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HootSuite for Android balances heavy features and light loading times [Video app review]

Swift was my favorite Android Twitter app last fall, mainly because it was among the fastest and easiest to navigate. However, I needed multiple account support to make it my full-time choice. Swift’s developer, Sebastian Delmont, has since added multiple accounts and a long list of other features to Swift – only he’s done it [...]

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Make your ROOTED Android phone even faster with SetCPU (App Reviews)

Rooting an Android phone can lead to a never-ending quest to improve your phone and push each device to its limits. One such benefit from root access is the ability to overclock your phone. Overclocking is a tool that increases the speed at which your phone’s processor can operate. The G1 comes with a 528 [...]

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Associated Press “Today in History” reminds users of historic events and puzzles (App Review)

Michael Jackson burned his hair while filming a PEPSI commercial on January 27, 1984. I know this because I was born the same day and have been quick to inform people that a historic event took place on the same day Michael Jackson burned his hair (see what I did there?). I also know because the [...]

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Address Book is the next step in Android contact & communication management

Streamlined communication is the future of digital interaction. While the list of ways we communicate– calls, text, email, Facebook, Twitter – are sure to increase, there will be a need to centralize those communications. Asurion Software has joined the fray of companies looking to make the future now with its new Android app Address Book. Address [...]

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EXTRA! EXTRA! Associated Press’s “AP Mobile” is a great Android news app

Through cooperative agreements with some of the world’s largest newspapers and television networks, the Associated Press supplies much of the news items that you’re likely to come across in a given day. With its new AP Mobile Android app, those stories can now be piped directly to your Android device. AP Mobile delivers the hot-topic news [...]

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