Top 8 Android Apps for Education Alright, time to put down the Angry Birds and put your Android to better use. Whether you're currently in school or just seeking a little self-improvement, a plethora of Android apps are just waiting to enhance your knowledge base, expand your skill sets, improve your memory and more. We've picked a few of the top applications in a number of categories, including math, music, geography, astronomy. Take a look at these apps, and in the comments, let us know which ones you already use to keep your most powerful organ in top shape. (And to all you teens trying to convince your parents that buying you an Android smartphone is a good idea, you're welcome.) Interested in more Android resources?
Apps - Android Market The founder and CEO of Onnit, the mega lifestyle brand and one of the fastest growing companies in the country, teaches us how one single day of positive choices leads to a lifetime of concrete strategies for better living, optimal performance, and a stronger mind, body, and spirit. Human optimization thought leader Aubrey Marcus’s personal and professional mission rests on a single question: How can we get the most out of our body and mind on a daily basis? Marcus answers that question in Own the Day, Own Your Life an empowering handbook that guides readers to optimize every moment of the day, from waking in the morning, through work and play, until bedtime each night. With small, actionable changes implemented throughout the course of one day, we can feel better, perform more efficiently, and live happier. From workouts and diet to inbox triage, mindfulness, shower temperature, and sex, this ground-breaking manual provides simple strategies for each element of your day.
Dolphin Mobile Browser Gets Voice-Control Feature for Android Dolphin Browser for mobile devices received a voice-control feature on Wednesday for Android users, allowing them to search the Web with just their voices. The new feature — called Dolphin Sonar — allows you to open new tabs by speaking to the browser, and it can even search within sites. For example, saying "Facebook Justin Bieber" will display his Facebook profile. The speech recognition feature is available for free in the Android Market via the Dolphin for Android version 7.4 update. To activate the feature, tap the microphone icon at the bottom of the screen or shake the device, and start talking. “Our gesture-based browsing function was a game-changer in terms of the way people browse on their mobile devices, and Sonar is the logical next step,” said Yongzhi Yang, CEO of MoboTap, the makers of the Dolphin Browser. SEE ALSO: Dolphin Launches Gesture-Based Browser for the iPad Dolphin Sonar is not yet available for iOS devices. Have you tried the Dolphin browser?
FreeTethering - Android Market Tether your Android phone to your PC over USB WITHOUT rooting! Klink only needs a data plan and works without a tethering option. NOTE: Please try the free demo version ("Klink Demo" on the market) to test compatibility before buying. - Does NOT require rooting - One-time purchase fee -- upgrades are free via the Market. - Uses USB for longer battery life and greater speed - Supports Windows (XP/Vista/7/32-bit/64-bit), Mac OS X 10.5 (or later), and Ubuntu/Linux (32-bit and 64-bit) - Written in C (NOT Java) for efficiency, speed, and lower power consumption. * Handles hundreds of simultaneous connections. - Can transparently rewrite "User-Agent" headers so that your PC browser will look like a mobile device when browsing web pages. - Designed so that network traffic effectively originates from the phone. After installing and running Klink, please tap "Set up your Computer" and follow the instructions. Keep in mind that Klink's consumption of data depends on usage.
Skitch for Android Update: Maps, Save to SD Card and More Posted by Andrew Sinkov on 29 Feb 2012 Comment We have a great Skitch for Android update for you today (1.4). The latest version adds the ability to annotate a map, save sketches to your SD card and more. Get Skitch for Android now Maps in Skitch Skitch is great for eliminating ambiguity: draw attention to a person in a photo or point out where that new sofa should go. Using the map feature is a two-step process. It’s the ideal way to highlight a great camping spot or illustrate a walking path. Save to the SD card This is one of our most requested features. Move your text We also made it easier to add and move text. And more… Besides these new features, we’ve we’ve also fixed a bunch of bugs and improved the app’s stability. Upgrade for features to help you live and work smarter. Go Premium
Droid Den » Android Guide: How To Force Apps to the SD Card Without Rooting! With the Froyo 2.2 release of android, we also gained the ability to install some* apps to the sd card. This is something that many people wanted to enable us to install more apps and more games than previously possible. However one of the poor features of froyo a2sd is the fact that we can only move those apps to the sd card that the app developer has allowed us to, something many forget to code when releasing their app. There is also the fact that we have to manually click to move apps to the sdcard, when for most of us this is the required default behaviour. Well, there is actually a way to force your android phone running 2.2 or above to install all apps to your sd card by default, regardless of whether the developer has allowed you to do it or not. Instructions Download the Android SDK from here. There was actually a reason behind google not installing all apps to the sdcard by default. Any issues please leave a comment, good luck!
How I would change the Galaxy Note PhoneDog Media ExclusiveDownload iM5, now available in the App Store and Google Play. iM5 is a PhoneDog Media backed Social Platform to inspire real-life action through the crowdsourcing of ideas. See the video I've been talking a lot about the Galaxy Note lately. So far, I absolutely love the Galaxy Note. Here are the things I would change about the Note if I could: Larger display with on-screen buttons It's funny, really. The Galaxy Note obviously doesn't come with Ice Cream Sandwich out of the box. It's not that the buttons are bad. Button and port placement I hate to keep referencing the Galaxy Nexus, but with the Nexus, the button and port placement was perfect. Of course, unlike Nokia's Lumia devices, the button placement on the Note is very similar to the button layout on the Nexus. Also, I have always preferred the audio jack to be on the bottom of a phone rather than the top. The ability to make the display dimmer I'm not complaining about how bright the display can get, though.
Forcing Apps to install to the SD card without root One of the biggest complaints levelled at the HTC Explorer is the severe lack of internal memory. There are ways around this, one of which is forcing downloaded apps to install to the SD Card. There are a couple of pre-requisites, but the process itself is relatively straight forward. You'll need HTC Sync installed (or at least the drivers that come with HTC Sync) and ADB (Android Debug Bridge) or the Android SDK. The SDK itself is a >100MB download and can be relatively difficult to install, however if you head here, look under the section entitled Mini SDK, click show, you can download a zip file called SDK-Tools.zip. You'll also need to enable USB Debugging on your phone. that's easily enough done by heading to Settings -> Applications -> Development -> USB Debugging. Once you've done all the above, the process is as follows: 1. You can now move apps that are already on the handset to the SD Card. It's worth mentioning that apps with active widgets cannot be moved.