Today we have an application of a very popular Android note-taking / to-do list application called AK Notepad. This is by far the most full-featured free app of its kind. There are a lot of things to like about this application, and if it doesn’t quite suite you upon first download you can always customize it to your liking through the settings of the app. The interface is very simple, despite being full of so many features. You can write notes and edit titles just like in any other notepad app. You can also long press notes you’ve created to pin them to your homescreen, set scheduled alarms or reminders, share them with friends, and even export to a text file. Check out the accompanying video review to see my full thoughts on the application.
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You may have noticed that an increasingly popular Android application has been shown off on a lot of new phones to give you an idea of the device’s raw processing power in comparison to others in its class. This application is the Quadrant Standard benchmarking application. Overall it can be described as a CPU, I/O, and 3G graphics benchmark, and requires a GPU to work flawlessly. This video walkthrough will hopefully elaborate on what exactly this stress test does to your phone and will give you a better idea of how to keep track of what is going on while the benchmark is taking place. Enjoy!
It is indeed the time we have all been waiting for, some impressed and some not, but nevertheless, TweetDeck for Android is here!
Now John got to a written post before I could, so you can read all about how to get it (after watching the video, of course) right here.
Posted at 11:52 am CDT, July 20th, 2010 by Carlos Graves. Tags: IMDB
I have been using IMDb.com for a long time to find movie times and such, and now, I can do it on my Android device! I won’t say “introducing IMDb” or anything like that since Dustin Earley already has a post about it, which you can find here; but I will say, introducing a hands-on look at IMDb for Android!
Good morning! Today we’ll be taking a look at the new Fox News Channel release to the Android Market, their Fox News Application. There has been plenty of chat about whether or not the Fox News articles really are ‘fair and balanced,’ as the splash screen says, but that’s not the main focus of this review. We’ll be taking a look at the user interface of an application that has come straight from the developers, through the beta stage, and into the marketplace.
First of all the application has a nice clean, professional look to it. It’ll look good on just about any phone, however performance is a completely different issue that will be covered later. Similar to the USA Today App, which hasn’t been reviewed yet by DroidDog, the Fox News App features a tabbed news interface at the top, sorting your news into Articles | Videos | Slideshows | Shows | Favorites. Furthermore, beneath these 5 tabs you can continue to filter news into a ton of categories using a scrolling slider bar. Some of thse sub-categories include ‘Top Stores,’ ‘Entertainment,’ ‘Sci/Tech,’ ‘Sports,’ and more. This is, in my opinion, one of the most efficient and unobtrusive ways to sort through news and read it on a daily basis. You can check out my NewsRob App Review for an example of another news-reading application that actually aggregates news from a variety of sources. (cont.)
There is unfortunately no widget to go with this application, but the app still allows you to stay on top of breaking news by visiting the applications and either turning on or off background notifications. Some news aggregating apps have been notorious for hogging and draining Android phones’ batteries because of their need to constantly check for new stores in the background. The Fox news application hasn’t degraded my battery life at all, but it may help to look into a process manager application to help you kill unnecessary tasks from chomping into your battery life when you’re not using your phone. (cont.)
Like I mentioned earlier, the one issue I’d say is something to work on by the Fox App developing team is performance. Any news app has to pull in a large amount of data and images in the background and it can be difficult to streamline this process. The Fox app runs fairly smoothly on the Motorola Droid and is extremely snappy on the Motorola Droid X I’m testing. I’m unsure, however, how this device would perform on some lower end phones like the Droid Eris or the HTC Desire. Keep that in mind when ’shopping around’ for a news reader application for your Android device. Be sure to check out the accompanying YouTube video for more information on this.
Speaking of shopping, this application is [thankfully] completely free in the app store, and can be found by either searching ‘Fox News’ in the Android market or by scanning the QR code below this article.
If you want to see more of the videos I make on a weekly basis you can check out my Youtube Channel
Today we have an application of a very popular Android note-taking / to-do list application called AK Notepad. This is by far the most full-featured free app of its kind. There are a lot of things to like about this application, and if it doesn’t quite suite you upon first download you can always customize it to your liking through the settings of the app. The interface is very simple, despite being full of so many features. You can write notes and edit titles just like in any other notepad app. You can also long press notes you’ve created to pin them to your homescreen, set scheduled alarms or reminders, share them with friends, and even export to a text file. Check out the accompanying video review to see my full thoughts on the application.
You may have noticed that an increasingly popular Android application has been shown off on a lot of new phones to give you an idea of the device’s raw processing power in comparison to others in its class. This application is the Quadrant Standard benchmarking application. Overall it can be described as a CPU, I/O, and 3G graphics benchmark, and requires a GPU to work flawlessly. This video walkthrough will hopefully elaborate on what exactly this stress test does to your phone and will give you a better idea of how to keep track of what is going on while the benchmark is taking place. Enjoy!
