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Introducing: Word Lens (smartphone app for on the fly translation)

WHAT IS THIS WIZARDRY?

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Acer's dual boot netbook w/Android :D

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Android Protector [APP]

Here’s a common scenario, you have no problem letting your friends play around with your phone. But you do have a problem with them getting into your email or your text messages. Normally, once you “unlock” an Android device, you have free reign to use any app from that point on. Android Protector aims to change that.

 Android Protector is great because it allows you to set a password (really just a pin#) for individual applications. This way you can let your friends or family use your phone and not having them stumble on your photo gallery of your nether regions.

Android Protector can be customized in a few different ways as can be seen in the above pictures. If this app catches on, it’ll be interesting to see what sort of different unlock methods are developed for this app.

Android Protector comes in two flavors – The free version is limited to locking down 10 apps, while the $.99 version can lock down an unlimited number.

Market Link

via Android Life

 

 

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Angry Birds Peace Treaty

LOL! If you have't played this game, you're missing out! Available on both Apple's App Store and the Android Market.

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Nexus One will be the first handset to get Gingerbread | Geekword - Technology Blog

Want more evidence of Gingerbread going live this week? Then stay right here as we have got the stuff you are looking for. A tweet from Alvaro Fuentes Vasquez who happens to be an effective member of Open Handset Alliance has strengthen the rumor of Google releasing Gingerbread during the course of this week, possibly on 11th October as rumored earlier.

 

Here’s a translated version of the tweet:

Prepare your Nexus One (Developer version) for Android OTA update 2.3 (Gingerbread) in the next few days:-D

I just wonder if the mention of the Google’s first Android flagship device, Nexus One strengthens the claims of Samsung manufactured Nexus Two launch being delayed owing to hardware failure. Having said that Nexus One owners out there will be extremely happy upon hearing this news.

 

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iPhone vs. Android vs. BlackBerry | C-Section Comics

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The 8pen - reinventing the keyboard for touch enabled devices

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Giant Gingerbread statue arrives at Googleplex

Android users, rejoice!

Nothing is official as of yet, but from what I've read online, Android 2.3 will be known as Gingerbread and Android 3.0 will be known as Honeycomb.

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Measure your heart rate using your Android device.

There's a free app I discovered on the Market called Instant Heart Rate that lets you measure your own heart rate (and it works!)

How to Use:

Download app, run it and place your finger on your phone’s camera lens, softly for around 10 seconds, with the LED Flash light ON, the app successfully measures your current heart rate.

How the app works:

By illuminating your finger with strong LED flash, the camera becomes capable of tracking color changes in the light that passes through your finger. With every heartbeat, your blood gets more oxygen rich, causing the color of your skin to change. The app measures these changes and calculates your heart rate based on them.

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Video from their website @ http://www.instantheartrate.com/

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Control Android from Gtalk, get Notifications

Notifier app for Android delivered all alerts– notifications for calls, SMS, battery status to your PC over Wifi. But what if you wish to do all that plus control your Android Phone, wirelessly?

The new app called TalkMyPhone lets you do all that and more using Gtalk. This application opens a gtalk conversation with you to Notify the following:

  • Incoming sms
  • Incoming calls, before it even rings on your actual phone (this is the fastest thing)
  • Battery state

And you can control your Android phone with following commands:

  • Reply to the incoming sms from PC (using “reply:<message>“) e.g. “reply: see yaa soon, I`ll be there”.
  • Send sms from PC (using “sms:<contact>:<message>” – contact can be a name or a phone number)
  • Read last 5 sms from a contact (using “sms:<contact>” with no argument)
  • make you phone ring in case you loose it (using “ring”)
  • Find your Phones GeoLocation :  it will send you google maps links (using “where”)
  • Copy text to the keyboard (using “copy:<text>“)
  • Get Contact info (using “contact:<contact>“) e.g. “contact: father”. (Partial searches work.)
  • Open any url in Android Browser (just paste it in the conversation) and it will open URL in browser
  • Confused? Get commands help using ‘?’

Excited? Should be! This is the most powerful app I’ve ever seen on Android.

How to Setup TalkMyPhone

Its easy, you need to have two Gtalk accounts (one source & one destination, where you receive alerts). Just fill in the credentials and start the app’s service, you are all good. All future notifications will be delivered to destined Gtalk address and you takeon full control.

The best part is, its Open source.

 

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