27
Dec
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Your Move, Shazam - SoundHound's Free Android App Now Features Unlimited Music IDs

Posted by in Applications, News

The developers of SoundHound, a music recognition app, have decided to update the free version of their app to allow an unlimited number of music IDs, instead of the previous limit of 5 each month.

Meanwhile, SoundHound's biggest competitor, Shazam, has a very similar offering: a free app that has the same limit of 5 music IDs per month. If Shazam does nothing, which is hard to imagine, and you don't plan on spending any money, there's no contest regarding which app you are going to end up using.

Whether SoundHound might be digging itself into a hole with this move or not is unclear, but unlimited song recognition is one less reason for customers to drop $4.99 for SoundHound Infinity.

23
Dec
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[Updated] Rant: How To Piss Everyone Off By Gaming The Android Market - Yes, I Am Talking About You, Forester/Woodman/etc

Posted by in Apps/Games, Editorials
Last Updated: December 27th, 2010

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This has been brewing for a while, but I've had enough. As you may know, throughout the week, I keep an eye out for any new worthy Android apps to be rounded up and published for everyone to enjoy. An important part of this search is looking through the new apps list, for which I had chosen AppBrain - specifically, this RSS feed, which lists every app entering the Android Market.

As I've looked at these new apps day by day, I started noticing something peculiar. No, it wasn't the amount of fart apps and soundboards - those, while annoying, are still legitimate applications, which, thanks to Google's openness, deserve a place in the Market just like any other app.

22
Dec
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Android Market Updates Continue With New Application And Game Categories

Posted by in Android OS, Applications, Apps/Games, Games, News

Continuing with the numerous Android Market updates, Google just refreshed the categories that users can use to filter and browse Market apps and games. The changes are now live on both the backend Developer Console and the live Market.

Here is a table showing the previous and new categories (new categories are in green, modified in yellow):

Previous app categories New app categories Previous game categories New game categories
  Books & Reference Arcade & Action Arcade & Action
  Business Brain & Puzzle Brain & Puzzle
Comics Comics Cards & Casino Cards & Casino
Communication Communication Casual Casual
  Education   Sports Games
Entertainment Entertainment    
Finance Finance    
Health Health & Fitness    
Lifestyle Lifestyle    
Multimedia Media & Video    
  Medical    
  Music & Audio    
News & Weather News & Magazines    
  Personalization    
  Photography    
Productivity Productivity    
Reference      
Shopping Shopping    
Social Social    
Sports Sports    
Themes Themes    
Tools Tools    
  Transportation    
Travel Travel & Local    
Demo      
Software Libraries Libraries & Demo    
  Weather    

A shot of the Developer Console:

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Thanks, yuku

21
Dec
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36 Best New Android Apps And Games From Last Week (12/14/10 - 12/20/10)

Posted by in Applications, Best Apps/Games/LWPs Of The Week, Games, News
Last Updated: April 13th, 2011

Welcome to the weekly roundup of the best new Android applications and games that went live in the Market in the previous week or so.

Please wait for this page to load in full in order to see the AppBrain widgets.

Best New Android Apps

Smart Diagram

Smart Diagram brings easy diagram making to Android
Organize ideas and thoughts with clear diagrams. Simple & Easy, No painful learning!
Usage: Flow Chart, Mind Map, Tree Diagram, etc
Features
- Create Shape with Gesture
- Drag & Drop Delete
- Manually Shape Movement
- MultiTouch Zooming
- Easy Sharing

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Smart Diagram

Download Smart Diagram from Google Play
QR code for https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sillycube.android.DiagramMaker.core

Posterous

The dead simple way to post everything online.

15
Dec
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Google App Inventor Leaves Private Beta, Now Open To Everyone

Posted by in Apps/Games, Google, News

Remember Google App Inventor, a Google Labs project that lets people without programming experience create Android apps for personal use? It is an interesting project, but so far, it has only been available as a private beta, which meant you needed an invitation to get in. According to the App Inventor team, their experiment has generated more interest than they had ever hoped for, with people creating apps ranging from vocabularies and SMS to marriage proposals.

To unlock the full potential, Google is now opening up App Inventor to anyone with a Google account - just head over to the App Inventor home page and sign up.

14
Dec
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Last 2 Weeks' Best New Android Apps And Games (11/30/10 - 12/13/10)

Posted by in Applications, Best Apps/Games/LWPs Of The Week, Games, News
Last Updated: April 13th, 2011

Welcome to the weekly roundup of the best new Android applications and games that went live in the Market in the previous week or so. This roundup covers the last 2 weeks instead of the usual 1 due to all the Gingerbread coverage that took up our time last week.

Please wait for this page to load in full in order to see the AppBrain widgets.

Best New Android Apps

Mana Chronicles

Mana Chronicles is a classic Action-RPG!
The Inferno troops are invading the mortal plane. Only the human freedom fighter, Leon, can stop them now!

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Mana Chronicles

Download Mana Chronicles from Google Play
QR code for https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spearheadgames.chronicles

Rocket Bunnies

Rocket Bunnies is an action-puzzle game of slingshotting from planet to planet.

30
Nov
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Last Week's Best New Android Apps And Games (11/22/10 - 11/29/10)

Posted by in Applications, Best Apps/Games/LWPs Of The Week, Games, News
Last Updated: April 13th, 2011

Welcome to the weekly roundup of the best new Android applications and games that went live in the Market in the previous week or so. This roundup is a day late, apologies for that - the Theft Aware review stole a lot of my time.

Please wait for this page to load in full in order to see the AppBrain widgets.

Best New Android Apps

Team Viewer

Team Viewer is a remote access app done really well. For some reason it's not available on the Market and can be downloaded here: http://teamviewer.com/download/mobile.aspx. See our review of Team Viewer here: [Review] TeamViewer Lets You Remotely Control Your Friends’ Computers, And It Does It Well

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Solipskier

Solipskier is a fast paced skiing game where you draw the slopes to pick up speed and do jumps.

24
Nov
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Android Market Apps To Gain Mandatory Content Ratings Next Week

Posted by in Apps/Games, News

The Android Market has been getting quite a bit of attention lately, with a 6-hour maintenance, a whole host of new fields available to developers, and the rumored web version that is supposed to arrive with Gingerbread. Today, Googler Eric Chu shined some light on the next upcoming feature - mandatory content ratings for Android apps. In a post over at Google's Android developers blog, Eric announced that in the next few weeks, all apps will gain a content rating level, specifically:

  • All
  • Pre-teen
  • Teen
  • Mature

Starting next week, Android developers posting or updating their apps in the Market will be required to set the rating.

22
Nov
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Last Week's Best New Android Apps And Games (11/15/10 - 11/21/10)

Posted by in Applications, Best Apps/Games/LWPs Of The Week, Games, News
Last Updated: April 13th, 2011

Welcome to the weekly roundup of the best new Android applications and games that went live in the Market in the previous week or so.

Please wait for this page to load in full in order to see the AppBrain widgets.

Best New Android Apps

Priceline

Stuck without a place to stay at the last minute? Pick the exact neighborhood and star level you want and save up to half-off when you bid for a hotel. Start with real winning bids from actual priceline customers and then check out right on your phone. Or browse photos, reviews, and guest scores to find the perfect hotel.

16
Nov
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Major 6-Hour Google Market Maintenance Coming This Thursday. What Could It Be For?

Posted by in Apps/Games, Gingerbread 2.3, News

As a registered Android developer, today I, along with thousands of other devs, got the following email from the Android Market Support team. The email informed me that the developer console, which is the interface used for publishing new apps, will be unavailable this Thursday, November 18th from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. PST. The customer-facing Market itself will continue working just fine (or so I hope at least), but no new applications or app updates will be allowed.

Now, what could this update be for? It could be as simple as the promised Market housekeeping that was announced 5 days ago, although it seemed far less serious, and I got the impression that it did not require any downtime.

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