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Jun

[New App] [Update: It's In The Market] Fresco: A Mobile Canvas For All Of Your Artistic Needs

Posted by Cameron Summerson in Applications, News

Update: This app has finally landed in the Android Market, so head over there and grab it!

Have you ever been out somewhere when you were suddenly hit with a stroke of artistic genius? You haven't? Oh... well, have you ever been bored and just wanted to doodle on your phone a bit? If you fall into either of those categories, you need to check out a new app called Fresco.

This app is labeled as a "mobile art studio" per the developer, and it packs quite a few nice features: full layer support, configurable brush and eraser tools, smoothing, flood fill, zoom/pan, export to .PSD (with layers) and more.

Jun

Hulu Plus Finally Available In The Android Market For Select Few Models, Download Away If You Can

Posted by Artem Russakovskii in Applications, News

Hulu, one of the top TV and movie streaming sites on the web, has long been an elusive target for Android users. At first, we didn't have Flash. Once we got Flash, Hulu started blocking Flash-enabled Android devices. Many hacks followed, but required modifications to the Flash apk and resulted in less than optimal viewing experience in the browser. In January, we finally saw the light at the end of the tunnel, when the upcoming official application was finally revealed, though without any promises on delivery timelines.

For Hulu Plus subscribers, the battle is now over, as the company just dropped off a little overdue present in the Market.

Jun

Move Over, SmartBench - There's A New Multi-Core Benchmark App In Town: Meet CF-Bench

Posted by Cameron Summerson in Applications, News

It's no secret that benchmarks can easily be spoofed to show some pretty amazing results. Regardless of that, it has become an almost standard practice to demonstrate a device's power and prestige by using such tools. Over time, a few different apps have made a name for themselves and become clutch in the realm of benchmarking tools: Quandrant, Linpack, and SmartBench, just to name a few.

A new benchmarking tool has now been released by the same dev that brought us Chainfire3D called CF-Bench. Much like Smartbench, one of the key features of CF-Bench is its support for multiple cores, so right of the gate it delivers a more accurate performance reading.

Jun

Dolphin Browser HD V6.0 Beta Hits The Android Market Alongside The Stable Version

Posted by Cameron Summerson in Applications, News

In a page taken directly from the Firefox playbook, the team behind Dolphin Browser have thrown the newest beta version of Dolphin HD into the market alongside the current stable version. This allows you to test out all of the upcoming features in Dolphin while they're still bleeding edge, without sacrificing the stability of the current version, as you can have them both installed at the same time.

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Naturally, the newest beta offers all of the things that you love about Dolphin, along with some added features, like Webzine - a feature that Dolphin claims "changes the way we browse the mobile web."

If you love your software fresh-out-of-the-oven, go ahead and hop over to the Android Market or hit the widget below to grab this all new beta.

Jun

Crackle Drops Subscription Fees, Launches Brand New Free TV/Movie-Streaming Android App

Posted by Jaroslav Stekl in Applications, News

The multimedia situation on Android has been rapidly improving over the last few months, with the introductions of Netflix's official application and Google's own Movie service. Today, it is set to get better still: Crackle, a movie- and TV-watching service launched v2.0 of its Android app with access to a large selection of free movies and TV shows. The service, previously available at $5/month, is now free and supported by ads.

You'll need an Android 2.2+ device with Flash installed (though neither the XOOM nor the Tab 10.1 seem to be supported at this point, so looks like it's phones only for now), but if your handset meets the requirements, you'll be able to stream as many feature-length films and TV shows as you like, provided, of course, that they're in Crackle's catalog.

Jun

36 Best (And 2 WTF) New Android Apps From The Last 2 Weeks (6/3/11 - 6/17/11)

Posted by Artem Russakovskii in Applications, Best Apps/Games/LWPs Of The Week, Games, News

Welcome to the weekly roundup of the best new Android applications that went live in the Market or were spotted by us in the previous 2 weeks or so.

This is the 2nd part of this week's roundup and is dedicated to apps. For games, see 32 Best New Android Games From The Last 2 Weeks (6/2/11 – 6/16/11).

Please wait for this page to load in full in order to see the AppBrain widgets, which include ratings and pricing info.

Looking for the previous roundup editions? Find them here:

Featured App

Today's roundup is sponsored by Gameview Studios and their game Tap Fish.

Jun

Yahoo! Releases Play Music App, Knows What You Want To Hear

Posted by Cameron Summerson in Applications, News

You know that music thing people like to listen to? Well, Yahoo! seems to think that it may be the way back into users' hearts, as it just released a music-identifying, brain-crawling, news-delivering music player for Android powered by Instinctiv. It's called Yahoo! Play, and it has some basic, run-of-the-mill features, but it also has some... interesting features. Let's take a look.

First up, it has a feature called Identify, which is basically a Shazam or SoundHound clone: it listens to the track in question, then tells you what it is. It does differ from the aforementioned apps in one way, however - it offers continuous mode, where it will scan a series of songs, returning results for each one.

Jun

Official eBay App Gets Updated, Adds Multiple Tools For On-The-Go Selling

Posted by Cameron Summerson in Applications, News

Internet auctionhouse eBay has pushed an update to its official Android app today that brings a number of long-desired features, including a slew of seller features. You can now list an item from start-to-finish, and every thing in between, all without ever touching a computer.

Here's a look at the full changelog:

Selling on eBay is now supported (available in US and UK with support for more countries coming soon!)

Quickly list an item from start to finish on your phone and include up to 8 photos

Use the integrated barcode scanner from RedLaser to prefill item details when listing an item

Revise an item from your Active Selling list

Relist an item from your Unsold list

Sell one like this feature available when viewing a similar item on eBay

Schedule an auction to start immediately or choose a later date

End an active auction

Mark an item as shipped

Contact the buyer

Updated home screen

View your own feedback ratings and recent comments from eBay members

More options for refining your search results: condition, free shipping, location, completed listings and sold items only

Fix for issue that restricted bidding for users on specific carriers/devices

Other bug fixes and improvements

Unfortunately, as you can see, the new selling features are only available in the US and UK at the moment, with "support for more countries coming soon."

The listing in the Web Market hasn't been update as of right now, but you should be able to pull this update just fine from the Mobile Market or App Brain using the widget below.

Jun

32 Best New Android Games From The Last 2 Weeks (6/2/11 - 6/16/11)

Posted by Artem Russakovskii in Applications, Best Apps/Games/LWPs Of The Week, Games, News

Last Updated: June 22nd, 2011

Welcome to the weekly roundup of the best new Android games that went live in the Market or were spotted by us in the previous 2 weeks or so.

This is the first part of the roundup, which features games only. Apps will come in a separate post soon.

Please wait for this page to load in full in order to see the AppBrain widgets, which include ratings and pricing info.

Looking for the previous roundup editions? Find them here:

Featured App

Today's roundup is sponsored by Gameview Studios and their game Tap Fish.

Jun

Netflix Now Officially Compatible With Gingerbread-Running DROID X

Posted by Jaroslav Stekl in Applications, Droid X (Shadow), Motorola, News

Gingerbread-using DROID X owners, your handsets are excluded from the elite ranks of Netflix-compatible devices no more; a recent update to the official Netflix application added support for your 2.3-running phones. Unfortunately, the DROID X is the only Gingerbread handset (with the exception of the Nexus phones) currently compatible with the movie rental service - my EVO 4G, which received its official 2.3 update a few weeks ago, still can't access the app. Additionally, those DROID X users still running Froyo are left out of the fun. Bummer.

Nevertheless, if you're rocking an updated DROID X and feel like adding a touch of Netflix to your Gingerbread-infused phone, you can grab the app via the widget below.