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Edit Picasa Web Album online with Picnik

kuanhoong — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 03:22:40 +0000

With the recent acquisition of Picnik – online photo editing tools, now Google Picasa Web Album users can too edit photos online similar to services offered by Flickr.

As per Google Photo Blog:

A few months back we welcomed Picnik, the powerful online photo editor, into the Google family and today we’re happy to share the first of more exciting things to come.

Picnik’s rich editing tools are now integrated into Picasa Web Albums allowing you to experience them without ever having to leave your account. As long as you’re using Picasa in one of the Picnik supported languages, just click ‘edit’ from the edit drop down menu or from the new handy Picnik icon.

Have fun editing your photos.

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Yahoo! launches new Yahoo Mail, Messenger and Search apps for Android phones

kuanhoong — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 05:31:56 +0000

Yahoo! has launched the latest Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger apps for Android, a Yahoo! Search Widget for Android. Besides those Android apps, Yahoo! also launched an amazing new HTML5 mobile mail and News experience for iPhone and iPod touch.

With the new Yahoo! Mail App for Android, consumers can:

Receive push notification of new email messages
Send emails to contacts from the Yahoo! Address Book as well as contacts in the native phone address book
Search email messages by sender, recipient, subject and keywords in the body of the email
Upload photos as attachments directly from camera or the photo gallery
View and download attachments
Insert emoticons and rich text formatting into emails
Effectively manage and organize their Yahoo! Mail messages, folders and manage spam
Toggle between the Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger apps with ease

With the new Yahoo! Messenger App for Android, consumers can:

Easily message friends, check friends’ status updates & availability as well as update their own status & availability
Send instant messages to friends via SMS text messages*
Stay connected with full support for multitasking allowing the app to work in the background; with push notifications consumers can easily catch new messages and friend requests
Full use of emoticons and rich text formatting
Send photos to friends directly from the phone’s camera or the photo gallery

As per Yahoo Blog:

Today, we are truly excited to release our first wave of new Android and HTML5 products, including Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger apps for Android, a new Android widget for Yahoo! Search, and our amazing HTML5-powered Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! News experiences for the Apple iPhone and iPod touch. Complete product details can be found on the Yahoo! Mobile Blog here.

So what does this mean for you? If you are one of the 300 million Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger users worldwide, we’re making it easier to access feature-rich Yahoo! experiences on two of the fastest growing mobile platforms in the market, Android and HTML5-capable browsers. Get more details on the Yahoo! Messenger app on the Yahoo! Messenger Blog here.

With the new apps for Android, we created fast, easy-to-use and visually stunning experiences for Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger, providing rich full-featured experiences right on your Android device, and built from the ground up for the Android platform. We also introduced a Yahoo! Search Widget for Android to provide quick and convenient access to Yahoo! Search, making search easily accessible directly on your home screen. Check out more details on the Yahoo! Search Blog here.

To give it a try, scan the barcodes with your Android phone.

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Android : Google Maps Layer indicates locations where you can watch World Cup 2010

kuanhoong — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 13:47:25 +0000

Google the GOD of Search Engine is into World Cup fever too. If you are an Android user, you can find out locations where you can watch World Cup 2010 via Google Map.

To access this feature, go to your Google Map and select “More Layers”. Select the “Watch the World Cup” layer and this will allow you to find locations inside your Google Map where you can watch World Cup 2010 live. . Nice!

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How to share & sync files between Android phone and Desktop PC

kuanhoong — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 01:56:58 +0000

Smartphones are everywhere now. It is not just a communication device, but also your ultimate productivity center. One of the common usages of smartphone is to view and share files on the go.

With the latest Dropbox Android App, now it is easy to share and synchronize files between your Android phone (e.g. HTC Desire or Motorola Droid) with your desktop PC.

Dropbox is a service that syncs content between multiple devices. It offers up to 2GB’s of storage for your documents, photos, music, or other files (more space is available for paid upgrades)

The latest Dropbox Android App has the following features:

Access your Dropbox on the go – All the contents of your Dropbox are available for viewing. You can even stream music and movies in your Dropbox straight to your Android device.
Make edits to your files and sync them back to Dropbox – Any changes you make to your files will sync back up to your Dropbox.
Download files for offline viewing – Add files to ‘Favorites’ and they’ll be accessible at any time.
Upload files and sync them to your Dropbox – Take a photo, shoot a video, or upload some audio from your Android phone and email its public link to a friend in less than a minute.
Share links to files in your Dropbox – You can share any files in your Dropbox.

You can download your Dropbox Android App from Android App Market.

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11 ways to conserve your HTC Desire Battery Life

kuanhoong — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 06:06:59 +0000

I said once and I will say it again, HTC Desire is a great phone. However, similar to any great smart phones out there, battery life time is one of the main problems for any users.

If you are like me, where I am totally dependent on my phone for email, social networking, web browsing, and other activities, then it would be a great dismay to find your beloved handphone could not keep up with your usage in terms of battery life time. With that, here are some of the tips that I have acquired via forums, websites and advices from friends, in which I have tested myself.

11 ways to conserve your HTC Desire Battery Life:

1. Reduce Screen Brightness:
HTC Desire has one of the best screen displays out there. With AMOLED high resolution display, it consumes most of your batterylife too. You can reduce your screen brightness via Settings > Sound & display > Brightness > Untick Automatic brightness > Reduce Brightness by sliding to left.

2. Disable Background Data syncing:
By disabling background data syncing, your phone won’t connect to servers to fetch latest data updates. To disable, go to Settings > Accounts & sync > Untick Background data.

3. Disable Auto-sync :
Settings > Accounts & sync > Untick Auto-sync

4. Disable WiFi:
By enabling WiFi, your HTC Desire will constantly looking for new WiFi signals, and this will consume battery too. To disable WiFi, go to Settings > Wireless & networks > Untick Wi-Fi.

5. Reduce Screen Timeout Interval:
Settings > Sound & display > Screen timeout. The default screen timeout is 1 minute. In order to conserve battery, you may reduce to less than 1 minute (15 seconds minimum).

6. Disable Bluetooth:
Settings > Wireless & networks > Untick Bluetooth.

7. Stop or Disable Unnecessary Running services:
Settings > Applications > Running Services > Select and stop any applications that you are not using.

8. Turn Vibrate Notification off:
No doubt setting your phone to vibrate will consume quite alot of your battery life. To disable, go to Settings > Sound & display > Untick Phone Vibrate

9. Turn Off Haptic feedback:
Haptic Feedback allows you to have your phone vibrate whenever your press soft keys. To disable, go to Settings > Sound & display > Untick Haptic feedback : Vibrate when pressing soft keys and on certain UI interactions.

10. Customise Intervals or Frequency Individual Apps Updates:
For any Apps that are set to auto update, you can customise or change the frequency or intervals for updates or simply disable background syncing altogether. Apps such as Stocks, Weather, Twitter Clients, Facebook Clients, RSS Feeds and POP Mails.

11. Use the Android Power Control Widget:
Starting with Android 1.6, you can use the Android Power Control widget which gives you the ability to quickly toggle WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, Data Syncing, and Screen Brightness.

Updates:

12. Disable Live Wallpaper:
It is nice to have moving wallpapers on the Desire, but if you think you can live without them then your phone’s battery will last longer too. To disable, go to Settings > Personalize > Home Wallpaper, and select anything other than ‘Live Wallpapers’.

There you have it. If you have any other tips, please leave your comments and share with me.

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How To Tether HTC Desire With Windows 7

kuanhoong — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 11:51:40 +0000

HTC Desire is a great phone. One of my favorite features is the Internet access via USB tethering. Starting with Android 2.1, Eclair, USB tethering is a pretty simple process.

In order to to tether or share mobile internet connection with your computer or laptop on Android 2.1 phone on Windows, all you need to do is to install the HTC Sync software which is already available inside your micro SD card. If not, you can easily download the latest version of HTC Sync from here.

Once HTC Sync software is installed, you may connect your HTC Desire via the USB port, and select “Internet Sharing” option from inside your “Wireless & Networks” setting. With that, you are ready to surf your favorite websites and be connected to the net.

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How to backup your Windows Live Mail emails

kuanhoong — Mon, 31 May 2010 11:35:12 +0000

Windows Live Mail is an application that is part of Windows Live, a collection of Microsoft tools that are available to extend the Windows operating system. If you are a Window Live Mail user, then the Windows Mail Saver is the software for you. Basically it is a backup and synchronization tool for Microsoft Windows Mail software.

In a nutshell, Windows Mail Saver software allows you to backup and restore any components of Windows Mail: email messages with attachments, Windows Address Book, mail and news accounts, custom signatures, Windows Mail settings, Internet favorites, and subscribed RSS feeds.

Download Windows Mail Saver to your computer

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How to find EXIF metadata of any online photos

kuanhoong — Mon, 31 May 2010 06:51:37 +0000

EXIF stands for Exchangeable image file format, which basically the data information that your camera stores along with your image file. EXIF data is stored by almost all cameras whether you know it or not whenever you take images in JPEG format (or TIFF).

You can easily checkout the EXIF data for your images from within your camera or simply click the right mouse button and select “Properties” from within your Windows Explorer.

Now you can even checkout any EXIF data for any online photo without even downloading the image to your PC. With the Online photo EXIF metadata reader, you can easily extract EXIF data from any jpg online image by simply just paste the URL of the image. Information such as aperture setting, ISO, camera make and many more will be displayed to you.

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View your Facebook news feed items via Yahoo! Mail

kuanhoong — Fri, 28 May 2010 15:02:21 +0000

Yahoo! is integrating most of Facebook features into Yahoo! Mail. Previously, Yahoo! Mail users can import Facebook friends email addresses into Yahoo! and also post Facebook status from Yahoo! Mail. Now it is possible to get latest Facebook news feed items from inside Yahoo! Mail.

To turn on these features, first link your Yahoo! and Facebook accounts by clicking on the “Add to Facebook” link in the status section on the What’s New page in Yahoo! Mail.

As per Yahoo! Mail Blog:

Like many of you, I am an active Facebook user and have been using many of the Facebook-related features we’ve added to Yahoo! Mail since we announced our plans to integrate Facebook more deeply across all of Yahoo! last December.

Specifically, in Yahoo! Mail we’ve enabled you to import Facebook friends email addresses into Yahoo!, made it simple to post your Facebook status from Yahoo! Mail, and more. Today I’m thrilled to announce another new integration launching to all users* that enables you to view, comment, and like your Facebook news feed items – all right from Yahoo! Mail.

Facebook activity from your friends will now appear in your Updates section, alongside your friends’ activity on Yahoo!, Twitter, Flickr and so on. Now you can get all your Updates in one place, right when you log in to Yahoo! Mail.

By default, both Yahoo! and Facebook items are intermingled, however you can have the option to filter – All Updates, only Yahoo!, only Facebook – by clicking on the tab.

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Track your location history via Google Latitude

kuanhoong — Thu, 27 May 2010 13:36:33 +0000

If you are a true believer of Google’s corporate motto – "Don’t Be Evil", then you won’t mind allowing Google tracking your location history via Google Latitude.

With Google Latitude, you can now have the option to store your past locations and visualize them on Google Maps and Earth. Besides that, you can access the Google Latitude dashboard that allows you to see interesting information, such as trips, frequently visited locations, distance traveled, and more.

To enable, simple go to Google Location History and select “Enable Location History”.

In terms of privacy, your location history will not be visible publicly or to your Latitude friends. You may delete your entire location history or portions of it whenever you like. You have the option to disable this feature, however this will not remove existing history already stored. To delete that, simply go to History management.

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