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Photoshop.com Mobile Fixes Photos On Smartphones
2:00AM Kevin Purdy | iPhone/Android/Windows Mobile: Photoshop.com, the online home of Adobe’s market-leading image editor, has released a native photo editor and photo uploader for Android phones, and it’s a fairly versatile solution for fixing or offloading images while you’re out and about. More »
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AddressBook Connects Contacts To Social Networks
10:30PM Kevin Purdy | Android: If you dig the idea of Motorola’s socially integrated interface but aren’t planning on rushing out to get a new phone, Asurion’s AddressBook can match up contacts with their service profiles, letting you quickly contact someone across multiple channels. More »
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CyanogenMOD Hits Stable 4.2.1 Release, Reduces Home Screen Lag
2:00AM Kevin Purdy | One month after Google’s cease-and-desist action, the popular custom CyanogenMOD Android firmware has hit a stable, presumably legal release point. It’s as up-to-date as you can get on an Android phone, and it nearly fixes a seriously annoying slowdown issue. More »
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Firefox Headed To Android Phones
12:00AM Kevin Purdy | Yesterday we heard that an unknown something from Mozilla is headed to iPhones, but Firefox’s maker is being a bit more specific about Android: A mobile browser is in the works for the open-source phone. More »
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FlyScreen Puts Calendars, Weather, On Your Phone’s Lock Screen
3:30AM Kevin Purdy | Android/Symbian: FlyScreen saves you the trouble of unlocking, clicking and waiting for an app to open to get calendar items, weather updates, SMS messages or just about anything else by putting swipe-accessible widgets on your “lock” screen. More »
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CyanogenMod Wiki Is A How-To For Android Modding
12:00AM Kevin Purdy | “Rooting” and loading a custom ROM onto your Android phone isn’t something you can pick up and wing until you figure it out. More »
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gTasks Syncs Google Tasks To Your Android Phone
1:00AM Kevin Purdy | Android: If you’re an Android user who’s keen on Google’s Tasks to-do manager, a beta application can give you offline access and syncing to the tasks you’ve stashed away in Gmail, Google Calendar or iGoogle. More »
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3:00AM Kevin Purdy | Modern phones come loaded with bright screens, fun games and apps, and connections for 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS. Not coincidentally, they’re constantly out of juice. Here’s some of the best collected wisdom about saving your web-connected phone’s battery life. More »
An Exhaustive Guide To Saving Your Smartphone’s Battery
3:00AM Kevin Purdy | Modern phones come loaded with bright screens, fun games and apps, and connections for 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS. Not coincidentally, they’re constantly out of juice. Here’s some of the best collected wisdom about saving your web-connected phone’s battery life. More »
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Step-By-Step Installation Of CyanogenMod’s “Legal” Android ROM
1:30AM Kevin Purdy | As promised, custom ROM builder Cyanogen has delivered an unofficial firmware with speed enhancements, system and app backups to SD cards, and a few other great tweaks — without the copied Google apps that caused a cease and desist last time around. More »
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