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Kindle

| FREE | AMZN Mobile LLC
As Apple's iBooks app approaches its first birthday, we thought we'd catch up on the best book apps currently available, and we don't just limit ourselves to typical print book e-readers. We've chosen the best across Android and iTunes, with some apps compatible with Windows Phone 7 and BlackBerry phones too. To start with; when we think e-reader, we think Amazon’s Kindle. Aside from the app’s clever ability to sync your eBook collection across smartphone apps, Kindle devices and your PC. Amazon’s whispersync feature even allows you to synchronise bookmarks, notes, and the last page you’ve read. No other e-reader has the sheer heft of Amazon. If a recent release is available anywhere in a digital format, it can be found on the Kindle store.The app is available on iTunes, Android Market, Blackberry’s App World, and the Windows Phone 7 app store. Apple’s own offering, iBooks can be downloaded from their app store on both the iPhone and iPad. There's several glossy offerings here to make the most of the iPad's touchscreen, but content is perfectly navigable on the iPhone too. With free book samples, a PDF reader and a great selection of books to choose, it's a good entry into the world of e-books. MegaReader is an e-reader with a difference, using your iPhone camera to stream where you’re heading for reading on the move. Distracting pedestrians from traffic and anything happening to their side may not a good thing. Especially using it from the steering wheel. You’ll get several free classics from the likes of Kurt Vonnegut, Anna Sewell and Sun Tzu. (Varied enough?) You can also choose from over 1.8 million paid-for titles in the MegaReader store. The QI app isn't an eReader per se, but for fans of the show, they’ll find plenty of interesting facts based Read More
Other apps in this post: Goodreads
Posted Sun, 05 Jun 2011 20:07:11 UTC +00:00

7digital Music Store

| FREE | 7digital
Hot on the heels of Spotify’s announcement this morning comes news that 7digital has revamped its Android app. Now customers can purchase tracks on the go on their Android phone from 7digital’s 14 million-strong library. Like the Amazon MP3 app, the 7digital app features an integrated player, meaning you’ll be able to search for, buy and download songs on the go and play them in the same app. Nice. You’ll also be able to play songs stored ‘locally’ on your Android phone and sync songs that are stored in your 7digital cloud locker to your phone as well. Another neat feature of this recent update is that songs downloaded over a cellular/3G connection are compressed, lower quality versions - these will be replaced with full 320kbps quality MP3s once a Wi-Fi connection is available. That’s pretty considerate of 7digital, as it means your monthly data plan won’t get hammered so much. You also get other music player standards in this update such as playlist creation and you can also get 30 second previews of all tracks before you purchase, iTunes style. 7digital of course, also powers Spotify’s buy-to-own service. As we’ve heard today, Spotify is due to roll out some new pricing bundles that’ll allow you to by 10 songs for £7.99. At the moment, you can’t buy MP3s directly via the Spotify phone apps - it looks as though you’ll need to purchase these bundles through the Spotify desktop app. 7digital’s announcement could change all this though - we’ve asked 7digital for a statement and are waiting to hear back. As well as powering Spotify's pay to own offer, 7digital recently announced that it would be powering a music download service on the forthcoming BlackBerry PlayBook as well. You can download the 7digital app from the Android Market now for Read More
Posted Thu, 05 May 2011 16:20:20 UTC +00:00

Amazon MP3

| FREE | Amazon.com
The Amazon MP3 app in the UK has just updated and now includes a basic music player. This means you can play your tunes directly from the app itself as soon as you've downloaded them from the MP3 Store. It also serves as a replacement for whatever music player app you're using at the moment. Unlike MixZing and PowerAMP (two snazzier Android music players), there's no lock screen widget or EQ option. So the serious audiophiles are unlikely to be swayed. But the playlist creation tool is really easy to use, and the app incorporates all of your old playlists as well. We can easily see this replacing the standard music player on most people's Android phones. And, when you're bored with your current selection of tunes, all you need do is simply tap on the quick link to be taken straight to the Amazon MP3 store and buy some more. Nice! You can also take advantage of the special deals that you can find on the Amazon MP3 website. Things like like Album and Song of the Week as well as free downloads This week it's Radiohead's King of Limbs album, going for a mere £3.99 and Peter Kay's Comic Relief single is available for just under £1. That said a cursory browse of the Store revealed a few albums that were greyed out with a 'Website Only' message, including the latest long players from Britney Spears and Panic! At The Disco. Sadly, us in the UK won't get the amazing sounding Amazon Cloud Player in this update – that's a service that's currently US only. Further rantage on this coming soon. Read More
Posted Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:27:11 UTC +00:00

Androidify

| FREE | Google Inc.
Androidify is an avatar creation app based around Google's Android mascot. You can stretch and pull the green robot in all directions, changing it's height and width, give it some clothes and change its skin tone. You can create Android caricatures of yourself and your friends, which you can then assign to specific contacts in your address book. Or you can just create one for the hell of it; we had a lot of fun adding scars and a sparkly Michael Jackson glove to an eight foot tall Android in a blonde wig. You can email your horrific creations to your friends, or post the results to Facebook via the Share tool. Androidify has been prominently shown off at the Android stand at this years' Mobile World Congress, where it's gone down a storm. It's already racking up over a million downloads in the Market, where you can get it now for free. We created the one above to give you an idea of the results, and have included some shots taken at Google's Android stand, where people queued up to Androidify themselves on a Motorola Xoom. At the bottom is Android Community editor Chris Burns standing next to his Android likeness. Can't tell the difference can you? Androidify is free to download and is for devices running 2.1 Eclair or higher. Read More
Posted Mon, 21 Feb 2011 16:29:45 UTC +00:00

Chordbot Pro

| SEK 32.00 | Contrasonic
Chordbot is a clever little music composition app for iPhone and Android phones. Instead of just listing the notes of complicated chords, Chordbot allows you to create and play entire compositions on your phone. This is a really useful tool for songwriters who and want to hear how different chords sound together and don’t have their guitar, grand piano or synthesiser to hand. 60 chord types are included along with 16 time signatures from basic 4/4 and 3/4 to more complicated 11/4 and 15/4 signatures. Ingeniously you can save compositions as MIDI or WAV files and export them to Cubase or GarageBand later on. So if inspiration strikes on the Tube and you need to get a sketch of your waltz-time folk prog masterpiece down now before you forget it, you can. There’s also an automatic song generator to get you started which will create songs in pop, jazz and avant-garde styles. Four pre-made songs come loaded to give you an idea of what you can do with the app. Our favourite is 'Floydian Ascent' a Richard Wright/Great Gig in the Sky-style piano thing. There are free versions of Chordbot available for both platforms, which give you access all of the chords and signatures, but don’t allow you to export tracks or use the auto song generator. The full versions cost £2.99 and 2.89 on iPhone and Android respectively. Read More
Posted Mon, 15 Nov 2010 18:13:55 UTC +00:00

Angry Birds

| FREE | Rovio Mobile Ltd.
You know those app permissions you’re supposed to read before installing apps from the Android Market (you do read them right?). Well it turns out that you might needn't have bothered. A security exploit, discovered by researchers Jon Oberheide and Zach Lanier, allows attackers to skip listing permissions if they want to. To demonstrate the risk, the pair created a fake Angry Birds app and unleashed it on the Market. Instead of giving gamers the promised extra levels, the fake app instead installed a raft of programs that could steal contact info and send texts to premium rate numbers. Note that we said could. We should be thankful that this is the work of a white hat team and not malicious hackers. The pair are due to demonstrate the security risk at a conference today hosted by Intel. Hopefully this exploit can be patched up without much fuss. In the meantime this is a reminder that checking permissions isn’t always enough; before installing any app from the Android Market, check user comments and check the name and website of the developer. In this case of new Angry Birds levels the developer should be Rovio Mobile and nobody else. If you find an app in the Market that’s not official or looks suspicious in any way, it’s best not to download it unless you’re 100% sure it’s safe. Read More
Posted Fri, 12 Nov 2010 00:29:33 UTC +00:00

Seenearly Love Tracker Demo

| FREE | Acquad Ltd
File this under 'close surveillance' - SeenEarly is a new Android app that keeps a record of all your mobile phone activity (including SMS, MMS, calls, web browsing and GPS locations) and lets your peruse back through it at your leisure. It is a little bit disconcerting to see all that intricate data on your mobile phone habits laid out in front of you, but if you continue using the service for several years it could become a kind of diary of your life, which you can browse back through whenever you like. Well, you and whoever else you give access to the information. SeenEarly hopes that some parents will use the software to nip phone-bullying in the bud. If parents can see what messages their kids are receiving and when, they can check that nothing untoward or disturbing is going on. As children are getting phones at younger and younger ages, it makes sense for parents to be able to monitor this kind of thing and SeenEarly is keen to point out that such restrictions and monitoring is already widely done on children's use of the internet. It becomes a little murkier as children grow older; when do you draw the line? Having your messages read is a huge invasion of privacy, especially in your teens. The other major use of the app that SeenEarly envisages is for corporate companies to monitor employees' use of their company handsets. Having already worked with several major handset manufacturers to benchmark things like battery life, the software could also ensure that the chosen handsets are living up to the employees' needs. On a slightly less-trusting note, they can also record employees' GPS locations as they use the phone which could highlight slacking off or wrong-doing... It's obvious that there are shady possibilities ensconced Read More
Posted Wed, 27 Oct 2010 17:49:14 UTC +00:00

Lookout Security & Antivirus

| FREE | Lookout Mobile Security
If you’ve got Lookout Security installed on your Android phone, then you may or may not be aware that a new Premium version of the thief-taking file-saving phone-locating app will be winging its way to the Android Market in the near future. Lookout Premium promises to offer everything that the currently free version does and more. There’s been no word on what these new features will be or how much the Premium version of the app is going to cost. The good news is that the existing version of Lookout for Android will continue to be free for users who already have it installed. If you’ve not yet installed Lookout (why not?!) then you haven’t got long to do so before it becomes non-free. Hit up the download link below from your Android phone. Our guess is that the premium version might come with a Google Latitude-style function which allows you to see where other Lookout-enabled phones are. This would be useful if a friend loses a phone as you'd be able to help out with the search and resuce party. This is just our guesswork though. The final product could turn out to be something totally different. More details plus a full app write up of Lookout Premium as at when they become available. Read More
Posted Fri, 15 Oct 2010 17:14:08 UTC +00:00

Wordfeud FREE

| FREE | Bertheussen IT
A paid version of Wordfeud, the Scrabble-esque multiplayer word game, is now available to download from the Android Market. It plays exactly like the original free version, albeit sans the rather annoying ads. You invite friends to play against you via email or you can ask to be paired up with strangers. You can have up to 20 games running at any one time and there’s no time limit so players take turns as and when it’s convenient for them. If your phone is running Android 2.2 you’ll notice that game play is a bit slicker than before; this new paid version of Wordfeud makes use of Google’s C2DM (cloud to device messaging) software which pushes notifications of other players moves to your phone in real time. Other changes include the addition of a Dutch diary, good news if you’re something of a polyglot or you’re learning the language. Being able to re-challenge strangers you’ve already played against in the game is a future update we'd really like to see. The full version of Wordfeud costs the equivalent of £2.05. Recent changes to the Android Market reveal that the cost of the app in the original currency was around 19kr Norwegian - thank you Google for finally listing app prices in the local currency! Read More
Posted Thu, 07 Oct 2010 18:25:03 UTC +00:00
The cream of the consumer-VOIP crop, Skype, has announced that an Android application is now, finally, available. You'll need to be running Android 2.1 or above in order to use the app and take advantage of free Skype-to-Skype calls over Wi-Fi and 3G. As well as free calls, Android users can also enjoy Skype IM and keep contact books up to date by syncing Skype contacts with the handset's address book. Unfortunately there's no sign of the rumoured video calls in the first iteration of the Android app. The Android app joins the Skype apps already available on iOS and Symbian handsets. UPDATE: Skype for Android will initially be available on a selection of Android phones, including Nexus One, HTC Desire and Motorola Milestone, and additional devices will be confirmed shortly. Read More
Posted Wed, 06 Oct 2010 17:11:50 UTC +00:00