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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 05, 2012
Android's Google Search app just got a pretty good update, and that means we've got new features for Google Now as well.
Of note are improvements for travelers. If Google Now knows you'...
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by Simon Sage
Dec 05, 2012
Gameloft's much-anticipated lane defense game, Heroes of Order and Chaos, launched this morning on Google Play. The Dota clone is free to play with plenty of in-app purchases, and a very familia...
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by Alex Dobie
Dec 05, 2012
When TomTom for Android first appeared a couple of months back, support was limited to a few devices with WVGA displays, a move which excluded many of the most popular handsets. Today the app h...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 05, 2012
When we last left Me in My Place, the photography series had just launched a web app that ... was a bit lacking on our Android devices. Great for iOS. Bad for us. No longer. The web app has undergon...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 04, 2012
The official Etsy app is now available for our favorite platform, and now you can shop for handmade trinkets without ever firing up your computer.
The app itself is geared towards the shopper...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 04, 2012
If you're a Google Apps for business, education, or government customer; there's a new update to Google Play that you'll probably want to check out. You can now host private inte...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 04, 2012
Facebook today announced that it's opening up Facebook Messenger to folks who don't actually use Facebook. Going forward, all you'll need to use the Messenger app is a name and phone num...
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by Alex Dobie
Dec 04, 2012
Android app developer LevelUp Studio has announced the launch of Beautiful Widgets 5, a brand new version of its popular widget and application suite.
New features in the latest version of Beautifu...
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 03, 2012
Starbucks lovers with a device running Android 4.2 -- quite a few of us now -- have been out in the cold waiting for an update to fix compatibility with the latest OS update. Some problem with ...
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 03, 2012
Starting today, that fancy new Gmail update -- version 4.2 -- is bringing the much-requested features of pinch-to-zoom and swipe-to-delete to any device running Ice Cream Sandwich or later. But curi...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 03, 2012
Just a quick heads up that there's an update to your Gmail app that brings you the same version that we've been enjoying on the Nexus 4, Nexus 7, Nexus 10 and Galaxy Nexus with Android 4.2. ...
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by Alex Dobie
Dec 03, 2012
You might've read about this issue in Phil's latest column, or experienced it first-hand if you've upgraded to Android 4.2 on a device with SwiftKey installed. In any case, some Swi...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 02, 2012
The folks at XBMC have released the second beta for version 12 (Frodo) and we finally see official Android support. XBMC for Android has been "unofficially" available on and off, as t...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 02, 2012
Remember how you can tap things and do a little voodoo to enable developer options in Android 4.2? Most of us still won't need to enable any of these other than USB debugging, but folks who are ...
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 01, 2012
It's the first day of December, and for some of us that means terrible, cold weather. When it's nasty outside, you're probably just better off staying in and downloading some great apps ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 01, 2012
It's a perilous time to be the developer of a Twitter client, with major changes to the service's API looming on the horizon. We've already seen one Android client shut down in large par...
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by Richard Devine
Nov 30, 2012
Falcon Pro (Beta) was my weekly app pick last week, and for good reason. Twitter clients aren't in short supply, but with Twitter's new rules, some of the better ones seen recently are start...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 30, 2012
Android users everywhere are all talking about Ingress. It's a cool location based MMO sci-fi game where you secure portals to help alter the course of human history. The back story is all ...
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by Richard Devine
Nov 30, 2012
Electronic Arts is currently offering up a series of deals every day, funnily enough known as the EA Daily Deals. The offers vary as one would expect, but to help us keep an eye on what's up for...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 30, 2012
Plague Inc. easily is in the running for my 2012 Android Game of the Year, and it's about to get even better. Developer Ndemic today let loose a blog post detailing some upcoming features in Mut...
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by Andrew Martonik
Nov 30, 2012
ADW Launcher, once a staple in the Android community, mysteriously stopped being updated some time ago. While updates to Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean started to come out, ADW still looked like ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 30, 2012
Google's semi-secretive game Ingress is still in closed beta, but the numbers are growing every day. And overnight, the Android application got itself a little update. According to the one of th...
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by Richard Devine
Nov 30, 2012
A quick heads up to all the Xbox users out there, that the Xbox Smartglass application has been updated. It's not a big update save for one feature. It now works on the Google Nexus 7 and o...
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by Alex Dobie
Nov 30, 2012
Good news, Australians -- no longer will your unique contributions to the English language go unnoticed. SwiftKey has announced that it's added full Aussie dictionary support in the latest versi...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 29, 2012
I use Linux for my PC operating system. That means I don't get any fancy Android File Transfer programs to use to copy files on and off of my devices, and setting up MTP support is a h...
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by Alex Dobie
Nov 29, 2012
Many countries have been enjoying Google Maps' free turn-by-turn navigation feature for a couple of years, but so far Mexico's been left out of the fun. That changes today with the launch of...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 29, 2012
Want to move files between your Android device and a Mac? There's an app for that (natch)
It's OK to use a Mac if you're also an Android fan. You don't have to apologize. In fact...
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by Andrew Martonik
Nov 29, 2012
Peel, a so-called "second screen" app used as a TV guide (and in some cases to control your TV), has been available for download for some time now. The company has even struck a deal with ...
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by Andrew Martonik
Nov 29, 2012
We got a teaser video yesterday showing off new content for the recently released Angry Birds Star Wars game, and now it has gone live in the Play Store. The update brings new levels on the planet H...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 29, 2012
I'm not normally one to worry about the size of Android applications these days. Twenty megabytes? Download without thinking. Fifty? Sure. Why not?
Sega's much-anticipated Jet Set Radio, ho...
