Articles about Android hardware and software
The Easiest Parental Control to Configure on Android Effective parental control on Android doesn’t have to be difficult. Kids Zone’s parental controls block all apps and services by default, including Google Play in-app purchases, e-mail, device settings, SMS, etc. If…
Man, there’s been some BAD phones. The Microsoft Kin was one of Steve Ballmer’s ballsiest moves. He knew the Kin was doomed and he pulled the plug in 48 days. Microsoft took a write-down of $1 Billion on the Kin,…
Kids Zone App Lock is a brand new parental control app available for free in the Google Play store: Kids Zone addresses all of the major problems parents face today with mobile devices. Research shows these problems to be: It’s…
I just went to check stats on my app Saving Made Simple and was PLEASANTLY surprised. It seems AdMob has updated their interface, actually, that’s an understatement: they’ve redesigned the entire program, you even have to register a new account.…
Update: Looks like I was right unfortunately… To date (November 12, 2013) sales of Moto X have severely disappointed Motorola at only 500,000 units! I’m not going to rehash all the specs and leaks that’ve occurred around the Google/Motorola love-child phone the…
Why are Active User Installs Dropping in the Google Play Developers Console!? Edit: Oops, clearly it was May 13th. Two days ago I opened the Google Play Developer Console to utter shock. My app, Saving Made Simple, is by no…
Android Studio was released today by Google during their I/O keynote speech. If you’re not familiar with it (download a copy here) it’s the beta release of Android’s IDE alternative to Eclipse. Android Studio has many familiar aspects which it…
Automate your Savings Goal Success Savings goals, savings goals, savings goals. We all have them, however, let’s be honest, most of use rarely succeed in consistently saving the money we need to meet our savings goals. The reason most people…
Dear Google, Holy sh*t! What kind of freak-show-abomination-iPhone-deformed-love-child-from-Hell have I stumbled upon here?! Let’s not mince words, if these Google Babel (Google Babel is now rumored to replace Google Talk, this is how the Gmail interpretation looks) screenshots are to be believed,…