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Android app spotlight: Skip Soft Root Toolkit for Google Nexus 7 and Samsung Galaxy S3

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Got a Nexus 7 or a Samsung Galaxy S3? Read about all the advantages of rooting your device, but feel overwhelmed with all the information out there, and you’re scared you might brick your device?  XDA Developers member Mark Skippen has you covered with his toolkits for both the Nexus 7 and Samsung Galaxy S3

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Android app spotlight: AdAway – block those annoying advertisements

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I’ll admit I’m an advertiser’s nightmare.  In all the years I’ve been on the Internet, I’ve probably clicked through on a handful of ads displayed.  I can watch the coolest ads on TV and at the end still not know what product brand they’re actually advertising, even after multiple viewings.  So why would I want

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Samsung Galaxy S3 Multi Window review

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While most stock Android ROMs include features that can only be considered bloatware, once and a while a manufacturer comes up with an innovative and useful feature that they include into their OEM products. Samsung released their Multi Window on the Note 2, and the Multi Window utility is included with the release of their

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MightyText for Android – Text from your phone with your browser

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Lets face it, your Android phone’s fine for texting once in a while, but the small screen and even the best virtual keyboards aren’t the ideal for long and frequent message exchanges.  MightyText  is an app that installs on your phone, and as long as your phone is connected to the internet and you’ve got

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GoPro releases Android app (finally)

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GoPro might have been a bit premature in announcing that they would be releasing iOS and Android clients for their Wifi Bacpac back at the end of last year. After many months  they finally released the iOS version recently but the Android app was still MIA.  Well good news for those Android fanbois out there it’s finally available

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How to: Google Play Store Greasemonkey script – scroll your installed apps and filter your free/paid apps

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While the Google Play Store is evolving slowly, one of the biggest pains is the way that it displays all the apps installed on a device in a set of pages. If you have a look above, I’ve got eleven pages of apps installed on my Thinkpad Tablet. Reviewing my apps means clicking on the

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Google Play Store Celebrating 25 Billion Downloads

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To celebrate 25 billion downloads, the Google Play Store is having a sale for the next 5 days: “Every day you’ll be able to choose from a collection of apps from some of the world’s top developers including Gameloft, Electronic Arts, Rovio, runtastic, Full Fat and more. And all for just 25 cents. “We’ll also be offering

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Let Your Smartphone Help Plan Your Leaf Peeping

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Are you a leaf peeper?  Do you plan vacations and weekend trips with the sole purpose of gawking at the colorful fall foliage?  If you do, the Leaf Peeper app from Yankee Magazine can help you find the best fall displays.  The app lets you make foliage reports, called Peeps, about the conditions in your

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My Android Apps Makes App Management Easier

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New to the Google Play Store, My Android Apps makes app management on your Android devices so much easier.  As you can see above, you can now manage each device’s apps separately including the ability to update and uninstall  apps all via your web browser.  Not only that, if you lose your device and have to replace it,

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How to: Mobile Blogging With my Android Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet

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At the moment I’m not a big blogger, well truthfully if you don’t include my Gadgeteer posts I’m not a blogger at all. I’d never used WordPress before until I joined the writers on the Gadgeteer and hadn’t even looked at any other blogging sites. To me blogs are kind of moot unless you’ve actually

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How to: ES File Explorer for Android – Cloud Management Heaven

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One of the best file managers on Android is ES File Explorer. Most people probably only use it to handle local files and maybe LAN shares, but if used properly, ES File Explorer handles so much more than that.  With the proliferation of cloud-based storage such as Sugarsync, Dropbox, your 50GB Box account,  and sync-enabled

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Free App of the Day: RepairPal

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Ok, apparently everyone thinks this app is the bomb.  HuffPo likes it, New York Times and Edmunds.com both like it.  It’s available for iPhone and other Smartphone users and it’s free.  And if it’s free…it’s me. Whether it’s an auto emergency, a roadside breakdown, or just a small problem, RepairPal can help. The award-winning RepairPal

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