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Own more than one smartphone? 5 things you can do- The Times of India
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/slideshow/own-more-than-one-smartphone-5
-things-you-can-do/A-multi-camera-setup/itslideshow/47552443.cms
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Multi-room audio without the expense

You've probably heard of wireless multi-room audio systems; individual speaker s


ystems, synced to each other wirelessly and controllable from one location. It's
nice to have the same music piped into different rooms of the house.
There is an option if you have multiple Android devices and multiple Bluetooth (
or even wired) speakers -- a free app called Sound Seeder. You need the SoundSee
der app on the controller device (the one with the music) and the other devices
(which only receive the audio stream) need to get the SoundSeeder Speaker app. H
ook up each Android device to a speaker and you're good to go!
SoundSeeder is a full-featured music player with media library, graphic equalize
r, built-in internet radio and it works over Wi-Fi. You can connect up to 16 dev
ices (speakers) simultaneously for synced multi-room audio as long as your Wi-Fi
network allows the spread of devices.
iOS users can get a similar app called Seedio which broadcasts audio over Wi-Fi
to other nearby iOS devices. You can try the free version of Seedio to see if it
works for you (the free version can receive songs but can only broadcast for 10
minutes every hour).
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Use one Android device as keyboard for another

Let's say you have an Android phone or tablet connected to a TV to use as a medi
a player.
The problem is, each time you want to change something, you have to get up and o
perate it. Developers Locnet have made a couple of apps that let you use one And
roid device as a keyboard or mouse for another. An2An Keyboard and An2An Mouse a
re the apps.
To get either of them to work, you first need to download the free An2An Remote
app on the device that you want to control. In the same way, you can also use mu
ltiple Android devices as a keyboard or mouse with a computer.
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A multi-camera setup

When you look at foot age of an event that has been professionally videographed,
chances are that there are multiple shots of the same scene from different angl
es and they're all edited together seamlessly.
You can do something similar with smartphones and a free app called Vyclone (ava
ilable for iOS, Android and Windows Phone). You need to download it on multiple
devices, film something and upload through the app -- Vyclone will edit them tog
ether for you.
For something with much more 'professional level' control, you can consider Coll
abraCam. This is a $5.99 iOS app that lets you direct up to six other iOS device
s in a multi-camera setup.
You can use multiple iPhones (or iPads) to record your own reality show or talk
show and then edit them live before uploading directly to YouTube. As the direct
or, you can choose which feed to use and direct the six camera operators with on
-screen messages.
All the devices need to be connected to the same Wi-Fi network and they will wor
k with a wireless hotspot -- no internet connection is needed.
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Link phones together to make a large display

You might have seen multiple televisions monitors linked together to make one gi
ant display at events or shopping malls. The same concept can be applied to smar
tphones and tablets.
While there is no ready solution available for purchase right now, there are thr
ee ongoing projects which deliver this kind of functionality. An upcoming techno
logy called the Nanoport Magnetic Connector keeps your devices stuck together to
form a single giant display.
The company behind the technology claims that the device will be able to transfe
r data and power quickly from one connected device to another without using any
cords. A similar concept developed by the Tokyo University of Technology is call
ed Pinch.
Instead of being a hardware connector, Pinch is an interface that needs to be in
stalled on all devices and it works over Wi-Fi. Once installed on all the device
s, you need to place the screens next to each other (in any alignment), 'pinch'
the screens together and it will link them to work as a single large display.
If you feel you have to try this for yourself, you can connect multiple devices
using their native web browsers and something called the Junkyard Jumbotron. Thi
s is a free, web-based tool by MIT that links multiple smartphones or tablets in
to a large display. This is a tool for the computer geek because it requires you
to download the source code and then install it on top of a nod server.
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