New App Warns user of Incoming Mean Messages

Computer scientists from the University of Portsmouth have created a mobile phone app that can predict the tone of a incoming messages and warns people before they read it by using color codes.

Friday Captures Your Life

An Android app – called Friday – can make your smartphone even smarter, as it captures your life in terms of what you do with your phone. Friday makes it available for you to go back to the old times for reminiscing.

Mobile phones today do more than just calls. Users can text friends and family, manage calendars and alarms, take pictures, listen to music, watch movies and answer emails, as well as navigate the globe.

Android App Review: ImageAMMO

There are several image viewing apps available out there for Android, but none could withstand the dynamic might of ImageAMMO. With as much as 15 dynamic shapes your photo gallery can turn into plus several features that will please almost everyone, the ImageAMMO Android app provides a fun, cohesive way of letting you show-off your pictures in the flashiest way possible.

ImageAMMO is a creative photo gallery app developed by ImageAMMO, LLC. It only takes up to 395.6KB space on your phones or tablets and can run on any Android OS version from Android 2.1 onwards. The app costs $5.99 which may be a tad expensive, but the possibilities on how to use this app is almost limitless.

Android security risks with Skype

Skype announced on Friday that the user data from its Android app may be vulnerable if its users unsuspectingly installs a ‘malicious’ third party app to their device.

Christina Warren of Mashable reports that just last month, “Google removed 21 apps from the Android Market after the blog Android Police alerted the company that the apps contained malware and were being used to collect user data.

“After removing the apps from the store, Google also invoked a kill switch to remove them from the phones of users who had the misfortune of downloading the junk,” writes Warren.

Skype for Android, Unable to Protect Your Personal Information from Hackers

Android Police has unveiled that Skype’s Android app client is vulnerable to hacks, thus potentially leading to massive personal information leaks once the right people starts prying into it. According to security website, Skype neglected to encrypt and enforce permissions on its SQLite3 databases, the place where personal informations and chat logs are stored.

Android Police subjected the Skype for Android app under a security test using it’s own rogue app, Skypwned. And – wow – did the app work like a charm, as it was able to gather personal information without the need for root or special information — just a username. According to the website, Skype is now investigating the situation, so expect some updates about the issue soon.

For the meantime, checkout the video demo from Android Police on its successful attempt in getting information from Skype after the break.

DriveFirst App by Sprint Keeps You Driving

Sprint has announced a new Android app at CTIA 2011 that makes sure people who are driving stays driving. DriveFirst, created by Location Labs, is an application that locks all of the phone functions when it senses that the vehicle is in motion. How will that happen? Well you’d best find out for yourself when it comes to your Google-powered Sprint mobile devices by the third quarter of the year. The app will cost $2-per-month, but what’s $2 when it comes to safety, right?

Android App Review: Adobe Photoshop Express

The Android Market provides tons of free photo-editing apps that allow users to spice up their images in their own unique way. But with the deluge of photo-editing apps available, it’s a little impractical to download and try them all out.

Usually when we look into an app, we often (but not all the time) look at the name first, and then the reviews. We’re quite a sucker for free branded apps and download them immediately upon sight. Not all the times we get satisfied of what we got, but there are times also when these branded apps deliver the right amount of good stuff for our aesthetic needs; one of these is the Adobe Photoshop Express.

Finally, an App to Boost Android Battery Life

This is common problem among Android-powered smartphones: their short battery life.

Good thing, JuiceDefender is here. An app that promises “extra hours of precious battery life.”

The app works its magic during your phone’s idle mode, disabling battery-draining features like 3-G and Wi-Fi. Just turn your phone screen on again to turn those features back on.

Doodle Jump Gets Kinectified

Another iOS app goes on top! No, not Angry Birds. We’re talking about Doodle Jump.

Doodle Jump is one of the few insanely addictive games in the app store that throws awesome game play to its users. Lima Sky, creators of the popular game, announced the sales record of Doodle Jump in celebration of its second birthday, plus a Kinect bundle will be coming out soon!

Google Walking Navigation and Street View for Android

We are starting to think that the men behind Google are making it a habit to announce new upgrades every month. They’re rolling new things and today’s upgrade involves Android. From this day, Android phones with 1.6 and up versions will have an added attraction for you to enjoy.

This new feature is called Walking Navigation Beta and Street View. The first one is tagged into Google Maps for mobile 4.5, giving pedestrians a more invigorating routing option when using their feet to travel from one place to another. It’s still running on beta but the snitch is the “vibrate to turn” alert and the map’s capability to rotate with you.

Street View navigation is handing us the same stuff that we see on desktop browsers. But the obvious difference is that this time it is made for your phones. The new Google Maps will make it easier to find the places that you need to locate. If you need extra visual stimuli while the downloads are on progress hit play.