Useful android tips

see video for google maps 4.4 tips and new features http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlB4vz94wl4

see this video for the rest of google maps usefulness when first released http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGXK4jKN_jY&NR=1

hope people find this useful for using google maps for android.

see http://www.youtube.com/user/UseMyDroid#p/a/u/0/UsnDhKIuRuk

i keep seeing many android newbies asking the same questions repeatedly so thought putting some links to videos here might help newbies find useful things for their android phones at one go.

hope others put some useful links here so that other users like me learn more about how to use our phones in more useful ways.

ps: everyone interested in gaming, try out the free demo of 'winds of steel' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Qb-0Xcjlgs available on the android market for some interesting dog fights in combat aircraft. nice way to kill time if like me you get stuck waiting at your dentist or gp surgery or car repair shop or airport killing time. other ways to kill time with 3d games http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZcMuetCUtw&NR=1&feature=fvwp

go to home screen > settings > manage applications > all applications > then select the voice search and then uninstall from there. or use uninstaller app from the market. but going from the settings worked fine for me.

Today i learnt a new way of cramming 4 widgets into the place of one widget while still not losing the htc sense features.

Earlier i could do this using seprate launchers like launcher pro or adw launcher (see various launchers on this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtF79j7PbM8&NR=1 ) etc but then i lost htc sense on those extra screens if i used those launchers so i had uninstalled them as i didnt like losing the shortcut to recent used apps by long pressing the home button. using adw launcher etc i lost this long press home button option for recent used apps, as that instead brought up the switching feature between htc sense and the alternative launchers.

Recently came across the 'Multicon' widget app which is free from the android market http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.h9kdroid.multicon . this app / widget allows one to cram 4 widgets into the space of one widget with the stock htc sense launcher undisturbed, so instead of having 16 widgets per page one can have 64 widgets per page if one wants to do so! So now on my main home screen i have the stock htc sense clock+weather widget bar (occupies 2 rows) , plus the power control widget bar (occupies one row) and on the last row (using the Multicon widget app) i have installed 16 widgets in one row which usually allows only 4 widgets. just thought i would mention the new app that i found interesting incase some one else wants such features for cramming more widgets/apps on their home screen.

who ever is interested in having more widgets than allowed by htc sense, try out the alternative launchers (adw launcher or launcher pro) but i prefer the 'Multicon' app instead as it does similar things on the htc sense launcher itself. one can get all the stock android apps on the crammed widgets except for the htc sense apps/widgets (like htc sense clock+weather widget / htc music widget / htc profile widget etc)