टिप्स बॉक्स से: डेस्कटॉप-आधारित TXT संदेश, इंडेक्सिंग ऑफ़लाइन वॉल्यूम, और एंड्रॉइड होमस्क्रीन फ़ोल्डर्स

I loved the article you guys shared earlier this year about remote controlling your Android phone. It was a bit overkill for me though, all I need to do is text from my desktop. I found a perfect solution: Texty for Android (now MightyText). It’s a combination Android app and Chrome extension that allows me to read, reply to, and send text messages from Chrome. Since the biggest thing that distracts me away from my computer screen is replying to text message (but I have to reply to them for my job) this is a perfect solution for me. The website says it’s still in beta and you have to get on a list to try it… but I wouldn’t worry about that. I signed up and got an invite within minutes.

I recently started doing lots of offline backups but I ran into a problem. Once something was archived off my machine I had no way to search it. This wasn’t a problem I’d run into before but it was one that was shaping up to be a real pain. I came across an application that builds indexes of your offline storage (while it’s still attached to your computer) so that later (when it’s in the fire safe or wherever you’ve put it) you can still search the file names like it was mounted on the machine. The program is called Basenji and is available for Windows and Linux.

You’ve been able to create folders on Android for ages but they’ve always been kind of dull. Recently I started using Application Folder to spice things up. It’s a widget that has an iOS like folder system (just like I’ve gotten used to on my iPad). You create the widget, add in the apps you want, and then when you tap it on your homescreen you get a little pop-up bar just like you do on iOS.