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ESPN Radio

It’s ESPN Radio. On a phone. So you can listen to the talking heads of ESPN make sense of Lebron on live sports radio streams and over 40 different sports podcasts (including Bill Simmons). There’s Sportscenter updates too. Sports radio can be a screaming mess, but ESPN Radio has some good content. It’s $5, so…

Tech News Casey Chan

Evernote

Android doesn’t ship with a note-taking app, and if you’re gonna grab one, it might as well be one that syncs notes, photos and files across multiple platforms, even if it’s still in beta. FREE From The App Developers: Evernote makes it easy to remember things big and small from your notable life using your…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Facebook

Yes, it’s vastly inferior to its iPhone counterpart—an unfortunately common theme for Android apps—missing entire functions like Chat and Events. But with Android 2.0, its tight integration with contacts almost makes us forget about that. Also, it’s unpossible to not have this on your phone. FREE From The App Developers: Facebook for Android™ makes it…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Flixster

Movies. You like knowing what’s playing, right? Flixster’s got local listings and showtimes, along with trailers and reviews from Rotten Tomatoes. FREE From The App Developers: With Movies by Flixster, the #1 movie app for the iPhone and Facebook, you can watch high-quality trailers and video clips for almost any movie, see the top box…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Laptops in the Year 2000 Were the Smartphones of Today

Now I want you to close your eyes and squint really hard. Because I’m going to tell you about a time that feels ancient, a time when Sony made some of the baddest laptops around. Way before the internet made the idea plausible, Sony was ripping optical drives out of laptops to make them as…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Fring

Our favorite free multi-protocol IM app from the iPhone, but on Android: If it’s a message protocol with more than one sad, lonely user, you’re covered. FREE From The App Developers: fring is a free mobile application that lets users make free mobile calls, video calls, live chat, and more from their mobile phone with…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

FxCamera

A free, and solid camera app with standard—but essential—photo effects, like Polaroid, Fisheye and ToyCam. FREE From The App Developers: FxCamera enables you to take a picture with various effects.

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Gmote

Using your phone as a remote control for your computer is practically a God-given right, and Gmote’s the best Android remote for playing and controlling movies and music on your computer. FREE From The App Developers: Gmote turns Android into a remote control for a computer, allowing users to run movies and music at a…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Thorium, the Next Uranium

Wired has a fairly epic look into a material that could make nuclear power both clean and safe called thorium—named after the Norse god of thunder. Of course, scientists recognized its promise back in the 1950s. Whereas uranium is extremely rare, requires purification and creates waste that will be with us for hundreds of thousands…

Tech News Mark Wilson

How To: Execute the Ultimate Phone Prank With Skype

Here’s an old gem of a trick for anyone feeling lonely, vindictive, or very drunk this New Year’s Eve: with Skype, you can connect any phones in the world, and listen in on the results. Man, what a decade. https://gizmodo.com/how-to-make-all-of-the-phones-in-your-office-ring-simul-368913 Here’s the game, as articulated by Reddit user quicksilver 5: Here’s a fun trick –…

Tech News John Herrman

Google Goggles

Google’s splash into visual search is impressively eagle-eyed, able to scan not just barcodes, books, movies and music like other apps, but landmarks artwork and business cards, too. FREE From The App Developers: Use pictures to search the web with Google Goggles.

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Google Voice

Google Voice simply changes the way you use your phone, and the app’s seamless integration is a killer feature for Android as a whole. Get in line for an invite, if you haven’t already. FREE From The App Developers: Use Google Voice with your existing number and get Google voicemail, voicemail transcription, custom greetings, international…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

IMDb

Who’s that guy? Where’s he from? Should I even watch this movie? Solve all your movie questions with Android’s official IMDB app. The IMDB app is basically IMDB’s website optimized for your phone-that’s a good thing. Along with all the movie info, you can also watch trailers, see the top 250 movies of all time,…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Gadget Deals of the Day

Cop these bargains before the calendar clicks into the next decade. Get an eMachines 22″ monitor for $99, check out the Sony DSLR with extras for $700, and snag an Ani DiFranco MP3 to groove to this evening. Top Deals: • 22″ eMachines E211H Monitor for $99.90 plus free shipping (normally $138). • Sony a380…

Tech News Gizmodo Deals

Kindle

One of the last major apps I’ve been waiting for on Android is finally here: Kindle. It syncs all of your Kindle books, as you’d expect, though it’s missing features like full text search and in-app purchasing. FREE From The App Developer:Read more than 620,000 Kindle books with our free application for your Android phone.…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Layar Reality

Quite simply, the king of augmented reality apps, able to layer pretty much whatever kind of data you want on top of your boring, HUD-less reality. FREE From The App Developers: The Layar Reality Browser shows what is around you by displaying real time digital information on top of the real world as seen through…

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Listen

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

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…

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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

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

ESPN Radio

Evernote

Facebook

Flixster

Laptops in the Year 2000 Were the Smartphones of Today

Fring

FxCamera

Gmote

Thorium, the Next Uranium

How To: Execute the Ultimate Phone Prank With Skype

Google Goggles

Google Voice

IMDb

Gadget Deals of the Day

Kindle

Layar Reality

Listen

Locale

Mark the Spot

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

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