So you have finally made your choice in choosing between HTC Sensation and  Samsung Galaxy S II? Found yourself having to recharge your new Android device every 8hours? You’re not alone. Some users reported to have a poor battery performance for their Android phones. Older device ranging from HTC Desire, Motorola Droid, Samsung Galaxy S, Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 to the latest dual-core Android phones; LG Optimus 2x, Motorla Atrix, HTC Sensation, and Samsung Galaxy S II, are not sparred with complains of poor battery life. However, Android itself is not a power hogger, or call it battery juice sucker if you like. Many users were able to get their Android device up and running in a single charge up to 3 days(gosh I missed the good old Nokia 3310-era).There are many factors in leading to poor battery life. The very main reasons are the display and unnecessarily turned on features, which some users don’t have a clue in turning it off. If you are happened to be one of the Android users not happy of the current battery performance, or you simply just want to improve the extra mileage of your Android device’s battery performance, here are some tips in improving the battery life of your Android phone. Continue Reading »

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You are annoyed by the new Facebook chat. You can’t find which of your friends online and you can’t even hide away that annoying Facebook chat bar. If you have Googled around of how to get back the old Facebook chat you’ll be dissapointed by the profound technical terms in the step by step guide; install, script, add-on (yeah, i’m trying to be as Layman-friendly as possible). Anyway, you don’t even have to install or tweak any stuff at all. There is a simple workaround to get back the old Facebook chat. Here how it is being done. Continue Reading »

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It’s never been that hassle free when you change your phone. Transferring contacts especially is a troublesome process if you have a big number of contact number in your list where your SIM card is not able to store all of it. One of the advantage of Android smartphone is the ability to read vcf vCard files. By doing so, you can send your contacts from your older phone to your new Android phone on the fly, usually by multi-selecting the contacts and choose ‘Send Contact’ or by exporting to VCF file using “” Professional the phone’s PC Suite software. Though there are some many cases where older feature/symbian phones from Nokia/Sony Ericsson/Samsung/LG having Bluetooth object push incompatibility with Android phones. If you’re happened to fall into this category or if you just wish to look for a super easy way to transfer your contacts from older phone to your new Android phone, just read on. Continue Reading »

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The usual misconception for people these days is; Android is slow, it runs sluggishly especially on browsing through the menu. Well, no thanks to anti-Android a.k.a Job’s followers.  That statement is true for the first generation of Android phones like the HTC Magic/Sapphire, and some of the budget Android phones. Android doesn’t use graphics hardware acceleration to render the menu and animations like how iPhone iOS did. And the older version of Android doesn’t handle memory efficiently. The newer version of Android, 2.2 Froyo and 2.3 Gingerbread solved most of the problems as far as user experience goes. However, there are still ways to make your Android phones; HTC Evo/Desire/Droids/Nexus and Galaxy S run faster. Here’s how. Continue Reading »

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For some applications like Mozilla Thunderbird, it was poorly designed as so that it doesn’t minimized to system tray. Which can be a nuisance and consuming your taskbar spaces as you don’t need the application to sit on your taskbar at most of the time. Most applications now supports minimized to system tray; even my favourite web browser Opera supports it. But with the advent of Windows 7 pin-to-taskbar feature, this has become less relevant as the pin-to-taskbar provides great usability. Anyway, for some programs or applications, minimizing to the system tray is better, or if you are still using Windows XP, it gives more reason for you to do so. Here’s how. Continue Reading »

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Unlocking cores is the new trend in the overclocking community. It gives consumer a power boost unlike any traditional overclock. It is a win-win solution for both the customer and the manufacturer. As the processor which is deemed unusable as a quad core will be binned and sell as dual core and triple core, depending on the usable core count. In actual fact, most cores are usable, you just need an extra bit of voltage bumping to the processor. In some cases, AMD actually sell their quad core Phenom II X4 as Phenom II X2/X3 processor. Lucky buyers will be happily unlocking the core by ACC without any voltage upping at all. From my opinion, unlocking is much easier than overclocking the clock speed of your processor. It gives you much better performance without the hassle of tweaking and finding the sweet spot between best possible lowest voltage and highest performance. In this guide, I will show you how to unlock the core and booting up to Windows to test the stability of your processor. Continue Reading »

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One thing which disappointed many Jet users is the limited amount of RAM that Samsung employed in the infamous smarter-than-smartphone Jet. Simply browsing a web site with very heavy content via the bundled Dolphin web browser will stop your current session and pop up a message indicating memory resource is low and you no longer able to continue with your current work, which is = =”. And the same happens when you open few applications at the same time, say a music player, Google maps, and message editor. Samsung is smart for not advertising the amount of RAM for this “smartphone”. Many were guessing the amount of RAM in their Jet(in Facebook and Darkforest); from as low as 16MB to a whopping 256MB. Well, neither were correct, the amount of RAM can be determined in the administrator menu. Continue Reading »

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If you have more than one computers at home; usually one desktop PC and one notebook PC, it’s best to have a shared internet connection using router or switch. A switch is cheap, 4ports switch can be easily be bought at less than RM80 (USD22). However, you can’t run away from the trouble of tangling the network cable all around your house. One solution is to use wireless fidelity technology, or wi-fi in short. If it happens that you want to save some cash from buying a good wireless router (which cost RM200-300) and you have a wireless adapter available on your desktop PC, this guide is just for you. How to share your internet connection through wireless adapter? Read on. Continue Reading »

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