Tech-Recipes

Nexus One: Use Long Press Shortcuts to Save Time

shamanstears — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 05:16:31 +0000

Android provides a way to quickly access menus and functionality by doing a long press ( a press and hold) of buttons or keys. These shortcuts can be a real timesaver.

Nexus One: How to Access Common Symbols and Punctuation Marks from the Letters Keyboard

shamanstears — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:51:55 +0000

You probably know that accessing a comma, semicolon, colon, math symbols, etc. from the Numbers Keyboard (; : , / & @ ( ' ) " - + ? or !), but having to switch back-and-forth gets to be a pain when you're trying to input some text quickly. Luckily, you can access these symbols and punctuation from the Letters keyboard.

Nexus One: How to Set the Browser Home Page

shamanstears — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:52:08 +0000

Just like your computer's web browser, the Android web browser on your Nexus One allows you to set the homepage to a site that it will initially start with whenever the browser is opened.

Nexus One: Add the CC and BCC Fields to a Composed Message

shamanstears — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 04:30:34 +0000

If you wish to include other recipients to a composed email message, even though they aren't the primary one, you can use Cc or Bcc to do this. Cc (carbon copy) will send the message, allowing all recipients to see the address of the Cc recipient while Bcc (blind carbon copy) will keep all addresses included in its field from being displayed to recipients of the message. This can be done in either the Mail app or the Gmail app.

Nexus One: Prevent Google Talk from Signing onto your Account When the Device is Turned On

shamanstears — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:24:57 +0000

I only use Google Talk periodically, so I have no need for the Talk application to automatically sign onto my account every time that I happen to turn on my phone. Here's how stop this.

Cocoa: Convert number to comma-separated NSString

qmchenry — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 14:43:11 +0000

At some point in your Mac, iPhone, or iPad development you may find the need to express a long number (1000000000) as a comma-separated string (1,000,000,000) to make life easier on your users. The NSNumberFormatter class is a rich tool for converting numbers to strings supporting different types of currencies and localizations. It’s [...]

Google Nexus One: How to Prevent the Screen from Entering Sleep Mode While Charging

shamanstears — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 04:54:52 +0000

If you would like to keep your Nexus One's screen on while it charges so that you can make use of applications like the Clock app, you can but you need to know where to look.

Google Nexus One: How to Quickly Access Your Recent Applications

shamanstears — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 05:16:53 +0000

If you want to use an application that you recently used, instead of hunting for it via the Launch button, you can access the Recent Applications window and quickly access the application from there.

Google Nexus One: How to Send All Calls From a Contact to Voicemail

shamanstears — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 04:44:50 +0000

Situations arise where you need calls from a contact to go to Voicemail instead of answering their calls. You can set your Nexus One to send calls from a contact to voicemail automatically and directly, so that your phone will never ring when they call.

Google Nexus One: How to Change the Text Message (SMS) Limit Per Conversation

shamanstears — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 05:00:20 +0000

By default, the Nexus One limits text messages to 200 messages per conversation. You can change this value to one that better meets your messaging needs.