Google has officially changed the Android Market to Google Play. The concept of Google Play is just to be connect on the cloud anywhere you go you can play your apps, games, movies, and music. It's a nice face lift and has a huge sale to jump start it.
For the next 7 days (starting today March 6th) there will be amazing entire Music Albums, Movies and even Games for $0.25. Others will be discounted greatly, for example there's more than 20 apps each day that will rotate to be on sale for only $0.49. Huge savings to celebrate a very nice looking new store. Don't miss out.
https://play.google.com/store
This is R-I-C-K-Y, The Android Guy
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Friday, March 2, 2012
Microsoft Office Finally Comes to Android Tablets: The Onlive Desktop App
Just yesterday, a new app came out to the Android market that is considered a game changer. For a long time now many retail associates have said the number one thing that customers ask when looking at an Android tablet has been, "Does is have Microsoft Office?". For a long time Android has had alternative suites that (Like the old days of Corel word perfect and others) are compatible with Microsoft Office. Some of them are QuickOffice HD, Polaris Office and ThinkFree Office for Tablets. Yesterday Microsoft Office was finally brought to Android Tablets with the new App Onlive Desktop.
Onlive Desktop allows you to use a virtual console that looks identical to Windows 7. In doing so you are allowed access to the full versions of Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint. You also have the application Adobe Reader, but this is not to appealing for Android users, since we already have Adobe Reader for our tablets. The other exciting part is you have 2GB of online storage space with the App. This allows you to sign into the Onlive Desktop website (which you will need to prior to the download to sign up for it), and once you are signed in you can upload almost every document you could ever need. Also every document, spreadsheet and presentation is saved onto that same online cloud storage which you can access from any computer.
Finally I know some of my readers are wondering what's the catch? Well there's two catches actually. The first one doesn't really matter to us, because we are Android users. You see this app is also available for iPads and for that reason they offer a monthly service so that you can use Internet Explorer and Adobe Flash. This isn't really needed for Android users since we have better web browsers than Internet Explorer and we already have Adobe Flash unlike Apple. The second catch is that the keyboard that is built in on the app is poor quality to say the least. This can easily be resolved however by using a bluetooth keyboard, I recommend the ones made for Android. When I was testing it out that's what I used, and I felt like I was on my desktop at home. Onlive Desktop has finally brought Microsoft Office to Android, so go download and enjoy.
Here's a Video demo of the app from my new YouTube Channel. Hope you like it.
This is R-I-C-K-Y, The Android Guy
Onlive Desktop allows you to use a virtual console that looks identical to Windows 7. In doing so you are allowed access to the full versions of Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint. You also have the application Adobe Reader, but this is not to appealing for Android users, since we already have Adobe Reader for our tablets. The other exciting part is you have 2GB of online storage space with the App. This allows you to sign into the Onlive Desktop website (which you will need to prior to the download to sign up for it), and once you are signed in you can upload almost every document you could ever need. Also every document, spreadsheet and presentation is saved onto that same online cloud storage which you can access from any computer.
Finally I know some of my readers are wondering what's the catch? Well there's two catches actually. The first one doesn't really matter to us, because we are Android users. You see this app is also available for iPads and for that reason they offer a monthly service so that you can use Internet Explorer and Adobe Flash. This isn't really needed for Android users since we have better web browsers than Internet Explorer and we already have Adobe Flash unlike Apple. The second catch is that the keyboard that is built in on the app is poor quality to say the least. This can easily be resolved however by using a bluetooth keyboard, I recommend the ones made for Android. When I was testing it out that's what I used, and I felt like I was on my desktop at home. Onlive Desktop has finally brought Microsoft Office to Android, so go download and enjoy.
Here's a Video demo of the app from my new YouTube Channel. Hope you like it.
This is R-I-C-K-Y, The Android Guy
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Finally The Best Browser on the web: Chrome is on Android
If you are browsing the web right now and you are not using the Chrome browser most people would look at you like what are you doing? Chrome has been the best browser on the web for over two years now, fast, secure, and really easy to learn. Now most android users like myself have wondered for a long time why doesn't Google just put Chrome on our Google phones? Well today they finally said, you're right! Here is the introduction video. Watch, enjoy, and then download.
This is R-I-C-K-Y, The Android Guy
This is R-I-C-K-Y, The Android Guy
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Android Games Sale - Gameloft High End Games
So if you haven't heard of Gameloft, they are a company that makes some of the best games for Android. The games generally have really good graphics and last a long time. After reading an article, I found out starting tomorrow on December 29th all of there games which are normally $5 to $7 are going to all go on sale for $0.99 I would recommend games like:
- Asphalt 6 - Probably the best racing game on android, you can play multiplayer via wifi
- Uno - Just a great card game
- 9mm HD - Although grand theft auto has come to android, I still like this game a lot better for 3rd person player, this game is more of a similar storyline to True Crimes
- Modern Combat 3 - I'll give you one guess about which game this is like
- Order & Chaos Online - The closest thing to World of Warcraft on a phone or tablet
- Adventures of Tintin HD - If you like the movie, this is a really great looking good game
- Where's Waldo? - Because everyone loves a good game of Where's Waldo
- Backstab HD - Think Pirates of the Caribbean but this game is actually good.
- Cowboys & Aliens - It's like an old TNMT or Sunset Riders kinda game
Enjoy!
This is R-I-C-K-Y, The Android Guy
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Looking For A New Game? How About Dead Space?
EA has been bringing some of their best games to the Android market lately. Just to name a few Sims 3, Need for Speed, Madden, Tetris and even board games like Monopoly. There newest game has been one of the best first person shooters in the recent years. Dead Space. So if you want a fun first person shooter for your phone or tablet then click the link below.
Click the link.
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Click the link.
This is R-I-C-K-Y, The Android Guy
Thursday, December 8, 2011
***New Google App*** Google Currents: Its The Best Way, To Find Out What Happened Today
If you own an android tablet you might be like me and have tried to find the best way to get your daily news. Well for me there's traditional way which is using apps like CNN, Times, Magazines etc. or you go about the traditional way which is using readers. If you don't know what a reader is it lets you subscribe to websites, blogs, news sites, podcast etc and its all right there on one app.
Google Currents has brought this type of reader and turn it into a really simple, user friendly and useful looking app. So go read something and remember to add certain websites like the one above you to your reader.
This is R-I-C-K-Y, The Android Guy
Google Currents has brought this type of reader and turn it into a really simple, user friendly and useful looking app. So go read something and remember to add certain websites like the one above you to your reader.
This is R-I-C-K-Y, The Android Guy
True Gaming Has Finally Arrived
Now if since the arrival of big app markets people have been playing games on smartphones and continued to on tablets. App games have now started a trend of even outselling some games on gaming consoles. Since these games inception though their has been some what of a division among gamers. There have been those called themselves "true gamers" that see these Android games as too simple and is what's wrong with gaming today. They feel these games are a waist of time. On the other side of the coin, there are people that have never been into console gaming that love these games that anyone can play, and others that feel they have a new opportunity to play great games that kill time in a fun way. Well now finally there is an answer to satisfy both sides.
A company called OnLive has released True Gaming to the Mobile World. They have done this by bringing games that have been previously on been on the PC or Gaming Consoles to arrive on Smartphones and Tablets. How did they do this might you ask? By using the same type of technology that's quickly becoming the future, cloud based technology. See while we wait for new graphic processors like the Tegra 3 and beyond to come out, our tablets do not have the resources to master graphics like the consoles and computers do. So what OnLive did was find a way for the players to select a game, play it from OnLive's servers and then bring it to your device without delays. It's truly an amazing achievement. It makes its so that you can play a game as great as Batman Arkham City that was just released this year for the top Consoles and PC, and bringing that kind of quality and fluidity to you smartphones and tablets.
The company has ways you can buy games, rent them for a couple of days, or even stream them (sort of speak) for a monthly payment. So you have lots of different options. Plus it's one purchase to use one game for all of your devices. The other big deal that they bring to the table has to be their gaming controller that can be used for you computers, most smartphones and tablets (they promise to keep updating the newest ones as time go by) and even connect it to your tv (with an adapter of course). This brings a true gaming experience that you can have anywhere that has internet (which if you have a broadband card is everywhere). So go play and have some fun, gamers will be gamers even if that's the reason we don't get some.
This is R-I-C-K-Y, The Android Guy
A company called OnLive has released True Gaming to the Mobile World. They have done this by bringing games that have been previously on been on the PC or Gaming Consoles to arrive on Smartphones and Tablets. How did they do this might you ask? By using the same type of technology that's quickly becoming the future, cloud based technology. See while we wait for new graphic processors like the Tegra 3 and beyond to come out, our tablets do not have the resources to master graphics like the consoles and computers do. So what OnLive did was find a way for the players to select a game, play it from OnLive's servers and then bring it to your device without delays. It's truly an amazing achievement. It makes its so that you can play a game as great as Batman Arkham City that was just released this year for the top Consoles and PC, and bringing that kind of quality and fluidity to you smartphones and tablets.
The company has ways you can buy games, rent them for a couple of days, or even stream them (sort of speak) for a monthly payment. So you have lots of different options. Plus it's one purchase to use one game for all of your devices. The other big deal that they bring to the table has to be their gaming controller that can be used for you computers, most smartphones and tablets (they promise to keep updating the newest ones as time go by) and even connect it to your tv (with an adapter of course). This brings a true gaming experience that you can have anywhere that has internet (which if you have a broadband card is everywhere). So go play and have some fun, gamers will be gamers even if that's the reason we don't get some.
This is R-I-C-K-Y, The Android Guy
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