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this episode of android authorities brought to you by carbonite head to carbonite.com right now for your free 15-day trial hello again ladies and gentlemen I'm Joe Hindy the android authority app guy and welcome back to Google Play weekly christmas is coming up soon so a lot of awesome things are going on right now Google Play has released their top apps as voted by you guys there's a brand-new Humble Bundle to buy and yes san andreas is out and finally working without further ado let's get started first on the docket this week is opera max opera max is a new browser from the makers of opera that focuses on using as little data as humanly possible and it does fairly well it's in beta right now and you can get it by joining the beta community the browser works like any other browser in terms of functionality but it compresses all non-encrypted HTTP traffic before it gets to your device which can drastically lower the amount of data you actually use if you're on a limited data plan keep an eye out for this one grand theft auto san andreas has finally been released it's one of the best sandbox games ever released and now you can get it on android you can pick it up for 699 in the Google Play Store and you no longer have to worry about any of those obnoxious bugs a few hours after release Rockstar released a patch to fix the download failed error and all was right in the universe again so far people who have played it seemed to really enjoy it but if you want to see more of it before you spend the seven dollars check out the review of the game we have planned for this weekend on our YouTube channel the google play store has released their list for the top apps and games of 2013 as voted by you guys the consumers some of them were pretty obvious but a few were rather surprising we kind of assumed youtube would be the most popular google app but never in a million years with this app guy have predicted the bejeweled blitz would win best game franchise google also gave some honorable mentions to the apps which had the most write-in votes which included ingress and SwiftKey to see the full list check out the written companion in the video description a pops was a reasonably good idea by google that let people control application permissions from within the operating system without any third-party apps however as of android 4.4 point to a pops is now gone some people have said some scathing things about Google for removing the feature and many think it should have been left in however Google pointed out that leaving a pops in as it was gave the user too much power and they could break a great many things if it were left there so for now it's gone and we don't know when or if it's coming back air our last bit of news this week we're going to talk a little bit about the latest humble bundle in the latest whole bundle there are six android titles you can get your hands on right now for about 4 bucks included his hero academy gemini rue little inferno jack lumber and one more whose name I don't know how to pronounce the average price right now is four dollars and sixteen cents which is what you can pay to get all of them of course since a lot of this goes to charity we encourage people to toss in a little more but if you want a few android games for really cheap go pick up Humble Bundle eight so who wants to see some trending applications as usual if you want to check any of these apps out you can find the links in the written companion in the video description before we get started with our trending apps will take a quick look at Carbonite my associate chase loves the desktop version but I've been using the mobile app for quite some time to back up my photos and videos if my device ever gets stolen the Carbonite app comes with built-in anti-theft functionality to help me get it back of course the best course of action is to have backups of everything in carbonite service for your desktop is a great way to do it you don't have to worry about storage restrictions just pay once and you're good for the year if you want to see what it's like you can get a 15 day free trial right now and if you purchase use the promo code android to get two months free with your purchase check out the website in the video description to get started first up this week is ingress if you haven't heard ingress is a real-time augmented reality massive multiplayer online game and it has finally left beta and is available to the public if you like walking around town and the thought of hacking portal sounds good to you you can find it right now in the google play store if you get into it there's a very healthy community of players on google+ that you should totally check out skype was recently updated to include a few fun new features in the update is a new organizational feature that lets you zoom in and out of individual letters to help find contacts faster the big new feature though is the ability to multitask while video chatting so if you want to watch videos or something while you're video chatting you now can yes even though the game had a rough release day it still made the trending apps list thus far it's had a lot of downloads and we're sure the negative reviews will clear out once people get the patch downloaded and actually get into the game it's a little disappointing that it happened but it is release day and these things happen kudos to rock star by the way for getting it fixed very quickly zedge released an update to version four point oh a couple of weeks ago but actually didn't make it official until earlier this week we did a review and here at the end of the video will link you to that essentially zedge has taken their extensive collection of media and put a brand new interface over top of it if you need wallpapers or ringtones this is definitely the app we would recommend the amazon's kindle app has been slowly improving over the last year or so among other things that you I has been improved as has the performance with the recent update there are now some organizational features that allow you to sort your books for easier access if you haven't given the kindle app a chance in a while now is a good time to check it out again once again I'm Joe Hindy the android authority app guy feel free to subscribe to our YouTube channel and check out our social media links below also if you're going to stick around for a minute we have some awesome videos right over there for you to watch also don't forget to check out the written companion in the video description thanks again for watching and have a wonderful day