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ALL SMARTPHONES ALERT you to new updates. Generally, they’ll brighten up your screen to let you know or pop down when you’re using it, but there are other ways to alert you to a new message or email.
On Android, some phones like the Nexus and Moto range include an option to receive pulse notifications. That is a coloured light will flash every now and again alerting you to a new notification.
If your phone supports it, you can turn it on by going into Settings > Sound and Notification and scrolling down to Notification. You should see an option for Pulse Notification Light.
Turn it on and the next time you receive a notification, a light will flash at the bottom of your phone, the colour will depend on the notification received (e.g. green for WhatsApp, blue for Facebook, etc.).
The only option you have here is to turn it on or off. If you want to change the colour of certain notifications like SMS or missed calls, you have to download a third-party app like Light Flow.
The other option is less subtle but just as effective. On certain models, you go into Settings > Accessibility and find an option to turn on LED flash alerts. Alternatively, you can download the likes of Call Flash which allows the same thing.
You can do a similar thing on your iPhone. Go into Settings > General > Accessibility and scroll down to hearing. One of the options here will be LED flash for alerts which you can turn on.
Regardless of the type of phone you’re using, the next time you get a notification, your camera flash will light up twice. It will do this quickly but since it’s the flash that’s being used, everyone is going to notice it. Just keep that in mind.
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Payback…. Ireland produced Linda Martin….
But remember when she lost one year to those Swedish boys, we all called foul and fix too !
Yeah, Linda Martin was robbed.
Unfortunately they gave her back.
A bit late to be wondering about it now!
1968
two years after the brits started their murder campaign
Limerick, you truly are a sad man-this is not a place for Sinn Fein lines. Run along now please.
1968 ??? But what about the 800 years ??? I for one am shocked you didn’t even manage to squeeze Vinegar Hill into a completely unrelated issue.
As for Franco getting his own way . It wouldn’t supprise me. Modren version would be something like Qatar ‘winning’ the World Cup. Tyrants aren’t against doing this to boost their own profile.
If the country seems to look good to its own people, they do by association.
I remember a certain Mr Haughey in France at the finnish of some bike race in 1987.
Qatar…..world cup…but temperatures get into the mid 40′s during the day…..don’t be silly Paddy!
Ah sure plenty of sunscrean. Be grand!!
If we qualify for Qatar then Steve Staunton should get a call up. Add 30 years & 20 degrees to the head on him in Giants Stadium & it would be far more entertaining than the football!
Sour grapes ! Cliff Richard said the sane thing when he didn’t win a few years later ! And the english have claimed that they lost out in a similar way on many occasions, the most famous one was when The New Seekers lost out to Vicky Leandros in 1972 .
The New Seekers Beg,Steal or Borrow was one of the top 10 Eurovision songs
Honestly? It’s no better or no worse than Congratulations, AND I’m sure the chorus would’ve been a lot easier to learn!
Coulter should be taken out and shot for penning the third rate ‘Ireland’s call’. An utter embarrassment at every Ireland rugby match.
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