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Steam Mobile App Is Now Available

Steam, Valve’s digital distribution service, has gone mobile. The app, recently out of beta, is available for both iOS and Android.In what was perhaps the shortest beta ever, as well as a surprising and unprecedented example of Valve releasing so…

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February 2, 2012 at 1:30 pm Comments (0)

Google Maps Makes Cool Video to Promote New Features

If you’re a regular reader, you’re probably more than familiar with Google Maps. As useful as it is, it’s about as exciting to writing about as Chex Mix (even if it’s delicious). But Google’s released a cool new video to p…

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January 18, 2012 at 8:05 pm Comments (0)

New ‘I’m Getting Arrested’ App for Occupy Wall Street

A new Android app has just been released to help out the Occupy Wall Street Protesters called “I’m Getting Arrested”.

As silly as the main screen for the app looks, this litte program is no joke. According to our source, app designer…

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November 1, 2011 at 5:42 pm Comments (0)

Comparing Android Mobile Browsers

Every Android smartphone consumer relishes in the fact that they can, and are encouraged, to play with their phone and optimize it. But what about the more simple user who can only download apps (instead of crack or develop) to make it more efficient t…

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October 2, 2011 at 2:00 pm Comments (0)

SlideShare Dumps Flash for HTML5

The presentation-sharing site SlideShare has announced that they’re getting rid of Flash and replacing it with HTML5.
One of Slideshare’s developers announced the change on a blog post. Slideshare says that changes in HTML and the capabilit…

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September 28, 2011 at 2:35 pm Comments (0)

Bizzabo Lets You Meet The Right People at Conferences

Bizzabo is a new startup, currently in private beta, that allows people attending technical conferences to find the people that are really important to advance their careers.
If you’re paid to be geeky, than attending technical conferences is a w…

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September 23, 2011 at 3:01 pm Comments (0)

Tumblr for Android 2.0 Up for Grabs

If you use Tumblr often and like to discover new blogs on your cellphone, you don’t have to fret anymore. The official Tumblr blog has just announced that Tumblr Android 2.0 is now available on the Android Market and comes with many great feature…

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August 31, 2011 at 1:30 pm Comments (0)

How to Make a President Your (Virtual) Puppet & Say What You Want to Hear

If one gets down to talking about the possibilities of technological advancements there could be no end to the discussion. During the discussion itself, there would be numerous developments taking place the world over. Brains keep working everywhere gi…

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August 30, 2011 at 7:00 pm Comments (0)

Pops App for Android Animates Your Notifications

The Pops app for Android devices allows you to receive fun, animated notifications for text messages, e-mail and more. If you’ve found the standard notification messages and tones being too boring and bland for your liking, the Pops application (…

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August 15, 2011 at 1:15 pm Comments (0)

5 Phone Apps to Manage Your Money

If you want to use your smartphone to keep track of your finances (perhaps because you just got the bill for your spiffy new phone), you’re in luck! LohasMoneyiPhone users will love LohasMoney, an app that purports to be an all-in-one financial m…

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July 22, 2011 at 4:00 pm Comments (0)

Google Maps Brings Transit Navigation to Android

Google has been working hard over the last couple of months to make their products, especially Google Maps all the better.While Google + has been the program that has people buzzing all over the internet, there have been plenty of different tweaks and …

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July 11, 2011 at 12:59 pm Comments (0)

Redefining Reading with Pulse News Reader for iOS, Android

Reading an article on the iPad, iPhone, or Android doesn’t have to be aesthetically boring.The iPad, iPhone, and Android operating systems are all known for their streamlined, and very graphically-intensive user interfaces. Unfortunately for avid…

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July 5, 2011 at 1:00 pm Comments (0)

Path Social App Hits Android

One of the more popular uses for the smartphone, especially since they all started incorporating internet access and better definition cameras is using them to review restaurants and show people exactly what you are eating and why you either love or ha…

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July 1, 2011 at 2:10 pm Comments (0)

Skype Brings Video Chat to Android

Big things have been happening for Skype lately and the world’s best known VOIP app is only getting bigger and better since they were purchased.While some people thought there might be some problems when Microsoft decided to buy Skype back in May…

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June 30, 2011 at 6:06 pm Comments (0)

Elixir App for Android Gives You Every Detail About Your Phone

Android phones are great for the amount of creativity they give, as well as the freedom to shape the phone in the designers own image. Elixir, a free app from the Android Marketplace, aims to deliver you all the information about your phone that you co…

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June 15, 2011 at 2:05 pm Comments (0)

The Competition Google Wallet Faces

The future or mobile payments is here – Google has unveiled its new mobile payment system that goes toe-to-toe with Square and other mobile payment providers. What Is Google Wallet?Google Wallet is a combination of Software and a compatible Andro…

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June 4, 2011 at 4:05 pm Comments (0)

CyanogenMod Helps Enjoy Apps on Your Terms

Revolutions in the mobile industry are not new. Ever since the device was created efforts have been made to improve upon every existing technology. From being just a phone it has moved on to become a multipurpose device. It has almost become a mini com…

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May 29, 2011 at 4:05 pm Comments (0)

Friday Android App Allows You To View Ancient Smartphone History

While the iTunes app store is currently the undisputed king of Smartphone apps, Google’s Android Market is just now starting to make a dent in Apple’s supremacy thanks to some neat new applications being released.There have been some very cool Andr…

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May 23, 2011 at 2:05 pm Comments (0)

Paypal Adds “Photo Checking” For Android App

There are few companies that are as synonymous with the internet the way Paypal is. Perhaps only Google is more well known as being a web presence and because of this the company is both loved and hated.We have seen plenty of people poke fun at Paypal…

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May 20, 2011 at 1:35 pm Comments (0)

Cartoon Network App Comes to Android

We’ve all been there. Sitting on the bus, or in a waiting room or just wanting to kill some time in line. Thanks to Cartoon Network’s new app, if you’re an Android user you can kill that time watching some great shows.Cartoon Network has long b…

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May 18, 2011 at 3:05 pm Comments (0)

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