Showing posts with label Controls. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Controls. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
LEDBLinker Provides In-Depth Controls Over Your Phone's Notifications
Android: One of the neatest features of Android is the ability to customize notifications to a high degree. LEDBlinker gives you even more power.The app allows you to customize the color and blink rate of your notification LED on a per-app basis and even get notified if your battery reaches less than 10% or when it gets fully charged. Unlike many other apps of its kind, this one does not require root. It does have a few bugs, however, so be sure to test thoroughly as you set it up.How to Customize LED Alerts for Specific Notifications on Your Samsung Galaxy Note 2 (No Root Required) | WonderHowTo
Sunday, August 18, 2013
Android Lost Controls Your Stolen Phone, Even After You've Lost It
Android: Most phone recovery apps require you install the app before you lose the phone or it gets stolen. Android Lost, however, can be remotely installed and it comes with a slew of useful features beyond just locating your phone.Android Lost is similar to previously mentioned Plan B, but Plan B only works for Android 2.0 to 2.3 and is dedicated to simply locating your missing phone. Android Lost, as the video above shows, not only locates by GPS (or network), but can also remotely wipe or lock your phone, take pictures, send message popups, get call lists, erase the SD card, record sound from the microphone, start an alarm, and much more—making it a great security app.You can install the app from the Google Play site, and then send an SMS to register your device with the Android Lost website where you control the phone. If you have tablet without SMS, you can still remotely register the phone with the Jumpstart app.Aviel Livay's story of how he used Android Lost to track his daughter's stolen phone showcases some of the best uses of the app and how useful it can be.You can also use the app for non-recovery purposes—to disable the lockcode if you've forgotten it, for example, or remotely control your Android device from afar.Pick up the free app at the Google Play store.Android Lost | Google Play
Thursday, June 20, 2013
SoundControl Offers One-Click Pandora Controls and Lots of Features
Chrome: Pandora is a great way to get through the workday, but finding its tab to pause or skip songs is a pain. SoundControl cures this ill by putting adding a handy mini player to Chrome that you can access from anywhere. Just tap on the extension's icon to open up a pinned Pandora tab. Once music is playing, you can pause or restart it at any time by just clicking the extension's icon. Double tapping the icon brings up a mini player where you can adjust volume, view album art, assign thumbs up or thumbs down, and skip to the next song. If you sign in with your Pandora account, you can also view and switch between your custom stations.SoundControl is pretty similar to previously-mentioned Anesidora, but since it still requires a Pandora tab to be open, it's not as likely to get shut down and booted to the land of unofficial Chrome extensions. It also offers a few great features that Anesidora can't match. For example, pausing and playing a song with SoundControl doesn't require opening up the entire mini player, and the extension includes a live updating playhead that runs along the bottom of the app icon. It's a kind of hard to see, but it's a good indicator of how close you are to the end of the song without having to click anything.If you want to give SoundControl a try, it's available for free from the Chrome Web Store.SoundControl (Free) | Chrome Web Store via AddictiveTips
Chrome only: If you dug the Chrome-based Pandora extension recently featured here, you might have noticed it was recently yanked from the official… Read…
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