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Xobni For Android Is On The Way

Lets face it, the Android address book leaves a lot to be desired. And for many, your inbox and contact list is your livelihood. You spend a lot of time in your email program, be it in the office or on the move. Gmail seems to be the go-to email web app for those who […]

Android Widget Series: Agenda Widgets To Keep Your Life On Track [Part 3]

In my previous article of the Android Widget Series, I gave a few examples of clock widgets that help keep you on time. In this weeks article, I will give examples of a few different “agenda” widgets. These widgets either place calendars, to do lists, or a variety of other organisational tools on your home […]

ZDbox Is A Powerful Toolbox That Keeps Your Android Phone In Good State

Most of the apps in the Android market only do one thing and do it well. Few of them can combine plenty of features together and do them extremely well. ZDbox is an exception. It comes with plenty of features in one app and allows you to easily maintain your Android phone and keep it […]

GetJar Gold: Download Premium Android Apps For Free Everyday

We all know what premium apps mean – They are not free and we have to pay for it. What if I say that you can now download premium apps (for Android) for free and continue to receive update for them. Would you believe me? The Amazon AppStore is the first app store (for Android) […]

How to Stretch Your Android’s Battery Life When It Is Critically Low

There’s nothing as disheartening as the ‘boop boop’ noise a phone makes when it’s on low battery. At home it’s not a problem but when you’re on the bus to work, college or school, you know that at best you have an hour’s juice left. Soon you’ll be left without a functioning phone. Not the […]

Android Widgets Series: Great List Of Clock Widgets To Help You Tell The Time [Part 2]

In my article last week, I provided examples of a number of Android widgets that help users monitor and toggle their settings (including WiFi, battery, brightness, data, gps, etc.). In this weeks installment of Android widgets, I will highlight a number of useful clock widgets that assist you in telling the time. Depending on which […]

Great List of Android Widgets For Tweaking And Monitoring Your Device Settings [Part 1]

With the growth of apps, the various smartphone platforms are all becoming similar. What makes Google’s Android stands out from the rest is the ability to add “widgets” on the home screen and offer the user a unique experience. For those of you who are not sure what widget is, they are essentially interactive icons […]

Samsung Galaxy S Wifi 4.0 Review

For the iOS, there is the iPod Touch that you can use like an iPhone, but without the need to sign up for a telco contract. In term of functionality, the iPod Touch can do almost everything that iPhone can, except making call, sending SMS and connect to 3G network, which make it ideal to […]

Nemus Launcher: A Great Home Screen Launcher and Alternative To ADW

I have been using a new home screen replacement on my Android phone, I used ADW for a long time because of its simple layout. I recently found Nemus Launcher. It keeps a lot of the simplicity of ADW but adds some neat features. Folders See through folders are one of the coolest parts of […]

App Locker II Cleverly Protects Your Android App By Faking Crashes & Mislead The End User

For those who own an Android phone, I am sure you have plenty of apps that contain your personal information. It could be the Gmail app that contains all your emails, the Dropbox app that contains your documents or even the note app that contains your passwords. If left unprotected, in the event that you […]

Why You Need An All-In-One Utility App Like Superbox

Android phones are really personalized to each user. What applications you have greatly depends on your walk of life. Some people like games and others are business oriented. There are certain apps however that transcend your lifestyle. Superbox packages ten of these into one application. Not all of the Android phones come with some of […]

How To Make Ringtones From Your MP3 Files On Android Using Ringdroid

Smartphones have brought a lot of useful functionality to mobile devices and one of the less touted ones is the ability to have ringtones made directly from your MP3 music files. Unlike older generation phones which often had a preset limit of tunes, newer smartphones allow for a limitless number of audio files to act […]

Asus Eee Pad Transformer Hands-on Review

If you are looking for a tablet and you ask your friends for advice, most probably they will tell you to get an iPad 2, since it is the best and most popular tablet out there now. However, being an Android lover (and I hate the dictatorship of Apple), I decided to go against all […]

8 Apps For Android Lovers In Singapore

Let me preface this article by saying that unless you live in Singapore or plan on travelling to this fair island, what follows may not be particularly relevant to you. Nevertheless, the apps I am going to discuss are innovative concepts that could be implemented in any major city. Read on for 8 of my […]

Clipper: A Powerful Clipboard Manager For Android

Most Android phones come with very good copy/paste feature. You just have to tap and press on the word or input field and the option to copy or paste will appear. What if you need more than just the basic copy and paste feature, such as accessing the clipboard history? You will need a third […]

How to Easily Create An Android App For Your (Any) Website

Have you been delaying creating mobile app for your website because you have not enough budget? Or as a smart mobile device user, are you frustrated that your favorite website doesn’t come with a mobile app that you can read and access the content every time, anytime? That is about to change with AppYet. With […]

Twitter for Android – Which One Is Your Favorite Android Twitter Client?

Social media has become a part of many people’s everyday life. If you converse with people on Twitter or have an active presence for your business, you know how fast information flies through Twitter feeds. With information moving at the speed of Twitter, having access to this sea of information is a must-have for many […]

Sync And Listen To Your Music With Google Music Beta

A few weeks ago, Google launched its eponymous music streaming and syncing service. Hot on the heels of Amazon’s Cloud Drive and Cloud Player, Google’s offering is minimal, fast and easy to use. In this article I will provide a quick walkthrough and my thoughts on the service.

Touch Retouch Is A Mini Photoshop For Android

Have you ever taken photos on your Android phone, only to find that there is a distracting object in the photo, or that the photo is blurry and badly taken? No. You sure? Let’s not bluff ourselves. All of us have this bad photo moments before. It really doesn’t matter. What matters is how you […]

Taking Your To Do List Mobile with Todo.txt Touch

If you want to keep your task list portable and future proof, no software does that better than todo.txt. It’s a command line script that saves your tasks to a simple text file — one that you can move between different computers and operating systems with ease. Todo.txt has been covered on Make Tech Easier […]

Big List Of Android Messaging Apps

Texting is kinda lame. SMS messages have a character limit, you have to know the person’s phone number and well, its hard to hold a longer SMS conversation. Some phones don’t thread the messages. If you forgot what you started talking about, it is a real pain to go back and re-read. I am sure […]

17 Hidden Tips And Tricks For MIUI Android ROM That You Probably Didn’t Know

Ever since I started using MIUI custom ROM on my Android phone, I fell in love with it and it has replaced CM7 as my handset’s default ROM. If you are in love with MIUI as much as me, here are some hidden tips and tricks that are useful to you and you probably don’t […]

Take Control Of Your Android Email

Dealing with email sucks. For those of us who are in a corporate or web-based business, it is the most common method of communication. How do you handle your very full inbox while getting other things done? An even more common question is, how do you handle your inbox and get things done while you […]

MIUI: A Beautiful And Functional Custom ROM For Android

Of all the ways to customize your Android phone, the geekiest way has to be rooting your phone, wiping it clean and installing a new ROM. Most of these custom ROMs are functionally better than your default ROMs and are rid of all the unnecessarily features that slow down your phone. One such ROM is […]

Business Card Reader: Easily Add A Contact To Your Android Phone

When you receive a business card, the usual way is to manually enter the contact information to your phone book. If you have collected tens (or hundreds) of business cards in a networking session, you probably have to spend several hours entering the details. If you have a smartphone (such as iPhone or Android), one […]

How to Sync Android’s SD Card With Dropbox

Dropbox for Android is easily one of our favorite mobile app. It allows you to download and view your files in your Dropbox folder and also upload files to the server. It is best suited for people (like us) who like to work on the move. If there is anything that we are unsatisfied with, […]

iDisplay: Turn Your Android Devices Into A Second Monitor

When you connect two (or more) monitors to your computer, you can drag an application window from one to another monitor. Now, what if your second monitor is your smartphone, or tablet and you are able to drag window to it and interact with your fingers? Sound cool, isn’t it? iDisplay is one such app […]

4 Ways To Make Good Use Of Dropbox For Android

When I made the switch to an Android phone from a Blackberry, one of the deciding factors was how I could easily share files with clients and club members. I am usually not at my office and do much of my work remotely. While Dropbox was accessible from my Blackberry, it was less than convenient […]

How To Activate USB Debug On Your Android Device

Have you ever thought, it could happen even a common user needs to switch on the USB debug mode on his/her Android phone? One could think this may be required for an application developer, however, certain desktop phone managers can establish connection with your phone via USB cable only, when this setting is activated. Certain […]

Phonebook 2.0: A Great Alternative to Android Contact App

There are a lot of ways to personalize the look and feel of your Android phone. Applications can add functionality to what’s already there. Phonebook 2.0 is a phonebook replacement application and it adds a ton of features to your contact list. Having your contact list be the central social hub for your Android phone […]

How to Stream Media To Your Android Device With Skifta

I have a lot of music, videos, and pictures on my personal computer, but sometimes I am not at my desk and I still want to view my media content. Fortunately, I have an Android phone and with Skifta I can easily stream these files to my phone through a WiFi network.

Remote Control Windows 7 With Your Android Phone

WIN Remote is an Android app that allows you to remote control your Windows 7 directly from your mobile. As compared to an earlier post on remote controlling your computer from Android, this app is much more polished and there are many features that are dedicated to Windows 7. To be able to remote control […]

How to Easily Transfer A Webpage From Android To Chrome

Many times when I am reading a site on my Android phone, I want to switch over to my computer for one reason or another. Transferring over to a different device is kind of a pain. You need to type in the long URL or go to the site and search for the page again. […]

Find Related Apps on Android with Chomp

It has been said many times over, but it bears repeating: even with the numerous updates, the Android Market is still in shambles. It is difficult to find apps, it is difficult to rate apps and it can even be troublesome to install them and keep them all up-to-date. Fortunately, we overcame this frustration when […]

How to Make Good Use Of The Android Search Button

Are you one of those people who is constantly doing something on your Android phone? If you are anything like I am, you likely use the search function a fair amount. Once you start to use the Android search feature, you can find and navigate to things with less hassle. One of the most powerful […]

How to Manage Your Picasa Web Album From Android

In the past, we will have to carry a bulky camera along to take photos. Now, most phones come with a camera for you to take photos on the move. The new problem is, how can we quickly deal with the photos after you have taken it? Connecting your phone to your computer, transfer the […]

How to Install VLC-Shares In Ubuntu And Stream Videos to Android

VLC, without a doubt, is the best media player around. Not only is it able to play almost any file format, it is also able to stream audio/video from the Web and transcode on the fly. VLC-share is a web implementation of VLC streaming and transcoding that allows you to stream (and transcode) your videos […]

xScope Browser: A Hidden Gem In The Pool Of Android Apps

Recently, we reviewed some of the useful browsers for Android. Even though we tried our best to be comprehensive, we still missed out on a few gems. And thanks to all of you who commented, we have uncovered another gem – xScope browser. At first glance, I didn’t think xScope was anything noteworthy. It has a plain […]

Go Launcher Ex: An Impressive Home Replacement App For Android

My favorite home replacement app for Android used to be LauncherPro, mainly because it is fast and highly customizable. Even after trying out many other home replacement apps in the market (such as ADW Launcher, Zeamly, etc), I always find myself going back to LauncherPro, that is until I have found Go Launcher Ex. Go […]

Read eBooks On Android Using Aldiko Book Reader

I generally do all my reading on my Kindle. However, sometimes I am averse to carrying something that does not fit into my pocket. So, I often end up reading a lot of eBooks on my Android device. While it is relatively easy to read text files and PDFs on most Android device, other formats […]

BytNotes Sets A Reminder Note For Your Contact in Android

How many time have you promise to do a task for your friend only to forget the minutes after? And when they call to remind you, you have completely no idea of why they are calling in the first place. BytNotes is a simple application for Android that allows you to set a reminder note […]

2Player Streams Music From One Device To Another [Android]

Using your Android phone as a remote control is nothing new. We have already discussed how to remote control VLC and iTunes right from your smart handset. What about a different kind of remote control, like remote controlling the streaming of music from one device to another? 2Player is an Android music player with integrated […]

SMS Popup Notifies You When New Message Arrives [Android]

On Android, when a new message is received, a notification appears in the sliding panel showing the user the number and contents of the new message. While this is a handy way of displaying the message, it does not give you the immediacy of the iPhone’s pop-up notifications. Instead, you have to slide the panel […]

Easily Create Blog Posts On The Move With Posterous Android App

Posterous is a simple blogging platform that allows you to create short simple posts with an emphasis on rich media content. It is possible to post from the web interface, however Posterous has made it incredibly easy to create posts from your mobile phones by emailing text and media to your personalised account. Therefore, it […]

The Beginner Guide to Android – What New Android Users Need to Know About Their Phones

We have written plenty of articles on the Android OS, mostly on the apps review and various tips/tricks. One assumption that we make is that our readers are all Android proficient, or at least know how to use their Android handset. Apparently, this is not the case. Some users who have switched from the normal […]

Android App Review: Google Reader

I have been an avid user of Google’s RSS reader for quite some time. Since I bought my smartphone, I was able to view my RSS feeds on the phone’s browser through Google Reader. Owning an Android phone means that I have become accustomed to using Google branded applications for most of the things I […]

4 Free Tools to Sync Your iTunes Music to Android

If you are a iPod, iPhone, iPad or whatever iDevice user, you will have no problem syncing your device with iTunes (in fact, this is the only way you can get music onto the device). But if you own an Android phone and use iTunes to purchase, store and organize your music/video, you will find […]

Pixelpipe For Android: Post Anything to Everywhere, Anytime

Just like pipes that connect you from one place to another, Pixelpipe is a web service that connects you from the real world to the virtual world, by allowing you to upload your media content from desktop and mobile to a plethora of social network sites, all at the same time. For those who have […]

Quick Review Of Firefox Beta For Android

There is no lack of browsers in the Android market, but still, the release of Firefox beta for Android is worth all the attention. The beta version of Firefox for Android brings much changes and improvement to its pre-alpha build. Plenty of new features such as sync, addons, awesome screen and the improved user-interface are […]

How to Increase the Google Reader Font Size In Android Browser

Using the Android browser to surf the web is usually quite painfree. Whenever you encounter a site that is not optimized for mobile, you simply do a pinch action to zoom into the site. However, if you load the Google Reader site on your Android browser, you will definitely be frustrated over the small font […]

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