This week is a short and sweet look into some great Audiobook player apps for you Androids: MortPlayer Audio Books by sto-helit.de and the Audible app by none other than Audible.com. While there are other apps that might play audiobooks well enough (i.e. Meridian Player), I am focusing this week's article on these two.

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This is a quick little blurb that I found extremely interesting. If you are one of the many iPhone (AT&T, not you jailbirds on T-Mobile) users that lives in New York or some other major metropolitan area, you've probably experienced some form of network coverage issues in the form of dropped calls or highly fluctuating data transfer speeds. I don't know about you, but I merely thought it was the massive load that the users placed on the network, both in overall data usage and quantity of calls. However, I came across this fancy article the other day over at myvalidas.com.

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If you're the kind of person who likes watch videos or movies on your Android device and in a variety of formats, then this article is for you! Holly Lee, a Hong Kong Android developer, has leveraged the special media instruction sets inside the ARM processors found inside virtually all Android phones to create the game-changing app of the year for video playback. The name of this awesome app? RockPlayer!

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One of the most pressing needs an Android user has is the ability to take quick and simple notes, be it phone numbers, a web-site address, or any other random tidbit of information. Given that there are many different note-taking apps available on the Market, the next logical question is: which one should I get? This article attempts to at least point you in the right direction in a special edition of Android App of the Week : Note-taking showdown edition! Apps reviewed include: 3banana by Snaptic, Evernote, Springpad, Note Everything, and a few others.

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Oh happy day! The Kindle App for Android devices is finally here, just being released to the general public yesterday. For those of you who are not familiar with Kindle or Amazon, it's one of the most popular eBook services and products available on the market today. While Amazon offers a pretty sweet E-Reader product to access the electronic books, they also believe in ubiquity, and thus they have developed software for virtually every platform to access the same store and repository of eBooks. Their collection at the time of this article expands to well over 600,000 titles, depending upon your locale. These are my first impressions and thoughts of the Kindle App for Android so far.

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Ever since I bought my Droid, I have been searching far and wide for the best home screen replacement app. Motorola Droid's 2.1 home screen interface makes a fairly inefficient use of the space next to the app drawer unfortunately, and the Froyo 2.2 Launcher program is nice but a memory hog with all of its fancy 3D effects. I first tried Slide Screen by Larva Labs, which is an amazingly intuitive and innovative replacement for the standard home screen. Next I tried Helix Launcher, which made much more efficient use of the bottom of the screen next to the App drawer, but it lacked some of the newer features available in Android OS 2.2 (Froyo). Then I found LauncherPro beta, and I've never looked back.

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This week in the media category of Android Apps, I took a look at the various streaming audio player solutions available on the market. This is for those of you who like to listen to radio stations but don't have an FM tuner built in to your phone. I use this at the gym and when I'm on my bike, but there are plenty of other applications for this as well. StreamFurious is so far the best App that I've found that helps play M3U/PLS streams from the Internet (AAC+ streams are supported in the Pro version).

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This week's readers get a two-for-one deal. Access to a great Android device with a side of sound advice for your day-to-day life! That's right, managing a personal and family budget is one of the most important things that we can do to keep life running smooth and our credit ratings high. Traditionally, most budgeting and financial planning applications are designed for desktop computers and often rely on manual data-entry to be able to put all the numbers into one place. Mint.com is an App for Android that leverages modern technology to make financial management as seemless as possible, and all from your phone.

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Have you ever been away from your home or work computer and needed to access something on those hard drives? What if you forgot to tell your computer to render that home video you had just edited? Or did you simply forget to turn the computer off? Well, LogMeIn Ignition solves every one of those problems. This is the app that you didn't even know you wanted. This is every power user's dream!

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