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Hide the Contacts and Tasks Links (for Good This Time) in the Gmail Sidebar [Annoyances]
When Google updated Contacts in Gmail, they also added prominence to Contacts and Tasks in the sidebar. A lot of people didn’t like that, but the button that hid Contacts and Tasks didn’t work (a known…
Mobile Browser Comparison: Windows Phone 7 vs. iPhone vs. Android [Video Demonstration]
Smartphone site Pocketnow demos a side-by-side comparison of Microsoft’s smartphone OS, Windows Phone 7, running its mobile version of Internet Explorer. One impressive feature includes background pag…
Gesture Search Scours Your Android with the Flip of Your Hand [Updates]
Android: Google just updated their very cool Gesture Search app with a small but clever new feature. You can still search your phone by drawing gestures, but now you can activate the app at any time by…
Grocery IQ Is a Brilliant Grocery List Application [Downloads]
iOS/Android: Grocery iQ builds and manages your grocery shopping list with an impressive feature set. You can search and add items to your list manually or by scanning barcodes, share lists with family…
Update Your Droid to Froyo Without Waiting [Android]
Got a Droid and can’t wait for Verizon to push out the over-the-air Android 2.2 Froyo update to your phone? All-things-Android blog Android Central details how to update your Droid to the official ROM …
Do You Root Your Android Phone? [Reader Poll]
When we asked last month, a strong 57 percent of you said you’re still jailbreaking your iOS device. So how about you Android owners—are you rooting? More »
Do You Root Your Android Phone? [Reader Poll]
When we asked last month, a strong 57 percent of you said you’re still jailbreaking your iOS device. So how about you Android owners—are you rooting? More »
mNote Syncs Your Simplenote Notes with Android Phones [Downloads]
Android: mNote is a free Android application that syncs with online plain-text note service Simplenote so you can bring the holy grail of ubiquitous plain-text capture to your Android device. More&n…
mNote Syncs Your Simplenote Notes with Android Phones [Downloads]
Android: mNote is a free Android application that syncs with online plain-text note service Simplenote so you can bring the holy grail of ubiquitous plain-text capture to your Android device. More&n…
LED Light Turns Your iPhone 4 or Android Phone into an LED Flashlight [Downloads]
iPhone 4/Android: LED flashlights are excellent, low energy devices that can put out serious light. Several phones—including the iPhone 4—use LED lights as camera flashes; free iPhone/Andrd…
Open Spot Finds and Shares Free Parking Spaces [Download]
Android: Open Spot is a free Android application from the folks at Google that finds available parking nearby and lets you mark free spots as you leave a parking spot. More »
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YouTube’s New Mobile Web Site Is HTML5-Friendly, Higher Quality than iPhone’s Native App [Cellphones]
YouTube just rolled out a new version of their mobile site at m.youtube.com, featuring an arguably better interface and higher quality video playback than what’s offered in the iPhone’s native YouTube …
Android 2.2 Seriously Outperforms iOS 4 in JavaScript Performance [Performance Tests]
Tech site Ars Technica tested JavaScript performance on an iPhone 4 running iOS 4 and a Nexus One running Android 2.2. The results: Android 2.2 (Froyo) smokes iOS 4 when it comes to JavaScript, clockin…