Applications

Nexus One Gallery 3D on your HTC Desire

Mar 28th

Posted by Superhero in Applications

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Preview the “3D Gallery” by skipping to 30 seconds in the video above.

To get this gallery on your HTC Desire is really easy.  It installs as a normal application, so the default HTC gallery won’t be affected.  Here’s how to do it:

  1. Download Gallery 3D from this link
  2. Connect your Desire to your computer in USB drive mode
  3. Copy the Gallery3D.apk file downloaded to your phone
  4. In your phone settings go to Applications and enable “Unknown sources”
  5. Install a File Manager from Market if you don’t have one (such as Astro)
  6. Open Astro
  7. Browse to the Gallery3D.apk file
  8. Click it and install
  9. Go to the menu, and you’ll see “Gallery” available.  Touch to launch!

Credits to the developers at XDA-Developers for this work.

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Review: Dizzler (Music Streaming Application)

Dec 7th

Posted by Superhero in Applications

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dizzlerDetails

Name:  Dizzler
Website:  http://dizzler.com
Price: FREE
Authors Description: Music On Demand.  Dizzler is the original interactive music search engine.  Find and stream millions of songs on your Android, FREE

This application was tested on a HTC Hero.

General

Everyone loves music.  Everyone loves free music better.  And everyone loves a free application providing free music EVEN BETTER.  Introducing Dizzler.

It runs on your Android phone, with a built in search function, shows lyrics for a lot of songs and can keep running in the background as a service!

The Good

It’s free.  It returns great results and the fact that it keeps playing in the background is a massive bonus.

The Bad

For some reason the search screen only shows in landscape, and all other screens in portrait – so you have to rotate the phone during a search, and rotate it back when you’re ready to listen.  If you’re using 3G rather than wireless (Wi-Fi is a standard, not a technology!) then you may notice the occasional skip.

The Verdict

Fantastic bit of software.  We’re promised by the developers that version 2 is coming very soon which should fix the bugs plus add new functionality such as creating playlists on your PC, and then playing them back using the app.

It’s better than iMusic which asks your to pay to have full functionality, doesn’t run in the background and maybe it was just my luck, but the songs I searched all sounded like recordings from someones PC (you could hear the mouse-clicks!).

If you haven’t already, add this to your list of must have Android applications!

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