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Welcome to the weekly roundup of the best new Android applications and games that went live in the Market in the previous week or so. Please wait for this page to load in full in order to see the AppBrain widgets. What’s your REAL WORLD passion? Join groups of people with shared passions. Are you a Live Music fan? a Mountain Biker? a Mexican Food Fanatic? There are over 3,000+ Societies and growing on Whrrl. Don’t see one you like? Create your own Society! Get ideas for things to do at nearby places from people just like you.   Whrrl BuzzVoice is Now FREE! LISTEN to the Web's top news & blogs on-the-go. It's like "Pandora for news." Stream it in the car, gym, train, everywhere. *Featured by Forbes, Apple, Android Central & others Choose from 1,600+ sources, create a playlist with 15 favs, track your fav topics, stream hands-free stories, share & more   BuzzVoice What the F*** Should I Make for Dinner? is a existential life tool that helps your indecisive lifeself figure out what the fuck to make for dinner. Visit our internet website: www.whatthefuckshouldimakefordinner.com   WTFSIMFD Like your celebrity news with tongue firmly in cheek and claws out? Good - so do we! Get it all here along with map and camera integration to send in your celeb spots! We'd also like to hear your opinions in the cunningly named 'Opinions' section - warning - it's NOT for the faint hearted! Enjoy! Holy Moly!   Images courtesy of EuroDroid Holy Moly - celebrity news! TweetDeck is your mobile browser for staying in touch with what's happening on Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare and Buzz. TweetDeck makes it easy to view all of your data and post updates to multiple accounts, so you can stay up to date and organized no matter where you are.   TweetDeck Watch TV in Flash format on your phone. ■ Free ■ WiFi recommended ■ Requires Adobe® Flash® Player LIVE TV: CNN, Euronews, BBC, Al Jazeera, Bloomberg... VOD: Fox, CW, ABC... WARNING: BETA, SO THANKS FOR YOUR INDULGENCE.   TV Flash Laminated display sub-group support Send group e-mail Send group SMS Set group ringtone Group firewall Desktop shortcut to the group Whether to display the Contacts icon in the Options Contact Birthday show Contact organization view fix: Groups desktop shortcut problem. Need to create the new shortcut.   Contact Group Manager(free) The survival of Read More

Posted by Comments is Now FREE! LISTEN to the Web’s top news & blogs on-the-go. It’s like “Pandora for news.” Stream it in the car, gym, train, everywhere. Choose from 1,600+ sources, create a playlist with 15 favs, track your fav topics, stream hands-free stories, share & more. *Featured by Forbes, Apple, Android Central & others. Price: Free, $4.99/mo Pro Version Pros Cons BuzzVoice is cool, convenient and awesome wrapped in one app! If you’re a busy professional like myself multi-tasking yourself to death then you’d appreciate an app that keeps you up to date with favorite online news sources via RSS feeds by reading them to you! With the app you can share social networks and email, skip back and forward through articles, play and pause, and visit the source website within the BuzzVoice app. It pauses during calls and resumes playback after. Plus you can save frequent searches. There are many “radio stations”, one of which is “Android radio” which is a continuous aggregate of your favorite top Android websites, of course you fav Android App Reviews website can be found there. 8) Sorry no pulling your neatly pre-configured Google Reader feeds, it’s meant to be a real-time news out loud reader app. The voice packs alternative between and guy or gals voice, a subtle hint of robotics but it works. BuzzVoice recently made the app free and charge for Pro services, adopting the freemium app revenue model, which gives more blog sources, consecutive auto-streams, saved searches, daily audio length and more. I can’t tell you how valuable this app is for me as I’m often multi-tasking many things, this app let’s me listen to other buddies in the Android blogosphere (like Phandroid, Android Guys, Android and Me, Androinica, Android Community, Android Central and many more) as well as general news since I don’t watch much TV anymore. But that’s my personal experience, for general public use I feel it can be extremely useful for its cool factor and purpose! BuzzVoice for Android is built on simplicity as it goes and aggregates many similar top news sources for you, sorta like Pandora does with similar music & artists. So no need to know RSS feed URLs, if it’s not in the preset list you can simply search for it. Depending on your personal level of keeping up with online news sources determines usage, for myself it’s almost daily. Although the strongest points of the Read More

We told you about BuzzVoice a few months ago, and it's roughly described as a "Pandora for News" app. Well, BuzzVoice has announced an update to their popular app, and there's a new feature. Now, if you can't find your favorite RSS feed from the growing list already in the app, you can add any RSS feed to your playlist. But that's not the best part. Now, anyone can get BuzzVoice for the magical price of FREE! That's right, we said free. And it's not a scaled-down, "Lite" version that's missing some features, either. If you don't know what BuzzVoice is, you're missing out. It's designed for busy people that may not have time to sit down and read all the news from their favorite sites *cough* AndroidGuys *cough*. BuzzVoice reads the stories and articles out to you, so you can stay informed while doing other tasks. And BuzzVoice will even read continuously, going from article to article, so you don't have to select one while driving or jogging. So, if you don't already have it, click here on your Android device to get it from the Market, or  scan the QR code below. Enjoy! One local Android app development competition turned a father and sons trio into Kukurin Android Team. The motivation... Read More »   Samsung has unveiled a handful of new commercials for the Galaxy S II which make light of... Read More »   The wildly popular football game Madden 12 has been optimized for play on the Sony Ericsson Xperia... Read More » Read More

Worth Reading? The people over at BuzzVoice have just announced that their application is now free to download on the Android market. With this new update comes the feature of being able to add your own feeds instead of limiting your device to what’s only available on their lists. For those who havn’t experienced BuzzVoice, it’s a RSS reader that reads the news to you. This is very useful when one is walking, driving or just doesn’t feel like reading. Another great feature is the ability to add a widget to your home screen to control the app and an “Android Radio” station which reads news from most major Android sites. I highly recommend checking out the app since its very useful and if money is no obstacle to you there is a “pro” version as well which is ad-free version and is also on sale for $.99 right now so take advantage of it! Read More

Did you hear the news? Of course you did if you’re using BuzzVoice, an Android app the speaks the news. BuzzVoice takes the news of the day and has a custom voice engine read the story aloud. Users can stay up to date with their favorite sites, including Androinica.com, even if they are unable to read at the moment. BuzzVoice ($4.99) is billed as “Pandora for news” because it gives users the opportunity to select what stories are read. Someone can search for a topic and then select stories to put in a playlist, or listen to curated stories based on a topic (Android, Celebrity, Sports, Politics, etc.). Then BuzzVoice will read the text aloud in case you’re working out or driving. The custom text-to-speech voices can be somewhat choppy but it’s better than the default TTS library for Android. There are more than 1,600 blogs and news sources available in BuzzVoice, so all your favorite tech news sources are available. The app can have trouble playing audio files when on a weak connection, so that could prove problematic if attempting to listen on the go (depending on your local network performance). App: BuzzVoice Price: $4.99 Read More

Did you hear the news? Of course you did if you’re using BuzzVoice, an Android app the speaks the news. BuzzVoice takes the news of the day and has a custom voice engine read the story aloud. Users can stay up to date with their favorite sites, including Androinica.com, even if they are unable to read at the moment. BuzzVoice ($4.99) is billed as “Pandora for news” because it gives users the opportunity to select what stories are read. Someone can search for a topic and then select stories to put in a playlist, or listen to curated stories based on a topic (Android, Celebrity, Sports, Politics, etc.). Then BuzzVoice will read the text aloud in case you’re working out or driving. The custom text-to-speech voices can be somewhat choppy but it’s better than the default TTS library for Android. There are more than 1,600 blogs and news sources available in BuzzVoice, so all your favorite tech news sources are available. The app can have trouble playing audio files when on a weak connection, so that could prove problematic if attempting to listen on the go (depending on your local network performance). App: BuzzVoice Price: $4.99 Read More

Call me crazy, but my Android phone and I have been having some great conversations lately. With Google's new Voice Actions, I've been using voice commands to control my handset every day. And now, thanks to a new app about to hit the Android Market, my phone's started talking back to me, too. The app is called BuzzVoice, and it turns your favorite blogs and news sites into personalized streaming podcasts. It's aimed at making it easy (and safe) to keep up with news on-the-go -- in your car, at the gym, wherever -- and it has the potential to change the way you consume information. I was able to spend some time with the program in advance of its upcoming launch. Here's an exclusive sneak peek at how it works and what it can do for your phone. [Get Android Power delivered to you. Follow @AndroidPower on Twitter or subscribe via RSS and don't miss a single dose.] BuzzVoice for Android: The Vocal News App BuzzVoice works by literally reading you the news. The program offers feeds from more than 1600 sources -- everything from The New York Times to Slashdot -- so it isn't hard to find something you like. When you first open BuzzVoice, you'll spend a few minutes building your personal playlist. BuzzVoice breaks down the news into a dozen categories, each of which has a handful of subtopics to help you discover the sites you want. After selecting "Technology," for example, you can narrow down to sources specific to Android news, gadget news, social media news, and so on. With the basic BuzzVoice service, you can keep up to 15 different feeds in your playlist at any given time. Once you've filled up your playlist, you just click onto any source to see a list of its latest stories. You can select stories one by one and have BuzzVoice convert them to audio on-the-fly, or you can tap an "auto" icon and have the app read you all of a site's recent stories without interruption. BuzzVoice alternates between a female and a male voice, the latter of which sounds only slightly like Johnny 5. Aside from the occasional mispronunciation of a person's name, the voices actually do a pretty good job at playing anchorman (and anchorwoman). They're surprisingly lifelike and generally quite listenable. Read More

. If you're a busy person or simply a slacker, that is too lazy to read the news you're interested in, then is the application that you need. The Android application lets users to listen more than 1,600 top news and blogs on smartphones and other mobile devices. As the developer named it, the app is like a “Pandora for news,” helping people to keep up with news even when they're traveling by car, train, or they're simply working out in a gym. Besides its funny side, the application also feature a safety side which ensures that users are 100% alert when they're driving or doing anything that requires their full attention. Although the application has been available on , iPad and iPod Touch for a while, the Android version of BuzzVoice brings in three new interesting features, that the above mentioned device does not have: Background Audio Streaming, which enable users to listen to breaking stories while checking Twitter, Facebook or email. A Custom Android Widget, which allows users to control the application right from their Android device’s home screen. A New “Android Radio” Station, which continuously updates users on Android-related news from top blogs. Those interested might be happy to find that the developer is running a BuzzVoice app giveaway, where those that participate can win a free copy of BuzzVoice for . BuzzVoice for Android is now live and available for download from Android Market for only $4.99. Checkout the video below to see how BuzzVoice works on Android, before downloading it. Read More