Archive for September, 2011
Units Converter DIY [V2.1]
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A Units Converter that you can create and keep only the most used units and categories. No more wast... Read more @ AndroLib : New Apps and Games
Gameloft’s Weekend Sale: NOVA, UNO, Assasin’s Creed and Asphalt 6 only $1
Gameloft is throwing a “fall weekend sale” for a few of the biggest and baddest in Android gaming. HD titles like, the first-person shooter N.O.V.A., family fun UNO, action-platformer Assassin’s Creed and the action-racing Asphalt 6, are all being offered up for only 99 cents this weekend only. Even if you hate gaming, [...]
Samsung Galaxy S II Lockscreen Got You Down? Here’s AT&T’s Simple Fix
We reported a short time ago on a “security issue” facing AT&T’s Samsung Galaxy S II units. Apparently, when you unlock the phone and it goes to the lockscreen, merely letting the phone fall back asleep or “timeout” will allow you to quickly awake the device and bypass the lockscreen altogether. Well, in an effort [...]
Google Teams Up With Dogfish Head For The Nexus Of Beers – URKontinent
As Android users, we’ve known for quite sometime what happens when Google teams up with a smartphone manufacturer: pure Nexus bliss. Well, it looks like Google has paired up with another world famous manufacturer of sorts, Dogfish Head brewery. If it’s one thing Dogfish knows, it’s beer. They have been “manufacturing” [...]
Amazon Kindle Fire manufacturing cost: $209.63
Amazon is riding a wave of tech buzz after stunning pundits and consumers with its $199 Kindle Fire tablet. The manufacturing experts at iSupply estimate that the Fire’s hardware costs just over $209 to make, undercutting other estimates by about $40. Amazon is hoping to offset the discrepancy with increased sales of physical and digital [...]
Download the VLC media player pre-alpha now
We’ve been waiting almost a year for the Android version of the popular does-all media player VLC after it was unceremoniously booted out of iOS. It looks like that wait is slowly drawing to a close. Thrill-seeking users can download the pre-alpha (is that even a real term?) APK for their phones now. Don’t fire up that download link [...]
英単語search [V0.41]
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英単語をアルクで検索します。 ・簡易的にアプリ内に検索結果を表示できます。 ・ステータスバーから起動できます。ブラウザなどで英文を読みながら検索するのに便利です。 ・text-to-speechで英単... Read more @ AndroLib : New Apps and Games
Foursquare Updated In The Android Market – Includes New Lists and Friend Sorting
It’s already been a few weeks since the Foursquare team updated their app for iOS users and now, Android users are getting the same treatment. The Foursquare app has been updated in the Android Market and includes a bevvy of new enhancements. First off, they’ve moved some things around like points for check-ins providing for an all [...]
Archos and TigerDirect build cheap, custom tablets for publishers
It was estimated in 2009 that if the New York Times sent every one of its paying subscribers a free Amazon Kindle, they would still save half the cost of physically printing and delivering the newspaper every day. It looks like Archos and TigerDirect are taking that thought experiment into the real world. They’ve begun a program that lets [...]
AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II lock screen security flaw, and how to fix it
It seems like the shiny new AT&T version of the Samsung Galaxy S II has at least one dull spot. There’s an easy work-around that will let anyone access your phone if you’ve implemented Android’s unique pattern-based or PIN lock screen. Don’t worry, though, an industrious early adopter has already found a way to secure [...]
