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Android Market Pick: Compass

2010-05-30
hey everyone Daniel Webster here from pakka calm and one of the best things about an Android device is that has a built-in digital compass so the cool thing about that is you can get your location without having to use the GPS on board so today I'm gonna show you a program called compass which is pretty simple but with many different skins and a few extra features so let's get started ok so here we are on compass and actually see we have a few other options on here we have in actual GPS location it also gives you our direction so as you see it uses the magnetic chip inside of the digital compass to locate which direction we are traveling so we can go in down here and we can change the compass type so I have a few other options I have all these other ones I'm not going to show you them all but I have analog so I can go there and it looks kind of like the type that you would use if you were out camping or whatnot you can also go down here and change the background so if I want it to be mesh it's kind of a little more futuristic there I guess a little more techy so we can go down here again we can also go into some of the settings so I can either display true north or magnetic north so if I change this it will show me the true north I can change the noise filter it's our type sensor rate display location so if we want it to display my current location above the compass I can select that there I can look change the location text color I have two choices but it's only green white so I'm gonna leave it at green and buffer display include altitude if I want so I can have the current altitude of my location include Direction include address include location include speed vibrate if I want distance location speed so there's a lot of options on this free compass on Android Market so we're just going to go back and if at any point I need to calibrate the compass it wants me to draw a figure 8 another cool feature about this program is at any point all you have to do with click nope location and if you have three banana loaded on your Android device it will save it and you can also add a QR code a picture or whichever thing you want and just click Save and now your location is saved so this is another Android Market pick and the premise called compass and it is free on Android Market thanks for watching and if at any time you want to download this program to your device just navigate using Google Goggles to the image of the QR code on the screen and snap a picture
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