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There are many security camera apps for Android that turn your android phone into a security camera or webcam, for example, Manything, IP Webcam, Alfred, Presence, AtHome Camera, Perch, Salient Eye Home Security System etc. Samsung Flow is a software product that enables a seamless, secure, connected experience across your devices. You can authenticate your Tablet/PC with your smartphone, share content between devices, and sync notifications or view contents from your smartphone on your Tablet/PC.
We’ve all been there - your phone slips from your fingers and starts tumbling towards the ground, and that dreaded thought pops into your mind: “Oh no! Please don’t let the screen be broken!”
Your smartphone’s screen is its most important component – after all, we use our screens to navigate between apps, send text messages, check email and watch videos. When it is cracked or broken, it can be a huge pain.
When their phone screen is shattered, many people write off their device as unusable. This is not true! It is still possible to access a phone with a broken screen, even if it seems shattered beyond repair. You can indeed back up all of your content on an Android phone, allowing you to move your information to a new device and/ or restore your existing phone once the screen has been fixed. Whew!
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Have you recently smashed your phone’s screen? If so, you are not alone. Read ahead as we take a detailed look into how to ensure safety, access an Android device with a broken screen (to recover your valuable data), and deal with the cracked screen.
More than most Android phones, the Samsung Galaxy S8 is quite attractive to Microsoft fans. Windows 10 is the most used OS in the world, and it's a strong companion to any modern smartphone.
The Galaxy S8 has plenty of Microsoft support built right in by way of preloaded apps and the Continuum-like DeX system. Aside from all that, here are some of the ways you'll be able to use your phone and PC in perfect harmony.
Use Phone Companion for Windows 10 to transfer your photos
The Phone Companion app from Microsoft is a pretty easy way to go between your phone and PC. It can import all your photos from the phone to the built-in Photos app in Windows 10.
The Galaxy S8 will likely take some truly excellent photos, so there's a good chance you'll be using the app quite a lot. The guide linked below will help you keep organized by getting those shots off your phone and onto your PC.
Calendar and Mail with Outlook
You could use your Outlook account with Gmail and Google Calendar. Or you could do yourself a favor and get the Outlook app for Android on your Galaxy S8.
After Microsoft gobbled up Sunrise Calendar, parts of it are slowly appearing in Outlook, such as integrations with third-party services. Outlook contains email and calendar within the same app on Android, and you can also pull in mail accounts from Gmail.
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Why use two apps when you can have only one that gets the job done?
Samsung SideSync
Samsung SideSync is often overlooked, but it's a really useful piece of software for Galaxy phones. It allows you to connect your phone to a PC and get your notifications, or even the entire phone display, mirrored.
It's not like DeX, because it's just a window that represents your phone, hooked up to the PC via Wi-Fi. But it's pretty reliable and a nifty way to transfer files quickly without having to hunt for a cable, or even touch the phone at all.
It will work better over a wired connection to the PC, though, and faster than wirelessly. Whichever way you prefer, SideSync is a great feature to have.
Use Cortana as your assistant
Samsung has Bixby on the Galaxy S8, and Google has the Google Assistant, but neither of those can boast the freedom of Cortana. By being available cross-platform, you have some elements of synchronicity between your phone and your PC with Cortana.
You can have basic notification mirroring, and of course the benefits of using Cortana as your assistant, on both phone and PC. If you use Cortana on your Windows 10 PC a lot, it's a no-brainer to download it to the Galaxy S8.
Recent updates have allowed access to the lock screen, and because it's Android, it's a simple process to make Cortana your default assistant.
Set up OneDrive camera backup
OneDrive is a terrific cloud storage service to use, particularly if you're also an Office 365 subscriber with that 1TB allowance to fill. The OneDrive app for Android is nicely done, but one feature you should look at enabling is the camera backup.
While moving photos to your PC en masse with Phone Companion is good, if you want to back up to the cloud, you'll have a two-stage process. By enabling it in the OneDrive app for Android, any new snaps you shoot with that awesome camera will be auto-magically sent up to the cloud for you.
OneDrive is also preloaded on the Galaxy S8, so if it's anything like recent devices you'll likely get some free storage added to your account for two years, as well.
Time to relax
If Groove is your music service of choice, not only did you choose well but you'll have a solid experience with the Android app. And if Xbox is your preferred console, the old Smartglass app has now been replaced by the newer Xbox app.
Neither are completely on par with their Windows counterparts, and the Xbox app, in particular, lags behind. But both are important parts of the Microsoft ecosystem, so it's good to know you won't have to relinquish either by using a Galaxy S8:
For full coverage of the Samsung Galaxy S8 be sure to stop by Android Central.
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Looking backMy top 15 best Xbox and Windows PC games of the decade (2010 onwards)
2010 feels like only yesterday, and what a magical time it was. The Xbox 360 was really hitting its stride, NVIDIA launched its GeForce 580 with a whopping 512 CUDA cores, and we still didn't get Half Life 3. We also got tons of amazing games, and here are some of my favorites.