Description:

Have you ever been in the kitchen and wondered what you should make for dinner?  This is a common occurrence as most people like to learn new things, they just don’t know where to look to find out how.  The best way to figure out best thing to cook in the kitchen is through the new Recipe Finder Android app which is available on the android marketplace.  This app is new and does a great job at giving you some excellent recipes to try out on your loved ones and for yourself.  When we talk recipes, this app does not just give you the instructions to help you make mac and cheese, but we are talking amazing meals that are found on website such as emeril, thefoodnetwork, and so on.  These meals are meant to taste delicious, and the app helps to get you to those recipes and how to do it yourself pages.

The app is easy to use as it allows you to pick from a list of categories as to what web site you would like to find recipes on.  Once you pick a category, the app takes you to a place where it lists all of the recipes. Simply selecting the recipe of choice will take you to a screen which shows you the URL of the recipe so that you can visit in on your computer, or you can just visit it right on your phone’s web browser.  The app then takes you to the site that is offering the recipe so you can view any videos or any other special instructions right on the page.

Features:

• The app is very simple  to use and has been cleaned up and polished to look and run great.
• The app does require the free download of the adobe air app which is FREE on the android marketplace
• The app does take a bit to load the lists, but the lists have fantastic recipes which do not disappoint.
• If you are looking for recipes to make a difference at the dinner table, this is the way to do it as this app is easy to use and give you very valuable information, all from your phone.
• If you haven’t downloaded this app already, what are you waiting for!?

Conclusion:

This app is FREE on the android marketplace and is a great way to get the recipes you need.  It has been given a 5 out of 5 star rating.

Description:

Angry birds has been at the top of the iphone game list for months now as the top game sold and played by iphone users.  Well now the game has come to the popular Android format and is just as fun as it looks exactly the same.  What makes Angry Birds so addicting is the lovable cartoon characters and the actual gameplay.  The whole premise of the game is that you are some angry birds that covet the eggs that you lay, and if anything touches them, you will KILL THEM!  Well in this magical world of angry birds, there are some green pigs that have stolen your eggs to make some breakfast and cook em up.  This enrages you as you and your bird crew are on a blood lust to get your eggs back, and there is nothing that will stop you.

The little green pigs have set up some big fortresses that you and your little bird friends will destroy to get to your eggs.  This part of the game is amazing as the physics engine is amazing and realistic.  As you send your birds head first into large setups, pieces fall of and the right hit can send the whole fortress collapsing which will end up killing all the pigs.  The goal of the game is to destroy all the pigs in the fortress while also causing the most amount of damage possible.  Once you kill all of the pigs, you can then pogress to the next level, but the game is so addicting that there are over 180 levels to get through.

Features:

• The game has over 180 levels of fun filled action to keep you slamming your angry birds into all kinds of shenanigans.
• There are leaderboards so you can compare your scores with your friends and family and see how you stack up to the competition.
• You can post your scores to twitter and facebook so you can talk with your friends on how you do with certain levels.
• Each level requires logic, skill, and brute force to crush the enemy which will keep you coming back time and time again.
• The game is extremely clean looking at the cartoon characters are awesome looking.  Smooth graphics and smooth gameplay make it feel exactly like the ipod version as there is literally no difference.

Conclusion:

This games is FREE for the Android and has been given a perfect 5 out of 5 stars.

Description:

3d accelerometer games are the new wave for the Android phone because of how awesome they look and the wow factor that they bring to the table.  There is a new game that fits this guideline out for the android platform called Tank Recon 3d for the android phones.  This game allows you to drive around a tank in a 3d world which allows you to fire at planes, AT guns, and much more.  This app has a real time 3d graphics engine which runs smoothly on Android 2.0 and higher.  There is a story mode with 4 different missions to complete, an instant action mode so you can start shooting it up, and a survival mode.  There are also three different difficulty settings to keep you challenged as normal, hard, and mental options are available.  If you get a super high score you can also send that score to the leader boards to show it off to your friends.

Features:

• This is a great first person multi touch 3d game with great graphics and smooth game controls.
• The game has a virtual d pad so you can move around with ease as well as having a fire button with missiles that you can shoot
• The story mode is great as there are 4 missions to complete
• the instant action mode just jumps you right into the middle of  a battle so you can get your shooting fix immediately
• the survival mode is insane as onslaughts of armies come to kill you so the point is to try and survive as long as possible.
• The high scores that can be had in this game are available to be sent to the leader boards so you can show off to your friends and family members as well as set your place amongst some of the best players of this game
• As you incur damage, there is a damage meter at the top of the screen which shows you how much damage you have taken and how much more you can take until you completely die and have to star over
• Red dots represent enemy fire and yellow dots represent bonus items that you can go and pick up to increase your score
• There are several weapons that you can try out and use with your tank to take down the enemies that will pester you.

Conclusion:

The full version is not out but you can download the free trial version and the game has gotten a 5 out of 5 star rating.

Description:

Most smartphones have a camera that allows you to take pictures.  The android phones have been known to have high megapixel cameras built into them to help you take great looking pictures.  Well what about editing these pictures on your phone?  You can’t unless you have the power of an app that will allow you to edit pictures in your gallery.  Well now there is an app, and its free which will help you to edit you pictures by adding camera effects to your photos to give them the look you are wanting. The app is called Vignette for the Android platform and it allows you to mess with your pictures.

There are lots of really neat visual effects that you can add to your camera phone photos.  You can import pictures from your gallery to apply effects to them.  The app allows you a 10X digital zoom into your pictures to be able  to get the look and feel you need.  You can even geotag your location with the photos using this app. The biggest setback to this app is that the pro version is the only version that can handle a 5 megapixel resolution.  This is kind of lame because a lot of the android phones have a 5 megapixel resolution which almost forces you to buy this app to be able to use it with your camera.

Features:

• there are several different camera effects that can be added to your photos which can make them look very different.  The build in filters and effects really makes the photos look like they were taken with a special camera instead of your phone.
• vignette effects which focus attention at the center of the frame
• porta which gives a smooth skin tone for flattering portraits
• velvia gives vivid colors for natural photographs
• liford is a classic black and white filter
• there are also more filters such as toy camera, vintage, color highlight, tinted monochrome, lens effects, cinematic and even customize filters by combining them

There are also some photo frame options such as rounded corners, oval shapes and Polaroid photo borders to help make your pictures pop and stick out to your friends and family.  The app is a lot of fun to take some great pictures with your phone and will have you taking more pictures than ever before.

Conclusion:

This is a very decent app that costs nothing to try out and then costs $2.99 if you want the whole thing.  This app has gotten a perfect 5 out of 5 rating.

Description:

Games for the Android are getting more beautiful and more polished all of the time.  Even the Free games are looking better and better these days.  The case in point is the FREE app called Prism 3d for the android platform.  This is a brand new game that tests your alertness and your reflexes.  The game is run by the accelerometer on the phone and you control a ball that bounces in 3d off of 3d tiles, with amazingly smooth graphics.  This game is free and boasts 25 levels to keep you coming back for more which is great when games interest you that much to come back and play again.  The game also has a creation mode which allows you to create your own levels through a dedicated level editor which includes the infinite mode.

Having played this game myself the game looks great.  The ball is bouncing up and down and you can move the direction of the ball by simply tilting the phone to make the ball bounce on the tiles that you want it too.  Each tile is labeled something different so you have to play the game to really understand what we are talking about when we say that by landing on the tiles something different happens to the ball.

Features:

• This game uses the accelerometer on your phone to create a 3d ball and titles
• The ball bounces straight up at you so you need to tilt the phone to move the ball along and land on the tiles that will help you to progress to the end of the level
• The pro version of the game allows you to use the game editor tool to create you own levels
• the game is very attractive with smooth graphics and colorful tiles and ball animations
• This game will keep you coming back to try and beat all of the levels and keep you coming back to try and beat your old score

Playing this game is simple enough, but the challenge comes in hitting the right tiles and not falling off the edge which causes your progress to end and makes you start over.  If you like challenging games that take some strategy, this is a great one!

Conclusion:

This app costs nothing but does have a pro version which costs $1.49 and this app has gotten a 5 out of 5 star rating by other android phone users.

Description:

In the world of contact information and sharing it, nothing is more frustrating than to try and share information and have it take forever.  The old way of sharing information involved the other person pulling up their contact software on their phone and then typing in all of your information which took forever.  Some phones can now e-mail contact info as a vcard, but there is an even easier way to do this.  The Bump app that exists on the iphone has just been translated and converted to work with the Android platform.  Bump is a great and easy way to hurry and share some contact info.  Note that both parties need the app, but its free and is quick to download.  You simply open up the app, pick the information you want to share, and bump it to the phone you want to share with.  When the two phones bump, the information that you wanted to share gets transmitted to the other phone and vise a versa.  It makes sending contact information easier than ever as you simply do a fist bump with you phone to exchange contact information.

Features:

• this app offers a very quick solution to exchange contact information, pictures and even android apps
• One of the easiest ways to share information between two phones
• one really cool thing is that it works between android and iphones so you can get a contact information from a person using an Iphone device
• the app will not allow you to send music, but you can send pictures and contact info via android or iphone
• The app loads quickly and has a very fast approach to letting you easily select the information you want to bump and then just bump it to the phone that you want to send the information too

If you have contact information that you need to share with others, this is a great free app that will not only help you to share information with other android users, but it also bridges the gap between both the android and the iphone platforms for data sharing.  Get this app today as its free and you have nothing to lose except frustration and the old long times of sending information.  this is a great app with a great design and sleek navigation screens.

Conclusion:

This app is free and has been given a 5 out of 5 user rating by others who have used this app.

Description:

The kindle from amazon has certainly held steadfastly against the onslaught of the iPad.  The kinds offers an easy to read electronic ink screen with fast download times for books as well as a free 3g network.  Well for those of us that own android phones, we can now have access to all of the books that the Kindle has access to with the new Amazon Kindle for Android app.  This app allows you to access over 620,000 kindle books right from your phone including thousands of free.  This is great if you have an android phone but can’t afford a kindle.  The app is also great as you can use your phone to adjust the text size, color mode, or brightness so that you can make the book a little bit easier to read and pick up and open up.

There are several pros to this app as you can have access to all of the kindle books without needing an expensive kindle.  You can also read thousands of books including the New York Best Selling book lists.  Having thousands of free books to read is also a huge plus to the app.  The app also saves and syncs the last page read, bookmarks, notes, and highlights between the actual kindle and android phone if you own both to make life very easy.

With any app, there are a few cons, and the cons that we can see is that the app for the android does not let you search or have dictionary features like the kindle has.  This makes it more difficult to find a part in a book or to search the book for something you remember reading.  The other thing we would like to see is more options for customization like the hand held kindle does.

Overall, this app is great as it allows you to read kindle books, sync with the kinds so you can pick up where you left off on either device, and gives you a way to read fantastic books without the need of an expensive kindle.  The app lets you search books and get a brief description on the books in the amazon store so you can choose to purchase them o not.  Anything you download on the android app will also download on your kindle device.

Conclusion:

This app is FREE and has been given a 4 1/2 out of 5 star rating by other android users.

Description:

So many people complain that there are not enough apps that help an Android phone save battery power.  Well that is simply not true as there are apps out there.  One such app is called Screebl and ti controls power saving features on your phone based on the orientation of the phone.  Never have the screen blank again while using your phone.  the coolest part is that you can actually save power by doing this with the new screebl app for the Android phone.  You can extend the screen timeout dynamically with the position you are holding the phone.  You can save battery power in the long term by using this app that is based on the orientation of your phone.

Although screebl can save you some battery life in the long term, the savings are somewhat not as much as thought as the app is constantly running in the background which takes some juice from the batter.  Its a catch 22.  Screebl for the Android monitors the axis orientation of the phone to determine how long or short the screen timeout should be.  you can leave the default settings active, or you can configure your own settings write from the app.  The notification system allows you to see the status of the battery saving as it has a window shade giving you a visual depiction of what is going on.

Features:

• based on the orientation of your phone, this app will either shorten or lengthen the screen timeout time.  This means if you are using the phone, it will stay lit, if you set teh phone down, it will shorten the time
• the times can be configured so you can adjust it however you would like based on your phone usage preferences
• the app runs in the background and gives you a status update depiction using a notification window screen on the top of the phone

If you are looking for an easy way to keep your screen lit so you can do what you want, this is a great app to get.  The app is simple to use and free for heavens sake, so its a least worth a look.  Saving battery means more talk time and more time to play with apps and so forth.  This is a great way to monitor the battery usage on your phone.

Conclusion:

This app is FREE and has been given a 4 out of 5 star rating.

Description:

With the Twilight fever that has recently hit the world, the world of Vampires have become extremely popular and everyone can’t stop talking about them!  Well now there is a game that can give you your Vampire Fix anytime you need it.  The app is for the Android Phone platform and is called Vampires live.  This is a massive multi player game that you play online.  There are over 2.5 million users that play this game and it is extremely cool if you are into the blood sucking folk.  The game is fun and addictive and is loaded with features.  There are hours of on-going strategic play that can be gained and the multi player against other racing live players is quite fun as well as the ability to invite your friends to play with you on their phones.

The object of the game is to start out as a new vampire learning new abilities, turning animals and people into slaves, attacking other vampire live players, and building your clan by sharing your code and working your way up to being the biggest and baddest vampire in the online community.  The game has advancement levels as it becomes more difficult and even time consuming to continue advancing to use your blood and loyalty points that you gain as you play the game.  You can go to the elders showing your loyalty and they can refill your health, energy, and frenzy from the loyalty points you collect.  Attack other players that play the game to gain more blood and power to become the ultimate vampire playing the game.

Features:

• massive multiplayer game with over 2.5 million players
• start out as an inexperienced vampire and work for total domination
• attack other players to gain blood and power
• gain loyalty points from visiting the elders and turn them into replenished health, energy, and frenzy
• each day you play there is a daily bonus plus your health, energy and frenzy times replenish so you can complete more missions.

This game is very fun for the people that love vampires and love to interact with other on line players and play someone else besides the phone computer.  The ability to rank and level up is really fun to see where you fit in with the rest of the playing world.   Join the ranks of vampires and see who is the ultimate blood sucker!

Conclusion:

this app is free and has gotten a 5 out of 5 star rating.

Description:

The New York times is one of the most read newspapers in the country.  It doesn’t matter what state you live in, the NY Times can be delivered to your home every single day, or you can get one at the local paper dispenser.  This paper is made up of some of the world’s best journalists and usually contains the best stories written in our days.  There is a way to enjoy the NY times right from your Android phone with the NY Times app for the Android phone platform.  This app allows you to enjoy the award winning journalism of the NY times paper free of charge.  This app is specifically designed to utilize the features and navigation of the Android platform to show you unique video display, various sharing tools, and offline reading and font size adjustment for easy reading on your phone.

The ability to read the Times right on your phone is great when you are mobile.  You can watch the nyt videos and share articles and videos easily with your phone and this app as it has never been easier to do in the past.  The app also has a home screen with a 4X1 widget to help you with offline reading and font size adjustment so you can read your stories with ease and make it easy to see what is going on in the world.

Features:

• NY times android app is the official app from the New York Times.
• The glaring feature it has over the iphone version is the ability to watch nyt videos.
• The articles are from an array of different categories, but the phone’s menu button gives you access to all kind of articles with the touch of a button
• You can share articles and videos via e-mail, SMS message, or other apps installed on your phone.
• You can also save content for off line viewing which is also a major plus to the Android Version of the app

This is a great app for all the newsies out there that need their news fix each day.  Get the best stories written right from your phone with this great app from the New York Times paper.  There are some great features that make this app totally worth downloading as it is FREE to begin with!

Conclusion:

This app is FREE and has been given a 4 out of 5 star rating by other users and people who have used the app.