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Draw Something has amassed many users in its time on Android and it has now made the leap onto a device that is suggested to of have captured half of the US Android market share. Yes, Draw Something is now available in the Amazon App Store for the Kindle Fire. You get two options to choose from, the free ad-supported version or you can pony up the $1.99 and go ad free. Hit the source link for the downloads or just go ahead and load up your Amazon Kindle Fire and get to drawing something fun.

Drawing is a really funny thing. Most people fall into one of two categories: excellent or incredibly terrible. What better way to expose people and complicate the matters further than by forcing you to use your chubby fingers to draw crude, cave painting-like images with a friend, and then try to guess what the other person drew? Well, that seems to be the thinking at OMGPOP, because they made a little game called Draw Something that does just that, and it's all the rage these days.

The premise is ridiculously simple: pick a word from a list of three, try and draw it using different colors and brushes, then send it along to your friend and see if they can guess the correct word. Guessing is aided by the fact that your letter selection isn't infinite; on the contrary, you're only given a small handful of letters that aren't​ in your word, so as long as you can discern what you need, you'll be fine.


The three words you're given to choose from get increasingly more difficult, but the reward is also increased if your partner correctly guesses the word, too. There's a built-in incentive for trying to accumulate coins as fast as you can; coins can buy you precious bombs that eliminate letters not used in your word, or can buy you new colors to add to your palette.

You've got two options to create an account: login with your Facebook account or create a username. If you opt for the former, you can invite any of your friends from your friends list that is playing and start up a game. If you opt for the latter, you've got to add people by their username. In the sad event you don't have any friends to play with, you can also be matched with a random opponent, too, so you can still get your draw on. Either way, you can play against your friends on Android, or on iOS. Nice.

For a game with so simple a concept, Draw Something really strikes a chord with me (and everyone else, apparently). It's probably the social aspect, but there's something oddly rewarding about guessing correctly even though the drawing looked like something a pre-schooler would do. At any rate, it's fun as can be, so you might as well give it a shot. Missing, however, are notifications for when it's your turn. Booo.

Draw Something is free and 1.99 cents in the Google Play Store. We've got download links after the break. (From Android central)

Sorry for my bad painting skill, I am not so that into this app.

Today, we should talk about which one online storage is best for you. At first, we need bypass iCloud because it's only available in Mac and iOS and today we will talk about those cross-platform servers. As we known, on Tuesday morning, Google announced its own storage service called Google Drive. Now, we have Dropbox, Skydrive, Google Drive, Box and other online storage servers. About the storage server, I only pay attention to 2 points.

1. We all concern about the free storage when we use a free online storage servers. Actually, most of people needn't a large volume storage because the large file you'd better take with removable disk if the network is not so good. As for me, I am using skydrive, but never used the storage above 2G. If you really need upload some big stuffs in case, I think Skydrive is the best choice for you.


Free storage
Dropbox: 2G
Skydrive: 7G~25G
Google Drive: 5G
Box: 5G

2. We should care about the cross-platform now. More platforms support, more convenient. Fortunately, all of those 4 servers support web upload, so we do not worry about is there windows version or mac version. Just like we ignore iClound because it only have Apple version.

Support platform
Dropbox: Windows, Mac, ios, Android, Blackberry
Skydrive: Windows, Mac, ios
Google Drive: Windows, Mac, Android
Box: Windows & Mac(web only), ios, Android, Blackberry

I think both 2 point can totally make a decision for me. So the first choice for me is Skydrive between my workplace and home. Dropbox is the second for my phone and computer. Don't like Box because of the bad network make it become nothing on web browser. Google Drive? Hummm, I should try it later. Here is the 3 Best Online Storage Apps on Android which I wrote before Google Drive come out. If you are interested in it, you can try it.

So, do you have any more great free online storage server? Please leave your comment!

If you are interested in reading book with your phone or tablet, you will be glad to see that so many different ebook reader apps in Google Play. How to choose a best one from a mount of them is a big question. But don't worry, because I have picked 5 best one out now for you, just check them.

5. Kobo eBooks (Rated: 4.3)
With Kobo, reading on your Android Smartphone or Tablet couldn't be easier. Download Kobo FREE eBooks app and start browsing millions of free and affordable books from the palm of your hand. Find everything from the hottest new releases to popular classics. With Kobo, reading books on your Android Smartphone or Tablet couldn't be easier. Make reading a fun learning experience as the app has a special feature called Reading Life, which monitors and tracks your reading statistics. You can also share memorable quotes, notes, dialogues, and more with the integrated Faebook feature.

4. 100,000 Free Books Wattpad (Rated: 4.3)
Wattpad has a great gallery of over 1,00,000+ ebooks which you browse from and all of them are Free. This social eReading app connects readers and writers across all genres – vote for the best stories, share your comments with other readers or leave a suggestion for your favorite author. Browse Wattpad's huge library of over 3 million stories ranging from contemporary suspense thrillers and mysteries, to teen fiction, poetry, romance, fantasy narratives, humour and science fiction.


3. Kindle (Rated: 4.3)
The Kindle app puts over a million books at your fingertips. It’s the app for every reader, whether you’re a book reader, magazine reader, or newspaper reader—and you don’t need to own a Kindle to use it. Choose from over a million Kindle books from the Kindle Store or enjoy popular magazines like The Economist and Reader’s Digest with high-resolution color images. It automatically synchronizes your last page read and annotations between devices with Whisper-sync. You can also view the annotations you created on your Kindle, computer, or other Kindle-compatible device.

2. Aldiko Book Reader (Rated: 4.4)
Aldiko is an ebook reading application which enables you to easily download and read thousands of books right on your Android phone. It is a great alternative to apps supplied by many large companies such as Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Buy ebooks at great deals from your favorite retailers in either Adobe PDF or EPUB formats. Users can also download directly the ebook of their choice into their Android device without using a computer to transfer files.

1. Moon+ Reader (Rated: 4.5)
Moon+ Reader app for Android has got a very simple layout that is very easy to navigate around. Once installed, Moon+ Reader automatically integrates any eBooks that is already saved in the SD card into the app. Also, you can opt to download eBooks from the multiple eBooks catalogue that comes pre-installed. The search function comes handy to sort your choice of books or based on any particular writer. On the downside, each catalogue seems to use a different search filter; so the precision of results seem to vary a bit.

If you have another good ebook reader, please post your comment under this article.

Which is the best Android phone out there right now?" -- the headline of this story -- is the single most common question I get asked on a day-to-day basis. And it's understandable; after all, budget considerations not withstanding, everyone wants to feel like they're buying the best of the best.

Spoiler alert: There will be no definitive answer to that question provided here today. Or anywhere, any day (not one that matters, at least). While occasionally a device comes along that raises the bar in some exciting new manner -- the Galaxy Nexus, for example -- generally speaking, there is no single "right" answer for everyone. It all comes down to what you want.

In the case of Android, we're at the start of what promises to be a spectacular streak of high-end device launches. With Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) out in the wild, manufacturers are finally starting to release their new flagship phones built around Google's latest and greatest mobile OS.

One of the first such handsets to hit is HTC's One S, which goes on sale for $200 (with a new contract, following a $50 rebate) next Wednesday on T-Mobile. I've been using the One S for a few days now, and as I wrote in my review, it's a standout phone if I've ever seen one -- a premium device that handily earns its spot among the Android elite.

So naturally, certain questions are bound to follow -- questions like: "Should I get the One S instead of the Galaxy Nexus?" "What about the Droid Razr? Is it better than that?" And: "How about that elusive Galaxy S III? Should I maybe hold out for it?"


The answer to all these questions is the same: It's a personal judgment call that ultimately boils down to what you want in your phone. (The same answer applies to the age-old "iPhone or Android" question, incidentally. Sure, we all have our own opinions on the matter -- myself, ahem, included -- but what's right for one person isn't necessarily right for the next. That's the wonder of having all these choices in the first place.)

I think the HTC One S is a fantastic device, and I've really enjoyed using it. I'd wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone who's looking for a phone with the type of experience it delivers. I'd even go as far as to say it's the best phone available in T-Mobile's current lineup, which hasn't had a truly impressive high-end device in quite some time. Does that mean I think the One S is better than the Galaxy Nexus, or any other current high-end device on the market? Nope -- not at all.

As anyone who tests a lot of phones can tell you, overall performance and user experience mean a lot more than specs alone. And I can't emphasize enough: It's all relative to what you want. Now, of course there's a dividing line between phones of different generations or different classes -- recent phones vs. phones from 2010, for example, or high-end phones vs. lower-end devices -- but when it comes to phones of the same general caliber, there's a lot more to consider than just numbers on a paper.

The One S is a top-notch Android phone, and I wouldn't hesitate to put it in line with devices like the Galaxy Nexus, the Droid Razr, or the S's sibling, the HTC One X. All those phones have stellar performance and standout features; they're just different types of devices with different types of appeal. For me, personally, I like the large screen and form factor the Galaxy Nexus provides, and I really value its pure Android experience and the accompanying benefits that delivers.

That doesn't mean the Galaxy Nexus is better than the other phones, though; it's just better for me. The One S, One X, and Droid Razr each brings something different to the table, and depending on what's important to you in a smartphone, any of them could be best for you. The best suggestion I can offer is to read reviews from people you trust, then take a field trip to your favorite mobile-tech retailer (yes, one of those weird places with actual walls and a door). Hold some phones in your hand, see how you feel about their sizes and forms, and see how you like each one's approach to the Android OS. That's the only way you're going to know for sure what suits you.

We're in an exciting time for Android development. Some very cool devices are available now, and several more promising high-profile launches are on the horizon. Unlike other mobile platforms, Android isn't a one-size-fits-all kind of ecosystem. It can't always be measured and ranked in any meaningful way -- and believe me, that's a good thing.

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It looks like more and more people love to share the photo online, and enjoy the images from different corners of this world in different time. So Flicker was born. When we find that share photo can be much easier with our smart phone, the various of photo-sharing apps comes out. Yes, today, I will introduce you 3 top free photo-sharing apps for android phones. Just forget the top 10 or what. It's still too much for use.

3. Path (Rated: 4.1)

Path, the popular social network that competes with the likes of Instagram, allows only 150 friends to share your pictures with. You can upload your pictures directly to the network for sharing, and edit them with one of the eight free filters. Why only photos? You can also share your thoughts, the music you're listening to, where you are, who you are with and other updates.


2. Lightbox (Rated: 4.4)


Available only on the Android platform, the Lightbox Photos app is more than just a filter app. It is quite a new photo sharing platform. It has a really rich and handy UI; and an inbuilt camera. It has a lot of awesome filters and allows posting on your Lightbox profile, Flickr, Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook and FourSquare. Another great feature allows viewing users pictures from other social networks within the Lightbox app.

1. Instagram (Rated: 4.6)


The Instagram app, available for Android and iOS, can apply a variety of filters and effects to your photos. It also connects you to the Instagram network so you can share your modded snapshots and see those of other users. All this happens on your phone, though shared photos routinely land on Facebook, Twitter, and elsewhere. More info about Instagram for Android you can read this post: Finally, Instagram Android Version is Available in Google Play

Here are 3 photo-sharing apps fro Android, I prefer to Instagram. Actually, I love Pinterest most, but there is no Android official app. Whatever, all these apps are quite handy, fun and cool, so you should definitely give them a try! If you prefer to take photo and edit them, I think this post can be helpful to you: 5 Top rated camera apps make your android phone become funny digital camera

After several years’ growth, Android OS become the hottest mobile system now. More and more android phones have the better hardware. At the end of 2011, Galaxy Nexus announced that smartphone had stepped in the HD display era. Accordingly, in the beginning of 2012, HTC One X followed up Galaxy Nexus, leaded the smartphone to Quad-core age. I have to admit that the smartphone is better than my PC now.

Well, if you own a mobile phone that equipped HD display screen which is larger than 4.3-inch, a dual-core or even quad-core and a battery with larger capacity. Do you still want to spend much more money to get a tablet for movie watching? Come on, just wake up from the tablet boom. You can totally handle your work and entertainment with only an Android phone. Just let me introduce you the best 5 Android phones for movie watching.

5. Sony Xperia S



Sony Xperia S is packing a 4.3-inch display with 720 by 1280 pixels of resolution and a MSM8260 dual-core chipset clocked at 1.5GHz. With the 32G storage, you can save more HD movies in it. The battery on the Xperia S is rated at 1,750mAh. Sony reckons it'll provide up to 8.5 hours of yakking, 25 hours of music playback and 17.5 days on standby. About the video playback, Sony Xperia S supports MP4/H.263/H.264/WMV video which up to 1080P@30FPS.


4. LG Spectrum



LG Spectrum has a terrific 4.5-inch HD display, a 1.5GHz dual-core Snapdragon processor, and an 8-megapixel camera with support for 1080p video recording. It also has 4GB of internal storage, couples with a 16GB microSD. A 1,830mAh battery provides you up to 8.3 hours of talking and 14.5 days on standby. This smart phone supports MP4/H.264/H.263/WMV/DviX video which also up to 1080P@30FPS.

3. Samsung galaxy nexus



Samsung Galaxy Nexus uses the concept of button-less front and thin bezel to fit a 4.65-inch HD Super AMOLED display in a phone the size of handsets with smaller screens. It is powered by a 1080p video camera and a 1.2GHz dual-core processor. You can save some HD movies with the 16 GB storage. You can watch movies for about 6 hours with the 1,750mAh battery. Galaxy Nexus also supports H.263, H.264, MPEG4, VC–1 with 720P video.

2. Samsung Galaxy S III



Samsung Galaxy S III has an 4.8-inch Super AMOLED HD Plus display screen and Quad-Core Exynos 4212 processor. Besides the powerful touchscreen and CPU, a 2100mAh battery and the 16/32/64GB of internal storage make Galaxy S3 become the excellent media player. This smart phone also supports MP4/DivX/XviD/WMV/H.264/H.263 video with 1080P resolution.

1.   HTC One X



The global version of the HTC One X has a mighty 4.7-inch 720p HD display with Gorilla Glass, which will be further enhanced thanks to its wide-viewing angles and its ability to connect it to a TV wire-free with the aid of an optional wireless HDMI adapter. It also has a 1.5 GHz 4-Plus-1 quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3 with a fifth Battery Saver Core and 1800mAh battery. Combine with the 32 GB (26 GB user-available) storage, this mobile phone can let you enjoy more high quality movies. You can watch MP4/H.263/H.264/WMV video which up to 1080P with it.

So, after those introductions of parameter, have you ever find any one is better for you? If you are worried about that some videos cannot playback in those devices, please don’t forget those are android phones, and you can download a video player app to help you. But if you want to enjoy Blu-ray/DVD movies on it, I am afraid that you should download a Blu-ray Ripper or DVD Ripper to convert your favorite Blu-ray/DVD disc to MP4 or other compatible format at first. Hope those tips are useful to you!

Original Post: Lovemediasoft

The tool what you may need for video playing in Android phones.

1. watch video via video player app:

Top 5 Video Player apps for Android Mobile Phone and Tablet

2. watch Blu-ray/DVD video:

Free DVD to MP4 Converter  /  Blu-ray Ripper

Apps sometimes can misbehave. Before you go reaching for that task killer (don't do it!) here's something else to try. Above is the screen you'll see if you go to Settings>Applications>Manage appliations and tap on an app. You've got a bunch of buttons and numbers. The top buttons are pretty self-explanatory -- force stop makes an app quit. Uninstall either uninstalls an app -- or if it's permanently loaded onto the phone (like the Android Market should be), you'll have the option to uninstall updates.

But when we have a misbehaving app, first thing we'll try is to clear the cache. That wipes out temporary files that might be causing trouble. Your app's still there, as are all your settings.

Clearing data is a little more drastic, basically giving you a clean installation of the app, with all of your settings and log-ins returned to zero. It's pretty much the same as uninstalling and reinstalling, just quicker.

So if you're having trouble with an app, try clearing then cache, or go all-out and clear data and see if that doesn't do it for you.

From: Androidcentral

Now, the SMS is playing the important role in our daily life. I believe that anybody will send and receive the SMS if they got an mobile phone. And I prefer to save some important SMS to other place so that I can restore it when some day I just install another ROM into my android phone. And today I want to share you 3 best SMS backup and restore apps for android.

1. SMS Backup (Rated: 4.6)

This apps will automatically backs up SMS messages to your Gmail account after you set it. You need to have IMAP enabled in your Gmail preferences, which must be done through a computer.

2. SMS Backup + (Rated: 4.6)

Automatically backup SMS, MMS and call log entries using a separate label in Gmail / Google Calendar. It is also possible to restore SMS and call log entries back to the phone (MMS not supported yet). Remember to enable IMAP in Gmail and set the correct time/zone.

Please note that auto backup might not work reliably when SMS Backup+ is installed on the SD card. Future version will hopefully fix this, in the meantime please move it back to phone memory if possible.

3. SMS Backup & Restore (Rated: 4.7)

• SMS Backup & Restore is a simple Android app that backs up and restores your phone's text messages.
• Schedule automatic backups or backup your messages anytime you wish.
• You can view backup contents on your phone, and choose to backup selected conversations only.
• Backups are created in XML format and saved to your device's SD card.
• The XML can then be converted to other formats, and can also be viewed on a computer.
• It's easy to e-mail your backup files anywhere you wish.

Korean rice cake comes in many different forms. The one I've recently come to enjoy is called 가리떡, approximately pronounced as kah-ree-ddeok. If you don't say it right, it sounds to a Korean like Curry-ddeok! This is rice cake extruded into long cylindrical shapes, grilled and dipped in honey. This is also the rice cake which is sliced on the diagonal and used in soup. I've been threatening to visit one of these 떡집 (rice cake house) for some time, ever since I heard you can have your rice made into rice cake, rather then just buying rice cake. I finally got around to it Saturday afternoon, and had about 5Kg of rice made into rice cakes. It was pretty fun and interesting, and the owner only yelled at me once - turns out you're not supposed to sit on the table used for preparing rice cake!


Step one is to grind your rice into a flour. These two horizontal mills are used for that purpose. They have two polished cylindrical millstones counter-rotating which crush the rice into flour. I cringed several times when the lady put her hand in the hopper to aid the flow of rice.


Here's my flour, just coming out of the mill. The lady added a small amount of salt to the rice on the first pass through the mill. Then she added a very small amount of water, and ran it through the mill a second time.


The resulting slightly moist bucket of flour was transferred into a square box, which had an internal vent to allow the passage of steam. She put this box on a special table which had steam pipes, covered it with a cloth, and turned on the steam full blast. It was left to steam for a few minutes - it wasn't very long.


Next up, the steamed mass of rice flour was transferred to the extruding machine! She pushed the rice into the opening, and it comes out the side of the table. She made one or two passes with the extrusion output open. Then for the final pass she installed the proper "tool" on the machine (seen in the photo above) and started making the final product. There were other "shapes" available, ones I've also seen available in the store. Note that the rice cake is dipped in a bucket of cooling water as it comes out of the machine and onto the cutting table.


And here you see the result, long cylinders of extruded rice cake! This is sliced into 6-8 inch sections, and boxed up for transport home.


Piping hot, fresh rice cake is good, but...


...this is now I like it the best. Grilled with honey. I wonder if my apartment contract specifies pets? Could I care for several thousand bees on my balcony without drawing undue attention from the neighbors???

Sorry for my always bad memory but I still remember that I have been told everybody that Instagram for Android is coming several days before (Here: Instagram For Android Runs Better Than iOS ). And now, it is available in Google Play. What's more, only 2 days past, this app had reached over millions of downloads.

Launched in 2010, Instagram has been exclusive to the iPhone (and camera-enabled iPads) because Instagram's CEO Kevin Systrom wanted it to be perfect. Systrom was quoted as saying Instagram for Android is "one of the most amazing Android apps you'll ever see."

The Android version should be virtually identical to the iPhone experience with the exception that Tilt Shift/Blur, Share from Feed, Live Preview and Share to Flickr are absent till now.

In terms of functionality, the Android application itself is identical to its Apple iOS cousin, featuring simple flash controls and a camera-switch button to alternate between front-facing and rear-facing cameras with a single tap. Unfortunately, the application still lacks spot-focusing, cropping and zooming after a picture has already been taken.

As a newer in Android, Instagram still have some bugs need to be fixed. With so many Android phones available with all ranges of cameras surely this was a task that will probably take another update or two.

You can download it in Google Play: Instagram

Been saving a bunch of photos, and too busy to blog them. Let's go!

The first cool thing was they had the anti-gravity demonstration going on at Technomart last week. It was pretty cool to see a whole kindergarten class come walking in on the ceiling! This is just a temporary exhibit, but if popular, it will be travelling around Seoul to various other shopping centers.


Got free tickets to the live (recorded) music program 열림음막회 at the KBS Music Hall. It was pretty fun, although I still want to see 배철수 host the 7080 Concert (another KBS music program).



I only ate ONE donut, really!


Moving day. Everything fit in two small trucks.


The Definition of XENO is the position of being in charge. In other words, Boss. I didn't know that. I guess this really is the BOSS PC Zone, then.