Tag: Android
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The Best Sense ROMs For Your HTC Android Smartphone
If you have an HTC smartphone and are anything like me, you just can’t seem to get away from HTC’s Sense user interface. It’s sleek, intuitive, and has way more features than what the stock Android UI offers. While some custom ROMs like CyanogenMod are quite popular, I could never quite stick with them because…
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How To: Import E-Books Into Aldiko for Android Using Dropbox
It’s been nearly a year since I last wrote about Aldiko, and while the E-book market on Android has exploded since then I still consider Aldiko to be the best reader out there. E-book powerhouses like Amazon and Barnes and Noble have both launched reader applications of their own, but they both lack a seemingly…
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Britannica Concise Encyclopedia for Android Review
Written by about 100 full-time editors and more than 4,000 expert contributors, the Britannica Encyclopedia is regarded as the most scholarly of encyclopedias (it even beats out Wikipedia!). This incredible gift to society has become mobile, hitting the Android Market in a full and trial version. Using the Britannica Concise Encyclopedia for Android for the…
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DroidWall: The Aptly Named Android Firewall Solution
Installing Android applications can sometimes be a risky operation. A list of permissions requested by the application pops up before installation, but how many people actually read those? Even if you do read them, they can often leave you puzzled as to why that application needs that permission. I recently installed a newly-released game on…
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The Ultimate Tablet Guide – Spring 2011
“Which tablet should I buy?” That seems to be the question a lot of people are asking. The one tablet that fits all my needs continues to elude me. This article is to help guide those of you who are in this same situation and are still waiting for the right tablet to come along.…
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Track Your Sleeping Habits with ‘Sleep As An Droid’
While I can say the name of the app is catchy (but not grammatically correct for that matter), I can’t say Sleep As An Droid is just an alarm clock. This new Android app is a supercharged alarm clock on several doses of steroids. By setting your phone on your mattress while you sleep, the app…
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Unleash the Full Power of Android Multitasking Using SwipePad
One of Android’s greatest advantages over its biggest competitor is its awesome support for multitasking right out of the box. Simply hold down the Home button for a few seconds to gain access to the eight most recently used applications on your device without ever leaving the currently running application. But what do you do…
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Video Review: Motorola Xoom Android 3.0 Tablet
The highly-anticipated Motorola Xoom, the first Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) tablet, was released today on the Verizon Wireless network. Techerator contributor Jake Joraanstad headed over to the Verizon store to get a first look at the new device. httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9h__mw-alk
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Express Your Inner Android with Androidify
Do you love Android? I mean, like, really love Android to the point where you see that green little robot and go: “Squeee!!”? I know I do. As much as I like to keep my IRL mug a secret (pay no attention to the man behind the curtain), I always wished there would be some…
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Emulators on Android: The Future of Past Gaming
If you were born anytime after 1975, then you probably are familiar with console gaming. And as a kid growing up in the decades following, it seemed that each new year gave us bigger and better gaming options: NES became SNES, GameBoy turned into GameBoy Color and then GameBoy Advance, cartridges flattened into CDs, and Sega… well,…