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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 30, 2012
As we close out the year, it's time to take a look back at things. I've never been all that keen on "year's best" lists for applications, though that doesn't mean they don&...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 29, 2012
New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority this week released its "Subway Time" app for iOS, which gives real-time updates for trains in and and around New York City. Need to kno...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 28, 2012
We've talked a bit in the past about URL shorteners and how they can save space -- or wreak havoc. It's really all about trust, right? We've used third-party shorteners like bit.ly befor...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 28, 2012
So we're kind of starting to wind down this contest a little bit. We say "kind of" because we're actually a week or so behind, and we're going to make up for that before the end ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 28, 2012
Nary a moment too soon, word in our Nexus 4 forums is that another batch of the hard-to-buy (and harder-to-ship, apparently) smartphone is on its way to the good boys and girls. The phone's stil...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 28, 2012
Begone, doubters. OUYA -- the Android-based game console that shattered about 16 Kickstarter records -- has shipped to developers. Some 1,200 of them have shipped to developers. And it's importa...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 27, 2012
A quick heads up that there will be no live show of the Android Central Podcast tonight, or for the rest of the year. Frankly, there's nothing going on this week anyway, and the rest of thi...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 27, 2012
Now some of you may think that we forgot about today's $10 Google Play Gift Card giveaway. And that's not entirely true. We remembered it. About 6 hours ago. And then we forgot about it. But t...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 27, 2012
Here's a quick heads up for those of you who just have to run the occasional Android application siloed on your computer -- Bluestacks is now in beta for Macs. If you're new to Bluestacks, t...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 26, 2012
Oh, my. So ... full. Can't ... hardly ... type. But the giving must go on. We're marching toward the final round of our month-long (ish) Google Play Gift Card giveaway, in which we're givi...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 26, 2012
Google a couple weeks ago made a rather nice commercial out of the Photosphere feature, in which you make a 360-degree (more or less) panoramic photo that all gets stitched together on your phone. T...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 25, 2012
Right. It's Christmas Day, and the gifts just keep on coming in our Stocking Stuffers contest. Want to win a $10 Google Play Gift Card? Here's all you have to do: Leave a comment on this post....
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 24, 2012
Not sure that pushing out OS updates on Christmas Eve is the wisest of moves, but we're not going to knock them either. HTC's following in Motorola's footsteps today, pushing out the And...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 24, 2012
Ah, Christmas Eve. The day we remind our kids that they still have to be good for at least one more day, and remind ourselves that a little extra patience probably wouldn't hurt anyone. Easier s...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 24, 2012
OK, so our stocking-stuffing schedule got thrown off a little bit thanks to some other, bigger, giveaways. These things happen, right? But it's Christmas eve, we're back on the horse, and we&#...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 24, 2012
There's a plethora of ways to track Santa Claus online today. Here are the two I'm thrusting at my kids.
Google Earth: Everybody's favorite 3D(ish) map app is, of course, trackin...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 22, 2012
Behold, the HTC One VX on AT&T. More than a One V, less than a One X, and dancing right around the noble One S without giving it as much as a mention in its already convoluted name. We've go...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 22, 2012
Here it is, folks. The fifth day in our five-day Nexus 7 and Google Play Gift Card giveaway, courtesy of the fine folks at Google. We've already had four days of entries, and this here's you...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 21, 2012
Awwww, little Bugdroid just wants to go outside.
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 21, 2012
Now that we've got our initial excitement out of the way, let's take a slightly deeper look at Pitfall for Android. What we've got is a rebooted version of the classic 1980s video g...
