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Article | 25/05/2011 PAW Server for Android

PAW Server turns your Android device into a password-protected Web server. It's a neat and useful little app that can transform your phone into a stre...

Article | 9/05/2011 Stop Android malware with AVG anti-virus free

Android phones are extremely practical devices, properly wielded: You can use them to cut the time required to do many tasks, such as checking and res...

Article | 21/01/2011 Back up your Android phone with MyBackup Pro

As Android phones become more powerful and more useful, they also store more of your important personal data. Losing that data can be more than a mino...

Article | 17/01/2011 Explore the Moon With Moon Maps

Have you ever wanted to explore the moon? With the free Moon Maps Android app, you can. You can choose between imagery from the Clementine Mosaic or t...

Article | 9/01/2011 Google Books: A library on your Android phone

E-book readers, such as the Kindle and Nook, have become popular thanks to the convenience of carrying an entire library's worth of books on one devic...

Article | 17/12/2010 Mustard

The Mustard app for Android is a bare-bones microbloging client for posting and reading status updates on Twitter and on Twitter-like, open-source Sta...

Article | 16/12/2010 Twitter app for Android

The official Twitter app for Android provides a simple, no-frills way to tweet and view your home feed from your phone. To begin, you log in or create...

Article | 12/10/2010 Skype for Android

With more than 500 million user accounts worldwide, Skype is one of the most popular free VoIP services around. Skype is probably most famous for its ...

Article | 22/09/2010 First Look: Google's Gmail app for Froyo

Most Android users should be familiar with the stock Gmail app that comes loaded on every Android phone. Now there's an update for Android 2.2 (Froyo)...

Article | 21/09/2010 Google Maps

When I say that Google Maps for Android is one of the most useful programs ever offered on any platform, you might think I'm exaggerating. But I'm com...

Article | 14/09/2010 AndroZip File Manager

One of the most glaring deficiencies of the Android OS is its lack of an integrated file manager. The free AndroZip comes to the rescue, providing a f...

Article | 30/06/2010 Install the latest Firefox 3.6.6 in Ubuntu Linux

Firefox 3.6.6 with crash protection is now available, and according to Mozilla it "provides uninterrupted browsing for Windows and Linux users when th...

Article | 28/05/2010 10 geeky T-shirts

We've selected some of the geekiest T-shirts ever spotted in the wild. Just being seen wearing one of these classics can elevate you to the heady heig...

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