Vignette is a handy camera app for Android that gives you lots of freedom to customize your camera from effects to lighting and shooting options. It works as a standalone camera app, alongside a tool that lets you edit existing photos in the phone. Vignette is a paid application that can be downloaded from Android market.

The App

When you fire the Vignette app, you’ll be presented with a picture look-finder view, with further options right on the screen. On the left of the screen is the option that lets you adjust the area you’d wish to crop for the picture. Options to set effects, borders, megapixel, light adjustments, and the self-timer are to the right. An interesting feature in Vignette Android app is the ‘Blind’ that renders the display back so that you won’t know what you are actually clicking at. In short, given the various settings/features, you can virtually create the type of photo even before you actually snap it. However, you can post edit the photos if you wish so. The app also offers geo-tagging, and it works fine with the camera flash (if any).

At present, Vignette app for Android offers about 79 effects and multiple frames that you can apply on the photographs. It is also possible to apply different filters to multiple copies of the same picture. The app also lets you import photos for post processing or share it with others using already installed tools. You don’t need to approve lots of unnecessary permissions to do so unlike some other similar applications.

On the downside, Vignette’s loading time is a tad too long. There is no immediate preview option unfortunately, and for many, the learning curve may seem to be a bit steeper than usual. But that is understandable given the large number of features and customization options that the application offers.

Final Thoughts

Vignette, at the moment, is clearly the best app in its class for Android. In many ways, it is similar to Instagram app for iPhone. Vignette Android app is feature rich, with endless number customization options. We would recommend you try out its free version first. But the free app does not entirely utilize the megapixels of your camera, and for that you’ll need the pro version. A faster loading time, and a preview option would have made Vignette just perfect. But no complaints either, given what it offers on the Android platform. Verdict: A must have if you think Android missed an Instagram.

Two Best Apps Entertainment Games for Android

Greedy Pigs

While the creators of this game may have gotten the initial artwork for the pigs from the ever-popular Angry Birds, this game is completely and totally different, yet just as addicting.  This tower defense game has a very amusing story line in which the Dwarves have been given the task of protecting the Magical Booze Barrel for the evil Pigzillas.  Which of the three character choices you choose helps to control how the game will play out for you, as each offers their own set of skills.  The dozens of different maps available and the RPG characteristics also make this different from any other type of tower defense game on the market.  The graphics are bright, colorful, and cartoonish making it enjoyable to play and increasing the comic aspect of the game.

Random Mahjong Pro

Mahjong is a tile game that has been around for centuries and only becomes more and more addicting on each new gaming platform it becomes available.  While this game looks best on a tablet, it is still very playable and enjoyable on an Android phone.  One thing that is completely unique to this version is the ability to control virtually everything, from the camera angle to tile placements.  The random board generator ensures that you will never have to play the same game twice.  There are several different play modes, including one without a timer, allowing for a more relaxed game play.  The undo option can also be quite helpful, though some more serious players may choose to play without it.   If you get truly stumped, you can use the solution walk-through to show you how to exactly solve each level.

Feb 26, 2011  Best App Reviews Apps for Android Team Coco

Ah Conan, your media blitz has even included you in an app for Android; the illustrious Team Coco App on the Android Market.  Team Coco is a great app for those that love Conan O’Brien, TBS or late night comedy in general.

Comedy Clips

If you are looking for great comedy clips then this is the app for you.  That’s also one of the problems with the app, it just shows clips.  An improvement to the content of the app would immediately be adding full shows as opposed to just the teasers, but then again, it is free.  The problem though is that most app consumers as well as anyone that enjoys internet television is used to at least a full episode every once in awhile.  So, if you are looking for full episodes this is not the app for you.

Bands and Celebrities

One of the nice features of Team Coco is you do get a heads up on who will be on the show that night.  You can find out what bands and which celebrities will appear.  It also gives access to tweets from Conan and the show.

The app did have a rocky start with some technical difficulties.  Many were unable to view pics or clips and were faced with a dreadfully boring black screen.  Luckily, a recent update fixed that issue and now the HQ pics and clips have returned.

Fun App

If you were looking for an app that gives you access to all things Coco, then this is definitely the app for you.  It’s a fun app that is designed as a quirky and fun tool to track everything that is going on with the show and TBS comedy, but if you are expecting more (not sure what else could be expected) then skip the app and move to the next one.

Final Score

Best Apps is keeping this one installed on the Android phone simply to have a laugh or two every once in awhile.  Fans of Conan will appreciate the schedule and get a kick out of the brief moments of clip hilarity and photos.  TeamCoco occasionally runs a contest or two and the app is a great way to find out about those.

This app can bring a lot of laughs.  Best App Reviews scores Team Coco for Android as a 8/10.

The smart phones using Android software are all phones that operate with multitouch functionality, something that has really come across as rather expected and self-evident amongst new smart phones these days. However, there was a time when this technology was still innovative and novel and it is an homage to that period of time that exists in programs like Simply Draw app for Android.

Demonstrate multitouch to anyone

The basic premise behind the Simply Draw Android app is that you can use it with multitouch functionality in order to explain that functionality to anyone that might have questions. In this vein, it is a rather simplistic program intended for basic drawing and sketching purposes but since it does have multitouch functionality there is a surprisingly large array of different things that you can accomplish with it.

Not just a demo program

Although the main stated purpose of Android Simply Draw app is as a demo program, you can be pretty sure of the fact that it is not just a program for that specific purpose. Rather, it is a program that will allow you to create interesting pictures that can actually be saved to the folder for camera pictures so that you can take the file and use it later for other things.

There are different brushes and pens available for you to use in Simply Draw for the Android. Once you have selected the particular stroke feature that interests you the most, all you really have to do is make contact with the screen in order for the drawing to begin. You can change colors and draw different things together with different colors, making a gorgeous mosaic that you can be proud of at the end. For a demo program, you’ll find that Simply Draw Android mobile application actually does a decent job of keeping up with many of the other free drawing apps available.

Final Score

In addition to all of the great features already available for Simply Draw app for Android, you will find that HSL color picking features will be introduced at some point in the future. It is already a sweet software package and will only get better with the passage of time. For now it is already worth a download though and that is why we have decided to give Simply Draw Android app a final score of 7 out of 10.

Although steaming up the window is something hot that can certainly move a person in many ways, it can also be a fun way to express yourself with your cellular phone. Taking a closer look at Steamy Window app for Android can show you exactly how much fun you can have with your window.

Steam up the window and then wipe the steam off

The basic premise of Steamy Window Android app is that you start with the window being all steamed up and difficult to stare through. Once the window has been sufficiently steamed, you can then wipe off the steam by actually using your finger on the screen. In this way, you can draw images through the steam much in the same way that you would wipe off condensation on the window to create words and images. It is an excellent way to express yourself with images and you can have a lot of fun by using Steamy Window Android mobile application.

Great features to keep the fun going

At the same time that you are making use of the basic purpose of Android Steamy Window app, you can take a few minutes to appreciate everything else that it has to offer. For example, while you are actually going through and drawing through the steam, take a moment to check out the water drops contained on the window that can actually move and spill downwards creating streaks and lines of their own.

You can pick your own image in the background as well to see not only how steam interacts with different images, but also how it interacts with different colors. This is very similar to wiping off condensation on a car trip with different bits of natural and not so natural imagery going by in the background.

Finally, you can even regulate the amount of steam that gets placed on your window. Simply find the microphone on your Android device and then blow directly into it to steam up the window even more.

Steamy Window App for Android Final Score

This sweet Android app gets a final score of 8 out of 10 from our reviewers.

Although Paint has not been the most feature-rich imaging software every created for the Windows platform, it is certainly the one that has captured most imaginations. The simple reason for this is that it is easy to access and will do enough that people can really get some basic imaging tasks done while using it. Now, that excellence has made its way over to the Android with AndroPaint app for Android.

Do basic editing tasks

When using AndroPaint Android app, you can do all of the basic paint tasks that you would expect to have on your desktop computer. You can draw and pick from a number of different shapes while drawing. You can use different brush styles and types within styles. You can fill, you can pick colors and of course you can even resize, crop, cut, copy and paste images. It is all available to you when you use AndroPaint Android application.

In addition to all of those tasks, you can even do some more advanced stuff like taking a picture from the program and then setting that picture as the wallpaper on your background. You can add text to different images and you can even share the image that you’ve just saved through various social networking media. Undoing and redoing actions are both possible with this and while the default is for you to save your image as a PNG file, you can easily switch that over to the JPEG format if you would like it to be accessible to a wider range of people.

Errors regularly fixed

Another reason to appreciate AndroPaint app for Android is the fact that bugs cropping up with the app are fixed on a regular and fairly quick basis. For example, an earlier version of this software package used to crash on pictures that were especially large. At the same time, it was basically sound on smaller pictures. The creators added a patch for the software package fixing this problem and now the same great Android AndroPaint mobile app for features available for smaller images can be available for larger ones.

Final Score

AndroPaint mobile app for Android is an impressive app for the simple reason that it allows you to keep your imagination going. Whatever you are thinking of, scribbling it onto the AndroPaint canvas and looking at it later on is something that can be done. Our final score for AndroPaint Android app is 8 out of 10.

There’s nothing wrong with how basic playlists currently work. If you want to play one song after another after another, there is nothing wrong with just putting all three songs in order and then playing them straight up. However, what if you have preferential differences in songs and would like to hear some songs more than you hear others? If you want something more than a typical playlist can offer, Bubble Beats app for Android might be exactly the type of app that you are looking for.

Each song is a bubble

The way that Bubble Beats Android app works may take a little bit of doing for you to grasp completely, but at its most basic level the main thing for you to grasp is the fact that Bubble Beats mobile application will assign each bubble on the screen to a song that is currently accessible from your Android (i.e. either internal memory or a memory chip that is extra at the moment). Each song becomes a bubble and then the way in which you make edits to those bubbles is how you factor each song into a playlist.

Size is likelihood

The most obvious way in which this works is that the larger bubbles are more likely to get played. This means that if you like one song more than you like another song, make sure that you make its bubble larger. If you do that, you will end up hearing it more often when you start your playlist and that is something that in the end can really help you get the exact preferences that you want in terms of how much each particular song is played.

Connection is pathway

Another aspect of Bubble Beats Android app is that you cannot actually go from one song in your playlist to another if their bubbles are not connected together. This means that not only will the next song after the current song only belong to a bubble that overlaps with it, but the size is likelihood rules will kick in as well. This gives you a chance to create unique pathways and make sure that you keep apart two songs that you don’t want to play after each other.

Final Score

It will take you a long time to get used to everything that you can do with Bubble Beats Android mobile application, but even now you should see just how powerful this app can be. We can easily see it and that’s why we’ve given Bubble Beats Android app a final score of 9 out of 10.

The best thing about Android entertainment apps is that the good ones can sometimes be free. There is an enormous collaborative effort behind creating simple yet entertaining free apps and that is why things like Cougar RB can be free yet so entertaining.

See something new every time you finish making a call

The main point behind the Cougar RB app for Android is that you can see a new picture whenever you have finished making a call. The new picture will be displayed on the screen of your mobile device once the call has ended and you can then take a few moments to take a look at the picture in order to see if the picture appeals to you or if it is something that is really not that great.

Passive fun on the Android

If there is one really positive thing that could be said about Android Cougar RB app, it would have to be the fact that you can get fun out of this entertainment app in a passive way. Most entertainment apps have a direct relationship between active participation and fun, but this one will run in the background and send you entertainment whenever you finish making a call. Since this is the primary thing that you do with the phone anyway, you don’t actually have to do anything new in order to experience that kind of fun.

Cycle through multiple cougar images

Cougar RB Android app wouldn’t be very good at passive entertainment if the same picture appeared on the screen and that is why the creators have put a cycle system into the app’s programming. It will randomly pull a picture for you and that picture will be different each time you finish a call. This will allow you to look at many different cougar images and have lots of fun rating which ones are the best and which ones are not.

Final Score

Cougar RB Android mobile application gets a final score of 7 out of 10 in this review. It is a solid program with many good things going for it, but it is hampered through lacking a really good review system as well as functionality that will allow it to do more than just display pictures on the screen. If Android Cougar RB app is expanded a bit more in future releases, it can certainly score higher. Right now it is basic entertainment though and not much more.

If the TV Guide app was the first attempt to take the listings for television shows and place them online, what you’ll discover is that the TV Show Tracker created by Devare is the next point of evolution for this method of access. It has everything that a TV Guide app could have and then it has a lot more.

TV Guide functionality

As previously mentioned, the primary purpose of this Android entertainment app is to act as a TV Guide for you. In other words, you can scroll through the listings of different shows that are playing on different channels. You can find your favorite shows and find out when the next episodes for those shows happen to be. In fact, you can actually plan things out months in advance because of how comprehensive and accurate the TV Guide actually is.

Enhanced TV Guide functionality

The above feature is important, but it is not really groundbreaking since every single mobile application out there that deals with television shows has the same basic functionality. Instead, what makes TV Show Tracker Android app so great are the detailed search functions that you can employ when you are using it to look up your shows.

In total, TV Show Tracker app for Android has about 500 shows that are indexed in detail in its database. All of these have detailed search options attached to them so that you can take a look at the different shows and then choose the ones that you’re interested in above the rest. Once you’ve gone through the process of doing that, you can sort the lists by whatever method you’d like. You can pick favorite shows and display only those or if you’d just like to browse you can go back to the basic TV Guide format whenever you want.

Final Score

Although the Android TV Show Tracker app sorting and searching features may not seem that important to you right now, you’ll realize the first time you’re quickly trying to find an episode of your favorite show just how important they can be. If you want to find out whether you need to go home early tonight to watch the show or not, you definitely need this app by your side. In that situation, all you’d have to do is fire it up, sort by your favorites and then look that information up. It’s useful enough that we’ve decided to give TV Show Tracker Android app a final score of 7 out of 10.

Flixster has become a household name in online movie-going excellence for many people around the world. Now, they’ve decided to go from the world of the online desktop computer to the handheld mobile smart phone. One of their first forays into the market of free Android apps was Movies and now it is well into its second round of versions and is still getting better with each successive release of a new software package.

Find movies in your area

Even though going to movies has become less popular with the advent of the internet, there can be no denying that the movie experience is still one of the best entertainment experiences around. Flixster Android app understands this and that is why they’ve included functionality in this app to help you get local timings for movies in your local area. You can browse the theatres that are closest to you and pick out a time and a location that suits you fine. No longer do you have to worry about getting the show times at home because you can get them on your mobile device. You can even find information about IMAX theatres on Android Flixster app.

Read reviews

Rotten Tomatoes aggregates a bunch of reviews and gives the movie an overall score. Now, Rotten Tomatoes is easily accessible right from your Movies app, allowing you to bypass your browser and just get at a review right away.

Watch trailers

At the current moment in time, Movies has 15,000 trailers on it with more being added every time an update is pushed through. With so many different trailers available, what people are starting to realize is that you can have a lot of fun with Flixster app for Android simply by sitting down somewhere and scrolling through all of the different trailers that are available.

Look at DVDs

Are you interested in seeing what a certain DVD retails for nowadays?  If so, you can certainly take a closer look at the DVD section of Flixster mobile application which will have that information readily available for you.

Final Score

Imagine walking around somewhere and deciding you’d like to watch a movie. With this app, you can read reviews of what’s currently playing, choose a movie, find a show time near you and then watch the trailer for that movie to get you in the mood. This is simply fantastic mobile functionality and that’s why Flixster Android app gets a final score of 9 out of 10 from this review.