Brad Linder The Android Market provides a great way to find, purchase, and download apps on an Android phone. What it doesn’t provide is a good way to find them from the web. While Apple offers a desktop version of the iTunes App Store that you can use to download iPhone apps and sync them to your … Read more
AOL’s MapQuest has followed Google Maps into the world of turn-by-turn voice directions by launching an updated version of MapQuest 4 Mobile for iPhone. When you use the new version to search for a destination, MapQuest 4 Mobile will automatically speak directions, letting you know when to turn. Thus rendering your expensive GPS unit at … Read more
When I reviewed the Zune HD portable media player a few months ago, I was impressed with the user interface and overall audio and video playback performance. But I was a bit disappointed with the limited video codec support. Now Microsoft is doing that. Engadget and Gizmodo are both reporting that Microsoft will offer updated … Read more
There are plenty of smartphone apps that let you share live video from your phone’s camera with the world. Knocking Live Video takes another approach, and lets you share it with one person at a time. Here’s how it works: Download the Knocking Live Video app from the iTunes App Store or Android Market, register … Read more
The online music site Spotify is huge in Europe and offers users the ability to listen to millions of songs on their computers or smartphones. They’ve been working on bringing the service to the US, and now Bloomberg reports that Spotify could be available in the States by the third quarter of this year. In … Read more
Fox Mobile has announced plans to launch a new streaming video service for smartphones called Bitbop, potentially beating a mobile Hulu offering to the punch. Bitbop will let users either stream or download TV shows and movies on their smartphones. The app will be available as a free download, but you’ll have to pay $10/month … Read more
Apple’s iTunes does a great job of synchronizing your music, video, and photo collections with a smartphone — provided that smartphone is an Apple iPhone. But what if you have an Android phone but still use iTunes to organize your media on your computer? It turns out it’s still pretty easy to synchronize your iTunes … Read more
MortPlayer is one my favorite applications for Windows Mobile. This audio player offers a ton of features including excellent playlist and bookmark managers, an equalizer, multiple shuffle modes, and more customization settings than virtually any other mobile application I’ve ever used. Now the developer is turning his attention to Android, with beta versions of three … Read more