Posts by Tony Simons
Scramble With Friends updated with UI support for the Samsung Galaxy Note
One of 2012′s most talked about games, Zynga’s Scramble With Friends, was updated yesterday with UI support for one 2012′s most talked about phones, the Samsung Galaxy Note. This comes as great news to many people in the Android community, especially considering Sammy’s most recent count of over 5 million Note’s shipped in 5 months.
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Simple script allows users to easily remove Blur from many Motorola Devices
If you own a Motorola device, chances are you either love or hate the OEM’s “Blur” overlay. As an AOSP purist at heart, I would absolutely fall into the latter group, provided I owned a Moto phone or Tablet (HTC and Asus all the way here, baby). If you just cant stand the way Blur looks, you might find interest in this simple script that was compiled by XDA Senior Member Lokifish Marz that allows you to de-Blur almost any Motorola device.
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Rumored photo of Google Nexus Tablet sneaks onto the Internet [Not for the skeptical or weak at heart]
Android rumors sure are fun aren’t they? I’ll warn you now. If you’re even the slightest bit skeptical, you may want to save yourself the next few minutes from reading this article. If you’re open-minded, or even if you’re just looking for something to bring up next time your hanging around the water cooler, this is for you.
Say hello to rAndy, the new CyanogenMOD mascot, by Caio Alves!
It appears as though the face of CyanogenMOD has permanently changed. A while back, the CM team asked the community for submissions of their own homemade mascots. The submissions would then be reviewed and voted on by the team and the selected winner would be chosen to represent the custom ROM project from here out.
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Instagram finally sheds iOS exclusivity; now available for Android on Google Play
Sorry we are a little bit late in reporting this, as the news has already made a tremendous stir across the entire Internet, but just in case you may have missed it, Instagram is now available for Android and can be downloaded for free from Google Play.
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Rocket Music Player for Android brings a plethora of options for music enthusiasts
If you are a music connoisseur, or even if you just like to jam out to some tunes occasionally using your Android device, you might be interested in an app I just came across while perusing the Google Play Store. Rocket Music Player, by JRTStudio, features an easy-to-use interface that allows you to easily browse your music collection without having to having to jump through a bunch of hoops.
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Gingerbread still the most dominant Android flavor; ICS on less than 3% of devices
While Google has time and time again said that it plans to iron out fragmentation in the Android ecosystem, the numbers tell an obviously and entirely different tale. According to statistics from Android’s Platform Versions dashboard that were detailed in a report by Engadget, Android 4.0 — or as most of you know it, Ice Cream Sandwich — is only installed on a whopping 2.9% of all devices.
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Download: MotoBlur Launcher hacked to work on any Ice Cream Sandwich Device
Wondering what the Motorola Droid RAZR homescreen will look like once it gets its official taste of Ice Cream Sandwich? That is, of course, if you haven’t already downloaded one of the many leaked Android 4.0 custom ROMs that everyone has been talking about lately. If your answer to that question was yes, you might be interested to learn that the MotoBlur launcher has been hacked to work with any device running ICS.
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ClockworkMod touch recovery finally available for Asus Transformer and Transformer Prime
Just a quick note for those of you rocking an Asus Transformer or Transformer Prime; ClockworkMod touch recovery is now available for your tablet and can easily be obtained via ROM Manager. It’s the same great life-saving recovery package that most users with a rooted Android device are accustomed to with the extra added ability to ditch that volume rocker and navigate your recovery the way it was meant to be navigated.
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Malware Alert: DKFBootkit embedded into pirated applications [Be careful what you download]
Image Credit: Nexus404.com
A new malware threat has surfaced in the Android community and has been discovered by NQMobile in pirated versions of popular applications that require root access. DKFBootkit, an evolved form of earlier DroidKungFu variants, is a nasty little bugger that uses known techniques to embed malicious payloads into legitimate apps.
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