It’s a Thursday afternoon and that tip-time-of-week again. This week we’re looking at managing audio profiles on Android phones, accessing Google Bookmarks on Android, and vintage organization with Cable Lacing.
Manage Android Audio with Toggle Settings Profiles Lite
Want to manage and create audio profiles for distinct situations on your Android phone? Gulshan writes in with the following tip:
AudioManager is a great little app but the profiles feature is only available in the premium version. If you’re looking for fine control with profiles included at no cost, Toggle Settings Profiles Lite looks pretty sweet. Thanks for the tip off Gulshan!
You can create profiles that control every setting of your phone, like Bluetooth, volume, orientation, screen timeout, Wi-Fi, brightness, volume, and more. To change profiles you can click on the little icon in the notification bar and a screen pops up with different tabs. Here you can change your profiles or specific settings. But my favorite part of this app is the Rules settings, which allows automatic changing of profiles based on different settings.
For example, one that I commonly use is my Headphones profile. I hate when I take my head phones out of my phone and the volume is still high, creating very awkward situations. Instead, there is a rule that changes to my Headphones profile when I put my headphones in and changes to the last used profile when I take them out, so the volume is always low when I take them out. There are tons of other rules, like what day of the week, the state of each and every one of your settings, your location, and more.
I assume people will find the location setting very useful, as you can set a profile for home, school, and work, and have the profiles automatically switch when you get there. One warning is that in the lite version there is a limit to how many rules you can use, but other than that, the lite version works great for me. I hope others find this app as useful for them as it was for me.
Easily Access and Manage Your Google Bookmarks on Your Android Phone
If you’re a heavy Google Bookmarks user and you want access to your bookmarks on your Google phone, Rashim writes in with the following tip:
There you go; if you’re looking for a mobile Google Bookmarks manager for Android you know which link to click. Thanks Rashmin!
Organize Your Cables with Vintage Cable Lacing Tricks
Susan writes in with an interesting and certainly vintage tip:
We’re not going to lie; after looking at the cool diagrams we started thinking about how cool the back of our desk would look if everything were laced together with a contrasting thread. We might stick with a traditional wire loom just yet, but if we lace things up know that we were inspired by you! Thanks for writing in.
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