Monday, 31 October 2011
Sunday, 30 October 2011
Galaxy S2 Top 10 Tips ‘n’ Tricks!
How can you make the best of your Galaxy S2 or your android phone you say? Read on to find out!!!
1. Quick calls and texts: Once you have a contact in front of you on the screen, swipe the name left or right to make calls and texts!
2. Screenshots: Hold the home button and then hit the power button, the screenshot will then be saved to the gallery.
3. Quick brightness adjust: If you aren’t using the autobrightness feature then hit the notification bar and hold for a second, then swipe left or right to change the screen brightness. This is one of my favourite shortcuts!
4. Browser Text Wrap: As standard the browser on the S2 doesn’t automatically adjust the ‘fit’ of the text on a webpage if you zoom in. However if you go to settings and check the auto fit pages box then it will. which is good :-)
5. Task Killer and Juice defender: Android already comes with a stock task killer but I also suggest downloading juice defender from the marketplace to squeeze every last drop of power out your battery.
6. Browser tab switching: If you wanna switch web page tabs then simply ‘pinch’ the screen and you will be taken to a screen where you can swipe between all your open webpages.
7. Home screen/App draw slider: swipe your finger over the dots at the bottom of the screen to change screens quickly
8. Test Mode: On the dialer press *#0*# to bring up a menu where you test lots of different things.
9. Video lock: Press the power button while a video is playing to lock the screen, no accidental pushes or changes of orientation will disturb you now!
10. TV remote control: If you have a samsung tv that is wifi enabled, you can use the S2 as a remote! How cool is that?! All that is needed is an app from the Samsung App Store
Sunday, 16 October 2011
Monday, 3 October 2011
Eurogamer Expo 2011
Hi all! So my latest little trip out was to the Eurogamer Expo at Earls Court in London!!!
Samsung happen to be a sponsor and they had an amazing stand for everyone to take a look at!
While I was there I got to take a look at all the latest games such as Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3, Battlefield 3, Skyrim, Final Fantasy 13-2 and had a go at tekken and some crazy dancing game for the kinect too!
There was a really good atmosphere and everyone had a brilliant time. Did I mention people won prizes too? Like a Galaxy Tab 10.1 and a Galaxy S2
This guy must love Samsung, he had two phones….A Galaxy S and a Galaxy S2! Lucky!!!
Not quite sure who won this dance off!
Also one of the samsung guys was nice enough to show us ‘Smart View’ which is available on the 10.1 tab! Take a look!
My Top 5 Videos, Movies and Shows!
Ok so all of you know that I own a Galaxy S2 and the 10.1 tab…this allows me to watch a lot of video content when I’m out and about so I thought I would share my top 5!
#5th Place….
Well joint 5th really…
This video has had me in stitches lately…
YOU LOPPED MY HEAD OFF!
Yes…I do have a strange sense of humour 
#4th place….
I’m a fan of animal vids…don’t judge me! hehe
#3rd place….
I do love this show…totally worth watching if you’re into hospital kind of programmes and such!
#2nd place….
I might be a bit in love with JB lol
I like to watch the F1 on my mobile devices when I’m out and about…the video above is one of my favourite moments when Jenson Button won the monaco grand prix but parked in the wrong space and ended up running around the track to the podium!
#1st place!
One of my favourite movies ever
Watching this film just makes me want to go to Japan!!!
Tuesday, 13 September 2011
S is for Sports with the Galaxy S2
S0 hiya everyone, as you all know I’m the owner of a Galaxy S2….what you don’t know is that it's not only great for business and socialising it’s also great for keeping up with your latest sports too!
Firstly a nice app that I've found on the Android market is one that measures your heart rate…it’s very clever how it works which I'll explain in a moment!
Here is the home screen of the app, from start up it instructs you to cover the camera lens with your finger (it also helps to hold your finger and phone towards a light source when doing this) it then detects the minor changes in light passing through your finger as blood pulses through it. How clever?! This app is ace if your doing exercise and cant afford a dedicated heart rate monitor. It also allows you to save each measurement that you take and also share it with your social networks if you like. Hence you can keep track of your heart rate and your fitness level with it!
The next app that I’ve found is very relevant to my sport! I practice fencing as a hobby and as anyone can tell you when swords are flying everywhere and you’re refereeing a match often it is easy to lose track of how many hits each fencer has landed. This where the fencing scorekeeper comes in!
On this screen you can see that it incorporates a stopwatch and also a touch counter (which is highly useful!)
You can also set how long the match is going to be (i.e how many ‘touches’)
If anyone is a bit naughty then there is also a facility to issue cards to each fencer, with points being added automatically when a card is shown.
Finally the app shows when the pre-set number of touches has been reached and shows this screen which displays the score and which fencer won very clearly.
But of course the fun doesn’t stop there, with a touch of a button the app is ready to record the scores for the next fight!
Samsung Mobile Challenge 2011
So guys and gals! Fancy winning USD$65000? Well follow these instructions very carefully!
If you have a galaxy s2 you are eligible to play in the Samsung Mobile Challenge, all you have to do is complete two laps on the game Asphalt 6 and post a high score at the end. There are 27 countries participating in the event. Did I mention the top two from each country get the chance to go to a final event in Busan, South Korea and maybe win USD$65000? Here’s how to get a slice of the action:
1. Hit up the Samsung App store and search for Asphalt 6!
2. Download and install Asphalt 6 then open it up, you’ll see the tab ‘WCG 2011’ ….hit that one!!
3. Admire the Samsung sports car and select race!
4. Complete two laps and then submit your high score by entering a username, country and phone number!
5. Finally admire yourself on the leaderboard! As you can see here…I'm currently 1st place in the UK! However the preliminary qualifying event is until 25th September and I'm challenging you to do better! :D
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