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this episode of android authority is brought to you by Linda calm head to lynda.com / android for your free 7-day trial and start learning new things right now hello began ladies and gentlemen is Joe handy the android authority app guy and it's also friday which means it's time for another episode of google play weekly in this week's episode we're going to talk about some TouchWiz applications that got leaked the pebble appstore beta and some applications that help you can warm it so cheap so let's get started let's start out this week with some good news after a few months of waiting couche has finally been able to add chromecast support to his all cast app this was precipitated by the official release of the chromecast sdk which means we'll see a whole lot more apps get the chromecast support in the coming months all cast which was denied chromecast support some months ago is one of the early adopters of the new SDK according to reports it took couche only 20 minutes to install the update and as you can see here it seems to work fairly well the update should be available in the Google Play Store right now and if not it should only be a couple of days there are some kinks to work out but it's nice to see chromecast playing well with third-party apps again the everythingme launcher lets beta this last week and the oft talked about launcher is already making quite the splash the beta was wildly popular with over a million downloads and now the finished product is here this app has a number of contextual features help improve your experience without getting in the way it's free in the Google Play Store and it is AD supported in the form of sponsored apps we gave this app a spin and you can see our full review over at our youtube channel or linked here at the end of this video we've no doubt that this is going to be a wildly popular launcher but it isn't without its problems namely the presence of region locks which pretty much prevents use anywhere outside of north america which sucks a whole bunch after a long wait the pebble appstore is finally available for android kind of initially the full version was released for iOS with a developer stating that the android version would be along later however there were some bugs that were going to take a little bit longer than expected to fix so instead of delaying the android release they simply released it as a beta some of the known issues include difficulty pairing to the pebble smartwatch and forcing people to close out of applications before they can alter their phone settings through the pebble there is no timetable for a stable release just yet but the devel the firs have said that people can expedite the process by trying out the beta and submitting bug reports it's pretty much known that the NSA can spy or at least has the capacity to spy on everybody with a smartphone but a new application by chainfire may make it a little bit more difficult to do the application is called prof I and here's how it works your device has what is called a MAC address and using that MAC address applications your device and certain government agencies can track your location when your mac address pops up on a Wi-Fi network so let's say you go from your home to the airport when you login to the airport Wi-Fi trackers can go hey look there's that MAC address again that dude must be at the airport what this app does is randomized your mac address so that this doesn't happen it doesn't affect location services of applications google maps can still see exactly where you are and soaking applications like facebook and foursquare the difference is that your mac address has changed so those who attract you using your mac address can no longer do so because it's random and different every time you connect to a new Wi-Fi network it's nifty it's great for privacy and it's available in the Google Play Store right now for free it's getting to be that time of year when OEMs are announcing their flagship devices for the year so it's no surprise that we're seeing some potential leaks of Samsung's latest TouchWiz the first one was as health and along with delete came the rumor that this will be packaged with the galaxy s5 it features a new hollow tastic interface with a flatter design more colors and less TouchWiz for those who think that samsung and google are working together this should probably strengthen that argument because it is way different than last year's design the other big leak was s voice like s health s voice seems to have a brand new design that's flatter and more colorful according to reports this new version of s voice is faster and more reliable than last year's offering but only by a little bit even though I'm one of those people who loves all of Android including TouchWiz even I'm like dude just go with Google now already even so at least the design has been improved so who wants to see some trending applications in this week's edition we're going to go over some applications to help keep you up-to-date in the sochi 2014 winter olympics as usual if you want to check out any of these applications you can find the links in the written companion which is in the video description first up is Yahoo Sports having surpassed ESPN as the most popular source of sporting news it's a natural choice for keeping up with the Olympic Games you'll have access to news as it happens along with rosters based on nation simply put it's a worldwide source of sporting news and it's one of the best next up is sochi 2014 wow with this application Samsung device owners can keep up with what's going on in the Olympics one nifty feature is a guide that explains what each event is and how to play that particular sport which can be helpful and for those who are wondering Wow doesn't actually mean the term that expresses aw but actually stands for wireless Olympic works NBC's Olympic highlights app does pretty much what the title says it does it delivers highlights and video and photo format so you can see what you may have missed in Sochi it's not a comprehensive news application like some of these other ones but it is a good and quick way to find highlights in your favorite events if you're not down with reading all of the articles or viewing all of the highlights 2014 sochi winter games app is a really good option all this app really does is provide a metal counter and a schedule of the day's activities and times that's really it folks something nice and easy for quick reference finally the score updated their application specifically for the Olympic events which means there are a lot of fun and useful features for those who want to keep track this includes a metal alert notification up-to-the-minute news and separate sections for men and women as well as hockey because this is a Canadian new source it's free and it'll have good coverage plus it has good coverage of other sports year-round so it's an all around good option once again I'm Joe Hindy the 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