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Three New Gmail Shortcuts You’ll Want to Memorize
If you’re a keyboard shortcut lover using Gmail’s new Priority Inbox feature or the awesome new Gmail calling feature, you’ve got three new shortcuts you’ll want to add to your Gmail repertoire.
Note: In order to use keyboard shortcuts in Gmail at all, remember that you’ll need to enable them by heading to your Gmail Settings and turning keyboard shortcuts on in the General settings tab.
Change Message Priority with ‘+’ (plus) or ‘-‘ (minus)
Google’s new Priority Inbox learns what messages are important to you and tries to bring the most important to the top. If it gets it wrong, you can mark any message as important or unimportant by selecting it and clicking the new plus or minus buttons in the toolbar.
Exclusive: First Official Pictures T-Mobile G2
We did it again, same as we were the first ones of obtaining the official pictures of the Samsung Vibrant, now we give you the first official pictures of the T-Mobile G2. As you know the T-Mobile G2 is going to be the first HSPA+ phone running speeds up to 11mbps. We believe the G2 will only come in one color.. silver, a completely different way when T-MO launched the Slide 3G or G1.
The T-Mobile G2 will feature:
- Android OS w/ HTC Sense
- 3.7″ Active Matrix OLED display
- 1 GHz Snapdragon Processor
WiFi File Explorer Manages Your Android SD Card from a Web Browser
Android only: Missing your USB cord, or just too lazy to grab it? WiFi File Explorer turns your Android SD card into a small web server, so you can transfer files, stream media, and otherwise control your content across a Wi-Fi network.
Change Your Windows 7 Logon Box
Windows only: We’ve seen utilities to change up the background picture on Windows 7’s logon screen, and insert Picasa and Flickr pics, but one deviantArt user provides a file swap that changes the logon box itself, back to an early-stage “Longhorn” appearance.
To swap out Windows 7’s small, square logon box for the more rectangular and glass-framed look it had back in the early days of Microsoft’s Longhorn drafts for Vista. CyberNet News explains how to make the swap, using a DLL file picked up from a crafty deviantArt tweaker:
Set Bing Backgrounds as Automatically Updated Wallpaper
Even if you don’t love Bing’s search, you probably appreciate its home page backgrounds. Now you can set those Bing images as your desktop wallpaper through an official theme, and keep it updated automatically through an RSS feed.
Windows 7 users need only to download the theme package from Microsoft’s offering page and double-click it to set up a “Bing Dynamic” theme. By default, the wallpapers rotate every minute or so, so you’ll want to head into the settings to slow things down a bit (click the “Desktop Background” link at bottom). You’ll get three months of Bing wallpapers through the feed, automatically updated each week. Each image has a Bing watermark, but it’s not too ostentatious.
Create a TOR Button in Chrome for On-Demand Anonymous Browsing
The TOR Project provides free, distributed worldwide proxies for anonymous browsing and private downloading. TOR comes with a built-in Firefox add-on, but Chrome users can get a handy on/off button for TOR with this setup, explained by commenter brssnkl.
• Step 1: Install TOR (Note: The “Installation Bundle” packages for Windows and Mac are the preferred downloads).
• Step 2: Install Proxy Switchy! in your Chrome browser.
• Step 3: Change the profile name with “Tor” (or which name you want but remember it). Make the http proxy “127.0.0.1” and the port “8118”. then check the box “Use the same proxy server for all protocols”. Hit “Save” at the bottom. The full set-up is pictured here:
How to Turn Your Android Phone into a Fully-Automated Superphone
What if your phone automatically went silent when you step into the movie theater? Texted your significant other when you finished your long commute? Or automatically turned down the volume when a particularly loud friend called? It can; here’s how.
Android application Tasker gives you total rules-based automation for your Android phone. It’s not free, but it offers a free 14-day trial download. In the Android Market, it’s £3.99 in UK money—a little over $6 U.S. If you grab the trial, or shell out the cost of a Double-Double meal at In-N-Out Burger to buy it in the Market (scan the QR code at left), you’ll discover it’s worth the cost, even if you only have one super-specific use for it.
How to Choose the Right Android ROM For You
There are tons of great reasons to root your Android phone, but once you do, you’ll likely be overwhelmed with all the custom ROM options out there. Here’s how to go about finding—and installing—the one that fits your needs.
What’s a ROM?
One of the best things about the openness of the Android platform is that if you’re unhappy with the stock OS, you can install one of many modified versions of Android (called ROMs) on your device. The downside is that there are so many developers and different Android devices out there that the custom ROM scene can be very difficult to navigate. We’re here to help the whole process seem a bit more manageable.
Stop The Presses, iPhone Coming To T-Mobile In Q3?
Cult of Mac, certainly a trusty and prominent Mac related website is reporting that T-Mobile is in the “advanced stage” of talks with Apple to bring the iPhone to T-Mobile. This “highly placed source” pegs the chances of a T-Mobile iPhone at “80 percent likely that the iPhone will be coming to T-Mobile in Q3.” Those are some damn nice odds in the favor of T-Mobile. Of course this, like any iPhone rumor is to be taken only with the strictest grains of salt.
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