The Amazon Appstore for Android opened today and apparently Apple are already suing them for confusing consumers with a name similar to their App Store. I wouldn’t really know because after downloading the Appstore app (beautifully simple procedure: click a link in an email/text to a .apk file) and logging […]
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Make Android screenshots without root
Sometimes you can learn useful things from a bad thing happening. Yesterday came the news that 21 popular apps on the Android market had been copied. They were uploaded again to the market with similar sounding names but loaded with a trojan. That installed a rootkit on your phone to […]
Android
I'm an ebook convert now
Matt has made it well known that he loves his Kindle and for a while I thought about buying one too. Unfortunately I’ll have to order it from Amazon.com in the US because I live in Ireland. Attempts to buy it from Amazon.co.uk result in an error and asks me […]
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Get Angry Birds for free on Android!
The good people at GetJar.com are now offering Angry Birds as a free download for mobile phones running Android. The game is ad supported but as far as I can see, adverts appear at the start of the level and don’t appear on each one so they’re not intrusive. Works […]
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My phone is faster than yours
If you’re using a Samsung Galaxy S or one of it’s variants then my phone may well be twice as fast or even faster than your phone! How? It’s all rather simple actually. First of all, I downloaded Quadrant Standard from the Android market. This is a benchmarking app that […]
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Android Battery Saving Tips
Battery usage on all so called “smart phones” is almost universally woeful. Big high-res colour screens, fast processors, sound, wifi and 3g networking all consume gobs of battery power. Here are some battery saving tips for Android phones. I’m going on a long flight in a few days time so […]