Android Market Gets An Overhaul: Videos, Books, And More Discovery Options

Android Market Gets An Overhaul: Videos, Books, And More Discovery Options: "
Good news for Android users: starting today, Google is rolling out a new version of Android Market to all handsets running Android 2.2 or higher (which makes up the vast majority of Android users). It’s bringing with it a new UI, performance improvements, and a variety of features designed to help with app discovery, including new lists like ‘Top Grossing’ and recently trending applications (Google showed these additions off at Google I/O, but hasn’t rolled them out to the mobile client until now).


Oh, and everyone in the US is going to get their hands on the long-awaited Videos application, which was showcased at Google I/O but has only been available on a handful of devices until now. This new Market also merges the sale of Books, Video, and Apps into a single marketplace (before now you’d buy books using the dedicated Books app).


I haven’t gotten to try the new design yet, so I’m basing my impressions on the video you see here. The design looks like it’s taking a lot of cues from the Honeycomb version of Android Market — which I strongly dislike. But there are some nice touches, like the ability to swipe horizontally to jump between screens. I’ll reserve my judgement until I get some time with the app.


The new version of Market will be rolling out over a fairly long window — it may take as long as a month to arrive on your handset, though it sounds like US users may see it sooner.

Days Left Widget Pro Amazon Free app of the day

Days Left Widget Pro

Product Features

• Remember important dates, such as birthdays, anniversaries, product releases, and holidays
• Set the date and name of the event, then place it on your desktop and view the countdown
• Customize the widget with an appropriate color and overlay image to grab your attention

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Product Description

Keep track of important dates

120 fun icons

Count Down to Your Destiny

Do you want to count down the days until a game or gadget release? Have you ever forgotten an important date, such as your mom or girlfriend's birthday? Want to see when an important meeting occurs at a glance? Then Days Left Widget should be on your Android device's home screen.

Customize the Countdown

Days Left Widget has several useful settings. Customize the countdown to mark the days, weekdays (Monday through Friday), weeks, months, or years left to the event. Add notes to the event, and you can have the notes appear on the widget. Days Widget also counts the days after an event has occurred.
Days Left Widget comes in four sizes with 10 border colors. Decorate your widget from a selection of 120 icons. Set as many widgets as you can fit on your home screen. Days Left Widget offers the option of integration with the Catch Notes app, a handy app that allows you to create text or voice notes, attach photos and geotags, set up password protection, and much more.

T-minus 5, 4, 3, 2, 1

With Days Left Widget, you'll never miss an important event again. Set up a daily countdown to New Year's Eve, Christmas, your birthday, or to a random day just because you like daily countdowns. Days Left Widget adds both convenience and fun anticipation to the important days in your calendar.
Please note that Days Left Widget must be launched from the Widgets menu.

Days Left Widget Pro

Pocket Casts 06/27/11 Amazon Android Free App

Pocket Casts

Product Description

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 All of your podcasts are neatly organized in your library

If you like to know what's going on in the world, watch movies, play sports, laugh, or have hobbies, there's a podcast for you. Actually, if you're human, and you enjoy something, anything-- there's likely a podcast out there for you.
Pocket Casts makes searching, organizing, streaming, and enjoying your favorite podcasts quick and simple.

An Interface Designed for Podcast Perfection

Upon launching Pocket Casts, you'll notice the menu bar across the bottom of your screen that includes five icons: Library, Currently Playing, Newly Available Episodes, Search, and Settings.

Discovering Podcasts Just for You

You'll initially want to build your library, so the Search icon is a good place to start. Use the Search bar if you already know what you're looking for. If you want to explore, Pocket Casts has some stellar recommendations.
Peruse the Popular Podcasts section to see what other people are listening to, or go into the Browse Categories option and search by topic. Click on a podcast that interests you, read the brief description, and tap the Add button if you would like it in your Library.
Look around in the Podcast Networks option, and add podcasts from your favorite networks. You'll find anything and everything from ESPN and BBC, to NPR and FrogPants Studios.
You can also add podcasts by URL, or use OPML podcast import.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 The Pocket Cast search options make it easy to find the perfect podcasts for you

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 The Currently Playing menu option always displays the episode you're currently listening to

Your Podcast Library

Tap the Library icon to view thumbnails of your podcasts. A small red box shows the number of episodes you've not yet listened to next to each podcast. Tap the thumbnail to view the available episodes, including date of release, a brief description, length, and file size. Here, you have the option to download and listen.

Save Your Spot

The Currently Playing menu option always displays the episode you're currently listening to. It's easy to return to the right episode, exactly where you left off.

Never Miss a New Episode

The Newly Available icon on your menu keeps you current. This menu option displays all of the newly available episodes, with descriptions, under the podcast title. Enable notifications in the Status bar if you like, or have your phone vibrate when one is available. They are always there waiting for you--convenient, reliable, and ready when you are.

Settings and Download Details

You'll like this part. Instantly refresh up to 100 podcast in the same time it takes other apps to do one. Shifty Jelly, the developers of Pocket Casts, use their servers to monitor your feeds, so your phone doesn't have to. In the Settings, choose how frequently you want to refresh your podcasts and where you would like to store them--SD card or phone memory. Stream or download without file size limits with 3G or Wi-Fi network access.
Free up space automatically by altering your Episode Cleanup options. Choose to remove played episodes, or remove all downloaded episodes at once.

Features

• Instantly refresh up to 100 podcasts
• Stream or download without file size limits over a 3G or Wi-Fi connection
• Optional notifications for new episodes
• Supports landscape mode and large screens
• Customizable quick skip feature
• Download to SD card or phone memory
• Background downloading
• Search for podcasts-browse popular, by category, network, or URL
• Supports OPML podcast import
• Supports audio and video podcasts

Pocket Casts

Todays Amazon Free App is Solitaire Deluxe

Solitaire Deluxe

 

Product Description

Klondike Solitaire

For those moments when only a game of Solitaire will do, Solitaire Deluxe brings 16 different Solitaire games to your Android phone or tablet. Featuring a clean and elegant design, appealing graphics, and several ways to play, Solitaire Deluxe is your Android Solitaire solution.

Great Range of Games

Solitaire Deluxe comes with not one, not two, not three, but 16 different Solitaire card games. More familiar games like Klondike, FreeCell, Spider, Pyramid, Chinese Solitaire, Yukon, Poker, and Golf are joined by intriguing variations such as Tri-Peaks, Scorpion, Canfield, Kings Corner, Vanishing Cross, Spiderette, Russian Solitaire, and The Harp.
Not familiar with the rules of Scopion or The Harp? No problem--Solitaire Deluxe provides a comprehensive and user-friendly tutorial feature that describes in detail how to play a particular game.

Double the Fun

Solitaire Deluxe features two ways to play. Go to the Solitaire Arcade to play as many hands as you like from all the games. Or test your Solitaire skills by selecting the Daily Winnable Deals, in which you play up to five hands each in three different Solitaire games. The games change each day, so you'll want to check in regularly. Do well and you win rewards.

Tri-Peaks Solitaire

Reward Your Efforts

Winning hands let you earn reward points which can be used to acquire different card styles and playing backgrounds from the Solitaire Deluxe rewards store. And Solitaire Deluxe features full Facebook integration, allowing you to share your Solitaire solidarity with your friends and sync your scores and rewards credits.

The Good Word

• "The only game in town. There is value in such packages when they go the extra mile." - PocketGamer
• "The cream of the crop. Workers of the world, commence shuffling!" - LA Daily News
• "You will most likely get this if you really, really love Solitaire." - MobileGameFAQS.com

Solitaire Deluxe

Todays Amazon Free App normally $.99 free for today. Pocket Ants

Product Description

You have the powers of a god! Raise the waters, call the winds, bring the fire. You control the lives of all those ants. Whatever your desire, it is so.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Reward the worthy, punish the weak

Unlimited Power

You are king of the ants: feeding, squishing, burning, marching, exploding, fighting, moving, racing, and zapping your ants. Should the ants live in peaceful coexistence or battle to the death? Maybe burn them with a magnifying glass, make them race for food, or blow them away with a land mine?
With Pocket Ants, the choice is yours. Choose a weapon from the rack at the bottom of the screen, and start picking off ants one by one with the magnifying glass, in great swaths with the flamethrower, or in many other different ways. Get creative and combine weapons. There are also boons, like food, and other actions, like adding new ant hills. Many of the actions have race options where you pit black ant against red ant and see who wins. The real fun comes from trying different options together. And the ants don't just wait pateintly on your whim. They have lives: they push away the rocks you threw at them, finish off scraps of food, build their ant hills, and chase off or attack invading ants.
There are so many options in this game: electrocute and drown the ants with a storm, collect and move the ants with the ant mag

Pocket Ants (Ad-Free)