Author: James Pearce
SMS Backup & Restore lets you backup and restore your sms messages! This could be helpful for many reasons, you could be swapping phones, you could have a new phone, you could have recently reset your phone or you could have installed a custom rom to your phone. …
The title says it all really. With the Amazon app market coming up soon, do we really need another app market? I know that some of these markets offer an alternative market for tablets that do not have market access, such as Archos using Appslib and there are some markets which let …
Triposo Travel Guides have guides for various cities around the world. I first found out these guides in a post Andrew Fraser wrote about his trip to Italy. These travel guides all contain information and maps of the relevant cities that is stored on the device. You can …
Crimes Near Me is a great app that is informative and helpful. It allows you to see Police crime statistics for the area you are currently in. If you were thinking of moving house you could search for the postcode and see crime statistics for the area. The …
Speedx 3D is an incredible 3D accelerometer driven tunnel racing game. As you race through the tunnel you collect shields, use power ups, dodge spikes and pillars. Best of all if you have some 3D glasses from a children’s book you can activate 3D mode and nearly throw up …
Cordy is a fairly new game with incredible graphics. To quote the market description “Help Cordy power-up his mechanical planet! Use special powers, solve exciting puzzles and explore engaging environments. Cordy is FREE, with many thrilling updates coming soon. Download now and get ready to harness the power …
I have been looking at various different clock widgets trying to come up with one to recommend. This is an almost impossible task. There are so many different designs and styles out there. There are three main types of clock widgets “fully featured”, “minimal” and “ordinary”. I will …
Plug In Launcher is a neat little program that activates when you plug your charger in or when you plug your headset in. So when you plug your phone in to charge at night it can load your ebook reader, your desk clock, run angry birds or open …
“Wave Launcher is a unique, gesture enabled quick action bar for Android. It resembles a well known and loved feature on WebOS phones like the Palm Pre” that is what the developers say about this app on the Android Market. What I say about it is “it is …
I first used SPB apps many years ago on my T-Mobile Ameo. It came bundled with the original version of this app. In those days SPB were one of the premium app developers for windows mobile. In the last few months they have redesigned SPB Shell which is currently …
Wifi Analyzer is an app that will graph out your wifi and your neighbours wifi. When it opens and scans your surroundings it will display a graph, the default graph is of Signal Strength and Wifi Channels which allows you to see if your network is clashing with …
CircleLauncher is an app that gives you several shortcuts attached to one icon. Clicking on the icon brings up a circle on which the shortcuts sit. These shortcuts can be frequently used apps, contacts or bookmarks. There is a full version as well that costs £0.85 which allows …
Dropbox is an easy way to synchronise files between your phone, your desktop computer, your laptop, your ipad, your iphone, your ipod touch or your blackberry, in fact most mobile devices or computers have software to suit. To sign up for an account is free, you get 2gb …
Keeping track of what is stored in our phones memory is at times a struggle. Newer phones like the Nexus S, Desire Z and Desire HD have a large internal memory and large memory cards. Keeping track of what is taking up space is becoming harder. I came …
Swipepad is a fairly new app that allows you to hide up to 12 shortcuts behind your homescreen. You can add shortcuts to contacts, audio profiles, settings or apps. If used in conjunction with a program like folder organizer you can create many more custom shortcuts it also …
I have read no end of “top ten android apps” type articles and they are all very similar. Google maps is usually their top app, followed by some sort of task killer! These articles are great for beginners though, they show new users what is possible with their new …
This afternoon a colleague of mine got an email from T-mobile UK offering a reduced rate for existing customers wanting a new iPad. Below is a copy of the email. The small print mentions it’s only available for certain existing customers. So whether or not you can get …
Google have released a new app. It allows you to create little android pictures. You can create little android versions of your friends for your contact photos, you can use them as twitter or facebook avatars as well. You could even go mental and use it as your …
Colorize Widget is a selection of scrollable widgets. There are seven widgets for Facebook, Twitter, Agenda, Analog Clock, Messages, Contacts and Bookmarks. “Why do I need these” I hear you ask, certain home replacement apps and certain roms do not contain any extra widgets so people are left searching …
Worms was originally released in the nineties on a variety of platforms. It is a turn by turn action game where your team of worms has to kill the other team of worms. Today EA Games have released it onto the Android platform. It is available for a special …
In the last few days; probably in reaction to the news of the new Galaxy Tab, Amazon have dropped the price of the existing galaxy tab. I spotted this whilst using the new amazon app yesterday. The other retailers that stock these have yet to follow suit. Google …
It’s a simple one this. One your phone go to the google search page. Search for “weather”. It will then use your location and tell you what the weather is doing. Saves you looking out the window I guess. Useful if you don’t have a weather widget.
Three’s coming soon section has recently been updated. Two tablets will be available from them in February. The Samsung Galaxy Tab and the Linx Commtiva N700. Both are Android 2.2 devices. No pricing is available for either yet, but you can register for updates. Three already offer the …
Today there has been an update released to the android market of the popular app “Shootme”. It is a screenshot app for android devices that have been rooted. What sets this one apart are some of the settings. For instance it will take screenshots if you shake the …
T-mobile have recently put this notice up on their website… Changes to Mobile Internet fair use policies T-Mobile Statement: “On Monday 10 January 2011 we announced that, in line with the rest of the industry, T-Mobile would be reducing its Fair Use Policy for data usage to 500MB …
This is straight from the T-Mobile help and support section. Changes to Mobile Internet fair use policies T-Mobile is the only operator to give customers the Mobile Internet for a fixed-price. We never charge our customer’s more than they expect for their Mobile Internet in the UK. Therefore …
In the last few weeks a new android home replacement app has arrived on the scene, it is called HeLauncher. What’s that I hear you say “not another one”, yes it is another one. But this one is so simple, uncluttered and easy to use. Especially when you …
