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Sleep Now!

| €1.00 | mobitobi

13 Android Sleep Apps for Quicker, Better Sleep - GottaBeMobile : Tablet PC, Netbook, Mobile Phones, and Multi-Touch News & Reviews

| 07/15/2011 | Noise cancelling and sleep gadgets are growing in popularity, but if you have an Android phone there’s no need to buy an expensive dedicated device. Check out our top picks for Android sleep aid apps that claim to help you fall asleep quicker, sleep better and feel more rested. Sleeping doesn't always come easy, these apps can help. Most of these apps will work with or without headphones, but if you need to listen without bothering your significant other you may need to grab a set of headphones. For a more comfortable private listening session, put on this headphone headband or lay your head on this headphone pillow to listen more comfortably. Relax and Sleep Plus – Choose from over 35 ambient noises and mix them together for the sleep sound that works great for you.. – 12 sounds are included in this sleep app including heartbeat and beach. You can also add your own music to the mix and choose from modes including relax, sleep, wake up. – One of the most feature rich apps, Pure Sleep includes Noises, long tracks, nature sounds and Binaural tracks to help you relax and sleep. – As you may have guessed, this app helps you drift away with the sounds of thunderstorms. The app claims real noises and no loops. – If Thunderstorms aren’t your thing, try this Dream app, which delivers relaxing noises to help you relax and sleep. – In addition to the standard ambient and white noise sounds Epic Sleep ULTRA Pro has delta sleep induction sounds, which makers claim can help you clear your mind and sleep better. – This app varies the sound to “mimic the time dilation (things seem to slow down) and time dispersion (things seem to become less distinct),” which it claims can help you sleep Read More

PAC-MAN by Namco

| $3.99 | Namco Networks

PAC-MAN Free Today in Amazon App Store for Android - GottaBeMobile : Tablet PC, Netbook, Mobile Phones, and Multi-Touch News & Reviews

| 06/01/2011 PAC-MAN is the free Android app from the Amazon App Store today. Normally it costs $.99 so save yourself a buck and get a fun version of the classic arcade game. We downloaded the game and were happy to find that it is the classic game and not some ridiculous updated version that steals away the pure nature of the old game. You will enjoy it even more if you go get it today. The controls are a little hard to get used to, especially if you are mentally hard-wired to play this game with that old-fashioned ball-topped joystick from the arcade back in the eighties like I am. I found that going into the game options and changing the control from the touch screen Pac Pad option to the Flick option made the game much more satisfying to play. Also, remember the tip the game gives you to anticipate your turns by flicking just before you get to the next turn you want your Pacman to take. Once I changed that option I went from hardly being able to get to a power pellet to gobbling up some blue ghost butts and clearing the screen right away. Unfortunately the learning curve meant waking my wife up to the sound of my poor little Pacman being gobbled up. If you are not a PAC-MAN fan and don’t mind dropping a buck, we noticed that another great game is in the top ten of paid Amazon Apps. Fruit Ninja is a fun addictive game where you slice fruit with your big ninja sword avoiding the bombs and racking up points. Check it out as a good alternative that doesn’t cost much. Be sure to check back here for previews of the free Amazon App Store app. When we see one that is really worth the Read More

Yammer

| FREE | Yammer Inc.

Top 50 Android Apps, Widgets and Shortcuts - What's On My Homescreen - GottaBeMobile : Tablet PC, Netbook, Mobile Phones, and Multi-Touch News & Reviews

| 05/25/2011 | The easiest way to share my favorite Android apps, for the HTC ThunderBolt as well as the other devices I review, is to show you my homescreens. Like the iPhone, Android phones allow you to place shortcuts to your favorite apps on your various homescreens. Unlike the iPhone, you can also include widgets that give you fast access to information without opening apps. Above you’ll see five of the seven screens I use daily on my ThunderBolt. These are my favorite Android apps and while there will be a few additions and removals over time, these apps have earned a spot on my home screen. On the main screen of the HTC ThunderBolt you will see my most used apps and widgets. First off you’ll notice the HTC Sense Weather and Clock Widget. This tells me the time, weather and date. I like this widget because I can tap on the clock to go to my alarms and clock functions or on the weather for a five day forecast. - This free app and service allows me to keep track of multiple to do items with specific projects and an easy to organize setup. The to do items sync to the web and to apps for the iPad as well as dedicated apps for Mac and PC. After trying numerous to do apps for Android, Wunderlist is my favorite. - We use Yammer to keep our remote team in touch without relying on email. It is like Twitter for your team and has cut down on wasted time and extraneous email. The app is far from perfect, but the service rocks. Gmail - I could probably rely on the notifications, but I often process email while on my phone so I keep the app handy on the home screen. This Read More

Twitter

| FREE | Twitter, Inc.

Twitter Rolls Out Web App for iPhone, Android - GottaBeMobile : Tablet PC, Netbook, Mobile Phones, and Multi-Touch News & Reviews

| 05/11/2011 | Today, Twitter announced that it has started rolling out a new web app for mobile devices – both Android and iPhone – that can be found when going to Twitter.com in your favorite mobile browser. Twitter believes that the web app will provide a consistent experience for mobile Twitter users especially for those that don’t use or don’t have access to the official Twitter application. The app is quick and it will let you delve into your timeline, switch between tabs and even write tweets. It’ll support touch gestures and has been optimized for larger screen displays which means it won’t look funky on a phone with a huge screen like the Samsung Infuse 4G. Essentially, it acts and looks exactly like the official Twitter application only it’s accessible in the browser. If you head to Twitter.com right now on your Android device or iPhone, you likely won’t see the web app. That’s because Twitter is rolling it out to users slowly and will be doing so over the next couple of weeks. Adam is a technology blogger based in San Francisco, California who loves his iPhone 3GS and Motorola Droid 2 equally. You can follow him on Twitter or reach him by email at adam@notebooks.com. Read More

NVIDIA TegraZone

| FREE | NVIDIA

NVIDIA Tegra Zone App for Android Apps Launches | GottaBeMobile - GottaBeMobile : Tablet PC, Netbook, Mobile Phones, and Multi-Touch News & Reviews

| 03/01/2011 | It can be tough to find the right apps in the Android Market and especially difficult finding games that take advantage of all the mobile horsepower stuffed in the latest Android phones and tablets. NVIDIA’s trying to ease the pain a bit by launching the Tegra Zone app for Android devices today. Tegra Zone is an app that highlights what NVIDIA considers the best Android games that are optimized to exploit the potential of the Tegra processor. Users can find professional game reviews, video demos and user ratings on the Tegra Zone app. As of now, there’s a pretty limited number of titles being highlighted, but that should grow as time goes on. You can download Tegra Zone from NVIDIA. Xavier Lanier is a mobile technology enthusiast and avid photographer. Based in San Francisco, Xavier is the publisher of GottaBeMobile.com and Read More