Wallpapers are the strangest things. Chances are they're one of the things you see most on a device, especially on a smartphone. Oddly enough, your wallpaper is probably one of the least utilized and most boring aspects of your otherwise tricked out Android device - perhaps a boring black affair, or if you're really adventurous you'll be using the same boring image your friend sent you you last year that seemed mildly amusing at the time. Thanks to Wallpaper Changer, your Android's home screen need never get boring again.
Google revealed in an incredibly well-explained and sugar-coated blog post that the company had detected a phishing scam which attempted to obtain the passwords of U.S. Officials and Chinese activists.
According to Lookout, an Android anti-malware maker, there's a new threat in the wild that is said to have affected between 30,000 and 120,000 headsets already.
If you're an avid Android user, you've probably heard of the vast collection of emulators that are available for the platform: Apps that simulate other platforms, such as Game Boy Advances or Nintendo N64's. If you use or planned to get those Apps, you might be sad to hear that they're gone from the Android Market.
Google Wallet is Google's new service that promises to let your ditch your wallet, physical money and cards for an App on your smartphone. How does it work? Read on.
Google Chrome's Canary builds are experimental snapshots of what Google is working on for future stable versions of Chrome, and unlike the developer or beta versions, Canary can be used alongside the stable version, making it a safer choice for those who want to try the latest and greatest but still value stability most of the time.
Nowadays porting Android 3.x Honeycomb on different tablets is perhaps the hottest trend. This all started when Honeycomb made a hacked appearance on Barnes and Nobles Nook Color, and since then there is no stopping of this Honeycomb awesomeness being embraced by different tablets. Of course it took lots of hackery and some outstanding coding skills to make this happen and all credit for this goes to Android developers at different portals, forums and blogs. Most of these Honeycomb ports for different Android tablets have been consistently coming from XDA, and Toshiba Folio 100 isn’t an exception.
In case you opted for Google Nexus S 4G on Sprint and were looking for root, then your wait is now over. For those who don’t know, Google Nexus S 4G is WiMax version of original Nexus S for Sprint customers and has, more or less, identical features and specifications. The credit for this guide goes to kpkimmel, Senior XDA developer and Android hacker, who claims this as a safe method and you can’t miss it if you follow rooting instructions to detail.
Taking screenshots on Android phones and tablets has always been a pretty jumbled up issue. I do remember the time when taking a screenshot on my HTC Wildfire was actually real-time tinkering and hacking with my Wi-Fi network etc. However as development for Android gathers pace every day, there is now an app available that not only takes screenshots on your phone / tablet but also allows saving images in PNG or JPEG formats. The app under discussion is Screenshot ER for Android and according to its developer, ftgg99 from XDA, “ER is for emergency room, because it works where nothing else does”.
Google's Chrome browser is probably the most streamlined and minimalistic of all major web browsers out there. Now Google is stripping out the address bar as we know it, and only displaying when it's really necessary, at least if this obscure feature in the latest Canary build is brought down to the stable channel.
