One of the most striking things about this early batch of Android apps is how many excellent freebies there are. Ringdroid is yet another sophisticated, intuitive freeware app that will prove a boon to T-Mobile G1-toting ringtone-lovers.
Ringdroid lets you create ringtones from MP3, WAV, and ARM files you load onto your phone through the SD [...]
You don’t have to be a werewolf or vampire to get excited about Halloween. What other holiday lets you dress up as a triceratops and snort at passersby or flashback to your grade-school years with a pretty pink ballerina tutu? Your Halloween festivities don’t have to stop at the front door. Slap a virtual holiday [...]
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Google Earth for the iPhone can show satellite views of the world in 3D, in this case the Matterhorn, and dots the display with blue squares showing geotagged Panoramio photos.
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SAN FRANCISCO–Google already has customized some of its Web sites for display on the [...]
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California mobile video company Qik on Sunday announced the alpha release of version 1.0 of Qik for BlackBerry. The free, downloadable application (covered here and demoed here) lets cell phone filmmakers stream video live from their mobile phone to Qik.com, social networks like MySpace, Orkut, and Facebook, and to any personal blog.
When you’re done [...]
Place your favorite folder shortcuts on the right-click menu with this handy freeware utility. Folder Guide’s compact button and results window interface won’t take more than a minute to understand. Even the single-page Help file is superfluous.
Operating this utility is a piece of cake. Simply click Add to create an alias and insert the folder [...]
If you’ve ever had a hard drive die on you, or had your computer stolen, you’ve probably come to appreciate–and possibly have shaken your fist at–computer backup. Bad things happen, which is what makes utilities like FlickrDown so darn useful.
This small Windows application provides a simple way to pull down a large portion of [...]
CompareEverywhere can map retail stores nearby.
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ShopSavvy, Barcode Scanner (by the ZXing team), and CompareEverywhere (an Android Challenge winner) are three free shopping applications for Google Android poised to help you find the best deals in town and online.
At their core, they’re nearly identical, using the phone’s camera to auto-focus on a barcode. That barcode [...]
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Flight simulators used to be a staple of gaming when I was younger. I remember spending hours playing the hell out of an F-15-based game on the Sega Master System. It was pretty pathetic. The missiles were basically white dots, but it was all I had at the time and I loved it [...]
This free add-on for Firefox and Internet Explorer gives jazz music lovers something to sing about. Jazz Radio is a toolbar that lets you tune in to radio stations worldwide that play songs from the genre.
The bar won’t wow or disappoint you with its appearance. A few radio controls allow for fairly quick volume control [...]
Novice-friendly but with features for the expert and free archiving tools rarely cover all those bases, but PeaZip and PeaZip Portable hit back-to-back home runs.
Operating PeaZip is as easy as dragging files. Drop a ZIP file on the interface and PeaZip goes into decompression mode. Drop a regular file and it opens the archiving screen. [...]
