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hey guys my last video we talked about CyanogenMod 9 one of my favorite custom roms out there and I hinted it something that was interesting and that was coming that what's that it's an NFC sticker so what we're going to talk about today is NFC which is either going to be really dull and put you to sleep or it's going to blow your mind I'm Joe Levi this is PocketNow let's go take a look so NFC Near Field Communication essentially what it is is a little microchip with a really big antenna relatively speaking all kind of connected together and with the two you can connect you can communicate over very short distances how short well essentially you have to touch these to the back of the phone because the other antenna the receiving end or transmitting depending on what you're doing with it is inside the battery kind of interesting but what can you do with it well in our last video I showed you a really cool feature of CyanogenMod 9 now again I'm running CyanogenMod 9 this is a couple days newer of a nightly on this phone but it is a Samsung Galaxy Nexus the GSM model but this will work with any phone that has an NFC chip and a cm9 ROM running on it don't worry if you're not running a cm9 ROM on your phone and still want to do it we'll have a part 2 video that shows you some other cool stuff you can do with NFC coming up but back to cm9 we talked about profiles now just to recap really quickly profiles are things that you can set up in cm9 that will let you set certain things on or off based on where you are not necessarily where you are but based on your profile and I just happen to name them based on where I am it's kind of a difference there the first way implies that there's some kind of geolocation going on there's not back to this I've got a profile so for my car that does certain car things like we talked about turns on Bluetooth turns off Wi-Fi some other things at home turns off Bluetooth turns on Wi-Fi turns off GPS all this cool kind of stuff night well night mode is really cool because I have it set to make my phone shut up it won't wake me up at 2:00 a.m. when I get an email or at 2:15 when I get another email it's happened it's annoying this fixes it I have to get into these different modes how do I do that well I can always come in here do this do that and say okay hey look night mode whoo I'm in the night profile now great now that takes way too long so let's say I just woke up I can do this press and hold my power button up here and now I can change my profile to home and say oh woops home and then say okay still too many taps I don't want to do it so what can I do check this out we're going to go back into settings back into profiles and let's say night okay this is what I'm doing at night but I don't want to have to manually change the profile AHA and a tap on that guy right there so it's writing a profile to an NFC tag allows you to tap the tag to select that profile tapping a second time will select the previously selected profile so there's my tag here's my phone just like that tag successfully written this is now programmed to be my night time tag got it okay so I've got this folded so you can tell that it's night time we're going to come over here to home now I'm sorry did we just do home I think we just did home let's uh let's go to work say I'm at work now so here I am at work let's program this tag to be my work tag Tagg successfully written there you go work okay so that's it what do I do with it well these are stickers this sticky back right there now when I want to change profiles I do that and it's now set to night mode it's automatically set all of my rules when I scan this again it will reset it so in this case I had night and night so it's just so I had night and home so now I'm back to home mode let's pretend that I went to work and take that and now my profile is work okay come home it's late at night I want to go sleep there you go now I'm back at night mode and you're seeing my profile switching down there on the bottom now that's kind of cool but these are ticket just stickers I don't want to you know carry them around in my wallet with me what I want to do is put them in interesting places Hey so what I've done is on my nightstand where I charge my phone I have my charger get that over here and what I'm going to do is just plug this in great now I've got a spot on my nightstand where let's pretend we've stuck this down I come home I set that down and I'm done except it selected work because what was already in night mode sometimes demos don't do exactly what you want them to do because they're not all that easy to keep track of where you are cuz you're in the same place but now I'm in night mode fabulous great when I get up in the morning and I go someplace you know the power bi knows let's say I want to take my smartphone with me well I can put a sticker on the door that will automatically when I tap it change me over to home mode I'm going to take this very sticker with me to work today I'm going to put it someplace inconspicuous and when I get there I'm going to switch over to work just as easy as that I've got another one of these stickers already set up in my car very inconspicuous I want to get to my car I just have to hold my phone over the sticker and I'm automatically changed into car mode very cool I like this a lot completely blows my mind and I hope it blows yours again cm9 custom mod profiles if you don't have those you're in luck there are some other stuff we're going to talk about that in our next video in the meantime if you want to find out more information about NFC cm9 and that everything that we've talked about here head over to pocketnow.com read the article I'll have links to where you can get some of these NFC stickers for yourself and start doing this kind of stuff it's not just limited to this this is just the latest use that I found and honestly I think it's awesome let me know what you think down in the comments at pocketnow.com for PocketNow showing off NFC I'm Joe Levi