Android Social Media

In December I wrote the post “My Favorite Free Android Widgets” and since then that post averages about 17,000 views per month. With that kind of popularity I thought we deserve an update. There are still several of those same apps & widgets on my phone today but I have found new and better widgets! [...]

So far this year I have been through airport security 22 times and on 36 different airplanes. In fact I’m sitting at LAX right now thinking about the different apps that I utilize to make the travel easier and less painful. Mobile travel itineraries goes back as far as Smartphones. Since our website’s aim is [...]

The New York Times has decided to grace the Android Market with their news app. So far I’m impressed. It loads quickly and has a very Android style pull down menu to select different categories of news. The black and white color scheme is very easy on the eyes and stays true to the NY [...]

Are you one of the thousands of people waiting in line to get an invite to Google voice? Google’s VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) phone service that has been made extra awesome by their integration of those services into Android has been a hot ticket item these days.  With current user numbers over 1.4 Million its [...]

You read right. Flash Video on Android is here! SkyFire 2.0 is now available for download in the Android Market. SkyFire is a stand alone web browser that detects Flash Video on web pages and offers the option to watch the video. Even better is that the video is opened in full screen resolution according [...]

different Merchant Services Apps available for download in the Android market. In all the private consulting I do its quite handy to have the ability to take credit card charges at all let alone on my phone while I’m on the go.

The open source wordpress project is now building an official app for Wordpress. The author of the wpToGo app that we previously suggested to our readers is at the front of this new official app now available in the Android Market. So far I’m very impressed with what we are seeing the the development. It is necessary to enable Remote Publishing via XML-RPC in your Wordpress Writing Settings. This quick video will introduce you to the app if you haven’t already downloaded it.

THE APPLICATION:

* Access to all the files: documents, pdfs, ppts, pics, etc that are on your desktop
* Full Monitoring of others including children while on your computer
* Utilize your full desktop browser for websites that otherwise don’t display correctly on your mobile browser.

On Nov 23, Google announced that the Google Maps Navigation — that at first was only available to Android 2.0 users (Droid users) — is now available to devices running Android 1.6. Google Maps Navigation offers FREE turn-by-turn, voice-guided directions between two points. Google Maps Navigation for Android 1.6 also offers support for more layers. The new application is available for free in the Android Market to customers in the U.S! Download it now!

Android device users can now get onto fring (we know you’re been missing us since some of you recently switched to Android devices ) with (the first) free VoIP calls over Skype, MSN and GoogleTalk and via hundreds of SIP providers. As always you can see real-time presence and live chat with your ICQ, Yahoo! And AIM buddies too. You can also use Twitter there, as part of your integrated contact list.