Android: How to clear browser cache

There are many problems you can encounter on your Android phone when your browser cache gets full. Sometimes your App might slow down and start misbehaving or your browser gets a little slow. Resulting in an overall sluggish problem on your phone. So if you encounter such problems there is a quick an easy way to clear your browser cache and improve the overall performance of your Android phone or tablet. The built-in browser on your Android phone is named 'Internet' and follow the instructions below to clear the cache and history and everything related.

How to clear browser cache on the native Android Browser.
1. Tap the menu button
2. Select settings
3. From settings screen scroll down to privacy settings
4. From here you can clear history, cache, cookies and form data.

How to clear browsing data on Chrome for Android
If you're using Chrome on your Android phone or tablet this is how to clear your browser history.
1. tap on the menu button
2. Tap settings
3. Tap privacy options
4. Now tap on clear browsing data found on the top right-hand corner.

Facebook Sound Notifications: How to turn off

The latest feature being tested by Facebook is Notifications sounds, this means each time you get a notification you will hear a small beep on your PC or Mobile device. Whether users will like it or not is left to be seen. The options to have a small sound played whenever you receive a notification is something you can expect very soon. If you do get it and want to turn it off. It is quiet simple and easy to do. Basically with this option you can continue doing your work and whenever a friend updates their Facebook status and the story gets posted to your News feed. You will hear a small sound alerting you to the new story on your news feed. Might be quiet useful and will save you all the time and energy checking for status updates. With sounds you can carry on with whatever your doing and each time there is a status update, you will hear the sound.

How to turn off, disable or stop Facebook Sound Notifications
1. Login to Facebook
2. Click on the drop-down next to home
3. From the left sidebar choose notifications
4. Beside 'all notifications sounds on' click on view
5. Uncheck the bob beside 'Play a sound when each new notification is received'

To enable notification sounds follow the same process and check the box beside 'Play a sound when each new notification is received'. So if you want to check if your notification sounds are not working or working. The option is to be found under notifications under account settings. Notifications sounds or audio alerts are not just for the web but should be available on your iPhone, iPad and Android phones.

ISIS Mobile Wallet: How it works

AT&T Mobility, T-Mobile USA and Verizon Wireless have just launched the pilot program in Salt Lake City to get people to pay for stuff with a wave of your phone. Once you go to a store and come to the checkout counter to pay for the goods you've picked up. All you need to do is wave your mobile phone near the kiosk, checkout counter or POS machine and your bill is paid. The venture launched by these three mobile carriers in the US under the join program name Isis, lets you do just that. Simply tap your phone or wave it in front of the kiosk and your bill is paid. So, instead of presenting your debit or credit card, just wave your phone and your bill gets paid. it is currently available in salt lake City and Austin Texas.

Phones on which the ISIS mobile payment system is available on
There are only 10 smartphones on which the Isis mobile wallet is available on HTC Incredible 4G, Motorola Razr HD, Motorola Razr MAXX HD, Samsung Galaxy S2, Samsung Galaxy S3, Samsung Relay S 4G, HTC One X, Samsung Galaxy Exhilarate, LG Escape and the Samsung Rugby Pro.

How to get the Isis Mobile wallet payment system on my phone.
To do so mobile phone users will first have to go to one of the carriers' stores and get a free SIM card installed.

What about security?
Isis works like Google Wallet or Amazon but with a big difference. If you use Google Wallet you card information is stored on Google servers and Google does all the processing from their end. With Isis you get a SIM card that that encrypts and stores all your data. Isis also uses an outside service called Gemalto to handle the secure handshake between consumers and merchants.

It is available on Android phones, when will the iPhone get it?
Isis plans to offer the service to iPhone users as an add-on case for about $40 -$50. The case will have a chip installed capable of interacting with merchants.

How to know if a merchant is ISIS ready?
Look for the symbols on a merchants store -- the same as the image in this post.

Read More at Paywithisis

Video: Motorola Xoom tablet

The world of tablets spawned by Apple now have a new player, the Motorola Xoom. This new Andriod Touch tablet comes with a 10.1 inch display built for true high definition video with 16.9 widescreen format. It has the NVIDIA Tegra dual core chipset, making sure speed increases for web browsing, videos and gaming. Comes with Andriod 3.0 Honeycomb, powerful software from Google. This is the first tablet to get the HOneycome, Andriod 3.0. The Xoom is headed for Verizon and currently only 3G capable, but stated to be 4G LTE capable with a hardware upgrade by sending the tablet in. Available in the US.

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Pulse for Android now available

The App that Steve Jobs praised personally is now available for Android. So what does the App do. Pulse is an App that let's you read all of your favorite RSS feeds. It's different from other Apps because it does not pull in site content but the actual feeds and is a goof looking App. It's easy to add and remove content sources, reading is easy, sharing is simple. It also runs on five different Android devices. Pulse is available right now in the Android Market for $1.99.

Video Pulse for Android

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How to Unistall or Remove Apps from your Andriod Phone

This post is to help you install or remove Apps from yur Adroid based Phones in quick and easy steps.

If you'd like to remove an application from your device, follow these steps:

The first set of instructions are found on the Andriod help Center.


1.Select My Downloads from the Market home screen.


2.Select the item you'd like to un-install.


3.On the application home screen, select the "Uninstall" button.


You will be able to return to My Downloads at any time to reinstall a purchased application that you've previously removed.
 


How to Remove Applications


To uninstall applications that you installed using the Android Market:

•Open the Google Android Menu.


•Click on the Settings icon and select Applications.


•Click on Manage.


•You will be shown a list of Applications you have installed.


•Select the application you want to remove, and click the Uninstall button.

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How To install APK Files on your Android based Phone

A Guide to installing third party Downloaded Apps on your Andriod Phone

One of the best features of Android based Phones is the ability to download and use third party Apps. These Apps allow you to the flexibility to use your phone for purposes that you want. The Android Market has 1,000s of Apps to help make your life easier. There are basically two ways to install applications on your phone and the first way is through the Android Market.

The below instructions are the clearest we could find and would like to share with our readers. Helps you install an App from PC to Mobile.

APK applications are basically Android package applications.

Through the Android Market

To install APK applications on your Android phone.

1.Copy the APK file you want to install to your phone's memory card and insert the card into your Android phone.

2.Go to Android Market and search for the Apps Installer application.

3.Open it and click on the Install button.

4.After it is installed, just open it. It will show you all the APK files stored directly in the root directory of your memory card.

5.Just click on the application you want to install and it will be installed.

Installing Applications With Android SDK

It is possible to install APK files without utilizing the Android Market, although the process is more difficult and complex. To avoid the Android Market, you need to use Android SDK.

1.Download and install the Google Android SDK program and the Android USB drivers. The download links are as follows: http://code.google.com/android/intro/installing.html

2.http://dl.google.com/android/android_usb_windows.zip

3.You need to modify your Android’s settings to allow the installation of applications from other sources. Under “Settings,” select “Application Settings” and then enable “Unknown Sources.” Also under “Settings,” select “SD Card” and “Phone Storage,” and finally enable “Disable Use for USB Storage”

4.This last step is easy. Open Command Prompt and type the following: adb install <1>/<2>.apk

5.However, when you type the command, replace <1> with the path to your APK file and replace <2> with the name of the APK file.

6.Your Done.

 

Using the Android SDK

There is one more method that can be used, you can install APK files into your phone using the Android SDK. Download the Android SDK.

First of all, install the Android SDK on your computer. You will also need to install the Android USB drivers

to connect the SDK to your phone via USB. You can download it from here - http://dl.google.com/android/android_usb_windows.zip .

To install applications from other sources, you also need go to Settings -> Application Settings and enable Unknown Sources. Also go to Settings -> SD Card and Phone Storage -> Disable Use for USB Storage

. You can enable it again later.

Next, just open Command Prompt and type: adb install path/file.apk

where path is the full path to the APK file and file is the name of the APK application file. Your application is now installed. This is all you need to do, now just open the application on your phone and use it.

[Sources: Talk Andriod and BrightHub]

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