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Transfer files and control your phone wirelessly with AirDroid for Android
20 Jan 2012 by Kevin Schulte
Managing files and data on an Android device can be a chore at times. To move files back and forth you have to keep a micro USB cable handy. Not only that, in order to move files to your phone’s SD card it has to first be unmounted from your phone, which can take a while if you’re still using an ancient phone with limited internal memory (like me) and have tons of applications installe...
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Use Bubbles and Your Android Phone to Create Memorable Phone Calls
19 Jan 2012 by Kevin Ivanca
In a world filled with short attention spans and thinning short-term memories, it can sometimes be difficult to remember to mentioning important topics while making a phone call. Heck, give a person 30 minutes of phone conversation to wander, and their mind will stray further than the island of Lilliput (hint: it’s a fictitious location from a book). Well I don’t know about you, but ...
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Galaxy Nexus: How to prevent newly-installed apps from creating shortcuts on your home screen
16 Dec 2011 by Evan Wondrasek / 3 Comments
If you’re like me and have recently switched from an Android phone running Froyo (Android 2.2) or Gingerbread (Android 2.3) to the brand-new Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0) on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, you may have been surprised to find that apps installed from the Android Market automatically have shortcuts placed on the home screen. I’m sure this feature is convenient for most people, but ...
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Launcher 7 Brings the Windows Phone 7 Experience To Android
08 Dec 2011 by Kevin Schulte / 4 Comments
Windows Phone 7 may not have caught on like Microsoft was hoping it would, but it does present some interesting ideas. One of those is its minimalist, tile-based homescreen. Thanks to the wonders of Android, you can now get that same experience on your Android phone with Launcher 7. Windows Phone 7 (and by proxy Launcher 7) eschews the familiar rows and columns of icons used by stock Android and i...
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Is Nokia building a Google Wallet competitor?
16 Nov 2011 by Brian Nelson
Nokia has alluded to a Near Field Communication (NFC) driven wallet app for a long time, but is it finally almost here? According to NFC Rumors, Nokia is in talks with JP Morgan to bring an NFC payment app to Windows Phones and possibly devices powered by Symbian, their home brew OS. Nokia is still the reigning leader in the number of handsets they produce each year, and this could provide much-...
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What’s coming in Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich
11 Nov 2011 by Andrew Kalinchuk / 1 Comment
Now that the iPhone 4S and iOS 5 have had their chance to bathe in the limelight, the focus can turn to Google’s latest Android release: Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS). A quick assessment would hail ICS as the answer to Android’s nagging issue of fragmentation. With different versions of the OS scattered all over their various devices, developing for the platform has been notoriously difficu...
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Use Android Apps in Windows With BlueStacks
10 Nov 2011 by Brian Nelson / 1 Comment
A little company called BlueStacks is making waves after releasing an Android app player for Windows. Android developers are excited about the prospect of bring their applications to the desktop, and Android users are probably excited to have yet another venue for playing Angry Birds. The excitement surrounding BlueStacks’ software has led AMD and Citrix to invest $6.4 million in the small ...
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Google Music Beta Soon To Meet Google Music Store
07 Nov 2011 by Brian Nelson
I’ve been using Google Music (beta) for several months now, and if you haven’t already, request an invitation for yourself. It didn’t take long for me to fall in love with the simple interface, the surprisingly full set of features, and the nearly unlimited cloud space…but reports of the upcoming Google Music Store make this service all the sweeter. Google announced the lo...
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Untappd: An Android App Every Beer Geek Should Have
01 Nov 2011 by Brian Nelson
If you’re into craft beer, chances are good that you spend a good deal of time bragging to your friends about different beers you’ve tried or have on tap. Take, for instance, my text message conversation with my good friend last weekend. Friend: “At a place with Three Philosophers on tap.” Me: “How about you go to Hell?” As you might imagine, people with access ...
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Four Android Apps to Get You in the Halloween Spirit
28 Oct 2011 by Brian Nelson / 2 Comments
Halloween is sneaking up quickly, and you need to get mentally prepared for the occasion — and I don’t mean going to Target to admire the vast array of candy. Start honing your Halloween spirit with these four Android apps that are sure to leave you entertained, if not ready for some ghost-busting on the 31st. Zombie Booth Curious how you’d look as a flesh-craving member of the w...
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