KudoStar connects your friends, contacts and favourite locations and allows you to rate them using a KudoScore either positively or negatively. This social mobile rating system then uses the KudoStar points to tie in with not only other Android devices but also web based platforms such as Facebook’s F8 and Google’s opensocial platforms.
Android based Twitter client, Trak will allow you to Tweet your geo-location along with the ability to read and display the locations of your Twitter friends. The information will be displayed using street maps, satellite view or both.
The Caltroid application is a simple Caltrain schedule app for Android. Two buttons determine the day of the week and direction of travel, with spinners allowing the user to select specific departure and destination stations.
Caltroid also has the ability to locate the nearest Caltrain station using GPS.
MemoGame is an Android based memory game. Like the numerous card matching games before it, MemoGame is a similar system in which players must match up pairs of numbers, by flipping over their selective titles one at a time.
If two selected tiles have the same value, this is a matching pair. The game ends when all matching tiles are discovered.
TooDo, as you might guess is a feature rich ‘reminder’ application. Basically it allows the user to manage and smartly remind themselves of the various day-to-day tasks they need to complete.
TooDo has many different options and settings to set reminders by, including time based reminders, location based and contextually based (basis the reminder on details of your current task, eg, travel and work).
The Android developer community have been busy working on bringing auto-rotation functionality to the G1, and judging by the video footage below they’ve done a great job.
With compass mode and Streetview proving the G1 is certainly well equipped when it comes to accelerometers, the ability to auto rotate the display is a feature that the G1 has lacked.
SplashPlay is now available in the Android Market for guitar players everywhere. While the application title does portray that it is geared around music, it does not do the application justice. SplashPlay claims to have people strumming away to their favorite songs in minutes.
For those of us who have always wanted to learn how to play guitar here is our chance. SplashPlay offers a new generation of learning to play the guitar. Only G1 owners have the ability to interact with videos giving them exclusive features. Getting started is easy, just attach the pod and light panel to your guitar and download the software.
* Share and learn music on different instruments using the SplashPod and a paper-thin light panel.
* Combines freely available tutorials with optionally available hardware.
* Learn songs or chords wherever you want, on a bus or train or even in your tent at a music festival.
* Use the phone to wirelessly control the light panel using Bluetooth.
This application is very portable, SplashPlay sends information to the pod from a mobile phone or computer using a Bluetooth connection. Some features SplashPlay also offer include a guitar tuner, metronome and hands free Bluetooth foot pedal. The guitar version of SplashPlay is scheduled for early 2009, shortly followed by light panel releases for the keyboard/piano, drums, violin and many other instruments.
Among the applications that hit the Android Market today, one in particular stands out in our minds. Caller ID from WhitePages is a handy application that very well might get looked over.
This application provides you with advanced caller ID functionality on your Android-powered handset that you would normally only get on a land line. Utilizing the mapping tools and promoting the truly mobile nature of the device. Caller ID from WhitePages allows users to:
* See name of incoming caller (based on one of more than 200 million listings in WhitePages online directory)
* Map location of caller
* Add caller to contacts
It took less than two weeks to create this clean, branded user-interface with simple, clean functionality. This application is just what a mobile phone needs, it takes the guesswork out of incoming calls. Caller ID from WhitePages is perfect for those of us who screen our calls. Below is a video provided by Vice president of monetization and mobile for WhitePages, Kevin Nakao.
The MapMyFitness suite of Web sites –MapMyRun.com, MapMyRide.com, MapMyWalk.com, MapMyTri.com, MapMyHike.com and MapMyFitness.com– is the premier source of community-based mapping technology and fitness content on the Internet today. MapMyFitness members are able to visualize their health and fitness training progress through the use of maps, training logs, fitness calculators/tools, and user-led community groups. Read the rest of this entry »
I have started developing an application called Hookup.
The main purpose of the application is to allow users to ‘hook up’ with new people, business and services near them. Once hooked up, you can chat or request for more information from them.
The screenshots and details available from the below URL. Any suggestions and comments are most welcome.
The Android developer community have been busy working on bringing auto-rotation functionality to the G1, and judging by the video footage below they’ve done a great job.
SplashPlay is now available in the Android Market for guitar players everywhere. While the application title does portray that it is geared around music, it does not do the application justice. SplashPlay claims to have people strumming away to their favorite songs in minutes.
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