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[Android] Play with sand and fire in the free sandbox game Burning Sand 3
The world of sandbox games–games in which you can modify the world around you–is an awesome one. What about games actually about sand? Turns out, they’re pretty awesome too. Burning Sand 3 is a free game that lets you combine 60 different elements in various ways to create a cool [...]
[Android] Slide into finish and collect precious diamonds in The Gem Hunt
It’s an age-old classic: the game where you slide across the ice, unable to stop until you hit a wall, trying to get to the ending spot by bouncing off of things. The Gem Hunt brings this all to Android, but instead of ice, it’s a very slippery dino.[...]
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Read More »[Android] Study on the go with the handy formula reference app Formulae
Quick! What’s the chemical formula for Aspartic acid? No? How about the formula for the definition of an integral? Formulae is a free app for Android that brings a handy quick reference guide to chemistry and mathematics to your device in an easy to read format–and with it, you can [...]
[Android] Combine Dropbox, Google Reader, Google Drive, and more into one single feed with Hojoki
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Hojoki brings together dozens of online services and combines them into one huge stream, allowing you to view updates to every service at once and work even faster. It lets you collaborate using Google Drive, Dropbox, and more, all from a [...]
Read More »[Android] Create new expandable notifications for yourself with Notif
Android 4.1 “Jelly Bean” ushered in only a few major changes. One of those changes? Expandable notifications. While seemingly not a very big deal at first glance, these allow you to view whatever information you need without even leaving whatever you’re doing. Notif is a free app that extends that [...]
[Android] Try to keep up with the simple but awesome game Tap! Tap Faster!
Fast-paced games are common, but simple ones are few and far between. Fun, simple ones? You’ll have better luck winning the presidency. However, Tap! Tap Faster! is one of those apps that manages to break the mold. Though the concept behind it is incredibly simple, it manages to suck you [...]
[Android] Bouncing Marble is a physics/puzzle game involving obstacles and barriers
Are you looking for a fun physics game that makes you think of bouncing angles, speeds, and more in your head? At first glance, Bouncing Marble looks promising, but if you take a closer look, you’ll notice it’s not actually all that fun.[...]
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Read More »[Android] Create and download infinitely customizable widgets with Ultimate Custom Widget
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Chances are, your home screen is either a messy haven of your favorite apps jumbled together to let you launch them quickly or a beautifully arranged screen designed from the ground up to look beautiful. If you’re the latter, I’ve got some great news: rather than relying on some custom [...]
Read More »[Android] Get a beautiful set of new wallpapers every day with BetterThanExpected Wallpapers
The internet is a beautiful place filled with even more beautiful photography. Channeling the Internet’s amazing photographic skill into your small tablet or smartphone, however, is near impossible without BetterThanExpected Wallpapers. It’s a free live wallpaper that automatically downloads and fades wallpapers from Reddit, one of the Internet’s largest [...]
[Android] Monitor folder creation on your SD card with SDCard Watcher
Try mounting your Android phone on your computer. You’ll be amazed by how many random folders there are named after apps that you thought you uninstalled ages ago. This is due to how Android works, but with the help of the free app SDCard Watcher, you can see what [...]
[Android] Stop missing important calls and texts and get periodic missed call and text notifications with Missed Call Reminder
If you for some reason miss a call and don’t notice it–say you’re in a meeting or have your phone on silent–you won’t notice it until you turn on your phone’s screen and notice the icon in your notification tray. This can lead to calls being returned hours later than [...]
[Android] Can’t hear your own phone? Increase the volume of your speakers and headphones with Volume+
Many phones max out at a pathetically low volume level. Is yours one of them? Don’t try to strain yourself to hear it anymore–Volume+ is a free app that’s here to help. It raises your volume level by exploiting Android’s native equalizer settings and artificially boosting the volume.
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Read More »[Android] Fly to France! Travel to Tahiti! Fool your friends and set your GPS location to anywhere you want with Fake GPS Location
Haven’t you always wanted to visit France? I certainly have, and with Fake GPS Location, I can treat myself to a fake vacation wherever I want to. It’s a free and very simple app that lets you spoof your location to anywhere you want in the world, and in conjunction [...]
[Android] Get a sleek futuristic wallpaper with Honeycomb Live Wallpaper
Honeycomb was the first version of Android in which design actually mattered. In it, the sleek modern style that continues on in Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean was first discovered, and with it came a series of live wallpapers from both Google and developers wishing to further the cool [...]
[Android] Fit the falling blocks together in the fast-paced puzzler Rebirth
There are numerous fast-paced puzzlers and acade games out there, and many of them are pretty fun. However, for the most part, there’s not too many original puzzle/acade games: they’re all either Tetris clones or some other knockoff. If you’re looking for something you haven’t already played, pick up Rebirth–it’s [...]
[Android] Feedly is a beautiful Google Reader and RSS app for following all of your favorite sites
Avid internet users have a multitude of websites they read on a regular basis. Over the years they spend surfing, unfortunately, the websites pile up and up, and the time it takes to read them grows with it. Many people turn to RSS feeds to let them browse quicker, as [...]
[Android] Get a beautiful new clock and weather widget with One More Clock Widget Free
Chances are you still have your phone’s default clock widget enabled. How very boring! The beauty of Android’s widgets system is that you can make your homescreen look however you want, and part of that is choosing the perfect clock widget for you. Try One More Clock Widget: it’s a [...]
[Android] Manage your phone’s volume from your home screen with Volume Control Widget
Did you know your device has not one, not two, but four volume levels that are all controlled independently? Managing them can be a real pain sometimes, and you might accidentally make a loud sound blare out of your device one day if you’re not careful. However, with Volume Control [...]
[Android] Surf your way to the light at the end of the tunnel in Subway Surfers
Since March, Android users have been able to play the extremely famous game Temple Run. Subway Surfers, while not nearly as famous, is now making its ways to Google’s shores as well, and was released into Play Store today. Much like Temple Run, you play as a person running along [...]
[Android] Test the speed of your phone against others in Qualcomm’s new Vellamo Mobile Benchmark
Is your phone feeling a long in the tooth? Everyone knows that means it’s time to run out an buy a new one! time to see if it’s really your device, or just your mind fooling you. Often, devices can be just as fast as they were the day you [...]
[Android] Look up current and historic currency conversion rates with Money Informer
Going on an international business trip soon, and finding yourself freaked out about that currency conversion thing? Don’t! Money Informer is a free app that lets you know the current conversion rate between virtually any two countries in the world, and a chart of their historic exchange rates.
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Read More »[Android] Securely back up all of your photos, videos, contacts, messages, and more using G Cloud Backup
One of the coolest things about Android is its deeply integrated synchronization with Google. All of your settings, contacts, and emails are instantly uploaded to secure servers off in Googleville, USA, where they’re safely stored in case you need to access them to either download onto a new device or [...]
[Android] Track any package from any shipper with Package Buddy
Shopping online is fun and, dare I say, addicting. But when you’ve bought a dozen different things from a half a dozen online shops, you’re inevitably going to lose track of when they all arrive and all of the individual shipping numbers. Keep track of not just your packages, but [...]
[Android] Get a greeting and a calendar notification every morning with Enjoy Your Day
Having my own personal butler would be awesome. I could just ask them about my schedule every morning, and instantly know where I needed to be and when. Unless dotTech starts paying a lot more, however, that’s not going to happen. Instead, I can use the free Enjoy Your Day [...]
[Android] Got Jelly Bean? Get a set of cool new copy-pastable emotes with Look of Disapproval
Are you rocking an all-new Galaxy Nexus or Nexus 7? If you are, you know just how cool it is to be running the latest version of Android with all of its cool new features. One small feature among the thousands of little tweaks is much improved support for special [...]
[Android] Play a quick game of Reversi on your phone or tablet with Reversi Free
Board games were an integral part of most people’s childhood, but after they grow up, they tend to sit more on the back burner of life. Since the invention of the modern smartphone, however, they’ve made a comeback in the form of quick little games for you to play on [...]
[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
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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.
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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 [...]