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Today Google just released a new update for the built-in navigation app for Android phones and tablets, and it helps you avoid traffic jams. The Navigation app does this by implementing real-time and historical traffic data then adjusting your directions to give you the fastest route possible. Along with traffic avoidance, Google Navigation [...]
Are you wondering what version of Android is running your phone? Eclair? Froyo? Gingerbread? Well if you just got a phone and your curious what you’ve got, you’ve come to the right place. Just follow the simple steps below to this quickTip groovyPost! The screenshots in this article were taken using a Samsung Galaxy, [...]
At present you can take screenshots on your Android device by using the Android SDK, or you can use an app from the Android Market. The only catch is that with all existing versions of Android, the screenshot apps require that you have rooted your phones; something not everyone is comfortable doing. But, with the [...]
If you’ve set up 2-step login verification for your Google Account, then you’ll also need to set up application-specific-passwords. The process is quick and simple, but it might be confusing if you are new to this type of security. Below we’ll explain a little about uniquely generated 1-time use Google Account passwords, and then show [...]
It has been a long wait for Sprint customers who have been expectant of the update since last September. For most, they were assured that the phone’s Android update would be rolling out within the only a month or two; which seemed entirely plausible considering HTC’s Evo 4G was already running version 2.2 of Android [...]
Last week, Google posted a blog entitled 5 tips for using Blogger on your Android phone in order to promote the new Blogger app for android. As an iPhone user, this made me somewhat jealous. So, I set out looking for an equivalent Blogger app for the iPhone. Unfortunately, there is currently no official solution—there’s [...]
Check this out. Our favorite groovy web-conference/remote assistance/screen sharing web-based service—join.me—now has a mobile viewer (now that was a mouth full). This month, join.me rolled out the iOS mobile viewer. The join.me iOS app lets you view shared Windows or OS X screens from your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch (iOS 3.2 and up). The [...]
Looking for a Google Maps alternative? MapQuest for Android is now available as of this morning and it packs quite a few features, including voice-guided turn-by-turn navigation. The Android app comes completely free and is available in the Android market, so setup is easy – just make sure you have built-in GPS on your phone! [...]
If you’ve synced up your Android phone to your Google Account, it probably added every address you’ve ever emailed to your Contact list. This results in a hugely overstuffed and bloated Contact book. But, if you have Android version 2.1 or higher, we can fix this quite easily and trim some weight off of that [...]
Another week, another set of groovy tech tutorials and news! We’ve talked about a lot, and below we’ll look at the “best of” our entire week. As usual, we’ve also included some techy tidbits of information that we didn’t get to talk about. Who Can You Trust? Facebook vs. Flickr vs. Picasa vs. Windows [...]
Well, well, well, looks like we can add one more thing to the top 100 list of things Google Goggles can do that I can’t. Right between “recognize fine wine” and “translate Spanish,” shimmy in a new entry for “Solve Sudoku puzzles.” Instantly. In the latest update to the Google mobile app for iPhone and [...]
I was talking earlier about the fact that Nokia might be considering making Android phones a while ago, and it would seem that Stephen Elop, Nokia CEO (and man who seems quite reasonable) is seriously thinking about it. At least that’s what one could interpret from a recent internal memo from Stephen. The memo was [...]
At the tail end of 2010, Google began shipping out its Google Notebooks running Chrome OS. In order to allow these cloud-centric Chromium-based laptops to print, Google had to implement Google Cloud Print for Google Docs. Fortunately, this feature is available to everyone—not just Chrome OS users. Anyone with a phone that supports HTML 5 [...]
It’s finally official: Sony Ericsson is set to release what many people call the PlayStation phone, the Xperia Play, on February 13, according to the Sony Ericsson official Facebook page. The event will probably take place at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, considering the date, and this is one device that should make quite [...]
