Archive for December 14th, 2010

The first round of the AndroidSPIN 2010 Holiday Triple Tablet Give-a-way has come to an end and the following person has been chosen as the winner of the Camangi WebStation Android Tablet.   “mistrme” “I deserve a Camangi Webstation Tablet for the 2010 holiday season, because...

Hooray! Google has just made the Samsung Nexus S kernel source available for the masses. Everyone knows what that means! Our beloved Android developers can now get their hands on this nifty new kernel and start compiling some wondrous things for the rest of us. I can only speculate what we will all...

  If you are looking to make your device look even more like Gingerbread, then XDA member Longsh0t has you covered.  He has created a series of png files modeled after the latest Android Gingerbread 2.3 software. All these png’s are very easy to apply using Launcher Pro or ADW Launcher. I have...

The MIUI ROM has been a very popular ROM brought stateside from China and has particularly been big on the Nexus One and Desire.  The music application from the MIUI ROM has been pulled and signed for easy installation. What makes this music app different? The layout is very clean, very well executed....

Minimalistic Text will give you all the added benefits of Clockr, Typo Weather and other popular text based widgets. With Minimalistic Text, you will gain full control of how the text is displayed, sized, background, color and more. Not to mention the ability to custom create each widget to the size...

I don’t know about the rest of you guys, but I haven’t used much of the voice recognition options built into my device because it doesn’t ever understand me. It drives me absolutely crazy. It is expected that this latest software addition, over time, will start to adapt to your speech...

Do you hate going into Menu -> Settings -> Display just to adjust your screen brightness? Well if you do, then we have a fix for you. Follow the steps below. Press and Hold the top left of your screen (i.e. Where time and date is located) While holding with you finger, slide to the opposite side...

If you happen to have a rooted HTC EVO 4G and you are looking for something to make yours stand out from the crowd, here’s a great addition. Xda-developer member fachadick has compiled 200 different fonts that you can easily flash through your recovery. A few weeks ago the member added in 12 new...

Realism is not something that I’ve come to expect in a portable game and it’s mostly not wanted. I mean, who’d want a realistic simulation of sling-shotting birds at pigs and brick walls (although that could be a laugh)? Driving games are another fine example of this, without a finely...

I know we have all run into issues where our contacts were deleted on accident or maybe on purpose by someone else. It is frustrating and sometimes can be destructive to our lives. Thanks to Google, we now have up to 30 days to be able to retrieve deleted contacts. This just might save our lives or jobs. We’ve...

We have all spent many hours trying to beat levels in our favorite hair pulling game, Angry Birds. I know I have spent many hours attempting to beat certain levels or trying to obtain 3 stars. I thought I might start a daily Angry Birds video segment that will centralize a video from YouTube that will...

Barnes & Noble has committed to bringing Android 2.2 officially to the Nook Color! Yes folks, you heard that right. A source over at SmartPhoneMag stated he has spoken with a Barnes & Noble representivite that has shown him the upcoming update to the Nook Color. At this time we are being told...

There has been a lot of buzz going around about the new stipulations on refunds for the Android Market, so we have decided to take a vote. What do you think is a fair time limit on getting a refund for an application? I’m sure most would agree 15 minutes is not nearly long enough to truley test...

Just in time for the holidays, Southwest Airlines releases it’s application to the Android Market. I would say it’s perfect timing with all the flights/delays and whatnot to come in the coming weeks. Check out below what this application has to offer. Manage air reservations Manage rental...

Thanks to Koush et al., ClockworkMOD is now available for the Samsung Galaxy Tab. With this custom recovery, users can successfully flash custom ROMs create and restore backups for the Galaxy S tablet. As with most Galaxy S devices, the stock recovery is not truly replaced but rather loaded as an...