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by Andrew Martonik
Mar 23, 2013
Weekly app picks. You want 'em, we got 'em. We're a little short on app choices this week, but we think the ones that are here are worth mentioning. As a good follow-up to last week'...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 22, 2013
Using your phone to control your home entertainment center has garnered the attention of just about every smartphone manufacturer this year. But it's not a new concept -- component manufacturers...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 22, 2013
Google Play Libros han llegado a Mexico!
Google has expanded the Play Store south of the border, and now Google Play Books is available in Mexico. Mexicans can now access thousands of titles, inclu...
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by Andrew Martonik
Mar 21, 2013
Verizon is updating its own messaging app today to support cross-platform syncing of SMS and MMS messages using your Verizon phone number. Users taking advantage of the Verizon Messages app on their...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 21, 2013
Ravensword: Shadowlands, Crescent Moon Games third in the Ravensword series, is now available in Google Play. I'll tell you up front -- it's not cheap. The game checks in at $6.99,...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 21, 2013
Whoopsies. It appears that the popular "Avast! Mobile Security" -- it's got somewhere between 10 million and 50 million downloads from Google Play -- is marking Android's Gmail as ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 20, 2013
We first had a look at Chameleon Launcher for the phone-sized screen about a week ago, and plenty of folks were excited and waiting for it to launch publicly. That just happened, and now you don'...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 20, 2013
A new version of the Google Play app has leaked, and it shows a new Holo-esque (and colorful) user interface. Droid-Life got their hands on an apk file labeled 4.0.16, and while it's c...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 20, 2013
Perfectly Clear for Android just got a hefty update, making one of my favorite apps even better. Perfectly Clear is an intelligent photo editor, that can take a good picture and make it great. It ad...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 20, 2013
Google's own note taking app, Google Keep, has just gone live and official. The service allows users to do more than just jot down ideas and thoughts, there is annotations, the ability to add pi...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 20, 2013
Google Currents got itself an interesting update today with support for editions that contain audio. Looks like you'll now be able to play audio from within the application itself, complete with...
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by Andrew Martonik
Mar 19, 2013
Facebook puzzled many users last week when the app began updating on its own outside of the Play Store, and today it seems to be pushing the same update through the proper channels. The changelog is...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 19, 2013
There are plenty of great choices when it comes to a keyboard for your Android device, and Swype has long been a crowd favorite. Today's new beta update should please everyone who uses the origi...
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by Andrew Martonik
Mar 19, 2013
Podio, the collaboration platform from Citrix, has just received a notable update to its Android app to improve management of tasks and add new languages. The new Android app brings options for comp...
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by Casey Rendon
Mar 18, 2013
Today we got a badass update to Gmail, giving users the much awaited feature of being able to reply, delete and archive right from the status bar notifications. Many ran out to the streets to rejoic...
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by Andrew Martonik
Mar 18, 2013
Google has just updated its Gmail app to include new actionable notifications for incoming email on devices running Jelly Bean. This means that incoming email can be archived, deleted or replied to ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 18, 2013
Google Drive has an issue, Google says this morning. And ... that's it. Fact is it's slow as hell on the web -- if it loads at all -- and mobile's only slightly better.
Google now says ...
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by Richard Devine
Mar 17, 2013
The news that Google Reader is to be closed down for good later this year has hit a lot of us really hard. For many it's the go-to way of getting their daily news fix, and for others -- includin...
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by Richard Devine
Mar 16, 2013
IK Multimedia first announced that their iRig Recorder app would be coming to Android back at CES in early January. Back then, we were told to expect it to land by the end of January. All went ...
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by Andrew Martonik
Mar 16, 2013
Things around here have been pretty busy (if you haven't noticed) because of the Samsung Galaxy S4 announcement, but we still managed to get together some great app picks for you. This week is a...
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by Andrew Martonik
Mar 15, 2013
Pocket Casts just received an update to version 4.1, bringing a new "dark" theme and several notable playback improvements. Even though it just recently made the major jump to version 4 wi...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 15, 2013
For the past couple of days users have been seeing a download notification for a new Facebook build (140579 or 141046). The notification would get stuck for many folks, and reboots or battery pulls ...
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by Andrew Martonik
Mar 15, 2013
One of our favorite Google Reader clients, Press, released an update to its app today explaining that it plans to continue development after Reader shuts down on July 1, 2013. First and foremost, Pr...
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by Andrew Martonik
Mar 14, 2013
The Sony SmartWatch controller app is receiving an update that brings several new flashy watch faces and increased functionality to the accessory. The new watch faces cover all the bases -- an...
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by Andrew Martonik
Mar 14, 2013
Ingress has just been updated today to give users the ability to submit and update portal location information. For existing portals, players at those portals can now submit new photos that they fee...
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by Andrew Martonik
Mar 14, 2013
Right on schedule, Rovio has just released its latest game "The Croods" into the Play Store to coincide with the upcoming release of the DreamWorks movie. In the game you get to play as th...
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by Andrew Martonik
Mar 14, 2013
The Mint.com app has received a solid update today with lots of background improvements and a couple of forward-facing fixes. One of the biggest improvements in this update is the ability to update ...
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by Richard Devine
Mar 14, 2013
Whatever your own personal opinions on the birth of the Chameleon Launcher project, one thing remains the same. People are talking about it. As people talk, interest grows, and Chameleon certainly b...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 13, 2013
Get ready to rumble boxing fans, because Real Boxing is now available for Android devices running NVIDIA's Tegra 3 chip. A smash hit on iOS, Real Boxing has been updated for Android, and optimiz...
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by Andrew Martonik
Mar 12, 2013
The Humble Bundle 5 has been out for a few days now, and after raising over $1 million in donations, the bundle is growing with three more games. The updated bundle adds the following three games, w...
