The SportyPal mobile app helps you track and share your workouts, showing you and your friends how far and how fast you ran, biked, hiked, or just about anything else you did to get from point A to point B.
To see examples of what types of workouts people are tracking using the mobile application, take a look at the latest workouts on their Community Page.
The SportyPal fitness app is available on the iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Symbian, and Windows Mobile platforms. To read more details and download the application for your phone, follow the links below.
Google announced this week they have updated Google Finance for mobile, which is available as a mobile website or an Android app.
Google Finance now provides more consistency across all its platforms in both functionality and in look and feel. There are still some complaints with it however, as evidenced by the user comments in their post.
What do you think? Has Google Finance overall finally surpassed Yahoo Finance in functionality and ease of use?
All week there have been news stories and prognostications about Apple’s upcoming product announcement in September, about how iPads cannot be made fast enough to keep up with demand, and rumors about a new TV delivery service. You’d have to look fairly hard to know that Dell also tried to make some noise this week.
On Tuesday, Dell released their Aero smartphone, which includes a 3.5-inch touchscreen and runs on Android. Some people are also aware that Dell released a tablet computer called the “Streak“. The Streak doubles as a smartphone, and also runs on the Google Android platform.
We all know about Cupertino. So does anyone care about what is coming out of Round Rock, Texas?
Foursquare, which is arguably the most popular location-based service (LBS) out there today, is seeing a recent surge of growth due to growing awareness of LBS applications overall.
For those who are new to Foursquare, here is the official company description:
Foursquare is a mobile application that makes cities easier to use and more interesting to explore. It is a friend-finder, a social city guide and a game that challenges users to experience new things, and rewards them for doing so. Foursquare lets users “check in” to a place when they’re there, tell friends where they are and track the history of where they’ve been and who they’ve been there with.
Foursquare is viral, it’s intuitive, and it gains more value as it’s use increases. It is seeing increased competition from Google Maps for Mobile, and recently announced Facebook Places, but so far that is only propelling it’s status on the location-based scene.
Foursquare is a web application, with mobile versions for the iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Palm, and other mobile platforms. Go check it out and see what you think — Everybody’s doing it!
Google recently announced it’s Voice Actions app for the Android platform. (If you have an Android phone, and you drive, please continue reading…)
Using Voice Actions, users can send email and text messages, call contacts, surf the web, get directions, create a note to self, and even listen to music simply by speaking the commands into your Android 2.2 (Froyo) powered phone.
Of course, no Google app release is complete without a video from one of their engineers:
Google Voice Actions will come pre-installed on the Verizon/Motorola Droid 2 phone, and other phones running Android 2.2 can download it from Android Market.
Google announced this week that it is extending invitations to it’s App Inventor tool to the general public. App Inventor, which can be considered an Integrated Deveploment Environment (IDE) for Android applications, was previously only available as part of a test program that Google was managing in schools.
The tool is certainly geared towards those new to programming in general, and the idea behind it is to get more people comfortable building and deploying Android apps.
The brief video below shows how easy it is to build a quick Android app using App Inventor. There’s a more complete video here.
Ready to start building your Android App? You’ll still have to apply by filling out this form.
Have you built an Android App using a different tool? Let us know how your experience was by commenting below!
It’s not easy to come up with a fresh idea for dinner each night. Luckily, the Epicurious app for Android offers over 28,000 recipe ideas with just a few clicks on your phone.
Some of you may remember the mobile website we highlighted back in 2007, where we showed how to get free recipes to your mobile phone. Well they’ve been keeping at it with their mobile app for Android and other mobile platforms as well.
Debt Snowball, an app available on the Android Market, helps users keep track of their debt and determine what credit card or other debt to pay next.
This method of paying down debt has the user pay the same total amount of money to their debts each month, with the most going to either the debt with the highest interest rate, or the one with the lowest outstanding debt. Popular money management author and radio/TV host Dave Ramsey promotes this method. Mr. Ramsey suggests paying off the debt with the smallest outstanding debt first in order to build momentum and stick to the plan.
Of course, paying down the debt with the highest interest rate first makes the most sense mathematically. However, if people can find a way to build momentum so that they stick with their plan, that is often much more important than the mathematically correct answer.
The nice thing about the Debt Snowball app for the Android is that it lets you select either method, and shows how much to pay to which debt based on the approach selected. Check it out!
Did you follow the wild ride on the stock market yesterday? If you have the stomach for it, you can get stock prices live from wherever you are with the Google Finance Android app.
(Image credit to the Official Google Mobile Blog)
This Android app includes much of the functionality of the regular Google Finance site, including the ability to view and update your own stock portfolios that you set up in the web-based version. The latest release of Google Finance for Android supports currencies as well as the following stock exchange listings:
