How to organize apps on your smartphone

There’s no single correct method to organize the apps on one’s smartphone or pack those icons neatly in phone folders. But there are ways to arrange them such that they become not only aesthetically pleasing but also efficiently categorized or organized. Here are some tips and tricks to follow.

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Arrange folders by theme: Go by themes such as social media, travel, or shop; if one has kids who favor gaming apps, dump all those games in there. To find those folders more quickly, use the search function for Android. For iPhones, access the search function by going to the home screen and scrolling all the way to the left. At the top is a search bar for looking up any app. 

Delete unused apps: This is one of the easiest, handiest ways to declutter one’s mobile phone interface. Do this regularly to increase storage space, get better organized, and actually extend battery life. If a mobile app has not been used in a month, it is considered non-essential. Others would consider six months or so months as the basis for deleting apps, so it would still depend on what one thinks is a healthy span of time to keep an app. 

Sort those apps: With all of one’s apps on the Home screen, put them in an arrangement one wishes simply by pressing an app and dragging it wherever preferred. The first screen might best have all of the most important apps, while social apps are best kept together and not mingling with essential work or study apps. Arrange them alphabetically, by color, or whatever feels right.

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Taihwa Terry Ho is a consummate technophile and a tech entrepreneur focused on app development startups. More on his interests here.

Innovative Apps You Should Have on Your Phone

Developing smartphone technology leads to changes in quality of life, as these are innovations we carry with us every day, literally at our fingertips. Here are some of these helpful apps that surely transcend sheer novelty.

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Word Lens
This awesome application translates any sign or text into a person’s preferred language via the phone’s camera. It’s now even integrated into Google Translate. More importantly, one doesn’t even need internet connection for it to work.
Assistant
This app is actually the most-acclaimed, speaking personal assistant for smartphones, and is included in the New York Times’ top android apps of the year. It utilizes language tech to launch apps, answer queries, get information, and access many web services.
Be My Eyes
An app that truly impacts people’s lives is this micro-volunteering app that links blind people with volunteer helpers from around the world via live video chat. Anyone with the app installed can either ask for help or offer it and become someone else’s vision.
Cardiograph
Cardiograph is your personal health assistant, using the phone camera and a sensor for measuring heart rate. It works just like actual in-hospital medical equipment. Record and track results, then save them for reference.
SoundHound
You hear a great song in the background but don’t know who the artist is? This app identifies the band or artist, the album, and the lyrics. Just turn it on and it should be able to “sniff” the info you need for more personal listening sessions later. You can even hum that song you’ve forgotten but keeps running in your head the whole day and the app will detect it.

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Hey there. I’m Taihwa Terry Ho, capital investor and technophile. I see promise in developing things people will use every day. Read more apps and new tech innovations here.

Gadget Tech Explained: How Gorilla Glass Works

If you own a smartphone, then you’ve probably heard of the material, Gorilla Glass. It’s the screen tech used by most smartphone companies. Gorilla Glass is produced by the company Corning. The glass is the made to be smooth, crystal-clear, resilient, and scratch-proof. So how is this glass fabricated, and what makes it so strong?

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A little history, the Corning glass’s discovery is actually a superhero origin story. In 1952, a scientist at Corning placed a piece of photosensitive glass in a furnace for testing. At some point, the furnace’s temperature suddenly increased from 600 degrees Celsius to 900 degrees. Expecting a failure, the scientist removed the sample and was shocked to find an opaque sheet of material rather than a melted blob of molten mess. He accidentally dropped the sample and instead of shattering, it bounced.
Scientist Don Stookey, accidentally created a glass-ceramic Hybrid.
Here’s Corning’s explanation from its Gorilla Glass website:

Ion exchange is a chemical strengthening process where large ions are “stuffed” into the glass surface, creating a state of compression. Gorilla Glass is specially designed to maximize this behavior. The glass is placed in a hot bath of molten salt at a temperature of approximately 400°C. Smaller sodium ions leave the glass, and larger potassium ions from the salt bath replace them. These larger ions take up more room and are pressed together when the glass cools, producing a layer of compressive stress on the surface of the glass. Gorilla Glass’s special composition enables the potassium ions to diffuse far into the surface, creating high compressive stress deep into the glass. This layer of compression creates a surface that is more resistant to damage from everyday use.

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