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Help With Email Setup

So you have your gmail all setup on your Android phone, but you probably have (at least) another email address you would like to have setup.  I mean as amazing as Gmail is, people out there still use other email services.

Some email accounts are incredibly simple to setup.  AOL for example.  They use IMAP, and Android knows it, and just sets it up for you.  On the other hand, there are a few that I am going to give you some tips on how to make the most of your non-gmail email.

The first is Hotmail (or MSN).  Don’t get me wrong. If you key in your email address and password it will take it and give you pop3 access to your email.  The problem here is that pop3 is incredibly limited compared to either IMAP, or the ultimate Exchange server.  With pop3 you have the ability to pull emails from the webserver, and either delete them, or leave them as unread. Well it is great that you can get your email, the downside here is that you will either not get your emails on your home computer, or if you do you will probably have to delete your discarded email in both places.

So you can see how inconvenient this would be.  Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a way to set this up more like a gmail account and have the email automatically pushed to you with full sync capabilities?  Plus while they are at it throw in calendar support and contact sync too?  Well the good news is that the fine people at Microsoft (probably will get some slack for that one) have given Hotmail users access to their email through an exchange server, which is what a lot of companies use to get business grade email to their employees.

Using the following directions will allow you to setup your email as an exchange server:

Email: myemail@hotmail.com (or live.com)Server address: m.hotmail.comSSL enabledUsername: myemail@hotmail.com (or live.com)
Password: passwordDomain:

There you have it.  Email Calendar Contacts, all loaded into your phone!

Next, for all you Yahoo users that are having issues… When setting up your Yahoo email with the default settings you will probably see a disclaimer that only certain accounts have the ability to access their email on a mobile device, and that you may have to subscribe to their plus service to get the access. This is where the biggest workaround comes into play.

The first step is to skip the normal email setup.  Yahoo has taken their email a step further and provided the user with a free standalone app for Yahoo email.  It is available through the normal app channels, along with their website: http://mobile.yahoo.com/mail/android,  Simply download it, install it, login with your Yahoo ID and you are good to go!

The last email that I will cover is for those of you stuck using Comcast. Comcast email is always a chore to get working through the mail icon and you will get limited help from their tech support.  But lucky for you, Comcast has followed Yahoo with the whole app thing.  All you have to do is download the app, install it and login with your email address and password – then you are all set!  Link:

So load up your emails. I mean you can’t ever have too many.  I have a dozen or so…

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Trip Journal – Amazon Free App of the Day 8/16/11

Name:Trip Journal

Description:

A Multimedia Travelogue
Trip Journal enables you to capture your vacation and travel experiences and share them with your friends and family in real time. Use the application’s built-in GPS and compass to track your route, progress, location, even altitude. Take your travel photos and videos from your mobile using Trip Journal, and record them with your travel notes as you go. Share your travel experiences day-by-day and your completed travelogue using Trip Journal’s built-in links to Facebook, Google Earth, Trip Journal, Picasa, Flickr, Youtube, and Twitter.

Your Navigator and Record-Keeper
Trip Journal functions as your navigator and record keeper, always there to keep you oriented and on course, and to document your progress. You can check you current position at any time by tapping the “Locate on map” icon; both map and satellite views are available. Tap the compass icon not only to confirm the direction you’re moving in, but to see how your trip is progressing. Look at the top of the screen to find the distance you’ve traveled and the time that’s elapsed since the start of your trip, your average speed over the course of the journey, and the minimum and maximum altitudes you’ve reached.

Capture Your Experiences
Record your experiences as you go, through photos, video, and notes. To snap up important moments while they’re happening, choose “Capture media,” and start recording stills and video. These are automatically saved to your trip album. Record thoughts and impressions about your experiences as journal notes on the vintage notepaper template under “Write a note.” Whenever you review or share your trip album, these notes, images, and videos will be included.

Bring Your Readers Along with You
Trip Journal also makes it easy to share your travel experiences. The app includes built-in links to Facebook, Google Earth, Trip Journal, Picasa, Flickr, Youtube, and Twitter that you can use to instantly upload your routes, photos, video, notes, and more. Embed your trip in your blog to bring all of your followers along on your journey. And, when you’ve completed your trip, you have a complete, ready-made Trip Journal album to keep and share, preserving the whole adventure.

• Compiles ready-made, multimedia journal album as you go
• Supports blog updates and embedding
• Supports Android’s Froyo mobile platform.

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Everlands – Free Amazon Android App for 8/15/11

Name: Everlands

Description:
Story-Based, Hexagon-Shaped, Strategy Puzzle
Dark and sinister forces have invaded the colorful world of Everlands. Everlands animals must unite to combine the best of their abilities, together standing against the great threat that casts a shadow over their beloved homeland.

Each animal has unique strengths, weaknesses, and features. Defeat the foes of Everlands through strategy and tactics by combining dozens of animal abilities, leading them through more than 20 carefully prepared levels. Reveal the truth behind the source of mysterious evil in a unique turn-based game.

Game Objective
The goal of the game is to win battles by capturing as many enemy hexagons as possible with the strengths and abilities of your animal hexagons. If you manage to gain more than half of the combatants in that round, you win the battle.

Animal Hex health and attack power levels
Strategic Gameplay
Click on each animal hexagon to see useful information about that animal’s abilities. Based on that description, you place that hexagon on the board to prepare for battle against the enemy. Keep in mind the number and direction of the attack sides of each hex. The sides of your animal’s hex that have no attack direction are undefended. Those are the sides the enemy will try to attack. Ideal placement allows your animal to point its attack in the enemy’s direction, while leaving its undefended sides away from the battle’s front.

Social Networking Features
Invite, challenge and compete with your Facebook friends
Share your achievements on your Facebook wall
Facebook single sign-on support

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Free Apps for 8/14/11 (Amazon and GetJar.com) Memory Booster/TuneIn Radio Pro

So today’s Free apps are going to get posted together, mainly because the (Amazon) one isn’t worth a post of it’s own. From Amazon we have Memory Booster Ad-Free, and from GetJar.com we have TuneIn Radio Pro.

First up (Remember to read THIS article about task killers):

Name: Memory Booster Ad-Free

Description:
Memory Booster is a powerful mobile memory and RAM boosting tool specially designed for Android smartphone users. The app increases your phone’s performance by making more memory available for both your applications and your phone’s mobile operating system.

How it Works
Memory Booster helps your phone run at optimum efficiency by defragmenting your phone’s memory, recovering memory leaks from less efficient applications, and flushing unused libraries, among other nifty memory saving tricks. Your favorite games and applications will run faster and more efficiently with Memory Booster running in the background.

Features
Memory Booster provides a live chart to demonstrate your device’s total and free memory, and current memory usage. With Auto Boost Threshold set, Memory Booster keeps your memory higher than the desired level, and acts immediately if memory drops down. Besides automatic memory boosting, Memory Booster also allows you to manually boost your memory by Quick Boost. Other features include embedded Task Killer, Whitelist Manager, Boost Level Manager and Memory Boost Log, which assist Memory Booster to perform more efficiently and friendly.

Next we have an incredible radio app. Possibly the best out there for internet radio.

Name: TuneIn Radio Pro

Description:
Radio live, local, and beyond.

Enjoy the largest selection of radio in the world, now with more than 50000 stations streaming live. You’ll find hundreds of music formats, talk personalities, national networks like BBC, NPR and SWR, podcasts, live sports, news, weather, even scanners.


Download Link

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Flick Kick Football – Free App of the Day from Amazon

Name: Flick Kick Football

Description:
Hear the roar of the crowd as you curve a beautiful strike past the wall of defenders….Gooooooal! Flick Kick Football delivers the thrill of taking free kicks on the goal: make your shot from different angles and distances, and watch out for shifting defenders and the goalie. Choose from Arcade, Time Attack, Practice, or Bullseye Mode, then use the intuitive flick controls to begin playing right away. Easy to pick up but hard to master, this classic time-killer is sure to appeal to casual gamers and die-hard soccer fans alike.

Curve your shots past the wall of defenders.
Gameplay
In Flick Kick Football, players assume the role of a striker taking shots on the goal. Pick one of four different game modes: Practice, Bullseye, Arcade, or Time Attack, and try out Flick Kick Football’s intuitive control system to begin making kicks like a pro.

To make a kick, simply line your finger up with the ball and flick the touchscreen in the direction of the goal. Not every kick is straightforward though: experiment with curving left or right in your followthrough, or give a longer swipe to kick the ball further. Find the technique that works for you, then adjust each kick to account for gaps in the opposition’s defense.

Challenging Conditions
Learn to curve your shots past defenders and the goalie: to add to the difficulty, some players will shift their positions constantly to throw off your aim. Try to target the corners of the net–referred to as the “skill zones” in the game–to increase your chance of scoring and earn additional bonuses.

Online Scores and Achievements
Flick Kick Football features online leaderboards and achievements with OpenFeint support. Rack up the points and then post your newest scores to Flick Kick’s global leaderboards. Think you’re good? Show off your skills online as you compete against others for the top spot!

Multiple Game Modes:
Bullseye
Test your aim with a series of bullseye targets lined up inside the goal. You will need to concentrate to make every shot count as you try to rack up the points before time runs out. Aim for the center of each target to score additional points and get awarded bonus time.

Arcade Mode
Fight to stay calm under pressure in this sudden death-styled goal shootout: one missed goal and it’s game over! Your only chance for survival is to try to aim for the “skill zone” edges of the goal: gain up to four extra lives this way.

Time Attack
It’s a race against the clock in this quickfire flick kicking challenge. How many goals can you score in only two minutes? As each successful goal adds on bonus time, you’ll have to keep cool and maintain steady aim to rack up a new highscore.

Multiplayer
Go head to head against friends through Flick Kick Football’s pass-and-play multiplayer mode. Take turns passing the Android device between players after each shot: the first player to miss the goal three times loses.

Skillshot
A true test for the Flick Kick Football pros: how many times can you shoot the ball into the Skill Zones in a minute?

Key Features
*Simple and intuitive flick controls make it easy to pick up and begin play
*Challenging gameplay with moving defenders and target distances
*Loading screens with famous soccer quotes and trivia
*3D graphics and a zooming, slow-motion “goal camera” add to the excitement
*Play against your friends using Flick Kick Football’s pass-and-play multiplayer mode
*Upload scores through OpenFeint online scoring and achievements

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WiFi File Explorer PRO – FREE Amazon Appstore app for 8-12-11

Name: WiFi File Explorer PRO

Description:
Access a Wi-Fi connection and manage your files

If you’ve ever needed to access a file from your phone (a photo, for example, or a song you like) but don’t have a cable to connect the phone to a computer, WiFi File Explorer PRO can make it happen. This Android app allows you to browse, download, and stream information–as well as manage your files–from your phone directly to a computer using a Wi-Fi connection and password-protected Web browser.

Untether Yourself

Setup for WiFi File Explorer PRO is simple and easy. When you open the app, it automatically detects nearby Wi-Fi networks and supplies you with a URL address to enter into the Web browser of your computer. You’ll also be prompted to enter a password (which you will create when you first begin using the app).

Once your phone is connected to the Wi-Fi network, it’s easy to go to the computer (which must also be connected to the network) and access the Web address. You’ll find that your phone’s files are there to be browsed, downloaded, or even streamed whenever you wish.

In this PRO version, you can also upload, sync, delete, copy, and zip or unzip all the files on your Android phone and computer, which makes it a great overall file manager.

A free version of this app, simply called WiFi File Explorer, is available as well. It offers similar but less robust features.

“I wholeheartedly recommend going the wireless route with WiFi File Explorer!” – Paul Jickling, PC World

Download Link: http://goo.gl/JbpHG (Amazon.com)

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Updates on Old Android App (Plus Download Link)

The release version of the Old Android App for your Android Phones is available for download through the SlideMe.com Appstore. I am happy to say that there have been a good amount of downloads already.  So go ahead and download it, and if you like the site and app give us a 5 star rating!

Name: Old Android Free Android App

Description:
Tips, tricks and download reviews for you Android powered phone, brought to you by an old bot who has seen a lot of phones and used a lot of apps. You will also find the Amazon Appstore app of the day here daily along with other useful app reviews. www.oldandroid.co.cc

Download Link: http://goo.gl/jb0Jp (SlideMe.com)

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Majesty: Fantasy Kingdom Sim – GetJar.com Free App (Save $3.26)

It looks like GetJar.com is getting in the game of giving away some apps on their appstore. look for a few featured from their site along with the normal ones from Amazon.com. GetJar doesn’t have a dedicated Android app, but you can easily navigate their site right through the browser, plus download and install the app from the browser too.

Name: Majesty: Fantasy Kingdom Sim

Description:
“Majesty: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim” is a vast magical world where you are honoured with the crown of a tiny fairytale kingdom. When you become the head of the country all the responsibility for the land’s prosperity rests on your royal shoulders. You will have to fight various enemies and monsters, explore new territories, manage economic and scientific developments and solve a heap of unusual and unexpected tasks. For example, what will you do when all the gold in the kingdom transforms into cookies? Or how will you bring back the trolls who robbed caravans and whose disappearance ruins the economy of the country?

The core feature of “Majesty: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim” is that you cannot control your citizens directly. There are a lot of heroes in your lands: valiant warriors and warlike barbarians, powerful wizards and grim necromancers, industrious dwarves and skilful elves plus many more. But all of them live their own lives and decide for themselves what to do at any moment. You are able to issue orders but heroes will follow your commands only for a sizeable reward. “Majesty: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim” contains elements of role play: while fulfilling your orders, the heroes improve their skills and talents, as well as earn cash to be spent on new equipment, weapons, and magical elixirs.

“Majesty: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim” – begin a grand adventure in a small phone!

Download Link: http://goo.gl/z8Vrw (GetJar.com)

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Pinball Ride – Free on Amazon Appstore 8/11/11 (Regularly 99 Cents)

Name: Pinball Ride

Description:
Play pinball on your phone or tablet with the same intensity you would if facing the over-stimulating, bell-ringing, illuminating machine itself.

Enter the Universe of Fast Cars and Fast Women
Pull the lever to the right of your screen to unleash your ball into the universe of high-profile, high-risk street racing. Energized music, 3D graphics, and real pinball sound effects set the pace for all-consumed gameplay. Tap the right side of the screen to activate your right paddle, and the left side to activate the left paddle. “Nudge” the table by tilting your phone when things start heating up. There’s no simulation for kicking; you shouldn’t be kicking pinball machines, anyway.

Accept the Challenges; Earn Rewards; Brag to Friends Take on multiple challenges relevant to the racing storyline. Race in a friendly duel, or accept a racing challenge against a gang. After it’s all said and done, offer a ride to a mini-skirted mistress on her way home from the club. The storyline creates opportunities to earn girl points, business contacts, multi-balls, airbags, bumper upgrades, achievements, and more.

Unlock Achievements and share your success on Facebook
In this pinball universe, you can be a lot of things: Skilled Shooter, Lady’s Man, Dragster. Become the master of the Nightlife, Car Chase, Tango of Death and more. All you have to do is unlock the achievement to prove it. Ready to unlock the Danger Zone? Complete the Final Duel without missing a ramp and voila, mission accomplished.

Friends let friends get in on the action. With the Facebook integration option, compete with your friends and publish your stories from the game. Send invites via e-mail and have them join the ride.

Features
• Simulates a real pinball machine
• Energized music, 3D graphics, real pinball sound effects
• Street-racing storyline
• Multiple challenges and game modes
• Achievements
• Multi-balls, bumper upgrades, girl points, business contacts, and more
• Facebook integration

Download Link: http://goo.gl/OfmRo (Amazon.com)

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New York Post – Free Amazon Appstore App of the Day 8-10-11

Name: New York Post

Description:
In print since 1801, the New York Post is the oldest continually published daily newspaper in America. Now you can use your Android device to get the best headlines, sports coverage, and celebrity gossip from The Post, updated 24 hours a day.
The Post On the Go Navigating the New York Post Android Edition is easy and intuitive. The app’s home screen reveals the day’s top stories in a scrollable, vertical display. At the top of the home screen, you’ll see tabs that direct you to popular features of The Post, including the famous Page Six gossip section, The Best Sports in Town, and Photos, in addition to other popular sections.
Get Your Gossip Here First Page Six is famous for its up-to-the-minute, leave-no-stone-unturned approach to celebrity events. If a celebrity is in the headlines or making news, you can bet you’ll find timely information about him or her in this section.
The Best Sports in Town Whether you’re looking for news on the Yankees or curious about which free agent the Jets or Giants are going to sign, The Post’s coverage of New York sports is second to none.
Picture-perfect Always striking and often provocative, the Photos section is easy to get lost in. View compelling pictures covering such topics as news, celebrities, sports, and entertainment. Especially notable is Post Pix, an app-exclusive photo gallery featuring the day’s top photos. Who knows what you’ll find? One look and you’ll be hooked.
Opinion, NYC Local News, Entertainment, and More Explore the rest of The Post by navigating to the Sections tab. It’s a robust information source featuring articles by your favorite opinion writers, the NYPD Daily Blotter, Sally Brompton’s Horoscope, and the much-loved “Weird But True!” section among others.
An Important Note This app requires a Wi-Fi, 3G, or 4G connection to download content. It downloads updated content as soon as it opens, and it continues to load new content as long as you maintain a data connection. Without a data connection, the app will display content previously downloaded in the most recent update.
If you plan on being without a data connection, we suggest that you first tap the areas of content you’re interested in, especially photo galleries, for offline viewing.

Download Link: http://goo.gl/aHGrg (Amazon.com)

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