Photoshake!

Not bad of an app. Lots of options to edit the frames (I mean a lot!), picture effects and captions. Only down side is it's a bit buggy at the moment.
Hope the dev irons out the bugs soon.
Edit: Ok I checked back about a year later, it seems the devs had managed to get to all the bugs of forceclosing : )


It's a free app, with a paid version coming soon for 3 more features. Can't wait :)
Here's the link to the pc browser Android Market.
Photoshake Free
Photoshake Pro! (with more features.)

[Android] The "Holiday" Phone

Have you seen all the official commercials for the Google Nexus line of Phones?

I've always liked the simplicity of the videos. Still liking the Nexus One's best, the music + graphics were just awesome.

Read on to view all the Official Videos and the stuff of what's really behind the multi-coloured X logo of the Google Nexus Phones!

Now, have you always wondered what that 4 coloured X logo on the Nexus phones are?

Well as some of you may know, googlers had been calling the Nexus One - Holiday Phones.

So what does the "Holiday" actually mean? They're given out during the Holidays? Well I've always thought of that possibility. 

Boy was I wrong  :D

Take a look at this - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holliday_junction

Does that Molecular Structure picture look familiar? Now, cycle your memory, or better yet, boot up/reboot your Nexus One/S. What do you see? :D

Awesome stuff ain't it? 

I love Google.

[Android] Nexus One Case-Mate

Just got this case last Friday in my mail. The cuttings are awesome. Love the design too. It's temporary out of stock now though. I should have bought the other Nexus One Tough Case when it was on sale. It's all out of stock too now.

[Android] Google Locking Down On Openness?

Recently, people are complaining about the Honeycomb Source Code not released. According to Andy Rubin, the reason of not releasing the source code is to prevent devs from putting it on phones, which could possibly lead to really bad user experience. Well if you ask me, this is a really good reason.

I have been using Android (the Nexus One) for over a year now. I love the phone, the OS. But to be honest, sometimes I just feel that there seems to be some rough edges in the whole user experience. I believe this is mainly caused by rogue apps, unoptimized codes in apps, apps that might not work well with the latest version of Android OS, and possibly lots of other reasons in the OS itself. From my point of view, this is a good move from Andy Rubin, not releasing something that they think would not be a smooth and optimized experience for users that might flash Honeycomb from community devs. I do hope that one day, Android would reach the stage that the Hardware and Software integration would be near perfect as seen on Iphones. (don't hate me, but this is true in my books)


In a related news, there's a “non-fragmentation clause” to be adhered by Android phone manufacturers. This really means a lot to the Android World! Fantastic! I'm not really a fan of custom manufacturer UIs like Sense, Blur, etc. One, they slow the whole darn phone down, second, it just adds to the fragmentation!! I mean I love some parts of Sense, but overall its just not worth it if this "skin" overlay UI hogs your phone's memory. The problem with Android is there's no real GPU acceleration, up till Honeycomb. I'm not sure even with Honeycomb, these manufacturers are able to integrate it properly with the UIs. 


So yeah, Google isn't really giving up on Openness in my opinion, they're just trying to make things better by having a bit more "quality control" on what should be the standards.