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[Android] Play as a pig in a rocket-propelled cart in Farm Breakout
What happens when a mischievous pig finds its way into a truffle warehouse? You end up with a eccentric game in which you race up and around curves, spins, and even over giant spinning rocks. That’s the idea behind the quirky new game Farm Breakout, in which you pilot a [...]
[Android] Light up your homescreen with shapes using the new wallpaper PartGen Live Wallpaper
![[Android] Light up your homescreen with shapes using the new wallpaper PartGen Live Wallpaper](http://cdn.dottech.org/media/2012/09/pg-290x160.jpg)
Boxes are everywhere in PartGen, an all-new live wallpaper by ZnevSoft. However, it doesn’t have to be that way. It’s a free wallpaper that lets you set a collection of shapes as your wallpaper, and those shapes are customizable to your liking: get them in any color, and in a [...]
Read More »[Android] Get Chubby the bird back to the nest in time for dinner in Chubby Bird
One day, Chubby was relaxing in the forest when he got a text message. It was time to go home to dinner! There was only one slight issue: he had a very hard time flying, and the sky was littered with obstacles. Help him get home by flying him across [...]
[Android] Screen turning off while you’re reading? Keep it on with SmartStay Ex
Many people enjoy reading things on their tablets and cell phones. There’s an issue with this: if you take too long, your screen will turn itself off! Samsung solved this problem in the Galaxy S III. The S3 takes a photo with your front facing camera, and if it detects [...]
[Android] Find and review local businesses with the free Yelp app
There are thousands and thousands of businesses in every city, and each and every one of them is either awesome, terrible, or somewhere in between. How do you find out without spending years going to and spending money at each one of them? You let other people spend collective years [...]
[Android] Save money and find cheap gas with your new friend, GasBuddy
The United States has some of the cheaper gas in the world, beating European countries by around 50%. However, we drive a lot more, and as such, we spend a large amount of money on gas. If you don’t like paying large sums of money for gas–who does?!–GasBuddy is a [...]
[Android] Paddles and powerups, oh my! Play the next generation of Pong with Paddletronic Duel
Pong was a wonderful game… back in the early 70s when it was released. Now, we have games like Call of Duty and Assassin’s Creed, featuring mind-blowingly realistic graphics on increasingly powerful systems. Paddletronic Duel upgrades Pong for the Modern Era, giving it powerups, customizable paddles, and much more game-changing [...]
[Android] Smash bricks and keep the ball in the air in Brick Breaker, a remake of the Atari classic
Do you remember playing Breakout or Arkanoid, the game in which you bounce a ball off a paddle to break bricks, on your old Atari or at the arcade? I do! And now, you can get that same game on your phone with the free, ad-supported Brick Breaker.
Brick Breaker, [...]
Read More »[Android] Die once and for all in the new platformer One Single Life
In a lot of games, dying is inevitable. You die, and click respawn–it’s that simple. One Single Life is not like that–not at all. In it, you get but a single life. You have to risk it by jumping between buildings, and the jumps get harder as they go. At [...]
Cell phone carriers are charging customers for data they don’t use, according to a study
No one on a capped data plan wants to go over their monthly — or daily or whatever — limit because overage charges are often extreme. So you would think carriers would have a system in place to ensure accurate counting of data usage,. Yeah, not so much. According to [...]
Read More »[Android] Get beautiful, intuitive voice command searching and life management with Maluuba
Are you a fan of voice-based helpers like Apple’s Siri and Google’s Now/Voice Search? They’re both quite technically amazing, but both are only available for a limited number of devices, with Siri being only for 2011-2012 devices and Google Now only for Jelly Bean devices. Maluuba is different: billing itself [...]
[Android] Launch emulated games the beautiful way with the free GameShelf game launcher
Are you a fan of using game emulators? I know I like them! They let you bring your love for older game consoles on the road with you. However, they’re generally as ugly as can be, and launching game ROMs as unintuitive as could ever be designed. GameShelf is nice, [...]
[Android] Take and share FX photos with FxCamera
Are you a fan of photo effects? There are big names in the photo-filtering industry such as Instagram, but like in every industry, every once in a while, a cool independent developer will come along and release a new tool that rivals the big guys. While FxCamera can’t meet Instagram [...]
Get a better stock calculator with graphing, matrices, and more with Calculator [Android]
Your Android phone is a supercomputer. It can calculate the exact number of pixels from here to the Moon, but even then, there are some seemingly obvious things it’s missing. For instance, on the standard, pre-installed Calculator app, you can only do standard scientific calculator tasks. This lets your phone [...]
Hate your alarm clock? Get woken up easier with Sleep Time and a little dose of science [Android]
Are you waking up tired after hours and hours of sleep? You might think that it’s weird that, even after a beautiful 8.5 hours of sleep, you’re not as rested as you sometimes are. It turns out that it might come down to something called a sleep cycle: 90-minute periods [...]
Get full-screen, animated notifications that pop with Pops [Android]
![Get full-screen, animated notifications that pop with Pops [Android]](http://cdn.dottech.org/media/2012/09/pops.png)
Are you looking for superfluous animated notifications that take up your entire screen? You’ll love Pops. It’s a free app that lets you send and receive silly messages and notifications from your friends by both sending messages within the app and capturing the notifications of other apps.
The way Pops [...]
Read More »Over 50% of Android devices have security vulnerabilities, according to a study
When it comes to smartphone/mobile security, there are two types of malware.
First there is socially engineered malware. This type of malware, typically in the form of apps, works by tricking users into installing it and then proceeds to abuse access allowed by the operating system — such as apps [...]
Read More »Always missing spur-of-the-moment photos? Take photos faster with InstaCamera [Android]
“Hey, that’s interesting!” You quickly pull out your phone and slide to open the camera app. It nonchalantly starts as a black screen, sliding into a choppy “live” view of the camera’s viewfinder. After around three or four seconds, your phone’s finally decided to let you take a picture–but of [...]
Download Wikipedia to your Android device with Wikipedia Encyclopedia Offline [Android]
Are you a fan of knowledge? Of course you are, and Wikipedia is a great place to both find new information and contribute to others’ quest to do the same. Unfortunately, certain places–such as airplanes, Alaska, and the middle of the ocean–do not have cellular data, and even if they [...]
Keep track of, and manage, shared expenses easier with “iouo” [Android]
Bob paid for the $50 for the movie tickets, but Sue paid the $200 for the hotel rooms and John paid $100 for the food. If the three of them wanted to split the bill evenly, how would they go about doing it? There’s some math you can do by [...]
Want the world’s thinnest quad-core smartphone with a stunning 441 ppi 5-inch display? Check out Oppo Finder 5 X990
Oppo may not be a popular smartphone manufacturing company, but it surely turned some head a few months ago by releasing the world’s thinnest smartphone, Oppo Finder. And now, the company is back with another whopping device, the world’s thinnest quad-core smartphone, Oppo Find 5 X990.
The Oppo Find 5 [...]
Read More »Chrome for Android is updated, touts better stability and other improvements
I love Chrome. I love it so very much. It’s fast, it’s reliable, it’s secure, and, even when I’m playing Flash games on Facebook, it hardly ever crashes.
Of course, I’m referring to the desktop version of Google’s popular browser. The Chrome on my phone… well, let’s just say that [...]
Read More »Avoid the falling flooring and try to keep up in Mohuca, the odd free game [Android]
Some games are fast-paced. Others are much more relaxing. Mohuca (stylized mohuca.) is one of the relaxed ones. In it, there’s only one goal: survive for as long as possible.
To play Mohuca, you do one thing: tap on the screen. If you come across a roadblock, you tap [...]
Read More »Try to keep up with the other cars in Lunar Racer, a free racing game [Android]
Are you a fan of racing games on your phone? Try Lunar Racer: it’s a free racing app, and in it, you have to race on alien planets while managing gravity and nitro. But watch out! The powerups are dangerous, so you’ve got to keep an eye out.
Lunar Racer [...]
Read More »View your phone’s sensor data (accelerometer, etc) with Sensible Sensors [Android]
Your phone is a lot like a mini-Star Trek tricorder. It can scan the ambient acceleration, magnetic pull, location, and more, and it’s entirely hidden from you the majority of the time. If you’d like to see what your device is scanning, however, try Sensible Sensors: it’s a nice looking [...]
Google Wallet to discontinue Google Prepaid Card
Google Wallet has started to inform their users that Google will end its prepaid card feature soon.
If you still have some balance on your prepaid card, don’t worry as Google is giving you more than one month to use it; while you cannot add more money to your prepaid [...]
Read More »Study shows 90% of all app downloads are free while in-app purchases soar to new heights [iOS, Android, Windows Phone]
I play Facebook games. I also play games on my phone. In both cases, most of the time the games are free to download. In that vein, I’m right in line with 90% of all app downloaders, a new Gartner study says. Gartner reports that free apps will represent 89% [...]
Read More »CyanogenMod announces new ‘M-Series’ monthly builds [Android]
If you find it difficult to keep up with the nightly builds of CyanogenMod 10, you might be happy to hear that the CyanogenMod team has announced new ‘M-Series’ releases for CM10. Essentially these M-Series builds are a step between nightly and beta builds, leaning more towards the nightly side; [...]
Read More »Manage all of your social networks from one app with Sonet [Android]
There are dozens and dozens of social networks out there, and different people are on different ones. If you’re trying to get all the posts from all of your friends, Sonet is the app for you. It can grab all of your friend’s posts from well-known networks like Facebook and [...]
Test your visual and spacial logic skills with HueBrix, a free and fun game [Android]
Are you looking for an awesome, addictive puzzle game? I know I’m not. I’ve gotten way too addicted to tiny little games on my phone, and now I–hey! Check out HueBrix! It’s a tough visual space game in which you need to trace out the paths required to fill up [...]
Set an automatically changing wallpaper with Wallpaper Changer [Android]
That’s a beautiful wallpaper you have! And it’s been the same wallpaper for the last five months. It’s starting to get really, really old, and you desperately wish to get rid of it, but you know that this same thing will happen again in five months. With Wallpaper Changer, it [...]
Sony engineer takes apart Sony Xperia Tablet S, a 9.4-inch Android tablet starting at $400
For those who love Android and are looking forward to the future of tablet computing, the Sony Xperia Tablet S is highly anticipated. But what exactly does it hold within the thinnest shell that the company has ever produced? Tiny hamsters running on tinier wheels, black magic wrapped around glowing [...]
Read More »Jelly Bean (Android 4.1) spotted for Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 and Tab 2 7.0
There were rumors about Samsung planning to release Jelly Bean for the Galaxy S3 soon but it looks like the S3 isn’t the only device that the company is focusing on at the moment. SamMobile posted two Jelly Bean OTA firmware leaks today for two Samsung tablets, the Galaxy Note [...]
Toys R Us debuts $150 7-inch Tabeo, an Android tablet for kids
For parents tired of their kids wanting to play with their iPads and other tablet PCs, Toys R Us has posted a new listing for an intriguing alternative: Tabeo.
The Tabeo is a 7-inch Android-based tablet designed specifically for children, going on sale at the first of October. It’s sleek [...]
Read More »Power button broken? Unlock your phone with the tap of your proximity sensor with Tap Tap App [Android]
![Power button broken? Unlock your phone with the tap of your proximity sensor with Tap Tap App [Android]](http://cdn.dottech.org/media/2012/09/tta.png)
Is your phone’s lock and unlock button wearing down after many long years of use? Don’t worry! There’s an app that can help: Tap Tap App. Designed specifically for people with broken phones, it replaces the need for a lock and unlock button, instead allowing you to unlock your phone [...]
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