Share your location with the world, oh you can shout out too

Posted by droid on June 16, 2009

  • Open Google Latitude in the Maps app.
  • Find and add friends to Latitude using your address book.
  • Enable location badge here.
  • ThenĀ  edit your google profile here. Check “Display my Latitude location”.
  • You can shout out by clicking on the updates tab in Latitude.
  • Visit google.com/profiles to see you location. Anyone in the world can now see where you are too.

Experience Android screen transitions

Posted by droid on June 14, 2009

Enable: Settings > Sound and Display > Display settings > Animation
This is disabled by default.

Copy text in the Android Browser 1

Posted by droid on June 12, 2009

Menu > Select text option.
Click and scroll to select the text you want to copy.

There’s another way too.
Hold down the Shift key and use the trackball to select text on page.
Click the trackball again to copy the text.

To paste the copied text, hold down the cursor in a text area and you will see the paste option.

Don’t miss calls because your are in a dead zone 1

Posted by droid on June 11, 2009

Use No Signal Alert to get alerted if theres no signal on your phone. You can set custom colors on the LED too.

Use barcode scanner from your android web browser 2

Posted by droid on June 10, 2009

Go to http://products.google.com.

It will get you to install Barcode scanner and let you use it to scan for products and search for them.

Insert words automatically while you type 3

Posted by droid on June 09, 2009

Enable: Settings > Locale and Text > Android Keyboard > Autocomplete
Spacebar inserts highlighted word.