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For being a Google Labs project, Listen is full-featured and excellent podcast app, with search, subscriptions and support for streams and downloads. FREE From The App Developers: Listen from Google Labs brings podcasts and web audio to your Android-powered device. It lets you search, subscribe, download and stream. By subscribing to programs it will create…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Dec 31 '09

Locale

An argument all by itself for multitasking and background processes, it’s a location aware app that lets you set how your phone responds to certain situations or places. Like muting your ringer at school, or killing 3G when your battery’s low, or pretty much any other scriptable action. Indispensable. FREE From The App Developers: With…

Tech News Sponsored Dec 31 '09

Mark the Spot

AT&T is (slowly) getting more Android phones so it’s as good a time as any to release their “tell us where we suck” app. Mark the Spot lets you pinpoint the exact location of your dropped your call, failed call, slow data, and other areas of suck. The app itself is kind of ugly, but…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Dec 31 '09

Time Warner Cable’s Genius Solution to Possible Fox Outage: The Internet!

PSSSSST! Hey, Time Warner Cable! If you tell everyone how to watch Fox shows from their PC, they’ll probably start doing it for all your other programming, too! Self-defeating bitterness really is the perfect way to say goodbye to 2009. The spat between Time Warner and News Corp has been escalating steadily this week, with…

Tech News Brian Barrett Dec 31 '09

NESoid

It’s BYO ROMs, but this $3 NES emulator single-handedly solves Android’s gaming problem by letting you play any NES game you can get your hands on. Bonus: The smug sense of satisfaction that this would never fly in the App Store. $3.49 From The App Developers: NESoid is an emulator for the Nintendo Entertainment console.…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Dec 31 '09

12 Books to Help You Become a Superhero in the New Year

Some people make New Year’s resolutions to lose weight or quit smoking. But if you’ve resolved to become costumed crimefighter this year, we’re here to help, with twelve books that will mentally and physically prepare you for the superheroic life. The Government Manual for New Superheroes by Matthew David Brozik and Jacob Sager Weinstein: When…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis Dec 31 '09

NewsRob

This is what we imagine a mythical Google Reader RSS app would be like, with two-way background sync and full feed downloads. (If you’re not a Google Reader user, we’d recommend the 99-cent FeedR, for its simplicity.) FREE From The App Developers: NewsRob is a RSS/Atom reader that auto syncs with Google Reader.

Tech News Matt Buchanan Dec 31 '09

OpenTable

Never be forced to talk to a real human being to make a reservation again. (As long as the restaurant’s a part of OpenTable, anyway, which it probably is, if it’s worth eating at.) FREE From The App Developers: With OpenTable for Android you can make free, instantly confirmed restaurant reservations at over 11,000 restaurants.…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Dec 31 '09

The Decade in Tech Stocks: Hope You Had GOOG and AAPL

Turns out it was a tough decade for tech companies. First the bubble they helped create burst and took the rest of the economy down with them; now the credit markets have sunk them in return—with two notable exceptions. I’ll admit that this chart would be more readable if it had been a more competitive…

Tech News Brian Barrett Dec 31 '09

Pandora

Pandora CTO Tom Conrad may have said, “I need Android like I need a hole in the head,” but Android definitely needed the best internet radio app around. It auto-suggests music based on other artists you like using sorcery. (Or algorithms.) FREE From the App Developers: Pandora Radio is your own FREE personalized radio now…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Dec 31 '09

Is Sony Scuttling Moon’s Chance At An Oscar?

According to director Duncan Jones, Moon isn’t being given out as a screener to members of the Academy. If this is true, and it seems so, this greatly hurts Moon’s chances on Oscar night. We’re used to science fiction always getting the snub when it comes to trophies. We’ve endured Battlestar Galactica’s many snubs. But…

Movies Meredith Woerner Dec 31 '09

PdaNet

The ridiculously easy way to tether your laptop to your phone, over USB or Bluetooth, without rooting it. If you don’t wanna cough up $30 for the full version it’ll still connect to non-https:// addresses just fine. $24 From the App Developers: PdaNet provides you with FULL Internet access so all your email, instant message…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Dec 31 '09

Places

Google’s Places is our preferred directory app for finding what’s nearby—restaurants, coffee, banks, shopping, whatever—mostly because it’s easier to use than the arguably more jam-packed Where. But also because its information seems to be getting more detailed useful at an exponential rate. FREE From the App Developers: Places Directory allows you to browse nearby places…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Dec 31 '09

Qik

Live video streaming over 3G or Wi-Fi, which one-ups the others with support for full res 720×480 DVD quality video from the Droid. FREE From the App Developers: Join Qik to share live video with anyone and everyone – or only share with the people you choose. Use Qik and start showing your audience of…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Dec 31 '09

Retro Defense

The gorgeous, and possibly definitive, Android tower defense game. $5 From the App Developers: Retro Defense is a tower defense game with a killer retro theme. Your goal is to stop the invaders from getting through the board. You know the path they’ll take, so you have to spend your money wisely and build the…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Dec 31 '09

Ringdroid

If you wanna make your own ringtone, Ringdroid is how, either using an MP3 you already have, or by making a whole new one. FREE From the App Developers: Ringdroid is an Android application for recording and editing sounds, and creating ringtones, directly on the handset.

Tech News Matt Buchanan Dec 31 '09

The Year In Image Cache: 50 Shots That Wowed Us In 2009

The Internet offers an endless stream of cool pictures, but here’s a look at the best we’ve come across this year. Inside you’ll find images that amaze and amuse. Though #imagecache has only been around since March, we’ve collected some incredible images in these last nine months. Click through to the original posts for hi-resolution…

Space & Spaceflight Kyle VanHemert Dec 31 '09

Runstar

A very pretty running application, it offers full stat tracking and everything else you’d expect from a fitness app, with more features, like multiple exercise modes on the way. If only it made the Droid light enough to actually run with. FREE From the App Developers: runstar™ is the only running application you’ll ever need;…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Dec 31 '09

Invetech Delivers World’s First Production Human Tissue Printer

Or, as they call it, a “3D bio-printer.” Essentially, it allows scientists to build tissue cell by cell. It’s that cool sci-fi medical stuff we all dream about. “Scientists and engineers can use the 3D bio printers to enable placing cells of almost any type into a desired pattern in 3D,” Murphy said. “Researchers can…

Health Sean Fallon Dec 31 '09

Shazam

What’s that song playing in the background? Hold your phone up, and Shazam will tell you. It’s magic that never gets old. FREE From the App Developers: Create music moments. With Shazam you can identify music tracks, store them, and buy them; plus you can learn more about the artist and connect to their MySpace…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Dec 31 '09

Listen

Locale

Mark the Spot

Time Warner Cable’s Genius Solution to Possible Fox Outage: The Internet!

NESoid

12 Books to Help You Become a Superhero in the New Year

NewsRob

OpenTable

The Decade in Tech Stocks: Hope You Had GOOG and AAPL

Pandora

Is Sony Scuttling Moon’s Chance At An Oscar?

PdaNet

Places

Qik

Retro Defense

Ringdroid

The Year In Image Cache: 50 Shots That Wowed Us In 2009

Runstar

Invetech Delivers World’s First Production Human Tissue Printer

Shazam

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