You may remember the jealousy I expressed at the quality LG apps that were exclusive to LG, partially because I thought some of the apps were so advanced that Microsoft should have taken the initiative to bundle them with the OS. What a difference a day (and Tom Hounsell) makes. Most of the apps are … Read more
… or are you just sending me a ringtone? Union organizers, Egyptians and paranoids listen up because XDA’s Fredly has cooked up StegDroid just for you. By means of steganography, and he’s doing his dissertation on it so you know this app is high-grade primo academic shit, you may type your top secret message, then … Read more
Because the Egyptians rallied up this Berlin Wall-like massive and protracted protest using Twitter and Facebook relaying information not just between each other but with the rest of the world, the government instructed all ISPs power down their routers (3500 of them) shutting everything except POTS and voice cellular phone service down. That hasn’t been … Read more
Ok, now this is special. There are lots of voice recorder apps floating around the Marketplace but how many actually resemble and behave exactly like a retro cassette tape recorder. I had to download this app by Senstic and play with it. And I have to tell you it works exactly as described. There are … Read more
It’s sad to see a good Windows Phone app get slaughtered the way GooNews was but Shawn Wildermuth was forced to pull the plug on the app. Wait, you don’t know Shawn Wildermuth? I think it’s important for the story so it’s worth noting that he’s a Microsoft MVP (C#), author of six books about … Read more
Want to jazz up the start screen of your Windows Phone with some custom images that are functional? Well Pin To Start gives you the ability to add 4 custom live tiles for free. Here’s their description: The Pin To Start ™ application allows Window Phone 7 owners a unique experience not available on other … Read more
AmazonIntelligence is a neat application for Windows phones that helps you to find deals on Amazon and track them to see if the price drops (and it even sends you alerts). I actually just tried it out when my wife was about to buy something from Amazon on her precious iPad (and I don’t trust … Read more
The Nook Color never made sense to me as an eReader but as a $250 Android tablet running Honeycomb…well that may make a lot more sense. It’s got a 1024×600 7” screen, 800mhz TI A* chip, expandable memory and built in wifi. Oh right, the video (skip to 2:15 when it’s done booting): OK so … Read more
Some professor at NC State University was tooling around with a Nexus S which runs Gingerbread, his was running the stock unrooted flavor specifically, and found a “data stealing vulnerability of the same nature” as an Android 2.2 vulnerability which was apparently not plugged thoroughly enough in the 2.3 patch. Sigh. Professor Xuxian Jiang has … Read more
Got a TiVo? Want to be able to control what it records from your Windows Phone? TivoMote is a fun new companion for your HD TiVo (Series 3 and greater) box that lets you see what’s already recorded on your Tivo, search for new shows and record them from your phone or see what TV … Read more
If you live on that border town between MS and Google and use Google Documents then there’s a new Windows Phone app for you. It’s called GDocs and it’s free. Here are the features: GDocs is a simple client for Google docs for windows phone. Currently it supports: * Viewing documents, spreadsheets, presentations, drawings and … Read more
Motorola just dropped a little ATRIX 4G video on us just in time for the weekend. This 2:15 video does a great job introducing us to the laptop accessory as well as the high definition docking station. Even though the ATRIX 4G will have it’s wings clipped at launch with no 1080p Video Recording, the … Read more