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Guns n’ Glory shoots up the Wild West [Game Reviews]

September 2, 2010 | by Andrew Kameka

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Guns n’ Glory is a tower defense game that requires adaptive strategy as well as shooting. Players control bandits who kill settlers on foot, horseback, in wagons, and in gold-carrying trailers. Some bandits…

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Learn About the World with FactBook [App Reviews]

August 30, 2010 | by Lars Aronsson

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The World Factbook is a reference resource produced by the CIA with information and statistics about the countries of the world. The Web version gets around 6 million monthly visits, and it’s frequently used f…

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Android Apps Alert #31: Picture This edition

August 29, 2010 | by Andrew Kameka

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Every week, Androinica.com attempts to highlight the best Android Apps. Using tips from the #androidapps tag on Twitter and recommendations to @androinica, we try to find something you may have missed. This…

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Recordoid Lite: a Dictaphone with a Retro Look [App Reviews]

August 27, 2010 | by Lars Aronsson

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Some apps have excellent features, but sport interfaces that appear to be inspired by the good ol’ Windows 3.1 from 1992. Then there are apps that look great, but hardly provide any functionality. With its styl…

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Gmail Popup shows email titles in popups [App Reviews]

August 27, 2010 | by Andrew Kameka

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If you’ve ever enjoyed the text message notification pop-up feature in apps like Handcent or SMS Popup and wished that something similar would come along for e-mail, the time has arrived. Gmail Popup is a £0.69…

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The Best RSS Android app with Google Reader is…[Droid vs Droid]

August 25, 2010 | by Andrew Kameka

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Google has its hands in virtually every sector of tech possible, but many of those efforts don’t have official clients made for Android. It’s a common complaint for Android users that Google Reader is in…

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Keep Track of What You Own With Shelves [App Reviews]

August 24, 2010 | by Lars Aronsson

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Shelves is an application that is quite new on the Market, and it’s designed to let you manage your various collections straight from your Android device, such as movies, video games, books, gadgets and albums…

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Android Apps Alert #30: Chat up a storm, think ’til morn edition

August 22, 2010 | by Andrew Kameka

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Every week, Androinica.com attempts to highlight the best Android Apps. Using tips from the #androidapps tag on Twitter and recommendations to @androinica, we try to find something you may have missed. This…

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Grab all the 8-bit Computer Nostalgia You Can Handle with Frodo C64 [App Reviews]

August 20, 2010 | by Lars Aronsson

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The iconic 8-bit Commodore C64 was manufactured for an impressive 12 years between 1982 and 1994, and it’s the best-selling single personal computer model of all time. It featured 64KB of RAM, a 1MHz processor…

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9 Ways to Make Android automatic with Tasker

August 19, 2010 | by Andrew Kameka

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Tasker is the ultimate Android app. It creates profiles to automatically change settings, delivers shortcuts, helps manage daily activities, and automates many of the mundane tasks that you attempt to perf…

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Animal Planet app brings video, photos, and animal trivia to Android [App Reviews]

August 18, 2010 | by Chris Smith

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It is always interesting to see mainstream broadcast TV stations to get into the smartphone app game. We have seen apps from The Discovery Channel, The Weather Channel, and CBS to name a few so it seems just a matt…

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Tumblr for Android microblogs directly from your phone [App Reviews]

August 17, 2010 | by Andrew Kameka

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Sometimes a blog is too much and a tweet is not enough. Tumblr exists as the middle-ground of blogging; long form if you choose, but ideal for short blips and shared content that doesn’t necessarily fit wi…

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Discover Your Inner Artist with Sketcher [App Reviews]

August 17, 2010 | by Lars Aronsson

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A category of mobile software that really needs a (capacitive) touchscreen is painting apps. To be able to draw with your fingers directly on a screen opens up a lot of possibilities, and some renowned artists h…

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Floating Image: a Picture Gallery in Motion [App Reviews]

August 14, 2010 | by Lars Aronsson

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Would you use an app that just moves pictures across your screen? It probably doesn’t sound that enticing, but Floating Image may surprise you. It’s a gallery application that gathers photos stored locally on…

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Connect to FTP Servers and Web Hosts on Your Android with AndFTP [App Reviews]

August 12, 2010 | by Lars Aronsson

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The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) feels like it’s been around since the dawn of time compared to some of the more recent forms of sharing and transferring files, and considering how quickly things move forward i…

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gStrings Lets You Tune Your Instruments with Ease [App Reviews]

August 10, 2010 | by Lars Aronsson

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As a fan of technological convergence, I love when I can find a new use for my Android phone that makes it replace yet another device that I once carried separately. In fact, a while ago I tried to list all the gadget…

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