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Mar

Facebook For Android Gets A Small Update, Brings Better News Feed Controls, Improved Group Messaging, And More Profile Management

Posted by Cameron Summerson in Applications, News

Facebook may have circumvented the Play Store for one recent update, but it looks like the company decided it would take a more official route for a small bump that just hit. In this version of everyone's "favorite" social network, you'll be able to change your profile pic, hide stories and report spam in the News Feed, and get to group messages in fewer taps. Exciting.

Aside from that, well, there's nothing. It's still the same Facebook, where you can watch your friends and family argue over politics and religion, whine about everything horrible in their life, and ask for help on 4 pics 1 word.

Mar

Vonage Mobile Updated With On-The-Fly Video Calling Between Customers

Posted by Cameron Summerson in Applications, News

If you're a user of Vonage's mobile app, it just got a bit more interesting. As of the most recent update, you can now video conference with other Vonage Mobile customers for no additional charge. While that's a nice addition in itself, the coolest part is that you can transition between voice and video calling on-the-fly. Basically, that means you can switch from voice to video – and vice-versa – without ever leaving the call. That's pretty rad in itself.

The updated app's address book will also display which of your contacts have the feature, so you'll know who can video chat at a glance.

Mar

Swype Beta Updated To v1.4.9.13905, Adds Advanced Language Models For Hindi, Belgian Dutch, Tons Of Bug Fixes

Posted by Eric Ravenscraft in Applications, News

Another day, another beta update from Swype. Today, the company announced a new version that brings a enhances a few features including adding Advanced Language Models for Hindi and Belgian Dutch. The overall tap responsiveness has been improved. The Smart Editor and Word Choice List (in Polaris Office) behaviors have also been refined.

Here's the full change log:

Swype Beta v1.4.9.13905

Advanced Language Models added for Hindi and Belgian Dutch

Responsiveness for tap input improved for all languages

Improved overall Smart Editor behavior and implemented some bug fixes

Fixed a Gingerbread crash that occurred when rotating device into landscape mode

Fixed miscellaneous crashes reported by the Beta community

Fixed an issue where default Android voice input ('mic'/'microphone') icon displayed instead of Dragon logo

Changed subtype text in notification drawer to be more accurate

Word Choice List behavior improved in Polaris Office

And many more bug fixes and improvements!

Mar

Neatly Releases A 'Final Beta' To The Play Store, Provides A Smarter Twitter Feed

Posted by Eric Ravenscraft in Applications, News

Last month, we talked about a new Twitter client called Neatly that promised to do what the social network won't do itself: provide a more intelligent and less thorough approach to your feed. Twitter opts to list every tweet for people you follow in chronological order, which has helped with the up-to-the-minute identity the company builds for itself. Neatly chooses, instead, to filter by the most important updates, and allows you to filter by topics.

The beta was cool and now it's available on the Play Store for everyone. The extra information you get is copious and very helpful.

Mar

Top Android Apps Every Rooted User Should Know About, Part 7: Apps 50-57

Posted by Ryan Whitwam in Applications, Best Apps For Rooted Users Series, Roundups

Last Updated: May 13th, 2013

From time to time, we like to dive into the murky depths of the Play Store and see what cool root-only apps we can dredge up. If you went to the trouble of rooting your phone, you'll want the best root apps to take advantage of all that freedom. That's just what we have here, the best root apps carefully chosen as must-have additions to your arsenal.

Read on for eight more killer root apps that change the flow of time, liberate your music, test your network, and more.

This article deals with a couple of advanced topics. If you’re unfamiliar with some of the terms, hit up our primers here:

Mar

SnipSnap Comes To Android, Converts Your Coupons Into Easy-To-Store Digital Versions

Posted by Cameron Summerson in Applications, News

Couponing has become something of a money-saving craze lately. If you've ever seen "Extreme Couponing," you know exactly what I'm talking about. Seriously, those people are insane. And by "insane," I mean "insanely dedicated to couponing, and absolute masterminds at planning crazy shopping trips that will save their family hundreds or thousands of dollars." That's generally what I mean when I say "insane," though, so you may have already known that.

If you're not up to Extreme levels yet, but do like to save the occasion dime, quarter, or fifty-five cents at your favorite store, then SnipSnap is the app for you.

Mar

Let's Play A Game - How Long Did It Take You To Realize What You're Looking At?

Posted by Artem Russakovskii in Applications, Off-Topic

Start your timer. Ready, set, go!

Mar

Minuum Is An Insane Keyboard Replacement On Indiegogo That Squishes Down To One Row, Can Run On Anything

Posted by Eric Ravenscraft in Applications, News

We generally have a rule at Android Police HQ: we don't post about Kickstarter/Indiegogo projects at least until they've been funded. Too often things turn into vaporware and people's money ends up wrapped up in things like Diaspora that never take off. Today, we're making a rare exception to talk about Minuum, because this video starts off as "Oh, that's kinda cool," and quickly shifts to "Holy crap, that's amazeballs!"

As you can see in the beginning of the video, the concept is fairly simple. It's yet another predictive text input algorithm that allows you to be less accurate when typing.

Mar

Gmail Update v4.3 Allows You To Reply, Archive, Or Delete Emails Right In The Notification Shade

Posted by Eric Ravenscraft in Applications, News

Google has finally added the feature that we've been wanting since Google first started adding functionality to notifications back in Ice Cream Sandwich: the ability to archive email directly from the notification shade. Now, when you get a new email, you can choose what to do with it immediately. This is extremely handy for the chronic email checkers who would like to be able to dismiss the clutter as it comes in, rather than let it pile up later

This is something that seems so obvious that when Ron reviewed Jelly Bean, the lack of buttons was a disappointment in an otherwise fantastic update.

Mar

[New Game] Manuganu Is A Pretty, Fluid Side-Scrolling Runner From The Maker Of Gravity Project

Posted by Cameron Summerson in Applications, Games, News

When I was a kid, I always dreamed of having dark hair, wearing a cow skull on my head, and running through a magical land of swinging hammers, random cliffs, floating platforms of land, other areas of extreme peril. Alas, I'm bald, have no bulls to speak of, and this magical land I've dreamed of for so long is nowhere to be found. Just when I thought my lifelong dream was a bust, we stumbled across MANUGANU. The similarities to my childhood wishlist are uncanny. Just take a look: