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• App review for Newsy: Multisource Video News
• Posted by arvid November 07, 2010
• Recommended for News Junkies

Great app and it works as advertised. Flip through the gallery of video, tap it and watch the video within the application. You can even share the video via twitter of facebook.

Few remarks; unable to download video so you could watch them offline and using the twitter homepage to share, would be better to use the Android sharing options so you can pick your own twitter client.

Infinite waste of time

• App review for Infinity Web Browser
• Posted by mullered November 07, 2010

I installed this browser to replace Dolphin browser as I thought Dolphin was too large. Dolphin is large for a reason, code that makes for a good user experience. The Infinity browser has some good features. The menu is extensive from simple things such as a button for entering in a url, a full screen button and multiple tabs.
There are a few down sides, that, in my opinion, outweigh the ups. There is no way of knowing which tab is in focus. The extra buttons reduce the screen viewing area. The pictures for the features don't link for me; except for the exit button.
These draw backs, though annoying, were compounded by the applications continuous crashing. Maybe my Hero is too old, or maybe the application needs a lot of improvement. Either way, while I run my Hero I won't be running this browser. The search for me, for a good lightweight browser, continues.

Great App For Bikers

• App review for Best Biking Roads
• Posted by rabbitson November 07, 2010
• Recommended for Road Warriors

This app is really good for bikers who like to explore new places as it is simple to use and has lots of information available on the database.
What i like about this app is that normaily when I go on a trip I take my bike out with the sat nav on it and plan a trip in advance. This works great but there are days when I don't feel like going to that trouble or maybe I have rented a bike in an unfamiliar area, etc. This App allows me to find fun places to ride in a fuss free way and make the most of such trips.
There are a couple of small things which could be improved for the future but as there is also an accompanying website for this app, most of what's missing can be found there.
Really a good use of a mobile for a biker nut!

If its not showing up in the gallery use this

• App review for Rescan Media ROOT
• Posted by etherealglimpse November 06, 2010
• Recommended for Road Warriors, News Junkies, Foodies, Book Readers, Gamers, Workout Junkies, Parents, Students, Animal Lovers, Outdoors Enthusiasts, Music Fans, Shopaholics, Career People, Social Butterflies, Budget Hawks, Sports Fans, Film/TV Fans or Tech/Social Networking Junkies

It works. I haven't had any issues with it. Does what it says in the packaging.

If you enter your phones gallery but fail to see some media files use this to rescan your android device and it should then show up.

Super easy to use. Install, one click, it scans, done.

appbrain scour the app market install things faster

• App review for AppBrain App Market
• Posted by etherealglimpse November 06, 2010
• Recommended for Road Warriors, News Junkies, Foodies, Book Readers, Gamers, Workout Junkies, Parents, Students, Animal Lovers, Outdoors Enthusiasts, Music Fans, Shopaholics, Career People, Social Butterflies, Budget Hawks, Sports Fans, Film/TV Fans or Tech/Social Networking Junkies

Appbrain oh my. I use this app everyday to look up apps and help me install them. It keeps a list on their website of apps I have on my phone and when i reset my phone I can reinstall the apps I had before.

While it offers reviews and recommendations, I mostly use appolicious for that. I like appolicious's recommendation system more and its social aspects a lot more than appbrain.

appolicious doesn't install apps but appbrain tries to upgrade everything on the phone and if a few apps weren't meant to be upgraded you likely will end up with a broken app. So be careful.

Great app for checking into daily activities

• App review for GetGlue
• Posted by etherealglimpse November 06, 2010
• Recommended for Road Warriors, Foodies, Book Readers, Gamers, Outdoors Enthusiasts, Music Fans, Social Butterflies, Film/TV Fans or Tech/Social Networking Junkies

I think this is a great app for checking into things like tv shows and movies, games, and other daily life tasks or activities. However I do not like very much the recommendation system, it needs an overhaul. Recommendations were ok but often very old or seemed out of context. Great service and you can comment on what you are doing which allows communication with others and makes it "social". Not bad.

Great start for tweetdeck on android

• App review for TweetDeck (Twitter, Facebook)
• Posted by etherealglimpse November 06, 2010
• Recommended for Road Warriors, News Junkies, Foodies, Book Readers, Gamers, Workout Junkies, Parents, Students, Animal Lovers, Outdoors Enthusiasts, Music Fans, Shopaholics, Career People, Social Butterflies, Budget Hawks, Sports Fans, Film/TV Fans or Tech/Social Networking Junkies

Tweetdeck has made a great product for android devices but its not the best. I can't for the life of me see where any functionality exist for list. What a crock. Well its free how can I complain, well I will cause list support is important. The great side of this twitter app however is no battery drain. Wow, I can't stress how much the other twitter apps drain excessive battery. This one is fast, refreshes fast. You can add many columns and also supports facebook.

Needs list support, better search and perhaps a few more general twitter functions.

Looks great, no excessive battery drain, quick, facebook support.

funny app tells you if your party stinks

• App review for Is It A Party?
• Posted by etherealglimpse November 06, 2010
• Recommended for Social Butterflies or Tech/Social Networking Junkies

A funny app that will analyze sound levels. It's a little weird however when you are in traffic near a construction zone and you shake the phone and it tells you its a party. However, it works and it's a cool ice breaker in a real party. If you going to a party with a lot of deaf people I would leave this one out. Just saying.

Great file explorer for android

• App review for ASTRO File Manager / Browser
• Posted by etherealglimpse November 06, 2010
• Recommended for Road Warriors, Gamers, Students or Tech/Social Networking Junkies

I use this app everyday. I use to connect to my pc via wifi and drag files off the computer into my phone. I use it to organize files. Supports copy, pasting, moving, deletion and more. It works, hasn't force closed on me. Sometimes will lag and freeze. I have the smb add-on and can connect to smb servers such as windows and mac.
A wonderful explorer with many features. I would like something like this explorer for my mac computer haha.

Stream the music off your subsonic music server

• App review for Subsonic Music Streamer
• Posted by etherealglimpse November 06, 2010
• Recommended for Road Warriors, Outdoors Enthusiasts or Tech/Social Networking Junkies

While at first it was having a few hiccups connecting once I got it working I was able to browse my music and listen to it on the go. My upstream bandwidth from the server is good and did not notice any breaking in the songs. The only interferance I had was when I had a poor cellular data connection. I didn't like having to pay to use this since the system is basically open source. There is a way around it but in all fairness supporting the author is never a bad thing. The app works good and browsing for songs is fine. Not the best but fine. Good work was done here to take your music with you anywhere. I love subsonic.

access adb shell through wifi

• App review for adbWireless
• Posted by etherealglimpse November 06, 2010
• Recommended for Students or Tech/Social Networking Junkies

Using this app you can access the adb shell system on your android phone using wifi. The apps runs and then you run adb on your computer connecting through the ip.

While you probably might not want to run crazy critical commands through wifi, it should be good to do a few smaller commands that are not so risky. However I have heard of people using it to do anything from rooting to cwm.

Works good and would recommend it to have in case you forgot your usb cable at home.

Take a picture it'll last longer

• App review for ShootMe (Screen Grabber)
• Posted by etherealglimpse November 06, 2010
• Recommended for Students, Shopaholics, Social Butterflies or Tech/Social Networking Junkies

Sometimes words aren't enough. Use this app to take screenshots to share with friends or developers to show them issues with apps. It's quick you load it, you hide it, you shake it, you view the screenshot, then send it.

You need a rooted phone but in experience has worked in non rooted phones. It is not completely stable however in non rooted phones.

stop apps that are wack

• App review for Autostarts
• Posted by etherealglimpse November 06, 2010
• Recommended for Road Warriors, Students, Outdoors Enthusiasts or Tech/Social Networking Junkies

This app is great. It works. I haven't had any force closes. It scans for apps that turn on automatically at various stages in the phones operation. You can choose to automatically stop the app or start the app or get rid of the app. I use it to stop a few apps at startup because they drain lots of battery but they happen to be system apps that can't be uninstalled.

Truly Amazing App

• App review for LogMeIn Ignition
• Posted by Cool3stNERD November 06, 2010
• Recommended for Career People or Tech/Social Networking Junkies

I downloaded this app to try it out and It is a truly amazing piece of programming! This app lets you access and use your computer remotely from anywhere on 3G or WiFi. The ONLY problem with this app is that it costs $30, there is no app that should cost this amount of money. especially this. I think that they would get WAY more sales and more profit from this app if it was at the most $10 that is the ONLY reason that this app isn't a 5 bar/star app for me is because of the PRICE.

P.S.
Whatever computers you have the logmein add on installed on under your account will show up on the app so you can access any of the computers listed in your account.

No reason you Shouldn't have this...

• App review for WaveSecure UPA
• Posted by Cool3stNERD November 06, 2010
• Recommended for Road Warriors, News Junkies, Foodies, Book Readers, Gamers, Workout Junkies, Parents, Students, Animal Lovers, Outdoors Enthusiasts, Music Fans, Shopaholics, Career People, Social Butterflies, Budget Hawks, Sports Fans, Film/TV Fans or Tech/Social Networking Junkies

... except if you don't use the main Wavesecure app. This protects the main app from being uninstalled without putting in a password. so if your phone is lost or stolen and the person is smart enough to try and uninstall either this app of the main app they protect each other.

MUST DOWNLOAD if you use Wavesecure.

Pretty useless addon

• App review for Shiny Shake Dolphin
• Posted by Cool3stNERD November 06, 2010

I think this is a pretty useless addon for the dolphin browser because I think it takes more effort to shake the phone than just click the tab that I want. If anyone can give me a better reason to use this please tell me. Until that happens I am gonna have to say don't bother downloading this addon.

ONLY PDF APP NEEDED

• App review for Adobe Reader
• Posted by Cool3stNERD November 06, 2010
• Recommended for Book Readers, Gamers, Students, Career People or Tech/Social Networking Junkies

This is a staple app for your android phone if you use pdf files... I had been looking for an app to read pdf files for a long time and Adobe finally came through with their official app to read PDF files. it keeps your recently opened pdf files in a list. This is very useful for me when I download the Bus schedules on my phone. I just open the app and the schedules are right there waiting for me. if you use pdf files and are using a different app get rid of it and get this one :)

Poor UI

• App review for Pinball
• Posted by arvid November 06, 2010
• Recommended for Gamers

Not sure, but I can't get used to the UI. I love to play pinball but on the phone it seems odd to me. You control the game by just tapping somewhere on the screen. Nice try but move along!

The speed!

• App review for Asphalt
• Posted by arvid November 06, 2010
• Recommended for Gamers

Great app to race with. It uses the orientation of your Android device to steer or throttle. Love playing it but it was getting used to when you are used to playing games on your desktop. If you are into arcade racing, this is it for you!

Multiplayer would be nice.

Incorrect information

• App review for Mint.com Personal Finance
• Posted by arvid November 06, 2010
• Recommended for Budget Hawks

On what I was able to test it with, it showed some incorrect information. I think the idea is great, their website is top of the bill but this client requires some more work.