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- Steve Jobs dead at 56
- Facebook app gets some bugfixes
- Looks thin, 10 things I don't like [From the Forums]
- Challenge your friends to a battle of the words with Fightin' Words
- Android 101: How to set your e-mail signature
- Google Shopper gets updated; +1 and save your favorite products
- PrivacyStar Porsche wins 2011 GT Drivers’ Championship, now you can win some free PrivacyStar licenses
- Light Grid live wallpaper adds some Halloween fun to your Android device
- Android App Review: Tuner - DaTuner Pro
- The already-struggling Google TV just found itself in a deeper hole
| Posted: 05 Oct 2011 04:52 PM PDT |
| Facebook app gets some bugfixes Posted: 05 Oct 2011 03:13 PM PDT Android's Facebook app just got an update for what the social network's calling "a whole slew of fixes." It's not saying what was fixed, but any bugfix update is a good one, we reckon. Download links are after the break.
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| Looks thin, 10 things I don't like [From the Forums] Posted: 05 Oct 2011 02:47 PM PDT Exciting week thus far. Plenty of Android news happening right now here on the blog and in the forums. Looking for the best place to talk about it all? The Android Central forums is where you want to be. Check out some of threads below or start your own today:
If you're not already a member of the Android Central forums, you can register your account today.
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| Challenge your friends to a battle of the words with Fightin' Words Posted: 05 Oct 2011 02:38 PM PDT Sure, the long awaited Scrabble and Words with Friends games have long been available on Android, but that doesn't mean that other Scrabble clones don't exist, or offer functionality that they don't. Say you have a friend who is on a BlackBerry device, and you want to play with them, unfortunately you can't since there is no app on BB, but the folks at Interworks Inc decided that didn't work for them. Fightin' Words is a great Scrabble style game that allows you to play verse other friends on Android or BlackBerry devices, and even better is that it is a free download from the market. So, head into the market and grab your own copy today, or hit the break for download links.
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| Android 101: How to set your e-mail signature Posted: 05 Oct 2011 02:00 PM PDT Your smartphone is a pretty personal item, and we all like to do the little things to make them our own -- like setting a signature on outgoing email messages. It's easy to do (and easy to change) on both the Gmail app as well as the Android mail client. Grab your phone, and follow along: Gmail app
Email app
Told ya it was easy! Just remember -- all outgoing mail messages will have your signature attached, even messages to your boss or your Mother. Don't make the same mistake I did and have to spend an hour telling Mum that you're sorry and know you shouldn't talk like that.
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| Google Shopper gets updated; +1 and save your favorite products Posted: 05 Oct 2011 12:13 PM PDT Google has released yet another update to Google Shopper today that brings some of their newest features to the application, bringing added functionality for all. This update brings quite a few warmly welcomed features, such as:
Head into the Android market and grab your update, or hit the break for download links.
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| Posted: 05 Oct 2011 11:57 AM PDT The folks from PrivacyStar are celebrating a bit after their sponsored Porsche 911 GT3 driven by Patrick Long won the 2011 GT Drivers Championship in the Pirelli World Challenge at Road Atlanta in Braselton, Georgia. If you're not familiar with PrivacyStar, they offer a complete solution for call blocking, text blocking, call lookup and even caller ID on Android devices. The app offers a free 7-day trial in the Android Market but not wanting to leave anyone out of their celebrations, they've offered up some free PrivacyStar licenses to Android Central readers. If you're looking to win one of the four licenses available just drop a comment in the Android Central forums and we'll pick some winners for Monday, until then -- you can jump on past the break for the full press release as well as a link to the 7-day free trial of PrivacyStar. Leave a comment in the Android Central Forums
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| Light Grid live wallpaper adds some Halloween fun to your Android device Posted: 05 Oct 2011 11:53 AM PDT
We have seen Light Grid live wallpaper for Android before, and personally it is one of my favorite wallpapers to use. Keeping up with their holiday spirit they have added a nice set of Halloween icons to be used so you can spruce up your device with some ghosts and skulls. What better time than now to get your device all Halloween'd up? Download links are after the break.
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| Android App Review: Tuner - DaTuner Pro Posted: 05 Oct 2011 11:24 AM PDT For anyone who has ever been involved in playing a musical instrument, you know the importance of tuning, which is why DaTuner is for you. DaTuner is a highly accurate strobe tuner that not only automatically locks onto the pitch you're playing, but also tells you the register you're playing in along with how many cents sharp or flat you are. It's a welcome change from the needle-reading we're all accustomed to, and it's as intuitive as it is functional. DaTuner also boasts a highly functional settings menu that lets you change everything from the sensitivity to the responsiveness, the color for notes that are sharp or flat, and even the temperament, for those who subscribe to the notion of just intonation. A pitch pipe is also included in DaTuner, for those who prefer to tune to a relative pitch, although it has a tendency to be a little buggier than just tuning using the phone's microphone. Still, it works often enough, and in the event it doesn't, there's still an incredibly powerful tuner at your disposal. For the Android-loving musician, I think DaTuner Pro is easily the best tuner you can have on your device. I used to give that title to gStrings, but DaTuner has proven to be so powerful, easy to use, and accurate, it'd be foolish to not use it. DaTuner comes in three varities: free, donate (with a few more features), and experimental (for those who want to be on the cutting edge of tuning technology). The donate version is $2.34, but when dedicated tuners cost upwards of $40 or more, this is an absolute steal. More pictures and download links are after the break.
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| The already-struggling Google TV just found itself in a deeper hole Posted: 05 Oct 2011 10:16 AM PDT Microsoft announces wealth of new Xbox 360 content partnersGoogle TV's pretty much been a non-starter since it was announced at Google IO in 2010. Trouble with networks and other content providers has kept any sort of mainstream adoption at bay, and we're still waiting on the long-promised update to Honeycomb that will bring more apps and features. Microsoft might have just made any update moot with the announcement of a major update to the Xbox 360 and the announcement of slew of new content partners worldwide. Movies. Games. Sports. News. Worldwide. Coming around the holiday season. Ouch. Here's the list of the new partners:
Read over that list again. Those are just the new additions, folks. And YouTube -- probably the biggest draw on Google TV next to Pandora and Amazon -- is among them. This is going to be an uphill battle now, that's for sure. Maybe Google's got something up its sleeve for Google TV. But a shovel might well need to be one of the tricks. Source: Microsoft
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