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5 Droid Quick Tips and 3 Must-Have Apps

1. If you long-press (press and hold) the search icon directly beneath the large screen, the voice search widget will be launched. A short press will bring up the Quick Search Box and on-screen keyboard. Voice search is important because the speech-to-text features are fantastic on the Droid. Why bother keying in a search term on Google when you can just talk to your phone.

2. Long-press of the home icon will bring up the 6 most recent applications that you’ve used. Short press will take you to the home screen.
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Android Marketplace aggregator Cryket is gone

Either the proprietor of cryket.com has sold the domain for a tidy little fee, is selling the domain, or it has fallen prey to the “do no evil” corporation.

Cryket (pronounced “cricket”)  was one of few places where you could search the entire Android Marketplace for phone apps via the web. It was popular with the Android development community as a handy method for charting the success and trends of applications they built against others in the store, as well as reviewing daily comments left by consumers. Some bits of information found at Cryket.com were stock market-like up and down arrows charting an application’s popularity trend over time, download statistics, an area for video and screenshot uploads, and the best part of all… a QR barcode image on each application page in the Android Marketplace that provided all the information needed to download the app with your Android phone. (example of how this was done in the video below.)
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Mobile app stores “gold rush” is a fallacy

I hadn’t seen this article before and it was authored back in May of 2009. It’s a sobering perspective on the hype surrounding the app store and the notion that application developers can become a millionaire success story overnight. Written by a “successful” (used loosely)* iPhone app developer, the piece details just how difficult and improbable it is for you to get rich writting mobile phone apps. If you are thinking about getting into this racket, this is definitely worth a read.

http://www.stromcode.com/2009/05/24/the-incredible-app-store-hype/

* actually, his apps are really pretty popular so he is, in fact, successful by iPhone App Store standards, just not by Wall Street standards as his article demonstrates.

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