two donor USB cables, one with a female type A end like you’d find on a USB extension cable (shown in the first photo here) and one with a male micro B end (second photo). When you’re finished, you’ll have a cable that plugs into your phone on one side and accepts a standard USB cable on the other. First, cut your 2 donor cables to expose the red, black, white, and green wires within, and strip the insulation off the tips. Match up the wire colors from both sides of your soon-to-be Frankencable and solder them together. Insulate the soldered joints from each other using shrink tubing, electrical tape, or hot glue. Don’t forget to connect the braided shielding as well — that’s the uninsulated stranded wire that surrounds the 4 colore...

There are two most important buttons on the iPhone that you wont want to lose. That is the Power button and the Home button. If your power button is faulty you are going to feel it as you wont be able to perform many actions like screenshot, DFU mode options among others. yet another one you dont want to get faulty is the Home button. While there are few times in a day we use the Power button on the iPhone, the Home button is used several times daily. During this frequent usage, the button could get weak. In other to avoid this, the following tips should help in making the home button last longer. 1. Use Assistive touch Assistive Touch is one great feature that comes with the iPhone. Its a virtual Home button bundles into iPhone and it has being since the first iPhone.  With the virtual Home button, you can do most operations that the physical home button would do except to put a device into DFU mode which is something you do rarely. To activate Assistive Touch, go to Settings--...

CODE YOUR OWN FLAPPY GAME - A TUTORIAL FOR ALL AGES Flappy Bird recently met its untimely death. We might’ve been tempted to cry all day and give up on spreading computer science (not really, but R.I.P Flappy Bird). But we just crossed two huge milestones today: On our one-year anniversary, we hit 1 billion lines of code written by students on Code.org!  So instead, we built a new drag-and-drop tutorial that lets you build your own Flappy game – whether it’s Flappy Bird, or Flappy Easter Bunny, Flappy Santa, Flappy Shark with Lasers, Flappy Fairy or Flappy Underwater Unicorn. Flappy Bird is a simple game, and using the basics of computer science, any student can create their own version with endless possibilities. You can make your own rules, and make your flappy game as easy or as hard as you want. You can even reverse the scoring or make it change randomly as you play. The best part is you can share it with one click to challenge your friends. They can play your game ...

New smartphone battery charging solutions appear on the market all the time, using all sorts of technologies from solar power to the energy generated by your bike pedaling or walking. This new concept however captures and uses body heat to charge your phone, making it ideal for use in any situation, as the technology can be easily added to your clothes’ pockets. The Power Pocketprototype was developed by Vodafone and the University of Southampton. The Power Pocket was unveiled just in time for the festival season, being designed as a must-have accessory for any festival goer who does not have access to a power outlet while camping at an outdoor music event. The technology will allow festival goers to charge their phone while dancing, talking and even sleeping. The technology uses thermocouples, which are actually pairs of flexible and small thermoelectric material stitched onto clothing. Several of these thermoelectric materials are printed and connected together into a t...

BlackBerry have released an update to their popular BBM app for Android and iPhone. According to Jeff Gardaway, head of product and brand marketing for BBM, BBM now includes a new Find Friends feature that allows you to discover people you know that are also using BBM and invite them to your BBM contact list, from within the app.  The Find Friends feature will detect which contacts in your smartphone’s contact list are already using BBM, and allow you to quickly send them an invite to join your BBM contact list. For those contacts that don’t yet have BBM, you can invite them to download the app with an email or SMS invite. This is not a bad development and update from BlackBerry. However, we are still expecting that promised BBM Channels and Voice for Android and iOS devices to drop, perhaps in the BBM 2.0 that is in the works. You can download the latest BBM update from the Google Play Store or Apple App Store as it applies to you. Like our Facebook page and follow us Twitt...