One of the key limiting factors for me in terms of integrating Android in my life was the lack of viable music apps … which in turn was due to the lack of a low-latency music infrastructure baked into the OS. While those issues haven’t been resolved, at this year’s Google I/O conference there was [...]
Tag Archives: Android Apps
Tornado – an American Red Cross App for Android Review
After reading Travis’s post on the alerts being added to iOS, I started thinking about actual apps instead of the textual messages that the federally mandated messaging being built into the handsets. Can they do it better? I loaded another couple of apps on my phone in preparation of the last line of storms that rolled [...]
The Ham Radio ARRL Repeater Directory for Android Review
A while back I reviewed an app for finding Amateur Radio repeaters called Repeater Book. In that review, I fondly remembered leafing through the Repeater Book that the American Radio Relay League (or ARRL) printed for years upon years. I have not bought one of those in some time, and I think the ARRL noticed [...]
Mood O’ Clock App Lets You Choose the Right Mood to Wake You Up
As far as waking up in the morning, my wife and I are polar opposites. Whereas I’m nearly an “instant-on” waking up, my wife…not so much. Perhaps what she needs is Stereomood’s Mood O’Clock app to help set the right mood when she wakes up. Mood O’Clock is a clock/alarm application for iOS and Android [...]
WWDC iOS 7 Announcement from an Android User’s Point of View
Even though I am not a regular iOS user, I still watched the 2013 WWDC keynote as much of the Gear Diary team did. The blogosphere as a whole has had a lot to say about the similarities of some iOS features. It’s undeniable that Apple has drawn from Android, WebOS, Windows Phone and BlackBerry 10 [...]
Moxtra Updates with an Android App, Google Drive, and More!
I reviewed Moxtra about a month ago, and was very impressed with this digital binder/scrapbook app. It loos great and makes it easy to organize and collaborate on all sorts of projects. At the time, my biggest complaint was that I couldn’t easily get documents and web clips to Moxtra without stopping in Dropbox or [...]
Pixuru Turns Your Digital Photos into Works of Art
Between my iPhone 5, my Sony NE-6 and my iPad mini I take more pictures than ever. You probably do too. The actual process of taking pictures is fun, but the question of what to do with the pictures once they are taken is often hard to answer. Pixuru has a great suggestion for what [...]
Super Stickman Golf 2 Update on the Horizon!
I’m not ashamed to admit that I’ve spent many hours hitting the links on Super Stickman Golf 2. I have played countless, and I mean that literally, countless multiplayer matches. I’ve completed all courses, found almost all of the golf bux (just one alludes me!), and collected 27 out of the 30 hats. Just as [...]
It May Seem Obvious, but App Updates Are Awesome!
Last week I noticed that the excellent Pocket Informant had been updated, and when checking out the update I knew I needed to capture that screen – I mean, just LOOK at the image above to see some of what was updated! This is version 3.0, which introduced major interface changes as well as integration [...]
Root Applications Announces Voxdox–Text-to-Speech Application for Mobile Phones and Tablets
So I’m re-reading (well, listening to the audio book version, actually) Neal Stephenson’s epic “Cryptonomicon”, and one of the main characters is named “Enoch Root”. His name is actually a little UNIX in-joke, in that the “root” user is the main user on a computer system, the person who has permission to do basically anything. [...]
Contactive Universal Caller ID and Unified Social Media Address Book Available for Android
I don’t know about you, but keeping track of all my contacts is kind of a PITA. I mean, you have your Facebook folks, and your Google folks, and Twitter, and your regular desktop address book, and who knows how many other contacts floating around in Skype or Lync or wherever. Some of these apps [...]
Combo Crew for iOS and Android Pulls No Punches!
Type of app: Action-Fighting Platform/where to buy: iOS or Android; available in the iTunes App Store or available in the Google Play Store Developer: The Game Bakers Description: • Fight with your fingers: slash enemies to trigger crazy combos, tap to guard. A modern beat ’em up with no virtual D-pad! • The first mobile [...]
World Tarot Week? World Tarot Day? What?!
Best I can tell, the people who use tarot cards are those who want to believe in the idea of pre-destiny, or that there is some mystical “if I do this, then that will occur” order to the universe — beyond simple cause and effect. It’s kind of sad, really, to imagine someone thinking that [...]
FL Studio Mobile Gets Android Support – Hands-on Review
OK, I will admit to being almost entirely negative about the state of music production apps on the Android platform. Much of this centers on one absolute reality – iOS has core audio services built-in that take care of things for developers, whereas on Android not only is there a lack of such services, the [...]
Google Announces Game Center Clone ‘Google Play Game Services’
At Google I/O last week we got to see a number of new things, including the music service we already reported on as well as the ‘-1′ to Google’s myriad chat options with ‘Hangouts’ combining chat and talk. But as a gamer who has enjoyed more and more games coming to Google Play in a [...]
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