Monthly Archives: June 2012

Review : Rounds

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What is it?
Rounds is an application for keeping score of card games, mini golf, and other games.

What does it do?
Rounds is used to keep score when you play cards, mini golf and other games. It features automatic score tallying, and has a spin the bottle feature to decide who goes first. The app also incorporates a unique, but very Holo-esque rotary disc to enter scores.… Read More

What It Should Have Been: 3G Watchdog

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What It Should Have Been is a series that takes a look at popular Android applications and how they should/could have been designed to meet the Android Design Guidelines.

Today’s What It Should Have Been comes from Ricardo Monteiro who sent us two excellent redesigns to share.

This first redesign we are featuring is of the popular 3G Watchdog application which was in desperate need of a UI overhaul to meet the Android Design Guidelines.… Read More

Songkick Concerts

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What is it?
Songkick Concerts is an application for finding concerts of your favorite bands.

What does it do?
Songkick Concerts is an app that is very similar to Gigbeat in that the idea is to help you discover when and where your favorite bands are playing. When you first launch Songkick, it will scan your current local music library for artists and try to match them with the Songkick database.… Read More

SoundHound / SoundHound∞

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SoundHound / SoundHound∞

What is it?
An application for answering the question, “What’s that song?” SoundHound bills itself as an “instant music search and discovery” application.

What does it do?
SoundHound allows the user the ability to tap on the soundhound icon, which starts the app listening for the song that is playing. SoundHound then compares the sound it hears with its vast database and determines the song name, artist, and album information.… Read More

Tasks

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Tasks

What is it?
An application for managing, sorting, and completing your tasks.

What does it do?
Tasks is an application used for the management of all of your lists and to-dos. The app sports an interface that closely follows the Android Design Guidelines and allows the user the ability to synchronize their tasks with Google’s Tasks (which resides within Gmail).… Read More