One of my favorite things about having a Motorola Droid is that I feel like (as opposed to my previous Windows Mobile phone) I’ve got a large, growing application market constantly providing me with new apps in one place. Still, I can’t say that I magically find the best applications and games out there as [...]

My favorite thing about free products is the price – usually. SMSBackup for Android is an exception to this rule because I would pay real money in a heartbeat for an application as simple, efficient, and useful as this has proven to be to me. What this Android app does is allows me to back [...]

The Android Market is taking off. In March, over 9,000 applications hit the Android market, doubling the amount added the previous month, impressing Android users everywhere. Given the huge amount of new Android phones coming out this year, it doesn’t seem like things are going to level off anytime soon. Recently, Google announced that they [...]

As a student, I carry my USB stick with me everywhere. It’s got a handy set of .bat files that I use on a regular basis, several useful portable applications, a couple of desktop backgrounds, and most importantly – a folder containing my work for each of my college classes. In fact, although I only [...]

Batch files are the computer handyman’s way of getting things done. They can automate everyday tasks, shorten the required time to do something, and translate a complex process into something anyone could operate. Since automation programs like AutoHotKey exist, many people have never written or taken the time to understand bat files, and many don’t [...]

The Android gaming market is still growing and evolving in many ways, but as an Android user myself, I fully realize that it’s still nowhere near the Apple store in many respects. Specifically, multiplayer games seem to be lagging behind on the Android especially given the rapid pace with which the Android market is growing. [...]

Over the past few years, USB thumb drives have become very popular. They transfer files relatively fast (compared to CD’s), happen to be extremely small and unobtrusive, and plug into almost any computer with a USB port. Personally, I have two flash drives on my keychain right now, and I can’t imagine how I ever [...]

With all the hype being generated by Android, Blackberry, and iPhones as of late, I’m sure quite a few Windows Mobile users have begun to feel a little left out. Hopefully the release of Windows Mobile 7 later this year (fingers crossed) will improve the situation, but until then I am here to tell give [...]

When I got my Android device last Christmas, I received it with the knowledge that it would be replacing several other devices. Truth be told, most Android phones being released now have the capability to adequately replace not only the old phone, but also things like dedicated GPS devices, cameras, and MP3 players. This article [...]

In today’s world, almost everything electronic has some sort of information available about it online. Whether it be an official webpage, a fan site, or a collection of forum posts, you can almost always find it online somewhere. Android devices are no different””in fact, in many ways an Android device relies on this internet information [...]

On Christmas day, I became the excited owner of a Motorola Droid, one of the best phones currently on the market running the Android 2.1 Operating System. Like most people who got a Droid that day, I went straight to the app store to find free Android applications that would improve my experience, increase the [...]

Over the summer the company I worked for sent me to a “Java Programming Boot Camp” held by Sun Microsystems in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The expectation for that course was that it would make me an entry level Java developer–after all, this was Sun’s general summary of the course. What I learned that summer was that you [...]

If you frequently browse the web for cool mobile apps or other ways to improve your phone, you will have run into the issue where you need to navigate to a link on your phone. Rather than hand type a ridiculously long URL in, you think of alternate ways to get content from your PC [...]

Whether you’re playing flash games at work, dealing with too many open windows, or simply looking for computer privacy, at some point you’ve probably thought about how useful it would be to hide running Windows programs with the push of  a button. Personally, I find that hiding the more distracting windows actually increases my efficiency [...]

If you were to ask someone what makes Gmail different from other free email providers, what would they tell you? I suspect some would suggest that they use Gmail because it is constantly evolving and improving – becoming more than just email for many people. From Gmail it is possible to chat with friends, organize [...]