How To Adjust Your Android Phone If You Are Left-Handed

From Raphael and Leonardo Da Vinci to Marylin Monroe and Jerry Seinfeld, the world knows lots of outstanding left-handers. And people often say that being left-handed may come with a number of benefits, like being better at certain sports or even having a higher IQ.

However, when it comes to the routine of everyday life, being left-handed may come with quite a few inconveniences. And using a mobile phone is no exception in this. As our phones are becoming more and more ergonomic, and their usage more and more convenient, all users, no matter  right or left-handed, should benefit from it.

So how do you make your Android phone experience better if you are left-handed? Here are a few simple tips:

First thing you’ll need to consider doing (and the one that will enable all the following moderations) is activate CyanoGenMod app, that will (among other things) allow you to make changes that will turn your device into a more left-hand friendly one.

What is CyanoGenMod?

CyanoGenMod is open source firmware, designed for the Android system, allowing its users to get access to features and options not found on their devices by default. Switching to left-handed mode is one of those features and this is what we will cover today.
But CyanoGenMod offers a rather extensive set of other features, like tethering (making your phone double as a modem), overclocking (increasing your phone’s processor speed for better performance), an enhanced reboot menu, application permissions management, Open VPN client and more.

For our current purpose though, let’s get back to the left-hand mode. Once you have the software installed – head on over to Call Settings and enable Left-Hand mode. It’s as simple as that – your phone is now optimized for left-handed use and you will be able to maker smaller tweaks as you navigate your phone for more new features.

Head on over to Settings and enable Left-Hand mode. It’s as simple as that – your phone is now optimized for left-handed use and you will be able to maker smaller tweaks as you navigate your phone for more new features.

So what has changed?

First, it’s about making calls. As a left-handed user, you may have a natural habit of holding your phone to your left ear when talking. However, later versions of Android come with sensors that can detect when you are about to hold up the phone to your face. This comes with some pretty cool benefits, as the phone will automatically disable the touch screen, to avoid any accidental button pressing and send it into sleep mode to save battery. But holding up your phone to the left ear instead of the right can throw off the system and make it works less well. Left-hand mode, enabled thanks to CyanoGenMod, will change that and you’ll be able to hold the receiver any way you like.

Another thing to consider is screen rotation. Android phones are already great in a way that they rotate the screen automatically when you turn your phone. However, the way the screen rotates puts left-hand users at a disadvantage – as all the action buttons will remain on the right side of the screen, making the scrolling or choosing options quite inconvenient.

Once again, CyanoGenMod comes to the rescue. You will need to head over to the Settings menu, go down to Sound and Display, where (only with CyanoGenMod  enabled) you will find a new option labeled Screen Rotation. The option comes with full customization and allows you to choose between 0 and 360 degrees. Selecting 270 degrees will put the action buttons right where they would work best for left-handed users – on the left side of your phone’s screen.

There you go. These may be just a few small tweaks and changes, but we hope that they will improve your comfort level and allow you to operate faster and smoother.

Your 3D-printed car will be ready to drive in 44 hours

You knew the printed car was going to happen, but as soon as this weekend? That’s when the first printed car arrives. It will be built up from carbon-reinforced plastics, then driven out of Chicago’s McCormick Place convention center and onto the streets of the Windy City. The vehicle will be printed over 44 hours. Technicians will add in the unprintable — electric motor, battery, wiring, window glass — and the car, called Strati, should be out the door Saturday.

Rather the print dozens of smaller sub-assemblies and screwing, gluing or bolting them together, the concept car has a main body structure built up as a single module using something called the BAAM Machine. BAAM stands for big area additive manufacturing, with a deposition rate of 40 pounds per hour.

Can your trade show do this?

All this happens at a trade show called IMTS, the International Manufacturing Technology Show. It’s being held this week in the Windy City, attracts 100,000 attendees, and is awash in acronyms. IMTS is run by AMT, the Association for Manufacturing Technology, which promotes US-based manufacturing technology. Many of the manufacturing technologies used to make Strati were pioneered at the DOE (Department of Energy) manufacturing demonstration facility at ORNL (Oak Ridge National Laboratory).

The Strati components that aren’t printed in the trade show microfactory from carbon reinforced ABS plastic (see, another acronym; photo right) will be added to the car by a company called Local Motors. The company also creates specialty cars and motorcycles using more traditional construction techniques.

The built-up, 3D-printed body comprises everything that doesn’t move, doesn’t need to be clear, or doesn’t conduct electricity. Local Motor additions include the motor, battery, wiring, seats, windshield, suspension, wheels and tires, steering wheel, windows, and headlamps. AMT touts the American nature of the operation. France’s Renault supplies much of the EV running gear, though, sourced from the components that go into its Twizy electric cars.

Could this be the future of automaking?

Ford’s River Rouge complex in Dearborn, MI, has 16 million square feet of factory space and can build several hundred thousand vehicles a year. A microprinter doesn’t need much more than the footprint of the car to operate, about 100 square feet, and can build a car every two days, if Strati is typical. (It’s a two-seater, smaller than most cars.) And it would be easy to configure different cars. Want more back seat room because you carry four adults a lot? Want extra headroom for someone who’s six-foot-six? All that is theoretically possible.

Right now, custom-ordering is frowned upon or impossible with cars shipped in from overseas, especially Asia. The same mindset continues even now that they have factories in the US. American automakers will build to order, but it can take a couple months, and a lot of incentives or rebates cover only the cars in dealer stock. German automakers do a brisk business in custom-order and European delivery and the majority of Minis are sold built-to-order. But those are the minority.

If a regional facility or even your dealership printed the car of your dreams this week, it might change the nature of the car business. We’d say it’s for the better. Someone working an assembly line might feel differently.

Cristiano Ronaldo could make move to the United States, says Jorge Mendes

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Cristiano Ronaldo could move to play in the United States after his Real Madrid career has come to an end, the player's agent Jorge Mendes has told Telefoot.Ronaldo, 29, signed a new contract with Madrid in September 2013, keeping him at the club for a further five years.

And while the Portugal captain could well pen another deal with the European champions before his time at the Santiago Bernabeu comes to an end, Mendes has suggested he may then follow in the footsteps of Steven Gerrard, whoannounced on Saturday that he will leave Liverpool for the United States at the end of the season.

"He will finish his career at Real Madrid, and after that, perhaps he will go to the United States. Only God knows what will happen," Mendes said.

Ronaldo has long been linked with a big-money move to Paris Saint-Germain, who would be one of the few clubs capable of being able to afford the former Manchester United man.

Cristiano Ronaldo enjoyed an incredible 2014 with Real Madrid.

However, Mendes believes that Ronaldo, who is the favourite to win the 2014 Ballon d'Or when it is announced on Jan. 12, would never join the Ligue 1 champions. "There is no way he will sign for Paris Saint-Germain, that's impossible -- including for Cristiano, someone for whom anything is possible."  Mendes went on hail the quality of Ronaldo, whose form has hardly wavered since signing for Real Madrid from Manchester United for 80 million pounds in 2009

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He added: "Cristiano is a machine, he's the best player in history and no one is anywhere near him or can do what he does. I'd ask you to name any winger who has scored 10 percent of the goals Cristiano has scored."

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Microsoft Office para Windows Phone terá novidades antes do ano novo chinês

O Microsoft Office para Windows Phone terá novidades antes doa Ano Novo chinês (que é comemorado no dia 19 de fevereiro), como confirma Joe Belfiore, vice-presidente corporativo do grupo de sistemas operacionais da empresa. Ele utilizou a rede social chinesa Weibo para fazer o anúncio dos novos recursos que deverão ser adicionados aos aplicativos que englobam a suíte profissional da empresa de Redmond.

Ele confirmou que a Microsoft "não esqueceu dos usuários de Windows Phone" e que, antes da data, todas as novidades e detalhes deverão ser revelados.

O executivo da Microsoft afirmou que recebeu e leu e-mails de usuários do Windows Phone que expressaram desapontamento ao comparar o lançamento dos aplicativos a suíte para outras plataformas (Android e iOS) e não para a plataforma nativa da própria empresa – sem desconfiar, é claro, dos planos da empresa.

Ainda não está claro se a empresa de Redmond está preparando um evento único para anunciar todas as novidades do Microsoft Office para Windows Phone, mas Belfiore afirma que a empresa está trabalhando em silêncio para concentrar todas as notícias sobre ele em um único anúncio.

Coincidentemente, a empresa tem um evento onde o anúncio da nova versão principal doWindows 10, novo sistema operacional da Microsoft, será feito em 21 de janeiro. Não foi confirmado se notícias sobre a versão mobile do sistema será feito, logo, anúncios e novidades sobre a mesma, até então, são apenas rumores.

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