Showing posts with label Android. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Android. Show all posts
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Monday, August 15, 2011
How to Install Android OS on your PC | Latest Tricks
Mobile phones under the android platform always deserve a best place in market. So if you got messed with android OS and want to try it in your netbook or laptop here is the procedure to experiment it. You can install in your memory cards or flash drives to test android OS on your system.
Download android from Android-x86 and copy it in your flash drive or memory card. Scroll down and download it from the stable release section of the site. This will download an ISO file from the website. Also Make sure your memory device having memory more than 256MBand make your memory drive clean before copying android into it.
How to Use Android on PC ?
You also need UNetbootin (Universal Netboot Installer) to run android on your system. So download it from UNetbootin site. It is available for all the leading operating systems. So choose your OS to download UNetbootin from the site.
Now I have downloaded UNetbootin for my windows platform. All you need to do is insert your drive which you going to install your android OS. UNetbootin extracts the ISO file of android OS which you downloaded and install it in the target disk. The first step of your installation is shown in the screen shot below.
After selecting the target disk, android will start extracting from ISO file and installed in your disk. Now your flash drive will get installed with android OS. This may take few minutes depending on the speed of your flash drive.
Once you get done with the process you will asked to reboot your system. If you wish you can reboot system immediately or else you just exit and run android when you want. Now your system is ready to run android OS. All you need to do is reboot your system with the flash drive. Change the boot setup to boot from removable disk.
In default it will be available to boot from your hard drive. So press F2 on reboot of your system. Go to Boot menu in the BIOS setup and change the boot setup to boot from removable disc. Then press F10 to save your changes and exit from BIOS setup. Now your system will restart and boot from your removable disc. This will bring a menu infront of you with the following options.
Select Live CD- Run Android-x86 without installation. Then your android OS will start booting and you need to wait for few minutes until it gets loaded. After a couple of minutes you will straightly get into your personal desktop. The default applications will be available on the home screen and for more applications go to menu and select the applications you need.
How to Use Android as PC
By default android give access to webcam and Wi-Fi. So that after entering into the menu you can install the apps you need. You can carry your memory card or flash drive to anywhere and use your own android OS. But your apps installed will be gone when you reboot your system or when you put your removable device in another system. This provides a better interface for the persons who are all using the public systems.
Follow these steps, try installing android in your system. share your comments and doubts in the comment box below.
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Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Control your Android Phone just by Speaking using Voice Actions!
Google recently introduced Voice Actions for Android where you can control your Android phone just by speaking using Voice Actions.
Some commands to perform a Voice Action on your android phone:
- send text to [contact] [message]
- listen to [artist/song/album]
- call [business]
- call [contact]
- send email to [contact] [message]
- go to [website]
- note to self [note]
- navigate to [location/business name]
- directions to [location/business name]
- map of [location]
[via]Visit here for more commands and detail.
6 Must Have Android Apps for Internet Marketers
The Android operating system is a major competitor in the mobile OS industry, which is pretty amazing if you consider the fact that it’s been only a year since it was first released to the public. It has managed to grow at a phenomenal rate, all thanks to its big base of developers and fans of the open source and free software model.
It also helped a lot that it was owned by Google and is very tightly integrated with their services, which makes it a great choice for anyone who uses them. Of course, Internet marketers are the best example, as they use Google’s tools almost on a daily basis. This is the main reason why a lot of developers and marketers are choosing an Android phone, the other reason being the amount of great apps that are available for this OS. Here are only some of the best:
Paypal
Paypal is the number one payment system used by over 200 million users worldwide. Of course, a lot of marketers, online entrepreneurs and freelancers get their payments using this service, which is actually much more convenient than any other alternatives. Paypal have basically revolutionized the way people pay online, and now they have an app for Android, too. With it, you can easily send and receive payments and see any invoices and other information from your Paypal account using a secure connection.SEO Stats
Every webmaster and Internet marketer needs to know what exactly is going in with his site and landing pages. SEO Stats gives you access to a lot of statistics from Google Analytics and other services, so you can see the general state of a page with a single tap.AndFTP
An FTP client is a must for anyone who has a site, and if you’re constantly on the go, you’ll be glad to have one in your pocket. AndFTP is the best client for Android, and it has all the necessary functionality to let you simply download and upload any files you need to and from your server. You can also use it to sync data between your server, phone and desktop computer, which is pretty cool if you think about it.Gmail
Gmail comes installed by default on most Android phones (not all of them, though), and it’s a marvelous app for reading and sending emails from your Gmail account. The view is automatically resized and configured depending on how you hold your phone, and you can easily see and read all the new emails you receive. Writing and sending them is also easy, plus you can attach large files without any problems.Droid Analytics
Droid Analytics is the best Google Analytics client for Android. It lets you see all the statistics that this powerful tracking platform can provide, using a very intuitive and uncluttered interface. If you like to analyze statistics and your site’s traffic data, you’ll find this little app a must have.Twitter for Android
Twitter is a great micro blogging platform, and it has practically created a new market and a new way to deliver news and products to the users for advertisers. If you’re not using Twitter to manage your brand and market your products, you’re losing quite a lot of money. Having a Twitter account is a must nowadays, and because you’re supposed to send tweets ever hour or so, a Twitter client for your phone is also a very necessary thing. The official Twitter app for Android is great for the task, and you can send tweets, attach videos and pictures, read and reply to other’s messages and do anything else you can do on Twitter.There are a lot of other great apps for Android that marketers can use. If you tried and liked the above ones, you should definitely do a search for other similar apps on the marketplace – I’m sure you’ll find a lot of useful ones.
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