Episode Guide
- Save files and websites to PDF
- Uses print menu
- Backup receipts to cloud storage
- http://www.cutepdf.com/
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This Working Droid Episode 58 Google+ Photo Editing
Episode Guide
- Auto enhance initial picture
- Crop & resize picture
- Apply filters
- Adjust photo conditions like brightness, saturation, etc. (swype up & down to change condition and left & right to adjust % of effect)
- Multiple condition editing - apply filter then various effects like color, brightness etc.
- Add frames and adjust size & color option
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This Working Droid Episode 57 Nova Launcher
Episode Guide
- Stock Android launcher with additional features
- Built to enhance the Android 4.0+ launcher (like ADW for Android 2.0+)
- Homescreen
- Change grid size (i.e. 4x4, 5x10, etc.)
- Add/remove & rearrange homescreens
- Scroll effects
- App Drawer
- Customize landscape vs. portrait grid
- Adjust background transparency
- Vertical vs horizontal drawer
- Dock
- Change dock style & transparency
- Add/remove # of icons and docks
- Folders
- Background style (i.e. square vs circle)
- Transparency
- Other settings
- Launcher speed
- Icon set
- Color theme
- Gestures (mostly available in pro version)
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This Working Droid Episode 56 Standing Desk
Episode Guide
- Health benefits like additional calories burned and improved metabolism (varies by person and amount of time standing)
- May not be good for veins if breaks not taken throughout the day
- Work your way into a standing desk by standing a few minutes at a time and increasing it (or buying psuedo standing desk)
- Sources
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This Working Droid Episode 55 The Gimp
Episode Guide
- About
- Open source photo creation and editing software
- Cross platform - Windows, Mac, Linux
- Free alternative to Adobe Photoshop
- Where to use
- Official Website - Windows, Mac, Linux
- GIMP Portable
- ses
- Create your own digital images - Landscapes, comics, banners, etc.
- Adjust brightness, color, tint, etc.
- Add digital name stamp, date stamp, etc. to personal photos
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This Working Droid Episode 54 Patreon
Episode Guide
- Patron
- Support content creators
- Donate as often and as much as you want
- Search by person, project name, or keyword
- Creator
- Get community support for personal projects
- Create goals based on preset tiers (i.e. amount donated or levels reached)
- Donations/Payments more directly tied to tangible good or service
- http://www.patreon.com/
- http://www.patreon.com/geekio
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- Safely and securely browse the internet
- Keep your personal data protected
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This Working Droid Episode 53 Feedburner
Episode Guide
- Get extended information about your subscribers/followers (i.e. location, clicks, downloads, etc.)
- Use with your blog, YouTube,, etc.
- Create feed based on text, audio, or video (or mixed feed if using multiple content types)
- Embed feed with recent posts into website
- Automatically publish to Twitter (similar to IFTTT)
- http://feedburner.com
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- Safely and securely browse the internet
- Keep your personal data protected
- Access location sensitive content like Netflix
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This Working Droid Episode 52 Spreadsheet Formatting
Episode Guide
- Autosize (or manually resize) columns to avoid seeing ‘####’ to ensure all numbers are visible
- Set numbers to show $, decimals, etc. to differentiate between types
- Wrap text to fit labels properly
- Merge cells to help create overarching labels
- Use standard dates formatting
- Create labels in columns to use Autofilter
- Landscape vs Portrait page layout
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This Working Droid Episode 51 Swype
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Episode Guide
- Type on your smartphone without lifting your finger
- Predicts words as they are typed
- Figures words out if possible to easily continue typing
- Wikipedia
- How to use
- Built into Android Jelly Bean (or install 3rd party keyboards like Swype or Swiftkey for older Android versions)
- Swiftkey on iOS
- Safely and securely browse the web
- Keep your data protected
- Access location sensitive contact like Netflix
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This Working Droid Episode 50 Clear App Data
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Episode Guide
- Free up smartphone storage
- Improve performance of app on device
- Use ‘Clear Data’ to do a reset of app on device
- Android
- Settings > Apps
- Optional: Sort by size (makes it easier to find the culprits)
- Select app
- Select ‘Clear Cache’
- Select ‘Clear Data’ to do a soft reset of the app (clears login info so user will have to log back into app and reset preferences)
- iOS / Windows Phone
- Check app settings to clear app data or adjust how much storage the app can use (*if available)
- Uninstall then Reinstall app
- Find 3rd party apps to manage app cache
- Browse the internet safely and securely
- Keep personal data protected
- Access location sensitive contact
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This Working Droid Episode 49 Goodreads
Episode Guide
- Keep track of books to read, previously read and currently reading
- Add friends to see what they're reading (and vice versa)
- Leave reviews and ratings (much like smartphone apps)
- Get recommendations by genre and books read
- Scan book barcode to save to profile
- Join communities
- Follow author updates
- Chat about books
- Apps
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This Working Droid Episode 48 Feedly
Episode Guide
- Subscribe to websites and feeds all in one place
- Create folders to separate content based on personalized folders
- Create tags for items to read later
- Save articles for anything that may not fit regularly used tags
- View top stories in all folders
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This Working Droid Episode 47 TV Tuners
Episode Guide
- Watch TV on your PC
- Plug in to port inside computer or via USB
- Connect other devices like DVD players and video game consoles
- Record shows to your PC
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- Make it as basic of powerful you want (up to running the latest games or do video editing)
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This Working Droid Episode 46 Google Play Music
Episode Guide
- Stream or download music to your Android or iOS device
- Tied to your Google account so your music goes anywhere you sign-in with the same account
- Get discount and free music recommendations based on purchased music
- Check out music from up and coming artists (usually for free)
- Website
- Android App
- iOS App
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- Browse the web safely and securely
- Keep your personal data protected
- Access location specific content like Netflix and Youtube
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This Working Droid Episode 45 Google Drive Forms
Episode Guide
- Create an easy to use questionnaire with themes support
- Mixed question styles - multiple choice, checkbox, fillable form
- View live version of the form as it is created
- Questions can be required or optional
- Embed form (with re-size options) or share link
- Responses saved in Google Drive spreadsheet to view results
- Form can be disabled if no longer accepting responses
- Does not require Google account to fill out form
- Sample Form
- http://drive.google.com
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- Safely and securely browse the web on your desktop or smartphone
- Keep your personal data protected
- Access location sensitive content like YouTube and Netflix
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This Working Droid Episode 44 Speedtest
Episode Guide
- Check the speed of your internet connection
- Site pings closest service base to check how accurate your connection is
- Service can be run from a web browser or smartphone
- Where to run
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- Keep your personal data protected
- Access location sensitive content like YouTube and Netflix
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This Working Droid Episode 43 Instaradio
Episode Guide
- Broadcast live or prerecorded audio at the touch of a button
- Follow and rate other shows
- Automatically share to Facebook, Twitter, SMS or E-Mail
- No storage or broadcast limit
- Get the app
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- Make it powerful enough to run high end games or for movie editing and creation
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This Working Droid Episode 42 About.Me
Episode Guide
- Personal website to link to sites around the web
- Digital business card
- Promote services
- Single place for variety of updates
- Customize wallpaper, bio, fonts, colors, etc.
- Add tags for people to find you
- User ID becomes e-mail address for specific point of contact
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This Working Droid Episode 41 Skit!
Episode Guide
- Create animated skits using personal or preset images
- Add text, wallpapers, audio, and more
- Crop people to add into skit (and merge people together)
- Animate wallapper
- Draw on the skit
- Create layers to move around as desired
- Push the record button to include various layers and push stop when done (then share to compile and show it off to the world)
- Apps
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- Access to unique content and future "special projects!
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Skit! App Preview
My first skit
This Working Droid Episode 40 Contextual Information
Episode Guide
- Get relevant information at your fingertips
- iOS - Paper
- Magazine layout for social updates
- Updates without the clutter
- AppStore
- Android - EverythingMe Launcher
- App Groupings by type - drag two apps together to auto fill with other installed apps and related websites
- Google Play
- The Android Realm App Review
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- Keep your personal data safe
- Access location sensitive content
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