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  • g1 im app ported to motorola droid

    used to have a t-mobile g1 and miss your instant messenger application?  problem solved.  it can now be installed onto your motorola droid giving you access to your aol, msn and yahoo im accounts.  for whatever reason, google talk was left out making this not amazingly attractive unless you are a major user of those other 3 services.

    steps for installation:

    1.  go into settings -> applications and check the “unknown sources” box.
    2.  visit this post from your phone’s browser.
    3.  tap and download this file onto your phone:  IM.apk   (alt link)
    4.  tap on the downloaded application once it has finished.
    5.  install it and tap “open” when installation has completed.

    let us know if you run into any issues!

    (via alldroid)

  • multi-touch google maps 3.4 available in market!

    motorola droid users, prepare yourself to no longer feel like the stepchild of the android community. google maps 3.4 with pinch-to-zoom has been released in the market!

    (that’s a QR code by the way. scan with Barcode Scanner.)

    while the listing in the market doesn’t reference “pinch-to-zoom” it definitely has it.  also has the new labs goodies and updated navigation.

    if they are giving us multi-touch, you’ve got to really start believing that the 2.1 update is right around teh corner.  rejoice motorola droid users!  (insert beer emoticon)

    multi-touch 3d gallery

    the new gallery with pinch-to-zoom has not been released yet so make sure to download the ported version we posted the other day.

  • seesmic receives major update

    there was really just one thing holding seesmic back from becoming the best twitter application available for android (in our opinion).  and guess what?  they’ve fixed that issue along with many others in this latest update.

    the “one thing” we are talking about is the addition of multiple accounts…

    Multi Accounts
    The necessity to add multiple accounts to mobile devices has become one of the most significant elements of Seesmic Android. You can now add multiple Twitter accounts in the application, and cross-post messages at the same time. This means that you can easily navigate through multiple Twitter communication channels and stay in touch with all your followers simultaneously. Moreover, the notifications you will be receiving will announce you of the online activity of your default Twitter user.

    here are the other updates/fixes…

    • Adding an Extra Large text size option
    • Your profile information (avatar, number of following and followers,…) will now be updated automatically
    • Changing your Twitter account password will now be handled by the application
    • Composer now auto-corrects and auto-capitalize your words and sentences
    • Notifications are now cleared when the application is accessed from Launcher
    • Easily changing default account from the application’s Settings
    • Can remove a Twitter account simply by pressing on it

    download…

    (via seesmic blog)

  • 2.1 multi-touch google maps ported to droid

    you are most likely just reaching the peak of your excitement from the multi-touch gallery we posted last night right?  well don’t let those highs drop as you can now download a fully functioning google maps with multi-touch enabled.  i love this device.

    check the video with the new maps in action…


    instructions for installation…

    1.  go into settings -> applications and check the “unknown sources” box.
    2.  visit this post from your phone’s browser.
    3.  tap and download this file onto your phone:  maps3.4.0.apk   (alt link)
    4.  tap on the downloaded application once it has finished.
    5.  install it and tap “open” when installation has completed.

    the rest of the android 2.1 apps you need:

    1.  new eclair gallery with multi-touch
    2.  google maps with multi-touch
    3.  genie news and weather 2.1
    4.  launcher 2.1
    5.  music app 2.1
    6.  clock app 2.1
    7.  flan gallery 2.1

    (cheers xda-dev)

  • motorola devour has flash – what about droid?

    i can’t believe i missed this yesterday while writing the announcement post for the motorola devour.  i was on the motorola site pulling correct specs since the specs floating around the rest of the blogs were all wrong.  no idea how i overlooked this.  long day i guess…

    (click for big boy version)

    anyway, as engadget points out today, the motorola devour comes standard with a full html browser including flash lite. 

    Motorola’s official spec sheet for the Devour reveals that there’ll be a Flash Lite runtime on board — presumably version 3.1, which offers support for a variety of video codecs and Flash 9 content — and more importantly, it’ll work in the browser.

    any other droid users starting to feel really worthless?  that’s like your little brother inheriting grandma’s millions.  that’s like scottie pippen getting recognized as the greatest chicago bull ever.  that’s like…whatever.

    (via engadget)

  • 2.1 genie weather widget – clear version

    please welcome the clear version of the genie news and weather widget to the lineup of nexus one/android 2.1 apps to our ever-growing list.  this runs exactly the same as the old version, but is slightly tweaked to appear clear on your desktop.

    i recommend that you have a dark background when using this.  screencap of my desktop shows why…

    steps for installation:

    1.  go into settings -> applications and check the “unknown sources” box.
    2.  visit this post from your phone’s browser.
    3.  tap and download this file onto your phone:  GenieWidget-transparent.apk  (alt link)
    4.  once downloaded go into astro file manager and “downloads” folder.
    5.  tap on “Genie_Widget-transparent”.
    6.  tap “open app manager”
    7.  tap install.

    the rest of the android 2.1 apps you need:

    1.  nexus one / sense ui launcher
    2.  new eclair gallery with multi-touch
    3.  genie news and weather 2.1
    4.  launcher 2.1
    5.  music app 2.1
    6.  clock app 2.1
    7.  flan gallery 2.1

  • multi-touch coming to droid? motorola and google weigh in

    motorola and google have both confirmed that multi-touch will be available on the motorola droid, but that doesn’t necessarily mean we are guaranteed to have it with the next update.  what does that mean?  it’s all up to verizon my friends.

    motorola’s answer…

    While designing DROID, and all Motorola mobile devices, Motorola work very closely with carriers and partners to deliver differentiated consumer experiences, depending on the region, carrier preferences and consumer needs. DROID features double tap zoom, a new way to zoom in on content. For example, when viewing web pages, simply tap twice on the content you want to view and DROID automatically zooms in and fits the content to the width of the display. You can also zoom in and out with on screen zoom controls.

    and google with pretty much the same response…

    The Android 2.0 framework includes support for multi-touch. As with other Android platform technologies, such as the text-to-speech engine, operators and handset makers can choose to implement this technology. Regarding the specific pinch-to-zoom functionality included in this new update, once we make this software update (2.1-update1) available to operators and handset makers, they can update their Android-powered devices accordingly.

    so is that good news or bad news?  well good news that we essentially already knew.  bad news in the sense that verizon takes forever to do anything and will probably be arguing over multi-touch in some large conference room for the next 6 months all the while delaying our 2.1 update.  yay!

    (via android central)

  • flan (eclair) gallery 2.1 with multi-touch or pinch-to-zoom ported to droid

    i know we are all annoyed that the nexus one just received an update which included multi-touch in all of its major apps, but let’s look at the positives here:  all of these apps with multi-touch will now be ported over to our motorola droids! 

    the first one up is the flan or eclair gallery from 2.1 and the multi-touch or pinch-to-zoom works great…


    steps for installation:

    1.  uninstall other 2.1 flan gallery if you have it.
    2.  go into settings -> applications and check the “unknown sources” box.
    3.  visit this post from your phone’s browser.
    4.  tap and download this file onto your phone:  Gallery3DMT.apk   (alt link)
    5.  tap on the downloaded application once it has finished.
    6.  install it and tap “open” when installation has completed.

    (huge props again to the magicians at alldroid.org for this beauty.)

    the rest of the android 2.1 apps you need:

    1.  nexus one / sense ui launcher
    2.  new eclair gallery with multi-touch
    3.  genie news and weather 2.1
    4.  launcher 2.1
    5.  music app 2.1
    6.  clock app 2.1
    7.  flan gallery 2.1