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Using AdWords to get 16 gigs of Dropbox space for free works perfectly!
If you’ve got Drobox, then you know that you can get 500 MB of free space by referring friends; up to 16 GB. The problem is that all your friends probably already know about Dropbox. So what can you do? Reach out to strangers via Google AdWords.
Using AdWords to get free Dropbox space has been around for a while, but I never tried it until now and it works perfectly! Check out Lifehacker for a step by step guide. It’s a bit out of date, but still works well.
I’ve removed Facebook and Twitter from my phone.
In my quest to make my Android perform better I decided to try uninstalling both the official Facebook and Twitter apps from my phone.
My Droid Incredible only has 412 MBs of memory with about 80 free MBs. I really don’t understand where it’s all going. Most of it goes to the system, I think, and when I open up the task manager, Facebook is often using up more than 40 MBs and that just wasn’t worth it.
Do people like Instragram for the photos or for the social network?
Instagram is one of those applications that has made it big but it kind of makes you wonder why. All it does is take a picture, put a filter on it and share it. It’s not a camera, it’s not a photo editor, all it does is put filters on photos. But it’s worth a billion dollars!
The more I think about it, the more I don’t quite get it. First off, it’s not even a full size picture, it’s cropped to be square. Then you put a filter on that screws with the color or the quality. What you’re left with is something that’s kind of cool and I’m not sure why.
Get more DropBox space AND be better prepared for a disaster.
Who loves DropBox and who wants more free space? Well everyone that uses DropBox of course.
And who has cataloged the contents of their house for insurances purposes? Probably not many.
Turns out, that you can do both right now.
DropBox is beta testing a new version of their Android app that auto syncs photos and videos you take to DropBox. For every 500MB of photos and videos automatically uploaded, you’ll receive another 500MB space, up to 5GB total. So all you need to do is install the beta app and start uploading.
Waze, social GPS, turns 3 on Android and grows up beautifully.
I’ve been testing out a lot of GPS apps over the past few months and Waze is the front-runner. Not only is it feature packed, but just yesterday it turned 3 on Android and the interface went from ok to great.
There are a lot of things I like about Waze but the biggest two are that it’s free and that it’s social.
The social integration part is what makes Waze stand out amongst others. This means that other Waze users can report traffic levels, accidents or even cops so that the rest of us know what’s going on in our area.
How to customize your MIUI ringtone.
I’m really liking MIUI on my Android, but I had a hard time setting my default ringtone. Seems that you need to set it in your theme’s settings, not your systems settings.
Go to your themes app, edit theme, select ringtone and save.
Seems a bit backwards to me, but it works!
Flashed Miui onto my Droid Incredible
I’m not a huge Android fan but I do have an Android phone that I want to love. I’m a Google fan, but the phone has not been as good as I thought it should be.
I think the real issue with Android is the fact that carriers modify it. Once Google releases an update it first has to go through HTC and then Verizon. They modify functionality, add apps you can’t remove, and cause problems.
So I’ve decided to take matters into my own hands and I flashed on a new ROM; aka installed a different version of the Android operating system.
Rooting and Un-Rooting my Droid Incredible.
Rooting my Droid Incredible was one of those geeky things I really wanted to do. I didn’t have a good reason, I just thought it’d be cool. So I did it; then I tried to un-do it.
Rooting my phone was really easy thanks to the unrevoked3 recovery reflash tool. All I had to do was plug my phone into my computer, start the app and it did the rest.
Then I had the wonderful world of root….. but didn’t know what to do with it.
Playing with my phone’s camera filters.
I’m a fan of Camera360 on Android but I hadn’t played with to many filters until tonight. Turns out, I can take some pretty cool photos without any editing.
Easily increase your HTC Droid Incredible battery life
My wife and I have HTC Droid Incredibles and the battery life is far from great. With nearly nothing on my wife’s phone, it wouldn’t last an entire day. Even with minimal use.
After a lot of searching and testing, it turns out that the Facebook for HTC Sense app is the main problem. It’s constantly syncing with Facebooks servers and the phone never gets the chance to sleep.
Sadly, you can not un-install it without rooting your phone and you can’t even stop it from running! However by removing all your accounts from the app, you’ll give it nothing to do. And when it has nothing to do, your battery life will increase quite a bit.
