Usemon Monitors System Performance From the Notification Shade

Source: http://lifehacker.com/usemon-monitors-system-performance-from-the-notificatio-1181523575

Android: In Windows, seeing how fast your CPU is cranking is just a keyboard shortcut away. Android isn't as convenient. Unless you use Usemon.

The app puts an at-a-glance system monitor directly in the notification shade of your device. Just swipe down and get graphs for CPU, RAM, network, and disk usage. You can adjust which stats are shown in the shade (or disable them entirely) from the settings. Or you can deck out your shade with our previous round up of notification shade apps.

Usemon (Usage monitor) | Google Play Store via WonderHowTo

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We Can Now Print Ultrafast Graphene Chips for Flexible Electronics

Source: http://gizmodo.com/we-can-now-print-ultrafast-graphene-chips-for-flexible-1185292486

Futurists are always talking about how flexible electronics will change our lives in amazing ways, but we've yet to see anything mind-blowing come to market. A team of scientists from the University of Texas in Austin, however, think they've found the key to changing that: ultrafast graphene transistors printed on flexible plastic.

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drag2share: How Flavors Are Linked, Visualized

source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/vip/~3/QCynt3TYcRE/how-flavors-are-linked-visualized-1187426149

If you've ever wondered why certain foods taste great together—tomato and basil or, hell, peanut butter and jelly—then wonder no longer. This amazing visualization from Scientific American shows how flavors are linked, and explains why certain combinations work so well.

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drag2share - drag and drop RSS news items on your email contacts to share (click SEE DEMO)

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Galaxy Tab 3 gets rebranded as 'Homeboy' for launch on LG's Korean mobile network

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/08/23/lg-homeboy/

Considering that Korea's warring giants don't get along too well, it's amusing to see LG offering a Samsung-made tablet on LG U+, the latter's domestic cellular network. The "Homeboy" is a re-branded Galaxy Tab 3 that plugs into U+'s services, including TV channels, music, video, e-book and educational software stores, oh, and it'll double as a GPS while on the go. Leave the unit at home, however, and it'll also guard the property, texting you if it senses an unwanted intruder -- and is, according to the company's Kang Hyun-ku, the first step in LG's new connected home platform. That said, given that it's nearly a nailed-on certainty that we're going to see LG's return to the tablet game in short order, we don't expect the amusingly-titled slate to remain the favorite son in a couple of months.

Filed under: Tablets, Mobile, Samsung, LG

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Via: Android Beat

Source: Korea Herald

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Android Open Source Project now has latest 4.3 fixes for most Nexus hardware

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/08/22/aosp-latest-4-3-fixes/

The latest Android 4.3 updates brought a slate of unfortunate software bugs to the party, especially to Google's own Nexus devices, ironically enough. Thankfully, the Mountain View crew is hard at work patching things up, as evidenced by the Nexus 7 update earlier today that resolved its multi-touch and GPS issues. Now those fixes are up on AOSP as well, not only with the aforementioned JSS15Q build for the 7-inch tablet, but also the JWR66Y for the rest of the Nexus clan. The reasoning behind having two fixes instead of one was the addition of an extra bit of code unique to the Nexus 7; they'll be incorporated into one patch as soon as the devs work out the kinks. Aside from patching those aforementioned bugs, the update resolved a clipboard crash issue, tweaked App Opps permissions and fixed a few extra bits of errata. If you're not afraid of a bit of tinkering, head on over to the source to update your Nexus hardware now, or just wait for Google to release Android 4.3.1.

Filed under: Google

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Via: Android Police

Source: AOSP build

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