I hope my wife is not reading this, but it has been said that being in a relationship is kind of like running a business. You have to make sure that the money coming in every month is not less than that being spent, you have to make sure that the kids (and pets) are →
Seven great FREE Android widgets that you never heard of (part 1)
After a period of (mostly ambivalent) courtship, I am now officially in love with Android widgets. I have been guilty of suggesting that Android copied iOS, which may have some truth in it, but if there’s any one thing that defines the Android iOS, widgets are probably it. You don’t want to overwhelm your interface →
How to Stream Videos From Your Home PC to your Android: an Odyssey
Do you have videos stored on your PC and want to view them on your tablet or other Android device without the hassle of copying and possibly converting them? Well look no further. I too wanted this and I set out to find out how to do it for no cost. What I found was →
Kongregate Arcade App: brings TONS of free cool flash games to Android
If you know Kongregate (an excellent site for free flash games), then let us introduce the Kongregate Android App, which brings you over 600 free games playable on your Android device absolutely free. Kongregate for Andoird is organized as an app market, and lets you choose and download from a wide range of games and →
Launcher 8: brings the Windows Phone metro interface to Android
I know someone, a sophisticated designer type who was given Nokia Lumia Windows phone to test and try out, and loves it. His take on the Windows 8 metro interface? That it is brilliantly designed, that the interface is excellent, user friendly, and easy to get to grips with. I trust this guy not just →
How to access the US Google Play Android app market from outside the US
If you’ve ever found that an app you were interested in was only available in the US or some other countries but not your own, or if you’re disappointed with the tired ‘local’ apps that are forced on you every time you open Google Play, then read on; this post will show you how to →
Yahoo launches a beautiful FREE weather app for Android and iOS
‘Yahoo Weather’ is a free weather app that displays beautiful pictures from Flickr for the place you are checking the weather for, and that reflect the weather and the ‘mood’ of the moment. The app displays the kind of information you would expect: temperature highs and lows, the general state, as well as the projected →
Nemus Launcher: an Android launcher that can organize icons in ‘Fences’ style compartments
If you’re looking for a novel Android launcher with a bit of a twist then read on. Nemus Launcher can provide a compartmentalized look and feel similar to Windows desktop organization app ‘Fences’. It is probably one of the best launchers to keep your many apps organized, if that is something that you’re after. The →
More excellent free Android games: ‘Super Stickman Golf 2’ and ‘Start The Rockets’
Despite the fact that the iOS gets a lot more games releases, Android games are not only on the rise, but the quality of free games is up as well. This post is the latest in our continuing series of ‘Free Android Games’ articles; two great games this time around: ‘Super Stickman Golf 2’ and →
Instabridge: a WIFI sharing app for Android that could change the world
Let’s say that (a) your Android device was connected to a WIFI network, (b) that both you and a friend or friends have ‘Instabridge’ installed on your Androids, and (c) that you wanted to share WIFI access with your friend(s). Instead of handing out the password, you could simply ‘give’ him/her access via Instabridge, using →
Will ‘The Minuum Keyboard’ live up to the hype?
It’s a simple concept: take the three rows of letters that constitute the QWERTY keyboard and consolidate them into one, then touch-type as you normally would.The software will then guess your intent, so you don’t actually have to hit the right letters. It apparently works, and it saves a lot of on-screen real estate. But →
Five Free Android Games That You Must Play!
We recently published an ambitious article entitled ‘The Best Free Android Games: our Top 5’, which should have had a better title like ‘The Top Five Free Android Games’. In any case, we had to install and play many dozens of free games in order to write that article, and discovered many excellent free games. →
