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Vignette
84 effects & 59 frames, retro/vintage styles, LOMO/Diana/Holga toy camera styles, polaroid/instant camera styles, cross-process, tilt-shift, photobooth, double exposure and much more.
Pho.to Lab PRO
Photo editor you can use to quickly generate photo montages, contact icons, animated photo caricatures, e-cards and telephone wallpapers.
Retro Camera Plus
Take old-school pics with five cameras, five sets of vintage vignetting, film scratch, black and white & cross processing effects for that off-the-hip analog appear.
Fast Burst Camera
Take five to 10 photos per second with this high-speed camera application. Fast Burst Camera is capable of taking five to 10 pictures per second.
Photaf 3D Panorama Pro
Generate wonderful 3D panoramas easily by utilizing the camera and the orientation sensor to know the precise angle each picture was taken.
FatBooth
What would you look like with a “few” added pounds? And what about your friends? Locate out with FatBooth for Android, a enjoyable way to instantly supersize faces on your Android device.
ZombieBooth
How would you appear as a zombie?! What about your buddies? ZombieBooth is a enjoyable way to immediately make your face into a 3D, animated zombie.
Tattoo Yourself (Tattoo Booth)
Ever wanted a tattoo but didn’t know which to select? Now is your chance to take a picture of any part of your body and add a cool tattoo on it.
The National Football League has released an official app for Android tablets today, just hours prior to the season kicks off. Called NFL ’11, the app is a free of charge download and provides on-demand NFL network news and information, teams new, game details, and a lot more. We get the sense that this 1 was rushed out the door as the Android Market description advises that “a lot more functions in the coming days and weeks”. Whatever, better than showing up three weeks into the season! We’ve already got it downloaded and sitting inside arm’s reach. We’ll need it as we watch the New Orleans Saints take on the Green Bay Packers in the season opener.
Unlike NFL Mobile, this app works for any carrier and does not need any sort of paid services. Hit the break for a fast breakdown of the additional Android apps available for NFL fans, and their respective download links.
NFL Game Pass - For fans outside the United States who want to watch live NFL games…on an Android three.X tablet. Needs a subscription to NFL Game Pass.
NFL Game Pass for Tablets - For fans outside the United States who want to watch live NFL games…on an Android three.X tablet. Calls for a subscription to NFL Game Pass.
NFL ’11 International - Live scoring & play-by-play, NFL.com Fantasy Football integration, iIn-game large play and quarterly audio highlights, coaches press conference videos, breaking news, newest team and player stats.
NFL.com Fantasy Football – Manage your NFL.com Fantasy Football teams , join or develop a league, check live fantasy scoring, sit/begin and add/drop players, propose and accept trades, read up-to-the minute player news, manage teams in several leagues
This may come as a shock, but somehow, it’s already September. As you attempt to come to grips with the fact that time keeps flying by faster than a best-of-the-line Mac Pro encodes video, let us regale you with our ideal and brightest stories from the past week. Spoiler alert: This week, no 1 resigned.
Each and every day we peruse the Android Marketplace seeking for the very best, worst, interesting, and most distinctive apps in an effort to sift out a couple of gems. We call it Apps of the Day. We can’t guarantee that each app featured below is a real winner, but every is worth at least a fast look. It’s all in an effort to assist you, our faithful readers, get the most out of your Android handsets. Read on to see what we identified today!
QR Pal - Searching for  new way to scan, save, and share QR codes? QR Pal could be your new finest buddy. The app seeks to be the last resource you could need for scanning those oh so useful tags that seem to be showing up in more locations than ever. For added value, QR Pal lets you earn points with each and every scan and even create and use QR codes for PayPal transactions. At initial glance it&rsquos 1 of the most full-featured scanning apps we have observed to date. [Marketplace]
UNO - UNO isn&rsquot a newcomer to the Android market, but Gameloft has updated the classic card game of colors and shapes with enhanced HD graphics designed to appear great on high-finish devices and tablets. The game itself remains the very same, save for some improved online multiplayer. For fans of the game, taking UNO with you anyplace you go couldn&rsquot get considerably less difficult. [Marketplace]
GetGlue - One more update app, GetGlue has updated their social media app for those that really like taking in media (a social media media app?) with an overhauled interface and other improvements. A new Fast Rate button, universal search, and integration with Android&rsquos menu buttons all boost the encounter of utilizing GetGlue to &ldquocheck in&rdquo to the movies, shows, and music you consume. New are sports check-ins. Fans of GetGlue won&rsquot want to miss this update. [Market]
Chitika estimates that Verizon carries about 23.9 percent of American iPhones, leaving AT&T with 76.1 percent.
Verizon’s share of iPhone site visitors continues to increase, with Verizon’s iPhone gaining industry share at the expense of Android devices, notes the industry researcher.
The best-50 apps in the Marketplace account for 61% of all usage, which indicates the overwhelming bulk of Android apps account for just 39% of app usage
“With 250,000+ Android apps available at the time of this writing, that indicates the remaining 249,950+ apps have to compete for the remaining 39 percent of the pie,” writes Don Kellogg, Director of Telecom Investigation & Insights, on Nielsen’s blog. “Despite the hundreds of thousands of apps obtainable for Android, a quite modest proportion of apps make up the vast majority of time spent,” writes Kellogg.
As summer rolls into high gear, more and more of us are going to be hitting the road for summer trips with our families. One of the challenges with these long road trips is keeping the kids occupied and happy. There are the old standby car activities and games, of course, but if you’ve got [...]
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There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man’s fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call The Twilight Zone. — Rod Serling
DAVIES: Now apart from the fun stuff like games or being able to scan a barcode in a grocery store with your iPhone, you talk about some applications which might fundamentally alter some of the important occupations, some of the ways we relate to each other. And you write about what Abilene Christian University in Texas has done with iPhones. Tell us about that.
Mr. CHEN:Abilene Christian University has a really interesting iPhone program where for about two years, I think, they’ve been handing out free iPhones to every incoming freshman.
They have teachers get in front of the classroom, and instead of lecturing students , they say, OK, so here’s the topic we’re going to discuss today. Take out your iPhones and go ahead and search on the Web or search Wikipedia and let’s have a conversation about where we want to take this discussion and look for good information on how you can contribute to this.
DAVIES: OK. Let’s talk about some other areas where you see iPhone and iPhone applications as potentially transformative. Medicine, what are we seeing there?
Mr. CHEN:Personal health monitoring I think is going to be a pretty big thing in the next few years. And something I mentioned in the book is a group of researchers who are working on a digital contact lens that communicates with a smartphone, potentially.
What’s interesting about the eye is that the eye is like the little door into the body. And you can collect information about, say, cholesterol or glucose levels, blood pressure and transfer this information to the smartphone.
DAVIES: You’re talking about a contact lens that has electronics in it that you insert in your eyes?
Mr. CHEN: Right. A digital contact lens with wireless transmitters that transmits information to the smartphone application. This is still in development and it’s a little bit far away, I think. And they’re currently testing it on rabbits.
DAVIES: How might law enforcement be changed by this technology?
Moris is an application that enables police officers to scan fingerprints of suspects and also scan their eyeballs and cross-reference that information with the database that they have back at the police station. Made by BI2 Technologies, the scanner is attached to an iPhone.
Cloud-based processing can now provide supercomputer power to mobile devices.
There are now over 10,000 medical apps in the App Store; a big jump from the 1,544 apps last year. Houston Neal narrowed it down to a list of the 70 best apps on his “Best Medical iPhone Apps for Doctors and Med Students” website.
Microwave chips aren’t just for communications anymore. They enable new sensor applications.
Amazon’s new cloud application, Elastic Beanstalk, manages cloud applications automatically. Developers simply upload their application and Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment details of capacity provisioning, load balancing and auto-scaling.
The majority of us probably have had at one time or another a loyalty reward card from a store or two. You know, those little plastic debit cards or the miniscule keychain version. From there it just snowballs. Next thing you know, you’ve got 20 of those little plastic nusiances hanging from your keychain. I’ll sign up for just about anything if it saves me a buck or two. When I heard about CardStar for BlackBerry back in May of last year, I was ecstatic! No more having my husband complain that the cards hit his knee when he drove my car or the added bulk when he carried my keys in his pocket. All my cards were safely relocated onto my device and all were still easily accessible when I went out shopping. I’ve used the app numerous times and never had much of a problem with it except for a difficult scanner here and there. Yesterday I ran across an app called Key Ring Reward Cards in BlackBerry App World. I was very curious to see how this app would compare to CardStar and if I’d prefer one over the other. Keep reading after the jump to see which app came out on top!
Here are the Top 10 Finance Apps for Android currently available on the Android Market.
Pageonce – Money & Bills
Automatically organizes and tracks your money, bills, banks, credit cards, investment accounts, frequent flyer miles, rewards, mobile minutes, text and data usage in one app. Control where your money goes and get real-time alerts and reminders.
MoneyManager
Simple app for managing your finances. Features in and out entries, category management, charts, CSV export, comes with a widget, backup and restore capabilities, choose date and choose currency ability.
Bloomberg
Get business and finance news, market data and stock tracking tools from the most trusted source financial professionals around the world rely upon.
Expense Manager
Expense manager is great application for managing your expenses and incomes. Features include tracking expenses and incomes by week, month and year as well as by categories, ability to track multiple multiple accounts, schedule the payments and recurring payments, payment alerts and more.
It’s no secret that today’s amateur videographers can make professional-level videos with hip-pocket devices. The iPhone’s HD video camera is certainly up to the task of recording, but you’ll still need a way to edit and share all those video masterpieces. The App Store is practically overflowing with video editing apps to help users make [...]
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Here are the 5 Best Android Apps that we have reviewed for May 2011 in no particular order.
Paradise Island Android App
The Paradise Island Android App by Cooper Media Corp app/game is a very well designed turn based role playing game similar to the style of Rollercoaster Tycoon.
Words with Friends Android App
The Words with Friends Android App by Zynga app/game is a very well designed scrabble – like game that allows you to play the computer, friends, or a random opponent.
GasBuddy – Find Cheap Gas Android App
The GasBuddy – Find Cheap Gas Android App by GasBuddy.com app is an app that will allow you search and locate gas stations around your GPS location in an effort to help you find the cheapest gas.
Quadrant Standard Edition Android App
The Quadrant Standard Edition Android App by Aurora Softworks app is a benchmark testing app for your mobile device.
Noom Weight Loss Android App
The Noom Weight Loss Android App by WorkSmart Labs Inc. is a exercise planning/weight management app.
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While tablet publishing is creating tectonic shockwaves thoughout the 500 year old publishing industry, both paper and electronic publishers were looking on the bright side.
Amazon started BookExpo with a bang announcing that it now sells more Kindle books than print books. Free Kindle books were excluded and if included would make the number even higher.
Google Books has 15 million titles available (of which three million are free), 7,000 publishers signed on, 40,000 partners worldwide, and more than 100 million pages read on Google’s online e-reading platform More than 25% of Google Books customers read primarily use Google’s web reader, 25% read from phones, 20% use e-readers, and the remaining 30% read on tablets.
The e-book revolution will allow a larger number of smaller players to find their audience.
E-Reader announcements included:
Barnes & Noble reveals a new $ 139 Nook E-Reader which will ship in June. It comes with a 6-inch Pearl E Ink display and a touch screen. As with previous models, such as the $ 250 Color Nook, readers can browse entire e-books in the Barnes & Noble physical stores over Wi-Fi, and share recommendations with friends via Facebook and Twitter. The new Nook runs Android 2.1 and has 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi, with free Wi-Fi access at all Barnes & Noble stores.
Amazon launched a $ 164, 3G-enabled, ad-supported Kindle. The 4 models of the Kindle are now priced at $ 114 (wi-fi only, ad-supported), $ 139 (wi-fi only), $ 164 (3G-enabled, ad-supported), and $ 189 (3G-enabled). Amazon began selling hardcover and paperback books in July 1995.
Kobo announced the $ 129 Kobo eReader Touch Edition, with the new Pearl 6″ E Ink 16 level grey screen and a touch screen. It also announced that its current model, the Kobo Wireless eReader (as in no wireless), drops from $ 140 to $ 99.99, the first e-reader to break the $ 100 barrier. Borders Books is a proponent of the Kobo reader.
Arguably, however, the big news was the announcement of EPUB 3. It’s the International Digital Publishing Forum’s (IDPF) latest standard for digital publications and documents. EPUB is designed for reflowable content, that can be optimized for a variety of displays or devices. The format is meant to function as a single format for publishers as well as end users. Digital Rights Management can be added on top of it.
There are over 100 active participants behind it means improved conformance and accessibility. “Every digital book will be an accessible book now,” says Kerscher.
Primarily, the EPUB 3 specification was formed from the working groups of the IDPF with the cooperation of over twenty companies who have come on board to implement it to their devices. iBooks already support a subset of EPUB 3 and Adobe Digital Editions will soon, although devices that actually read the new spec aren’t available yet.
EPUB 2 files still work on any device that uses EPUB 3, but new features include improved SVG and JavaScript support, MathML, semantic tagging, and embedded font support. The XHTML content with navigational structure and metadata in a zip-based package has made it feasible to make all of these features work.
Some people in the industry believe that ebooks, with embedded multimedia, will now resemble and eventually merge with today’s standalone phone and tablet applications.
Hump Day is back! Another day, another bag of apps. Considering how effortless it is to search the Android market and download applications these days, we’ve been swimming in a sea of these apps and have no shortage of them to talk about. The ones we came across today are some of the most interesting and best that deserved a shout, though, so take my word when I say that you should at least check out the market listing for each one.
PacDroid Live Wallpaper – It’s PacMan, except with an Android robot. It’s a live wallpaper. And instead of pellets, it eats Apples. With a capital A. What more could you want? There isn’t much to it other than that, but you can change that Apple if your green friend is allergic to them. Go ahead and grab it for free. [Market]
Memonic – In a world filled with note-taking applications, it seems there can never be too many. Memonic has finally brought their wares to the Android platform. Like Evernote and many other competitors, you can organize notes with tags and notebooks, save a picture as a note, and sync all of that back to the cloud for use on the web or other platforms. [Market]
GO Launcher EX – We’re sure you folks have heard of this one before, but one of our favorite readers asked us to give it a shout. Go Launcher Ex is yet another home alternative, but is quickly up and coming as many’s favorite. All of the things you’d want are here, such as themes, scrollable widgets, fancy transition animations, a customizable dock and more. And the developer provides frequent updates that improve and add more things than they break. Go ahead and take the free download. [Market]
Paradise Island – It’s no Sim City contender, but being able to build your own island and civilization on Paradise Island is loads of fun. The city lives while you sleep, so you never know what you’re going to face when you start it back up in the morning. There are tons of buildings to be made, tons of people to make happy, and tons of experience points to earn. Best of all, it’s free with no ads. (But don’t be surprised to see micro-transactions pushed on you.) [Market]
The BlackBerry PlayBook has been on the market for a little over a month now, and while we’ve seen the catalog of PlayBook apps grow, we have yet to see most of the BIG TIME services that sooo many of us use daily on our computers and other mobile devices come to the Tablet OS platform (seriously, I can’t even imagine going back to life without Kindle, Skype, Dropbox or Evernote and desperately want these apps on my PlayBook).
Not wanting to wait around in limbo, PlayBook owners have been reaching out to companies via email, phone and forums since the PlayBook’s launch to find out when these apps are going to become available. The responses have been mixed - some favorable and some that are less than inspiring. For example, the response I received from Skype was that they’re in a "wait and see mode" and "certainly not committing anything at this stage around development for PlayBook." This wait and see mode seems to be a popular trend which means it’s on us CrackBerry Nation to let these companies know that we don’t want to wait for their apps… we need them ASAP!
To that end, CrackBerry forums member technomensch had the inspired idea to startup the BlackBerry PlayBook Applications Initiative thread, which puts into one place all of the user outreach to these companies. Follow the link below to jump over to the thread where you can find out how you can help contribute to the cause and see where these popular companies are at with their PlayBook apps. Let’s make it happen!!
It’s time for another edition of Apps of the Day, covering what’s hot and new in the Android Market. Just a few apps eking their way in before the weekend, but you’ll want to check them out. Nano Panda comes highly recommended, but don’t take our word for it. Actually take our word for it, the word you will find just below.
Nano Panda – Fluffy, small pandas. Nothing’s better than that, right? Nano Panda is a puzzle game by Unit 9 apps that has you destroying “evil atoms that have infiltrated a science lab.” I have to be honest – this game took a while to grow on me. It’s weird, to put it simply. But it’s unique, gets fun and gives you a challenge after a while. If that doesn’t pique your interest, then the music alone will help soothe you on a bad day. Just don’t let the few performance issues spark that bad day back up. [Market]
Credit Usage – This is a simple application, but one I’m sure many could use. Credit Usage offers an alternative to some carriers’ metering solutions. Some provide their own apps, others allow uses to see usage online, and others don’t give you the option at all. And even for those who do present you with said information, often times than not it isn’t very flexible. Credit Usage allows you to meter anything – SMS messages, MMS messages, free calls to others in your countries, international calls, data – everything you could want, really. If you fit the bill of the type of person who’ll need this, be sure to give it a shot. [Market]
BattleBallz – It’s Brick Breaker on steroids. Sort of. I really can’t describe what BattleBallz is because there is so much going on at one time. That’s not a bad thing, though. People who like seeing explosions, lights and chaos will love this game. And it definitely takes a lot of skill to master. Pocketeers boasts great sound and graphics, and more than it looks and sounds good, it has substance. Check it out for just under $ 2. [Market]
The iPhone is dangerously conducive to an incurable case of Social Media Addiction. Symptoms of SMA include the inability to enter any establishment—even a dentist’s office or a Kinko’s—without checking in on Foursquare. Sufferers of Social Media Addiction are known to tweet while driving, or send status updates to Facebook while undergoing surgery. If you’re not afflicted with this ailment, avert your eyes now. If you are SMA positive, go ahead and check out our favorite social networking apps for the iPhone.
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We’ve heard the discussion about HTML eventually taking over the universe but I think this may be the first time I’ve heard Eric Schmidt say it directly and so succinctly. I’d have to double-check word for word, but the quote I heard was:
“HTML 5 is the way almost all applications will be built, including for phones.”
That kind of blows my mind. If HTML 5 takes over then is Android really that big of an advantage for Google? Won’t all the other platforms be able to leverage HTML 5 to create competitors more on par with Android? Google’s big business is advertising so… do they even care?
Let’s hear your thoughts in the comments and feel free to vote in the poll!
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The Oscars are nearly here, and regardless of whether the award strikes you as glamorous fun or just self-congratulatory, odds are you’ll want to catch up on some of the movies that are earning buzz. The iPhone in your pocket, it turns out, is a great place to start. Whether you’re using the built-in GPS to find your nearest theater, the mobile web to look for some movie trivia, or the crisp retina display to watch a film in its entirety, you’ll find the following movie apps some of the most useful the App Store has on offer.
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Although the topic of Android apps being able to run on the Blackberry PlayBook (or QNX in general) isn’t exactly new news, Bloomberg today posted some new details about what they have been hearing about the happenings at Research In Motion. According to the article, Research In Motion has allegedly changed their minds about using the Dalvik Virtual Machine on the Blackberry PlayBook based on the patent disputes happening between Oracle Corp. and Google. Instead, they are opting to take another path that will allow Android applications to run on the PlayBook. No mention of what other method they will be using at this time but a lot of companies have been creating virtualization platforms as of late, the latest being Myriad which has recently announced their Myriad Alien Dalvik. The Myriad Alien Dalvik allows Android apps to run seamlessly on other platforms and will be demoed at Mobile World Congress later this month using Nokia’s MeeGo platform. That’s not to say Myriad Alien Dalvik will be used but nothing is stopping Research In Motion from reaching out to any other virtualization partners to help out.
Before we file away our Expo notebooks for another year, we take one last look at some noteworthy apps exhibiting at Macworld 2011 that deserve your attention.
Earlier today we published a report from AndroidCentral claiming the HTC Inspire 4G still wouldn’t allow sideloading of apps on the AT&T network. While it’s true that Installing Apps from Unknown Sources isn’t an option in the Menu system, we’re learning that you CAN still get the job done. And here is video proof:
So while they don’t advertise it, the Inspire 4G will indeed allow sideloading apps… at least the video above is an indication. By launch day, we might see something different.
This may come as a shock, but somehow, it’s already September. As you attempt to come to grips with the fact that time keeps flying by faster than a best-of-the-line Mac Pro encodes video, let us regale you with our ideal and brightest stories from the past week. Spoiler alert: This week, no 1 resigned.
We’ve heard the discussion about HTML eventually taking over the universe but I think this may be the first time I’ve heard Eric Schmidt say it directly and so succinctly. I’d have to double-check word for word, but the quote I heard was:
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