Crash's Android Stuff: August 2011

My Measures & Dimensions Lite - Android Market

My Measures & Dimensions Lite - Android Market: "My Measures is a powerful application for storing and sharing object dimensions.
A must have tool for all real estate agents, engineers, carpenters, architects, auction sellers, construction workers...
All you have to do is take a photo of an object you wish to store dimensions of. Then you add dimensions: arrows, angels and text. Now your measures are stored and you can see and share them anytime anywhere."

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Epson iPrint application now available for Android | Android Central

Epson iPrint application now available for Android | Android Central: "Have an Epson wireless printer and want to be able to print from your Android device using it? You're in luck. The Epson iPrint application has a lot of the features you may be looking for an is now available for download."

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Onavo Tracks Which of Your Android Apps Use the Most Data

Onavo Tracks Which of Your Android Apps Use the Most Data: "Onavo keeps you from going over your data cap by telling you how much data you use, which apps are hogging it, and offering tips and tools for keeping those apps in check."

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Tetris Free hits Android Market today | Android Community

Tetris Free hits Android Market today | Android Community: "Tetris Free is now on the Android Market for you to download. The app was updated August 24 and is being offered at no cost exclusively on Android devices. The game is a new and improved version of the original Tetris with the music we all know and it includes the Marathon Mode as well."

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Android Parental Control Contains Kid Access to Your Smartphone

Android Parental Control Contains Kid Access to Your Smartphone: "Android Parental Control helps users lockdown their phones so kids can only use apps that you have approved; an admin password is required to access any restricted app. Additionally, the app can be set to launch as soon as the phone boots so clever kids can't get around the restrictions by rebooting the phone.
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FEMA's Android app is full of emergency preparedness goodness | Android Central

FEMA's Android app is full of emergency preparedness goodness | Android Central: "Just in time for Hurricane Irene to work its way up the East Coast, the Federal Emergency Management Agency -- you know 'em as FEMA -- has released an android app full of useful tips, checklists, contact numbers and the latest news for before, during and after a disaster. We're not just talking hurricanes here. We're talking all disasters, like earthquakes and floods and Verizon not getting a Galaxy S II."

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The Best Calendar App for Android

I really like this app, I got it the day it was free on Amazon. Good stuff. -crAsh

The Best Calendar App for Android: "Android has a ton of really, really great calendar apps. Business Calendar's ease of use, however, blows the pants off every other app, so it's what we recommend to most users."

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Evernote releases Skitch app for Android

Evernote releases Skitch app for Android: Skitch, an application from Evernote used to annotate, edit and save your photos & scribbles, is now available for Android.

Five Best Phone Recovery Tools

FastCustomer Skips Waiting on Hold, Connects You to a Real Person in One Tap

FastCustomer Skips Waiting on Hold, Connects You to a Real Person in One Tap: If you're tired of waiting forever on the phone with customer service, free app FastCustomer helps you skip the wait on hold and only rings your phone when an actual human being is on the line.

Pinch to Get an Overview of All Your Android Home Screens

Shovel Heroes Now Available in the Android Market

Shovel Heroes Now Available in the Android Market: Shovel Heroes is now available in the Android Market and it comes to you courtesy of Progrestar. The story is simple, you’re stuck on a desert island and thankfully, the gods have sent down a golden shovel for you to use on your island discovery. If manual labor doesn’t sound like how you would want to spend your free time, there’s a little more to it than that. Gameplay involves you exploring your island, digging up items that you can use to gain new “powers” to upgrade your boat, travel to new islands and help you on journey. You will inevitably do battle wild animals and pirates and must solve minigames and puzzles to forge ahead.

ThinkFlood launches the first Android universal remote system | Android Community

ThinkFlood launches the first Android universal remote system | Android Community: There are hoards of universal remote control hardware and software systems on the market for iOS, but there aren’t many for the Android user. If you are an Android user that wants a universal remote for your smartphone ThinkFlood has announced what it claims to be the first universal remote system for Android smartphones.

Bing's Android app redesigned

Bing's Android app redesigned, brings a bit of the Metro with it | Android Central: The standalone Bing app just got itself an update and is more beautiful than ever. The menus have been redone, bringing a bit of the Windows Phone 7 "Metro" user interface. All of the services remain -- they just look better.

Doctor Who game

Doctor Who brings the Tardis over to Android | Android Central: It doesn't matter which side of the pond you're from, fans of The Doctor are everywhere. The BBC have now traveled through space and time to bring their iOS game, The Mazes Of Time to Android.

Enable Google Maps' Awesome "Bubble Buttons" Lab for Quicker Calling and Navigation

The Best Image-to-Text App for Android

Simple To-Do List Widget: Moogly

Simple To-Do List Widget: Moogly: "It must be very difficult to create a no frills to-do list widget, because not many people have done it. I’ve tried a few here and there but they all seem to have a few issues that seem so simple to fix. Well, xda member ftgg99 has apparently had enough with that shenanigans. His simple app called Moogly seems to be perfect. All the needs checked, and no random issues that seem to plague so many other of these apps. There is a free lite version in the Market, and a full paid one. The original app thread can be found here."

Unlock With Wi-Fi Saves You From Typing Your Phone's Password When You're at Home

Unlock With Wi-Fi Saves You From Typing Your Phone's Password When You're at Home: "If you're sick of typing your PIN, password, or unlock pattern on your phone, Unlock With Wi-Fi will disable it whenever you're connected to your home Wi-Fi network."

The Idiot Box Home Screen

This is a very cool effect. Click the link and check it out.

Facebook Announces Standalone Messenger App | Android Community

Want push notifications on Facebook for Android? Grab a BlackBerry | Android Central

Hearing Saver Automatically Resets Your Volume on Android When You Plug or Unplug Your Headphones

Hearing Saver Automatically Resets Your Volume on Android When You Plug or Unplug Your Headphones: "Android: Hearing Saver is a handy utility that eliminates the hassle of having to adjust the volume on your Android phone every time you plug in or unplug your headphones. The free app can also automatically mute notification sounds and the ringer for you."

Lifehacker Pack for Android: Our List of the Best Android Apps

Plan B Locates Your Lost or Stolen Android Phone, Even If You Didn't Install It Beforehand

DeskSMS Is the Best Phone-to-Desktop SMS Solution We've Seen Yet

DeskSMS Is the Best Phone-to-Desktop SMS Solution We've Seen Yet: "Android: If you don't want to use Google Voice to manage your SMS messages on the desktop, DeskSMS will let you manage them from Gmail, GTalk, a speedy web interface, and even a Chrome extension—no number porting required."

Skype - The Big Blog - Skype 2.1 for Android enables video on majority of Android devices

Yes, this includes Samsung Galaxy S series. Too bad the S doesn't have a front-facing phone - need a mirror!

BrowsingBench measures the browsing experience of smartphones and other connected devices

BrowsingBench measures the browsing experience of smartphones and other connected devices: "The Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium (EEMBC) announced that it has launched an industry-accepted method of evaluating web-browsing performance on portable connected devices. The EEMBC benchmark is called BrowsingBench, and it benefits processor vendors, operating system and browser developers, and system developers by providing an industry-standard and unbiased tool that determines the effectiveness of their hardware and software products in processing and displaying Web pages.

BrowsingBench measures from the click/touch on a URL to the final-page rendered on the screen which no other browsing benchmark does."

PC Monitor Controls and Monitors Your Windows PC from Your Phone or Tablet

PC Monitor Controls and Monitors Your Windows PC from Your Phone or Tablet: "Android, iPhone, and Windows Phone 7: PC Monitor is a free app for pretty much any mobile device that gives you a ridiculous amount of control over your Windows or Linux computer. All you need to do is install some simple server software and the app on your phone to get up and running in minutes.
This app can monitor and control everything."

Android Quick App: Bubbleator | Android Central

Android Quick App: Bubbleator | Android Central: "Here's a neat little live wallpaper we got turned onto by Mozilla's Matt Brubeck. Bubbleator is a live wallpaper that 'brings the things you care about to your home screen.' And, sure enough, it does just that, scrolling info from your calendar, missed calls, text messages, Facebook and Twitter."

IntoNow is like GetGlue with a heavy dose of Shazam [Hands On Video]

I'm impressed.

IntoNow is like GetGlue with a heavy dose of Shazam [Hands On Video]: "Yahoo just released IntoNow, which is another TV and Movie social sharing service, but with a nice twist. When you are watching a show or movie, you can hold your phone up, and within a few seconds it will tell you the name of show with season and episode information so you can share exactly what you are watching on Facebook or Twitter. It even gives you the link to IMDB so you can get more information. This is reason enough to download the free app just to see it work its magic. I tested it on 4 different shows/movies in our hands on video and you can see how impressive it really is. It is as efficient as Shazam is with music."

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