Most smart phones these days have good cameras that let to snap quality, high resolution pictures with ease. But when it comes to sharing it with others via EDGE or GPRS (or even 3G at times), or SNS such as Facebook, it fails to upload quickly, thanks to its file size. Image Shrink app for Android attempts to solve this trouble by letting you ‘shrink’ the size of your photos to customized sizes, before sharing it in the way you wish. Image Shrink Android app may be downloaded from Google Play for $0.99.

How Image Shrink Android App Works?

Image Shrink app for Android does not modify your original photo; instead it shrinks a copy of it. By default, the app comes with five size options ( QQVGA 160×120, QVGA 320×240, VGA 640×480, SVGA 800×600, and XGA 1024×768), plus one custom size that the users can decide for themselves. Further, Image Shrink lets you create images with different quality/resolution (low, medium, high & best), how to name it (unique digit, unique suffix etc), alongside giving you the option to keep all Exif, GPD, date, and time data.
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Technically, Android Image Shrink app sits between your photos and the application you wish to send the images to. That is, first you send your images to Image Shrink, and after resizing the images, the app will send it to the applications you wish the photos to be sent to. You can access Image Shrink from the “Send To”/”Attachments” menu; when you wish to send an image after shrinking it, activate Image Shrink from the said menu, shrink your image by choosing the size, then pick whatever application you want to send the image with, and the app will automatically insert/attach the shrunken image to the said application.

The user interface is easy to use; the various options/menus are well laid out.

Final Thoughts

Image Shrink app for Android for delivers what it promises; it shrinks the photos to various sizes seamlessly. Its integration with other apps is also optimal as there is no lag whatsoever in any of the steps in between. If you wish to know its features, you may first try out the ‘Lite’ version of the app that comes for free of cost. Verdict: Image Shrink is a handy application for your Android device, if you tend to share pictures with your friends often.

Despite the fact that a majority of Wikipedia contents can be edited or changed by pretty much anyone, the online encyclopedia portal is still one of the most visited websites in the cyberspace today. However, for Android users, it was not a pleasant experience to view Wikipedia in crammed space of their mobile browsers. The readability was affected severely. The intro of Wapedia app for Android is aimed at solving this dilemma to a good extent.

Overall

Wapedia does not bog down the Android handset through heavy graphics or page contents. “Categories, Did You Know, In the News, Featured Content, Random Articles and Popular Pages”, these choices are all present among the main screen options, which t can make searching so much easier for the users. For a more traditional search, a search bar features at the top of the screen. Users need only to type in the search keywords, and the app returns the relevant results from Wikipedia database.

As mentioned, since Wapedia is designed exclusively for the Android environment, the app renders the pictures as it appears in the original Wikipedia website, but optimized for the Android browser being used, with the search bar at the top of every page rendered so that the users can continue with the search, if they wish so.

Wapedia Android app also shows the articles section, the same section in Wikipedia that displays random info from a variety of fields. The articles are pulled up in the same manner as in search results, and are easy to navigate and fun to read all the time.

Last, but not the least, the app offers an “auto completion” of titles option, which makes search a lot quicker, and easier for the users to perform. The app seems to work very well even in EDGE connectivity, not to mention its performance under 3G connectivity, which is nothing but instantaneous.

Conclusion

Wapedia mobile application has done real good work in bringing the utility of Wikipedia portal into the Android environment. Wapedia app does not strain the Android resources while it works, even though it offers pretty much everything that the Wikipedia website represents in the web. The learning curve is flat that even a novice could use Wapedia sans any external help. Overall, Wapedia an excellent app to have in your Android gadget; Also, it is free of cost!

Some people dream about being the lead singer or guitarist and others think about being the bassist. If you’re like me though, you grew up wanting to be the drummer. The guy in the background may not be the one getting the most attention, but they usually have such a cool vibe around them that they always attract a cult following. That’s why people would want to be one and even if you don’t have your own band, you can still pretend that you’re one of the best in the business with the Tub Thumper app for Android.

Use the simple tap interface effectively

The interface for Tub Thumper Android app is about as simple as it can get. Tub Thumper is a set of drums with all of the snare drums, tom-toms, base drums and cymbals that would come with a drum kit. In order to hear the sound of one of those instruments, all you need to do is tap the appropriate instrument and you’ll hear the right percussive sound. As far as this Android mobile app handling goes, it simply does not get any easier than that.

Keep the beat for your favorite tunes

The first part of Tub Thumper app for Android involves you playing your favorite songs. As those songs go through, you can tap the drums in front of you to keep the beat to those songs and make sure that your other band members know what’s going on. You can judge yourself, learn and practice so that by the end you’ll know exactly where each beat in each song is supposed to go from your end.

Play your own stuff

Eventually, even the most diehard fans will get tired of following the works of others. You’ll want time to noodle around on your own in order to discover new things. Well, that’s exactly what the other mode of this app is for. You can tap along either in acoustic or electronic sub-modes in order to see what your own songs would sound like if you were to sit down and really hammer them out. You might not believe just how fun and addictive this mode is until you’ve tried it out yourself.

Final Score

Tub Thumper Android app may not replace actually rocking along with a real band and keeping time for them, but it is definitely the next best thing. As a result, we’ve given Tub Thumper app for Android a final score of 9.0 out of 10.

More and more people are starting to become very interested in the hours they put in for their employer. With the advent of mobile technology, there are many people out there that now have the ability to keep track of those hours on their cellular phone. If you’d like to join these people, the Time Card Pro app for Android is a handy way to do just that. At just $0.99 for the download, this Android mobile app is most definitely a steal. In the future, it may even be possible to download a lite version for nothing at all.

Each Punching In And Out on the Timecard

Time Card Pro Android app actually does function very much like the timecard that people used to have when they punched into and out of work. There are many different ways that timecards were used in the traditional workplace, but most of them these days do not go by that same timecard system. The good news for you of course is that you can now use app technology to get that system back. Simply mark the appropriate box on your app when you start working and then mark the appropriate box when you stop working. There is no fuss and no mess when you use Time Card Pro mobile app for Android.

Extraordinary Record Keeping At the Mark of a Box

Even though you’re only doing two simple things each day with Time Card Pro, the level of record keeping that you can get from it is quite amazing. Using Time Card Pro mobile application, you can easily keep track of the standard hours that you work, the overtime hours that you work, the vacation days that you have and the sick days that you also have. It is your handy employment assistant doing everything in one simple package.

Get Information Sent To You

Even though Time Card Pro can do these things for you, chances are pretty good that your personal records might be somewhere other than your Android device. That’s why Time Card Pro has the added functionality of being able to send the information it gathers to your e-mail account so that you can then easily add it to your own personal records.

Final Score

Time Card Pro app for Android is definitely one of the better apps available of its type. That’s why we’ve given Time Card Pro Android app a final score of 8.5 out of 10.

These days, data sharing agreements with Smartphone technology are usually reasonably priced. That being said, you can end up incurring ridiculous amounts of money for data transmission if you go overboard on the transmitted data. For that reason, anything that can help you cut down on the amount of data transmitted will not only save you the time of a lower data requirement, but also the money that comes along with it. Opera Mini will do both of these things for you if you start using it with your Google Android device.

Opera Mini Android App Features

Opera Mini app for Android is a compression genius. It has the ability to compress the information you receive by as much as 9 out of every 10 units of storage. For that reason, you can get the same browsing experience with a lot less data transfer involved. Even though things are a bit different on the screen, the end result is that Opera Mini app for Android has cut down on the amount of material that needed to be loaded for a similar end effect.

You can save lots of time with Opera Mini Android app. Because the data amounts loaded are so much smaller with this particular Android app, the amount of time the loading takes is also cut down. Android phones already tend to be great with quick data transfer and this will only accentuate that fact even more.

Another thing that you can save with Opera Mini mobile app is money! The more you end up loading, the more money you’ll save. If you have a conventional data sharing agreement that does not involve unlimited data transfer, Opera Mini will allow you to browse 3-4 times more material before hitting your limit and after that will more than halve the amount of money you pay in extra data charges.

Finally, Opera Mini mobile app for Android allows for synchronization. If you have Opera installed on your laptop or desktop computer, you can sync it up with your Android mobile device. It will allow you to share bookmarks, history and everything else that the Opera browser can store. With that kind of collaborative ability, you can easily pick up on one machine right where you left off on the other one.

Final Thoughts

Opera Mini is an excellent Android app that has a lot to offer the average consumer. For that reason, we’ve given Opera Mini Android app a final score of 9.5 out of 10.

Express News Android App Review

There’s nothing better than finding out what’s going on in your community … your city or state … your country … or anywhere around the world – when you want the information. And now, you can get it with Express News. This is an outstanding application, available through Android that gives you “instant access” to news and current events almost as quickly as they happen.

Application Name:

Express News App is made available by Handmark, Inc and enables users, like you, to find out, fast, what’s going on in the world around you.

Summary:

This remarkable application actually gives you the very best, most up-to-date and relevant news on the mobile web without a browser. It’s easy-to-use and very effective. All you have to do is open Express News App and get instant access to more than 150 news feeds from major news organizations all over the world.

For example: you can retrieve the latest news from the Associated Press … for the Canadian Press … from Agence France-Presse … and from many, many more ,major and legitimate news organizations – over 150 in all! Who needs a newspaper … or a television network to find out the latest news in politics … world affairs … show business … sports … and anything else that you find interesting.

The news you want – all of it – is available inside your mobile phone. It just doesn’t get any easier than that. Better yet, this application is free.

User Interaction:

This is a great idea if you enjoy staying well-informed. You can access information and news almost as quickly as it happens.

User Interface: There are no special technical skills needed to use this application. All you have to do is “open the application” on the mobile web and – instantly – access news and information from 150 or more prominent world-class news sources. It makes newspapers virtually obsolete. And you won’t have to rush home to watch the network news on television at 6:00 P.M.

Utility and Productivity:

Express News is the one application that puts an experienced reporter “in your pocket” … gives you easy access to news throughout the day … helps you stay informed and knowledgeable. It’s a terrific application … and it’s available in 8 languages.

Rating

People who use Express News app really like it. People who use Express News app really like it. The price is right – its’ Free!  It is also so easy-to-use. You’ll find it, conveniently, right on the mobile web – 24 hours a day, seven days a week. And, of course, you’ll find whatever news interests you – local, statewide, national … even international. Enjoy using it.