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Finding stellar Android apps isn't the easiest task, but that certainly doesn't mean they don't exist. Here's the cream of the crop.

Twitter: The official Twitter app is good enough for almost everyone. Along with giving you a clean, easy way to keep track of your timeline and updating your status, Twitter for Android also has a snazzy swipe down to refresh feature. Free.

Facebook: Facebook is finally decent on Android and now actually brings some unique features, namely the front page side-scroll of friend's recent photos and a pull up notification window. Free.

eBuddy Messenger: A well-designed IM client that keeps you plugged into AIM, Google Talk, MSN, Yahoo, Facebook chat and others. Even better because it's free. Free.

Tango: Tango is the best (and clearest!) way to video chat with your buddies, Android or iPhone, over 3G, 4G or Wi-Fi. Free.

Handcent SMS: Handcent puts SMS on steroids. It's fully customizable (in look and theme) and gives options for popups and to even tweak individual contact settings. If you've never thought the stock messaging app on Android sucked, we won't blame you. But after using Handcent, you will. Free.

Source: The Best Android Apps [Androidapps]

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The end of the month is here, and that means it's time to do a little housekeeping on our list of the absolute best iPhone apps. Who will be inducted? Who will unceremoniously get the boot?

WordLens: WordLens is a taste of the future. Point it at a sign in Spanish and it'll overlay an English translation on the fly while approximating the size and typeface of the original text.

Infinity Blade: Angry Birds may be fun, but the graphics aren't going to blow your hair back. Infinity Blade, the first iOS game to run on the Unreal Engine, could easily be called Angry Knights.

WolframAlpha: WolframAlpha—formerly $50, now just $2—is smart. Like, scary smart. It's part calculator, part search engine, but for any situation in which you need facts

DocumentsToGo: If you're a businessperson, you undoubtedly are adrift in a sea of documents, pretty much every day of your life.

Source: The iPhone Apps Everyone Should Have (Updated) [IphoneApps]

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At bloody last, now you can opt-out of delivery of those useless volumes of bound dead trees and CO2 known as the Yellow Pages. I would rather kill them all, but this is a step in the right direction.

Source: At Last, You Can Send the Yellow Pages to Hell [Rant]

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Get ready, because the snowpocalypse is back. This snow storm system is huge. NASA Goddard has released this amazing image, showing how it looks from space—bloody scary, that's how.            

Source: This Is the Apocalyptic Storm Hitting the US Right Now [Weather]

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Bokeh is the ephemeral essence of blur, something you can see yet remains completely intangible. Other times, it can be shaped into a mold, controlled and specific. The 306 entries from this week's Shooting Challenge capture bokeh at both extremes.




Source: 306 Beautiful Blurry Bokehs [Photography]

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Time's up. If you haven't bought an iPad by now, don't. You've crossed the sucker line, and you'll feel like a grade-a chump when the next iPad comes out.

The basic rule of gadget-buying happiness is this: Don't buy anything after it's crossed the halfway point in its life-cycle. That's the sucker line.




Source: Do Not Buy an iPad [Ipad]

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January has come! And gone. And with it, a lot of broken New Year's Resolutions. But also, new additions to our wonderful list of favorite gadgets. Check out the full roster of Bestmodo's newest inductees below.

Best Phone Headset

Best Solar Charger

Best Waterproof Camera

Best Photo Printing Service

Best Point and Shoot Cams




Source: The Best Gadgets (So Far) [Bestmodo]

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Hello to our Egyptian readers. After five days without internet—following the Egyptian government's request to ISPs to shut down service after political protests—80,000,000 people are back online, accessing news, Twitter and lolcats.

Cast a brief eye over at Twitter, and you'll see Egyptians have their voice back—and don't even have to use Google and Twitter's voicemail workaround. According to ComputerWorld, two of the largest ISPs—Vodafone Egypt and Etisalat—switched service back on at 9.30am local time today

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The skin gun is not science fiction—it's a prototype medical device that literally sprays skin cells onto burn victims to re-grow skin. Old methods like skin grafts took weeks to heal; the skin gun needs about an hour.

Watch the video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXO_ApjKPaI



Source: Spray-on Skin Is a Reality [Video]

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This is how an Android tablet should feel. Android 3.0 running on Motorola's Xoom tablet is almost iPad-like, a legitimate threat to the only successful tablet on the market right now. It's about damn time!




Source: Using Google's Android 3.0 Tablet, the First Real iPad Fighter [Video]