If you haven’t yet switched to Google Chrome as your web browser, do so at once! Of all the web browsers, it’s certainly one of the fastest, if not the fastest. Further, you can use Chrome on your desktop, laptop, phone, and tablet and have all your bookmarks, passwords, even web history synchronized. That’s a really handy feature.
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I’ll be blunt: A tablet makes an awkward camera. I mean, I just feel dorky when I hold up a huge-ass tablet to take a picture or shoot a video. I’m not as uncomfortable using a phone for that task, but tablets? Too big!
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Here’s a useful and totally insane idea: Use your home or office printers from anywhere from any device. It’s so easy to set up, even a goldfish could do it.
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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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