Gadgetory

hey guys this is Austin and steam here the reboot of tech I like now this is a series I was doing earlier this year and I got a lot of comments saying hey where did it go so what we're going to be doing is something just a little bit different this time instead of doing a new video every week and just kind of any kind of cool tech that I felt like doing instead we're going to be doing stuff that I actually use pretty much on a daily basis so whether it's going to be my phone my tablet my camera computer anything cool and tech that I use all the time I might make a video on so today we're gonna start with the Samsung Galaxy s3 my daily driver of a phone so let's get started even though it isn't the newest phone out I still think the galaxy s3 is one of the best smartphones period the design has held up very well over the last few months and even though it's made out of plastic it still feels premium this is the pebble blue version on Verizon which is my main carrier but I've also done some customizing first of all I flashed a custom ROM CyanogenMod 10 this brings Android 4.1 as well as a basically unscanned interface I'm a big fan of stock Android and while this is still a nightly build with a fair share of bugs I prefer it over running stock on Ice Cream Sandwich it's the best of both worlds for me the great galaxy s3 Hardware paired with Nexus levels of customization if you're interested in doing this to your Galaxy s3 be prepared though it's a pretty major paint install on top of cm10 I'm running Nova Launcher prime this is a fairly standard launcher at first glance which will allow you to customize your home screen app drawer and the overall look and feel for it sets itself apart is with gesture support just like on OS 10 you can set to use a two-finger swipe to open your apps I swipe down to open your notifications or even a swipe up to open Google now it's totally customizable and definitely worth a look I've also side loaded Flash Player which comes in handy sometimes if I want to view the on flash video using Firefox the hidden gem is definitely battery widget reborn pro it's part widget that you can resize for your home screen or dock which allows you to jump into your battery usage quickly but it's also a notification swipe down and you can see how much charge is left and how long your battery should last which is really helpful I also use super widget pro this is an incredibly customizable widget that allows you to put all kinds of info on your home screen it's not the most user-friendly thing in the world but spend some time with it and you can load weather system info time and date and much more into a simple widget pop the back and you'll see I've got a 32 gigabyte sandisk micro SD card with only 16 gigabytes and storage on the phone I use this mostly for backups as well as for music pictures and video something else that saves me a ton of time is this nano sim adapter I'm constantly churning through phones to review so this allows me to use my phone number and data and whatever Verizon phone I need now it's time for you guys to tell me what kind of take you like so all you need to do is jump over to Twitter and use the hashtag tech I like so you can tell me about a custom PC you use maybe a cool Mac set up a custom Android phone it doesn't really matter if it's something cool and something take that you like what and send it in and who knows you might even be featured on a new episode of tech I like anyway guys it's gonna be about it if you want to keep up with me you can follow me on twitter at duncan 3-3 303 as well as on facebook google+ all the links will be in the description below anyway guys hopefully enjoyed this episode and I still don't have an outro yeah this is not an outro I can't stop