GOOD APP: OS Atlas
You may remember we got rather excited about gvSIG Mini last week, thanks to it letting us browse UK Ordnance Survey maps for free on any Android phone. Sadly, the OS maps used by gvSIG weren’t the best on offer – which is where OS Atlas comes in. We’re not sure what the correct mapping […]
GOOD APP: Make It Default Browser
Can you guess what Make It Default Browser does? Yes, we suspect you probably can – it makes Opera the default browser on your Android phone, if you were so impressed by Opera Mini 5 that you want to use the over-complicated, oddly-rendering browser as your Android default web reader instead of the standard Android […]
GOOD APP: UK Rail
This little independent production popped up on the Android Market earlier today, and fills a massive gap – by providing a simple, searchable database of train departure times. You pick your journey’s start and end station, then up pops a list of times and all the stations called at along the way by the next […]
GOOD APP: AutoRotate OnOff
Good lord, and to think all this time we’ve been suffering from the PAIN and INDIGNITY of having to manually stop the display rotating automatically by holding our phone at a funny angle. And then AutoRotate OnOff came along. Look at the awesome simplicity of this: That’s our new all-time favourite app screenshot! AutoRotate is […]
Digg launches its Android app
It’s here. In a blog post yesterday, Digg announced the arrival of the official Android version of its app, little over a week after it arrived on iPhone, bringing the all-powerful news source to Android phones and replacing the tired old web interface that used to greet mobile Diggers. The comments from users on the […]
GOOD APP: Cricket Live Score Alerts
A chap who’s clearly INTO cricket sent us a little heads-up about new app Cricket Live Score Alerts, which… you can probably guess. It updates match scores every five minutes via a widget, meaning you can keep tabs on events throughout the day. For those of you who work in OPPRESSIVE working environments where it’s […]
GOOD APP: Sensorly, for crowd-sourced local network data
Sensorly is a seriously clever app, and exactly the sort of innovative tool Android was made for. The app measures network connection types and signal strength wherever you are, compiling the data and sending it off to a central server, where it’s collated, chucked over a map and sent out to other users. The end […]
Get your iTunes music on your phone with MP3tunes – and 50GB of cloud-based storage
We’ve just had an email from MP3tunes, telling us all about its clever way of synchronising your iTunes account with your Android phone. It works by uploading your iTunes library to a “cloud” server it calls your personal Locker, then streaming low-resolution copies of the music files to your phone – and letting you sync […]
GOOD APP: Clipper, clipboard manager
Yes! We’re long-time users of various clipboard management tools on PC, with the way they conveniently backup all your CTRL+V text-copying action to a file for easy retrieval making life so much easier – and now there’s a decent clipboard tool on Android in the form of Clipper. It’s a very simple app that stores […]
GOOD APP: BBC News Listen & Tweet
A bizarre clash of the old and the new, this one, with the BBC News Listen & Tweet app combining a live streaming feed of the BBC’s famed World Service radio offering with… a collection of Tweets that mention the BBC. It is an app that both you and your Grandad can enjoy. It’s technically […]