There are tons on Android apps out there that are not in the Android Market but you have to enable you enjoy these apps. The video below shows how to make sure your phone can download and install those apps.
April 1, 2011
How to install apk files and apps from other sources
March 31, 2011
Remote Desktop, essay access to your phone from your desktop
There may be sometimes that you want to be able to connect your Android phone to your computer and do everything from there without plugging the wires. Afterall, no one can deny the comfort of typing from a standard computer keyboard. Today I found Remote Desktop in the Android Market. Am still curious why the app is free. It is very simple and easy to use.
All you need is a web browser. You can view, browse, and retrieve contents, including documents, pictures, and video, from your phone wireless. Once you start the app, it gives you the web address and the password to access your phone from a browser.
To the top left in your browser, you have the navigation menu for access to all the folders and files in your phone, from where you can click to access the connect of each folder. The navigation menu are About device, Callogs, Bookmarks, Photos and Files. “About device” contains a list of all the apps installed on your phone and their links to the Android Market, Cyrket, and Appbrain. The remaining menu are self explanatory, as they contain exactly what their names say.
To the lower left corner you have you contacts. When you click on a contact, it pops up with the contact number, the SMS history, and the field for you to enter SMS which you can send from your phone. If you want to be able to send SMS to people from your computer this is perfect for you. The left bottom you have the number of your contacts and the New SMS link which you can use to start a new text messaging.
I found the Files menu to be most useful. It contains “Download selected” which is a list of your download files and folders, “Go to SDCARD” shows the files and apps in your SD Card. And “Upload”, very import, allows your to upload files straight from your computer to your phone without any hassle. Now you don’t have to plug your phone to your computer to upload or download files anymore.
The app concept and implementation is great, the simplicity makes it even better. I still don’t know why is free, I guess the best things in life are still free. It will be great if you can use the app to manage your phone book in the future.
February 25, 2011
How to root the Motorola Xoom
The Motorola Xoom in now available in store. After buying your much awaited Xoom tablet some of you will be interested in rooting the it. Peter Alfonso has the how to ready for you. To root your Xoom, follow the steps below:
- Download xoomroot.zip and unzip it
- Place the files in your SDK tools folder
- adb reboot bootloader
- fastboot oem unlock (be sure fastboot binary is in your path)
- Accept the legal notice then wait for reboot
- adb reboot bootloader
- fastboot flash boot rootboot.img
- fastboot reboot (wait for reboot)
- adb remount
- adb push su /system/bin
- adb shell ln –s /system/bin/su /system/xbin/su
- adb shell chmod 4755 /system/bin/su
- Download Superuser app from Market
Thats it, your device is now rooted!
Note: If you do not understand parts of this guide or feel that you need further instructions, it is safe to assume you should not try this.
January 18, 2011
Best Motorola Droid Bionic apps
Still looking for the best Motorola Droid Bionic apps? Here are the best 30 apps for your Droid Bionic.
Best HTC Desire Apps
AIM – AOL Instant Messenger client for android. Data sent through network. No SMS fee. Support for smileys and chat bubble styles.
Adroid-rss – A fully functional reader created to learn the new Android platform SDK. It’s an ongoing effort to better understand and embrace the Android design philosophy, welcome comments and additional contributors.
Twidroid – Twitter client on the android platform. Provides a preview of forthcoming release, which will extend the current product line and includes features such as: multi-account support, video posting, desktop widget, bit.ly support, follower listings, interface themes and others.
Loopt – Phone as a social compass -connects with friends and the places in a jiffy and instantly share photos, comments, and cool places.
September 30, 2010
How To Install Non-Market Android Apps
Looking for a quick and easy way to install a few APK files? But can’t think of a tricking browsing navigation or don’t have a USB cable handy? Then here is the solution, just put files in your Dropbox account and you’re already halfway done. Open up the Dropbox app on your phone and click on the file, and then the rest is done.
Don’t forget you’ll need to have your phone set up to permit non-Market sources to install apps. The whole process is done in just five easy steps:
Requirements
Open a DropBox account which is a cloud based file storage and sync service.
You need DropBox app installed on your Android phone.
Step 1: Download the Non-Market Android app you want to install from a browser on your desktop.
Step 2: Drop it in Dropbox on your computer.
Step 4: Open up the Dropbox app on your Android phone.
Step 5: Navigate to that .apk file you transferred in the above step and click it.
Your Android handset will now open up its installer, and thats it you have just managed to install a non-Market android app on your phone.
Note: You’ll also need to have non-Market sources enabled in your Applications settings.
September 27, 2010
Samsung Galaxy Tab Apps
The Samsung Galaxy Tab just hits the market, here are some few Android apps apps to get started with.
Samsung Galaxy Tab Apps
AIM – AOL Instant Messenger client for android. Data sent through network. No SMS fee. Support for smileys and chat bubble styles.
Adroid-rss – A fully functional reader created to learn the new Android platform SDK. It’s an ongoing effort to better understand and embrace the Android design philosophy, welcome comments and additional contributors.
Twidroid – Twitter client on the android platform. Provides a preview of forthcoming release, which will extend the current product line and includes features such as: multi-account support, video posting, desktop widget, bit.ly support, follower listings, interface themes and others.
Loopt – Phone as a social compass -connects with friends and the places in a jiffy and instantly share photos, comments, and cool places.
September 26, 2010
Best Android games for Archos 32 Internet Tablet
Android games for Archos 32 Internet Tablet
Let’s be honest – finding 20 good free games on the Android Market was a bit of a task.
There’s a lot of junk out there, but fortunately, there are gems within the junk.
We’ve worked our way through a whole load of Android games to reveal the ones you should download to your phone.
If we’ve missed your favourite free Android game, let us know in the comments.
1. Bebbled
Your standard gem-shuffling thing, only presented in a professional style you wouldn’t be surprised to see running on something featuring a Nintendo badge with an asking price of £19.99.
You only drop gems on other gems to nuke larger groups of the same colour, but with ever-tightening demands for score combos and scenes that require you to rotate your phone to flip the play field on its head, Bebbled soon morphs into an incredibly complex challenge.
2. The Red Stone
There’s an awful lot of square-shuffling games on Android and Red Stone is one of the best. And one of the hardest. You start off with a big fat ‘King’ square that’s four times of the normal ‘pawn’ squares, then set about shuffling things so the fat King can get through to an exit at the top of the screen.
It’s hard to accurately describe a puzzle game in the written word, but seriously, it’s a good game.
3. Newton
Released a few months back in beta form, Newton is a maths/physics challenge that has you lining up shots at a target – but having to contend with the laws of nature, in the form of pushers, pullers, benders (no laughing), mirrors and traps, all deflecting your shot from its target.
The developer is still adding levels to it at the moment, so one day Newton might be finished and might cost money. But for now it’s free and a great indie creation.
4. Sketch Online
Surprisingly free of crude representations of the male genitalia, Sketch Online is a sociable guessing game where users do little drawings then battle to correctly guess what’s being drawn first. It’s like Mavis Beacon for the Bebo generation. The version labelled “Beta” is free, and if you like it there’s the option to pay for an ad-free copy. But Google can’t make you. Yet.
5. Drop
Some might call Drop a game, others might classify it as a tech demo that illustrates the accuracy of the Android platform’s accelerometer, thanks to how playing it simply involves tilting your phone while making a little bouncy ball falls between gaps in the platforms. Either way it’ll amuse you for a while and inform you of the accuracy of your accelerometer – a win-win situation.
6. Frozen Bubble
Another key theme of the independent Android gaming scene is (ports of) clones of popular titles. Like Frozen Bubble, which is based around the ancient and many-times-copied concept of firing gems up a screen to make little groups of similarly coloured clusters. That’s what you do. You’ve probably done it a million times before, so if it’s your thing get this downloaded.
7. Replica Island
An extremely polished platform game that pulls off the shock result of being very playable on an Android trackball. The heavy momentum of the character means you’re only switching direction with the ball or d-pad, letting you whizz about the levels with ease. Then there’s jumping, bottom-bouncing, collecting and all the other usual platform formalities.
8. Gem Miner
You are a sort of mole character that likes to dig things out of the ground. But that’s not important. The game itself has you micro-managing the raw materials you find, upgrading your digging powers and buying bigger and better tools and maps. Looks great, plays well on Android’s limited button array. Go on, suck the very life out of the planet.
9. ConnecToo
Another coloured-square-based puzzle game, only this has you joining them up. Link red to red, then blue to blue – then see if you’ve left a pathway through to link yellow to yellow. You probably haven’t, so delete it all and try again.
A brilliantly simple concept. ConnecToo used to be a paid-for game, but was recently switched to an ad-supported model – meaning it now costs you £0.00.
10. Titres
Once you’re successfully rewired your brain’s 25 years of playing Tetris in a certain way with certain buttons and got used to tapping the screen to rotate your blocks, it’s… Tetris.
It hinges on how much you enjoy placing things with your phone’s trackball or pad. If you’re good at it, it’s a superb Tetris clone. Let’s hope it doesn’t get sued out of existence.
Best Android games for Verizon Motorola Droid 2
Best Android games for Verizon Motorola Droid 2
Let’s be honest – finding 20 good free games on the Android Market was a bit of a task.
There’s a lot of junk out there, but fortunately, there are gems within the junk.
We’ve worked our way through a whole load of Android games to reveal the ones you should download to your phone.
If we’ve missed your favourite free Android game, let us know in the comments.
1. Bebbled
Your standard gem-shuffling thing, only presented in a professional style you wouldn’t be surprised to see running on something featuring a Nintendo badge with an asking price of £19.99.
You only drop gems on other gems to nuke larger groups of the same colour, but with ever-tightening demands for score combos and scenes that require you to rotate your phone to flip the play field on its head, Bebbled soon morphs into an incredibly complex challenge.
2. The Red Stone
There’s an awful lot of square-shuffling games on Android and Red Stone is one of the best. And one of the hardest. You start off with a big fat ‘King’ square that’s four times of the normal ‘pawn’ squares, then set about shuffling things so the fat King can get through to an exit at the top of the screen.
It’s hard to accurately describe a puzzle game in the written word, but seriously, it’s a good game.
3. Newton
Released a few months back in beta form, Newton is a maths/physics challenge that has you lining up shots at a target – but having to contend with the laws of nature, in the form of pushers, pullers, benders (no laughing), mirrors and traps, all deflecting your shot from its target.
The developer is still adding levels to it at the moment, so one day Newton might be finished and might cost money. But for now it’s free and a great indie creation.
4. Sketch Online
Surprisingly free of crude representations of the male genitalia, Sketch Online is a sociable guessing game where users do little drawings then battle to correctly guess what’s being drawn first. It’s like Mavis Beacon for the Bebo generation. The version labelled “Beta” is free, and if you like it there’s the option to pay for an ad-free copy. But Google can’t make you. Yet.
5. Drop
Some might call Drop a game, others might classify it as a tech demo that illustrates the accuracy of the Android platform’s accelerometer, thanks to how playing it simply involves tilting your phone while making a little bouncy ball falls between gaps in the platforms. Either way it’ll amuse you for a while and inform you of the accuracy of your accelerometer – a win-win situation.
6. Frozen Bubble
Another key theme of the independent Android gaming scene is (ports of) clones of popular titles. Like Frozen Bubble, which is based around the ancient and many-times-copied concept of firing gems up a screen to make little groups of similarly coloured clusters. That’s what you do. You’ve probably done it a million times before, so if it’s your thing get this downloaded.
7. Replica Island
An extremely polished platform game that pulls off the shock result of being very playable on an Android trackball. The heavy momentum of the character means you’re only switching direction with the ball or d-pad, letting you whizz about the levels with ease. Then there’s jumping, bottom-bouncing, collecting and all the other usual platform formalities.
8. Gem Miner
You are a sort of mole character that likes to dig things out of the ground. But that’s not important. The game itself has you micro-managing the raw materials you find, upgrading your digging powers and buying bigger and better tools and maps. Looks great, plays well on Android’s limited button array. Go on, suck the very life out of the planet.
9. ConnecToo
Another coloured-square-based puzzle game, only this has you joining them up. Link red to red, then blue to blue – then see if you’ve left a pathway through to link yellow to yellow. You probably haven’t, so delete it all and try again.
A brilliantly simple concept. ConnecToo used to be a paid-for game, but was recently switched to an ad-supported model – meaning it now costs you £0.00.
10. Titres
Once you’re successfully rewired your brain’s 25 years of playing Tetris in a certain way with certain buttons and got used to tapping the screen to rotate your blocks, it’s… Tetris.
It hinges on how much you enjoy placing things with your phone’s trackball or pad. If you’re good at it, it’s a superb Tetris clone. Let’s hope it doesn’t get sued out of existence.
Best Android games for Motorola Motoroi
Android games for Motorola Motoroi
Let’s be honest – finding 20 good free games on the Android Market was a bit of a task.
There’s a lot of junk out there, but fortunately, there are gems within the junk.
We’ve worked our way through a whole load of Android games to reveal the ones you should download to your phone.
If we’ve missed your favourite free Android game, let us know in the comments.
1. Bebbled
Your standard gem-shuffling thing, only presented in a professional style you wouldn’t be surprised to see running on something featuring a Nintendo badge with an asking price of £19.99.
You only drop gems on other gems to nuke larger groups of the same colour, but with ever-tightening demands for score combos and scenes that require you to rotate your phone to flip the play field on its head, Bebbled soon morphs into an incredibly complex challenge.
2. The Red Stone
There’s an awful lot of square-shuffling games on Android and Red Stone is one of the best. And one of the hardest. You start off with a big fat ‘King’ square that’s four times of the normal ‘pawn’ squares, then set about shuffling things so the fat King can get through to an exit at the top of the screen.
It’s hard to accurately describe a puzzle game in the written word, but seriously, it’s a good game.
3. Newton
Released a few months back in beta form, Newton is a maths/physics challenge that has you lining up shots at a target – but having to contend with the laws of nature, in the form of pushers, pullers, benders (no laughing), mirrors and traps, all deflecting your shot from its target.
The developer is still adding levels to it at the moment, so one day Newton might be finished and might cost money. But for now it’s free and a great indie creation.
4. Sketch Online
Surprisingly free of crude representations of the male genitalia, Sketch Online is a sociable guessing game where users do little drawings then battle to correctly guess what’s being drawn first. It’s like Mavis Beacon for the Bebo generation. The version labelled “Beta” is free, and if you like it there’s the option to pay for an ad-free copy. But Google can’t make you. Yet.
5. Drop
Some might call Drop a game, others might classify it as a tech demo that illustrates the accuracy of the Android platform’s accelerometer, thanks to how playing it simply involves tilting your phone while making a little bouncy ball falls between gaps in the platforms. Either way it’ll amuse you for a while and inform you of the accuracy of your accelerometer – a win-win situation.
6. Frozen Bubble
Another key theme of the independent Android gaming scene is (ports of) clones of popular titles. Like Frozen Bubble, which is based around the ancient and many-times-copied concept of firing gems up a screen to make little groups of similarly coloured clusters. That’s what you do. You’ve probably done it a million times before, so if it’s your thing get this downloaded.
7. Replica Island
An extremely polished platform game that pulls off the shock result of being very playable on an Android trackball. The heavy momentum of the character means you’re only switching direction with the ball or d-pad, letting you whizz about the levels with ease. Then there’s jumping, bottom-bouncing, collecting and all the other usual platform formalities.
8. Gem Miner
You are a sort of mole character that likes to dig things out of the ground. But that’s not important. The game itself has you micro-managing the raw materials you find, upgrading your digging powers and buying bigger and better tools and maps. Looks great, plays well on Android’s limited button array. Go on, suck the very life out of the planet.
9. ConnecToo
Another coloured-square-based puzzle game, only this has you joining them up. Link red to red, then blue to blue – then see if you’ve left a pathway through to link yellow to yellow. You probably haven’t, so delete it all and try again.
A brilliantly simple concept. ConnecToo used to be a paid-for game, but was recently switched to an ad-supported model – meaning it now costs you £0.00.
10. Titres
Once you’re successfully rewired your brain’s 25 years of playing Tetris in a certain way with certain buttons and got used to tapping the screen to rotate your blocks, it’s… Tetris.
It hinges on how much you enjoy placing things with your phone’s trackball or pad. If you’re good at it, it’s a superb Tetris clone. Let’s hope it doesn’t get sued out of existence.
Dell Streak (AT&T) Android games
Dell Streak (AT&T) Android games
Let’s be honest – finding 20 good free games on the Android Market was a bit of a task.
There’s a lot of junk out there, but fortunately, there are gems within the junk.
We’ve worked our way through a whole load of Android games to reveal the ones you should download to your phone.
If we’ve missed your favourite free Android game, let us know in the comments.
1. Bebbled
Your standard gem-shuffling thing, only presented in a professional style you wouldn’t be surprised to see running on something featuring a Nintendo badge with an asking price of £19.99.
You only drop gems on other gems to nuke larger groups of the same colour, but with ever-tightening demands for score combos and scenes that require you to rotate your phone to flip the play field on its head, Bebbled soon morphs into an incredibly complex challenge.
2. The Red Stone
There’s an awful lot of square-shuffling games on Android and Red Stone is one of the best. And one of the hardest. You start off with a big fat ‘King’ square that’s four times of the normal ‘pawn’ squares, then set about shuffling things so the fat King can get through to an exit at the top of the screen.
It’s hard to accurately describe a puzzle game in the written word, but seriously, it’s a good game.
3. Newton
Released a few months back in beta form, Newton is a maths/physics challenge that has you lining up shots at a target – but having to contend with the laws of nature, in the form of pushers, pullers, benders (no laughing), mirrors and traps, all deflecting your shot from its target.
The developer is still adding levels to it at the moment, so one day Newton might be finished and might cost money. But for now it’s free and a great indie creation.
4. Sketch Online
Surprisingly free of crude representations of the male genitalia, Sketch Online is a sociable guessing game where users do little drawings then battle to correctly guess what’s being drawn first. It’s like Mavis Beacon for the Bebo generation. The version labelled “Beta” is free, and if you like it there’s the option to pay for an ad-free copy. But Google can’t make you. Yet.
5. Drop
Some might call Drop a game, others might classify it as a tech demo that illustrates the accuracy of the Android platform’s accelerometer, thanks to how playing it simply involves tilting your phone while making a little bouncy ball falls between gaps in the platforms. Either way it’ll amuse you for a while and inform you of the accuracy of your accelerometer – a win-win situation.
6. Frozen Bubble
Another key theme of the independent Android gaming scene is (ports of) clones of popular titles. Like Frozen Bubble, which is based around the ancient and many-times-copied concept of firing gems up a screen to make little groups of similarly coloured clusters. That’s what you do. You’ve probably done it a million times before, so if it’s your thing get this downloaded.
7. Replica Island
An extremely polished platform game that pulls off the shock result of being very playable on an Android trackball. The heavy momentum of the character means you’re only switching direction with the ball or d-pad, letting you whizz about the levels with ease. Then there’s jumping, bottom-bouncing, collecting and all the other usual platform formalities.
8. Gem Miner
You are a sort of mole character that likes to dig things out of the ground. But that’s not important. The game itself has you micro-managing the raw materials you find, upgrading your digging powers and buying bigger and better tools and maps. Looks great, plays well on Android’s limited button array. Go on, suck the very life out of the planet.
9. ConnecToo
Another coloured-square-based puzzle game, only this has you joining them up. Link red to red, then blue to blue – then see if you’ve left a pathway through to link yellow to yellow. You probably haven’t, so delete it all and try again.
A brilliantly simple concept. ConnecToo used to be a paid-for game, but was recently switched to an ad-supported model – meaning it now costs you £0.00.
10. Titres
Once you’re successfully rewired your brain’s 25 years of playing Tetris in a certain way with certain buttons and got used to tapping the screen to rotate your blocks, it’s… Tetris.
It hinges on how much you enjoy placing things with your phone’s trackball or pad. If you’re good at it, it’s a superb Tetris clone. Let’s hope it doesn’t get sued out of existence.
