Turn the speakerphone on/off automatically 3

Posted by droid on February 26, 2010

When on a call, the app UpSoundDown allows you to easily switch your phone to speakerphone mode by turning your phone upside down or by laying it down.

Detailed screenshots.

Set your background image in style 1

Posted by droid on February 23, 2010

  • Download Floating Image.
  • Open and slide to browse your images and interesting photos from Flickr.
  • Select an image and long press it to set it as your background image.
  • Select the Fullscreen option from the menu to see a larger images when selected.

Backup that final missing piece of information to Gmail 1

Posted by droid on February 19, 2010

If you format your phone, its now easier than ever to get back to normalcy:

  • All installed applications are stored in Market > Downloads
  • All your email and contacts are in your Gmail
  • Todo’s are in your Google Tasks
  • Your RSS and Google Listen podcast feeds are in Google reader.
  • Whats missing? SMS!

Back up your sms to your Gmail using “SMS Backup

All your friends still on AIM? GTalk not cutting it for you? 2

Posted by droid on February 11, 2010

AIM client from AOL should work nicely for you.
It integrates with Facebook chat and can update your Twitter/Facebook status too.

Take a web page on your computer “to go” 3

Posted by droid on February 06, 2010

The below bookmarklet converts the URL you are on to a QR code.

  • Drag the below link to your bookmarks bar.
  • Click the bookmarklet on any page.
  • Scan the image in your android device and you can take the url “to go”.

Drag this link to your bookmarks: QRcode To Go

Publish the track you run on and race against yourself 2

Posted by droid on February 04, 2010

Softrace lets you race against your opponents. Its among the Android developer challenge winners. Softrace website.

Sportypal lets you measure yourself and has an accompanying website to share your tracks.

If all you want is to track your jog, Google’s My Tracks works nicely. MyTracks website.