What's on my phone? - Early 2016 Edition
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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1,864 words · ~9 min read
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over the years I've gotten a lot of requests to do YouTuber things like
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drawing my life or a top five of insert
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whatever it is here Harlem Shake reading hate mail twerking or whatever else and
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for the most part I've avoided that stuff because it never really felt
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relevant to the core content of this channel but the one thing I can no
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longer justify having never done is a
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what's on my phone so I decided that it was long overdue and ALS so I am full of
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turkey and needed something easy to do
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today so first things first a lot of you have noticed in my phone reviews that I
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usually have a ton of notifications
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piled up on my lock screen and the truth is I have just given up fighting this
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battle I don't even bother clearing them anymore because there's just too much to
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unlock use the trusted device feature of Android so as long as my paired
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Smartwatch is nearby my phone will actually unlock without my fingerprint
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or my password it's super handy and between that and being able to ring my
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phone if I misplace it from my watch honestly the whole Smartwatch thing has
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been worth its weight in gold for me on the main home screen you'll find pretty
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much I guess the usual stuff right an unchanged desktop wallpaper ain't nobody
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got time for that a repositioned but otherwise stock search bar on the top
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with Google Now a weather widget that also tells me what day of the week it is
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and the time if for whatever reason I'm not wearing my watch and what I like to
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think is a pretty well organized desktop
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the top left spot the furthest from my right-handed operation of the phone is
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reserved for a single temporary use app
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of some sort so that's the screen recording app that I'm using to make
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this video and I'll delete that when I'm done next to that is my alarms and the
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first thing you'll notice here is that I'm am not an early riser which is why I
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made lonus Media Group start time 9:30 in the morning and I'm usually 15 to 20
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minutes late anyway the only days where I actually get up early are the ones
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where I have to get the kids ready in the morning the next two apps are for
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Access Control and for spying on the employees to see who left PE spots on
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the floor of the bathroom or used up all the paper towel in the kitchen without
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putting a new roll on the Google Play Store gets its own link with utilities
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next to that here you'll find anything I use fairly frequently that doesn't fall
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nicely into any of the other categories I am a huge fan of SoundHound and have
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been known to excuse myself in crowded restaurant so I can get a clean
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recording of a song on the speaker in the bathroom where it's quieter Wi-Fi
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analyzer is great for checking out which channels are crowded so you can avoid
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them for better Wireless performance the Android Wear companion app lets you
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change settings for your Android Weare Smartwatch if you're into that sort of thing I mostly leave mine stock and last
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pass and Google authenticate along with a u key which I featured in this video
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here make up the layers of security that
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sit over top of Linus media groups important accounts now I'm not issuing a
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challenge no system is perfect but logging into a key company asset would
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require up to four authentication factors the media folder is pretty
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self-explanatory so if you don't know what YouTube is then uh the rock that
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you're living under must be really really comfortable photos I really never
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used since I always manage photos on my desktop Google play music is pretty much
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the soundtrack of my life so that along with Sonos keeps my house full of music
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and my one-year-old dancing back and forth like this um vessel is the Early
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Access video platform that we release our content on one week before YouTube
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now emid is an interesting one this is the Android equivalent to air video on
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iOS I guess except kind of crappier unlike Plex you don't have to pay a
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monthly fee for remote access to your medium files though which is nice I'm a
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believer that whatever the legal system thinks if I paid for a DVD of something
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I should be allowed to rip it and serve it to myself for personal use and no one
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but me has access to my emit server so there you go that's how I access my
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media library when I'm on Android VLC handles playback of any video files I
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download directly to my phone it just works and Plex I've been playing around
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with but haven't actually bit the bullet yet on a subscription or the pay app
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because while it's pretty slick a monthly fee is a hard pill for me to
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swallow for streaming media remotely that I already own under social is the
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much Consolidated list of well social apps that I use Twitter is a daily
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pretty much hourly access app Hangouts is almost my exclusive messaging app
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these days since switching to it is a requirement to work at lus Media Group
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and I've even got my dad on it at this point the YouTube studio app is great it
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lets me read video com comments and see stats in a handy little dashboard that I
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only used to have access to on the desktop YouTube site and Facebook
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honestly I almost never look at I'm not much of a social media poster other than
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for work and now that you can't message
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through the main Facebook app and the messenger app drains the crap out of my
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battery for some reason last time I installed it this is here pretty much
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solely to delete the W show is now live post that we put up every week so that
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people don't get confuzzled periscope keep telling myself I'm going to use it
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more I'm going to use it more but I never end up doing it it's it's actually
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really fun to do I just I don't know I just can't I'm usually busy and then
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Instagram gets dealt with whenever I open up this folder to post something on
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Twitter and then remember oh I should probably post something to Instagram fun
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fact by the way I follow zero people on Instagram yep I don't care what photos
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people post at all calendar is next and
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that's on here for whenever I'm desperate I guess my calendar is usually
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much too complicated for any mobile app to handle it gracefully and Maps is here
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so that I have something to stare at angrily while old people tell me about
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all the fascinating landmarks that I'm going to see on my way to just give me
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the address already I don't care if there's a sculpture on the northwest
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corner of the intersection storage and docs has got
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Dropbox for its seamless camera backup feature and actually I've only got a
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free account because honestly it's enough for me to just dump my photos and
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videos about once a month to my home server and then start over docs and
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sheets let me keep track of and edit things like my to-do list and the weekly
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wow document I know there are better apps particularly for checklists like
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Evernote but I just find Google Docs more versatile and I don't need to do
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things like sketches for the kinds of notes that I keep so it works really
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really well for me at the bottom is the stock dialer stock messaging app Gmail
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for all my email needs and Chrome for anything that I don't do from within an
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app so right now I've got some super micro 90 Drive server thing I was
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scoping out but usually I just use this to browse the lus tech tips for um hence
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the autocomplete suggestion my second home screen has a bunch of trash that I
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never got around to removing and my app drawer has anything that came pre-installed on the phone or that I use
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less than once a month like my chomecast overall I guess the most interesting
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thing about my standard phone load out
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is how incredibly boring it is I'm always trying to use more advanced stuff
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like location based reminders in keep or
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NFC tags but none of it ever really sticks for me I'm actually kind of a
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simple person as far as phone use goes
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and with all this talk of phones let's think for a minute what if you were more
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of like a phone mobile app developer and
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you needed a solution for easy online payments boom brain tree if you're
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building a mobile app and searching for a simple solution for taking people's
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Mone brain tree could be it with the brain tree v.0 SDK which is one small
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support staff to walk you through the process over the phone if you're having
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any trouble their code supports Android iOS and JavaScript clients and they have
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sdks in seven programming languages with
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brain tree you can accept multiple Mobile payment types including PayPal
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all with that single integration to
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learn more and get your first
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whatsoever head over to brainer payments.com Linus which is linked in
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ride of emotion and was actually kind of hard for me to watch even after the fact
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so uh definitely going to want to check that out