Can you guess what Make It Default Browser does? Yes, we suspect you probably can – it makes Opera the default browser on your Android phone, if you were so impressed by Opera Mini 5 that you want to use the over-complicated, oddly-rendering browser as your Android default web reader instead of the standard Android [...]

This little independent production popped up on the Android Market earlier today, and fills a massive gap – by providing a simple, searchable database of train departure times. You pick your journey’s start and end station, then up pops a list of times and all the stations called at along the way by the next [...]

Good lord, and to think all this time we’ve been suffering from the PAIN and INDIGNITY of having to manually stop the display rotating automatically by holding our phone at a funny angle. And then AutoRotate OnOff came along. Look at the awesome simplicity of this: That’s our new all-time favourite app screenshot! AutoRotate is [...]

A chap who’s clearly INTO cricket sent us a little heads-up about new app Cricket Live Score Alerts, which… you can probably guess. It updates match scores every five minutes via a widget, meaning you can keep tabs on events throughout the day. For those of you who work in OPPRESSIVE working environments where it’s [...]

Sensorly is a seriously clever app, and exactly the sort of innovative tool Android was made for. The app measures network connection types and signal strength wherever you are, compiling the data and sending it off to a central server, where it’s collated, chucked over a map and sent out to other users. The end [...]

Yes! We’re long-time users of various clipboard management tools on PC, with the way they conveniently backup all your CTRL+V text-copying action to a file for easy retrieval making life so much easier – and now there’s a decent clipboard tool on Android in the form of Clipper. It’s a very simple app that stores [...]

A bizarre clash of the old and the new, this one, with the BBC News Listen & Tweet app combining a live streaming feed of the BBC’s famed World Service radio offering with… a collection of Tweets that mention the BBC. It is an app that both you and your Grandad can enjoy. It’s technically [...]

Come on, surely you’re interested in knowing what the dubbed German version of Columbo sounded like as the show played in continental Europe? Find out, with Columbo Soundboard Deutsch! It loses quite a lot of its charm, in reality. They used a very serious-sounding actor in Germany. And there isn’t an English-language equivalent up either. [...]