How to Increase Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Battery Life

Recently Samsung introduced Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Tablet. The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Tablet has speed of 1 GHz dual-core NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor for fast multi-tasking and multimedia viewing. By the 3 megapixels with LED flash digital camera a tab user can capture pictures with quality and record the video in 720p HD video mode. It also has the secondary camera of 2 megapixels. The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Tablet is Equipped with Android OS v3.1 (Honeycomb). The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Tablet features a brilliant 10.1 inches (800 x 1280 pixels) WXGA TFT LCD display.

It plays almost all types of audio and video formats. The supported audio formats are MP3/WAV/eAAC+/OGG and the video formats are MP4/DivX/Xvid/H.264/H.263. For watching a video, the 10.1 inches WXGA TFT LCD display gives the full view satisfaction compare to other tablets in form of the big screen. Though this Tab does not feature GSM and 3G capabilities it still catches your eye as we know what this powerful device can mean. Support for Flash 10.2, which enabled you to play your YouTube videos directly from within the browser. It has 3.5mm audio stereo jack, so you can also use your personal headphones for great sound quality. It offers Bluetooth 3.0 with A2DP and also comes with Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n. Being a fully-featured multimedia tablet, the battery plays the major role in it. The proper management of battery will give you the long period of usage of this highly featured and powerful Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Tablet.

Here are some steps to follow to increase the battery life of Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Tablet.

• Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Tablet has Wi-Fi b/g/n support. When you turn ON the Wi-Fi setting then don’t forget to turn OFF when not in use. Because when Wi-Fi is ON it drains the battery. So try to avoid the frequent use of Wi-Fi setting.
• Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Tablet has 10.1 inches (800×1280 pixels) of large screen. So one of major battery drain problem is the brightness level of the tablets. Maximum the brightness level, drain the battery faster. So to avoid this major battery drain problem, keep the brightness level as low as you can view the content in the tablet easily.
• Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Tablet is GPS enabled. If the GPS is turned ON, it continuously searches for the location. Because of this it drain small amount battery power. By turning it OFF you can save that small amount of battery power. Only turn ON the GPS when you require.
• In Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Tablet most of applications have their check for updates setting is ON and they run in the background, which help to drain the battery fast. So just disable these types of settings, which check for updates frequently.
• Whether or not you have limited applications that automatically check the internet, your tablet is still active and checking almost all of the time. This is a part of the reason why you may see major battery drain even though the tablet was idle for a while.
• Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Tablet comes with LED Flash light with autofocus facility. Only use the LED Flash when it is necessary or in less amount of visible light. So mostly try to avoid LED Flash function during adequate light.
• Use the manage applications setting in the application settings in order to keep control on background applications.
• Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Tablet has Bluetooth v3.0. Turn OFF the Bluetooth when not in use.
• Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Tablet is a fully-featured multimedia tablet. So try to use the sound level moderate or low for video and audio playback, so that you can use this for long period of time hours. Maximum sound level uses the more power of battery.
• Ensure that Sync function is turned OFF when not in use. Only use sync settings when it is necessary.

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Which Facebook Apps Steal Your Data (and How to Stop Them)

The biggest privacy problem with Facebook isn’t Facebook itself, it’s Facebook’s apps. There are more than 500,000 games, puzzles, quizzes and other time wasters in the Facebook platform, many of which exist for the sole purpose of sucking data out of your account. Worse, these apps not only can access your information, they can also grab data from your friends’ profiles, depending on their privacy settings. Thank you, obnoxious Farmville fans.

 Facebook establishes limits about what data apps can access and what they can do with it, but they don’t appear terribly motivated to enforce those rules. For example, in October 2010, ten popular Facebook apps were found to be slurping up user data in direct violation of Facebook’s own terms. In response, Facebook removed some of those apps on a Friday, then reinstated them on the following Monday.

Now you can take matters into your own hands and find out who the real data vampires are. PrivacyScore from PrivacyChoice is a Chrome plug in that rates how each app deals with your data on a scale from 0 to 100. It can also do the same for Web sites. You can view these scores on the Web, on Facebook or, if you’ve installed the Chrome extension, by clicking the PS icon in the browser bar when you install an app.

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Secure Your Android from Virus Attacks

Tablet or Smart Phone with operating system commonly used in the exchange files via browsing or other media such as bluetooth is highly vulnerable to virus attacks (malware). Not only in personal computers, in Android is also frequently found in various virus / malware. Android users will certainly upset caused by the virus, that making the performance of your tablet or smart phone android is not optimal.

Even practitioners of virus in the hardware, has been detected three false installer to update an application for Android, which Androidos_ADSMS.A, Androidos_Dordrael.l, and Androidos_crusewin A. So is latest Android Malware, called Droid Dream Light (DDLight). Malware has managed to outwit 30000-120000 Android users. Outside it's still a lot of viruses or other malware.

Here are some tips from tekno.kompas.com for your favorite Android device so safe from virus attacks or malicious malware:

1. Take advantage of standard safety features in Android device

Go to menu> Settings, then Select> Location & Security> and enter data such as PIN and Password to lock the phone. This is useful for securing personal data when the phone is lost physically.

2. Do not select the Auto setting Connect to Wi-Fi

Go into the menu> Wireless & Network, and select> WiFi Settings, disable the function Auto Connect to Wi-Fi. Especially if you are using Internet banking.

Android devices are usually connected to the wifi even more vulnerable to hackers compromised (hackers). Weak security as experienced by the applications using named ClientLogin authentication protocol that runs on Android OS version 2.3 and previous versions.

With ClientLogin, users only need to enter username and password required. Further application authentication process will take from the data stored on the ClientLogin. ClientLogin authentication data is stored on security that has a vulnerable system. Hackers can access data stored on the ClientLogin authentication is when a user connects to the network Unencrypted Wifi.

The solution, avoid the use of unencrypted wifi network (wifi network is open). But if the choice of open wifi networks only, it is better to use additional applications for the security of wifi connections such as SSH Tunnel. This application can create secure connections between your Android handset devices with unencrypted wifi network server.

3. Avoid installing application other than Android Market

To avoid the Trojan Android, install only the applications in the Android Market. Recently discovered Trojan Android from a third party application service provider in China.

4. Be careful when an application for permission to open access to personal data

If the application is installed for permission to open some of the data, make sure you do not give access permission to enter personal data, such as phone contact list.

5. Use the special security applications your Android device

In addition to installing and vigilant when opening a particular link, you are advised to also install security applications for mobile phones. Trend Micro Mobile Security for Android for example, not only do we have secure passwords, but also all of our mobile banking transaction data.

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