Posts tagged Free Android Apps
Bloo – Android Facebook Application
Mar 9th
Well this is the first of hopefully many android application reviews.
Everyone loves social networking and of course everyone loves keeping up to date with their friends on the move. Bloo is perfect for keeping up to date with your friends Facebook and also keeping them up to date with yourself.
The layout is simple and you’re greeted with this homescreen once you boot up the application.
As you can see this allows you to view:
- Inbox
- Feed
- Profile
- Friends
- Photos
- Events
The Feed
The feed is basically your friends feed and status updates. Here you can view your friends status updates and you also have the ability to “like” or comment on their updates. You can also view their latest photo uploads.
Profile
This is just your profile and it lets you view all your own updates along with comments and likes.
Friends
All of your friends can be found here and you can just navigate to their name and view their profiles. Friends are sorted Alphabetically by Surname, making it easier to find those friends you want to snoop on as quickly as possible. You can also keep track of your friends birthdays with notifications on who’s birthday’s are on the current day.
Photos
Here you have the ability to view your own photos by album. You can tag photos and edit the captions on your photos. Also the best part of this is that you can upload your photos to the album. This is handy for sharing your photos whilst on the move. Say you spot something when out and about that you just can’t wait to share with your friends. Then this is right up your street.
Events
Everyone gets invites to events on Facebook and this is one of the handiest parts of Bloo. You can sync the events that you are going to go along to and have them added to the calendar on your phone meaning you’ll never miss party or gig again. You will also find maps with directions to the event and if the organiser has added a flyer you can view this here too.
On the home screen you can find a “share” button which lets you update your status to share with the world of Facebook. This lets you share a text, video or link update with your friends.
As this application runs in the background you will be notified of any comments, likes, updates, friend requests and more and they will all appear in the notifications bar at the top of your Android phone.
I have tried almost all of the facebook applications that are available for free on the android marketplace and I have to say that for me Bloo wins hands down. It has the best features of all the applications and allows you to do more than any of the other applications.
Bloo rating 4.5/5
If you don’t have the pleasure of having an Android phone then head over to the main site to get yourself one for free.
http://www.free-android.co.uk
Top 5 Free Android Apps
Mar 7th
These are my top 5 android apps. These are all based on personal preference and you may find reasons to favour other applications. If you do then please don’t hesitate to recommend some apps by leaving a comment.
Seesmic
Seesmic is by far the best Twitter application available for Android mobile.
Seesmic for Android groups all your Twitter timelines in one simple screen. Whether you want to scroll infinitely in your friends timeline or want to find a private conversation with a friend, everything is one tap away in a beautiful interface.
Share photos, videos and your location in your tweets, with the service you want. We included popular photos and videos sharing websites like yFrog, TwitPic and even Youtube. You can also automatically shorten URLs you type with Bit.ly, J.mp or Tinyurl.
You can choose to be notified for what maters to you: all your tweets, your replies or your direct messages. Do you want to be alerted by a specific ringtone, or just by a discreet little light? No problem, you can configure to be notified for what you want and how you want.
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TasKiller
Taskiller is a tool allowing you to close your android aplications with one click. Many programs continue to run in the background while we believe them closed. These programs cluttering up memory and slow your android.
With its widget killall, with one click all your applications are closed simultaneously. With his ignore list, keep essentials applications unkilled.
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Handcent SMS
I find this app much nicer to look at and easier to use than the default sms app that comes built into the android phones.
Handcent sms is a free sms tools for android,it full unleash the power of your phone: Full support SMS & MMS ,great customize options,different style and power function(search sms,sms popup,speak sms & T9)
Send your funny or beautiful animated picture with FREE handcent greeting
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Bloo
Bloo is by far the best facebook application available for the android. It is yet to allow contact sync but it does have calendar sync meaning you can sync all your facebook events with your phone calendar meaning you never miss a thing.
Full features are oulined below.
Features:
- Real snapshot of the Feed
- View your wall, your friends wall and info
- Post to your wall or friends wall
- Contact merge to call your contacts
- View albums and upload photos
- Notifications (birthdays, events, comments)
- Events and event direction
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Gameboid
This has to be my favourite application of all time. I have been hooked on Pokemon again ever since I downloaded it and it’s taken me right back to my childhood playing it on my old Gameboy.
GameBoid is an emulator for the GameBoy Advance game console. It runs most commercial games flawlessly at nearly full speed in full screen mode with sound.
New:
* Flip buttons when upside-down
* Option: screen orientation
* On-screen buttons! (Rae Scott Design)
* Saved states with screenshot
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