Of all the home replacement apps on the Android Market, LauncherPro is my favorite. Not only is it the fastest and smoothest operating home replacement app, the developer is constantly updating it with new features. Take for instance, the latest update which adds a new Facebook widget to the already awesome list of included widgets. For those who love at-a-glance info, having such an option for Facebook is a life saver. Don’t forget you’ll need the plus...

Android users employing Tweetdeck should head over to the Android Market this evening as a new .0.9.8 update is now live. Amongst the fanfare, quick posts, new lists, widgets, and bug fixes are all included. And what would any self respecting beta be without a healthy dose of bug fixes? Check. I’ve already downloaded and installed the update and must say that on the surface, you don’t really notice anything. Tweetdeck was already fast. Still, it’s...

Apple certianly knows how to grab headlines. First it was for banning 3rd party tools for iPhone development purposes. At the time of the announcement, it was an obvious attack against Adobe and their CS5 Flash tools that could then be ported over to iPhone-specific code. Adobe has since abandoned development of said tool. But fast forward a month and a half and we now have Apple back tracking on those rules. Their is one small thing that still needs to be followed,...

If there’s one thing about Android’s awesome Gmail app that could be improved, it’s the UI — and on a lesser note, speed. The former is getting a nice little facelift via a new floating reply/reply all/forward bar that is many times better than the old buttons being located at the very bottom of an email. In regards to speed, it’s supposedly many times improved. The best part is that rooted and non-rooted users alike can get in on this Gmail...

It’s easy to say the weekly stories of App Store approval/rejections are an emotional roller coaster. But finally — Finally! — we can say that Apple appears to be weeding out the stupidity and employing some people with common sense once and for all. At one point, apps that “copied functions of native iOS apps” were banned outright — no matter how good they were. But Apple has at least relented a tiny bit of control. Now there are...