Sameed Khan

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Create Android Apps For Your Favorite Websites In Just A Few Clicks!

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Disappointed that your favorite website does not have a mobile web variant? Looking for a way to create an app for your own website without having to learn how to code? Look no further. AppYet is a web service that allows you to create, in just a few clicks, reasonably feature-rich and presentable Android RSS feed readers for websites of your choice. All you have to do is specify an RSS feed(s) for one or multiple sites of your choice and enter a name for the app. You can alter the package name and icon of the app as well. AppYet adds all information to an app template, builds your app and mails it to the email account that you used to register with the service. More after the break. Read More

exfm – The Social Network For Music Releases Its iOS App

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Originally a Chrome extension for on-the-fly music discovery, organizing and sharing, exfm, now has a free mobile client for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. exfm for iOS, like the extension, allows you to discover and listen to new songs, favorite (“Note”) or buy the ones you like, share them with your friends over Twitter, Facebook or Tumblr or queue them up into a playlist and listen to them in one go, follow what your friends are listening to or browse through the Tastemakers feed, a randomly generated timeline of songs Noted by other exfm users. And that’s not all. Join us after the break for more. Read More

Cut The Rope For Android Released On GetJar!

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The word around the web was that the Android variant of ZeptoLab’s award winning iOS puzzle game, Cut The Rope and its oh-so-adorable mascot, Om Nom were due for an official unveiling some time today. And sure enough, the long wait after the initial announcement finally came to an end a few hours ago when the game was released to GetJar’s Android app store. As explained in a freshly published article on GetJar's blog, the source of the aforementioned news, a new Twitter account with username @CTRAndroid, was a "teaser campaign" launched by GetJar after ZeptoLabs chose the mobile app store for the game's initial launch. As of this writing, only a free (ad-supported) version of the game is available.  The developers are yet to mention anything regarding an ad-free paid version or the release of the game on the Android Market. Read More

Hulu Plus Released For Selective Android Devices

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Hulu’s official mobile client has finally been released to the Android Market. Like its iOS variant Hulu Plus for Android lets you browse and stream video clips from the Hulu website and with a $7.99/month Hulu Plus subscription, popular, old and current TV shows and whole movies on the go. Sadly, the initial release of Hulu Plus only supports six devices, namely, the Nexus One, Nexus S, HTC Inspire 4G, Motorola Droid II, Motorola Droid X, and the Motorola Atrix. It seems selective compatibility has become sort of a trend in the video streaming genre of Android applications. And if Hulu decides to follow in the footsteps of the ever-elusive Netflix, the remaining lot of Android devices won’t be getting the app any time soon – officially, that is. Read More

Watermark For Windows Phone 7 Adds Text Watermarks To Your Photos

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Ever wanted to add watermarks or just simple text to photos or screenshots on your Windows Phone 7 device before sharing them over the web? Watermark for WP7 is a free (ad-supported) tool that, as its name suggests, allows you to create and add textual watermarks to photos and/or screenshots stored on your device. The operation is simple. You choose an image from your Camera Roll or Saved Images, enter some text, customize its font, font size, color, weight and opacity, position it over the selected image as you see fit and save the result to your device. Read More

Official LiveScore App Brings Live Sports Scores To Android

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Attention, Android-wielding sports fans! The official mobile client for one of the oldest, most popular sports live score web services is now available on the Android Market. LiveScore for Android is more or less a carbon copy of the iOS variant of the client, which has been around for quite some time now. As of this writing, the app displays live scores for soccer only. However, tennis, basketball, hockey and cricket live scores will be added in future updates, as mentioned on the app’s Android Market page. The newest version of LiveScore for iPhone, iPod and iPad includes live scores for all of the aforementioned sports except cricket. Both clients, like the web service itself, are absolutely free. More after the break. Read More

Firefox 5.0 Lands On Android Market With New Private Browsing Feature

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Looking for an alternative web browser for your Android phone or tablet? Wanted to give Firefox for Android a shot but been hesitant due to the beta tag? Hesitate no more! Firefox 5.0 for Android has finally shed its beta tag and is available on Android Market right away. The final build of version 5.0 brings increased page loading speed, greater compatibility with SwiftKey keyboard replacement, a vaster add-on gallery and of course, the Do Not Track private browsing feature that was introduced in the beta. There seems to be no improvement in time it takes for the browser to launch and, judging by the comments on the app’s Android Market page, none in the overall stability of the browser. It seems the mobile browser needs a serious overhaul before it can even begin to hurt its Android Market adversaries. Let’s hope the browser’s freshly released desktop variant fares better. Read More

Dolphin Browser HD 6.0 Beta For Android Adds Web Magazine Feature

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The Dolphin Browser dev team has released a beta for the newest version of their acclaimed Android browser, adding to its long list of handy features, the option to view select supported websites in a magazine-like format. Yes, almost like Flipboard for the iPad. Said feature, called Webzine, extracts text and images from articles and feed items on a website and arranges them in a uni-column format suitable for reading off a mobile device. However, unlike Flipboard, the feature only shows you a preview/excerpt of each article, providing you with a (View All) link to associated websites for the rest. The current version only includes Facebook and Twitter Webzines. Support for more websites will be included in future updates. Read More

Yahoo! Play For Android – Identify Songs, Make Playlists By Mood

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After launching AppSpot, a mobile app discovery client for Android and iOS and App Search, a mobile app search engine to go along with it, Yahoo! has now released a music app for Android. Play by Yahoo! Music automatically arranges all your songs by artists, albums, songs, allows you to create and manage playlists, includes a music identification feature similar to the one found in Shazam and SoundHound, the option to browse the latest news for artists and a new Smart Shuffle option. Read More

Cloud Notes For Windows Phone 7 & PC Creates Notes, Syncs With Dropbox

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Looking for a simple way to sync notes from your Windows Phone 7 device and Windows PC to your Dropbox account and back? Look no further than Cloud Notes. The app lets you create notes, share them via email and upload them to your Dropbox cloud storage. Both the mobile client and desktop variant establish a two-way sync between notes stored on your WP7 device/PC and a directory of your choice within your Dropbox folder. That is, any changes made to notes from within the app will be reflected in their Dropbox copies and vice versa. The application is not to be confused with a previously reviewed desktop gadget by the same name that syncs notes with Google Docs. More after the break. Read More

Live Locker – Sleek, Shortcut-Filled Lock Screen Replacement [Android]

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Custom lock screen replacement apps are dime a dozen in the Android Market, each trying to impress you with it's own unique set of features, and presenting you with much more than just the conventional (and monotonous) 3-way lock screen mechanism that your Android's stock firmware has on offer. Admittedly, we have come across numerous alternatives that add plenty of flair and eye candy to your Android's lock screen, but rarely we see a solution that injects some purpose to the cause. One such app happens to be Live Locker for Android - a free (ad-supported) lock screen replacement app with a unique, attractive interface featuring shortcuts to the Dialer/Phone, Messaging, Camera and Gallery applications, favorite contacts and sound profile toggles. Unlike older, more popular Android lock screen replacement apps the likes of Widget Locker and GOTO Lockscreen, Live Locker isn’t customizable (as of yet). However, the app makes up for this with a design that provides a good balance between looks and practically. Read More

MOLOME – The Symbian Instagram, Hits The Android Market [Review]

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Symbian’s new photo styling and sharing spearhead, MOLOME, after enjoying much acclaim in the Ovi Store, has decided to take its chances with Android. The app is now available for free from the Android Market. Barring a few essential but minor UI alterations, the developers don’t seem to have changed much in the Android variant of the app. Often termed the Instagram for Symbian, the app is very much like the mentioned iOS photo sharing giant. You sign in to your MOLOME account, view, “Love” and comment on photos in the public timeline, follow and interact with other “Molians”, view your MOLOME profile, snap photos, apply one of 19 available filters to each and share it to your MOLOME wall and/or social media accounts (Facebook, Twitter). Read More

DeadBeeF Music Player – Multiple Audio Formats, 10-Band Equalizer [Android]

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Hardcore music loving Android fans have plenty of quality music playing options to choose from the Android Market. Where most contemporary media players try to follow the latest Android GUI norms and patterns to stay at par with the rest of the competition, there are several candidates that prefer tradition over convention. One fine example of such app happens to be DeadBeeF Player for Android, which is a feature-rich, retro-style music player that supports over thirteen audio formats, allows online streaming, features a 10-band equalizer, supports per-track and per-album replay gain, last.fm scrobbling, a playlist manager and a 4x1 home screen widget. The player has both a free (ad supported) and a $1.92 pro (ad-free) version available in the Android Market. Read More

MIUI 1.6.17 Introduces New Lock Screen Mods

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MIUI is an undisputed king in the world of custom Android ROMs, and you would be hard-pressed to find too many Android fanboys who'll deny this particular fact. The Chinese-based custom ROM not only offers you an iOS-esque home screen experience, but also sports plenty of flavors of custom lock screens, each supplemented with a multitude of visual and functional facets. Adding to its feature richness and already-quite-extensive customizability, the iOS-inspired MIUI custom ROM for Android has, in its latest version (1.6.17), included support for lock screen mods. That is, in addition to the lock screen skin and background customization that previous versions allowed, you can now apply lock screen styles with custom UI and unlock options. The six lock screen mods currently available look absolutely peachy (screenshots and download link after the break). Let’s hope theme devs keep rolling out more. Read More

Yahoo! AppSpot Brings Personalized App Discovery For Android & iOS

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As Android keeps making steady progress as a stable mobile operating system, and reaches out to a far greater global audience, more and more developers are showing keenness in creating apps belonging to different genres. This has already resulted in a pretty much saturated app market that has multiple options from every known genre to offer to the users. Quite clearly, this beckons for a user-friendly and well-crafted app discovery tool that can help you find the required apps with minimum fuss. Although the Android Market and AppBrain serve this purpose quite remarkably, one can feel the need for an even more convenient mobile solution in this regard. Yahoo! has just released its very own mobile app discovery client for Android and iOS. AppSpot provides “personalized app recommendations” from the Android Market and App Store on a daily basis. The app provides suggestions according to the apps installed on your device. It features a search bar that posts queries to Yahoo! App Search (the online search portal for mobile apps released alongside AppSpot) and a built-in barcode scanner. The Android variant comes packed with a 4 x 2 widget that allows you to scroll through and access all of the day’s recommended apps from your home screen. Read More

Free-Time For iOS Tells Your Friends When You’re Free

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Having trouble planning get-togethers with your friends or scheduling meetings with your co-workers? Free-Time for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad provides a new way to tell your friends when you’re free. The app takes data from your calendar application, couples it with your pre-defined daily routine and displays intervals where you are free, allowing you to copy the info to clipboard or share it with your friends via SMS or email. And that’s not all. The app lets you determine times when when both you and a friend are free simply by bumping devices together. The app is relatively new to the App Store and is far from perfect. However, for the new concept it brings to the table and the flexibility it incorporates into its implementation, we give it a well-deserved thumbs up. Read More

Lightbox Photos Leaves Beta And Hits The Android Market

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Roughly three months after being introduced to the world during this year’s SXSW, Android Market’s latest head honcho in the photography category has finally shed its beta tag. Lightbox Photos for Android is now available at the Android Market for free. The developers don’t seem to have made any noticeable changes to the app since our review of its private beta. You can snap photos, apply photo filters, geotag and share photos over social networks (Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Foursquare), view photos from your social media accounts, major image hosting services and news networks, all through the same elegant user interface that governed the beta version. Read More

Monitor Your Google Analytics Data From Your Android Home Screen

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Are you a webmaster and want to get quick access to the Google Analytics data for your website or blog right from your Android home screen? Developed by XDA-Developers member RorolePro, Simple Analytics Widget for Android is a reasonably good-looking home screen widget that displays traffic analytics for a user-defined Google Analytics profile. The widget, when added to the home screen, lets you select a Google account registered with your device and in the screen that follows allows you to specify the Google Analytics profile (website) and the value to be tracked (Unique visitors a day or Visits a day). You should, obviously, have Google Analytics properly installed on your website for the widget to gather any data. Read More

How To Generate License For Swype 3.0 Beta On MIUI [Android]

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The beta version of the new and improved Swype keyboard replacement for Android was released to the Android Market this past Sunday. But as users scurried in to download the IME to their devices, those using the MIUI custom ROM found themselves in a fix once again. As with the previous versions of the keyboard replacement app, the keyboard’s installation on MIUI requires a workaround. The second step in the installation process (right before the licensing step) requires you disable Swype by unchecking a check box that does not exist in the Language & Input Settings page of MIUI’s Settings application. MIUI’s device settings differ in arrangement from the minimalistic settings menu of the stock OS and other major custom ROMs (most of which feature stock settings). This prohibits users from licensing the app and accessing all its features. Join us after the break for a step-by-step solution. Read More