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Android: Auto-Save Contacts to Phone or Sim card by default

contributed by Lê Hoàng on January 19, 2012 under Android

Every time you save a new number to the contacts on your Android phone, the phone will ask you where you want to save it. Many users often save their contacts to one location only–Phone, Sim card or Google account. However, it is much more convenient and efficient to set the default save location. This tutorial describes this process under the Gingerbread OS version of Android.

Hotmail: Customize Instant Actions

contributed by Lê Hoàng on January 16, 2012 under Internet

The Hotmail Instant Actions contains a set of action which will only be visible when you hover your mouse over the mail. This helps you access and perform common tasks with the emails quickly. By default, only “mark as read/unread” and “delete” are visible in the Instant Actions area. If you need more than that, this tutorial will help you customize the Custom Actions as you wish.

Blogger: Disable sharing to Google+ after publishing a post

contributed by Lê Hoàng on January 14, 2012 under Internet

When you connect your Google+ account to Blogger, you will be presented a Google+ share box every time you publish a post. Although this feature can be helpful, it can also annoy authors who do not always want to share their posts. This tutorial will show you how to turn this feature off.

Magnet links versus torrent files

contributed by David Kirk on January 13, 2012 under Internet

Several infamous torrent websites have decided to move to magnet links exclusively instead of .torrent files. Here we provide a comparison and contrast between these two file types and describe why these sites have ultimately decided to make the switch.

Hotmail: Turn Conversation Mode on or off

contributed by Lê Hoàng on under Internet

By default, the Conversation Mode in Hotmail is turned on. This feature will group all emails with the same subject together. If you do not like this view mode, you can follow this tutorial to switch it off, and display the emails separately.

Kindle Fire: How to display .mobi files as books and not documents

contributed by Rob Rogers on January 6, 2012 under Android

At some point you will run into the situation where you have transferred an ebook in .mobi format to your Kindle Fire and it is displayed as a document instead of a book. This creates an inconvenience since now your books are in two locations instead of just one. Here is how to make your .mobi files be registered as books on the device.

These are the Android tutorials you are looking for

contributed by Jimmy Selix on January 4, 2012 under Android

Continuing with the holiday season’s arrival of new devices and gadgets, today’s post is a round up of some our most popular and helpful guides helping Android owners get their new devices up and running.

How to feature a video on YouTube channel page

contributed by Lê Hoàng on January 2, 2012 under Internet

With the recent changes, YouTube allows users to feature a video from their playlists on the channel page. This is a great way to impress new visitors with some of your best content. Here is how to enable and use this feature.

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