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Get Galaxy Note II Style Smart Screen Rotation On Any Android Device

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The Galaxy Note II by Samsung brought along with it a pretty useful feature in Smart Rotation – an alternative Android screen rotation mechanism that relies on facial recognition instead of the accelerometer to switch between screen orientations. The feature utilizes your device’s front facing camera to determine your facial orientation, and controls the screen orientation accordingly. So far, the feature was exclusively available to a select few Galaxy series devices including Note II, S II & S III, but thanks to the efforts of XDA member StupidIdea and his colleague, we now have GMD Smart Rotate – an awesome Android app that brings the Note II-style Smart Rotation feature along with various other goodies to any rooted or non-rooted device running Android 2.3 Gingerbread or above. As evident from the above description, the app is meant to work only on Android devices that sport a front-facing camera. Read More

Accelerometer Disabler: WP7 Finally Gets An Orientation Lock [Homebrew]

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One thing that has always annoyed me while using Windows Phone 7, is the lack of an iOS-like orientation lock in the Mango platform. This oversight really comes to haunt users when they are trying to use the device while lying down on a couch, as the screen will keep rotating unnecessarily, and there is no way of stopping it. Microsoft has still not added that setting in their mobile OS, but fortunately for Samsung and LG users having an interop unlocked WP7 device, they can now get the much-needed functionality via the freshly released homebrew named Accelerometer Disabler. The Homebrew app does not come with too many complicated toggles, but that is still not as good or as convenient as having a hardware button for locking the orientation of your device's screen. Still, it is the first option of its kind that is available for Mango users. Read More

WallMagician: Customize & Rotate Wallpaper And Hide Desktop Icons

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WallMagician is a wallpaper manager that provides many advanced options to help overcome the shortcomings of the Windows default wallpaper management utility. It not only enables you to automatically change your desktop wallpaper at specific intervals, but also allows customizing each wallpaper to use a specific style (tile, center, fit or custom). You can also export a thumbnail gallery of selected wallpapers to PDF or HTML format, and create a printable index page. It also provides the option to select a filtering method (for stretching images), hiding desktop icons, enabling random wallpaper selection and performing manual wallpaper updates. Read More

Change Orientation Of Videos Using Free Video Flip And Rotate

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Technology sometimes feel to be moving with the speed of light. Our gadgets and handheld devices now has so much computing prowess that it simply wasn't imaginable a few decades ago. One of the most incredible advancement is the introduction of camera on mobile phones. Now, you probably don't feel the need to keep your keep both your camera and mobile in your pocket, when only one can suffice the job. Usually while recording videos, people don’t give a lot of thought to the orientation of a video when shooting with mobile phone camera. Due to the fact the most devices are now equipped with an integrated accelerometer, which changes the view as you reposition the phone. What if you made a video of an important event and while viewing realize that you were holding the camera upside down? Or perhaps in portrait mode? Well, recording a video in landscape perfectly seems okay, holding it in portrait is down right foolish. However, don't worry no more as Free Video Flip And Rotate lets you change the orientation of videos with a single click. It has seven predefined video rotate and flip options; rotate 90 CW (Clockwise), rotate 180, rotate 90 CCW (Counter Clockwise), flip horizontally, flip vertically, flip vertically with rotate 90 CW and flip vertically with rotate 90 CCW. Read More

Rotate Video Playback On Galaxy S II Without Auto Rotation [Guide] [Orientation Lock]

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Samsung Galaxy S II is a dual core, high tier Android phone that has managed to gather huge fan base since its launch. The stock Video Player app on Samsung Galaxy S II allows the user to see videos in portrait mode. However, users need to have auto-rotation set to ON in settings for videos to stream/ play in portrait mode. Electrox666, Senior XDA member and Android developer, has managed to integrate a rotation toggle in video player that lets you easily change orientation of the video. The hack basically removes SRS effects toggle and replaces it with a rotation icon. Another advantage of this tweak is that you can easily lock video playback in landscape or portrait mode without having to go in Settings menu.

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Control And Disable iPhone Auto Screen Rotation

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The iPhone comes with a nice accelerometer, allowing for the user interface rotation in certain apps and bringing forth the impressive landscape keyboard. While very useful, this can sometimes become a nuisance in a user getting caught in a constant portrait-landscape cycle, or when you just want to hold your device sideways to view something without the interface rotating. Solutions such as SBSettings’ rotation add-on are available, but they change the settings throughout the device. What if you want application specific control? Read More