If you’ve never used a Mobicartel app, you’re missing out big time. Mobicartel developed applications such as Twitoc and Facetoc, which allow the user to update their Twitter or Facebook status, respectively, by talking into their phone. It’s a very useful tool if you’re tweeting on the go. Well, Mobicartel has done it again. Matt and Greg, the founders of Mobicartel, have released 2 holiday-themed live wallpapers.

One is entitled “White Holiday” (seen at the top), and it features classic Christmas figures such as Santa Claus and his reindeer flying around a beautifully decorated Christmas tree, and a train that puffs smoke, as well as a jumping Andy wearing a Santa hat.

The other wallpaper is “Dark Holiday” (above), which puts a twist on the White Holiday atmosphere. Greg and Matt describe it as a “Nightmare before Christmas” live wallpaper. It’s full of dragons, bears, machine guns, broken bottles, and ghosts. Another nice touch worth noting: on both live wallpapers, they’ve made use of the accelerometer, so that it snows! Definitely something to show off to your iPhone buddies. “Is there an app for this?”

Both wallpapers make a great addition to any Android phone during this holiday season, so head on over to the Android Market to pick them up. White Holiday and Dark Holiday are available for just $1 each, which isn’t much at all, especially when it’s going to support your Android developers. Check out the full press release below. Enjoy those live wallpapers!

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CyanogenMod has released a custom ROM with a lockscreen gesture feature courtesy of mtwebster. A version of this ROM is now available for the original DROID.

Gestures is the ability to “draw” out anything you wish onto your lock screen which will then launch an application or phone activity that is associated with that drawing, similar to Google’s Gesture Search app.

For now, only DROID users can try out this custom ROM, but there will be more devices supported soon. Click the CyanogenMod source link if you want to check out this ROM!

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Propellerhead has announced ReBirth is now available for Apple’s iPad featuring the classic Roland TB-303 Bassline Synth, and the TR-808 and TR-909 Rhythm…

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The British Actor Simon Pegg now has an Android App. It’s based on his Graphic Novel, and has a little preview of a chapter in his soon to be released autobiography as well.

A hilarious and brilliantly crafted graphic novel featuring the escapades of Simon Pegg, a ruggedly handsome superhero (with a body a bit like Brad Pitt’s from Fight Club and an almost constant thirst for Coke Zero) and his ever faithful robotic manservant, Canterbury, as they fight to stop the world from exploding

You can find it in the Android Market by searching for “Simon Pegg”.

Simon Pegg Releases Android App

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Those waiting for iOS 4.2’s public release may have to sit tight just a little longer: in a surprising move, Apple on Thursday released to the developer community a Golden Master (GM) build of 4.2.1.

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Samsung released the open source code of their Galaxy Tab OS to any and all interested parties to grab.  Chances are, only select third parties are going to download the code and do all the wonderful hacking and modding.  Having said that, it’s nice to see Samsung stepping up to offer whatever open source data they can.  So far, T-Mobile and Sprint are the only US versions available, but that may change with the releases of Verizon and AT&T flavors down the road.

The Galaxy Tab presents new and unique challenges to hackers and modders in that it is the first largely available Android tablet from a major manufacturer.  It will be fun to see how the development community gets behind the device.

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Do you hear that? That’s the sound of thousands of happy Android owners cheering in unison. UK’s Virgin Media has finally updated its HTC Desire to Android 2.2, and will begin pushing an OTA update to customers in the coming days. From the announcement:

Hi I can confirm that we’ve started sending out the Froyo update as of 9am this morning, however this is only for customers on our Virgin specific firmware (1.23.351.1). Customers on the original firmware (1.15.405.4) will need an update to the 1.23.351.1 firmware first before they can install the Froyo update, but we expect this should be available in the next few days. I’ll post another update here once it goes live.

This is an FOTA (Firmware Over The Air) update which means that you will be prompted to download the update on their handset. We strongly recommend that you use a Wi-Fi connection to download the update. You’ll be asked if you want to back up your handset first, and we recommend this as well.

So with 2.2, Virgina Media Desire owners will be getting wi-fi hotspot abilities, 720p video recording support, and Adobe’s Flash Player 10.1. Sounds like a pretty good update to me!

Virgin Media releases Android 2.2 for the HTC Desire

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BlackBerry Tour 9630 owners we’ve not forgotten about you, nor has Sprint. OS 5.0.0.983 has gone official for your device and can now be downloaded direct from the Sprint BlackBerry download page or via OTA. We’ve known for a while now the update set to arrive. But no that it is here; you might as well grab the download and get updated.

• Click Here To Download The Official OS 5.0.0.983 For The BlackBerry Tour 9630 From Sprint>>

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Citi has just made it easier for merchants to accept payments from users on Android devices with Single-Click Checkout, a one click credit card payment solution. The service can be used to accept payments for physical goods like games, apps, tickets, clothing, or for accepting donations. From the singleclickcheckout.com website:

EASE OF USE

Users only need to enter their credit or debit card once. By easing the user experience, the application promotes impulse buys – proven by the 72.4% conversion rate!

GLOBAL REACH

Users can buy from you on any device, with any carrier, using any credit or debit card, anywhere in the world!

PROFITABILITY

You earn substantially more money on highly favorable terms with no mobile carrier rev share.

If you are a merchant and are interested in Single-Click Checkout, hit up the source link below for more information.

Citi releases Single-Click Checkout for Android

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Adobe has officially updated the AIR app for Android to version 2.5.1. You can update it via the Android Market as of today, and Adobe is encouraging developers to change their apps so that they work with AIR 2.5.1, and of course, Gingerbread when it’s released, likely on Thursday.

Adobe also says that users who use AIR should upgrade it first, before they receive the Gingerbread update. For some apps, updating to 2.3 without updating AIR may cause a force close or crash. So, what are you waiting for? Hit up the Android Market and upgrade AIR on your Android device, so you’ll be ready for some Gingerbread.

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Adobe has released a public beta of Audition for Mac, its professional audio program for recording, mixing, editing, and mastering.

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Rent.com, one of the most popular rental listing sites, has announced the release of an Android mobile application, which brings you the features of Rent.com on the go.

The app lets you view listings, photos, floorplans, email or call property managers, and even syncs with your Rent.com account. Another cool feature is the ability to add your own photos and notes to a property you’ve visited, to help you remember any important details later on.

Also, as an extra bonus, if you sign a new lease and use the app to report it, you will receive a $100 Visa debit rewards card.

Visit Rent.com/m on your phone, or scan the QR code below to download.

Rent.com releases Android mobile application

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Western Digital introduced a new Android app- WD Photos.  The Android application enables users to view all the photos stored on their WD home NAS servers, including the My Book Live, My Book World Edition, and WD ShareSpace, from anywhere in the world as long as the phone has an internet connection.  In order for sharing to work, apart from just having the app, you will also need to activate the NAS server’s MioNet remote access feature, which is a quick and easy process.

The WD Photos Photo Viewer Droid app’s features include:

• Automatic photo resizing: Photos are resized to fit on the phone’s screen, leaving originals on the NAS server.
• Smart filtering: Display photos by album, folder, or all images and search by date, folder name, or file name;
• Offline access: Photos previously viewed can be accessed even when the phone is disconnected from the Internet.
• Social network integration: You can share photos via e-mail, Facebook, Twitter, Picasa, and other social Web sites
• Phone integration: You can assign photos to contacts, save them to the phone’s gallery, and view them as a sideshow

Western Digital says that the Android app is compatible with the most popular Android OS-based smartphones, including, but not limited to, the Droid by Motorola, Droid Incredible by HTC, the Nexus One, and the HTC EVO 4G. The app requires the device to run Android 2.1 or later.

It is now available at the Android Market as a free download. Or get it from App Brain here
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Apple released an update for iPhoto ’11, version 9.0.1, that addresses a data loss problem some users were experiencing when upgrading from an older version of iPhoto to iPhoto ’11.

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TimeStream Software has announced the release of its popular “Walt Disney World” Notescast app for Android devices. The app features over 300 pages of in-depth information, as well as over 500 photos, and is advertised as “the most thorough guide you can choose for planning a trip to Walt Disney World.”

The app features detailed information about Magic Kingdom®, Epcot®, Disney’s Animal Kingdom®, Disney’s Hollywood Studios™ and more.  The app is priced at $3.99, and is available from the Android Market.

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Concrete Software has announced the release of the Aces Traffic Pack for Android, which is a puzzle game with unique display graphics and menus.

This game offers 480 puzzles of various difficulty, which are solved by strategically maneuvering the cars around the parking lot to free the red car from the obstacles.

Aces Traffic Pack also features statistics, which tracks how many moves it takes to complete each puzzle, as well as an online leaderboard.

Market link ($2.99)

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Adobe is really showing people what can be done wth Adobe Air development for Android. Another highlight is an app Adobe put togther to help people stay connected and organized at their Adobe Max Conference taking place now through Wednesday in Los Angeles.

The Adobe Max Conference is meant to unite those within the technology field to discuss the current state of technology and emerging trends. Those typically seen at this event include developers, corporate businesses, designers and anyone considering themselves part of today’s technology.

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Adobe has released an embeddable video player that plays HTML5 native video in browsers that support it, and falls back to Flash in browsers that don’t.

It’s cross-browser and cross-platform, so it works on iPhones, iPads and other devices that don’t support Flash. Using Adobe’s new player, these devices can show videos in web pages without the Flash plug-in.

There are already several players out there that use the HTML5-with-Flash-fallback method, such as Vimeo’s new player and the slick one from Brightcove that can handle video ads. All of these players, like Adobe’s, are based on open web technologies and can be customized with CSS and JavaScript. But this newest one, being from Adobe, is sure to be a bigger deal.

The company has come under fire in the past year over concerns about the stability and performance issues related to its Flash Player browser plug-in, and Flash technology itself. Apple’s iPad ships without support for Flash, and Apple initially disallowed apps created in Flash from being sold in its app store. Apple rescinded after a few months, but the damage was already done — Google began pushing HTML5 video over Flash by releasing WebM, a new open video format, and developers got busy looking at HTML5 as a replacement for Flash, at least when it came to embedding videos.

With its new player, Adobe is responding to their developers’ wishes for solutions that play well on the open web. It comes on the heels of last week’s release from Adobe, which lets artists using Illustrator export their drawings as HTML5 Canvas, and its earlier pack of HTML5 tools for Dreamweaver.

HTML5 video adoption among browsers has gone tremendously so far — Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Opera all support native video, and baked-in support is coming to Internet Explorer 9 next year. But it’s still a bit of a mess, with different browsers supporting different formats. So developers posting HTML5 video still need to encode their files in at least two of the three major formats — the widely-used H.264, the newer WebM, or the older Ogg Theora — to guarantee all HTML5 capable browsers will be able to see their videos.

With the proper file formats in place, Adobe’s new player will play native web video in all the newest browsers, and will switch to Flash playback mode for all your poor visitors stuck with IE6 or something equally stone-aged.

The new HTML5 video player is incorporated into the workflow of Dreamweaver Creative Suite 5, so if you’re already using Adobe’s tools to build your site, you can drop in a player using Dreamweaver’s “Customize Widget” function.

If you’re not a Dreamweaver person, you can still generate all the code you need using Adobe’s free Widget Browser app. One caveat — the Widget Browser is an AIR app, so you’ll need to have Adobe’s Flash-based runtime to use it, though AIR apps will install AIR for you if you’re lacking.

To develop its video player widget, Adobe used open source code from Kaltura, repurposing a popular library that’s found at the heart of several HTML5 video players.

See also:

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• YouTube Launches New HTML5 Mobile Site
• YouTube: HTML5 Video Is No Match for Flash

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Java updates for both Leopard and Snow Leopard promise improved compatibility, security, and reliability, while the latest ProKit update fixes a handful of interface issues with Apple’s professional software.

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We mentioned the other day that Sprint was aware of user-reported issues with the Epic 4G, particularly with slow 3G upload speeds, and that an update was incoming today. As promised, Sprint has delivered, and we have the details for you from the official Sprint support forums:

Fixes:
WiFi standby battery drain
Amazon MP3 cannot download in 4G
Large emails lag in upload speeds
Increased 3G upload speeds

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As promised, Sprint releases Epic 4G software update to solve 3G speed woes

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Fresh off beta, Beejive has gone official with their all-in-one instant messaging app. The downside? It’s a whopping $9.99. For that price, in addition to the standard support for Gtalk, AIM, Yahoo, MSN, Facebook, and Jabber, Beejive offers:

• Group chat support
• Email chats
• WiFi connection support
• Full unicode support for any language supported on your device
• File transfers with 128-bit encryption
• Account information is only stored locally

If your current IM app isn’t meeting your needs, then you might want to give Beejive a try. But if the price is too rich for your blood, there are still plenty of other free options to try. You can download Beejive HERE, or scan the QR code below.

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Sonos releases its free, multi-pane iPad controller app.

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You’ve been asking for a long time and we’ve been working on it.  So here is the first version of the AndroidSPIN application for your Android Devices.

Now you have complete access to all the latest news, a mobile view of the AndroidSPIN forums and the full list of community releases.

So head over to the Android Market right now and download the AndroidSPIN application and get all your latest Android news in one place.

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