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all right so moving right along to our next app is one of my favorites on the list which is the Chrome Beta browser now this recently was released for the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system and what this actually does is it allows you to sign in to your Google account and it'll sync to the Chrome browser that you have on your computer now what we can do here is of course it gives us our initial instructions this is our tab menu we can add all these new tabs and we just get rid of a tab by swiping over to the left or to the right and anyways we can go here we have our incognito tab like we do on the Chrome browser we have our bookmarks which what it does is it imports our desktop bookmarks our other bookmarks and our mobile bookmarks so I'll just go ahead and click the desktop bookmarks and has all of the different bookmarks I have for my desktop Chrome application now anyways I'll just give you a demo by going to a website go to Android authority com it has a very clean user interface even though it's in its a beta version it's very bug free there's no lag or really anything like that it doesn't it's it's a completely stable web browser anyways our options once we get here or we can request a desktop site which is actually added in one of the newer versions of Chrome for a few months I was using this and that was not a functionality so we'll click that and we'll just kind of bring up what Android authority looks like when it's on its desktop application as you can see it's very nice now this actually does not support flash so you'll have to watch out for that everything is moving over to HTML so they're already making the first step in doing that they're not going to support flash on this but if you encounter a YouTube video or something you can click it and open it in your YouTube application and many times you're able to just open it on the web page anyways now what you can do is just a swipe another tab and you're left with nothing here of course your menu options here you can set a new tab and this has an easter egg when you get up to 99 tabs you can actually get a little smiley face here I know awesome anyways this syncs what you have been viewing on your other devices with Chrome now here's my HP laptop you can see here that I have the tabs open YouTube and the article in Android authority best apps in 22 and it also has my Galaxy Nexus last synced webpage I was viewing um when I had my other devices on Ice Cream Sandwich it also displayed my Galaxy Tab and my Galaxy S fascinate here and showed what they were of using viewing on Chrome it was these are my recently closed we have DS and we have Android authority and welcome to Google so that's basically the Chrome browser it's very stable it's awesome and I would suggest using it if you're running the Ice Cream Sandwich it's free now our next one next one excuse me is the Chrome to Phone app now what the Chrome to Phone app does is it lets you easily share links maps and currently selected phone numbers and text between your computer and phone much like what the Chrome browser did and this is what I would suggest anyone who's not running Ice Cream Sandwich now here we have there are three easy steps to completely set up on your phone you choose your Google accounts I like to Chrome to phone connect excuse me and then set your link action preference we'll go next and we have all of our different Google accounts I have no history using because it's actually all synced through my Chrome Beta app but this is what you can you can actually use this as the same functionality as I just showed in the chrome beta this is what I suggest anyone who's not running Ice Cream Sandwich but still wants Chrome bookmarks and the chrome experience on their phone heading to our next app we have our color node application which is actually a widget which is very very functional if you like the sticky notes on Windows 7 or you've used a Motorola phone with one of the stock sticky note widgets what we will do here is just add a text enter and we can either discard send lock or remind let me just go back to save it and now it's saved as one of our notes now what we'll do here is go to a blank screen bring up a widget as you can see here we have our color note widget I'll choose a one by one and we choose our note now there's the note we just made and here it is to move it around with my launcher you can resize it whoops make it bigger somewhat anyways when you click it it'll bring up the note that you wrote and it'll allow you to edit the note you can go back and this is very helpful for helpful for to-do lists or shopping lists or reminders for classes reminders for work anything like that so if you need a nice widget on your home screen to remind you to do things you can just get the color note application type up a little note and then place it directly on your home screen you'll never forget what you have to do moving on to our next one we have our Flixter application which is a movie streaming and movie movie reviewing app with Rotten Tomatoes anyways we have our box-office movies which has our theaters and upcoming I'll go to the home first you can search for movies actors or directors scroll through here to see their featured tab and you can log in on Facebook and see what your friends are doing and also share what you're doing you have our mission impossible' trailer we'll go ahead and just boot that up show you some of the functionality of this application this give us gives us the Rotten Tomatoes news the review on mission impossible so you get to 93% on Rotten Tomatoes and then it's also giving us the reviews for the other ones so that's what I clicked and we can go back and we can see my movies now what you can do is connect with Facebook you can give a gift to watch a full-length movie on Flixter and view theaters in your location and we can check our DVD releases that are coming up I'm pretty sure that we can watch a trailer here so I click contraband and we'll be able to watch our trailer now I don't know where this is streaming from but as of right now it doesn't look like it's an HD I'm sure you can change your settings okay so there was that anyways we will go back and that was our Flixter application guys if you want to check out the latest movies reviews for the movies where to watch the movies and upcoming DVD releases get this application especially if you're a movie buff head it on to our next application we have the PDA net 3.5 know what this is gonna allow you to do is even if with even if you don't have a rooted phone this is going to allow you to use your mobile tethering or your mobile Wi-Fi hotspot without paying your carrier that pesky $10 a month or whatever they're charging anyways you can choose a USB tethering want to use your USB and plug it into your computer or possibly plug it into your tablet to tether the internet through your 3G or 4G connection you can do that and use your Bluetooth mode or your Wi-Fi hotspot mode now it verifies our internet connection and it will provide through a Wi-Fi hotspot tool named Fox five select okay or in view more details anyways it will send us to the Play Store if we do that and we will download the Fox five free software that will allow you to use the Wi-Fi connection as a tethering application will try the Bluetooth as well and that uses Fox five and the USB tethered uses PDA net desktop client so what you're going to do with the USB mode is you will I'm going to turn off the PDA now anyways you will download the desktop client on your desktop or on your tablet which is a separate application and then when you use the USB tethering that application either on your desktop or on your tablet and you'll be able to use your internet now this is very fast and it's actually pretty functional if you're getting 4G coverage in your area for me 3G 1.5 mag not not too useful but you know if I needed to use the internet on my tablet and I couldn't do what I was trying to do on my phone this would be very useful for me so check that one out guys moving on we have our TV listings app which when we click that gives us a different TV provider all of our different TV providers I'll enter my zip code so here are all our different providers for the zip code I have entered we have our DirecTV Dish fave global world TV we have Comcast down there and then we have our local listings I'll go ahead and click DIRECTV which is going to be pretty national it's a pretty pretty across the spectrum we have our information channel and it just shows us all you know pilates a home blah blah blah paid programming all of the programs are going to be on and what's what channel they're going to be on and what time so anyways it just says what's on going back whoops we will click it again and I'll bring up the menu you can choose the time of day you can search for things you can filter by different categories and set reminders to watch your favorite show the more gives you a refreshing about and the settings key gives you your configurable TV provider which I've already chosen of course you can filter your channels and then you can use a 24 hour time format if you're into that so this is a great great one to keep up on your TV shows guys or your movies and you can set your own provider and everything to customize and suit your need check this one out if you want to stay up to date on your latest shows anyways we'll go now to the words with friends application now this is also available in a paid version what you can do here is login either with your Facebook or your email address and you can play Scrabble with your Facebook friends or their friends you have on your contacts list and this is pretty fun and I don't really want it to spam my Facebook so beware it will do that once you do this it'll give a notification everyone you're playing Words With Friends whatnot be aware of that so don't want to do it this time and I don't want to log in with my email address so basically you guys that's what this will do is you can play Scrabble with all of your friends and it's pretty fun a lot of people actually have this app going back we will now go to our Google Play Music application now with the Google Play Music application you can actually stream all of your mp3s to Google's cloud server and stream them from there anytime you want to hear your music now of course it gives you your artists albums and your option to select an account to stream it and you can also choose not to stream all your music to the cloud which is what I'd like to do because a lot of times it will find problems with your id3 tags whatnot and it will delete them and if it does not think that they're a genuine file which of course I would only get genuine files but anyways you have all of your you know artists and stuff we can just click a song and this is the nice user interface it gets and you gives you the info you can actually rate it up or down to see if you want to play it again what not anyways that was our Google Play Music app we have a bunch of settings here really you can just shuffle or you can go to your settings choose your Play account a lot of them have to do with your cloud server here which I really don't like doing but a lot of people find it convenient because it takes up zero space on your phone it'll all be in the cloud you'll just stream your music so what you're going to need is a data connection for this application but what else you can do is request that these songs may be made available on your phone so you do not have to stream them from the cloud