Publish your track and race Android Tips

Publish your track and race

Runkeeper makes tracking your workouts fun! Its simple, social and feature rich. Runkeeper website.
If all you want is to track your jog, Google’s My Tracks works nicely. MyTracks website.
Sportypal lets you measure yourself and has an accompanying website to share your tracks.
Softrace lets you race against your opponents. Its among the Android developer challenge winners. Softrace website.

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Want to waste time playing a game with five other people on your phone? Android Tips

Want to waste time playing a game with five other people on your phone?

Download “What the Doodle”
An Android Developer Challenge 2 winner.

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Lock your Phone and find its location if someone steals it Android Tips

Lock your Phone and find its location if someone steals it

• Wavesecure locks the phone and sends you a message with the phone’s location.
• You can also send a custom message to the person who has the phone.

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Show Android icons as chat images for buddies currently on Android Tips

Show Android icons as chat images for buddies currently on Android

• Browse to your Gmail settings / Labs page
• Enable Green Robot!

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Manage your tasks across your phone, gmail, calendar and iGoogle Android Tips

Manage your tasks across your phone, gmail, calendar and iGoogle

Google Tasks is the way to go:

• Browse to: http://gmail.com/tasks
• You can scan the below QR code too
• Bookmark it

Theres also an app called gTasks which retrieves your tasks from google into an app.
Video: Watch the Google tasks video
QR Code:

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Android Tips

Mplayit posted a comparison of popular apps across the platform.
Popular android apps:
Lists and notes: Evernote
Location services: Loopt
Music and Radio: Pandora
Shopping: ShopSavvy
Social Networking: BuddyMob
Utilities: Google Goggles (Unveil)

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Are you a mac person using android? Here’s iTunes for android Tips

Are you a mac person using android? Here’s iTunes for android:

DoubleTwist lets you search and download from Amazon. It also lets you convert your existing media to the proper format and puts it on your phone.

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Tether: Surf the web on your laptop using your phones internet connection Android Tips

Tether: Surf the web on your laptop using your phones internet connection

The steps use your android phone’s internet connection on your laptop are not straightforward, but hey, now you can tether!
- Allow install of non-market apps: Settings>Applications>Enable unknown sources
- install TetherBot and follow the steps described here.
- The steps involve installing android sdk/emulator on your laptop and enabling USB debugging on your phone.
If your phone is rooted, Android Wifi Tether provides an easier way. It converts your phone into a wifi hotspot.
I do not recommend rooting your phone for this feature. Get an Android Phone with a bigger screen! Motorola Droid, Nexus, the Google Phone and HTC Bravo are a few.
Or hop on a Wimax network if its available near you.

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Find a “good” place to eat Android Tips

Find a “good” place to eat

Yelp lets you search and find good places to eat near you. Don’t forget to check out “Hot on Yelp” thats where the user generated reviews make a difference.
It you just want to see places near you, just long press on any location in google maps (version > 3.3).

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No typing or talking, Just take a picture and search for it Android Tips

No typing or talking, Just take a picture and search for it

The easiest way to search. Google Goggles lets you take a picture and search for it. Install it from the market.

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