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Sep
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Camera ZOOM FX Review + Giveaway

Posted by Jaroslav Stekl in Applications, Contests, Reviews

  

When it comes to photo editing on the fly, there are usually two kinds of apps: those intended for mindless fun, and those intended for actual work. Without a doubt, Camera ZOOM FX falls into the latter category, along with its mediocre UI, strange (though not necessarily poor) selection of effects, and (relatively) low price tag. So is it worth a look? A purchase? Read on for the full Android Police review.

The Review

Design

Like I said in the introduction, Camera ZOOM FX’s design is not exactly my definition of sexy. The…

03
Sep
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[App Review] Keep Tabs On Woot and Woot-Offs With WootWatcher

Posted by Jose R. Ortiz in Applications, Reviews

You Woot, right? Of course you do – everyone does. If you want to keep tabs on this Internet addiction, you should check out WootWatcher.

If you’re 1 of the 3 people left who aren’t familiar with Woot, it is a family of sites which includes Shirt.Woot, Wine.Woot, Sellout.Woot, Kids.Woot, and the main site, Woot.com. Every night at 12:00 AM CST, each site puts up a new deal that is available for 24 hours or until it sells out, which ever comes first. These deals can range from a $300 32” HDTV…

02
Sep
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[Epic Lulz Thursday] Prank Your Friends With Shavester And Watch Them Freak Out

Posted by Artem Russakovskii in Applications

I’m not usually a supporter of apps that don’t have much of a purpose, especially the ones that fall under the "pranks" category. Now, I say "usually" because most of the time these apps are pretty stupid (I’m looking at you, iFarts) or not very prank-worthy.

Rarely, however, worthy apps do come out, and the recent Shavester is one of them – it caught my attention due to the freakout potential of turning your merry friends into something like Britney here, except not as happy, if only for just a few seconds.

The premise behind Shavester is…

30
Aug
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Buzz Voice For Android Arrives, Ready To Read Your Min… Errr… Daily News Aloud. Oh, And We Have 10 Free Copies To Give Away ($5 Value Each)

Posted by Artem Russakovskii in Applications, Contests, News
Last Updated: September 8th, 2010


Buzz Voice

The team behind Buzz Voice, a service that converts posts from your favorite blogs and news sites into speech, and previously available exclusively in the Apple ecosystem, has been working diligently for the past few months to release a version for the Android OS. The good news finally came this past weekend, when Buzz Voice for Android was officially announced.

This contest is now over. We have selected the winners – see if you are one of them towards the bottom of the page.

Buzz Voice on the Android platform brings a couple…

24
Aug
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Android Gets App-Switching Eye Candy: Visual Task Switcher Now Available On The Market

Posted by Brian O'Toole in Applications, News

One of the most vaunted features of webOS was its decidedly pretty multitasking interface. Users could invoke an overlay of thumbnail “cards” of their running applications and switch to or close them.

Fresh onto the Android Marketplace is Visual Task Switcher. Continuing on from some progress made earlier this year (although probably not using the same method), this application grants you thumbnail application switching. While not as polished as Palm’s version, this is an encouraging step towards that alluring goal.

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Users can switch to a running application by tapping the thumbnail, or…

15
Aug
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AndroidPolice.com RSS Add-on For Dolphin HD Now In The Android Market

Posted by Artem Russakovskii in Applications, News

In an effort to make it easier to access AndroidPolice news on the go, we have partnered with the makers of the Dolphin HD browser to release a Dolphin RSS add-on for AndroidPolice.com. This add-on is a basic RSS app with a 1-click access to the latest AnderoidPolice headlines.

Power users may not be too impressed by the simplicity of this app and may instead add our RSS feed in their favorite RSS readers instead (such as Newsrob). However, those of you who are not after too many bells and whistles may find that this simplistic approach…

09
Aug
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TweetDeck Beta For Android Out Later This Week!

Posted by Artem Russakovskii in Applications, News

If you’ve been anxiously waiting for TweetDeck for Android, like we all here at AP, you can start jumping up and down right about now, because the company blog just announced that a public beta will be rolling out this week.

Ever since I had the pleasure of seeing a private demo of the app given to me by TweetDeck’s CEO Iain Dodsworth at Google I/O, I’ve been anxious to get my grabby hands on a copy. Expected back in April to be "a few weeks," the app’s release timeline apparently got stretched to a few months,…

30
Jul
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Milestone Reached: Android App Markets Reach 100,000 Submitted And 83,000 Active Applications

Posted by Artem Russakovskii in Apps/Games, News

Today marks the first time we see the number "100,000" associated with the Android Market. Or, wait, no we don’t – remember this, this, this, and about 5 million other posts? Let me try again.

Today marks the first time Android actually crossed the 100,000 apps mark, a whole month early from my earlier September projection, if we go by the unofficial app count from AndroLib.com:

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Don’t be confused by the discrepancies in the official count and AndroLib – as we explained before, they count many markets (not just the official…

25
Jul
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Official ICQ Mobile For Android App Goes Live

Posted by Artem Russakovskii in Applications, News

ICQ, a still popular IM network that started it all, today released the official ICQ Mobile For Android v1.0.0 application to the Android Market.

While ICQ hasn’t been at the top for a while, it still remains popular in Europe, and Russia specifically, with 100s of millions of registered accounts and 50 million active users as of 2008.

History

In 1996, ICQ became the first Internet-wide instant messaging service, changing the Internet chat, previously dominated by IRC, forever.

AOL acquired Mirabilis, the company behind ICQ, on June 8, 1998 for $407 million and then…

15
Jul
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The Facts Behind AndroLib Android Market Application Discrepancies

Posted by Nate Kimmey in Applications, News

The news of the Android Market reaching the milestone of 100,000 apps may have been great news for Android – but perhaps it came a bit too soon.

Those numbers come from AndroLib, but Google has announced the official numbers, with the Android Market having just over 70,000 apps. So, why the big difference in numbers? Google’s numbers come only from the official Android Market, the one pre-loaded on just about every Android phone, and the one you are probably most familiar with.

But AndroLib calculates its own numbers quite differently. In addition to…

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