Cool tips n tricks related to smartphones, tablets and computer

If you’re one of those socialites who love to share virtually every passing moment of their lives on various social network services, you’ll probably love the concept of Memolane. This highly interactive web app presents you with a unified timeline of all your online activities fetched from various social media networks. Not just that; it also lets you sneak peek into the online activities of various worldwide users via the same timeline preview. Developed by Memolane, MemoShake is a simple, yet fully enjoyable android app for die-hard, nostalgic Facebook fanatics. As the app’s name suggests, it helps you shake your memory to recall a random moment (post or photo) of your life that you ever shared on the biggest social network service of them all. Details to follow.

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There’s a new bit of Samsung / Intel software in the house called Tizen made for the mobile market, and this week we’re hearing that HTC is one of several hot off the blocks to release a smartphone with the system embedded. This news comes after Samsung showed off a very early version of some hardware running the first Tizen for a developer conference that took place the same week as this spring’s CTIA 2012. With both Samsung and HTC on lock for a device with this software onboard, we’re looking for what’ll very possibly be a large release – relatively speaking, of course.

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While the bring-your-own-device phenomenon in IT presents a fair amount of risk to enterprise security, most companies are warming up to the idea anyway. A Cisco-sponsored survey of 600 IT and business leaders found that 95 percent of their companies allow employee-owned devices on the corporate network.

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google music has a 10 device authorization limit, so if you review phones or flash a lot of ROMs you need to keep on top of all the devices filling up the list. Previously there was no limit on what you could deauthorize, but xda-developers forum posters are now saying that google has placed restrictions on what you can deauthorize from your music account. Needless to say, users aren’t happy with the change.

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If you want to share your iphone’s IP address or other device information with someone, you have to navigate to the depths of the stock Settings app, memorize the info (as it can’t be copied) and then write it down in the Notes app or somewhere similar; a fairly unintuitive way of doing things. Not many people are huge fans of the way text editing is done in iOS, but you have to admit that the text action menu it offers is quite a feature. This menu can be enhanced even further if you have access to the Cydia store. There are many tweaks available in the jailbreak store that focus entirely on letting users add more text editing options to the action menu for greater convenience. New to the Cydia store, Informator is a simple, free tweak that adds a new button to the action menu, using which you can add any device information (IP address, device ID, UDID, device name, etc.) to text in a couple of taps.

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If your iphone, iPad, or iPod Touch is running iOS 5 or higher, you can now receive software updates over the air. What this means, to you, is that you’ll no longer have to tether to a computer to download and install the update. Instead, you’ll be alerted on your device of an available update. You can then can download and install it while on the go. Here’s how it works.

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Having the official Dropbox app on your android device makes it extremely easy to access files on the go. You can even download files to your device. But what about the times you need the contents of an entire folder? With the official Dropbox app, you’d have to download each file one by one.

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When Samsung unveiled the Galaxy S III last week, one piece of the announcement was that Flipboard for android would be exclusive to the device for a little bit after launch. But, thanks to an XDA Developer Forum member, the APK is out and available for download right now.

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Everybody wants to tell the cable or satellite TV company what to do with that three-figure monthly bill that pays for a lot of stuff you don’t even want, right?

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The HTC One X gets CyanogenMod 9 ROM! One of the best android phones out there right now, the device just got one of the best ROMs a android phone could ask for. The Quad Core powered One X, is ready to take on the AOSP world of ICS ROMs thanks to the efforts of the TripNDroid Mobile Engineering Team over at Modaco. As in the case of almost every other CM9 ROM available for various android handsets out there, this release for the One X is an experimental build as well. However, the ROM is pretty much good to go as a daily driver given the stuff that is already working fine. For further details about what’s working and what is not, and for instructions on how to install this ROM on your One X, read on after the break!

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