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SugarSync, a multi-platform file syncing service, extends its reach into Android phones today, giving its users a nice option for freeing up storage space and accessing the media their phones can handle.

Live Android is a LiveCD image for running Android on your x86-based PC, so you check it out without blowing up everything else on your hard drive. It’ll run it inside of virtualization apps too.

If you own a Google Android G1 these are a must. Some of these should have been built into the OS. Others are simply fun and more…
My recommendations are simply that, feel free to disagree and or add your favorite app. Post a comment. Now on to the show..

The development house Big In Japan has just rolled out its 3.5 update to its ShopSavvy Android app. ShopSavvy is the useful app that allows you to use an Android phone’s camera to scan barcodes and get pricing information. More importantly, it allows you to compare prices of that item to prices on the web, [...]

jfupdater Allows auto updating to the latest modified Android OS.
This application let’s you staying up-to-date with JF rom updates. The application will check periodically for new ROM updates, and will notificate you when a new one is released. The application also allows you to automatically download and apply these updates

We’re still trying to get used to the overwhelming joy of having Cupcake installed on our G1s, but it’s full steam ahead over at Google where engineers are already slaving away on the Donut branch that’ll eventually come to be known as Android 2.0.

You’re trying to check for important messages on your iPhone, Android, or other Java-friendly phone. The thread about the next book club meeting has devolved into a Phillip Roth argument that’s spawning 8 new pundi-mails per hour. What to do?

Android only: Android users looking to switch over to Google Voice full-time like I am, check out GV. GV provides calling and SMS support via your Google Voice number that isn’t perfect, but is close.

Here is a list of the apps that I cannot live without on my G1 android phone. Out of the box the phone is awesome, but these apps will make the phone even more awesome, if that is even possible. After using my phone for a few months, and loading it with all kinds of [...]

Wired’s Threat Level blog has the story of Torrent Droid, a new Android app that lets you scan DVD-case bar-codes with your phone, looks up the title, and remotely starts a torrent download of the title on your home machine. The use-case on Threat Level is a someone out shopping, shooting bar-codes of DVDs and [...]