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hey guys it's Joe the Android guy how would you like to run Android apps on your desktop or laptop computer without having to run them through the Android emulator I would - and that's what BlueStacks does let's go take a look so after you download the BlueStacks app player for Windows and this is in beta so you're going to have to sign up to be a beta tester first it's quick it's easy they send you an email you respond to it and immediately you've got access once you can download it which took me a little while because their site is getting slammed right now with everyone trying to get in well then you get to this part where you set up your account it asks if you have an Android phone in this case I do and it asks for my email address we'll go ahead and type that in and then my country code end phone number now why is it asking this you might want to know well essentially what it does is it teams your Android powered smartphone up to this and kind of synchronizes your your apps between the two so I'm going to go ahead and put my phone number in and we'll move on to the next step so what that's done is it has send a text message to my phone and it's given me a hyperlink to go to and install that app that I already showed you if I didn't have it already it also gave me a pin that pin was mirrored up here on the screen and I just typed that into my phone and now the two are synchronized or synchronizing you can put a checkmark in there and tell it to sync with the cloud it goes through and it use my apps for syncing and there we go there's all of my apps now that means that I should be able to access them over here and it is going to download and install but what that's going to do is it's going to let me use my apps and ideally my paid apps as well since this is still me this is still one of my authorized machines and all it's going to do is let me run them over here on my desktop computer now while those are synchronizing you can see over here the icons are kind of bouncing up and down and I've got this a little rotating arrow well that means that it's synchronizing with the BlueStacks App Player for Windows when it does that comes down and in your notification tray down at the bottom of your screen it shows you what has recently been installed that we're synchronized so in this case here's my barcode scanner it's not going to be much good for me because I don't have a camera but this is the same barcode scanner app that I have on my android powered phone so I've gone ahead and launched Angry Birds Space which by the way if you haven't played this yet it is awesome it's preparing an app for eat first use and it's asking me to wait it says that I can press ctrl + or ctrl - to zoom in and out that's kind of like your pinch to zoom and whatnot down here it says it's loading and that's going to take just a minute and then I should be able to play Angry Birds Space the Android version right here on my Windows powered computer now you're saying of course you know there's there's an angry Pig space for Windows but it costs quite a bit of money I've already paid for it this is the HD version of where it should it be the HD version of Angry Birds space so I should get really high-def graphics and let's see if I can do this very good for you here the pressure is on so very fluid very smooth very nice I can play it really really easily see what else I can do first we got to make sure I get three stars of course because that's what this is all about so yay now it does not synchronize across my games that's something that's more specific to Angry Birds than it is to anything else but it doesn't sync that down here in the corner you've got your traditional back button and a menu button in this case menus not doing anything for me I've got this home button in the middle it looks like a bunch of stacks so we can go ahead and hit that there's my Barnes & Noble Nook app my carrier coverage app clouds and cheap copilot live USA you know just a whole bunch of apps that I already have installed and if I want to find more I can more its downloading more that are coming over here so really kind of cool and I can run them right here on my desktop let's see if we've got Gmail shall we so you can see kind of the utility here there's my gmail I can actually use Gmail for Android on my desktop computer with all of its bells and whistles and everything that I like about that and carry that across to all the different kinds of apps that you'd expect or want to use on a bigger screen with a keyboard and mouse you know fast data entry and whatnot that you can't do with a tablet or with a phone at least not very easily so overall very very cool I'm really impressed with it I'm going to spend the next few hours here playing Angry Bird space so why don't you go ahead and watch a couple more PocketNow videos for pocket now showing off BlueStacks App Player I'm Joe Levi