Air Control Lite

Today's app of the day is Air Control Lite.

If anyone has played Flight Control on iOS, then Air Control Lite should be no surprise, as at the end of the day it is pretty much an exact replica.

As with many replica's though, Air Control Lite is still a great quality application, and although it can no points for originality, it still is worthy of being downloaded and played by anyone with an android device. Of course, Flight Control has now made it's way to the android market, but for $2.99, Air Control Lite is still your best bet for an "runway management" game.

For the un-initiated to this form of game, I will hand over to the developer:

Control the air traffic, and help the air crafts safe to the ground

In this simple yet surprisingly addictive drawing game you take on the role of Air Traffic Controller. It is your job to direct airplanes to runways while avoiding collisions.

FEATURES

★ Classic game mode as well as the unique puzzle game mode
★ Online highscores
★ Countless hours of addictive gameplay
★ #1 Android air traffic controller game

Air Control Lite

Price: Free

Official eBay Android App

Today's app of the day is the Official eBay Android App.

The Official eBay Android App features everything that is expected from a mobile app version of eBay. with a  clean interface and great feature list, the Official eBay Android App makes it easy to buy, sell and manage purchases from your handheld device.

Great features include:

• the ability to track your packages from your handset;
• receive notifications of important events
• search easily for things to buy with a great browsing / filtering search system
• the ability to quickly list new items for sale in minutes
• Paypal intergration for quick and easy payment
• barcode scanning
• ability to quickly leave feedback and see outstanding action items

 

 

Official eBay Android App

Price: Free

Comic Strips

Today's app of the day is Comic Strips.

Comic Strips is a great android app allowing easy subscription and viewing of over 120 popular comic. Comic Strips allows you to easily browse a list of comics, then subscribe with a single click. Once subscribed, notifications will begin to appear when new comics are uploaded.

 

Comic Strips allows easy sharing of apps, pinch to zoom, easy storing of apps (on the SD card) and a great, neat, user interface. Straight from the mouth of the developer, supported comics are:

1 2 Cows and a Chicken
2 9 Chickweed Lane
3 9 to 5
4 The Academia Waltz
5 Adam@Home
6 Agnes
7 Alley Oop
8 Andy Capp
9 Animal Crackers
10 The Argyle Sweater
11 Arlo and Janis
12 Ask Shagg
13 B.C.
14 Back in the Day
15 Bad Reporter
16 Baldo
17 Ballard Street
18 Barkeater Lake
19 The Barn
20 Barney & Clyde
21 Basic Instructions
22 Ben
23 Betty
24 Bewley
25 Big Nate
26 The Big Picture
27 Big Top
28 Biographic
29 Birdbrains
30 Bliss
31 Bloom County
32 Bo Nanas
33 Bob the Squirrel
34 Boomerangs
35 The Boondocks
36 The Born Loser
37 Bottomliners
38 Bound and Gagged
39 Brainwaves
40 Brevity
41 Brewster Rockit
42 Broom Hilda
43 The Buckets
44 Café con Leche
45 Calvin and Hobbes
46 Candorville
47 Cathy
48 C'est la Vie
49 Cheap Thrills Cuisine
50 Chuckle Bros
51 Citizen Dog
52 The City
53 Cleats
54 Close to Home
55 Compu-toon
56 Cornered
57 Cow and Boy
58 CowTown
59 Cul de Sac
60 Daddy's Home
61 Dark Side of the Horse
62 Deep Cover
63 Diamond Lil
64 Dick Tracy
65 The Dinette Set
66 Dog Eat Doug
67 Dogs of C-Kennel
68 Domestic Abuse
69 Doodles
70 Doonesbury
71 The Doozies
72 Drabble
73 Dude and Dude
74 The Duplex
75 Eek!
76 The Elderberries
77 Endtown
78 F Minus
79 Family Tree
80 Ferd'nand
81 Flo and Friends
82 The Flying McCoys
83 For Better or For Worse
84 For Heaven's Sake
85 Fort Knox
86 FoxTrot
87 FoxTrot Classics
88 Frank & Ernest
89 Frazz
90 Fred Basset
91 Free Range
92 Freshly Squeezed
93 Frog Applause
94 The Fusco Brothers
95 Garfield
96 Garfield Minus Garfield
97 Gasoline Alley
98 Get a Life
99 Get Fuzzy
100 Gil Thorp
101 Ginger Meggs
102 Girls & Sports
103 Graffiti
104 Grand Avenue
105 The Grizzwells
106 Haiku Ewe
107 Heart of the City
108 Heathcliff
109 Herb and Jamaal
110 Herman
111 Home and Away
112 Hubert and Abby
113 Imagine This
114 In the Bleachers
115 In the Sticks
116 Incidental Comics
117 Ink Pen
118 It's All About You
119 Jane's World
120 Jim's Journal
121 Joe Vanilla
122 Jump Start
123 KidSpot
124 Kit 'N' Carlyle
125 The Knight Life
126 La Cucaracha
127 Last Kiss
128 The LeftyBosco Picture Show
129 Legend of Bill
130 Liberty Meadows
131 Lio
132 Little Dog Lost
133 Lola
134 Loose Parts
135 Lost Side of Suburbia
136 Love Is...
137 Luann
138 Lucky Cow
139 Maintaining
140 Marmaduke
141 The Meaning of Lila
142 The Middletons
143 Minimum Security
144 Moderately Confused
145 Molly and the Bear
146 Momma
147 Monty
148 Mutt & Jeff
149 My Cage
150 MythTickle
151 Nancy
152 Nest Heads
153 NEUROTICA
154 New Adventures of Queen Victoria
155 Non Sequitur
156 The Norm
157 Off the Mark
158 On A Claire Day
159 One Big Happy
160 The Other Coast
161 Out of the Gene Pool Re-Runs
162 Over the Hedge
163 Overboard
164 PC and Pixel
165 Peanuts
166 Pearls Before Swine
167 Pibgorn
168 Pibgorn Sketches
169 Pickles
170 Pinkerton
171 Pluggers
172 Pooch Café
173 PreTeena
174 Prickly City
175 Rabbits Against Magic
176 Raising Duncan

218 W.T. Duck

219 Yenny
220 Zack Hill
221 Ziggy
222 The DogHouse Diaries
223 xkcd

224 Dilbert 

Comic Strips

Price: Free

Drop

Today's app of the day is Drop.




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Drop is one of the simplest games you find on the android market, yet is still great to play. Featuring nothing but tilt controls, the object of the game is to simply "drop" a red ball as far as you can down an endless array of levels.

There are other "ball drop" games on the market, but for a quick time filler it is hard to go past the Drop.

Drop

Price: Free

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Wapedia: 4 Wikipedia & more!

Today's app of the day is Wapedia.

If you are one of those people who, when presented with an "unanswerable" questions at a dinner party immediately pull out a phone to discover the answer, then Wapedia is for you. For me, these questions are usually along the lines of "What city has a greater population?" or "What type of animal (reptile, mammal, etc) is a turtle?" (specific I know).

Of course Wikipedia if the first port of call to answer these questions, and Wapedia makes that a simple and intuitive task from your mobile phone. I realise there are lots of apps of out there that allow direct access to Wikipedia, and I admit I have not even tried a small percentage of them. For the time being however, I am using Wapedia and it seems to tick all the boxes, plus feature a few bonus features that the standard Wikipedia apps do not include.

As stated, the expected features of Wapedia include widgets, language support, the ability to view images, etc - pretty much all the things you would expect from a Wikipedia app. The "bonus" features though are what sets Wapedia apart, and primarily are due to the ability to search not just Wikipedia, but a variety of other "wikis" as well, including: 

• Wikiquote,
• Uncyclopedia,
• Wikitravel, and
• a variety of wikis about games and TV shows

Wapedia also features a great home screen that allows quick access to news, random articles, features content, popular articles and more. So, if you like to have all the answers at your fingers tips, give Wapedia  a try!

Wapedia 

Price: Free

Google Shortcuts

Today's app of the day is Google Shortcuts.

If you are a user of more than a couple of Google's services, then Google Shortcuts will be a handy addition to your android device. In short, Google Shortcuts allows you to easily access both the web and app versions of all Google service through a quick, simple and easy to rearrange interface.

The supported services include: Google Search, Google Plus, Gmail, Android Market, Android Market Console (for developers), Google Music Beta, Google Image, Picasa, Google Map, Google Buz, Youtube, Google Earth, Google Books, Google Docs, Google Reader, Google Task, Google Translate, Blogger, Google Analytics, Admob, Google Contacts, Google Cloud Print, Google Checkout, Google Calendar, Google Adsense, Google Adwords, Google AppEngine, Google Alerts, Google Apps, Google Url Shortener (Goo.gl), Google Finance, Orkut, Google Voice, Google Shopper, Google Talk and Google Remote TV

Google Shortcuts

Price: Free

Blast Monkeys

Today's app of the day is Blast Monkeys.

Blast Monkeys is a great, addicting game, and in my opinion is one of the best games for android devices.

In short, the object of Blast Monkeys is to launch your monkey (Moki) into a giant barrel of bananas, by launching through additional "single" bananas on your way to the larger bunch. The more bananas you hit on the way, the more points you get for that particular round.

Levels are short but challenging, and it is obvious in both design and level progression that Blast Monkeys has drawn a lot from Angry Birds. This isn't a problem though, as although Blast Monkeys shares some minor similar traits, these are primarily aesthetic. The gameplay on the other hand, although physics based (well, gravity based), is unique.

Stopping Moki from reaching the elusive bunch of bananas are solid obstacles, moving obstacles and additional canons. All in all, these obstacles make Blast Monkeys not only fun, but also challenging enough to keep you playing "just one more time".

All in all, Blast Monkeys is a great game, with bright colourful graphics, a large number of levels and gameplay perfect for short bursts of fun.

Blast Monkeys

Price: Free

Mini Info

Today's app of the day is Mini Info.

Mini Info is a great app to allow you to quickly manage settings on your android device. There are plenty of apps out there that do similar things, with a number of them installed as default widgets on most android devices. Despite this, most widgets and apps always seem to be missing a few critical settings or options.

With Mini Info that is not a problem. Featuring a great widget to provide a quick view to the "status" oh your phone (battery level, cpu usage, etc), a quick click of Mini Info will take you to a simple screen allowing you to do two great things: (1) toggle settings with a quick tap (i.e. brightness, wi-fi, gps, timeout, etc) and (2) access the android menus for those actual settings with a long press.

Having the option to either quick toggle or to delve a bit deeper and access the android specific menus is a great feature of Mini Info that sets it apart from the plenitude of similar apps in the android market.

In the words of the developer:

A simple & hassle free way for device info. Widgets, toggle bar, and lots more!

Enter Mini Info 2.0, the most beautiful system health monitor on Android. It gives everything you need in a fast, easy to use display.

-----Features:-----

State of the art Mini Info Widget:

- 10 Background to choose from
- Black or White Text Color
- Number of items
- Individually set either Battery, Disk Space, SD Card, RAM or CPU
- Unique preview pane showing how the widget would look on the homescreen
- Quickly access the main Mini Info for extended detail and shortcuts

Main Information:

- New 2.0 High def icons
- Battery
- Internal Disk Space
- SD Card Space
- RAM Usage
- CPU percent
- Toggle Bar with 11 toggles: Wifi, GPS, Bluetooth (BT), Volume, Brightness, Airplane mode, Screen Timeout, APN (3G GSM EDGE), Unlock Pattern, Auto Rotation, Auto Sync
- Complete Help and Documentation
- Great fast support and customer service

Tons of Customizations:

1. Choose your info
- Battery: available, used, voltage, temperature, status
- Disk and Sd Card space with: used, available, total
- Ram and CPU: used available

2. Personalize it
- Tap Actions
- Available/Used
- Progress Bar Colors

3. Be Technical
- Set temperature Fahrenheit or Celcius
- Set Disk Space App, Cache, System
- APN Settings
- Auto Kill
- Close on tap

Notable Features:

- About Device info
- Tap Battery for extended info, usage and history
- Tap Disk Space for Manage Applications
- Tap SD Card Space for Manage SD Card
- Tap Ram/CPU to refresh
- Hold each Toggle Bar item for their settings
- Supports Android 1.6+ for all screen sizes

*Pro Version has a lot more customization and widget templates!*

-----Testimonials:-----

"Mini Info fits battery charge, local memory, and/or SD memory monitoring all into a simple 2x1 widget." - Lifehacker (http://lifehac.kr/felfGY)

"I’ve used other Android system monitors before, but this one really takes the cake." - TalkAndroid (http://bit.ly/fJLWm6)

 

Mini Info

Price: Free

Springpad

Today's app of the day is Springpad.

After recommending Evernote yesterday I think that it is only fair to recommend its primary competition today. Trying to separate the two is difficult as they are both great note taking apps. Ultimately, give both a  try and see what comes out on top!

I know this is lazy, but in the words of the developer:

Springpad makes it easy to save notes, products and places you want to remember

Springpad is a free application that makes it quick and easy to take notes and save anything you want to remember in one place - from tasks and lists to products, places, movies, recipes and more. We automatically organize and enhance what you save with useful links and relevant offers to save you time and money. Everything you save is synchronized and accessible on your android device and on the web.

Save
- Take quick notes to capture ideas and information
- Create tasks and lists to manage your to-dos
- Look up products, places, movies and more and get instantly enhanced information
- Scan a barcode, take a photo or record a voice memo to save what you want to remember
- Add our widgets to your home screen to save and access everything even faster
- Use the web clipper and Chrome extension for more ways to save on the Web

Organize
- Everything you save is automatically categorized, synced and accessible everywhere
- Create Notebooks to manage separate projects
- Easily add tags, flags and alerts

Act
- Set reminders for anything you've saved
- Push information from the web to your phone with the Chrome Extension
- Get things done with links to relevant news, useful information and offers specific to what you've saved
- Share your stuff with friends and family
- Add a smart folder or shortcut to your home screen to quickly access your information

Awards
- TIME Magazine 50 Best Websites 2010 Winner
- PC Magazine The Best Free Software of 2010 Winner

Learn more about Springpad at Springpadit.com

If this doesn't help you decide what to chose, maybe the following sources will. Trust me, the competition is fierce (strange for the dullest of all apps - note takers). I change regularly between what I use.

• Try to remember: Evernote Vs Springpad
• Evernote vs Springpad Compared
• Springpad vs Evernote - Why is may be better

Springpad

Price: Free