Google Recognizes the Need for Better Tablet App Discovery
If you have been following Android.Appstorm over the past couple of months, you must have noticed that we feel very strongly about Android tablets, and specifically Android tablet apps. We cried out to...
View ArticleManage Media Smoothly With Plex for PlexPass
In the modern digital age, media is king. Whether it’s music blaring out of speakers, photos being styled and shared, movies and TV shows on demand, or the online video craze – we are all consuming...
View ArticleIs Instapaper Finally Worth It for Android Users?
With Marco Arment’s recent announcement of his sale of a majority stake in Instapaper to Betaworks, his work on the app is worth returning to with an eye towards where it is now and where it will be in...
View ArticleThis Week in Android: Google I/O Special
Google I/O week is a time in which we’re always promised a bunch of news from everyone’s favourite Mountain View-based company. While some rumoured announcements, especially in regards to hardware,...
View Article10 Great Music Apps for Tablets
A while back I did a roundup of Multimedia App for Android Tablets. You may have noticed that missing from that list were music apps, but fear not; I have not forgotten about music apps — as a matter...
View ArticleBreathe New Life into Your Android With Greenify
If a survey was conducted across all Android owners regarding the one feature that they would like a significant improvement on, better battery would, quite possibly, be a runaway winner. The advent of...
View ArticleAtom Launcher: Simply Beautiful Home Screens
There comes a time in any Android user’s life where the need to try new things is stronger than the need to stick with the old and familiar. Sometimes it’s a great move, and other times we realize we...
View Article10 Puzzling Nonogram/Picross Games
They go by all kinds of different names — nonogram, picross, hanjie, griddlers, paint by numbers, and more — but there’s something magical about picross games. Like a cross between minesweeper and...
View ArticleKeep Android and iOS in Sync, Part 3: Apps and Services
Over the past two weeks, we focused on making the sync process between your iOS and Android devices as easy as possible. We started by looking at keeping email, contacts and calendar data sync’ed,...
View ArticleCamera360: Mobile Photography Toolbox
Android owners are blessed with a great operating system, which many feel is better than iOS. I think even the most ardent Google fanboys would have to concede though, that photography is one area in...
View ArticleAndroid Skin Review: Samsung TouchWiz
In the first of a new series on Android.Appstorm, I look in turn at each of the Android manufacturers and the changes they make to Android’s start up, interface and basic functionality. In each case,...
View ArticleThis Week In Android: May 20th-26th
It’s the week after Google I/O but even as the excitement over all the internal Google announcements draws to a close, we’re launched into another week full of exciting news. Let’s take a look! Like...
View ArticleThe Lowdown on the Jawbone UP
About a month ago, Matt Mullenweg (of WordPress fame) blogged about 2 pieces of technology he had been wearing in order to track some aspects of his health. One of them was the Jawbone UP, which I...
View ArticleSynchronize Your Fitness With Fitbit
Earlier today, Joe Casabona detailed to you his experience with the Jawbone Up, a bracelet that belongs in the new category of “quantified self” gadgets and tracks your steps, sleep, and calorie...
View ArticleDiscover and Enjoy New Podcasts With Player FM
I started listening to podcasts back in high school, when I used to use iTunes to sync music with my iPod Classic — I discovered that the iTunes Store had a boatload of great episodic content that I...
View ArticleWind Back the Clock With R/C Racer Re-Volt Classic
Remote/radio control cars can be great fun, especially when you use them to do stunts or race on makeshift tracks. That’s clearly the thinking behind Re-Volt, a popular 1999 console and PC kart racer...
View ArticleKeep Android and iOS in Sync, Part 4: Limitations and Caveats
During the month of May, we’ve looked at various ways to keep Android and iOS in sync. We started with the essentials, by exploring ways to sync your emails, contacts and calendar. We then looked at...
View ArticleSwapps: Switch Apps Quickly and Beautifully
Despite the amount of power packed inside modern smartphones, one of the most annoying and time-consuming hindrance to my productivity always seems to be the task of switching apps. On my Galaxy S3, I...
View Article30 Awesome Apps for Movie and TV Lovers
Hello, my name is Rita El Khoury and I’m a TV series addict. As my Trakt.tv profile would attest, I’m not using the term “addict” loosely. I’ve seen over 4700 TV episodes (that I could remember) and...
View ArticleThis Week in Android: May 27th – Jun 1st
Are you one to sit and look at the HTC One and think, “boy, i’d much prefer this handset to be running stock Android and available for all to buy on Google Play for $ 599″? Ever get upset your Nexus 4...
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