Ten Sweet Apps For 10 Cents Each – Google’s 10 Billion Promo At The Android Market

Posted by Dana Rock on Dec 6, 2011 in Art, Camera, Games, Keyboard, Music, Navigation, News, Special Deals | 0 comments

Got a Dollar?

If you have just one dollar, you can get 10 premium apps from the Android Market with Google’s “10 Billion Promo”. 10 Billion Downloads of Android Apps is a huge milestone for the Android Market, and Google wants to celebrate.

!0 Days, 10 new Apps a Day, 10 Cents Each. This means just $10 = 100 premium paid apps on the Android Market.

Each paid premium app is only 10 cents — that’s right — just a dime!

From the Official Google Blog

To celebrate this milestone, we partnered with some of the Android developers who contributed to this milestone to make a bunch of great Android apps available at an amazing price. Starting today for the next 10 days, we’ll have a new set of awesome apps available each day for only 10 cents each.

Today, we are starting with Asphalt 6 HD, Color & Draw for Kids, Endomondo Sports Tracker Pro, Fieldrunners HD, Great Little War Game, Minecraft, Paper Camera,Sketchbook Mobile, Soundhound Infinity and SwiftKey X.

Already Own Them From Another Market?

Some of these apps have been offered for free either as one day wonders at Amazon or part of the Gold Getjar promo, which means that you may already own these apps in some form or another.

That is great — BUT — I highly recommend purchasing these apps so that you have them coming from the Android Market where security is a priority and the apps come with updates (and in my personal experience, it seems like developers tend to update their Market apps before the Amazon ones – GetJar does not even get updates).

Get Hooked Up w/ Google’s 10 Billion Promo Now!

 

Songbird’s Free Android Media Player App Keeps Rock’n

Posted by Dana Rock on Nov 4, 2011 in Android Apps, LG Optimus V, Music, Reviews | 0 comments

From the archives [originally published in April]:

I don’t know about you, but the cute short black birdie with the DJ headphones makes me smile every time.

I am excited that there is a new Android app, which you can get from Songbird or the Android Marketplace.

Songbird has had a desktop client for a some years now that made listening to music on the internet an easier feat.

It was made to look a bit like Itunes and Firefox – sort of like the kid they would have.

As a result, we have this really cute black bird and a super sweet media player.

Right now, it is simple, sleek, and sexy.

Oh, and its completely free!

I’m excited to see where this app goes in the future. I hope to see more music browser functionality like its desktop version in the future.

That will make Android’s songbird truly stand out among the rest of the media players on the market.

Maybe Songbird’s attempt to make a stellar Linux media player that has since been discontinued laid the foundation for this very promising Android app.

What are you waiting for? Check it out!

 

Description via the Android Market:

The best access to your music collection on your Android device.

Songbird for Android is an elegant music player for your mobile devices. Browsing your music collection is easy, and playback controls are always accessible. The unique ‘now playing’ drawer offers quick access to album art and additional details, including Facebook and Flickr integrations.

Key Features:
* Clean and clear interface with unique ‘now playing’ drawer
* Matching widget with album art
* Lock screen widget
* Flickr photo-stream of artist images
* Podcast support
* Facebook ‘Like’ integration
* Playlist creation and editing
* Set track as ringtone
* Headset support (wired and Bluetooth)
* Bluetooth car audio support
* Audioscrobbler support
* Full-featured search
* Super-simple music browse + playback control
* Localized in 26 languages

Songbird Screenshots

Top 25 First Apps for Your New Motorola Triumph from Virgin Mobile

Posted by Dana Rock on Aug 18, 2011 in Android Apps, Apps Lists, Browser, Camera, Homes & Launchers, Motorola Triumph, Music, Newbie Zone, Office, Reviews, Ringtones & Wallpapers, Security, Social, Tools, Video | 5 comments

New Android Phone, Eh?

The Motorola Triumph is fresh out of the package, battery charged, and linked to your Google Account. You have right around one GB of free space to fill with apps — That is a lot of space if you are coming from another Virgin Mobile Android phone. In fact, it is about six times more space than the Samusng Intercept or the LG Optimus V.

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Have you claimed your 20 GB cloud player at Amazon MP3 yet?

Posted by Dana Rock on Jul 9, 2011 in Amazon Apps, Android Apps, LG Optimus V, Motorola Triumph, Music | 0 comments

Through the end of this year,

Amazon has an amazing music deal for you. They just launched a huge upgrade to their MP3 store bringing “the cloud” to your handheld devices and desktop browsers.

The new “cloud player”

is an extension of Amazon’s file locker service that has existed for many years. Instead of just being able to store files, you can now play any music stored with them.
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Top 3 Free Apps To Get Your Music Rocking on The LG Optimus V

Posted by Dana Rock on Jun 16, 2011 in Android Apps, Apps Lists, LG Optimus V, Music, Newbie Zone | 0 comments

To continue our series of “now what” for our LG Optimus V newbies, lets look at three great apps that all do the job of getting your music to play on your phone. If you are the podcast kind of person, stay tuned for an article on my recommendations for podcatchers in the near future. All apps mentioned in this article will be free, since the last thing I wanted to do after buying my phone was shell out more money, I am going to pretend that you are like me in this case (and you just might be, )

When it comes to music players, people’s tastes vary widely, which means that you should just try them all and then go with whatever feels right. There are many paid players out there too, and I suggest holding off on those until you have given the free ones a chance. Paid does not always mean better — do not learn that the hard way!

There are two ways to get music from your computer to your phone – through the USB cable and through Wireless Sync. The first is super easy – bam, plug it in, press the turn USB mode on button on the phone, and then open ‘My Computer’ and click on the removable drive that should now be there or wait for the autoplay window to pop up asking “What do you want to do with this device you just plugged in?”. Not all computers have autoplay enabled for security reasons — so if that window does not show up, it does not mean that the phone is not connected. Chill…

Here we go with the app list:

1. AmazonMP3 – I know this was in my starter app list, but it has to be in this one too BECAUSE it will play the music that is on your phone and sync your entire library up to 20GB (as long as you purchase just one mp3 album -even the $0.99 ones) as well as playlists, and it just works great. I am so impressed with it as a local music player, a cloud music player, and as a music store (lots of free songs/albums too). Only the music you upload from your computers counts against your 20GB, as anything you buy or get for free from Amazon never counts towards your total. It just kicks ass – that’s all there is to it!

 

 

 

 

2. ISyncr Lite for PC/MAC - I got the pro version of this on one of Amazon’s free paid app days, and I was really impressed how easy it was to set up and use. This app will give you another small program to download on your PC. You then set it up to work how you want and let it and Itunes and your phone go at it. There is a $1 wireless add-on, and the pro version cost $3. I would recommend this as a paid option if you end up hating all others.

3. Winamp – Unlike Doubletwist (which you will note did not make this list), Winamp is free and does a better job of wireless sync to your playlists and music. You have to use the Winamp media player, but if you are used to another player, it can import most everything quite well.