Gadgetory

what's up guys is Clayton from android authority calm and today I'm showing you a 25 app roundup of the best apps for 2012 we've compiled these apps from all the way across the spectrum from games to utilities and stuff that'll make your day easier so without further ado let's check out the first one and it is cut the rope now this is one of the top downloaded games in the android market so we'll just let this load up really quick I know this of course was ported over from the iOS platform but we'll just do one level like this so you can see this is the first level and the point of the game is to feed the little monster here the candy that drops down and in order to do that you must cut the proper rope to collect the star and then he will be fed but I did miss 1000 man and you see I lost anyways you can go back and this is a paid app go back to the main menu and see all of the levels we get when we buy the app you can see there excuse me there are about 13 or 14 levels per world and so far we have four five six seven eight nine ten eleven worlds and new levels coming soon so you see there's a little banner ad so you don't get the full functionality of a usual paid app but it's still very awesome you can go to the options sounds music credits + reset game so that's the cut the rope app check that out if you want to spend hours upon hours playing games ok guys so this is the Vox or app I was actually able to log in with my facebook but it would give you a full list of my friends and their numbers so I'm not going to show you that anyways this is a walkie talkie app that you can use to communicate without using your minutes um via this app through anyone who has an iPhone or an Android device now what you're going to do is enter your email or password login with Facebook and then you can send voice messages you just click the record button and send your message via voice all the way over to your friend and then they're going to get your message at some point and send one back to you so this is a very cool communication app and it's free in the market very popular anyways we'll head on to speedtest.net this is a great one if you want to test how fast your Wi-Fi or 3G 4G network is actually giving you internet so you're just going to agree to that and you can begin a test as you see i'm only running on 3g in my area right now so we'll just see how fast we're actually getting the internet uh we're getting about 1.4 1.5 meg and that's not terrible it's actually pretty good for 3g that's what you could expect 4G I've gotten speeds all the way up to about 17 mag in Seattle so that was pretty awesome this will just give you a good idea of how fast you can upload a file or download one in case you're in a pinch and you don't really have the time to do it you want to know if you can do it in time whoops take a minute to run these tests so we just got to keep the screen alive so anyways we have our results we have the pain we have our download speed in our upload speed we can go to tools we can set up how to display the speed in kilobytes per second Meg's we can sort our history down or up we can change the graphics so they're smoother we have better performance anyways we can change our server we can see all of our results if I would have done multiple tests we could see them all listed it on listed down here and we have the about the developer right here alright so the next app on our list is gifboom now what this actually does is allows you to create a profile on their server where you can upload your gif animations now what those are are a bunch of pictures compiled into basically what is a video that is saved in a picture format so I'm sure you all seen them online and the one I made right here is nothing special just a very quick demo to show you what you can actually make but it just loads up the gifts you made you'll need to make an account and this is a gif of me doing about three images across my keyboard nothing special of course but you can create some pretty amazing gifts on here now once you create a gift you can upload them and to their server you also have news and you can follow people who make gifts these are the popular gifts you can see it's a pretty bloated with people who just like to take gifts of themselves young kids anyways there's your popular gifts if into that your news basically will just show feeds people that you were following or news about you and then here's your profile where you can find your Facebook friends that are using gifboom Twitter your address book and friends by name all the different profile settings and then some more stuff here now anyways this is a great app if you have a good camera it's pretty fun and it's pretty functional if you actually want to make gifts for maybe a forum or something or an avatar you're using online anyways we'll go back and go on to our next app which is Shazam now what Sam does is it actually identifies music that is playing in your area and it tags it to tell you who the artist is and what the song is now I'll just go ahead and play something here and we will use shazam to tag it and see what it is playing now first off this is your tagging menu where you're going to click on the big Shazam button so it can actually tell you what's playing you can go to my tags to show you all the stuff that you've played before and go to the chart which is a basically a top 40 chart for all sorts of stuff in the top tags and then your friends that are using Shazam if you want to connect to Facebook so without further ado I will just play a song and we will touch the stream and it got it so what I was actually trying to do is play something that I didn't think it would get this is a Adam Sandler's comedy record but it actually tagged it the excited southerner gets pulled over anyways once you've actually tagged in mp3 you can share it listen to the entire album I don't know why it says train it must have missed tagged that can go to the YouTube video as one Spotify all this other great stuff and also what you can do with Shazam is there's a lot of commercials coming out these days where you can just Shazam the commercial audio and it will send you to the website of whoever's advertising their product great so anyways we'll go back on to our next app which is the light flow app now this is an app for anyone with a Galaxy Nexus or an LED on their phone and what this is going to do is change the notification color to whenever you get a you know notification to whatever color you want it so you can see that you have a missed call or text or something you need to check anyways we'll turn light flow on this is actually going to install some what if it's a system app because you're going to have to enable it in the system and configure what the light is for every type of notification so you see for miss call we have a red calendar reminders we have yellow email now for all these different things you can choose the profile as well such as if you want it to vibrate or what to do when the text message comes now uh this is going to change we'll see we'll just click that and you have to be rooted for this app if you didn't notice I have to run on my alum I superuser permissions to let me use this app now anyways we have our notification color here and we can change it to sky blue and we can enable a sound if we want and we can enable vibrate if we want and we can test our notification I'll test it right here just to show you what it look like ok guys so as you can see what I actually did was send myself a text message to get the notification light to come up and as you can see there it's flashing purple and now that we have our texts we have set our rate that it pulses you can see it's pulsating a nice purple right here because that's what I have said for my notification color anyways I showed all the settings of the LED control there and we'll go on to our next appt which is SMS popup now this is going to do the sort of thing that handcent sms does if any of you guys have that installed so let's accept the agreement and enable SMS popup and our notifications as well as well as additional settings preset and you can donate to it now what it's going to do is when you get an SMS it will actually pop up with the SMS on this okay so what I did is send another SMS to myself to test the SMS popup notification that I'll get when i receive a text now we'll just wait a second and you can see that it brought this up um this is me set myself a nice little SMS there anyways and you can delete it right from here or reply it works nicely it has a nice ice cream sandwich user interface