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Due to licensing and permissions issues, we are unable to show the full Google TV demonstration from the Day 2 keynote at Google I/O. Until we are able to get these permissions, please check out these clips. For Google I/O session videos, presentations, developer interviews and more, go to: code.google.com/io

The best 5 Android Apps you didn’t know about – read the full review on moddroid.com

We’ve all see top 10 Android app lists circulating online. Michael Callahan runs through the first five in his personal top ten Android apps; Doc digs a little deeper to find some real must-have Android apps @ butterscotch.com: bit.ly

The best iPhone and Android apps to help you get through your busy day.

Want to fill that app drawer of yours? Here are my personal “must have” Android Apps, presented on a Samsung Galaxy S i9000 (which I will be selling soon on eBay) – they can all be found on the Android Market: 1.) ADW Launcher (free) 2.) Beautiful Widgets (1.49) 3.) Astro File Manager (free) 4.) Task killer (free) 5.) Battery Status Bar 6.) Agenda Widget (free) 7.) Double Twist (free) 8.) Dolphin Browser HD (free) 9.) Tweetcaster for Twitter (free) 10.) The Schwartz Unsheathed (free) Enjoy! Don’t forget to Rate, Comment, & Subscribe You can follow me Twitter for the latest tech news & updates: twitter.com (yes, without the “n”)

Want to fill that app drawer of yours? Here are my personal “must have” Android Apps, presented on a Samsung Galaxy S i9000 (which I will be selling soon on eBay) – they can all be found on the Android Market: 1.) ADW Launcher (free) 2.) Beautiful Widgets (1.49) 3.) Astro File Manager (free) 4.) Task killer (free) 5.) Battery Status Bar 6.) Agenda Widget (free) 7.) Double Twist (free) 8.) Dolphin Browser HD (free) 9.) Tweetcaster for Twitter (free) 10.) The Schwartz Unsheathed (free) Enjoy! Don’t forget to Rate, Comment, & Subscribe You can follow me Twitter for the latest tech news & updates: twitter.com (yes, without the “n”)

Google I/O 2010 – Writing zippy Android apps Android 201 Brad Fitzpatrick Come hear tips & war stories on making fast, responsive (aka “non-janky”) Android apps. No more ANRs! Eliminate event loop stalls! Fast start-ups! Optimized database queries with minimal I/O! Also, learn about the tools and techniques we use to find performance problems across the system and hear what’s coming in the future. For all I/O 2010 sessions, please go to code.google.com

With the official arrival Android, consumers are comparing the apps offered by iPhone and Android. In our technologically savvy age, consumers are making choices based on what are the latest and best options that will perform as they expect. When considering smart phones and the services they can provide, the differences between the apps could determine their decision making process.

New to the Android platform are popular iPhone apps, Facebook and Pandora. The key difference between the user experiences of these apps is that with Android they have a presence on the home screen. Designed by the Android developers to increase the user friendly feel, this is a strength in the Android platform.

iPhone has completed some updates of their Facebook application by adding Facebook Events and video uploading that is direct to Facebook. This update has been well reviewed by diehard iPhone users and critics. The Facebook app is one of the most used and most popular of all of the iPhone apps as social networking sites have grown in popularity.

The Facebook app developed for Android that was created by a collaboration from Google and Facebook has been criticized for lacking many of the integral features that the iPhone app has. However, it does benefit from the ability of running apps in the background that the Android platform has. Its home screen widget and Facebook contacts folder are clear benefits and have an ease of use.

User friendly, the widget created by Android app developers is a blank box where you can update your Facebook status and below it lists your friends’ updates as well and is self updating. From this app, Android creates a contact list based on your friends if they have phone numbers listed in their profile. The contacts are well organized in an alphabetical manner. It also lists their profile picture which can be used as an icon that you can press to pull up their phone number in the Android dialer. The functionality of this app is makes staying in touch via Facebook easy.

When comparing the iPhone and Android app capabilities for Pandora, they are nearly identical. Pandora has proven to be hugely popular with iPhone users, so Pandora wanted to make it just as successful with Android. The Android app developers created an app that focuses on Android’s ability to run applications in the background. A user either use the full screen Pandora app or exit to the home screen where a widget can be used to rate songs and control music playing options easily. However, if you need to switch stations, you will need to go full screen to do so.

As the Android roll out are fairly new, new apps and updates to existing apps will be continually available. If you are in the market for a new smart phone and want to see which platform will suit you best, make sure to do research on the apps available and their reviews for both iPhone and Android.

Developers for iPhone, iPod touch, and now the iPad have long complained about lack of access to the iTunes library, the file store and metadata for uploaded files. While version 3.0 of the OS provided limited playback capabilities (play/pause/stop), it was a far cry from what you’d need to build a DJ or other music app that made use of a user’s content. You couldn’t, for instance, adjust volume control, cueing, no mixing, or scratching.

With iOS 4.0, currently available for the iPhone and iPod touch, that changes. CDM has confirmed with developer Async Games that a new public API (meaning a fully supported developer tool) provides full-blown access to the iTunes library. Result: you can now, for instance, scratch audio from songs uploaded from iTunes on a Mac or PC to the device. That is likely to mean a coming flood of DJing on the iPhone and iPod touch, soon to be followed by the iPad whenever the 4.0 OS becomes available for Apple’s tablet. (Nor is this even limited in applicability to DJ apps – iTunes could become a more convenient way for syncing your own tracks and samples, or loading a playlist of backing tracks or other musical content onto your Apple mobile.)

That flood is coming, but so far, the first app to actually ship with support for the feature is Flare Scratch, a simple simulation of a turntable with touch scratch support. You can scratch any song in your iTunes library. Apparently, the API isn’t entirely perfect, but it sounds like a step in the right direction. The developers of Flare Scratch also make a more full-featured DJ tool called Baby Decks DJ for the iPad, which could mean that, with iPad support, the tablet could become an all-in-one DJ solution. (Of course, a MacBook still has one significant edge – far, far greater storage capabilities.)

Flare Scratch @iTunes
Flare site

Incidentally, this isn’t an issue with Google’s Android platform, which provides open access to any file stored on the user’s SD card, and complete buffer access to that media. Android suffers, however, from a different set of issues, like inconsistent handset audio drivers that can interfere with crackle-free, low-latency audio performance. (That situation looks brighter in the future, but it’s a whole other can of worms.)

Anyway, if you’re all alone on a park bench and want to scratch softly to yourself, you now have a solution. (Other videos, ranging from the useful tutorial to the somewhat frightening demo, at iflarescratch’s YouTube channel.)

I hereby open commenting to a bunch of people complaining about how this will ruin DJing and continue the slow decay of civilization itself. (Hey, I’m just the messenger. Leave me out of it.)

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