The Gallery on your Android device is organized by albums. Working with those albums is something you can’t usually do by using the Gallery app, but it is something you can do when you follow the sneaky directions I’ve included in this post.
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Consider yourself fortunate if your phone or tablet has the ability to accept removable storage, usually in the form of a MicroSD card. Consider yourself even more fortunate if the manufacturer sought to include a MicroSD card with the device. Otherwise, you face the ordeal of having to find one yourself and install it.
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I’ve received several emails from frustrated phone and tablet users over the past few weeks. Their favorite websites don’t come up on the mobile browser. The common denominator for all of those sites is Flash.
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Now that phones and tablets are becoming more and more central to your digital life, it’s important to know a few tricks regarding troubleshooting. Believe me, as phones and tablets are electronic gizmos, you will have trouble worthy of shooting. It’s good to know a few simple tricks.
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Unlike a Windows PC, your Android tablet doesn’t come with a slew of kid-safe, family-friendly options. While you can create multiple accounts on a Jelly Bean mobile device, you still can’t restrict junior’s access to web sites, certain apps, or prevent him from buying thousands of dollars worth of apps. That is, unless you get a kid-safe mobile app.
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Quite a few Android phones now feature NFC, or Near Field Communications. That technology is employed as a feature called Android Beam. It’s über handy. Well, for most things it’s über handy.
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Recently, disaster befell my Galaxy Note II phone. The MicroSD card died. I’d never had that happen before, but the 16GB card was kaput. Along with that misfortune was the loss of every picture on the MicroSD card — including the final shots of my son leaving for college. Gone.
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Mobile devices are not computers. They’re dissemination gizmos, designed to use data but not necessarily create it. That’s a pretty fat line, however, and it gets crossed frequently as people try to stay current and mobile at the same time.
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