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Jun

15

2010

How to Install Firefox aka Fennec for Android

by Chris Moor
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While Firefox (or Fennec) might not be officially available from Mozilla yet, one of the Mozilla Dev’s has posted on his personal site, info on how to install and uninstall Fennec for Android. I’ve just unistalled the latest build from my Milestone as it’s took up over 25mb of space and wasn’t exactly the quickest! [...]

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Jun

12

2010

Advanced Map Live Wallpaper now in Android Market

by Chris Moor
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Do you like knowing where you are, every moment of every day? Well then this app (which is in beta) might be for you. While it is similar to Google’s own version of this, it does have some outstanding features: Wide selection of maps – Ordnance survey, Google, satellite, terrain, bing, openstreetmap, USA VFR & [...]

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Jun

10

2010

ITV catch-up TV application – Android bound for UK users?

by Chris Moor
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While the BBC iPlayer is available as a browser-based application only, ITV (channel 3 for the old school) is apparently in talks with Apple, Blackberry and Google, to bring a proper catch-up application to mobile platforms. So what does this mean? Well, put simply, you should be able to download the garbage that ITV spits [...]

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Jun

8

2010

Improved Voice Control For Your Android

by Chris Moor
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Remember Jarvis from the Iron Man movies? He was Tony Stark’s uber-powerful computer that Tony could talk to like just another person and the computer would follow his every command. That’s aaaaaaalmost what Vlingo will do to your Android phone. Yes, most Android devices come with voice recognition built it, but they don’t function as [...]

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Jun

8

2010

Dropbox For Android: Updated

by Chris Moor
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If you’ve never used Dropbox, then you don’t know what you’re missing. Dropbox easily and effortlessly syncs files between multiple computers, operating systems, and even your smartphone. Once you get signed up for your free Dropbox account, you get 2GB of space for free. Anything that you sync between your devices will be uploaded to [...]

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Jun

7

2010

EVO 4G Causes 20x Increase on QIK Servers

by Chris Moor
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Have you experienced problems with Qik video chat on your EVO? Well it’s not just you. Apparently, Qik grossly underestimated just how much load a few hundred thousand people wanting to video chat all at once would put on their servers, and as a result, their servers had issues. You probably experienced connecting issues as [...]

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