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It is a common thing these days to have more passwords than you can possibly remember. Many sites require you to use a password of at least 6 characters using numbers, capital and lowercase letters and in some instances symbols. That’s a lot of randomness to keep track of.
When working from your mobile device complex passwords are even harder to deal with. However, there are many tools and apps out there to help. [Read more...]
Most devices these days can utilize the GPS for more than navigation. Because of this, Location Based Service Applications are popping up all over the place on all platforms including the Android mobile OS.
One of the most popular is FourSquare. The main idea of many location based Android applications is to check-in at a location. With FourSquare, you get badges after you check-in so many times or at so many different locations.
Other location based Android applications offer a more specific use. Below are 5 location based Android applications for you to try. [Read more...]
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With sooo many apps available for Android devices, it is easy to overload your phone with more apps than you could possibly use. To solve this issue (among others), you will need to uninstall the applications.
I know what you are thinking, uninstalling all of them will be a huge pain to uninstall them through the Manage applications tab in the settings. Thankfully there are several applications out there to batch uninstall applications. Below is one of the more popular app uninstallers I picked out to show you.
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One of the most useful apps for the Android devices is the bar code scanner. It opens up a wide variety of options other that other devices can’t match.
Below are a few ways to use the bar code scanner, not all of them are what you may expect them to be.
The most obvious is to find better deals on items. When using the preloaded bar code scanner on your device, simply scan the item. When the device recognizes the item, you can select Search the web.
Depending on the item you scanned, you are taken to a Google search for the product. If you have an add-on app installed, such as Google Shopper, you will see other options.
Other applications use a bar code scanner to help you search in different ways. Most of them allow you to not only scan the bar code, but also let you take a picture of the front of select items. Right now most are limited to things like the covers of DVDs, books and video games.
QR codes are a considered a 2D or 2 dimensional bar code. Because of the additional dimension, these bar codes can contain much more information.
Some marketers are using QR codes such thing as:
Another common use for QR codes is installing an application. Sites like Appbrain let you display the QR code for an application right on your computer screen. When scanned, you are taken to the download page in the Android market.
In my opinion, the bar code scanner is one of the most useful, yet under discussed application on the Android devices.
How do you use your bar code scanner? Do you have a favorite add-on app?
The Market is not the only place you can find applications for your Android device. There are sites who have downloads to a specific genre of apps. Others like Appbrain are aggregation sites. They pull apps from all over the web, not just the Android Market.
The neat part about Android app sites, is you usually have several ways to download the app. For simplicity, I will use Appbrain as an example.
You can get the Appbrain app in the Android market. From the application, you can search for and download any application known to the site.You are also given several ways to filter your search results.
Most of the applications you will find on Appbrain will have a QR code you can scan. If you are unfamiliar with what a QR code is, here is an example.
All you need to scan these QR codes, is a free bar code scanner. If you go the the Android market and search for bar code scanner, you will have several options to choose from.
Leave a comment with your favorite site to get applications from.
WordPress for Android was updated to version 1.3.4 which not only runs better, but also has a new comment notifying feature.
According to the WordPress for Android blog, here are a list of the updates and bug fixes in WordPress for Android 1.3.4:
Read the full post in the WordPress for Android Blog
For those of you who use Evernote, there was recently an update to the Evernote Android app. If you are unfamiliar with Evernote, it is an information catch-all.
If you are one of the many people out there who have more going on than they can remember, this might be your answer.