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Verizon: If You Want To Keep Your Unlimited Data, Pay Full Price For Your Next Smartphone

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Appfinity – AppBlaster

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Appfinity - AppBlaster

Lock’n'load your iPhone or iPod and bring app gaming to the next level with the Appfinity AppBlaster! Using dual triggers, trigger-tap technology and augmented reality applications, the app gun turns any environment into a virtual gaming experience. Combat aliens in the real world as you witness the ultimate phone become the ultimate toy! Your iphone/iPod connects securely and safely to the gun, locking it in place for high-intensity action. Discover the incredible fusion of reality and technology through 3 different apps: Alien Attack, Whacky Hunter, or First Person Shooter. Redefine the limits of gaming with the Appfinity AppBlaster!

List price: $19.99

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Gunman Clive puts a bullet into terrible platformers

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Platforming and onscreen controls. Those two words are enough to make hardcore mobile gamers cringe. Like first person shooters, platform games on smartphones are often atrocious or merely mediocre. Only a few select titles have managed to rise above the shoddy controls. Developer Bertil Hörberg brings a tightly-controlled platformer with a visual flair in his western-inspired game, Gunman Clive.

Source: http://www.androidapps.com/games/articles/12041-gunman-clive-puts-a-bullet-into-terrible-platformers

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Pho.to Lab – +101

May 18, 2012 Comments off

Pho.to Lab. Create cool photo montages and apply fun photo frames amp effects to your pictures. More than 400 awesome effects for your photos With Pho.to Lab you can easily create fun photo montages cool contact icons virtual postcards and phone wallpapers You will love the user friendly interface and the ease of use Pho.to Lab provides. Price Free Tested on MyTouch 3G Slide Content Rating Low Maturity AndroidTapp.com Android App Review Pros amp Cons Pros Lots of custom templates and effects Easy to use Cons The category headers are a bit confusing Features Pho.to Lab is a great new app for Android that lets you take images on your phone and create something with them. There are frames effects collage options and more for taking an image and creating a piece of art with it. Once you create your image you can share it straight from the app via any sharing program you have on your phone including email and picture messages (MMS). Overall there are nearly 400 different effects to choose from in 14 categories which makes it a very robust image enhancement app. Some of the effects have face detection built in so you can do things like change the face of the photo to someone else to create a variety of funny images to share. I like that it ties into Facebook as well so when you do create that amusing image you can post it to your wall for sharing and commenting. Usefulness If youre looking for an easy way to take your images to another step to share with friends and family then this is a very useful app. Ease of Use It is very easy to use the templates are in various categories and then you get a thumbnail of each one in the category to find the one you want. From there its very easy to crop the image to select exactly what you want to use for the template and sharing it is done in the app so you dont have to go into another program to do it. Frequently Used Youll want to use this any time you go to edit and image to share. Interface The interface is very clean and easy to use with intuitive controls for manipulating the images to get exactly what you want from the program.
Pho.to Lab. Create cool photo montages and apply fun photo frames amp effects to your pictures. More than 400 awesome effects for your photos
With Pho.to Lab you can easily create fun photo montages cool contact icons virtual postcards and phone wallpapers You will love the user friendly interface and the ease of use Pho.to Lab provides.
Price Free
Features
Pho.to Lab is a great new app for Android that lets you take images on your phone and create something with them. There are frames effects collage options and more for taking an image and creating a piece of art with it. Once you create your image you can share it straight from the app via any sharing program you have on your phone including email and picture messages (MMS).
Overall there are nearly 400 different effects to choose from in 14 categories which makes it a very robust image enhancement app. Some of the effects have face detection built in so you can do things like change the face of the photo to someone else to create a variety of funny images to share. I like that it ties into Facebook as well so when you do create that amusing image you can post it to your wall for sharing and commenting.
Usefulness
If youre looking for an easy way to take your images to another step to share with friends and family then this is a very useful app.
Ease of Use
It is very easy to use the templates are in various categories and then you get a thumbnail of each one in the category to find the one you want. From there its very easy to crop the image to select exactly what you want to use for the template and sharing it is done in the app so you dont have to go into another program to do it.
Frequently Used
Youll want to use this any time you go to edit and image to share.
Interface
The interface is very clean and easy to use with intuitive controls for manipulating the images to get exactly what you want from the program.

Source: http://101bestandroidapps.com/app/ Pho.to Lab/2472/

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Pho.to Lab – +101

May 18, 2012 Comments off

Pho.to Lab. Create cool photo montages and apply fun photo frames amp effects to your pictures. More than 400 awesome effects for your photos With Pho.to Lab you can easily create fun photo montages cool contact icons virtual postcards and phone wallpapers You will love the user friendly interface and the ease of use Pho.to Lab provides.
Price Free
Tested on MyTouch 3G Slide
Content Rating Low Maturity
AndroidTapp.com Android App Review
Pros amp Cons
Pros
Lots of custom templates and effects
Easy to use
Cons
The category headers are a bit confusing
Features
Pho.to Lab is a great new app for Android that lets you take images on your phone and create something with them. There are frames effects collage options and more for taking an image and creating a piece of art with it. Once you create your image you can share it straight from the app via any sharing program you have on your phone including email and picture messages (MMS).
Overall there are nearly 400 different effects to choose from in 14 categories which makes it a very robust image enhancement app. Some of the effects have face detection built in so you can do things like change the face of the photo to someone else to create a variety of funny images to share. I like that it ties into Facebook as well so when you do create that amusing image you can post it to your wall for sharing and commenting.
Usefulness
If youre looking for an easy way to take your images to another step to share with friends and family then this is a very useful app.
Ease of Use
It is very easy to use the templates are in various categories and then you get a thumbnail of each one in the category to find the one you want. From there its very easy to crop the image to select exactly what you want to use for the template and sharing it is done in the app so you dont have to go into another program to do it.
Frequently Used
Youll want to use this any time you go to edit and image to share.
Interface
The interface is very clean and easy to use with intuitive controls for manipulating the images to get exactly what you want from the program.
Pho.to Lab. Create cool photo montages and apply fun photo frames amp effects to your pictures. More than 400 awesome effects for your photos
With Pho.to Lab you can easily create fun photo montages cool contact icons virtual postcards and phone wallpapers You will love the user friendly interface and the ease of use Pho.to Lab provides.
Price Free
Features
Pho.to Lab is a great new app for Android that lets you take images on your phone and create something with them. There are frames effects collage options and more for taking an image and creating a piece of art with it. Once you create your image you can share it straight from the app via any sharing program you have on your phone including email and picture messages (MMS).
Overall there are nearly 400 different effects to choose from in 14 categories which makes it a very robust image enhancement app. Some of the effects have face detection built in so you can do things like change the face of the photo to someone else to create a variety of funny images to share. I like that it ties into Facebook as well so when you do create that amusing image you can post it to your wall for sharing and commenting.
Usefulness
If youre looking for an easy way to take your images to another step to share with friends and family then this is a very useful app.
Ease of Use
It is very easy to use the templates are in various categories and then you get a thumbnail of each one in the category to find the one you want. From there its very easy to crop the image to select exactly what you want to use for the template and sharing it is done in the app so you dont have to go into another program to do it.
Frequently Used
Youll want to use this any time you go to edit and image to share.
Interface
The interface is very clean and easy to use with intuitive controls for manipulating the images to get exactly what you want from the program.

Source: http://101bestandroidapps.com/app/ Pho.to Lab/2473/

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Facebook hacks, doubters carp, ahead of opening bell

May 18, 2012 Comments off

As Facebook settles its IPO price at a top-of-the-range $38, valuing the social network at $104bn, Facebookers are doing what Facebookers do: hacking.

In a so-very-Facebook move, the company is running an overnight hackathon on Thursday night, right up until founder Mark Zuckerberg rings the Nasdaq opening bell on Friday morning – an attempt to show the world that the company’s heart really lies in the product, not the money.

Source: http://blogs.ft.com/tech-blog/2012/05/facebook-ipo-eve/

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Learning Android

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Learning Android

Want to build apps for Android devices? This book is the perfect way to master the fundamentals. Written by an expert who’s taught this mobile platform to hundreds of developers in large organizations, this gentle introduction shows experienced object-oriented programmers how to use Android’s basic building blocks to create user interfaces, store data, connect to the network, and more.
You’ll build a Twitter-like application throughout the course of this book, adding new features with each chapter. Along the way, you’ll also create your own toolbox of code patterns to help you program any type of Android application with ease.
  • Get an overview of the Android platform and discover how it fits into the mobile ecosystem
  • Learn about the Android stack, including its application framework, and the structure and distribution of application packages (APK)
  • Set up your Android development environment and get started with simple programs
  • Use Android’s building blocks–Activities, Intents, Services, Content Providers, and Broadcast Receivers
  • Learn how to build basic Android user interfaces and organize UI elements in Views and Layouts
  • Build a service that uses a background process to update data in your application
  • Get an introduction to Android Interface Definition Language (AIDL) and the Native Development Kit (NDK)

List price: $34.99

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Utilitas – +101

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Utilitas contains many useful appsNumber to Word Days calculator Date calculator Stopwatch Timer Countdown Compass Torch Watch SpiritLevel Random Lens Converter SunSet SunRise Ruler Discount Protractor.
Many applications are able to do such things.
However there are very few as intuitive robust and dynamic as utilitas which is
a solid combination of performance stability and usability.
With a very clean interface design based on the common Android interface utilitas is incredibly easy to use.

Source: http://101bestandroidapps.com/app/Utilitas/2474/

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Facebook’s $38 Share Price Makes Instagram Deal Worth Nearly $1.2 Billion

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Burn the City is hot, but doesn’t always ignite

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Burn the City’s title perfectly sums up its gameplay. Placing you in the shoes… er, claws of a fire-breathing newborn lizard, you’ll reign fire on human cities that stole your family. Using familiar physics-based gameplay it’s quite easy to shrug off the game as another Angry Birds clone. While it may seems unfair to compare it to Rovio’s series behemoth, Burn the City (also available as a free version) attempts to add its own spin on the genre.

Source: http://www.androidapps.com/games/articles/12042-burn-the-city-is-hot-but-doesnt-always-ignite

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