Google’s Android Market Is Now Google Play Store – I was downloading apps from the Android Market, and suddenly a request on screen asking me to switch to the Google Play. Later then, all the Android Market logo has changed to a new Google Play logo. The name ‘Android Market’ could not be seen anywhere on the phone, it’s ‘Play Store’ now.

After checking out on the net, Google’s Android Market has gone, ‘Google Play’ is your latest store on your Android device. Besides app, you can find eBooks, rent movies, and buy music tracks. It’s all under one house of ‘Google Play’. It combines Android Market, Google Music and the Google eBookstore.

Besides that, you can download apps, music, eBook on your desktop via Google Play and it will appear on your on your Android device – phone, tablet.

With Google Play you can:

• Store up to 20,000 songs for free and buy millions of new tracks
• Download more than 450,000 Android apps and games
• Browse the world’s largest selection of eBooks
• Rent thousands of your favorite movies, including new releases and HD titles

Check out Google’s Blog for more information about this or Google Play website now..

Better Android Apps Design Soon With Android Design Website – Being an Android user, I admit that many of the third party apps looks ugly. Undeniable that the ugliest app on iOS looks better than Google Android’s typical third party app, probably most of the iOS has the standardize “iOS” design.

Google just announced the website – Android Design, a website that guide apps developer on making their apps look beautiful and cool. It provides graphic idea to apps developer with less graphical mind and serve as a guide while developing Android app.

With this new Android Design website, hopefully the future apps will looks better on the Android.

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Mytubo Is “Instagram For Android” – Day by day, I am waiting for Instagram for Android. I have been waiting since N years already. Hahaha. Instagram is my favourite and super-like apps on iOS and I very hope it will be port to Android. Recently, Instagram announced that they are starting work on the Android app, good news right? But at the mean time, I need alternative app or Instagram-like app on the Android to ease the wait and that’s Mytubo.

Mytubo is a Chinese-made app that has similar feature like Instagram which you can share photo with add-on filter to social networks and Mytubo network. You can also hashtag your photos to join photo community.

What I like about Mytubo is the variety of filter. It also gives you the choice to pick between square or wide photo format, as well as to include frame in the photo or not. You can also Like people’s photo. Besides that you can share your photo to Facebook, Flickr, Tumblr, Twitter and other Chinese social sharing site too.

In your profile page, it organizes your photos by date which makes it easier for viewing. People can follow you as fans too. The main page shows random hashtag photos of others and Mytubo has a special features which is Squads which you can join. Basically, it’s a hashtag pool of photos named Squad.

Well, for the time being of waiting for the official “Instagram For Android”, check out Mytubo which is pretty cool too.

You can download it for free on Android Market.

Best Twitter App On Android – TweetDeck - Despite the redesign on Twitter 4.0 app on Android, I pick TweetDeck as my favourite Twitter app on Android. It’s free, the theme is dark and the best part of all is the easy access to different column with just a swipe. Same as on the desktop, TweetDeck classifies different tweets into column, like Main Timeline, Replies, Private Message, List and people who I want to follow.

This makes reading tweets easier and faster for me. On the official Twitter app, I would have to press this and that to go to List, or to read a friend’s tweet. With TweetDeck, I can just swipe through the column for all the tweets that I want to read.

TweetDeck on Android also has two widgets that can be placed on your home screen which give you faster access to TweetDeck and to compose your Tweet, as well as a camera button for you to shoot and tweet.

How about you? What’s your favourite Twitter application on Android?

Download TweetDeck on Android Market for free.

Maybank2u App Available On Android Now – Good news for Android and Maybank user like me is that there’s an official app from Maybank for you to manage your fund on your Android devices. It’s released a few days ago on the Android Market. Last time, it was only the iOS that has the Maybank2u app, but now Android user can rejoice.

Here’s the description from Android Market:

Discover a whole new way of accessing your banking needs via M2U with Android.
Experience a variety of banking services at your fingertips with ease:

★Account Summary★
▸ Balance Inquiry (Savings, Current, Credit/Debit Card)
▸ M2U History, Recent Transactions, Today’s Transactions,Transaction History (Deposit, Credit/Debit Card)

★Funds Transfer★
▸ To Own Accounts
▸ To Registered 3rd Party Accounts
▸ To Registered Interbank GIRO

★Payments★
▸ Registered Bill Payment
▸ Card Payment (Own)
▸ Card Payment (Registered 3rd Party Accounts)

★Prepaid★
▸ Mobile Prepaid Instant Top Up

★Others★
▸ View Forex Rates
▸ Loan Calculator
▸ Contact Us

Download our M2U app now to discover a whole new banking experience with Android!

Note: This app works on Android version 2.2 and above

Download it now at Android Market now. It’s free.

Cute Video Of Galaxy Nexus Face Unlock – Face Unlock is something interesting, although you can trick it with a photo, but it’s still a fun thing to play with your mobile phone. Just like Siri, not perfect, yet fun. The video shows a kid tries to unlock the Galaxy Nexus but failed to get pass the Face Unlock.

I am looking forward to ICS updates for my Samsung Galaxy S2.

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Android Team Wishes Happy Holiday – With Christmas’ day passes, New Year’s Day is coming and today is Boxing Day! The Android team made a video wishes everyone happy holiday.

As you can see in the video, it’s shoot within the Google’s campus in Mountain View, featuring the main stars of Android – Google Galaxy Nexus. Not to forget, check out the snow flakes button on the Youtube player and let it snow.

I also wish all of you happy holidays! =) Happy loving gadget and technology.

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Google Currents – Magazine-style Reading For iOS & Android – If you an iOS user, you might know about Flipboard, the magazine-style reader for social network and online blog and news site. Now Google releases their very own “Flipboard” called the Google Currents, supporting not only the Android, but on the iOS too, so it’s a cross-platform application for your mobile.

Google Currents – free & fast magazine-like editions for your tablet & phone.

Google Currents delivers beautiful magazine-like editions to your tablet and smartphone for high speed offline reading. Editions are all free and include:

* Publisher editions – Publishers such as Forbes, Techcrunch, Saveur, Popular Science, Good, 500px, Fast Company and more have produced hundreds of editions including in-depth articles, videos, fine photography, slideshows, live-maps, and social streams.

* Google trending editions – Google Currents uses Google search technology to hourly build a set of editions tracking the five most recent trending stories in categories such as world, entertainment, sports, science, and more. Each story is presented through a fresh edition of articles, videos, and pictures,

* Your favorite blogs and feeds – Instantly, turn your Google Reader subscriptions, or any of your favorite blogs/feeds into a beautiful edition with a magazine feel.

Each edition is available for high speed offline reading, and provides quick-touch sharing. Google Currents self-adapts to differently sized phones and tablets, with your subscriptions synchronized across devices. Google Currents – a reading experience not to be missed.“

I like the way of reading articles in magazine style on my mobile as it makes reading experience even more pleasure and better to read.

Download it now on Android Market and Apple AppStore. At the moment it’s available in US Android Market only but you can download it manually via Aptoide or the download here.

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Google Zeitgeist 2011 – The Story Of 2011 In Google Search – Google made a video called the Google Zeitgeitst and it shows you what happened in the year of 2011 through the Google search engine. Now only I know searching the Internet is so nice to see.

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Weather Info In Google Maps – Maps is always a navigation tool. I believe many of you do use Google Maps to look for places and direction. However, have you ever think of looking on weather information and updates on a map? Now you can do it with the Google Maps as Google has added a new weather layer on it.

The Weather Layer displays current temperature and conditions around the world which makes planning of trips and caring for family and friends even easier. You are also able to check out the weather forecast for the next four days, as well as current humidity and wind conditions. This service is a collaboration from Weather.com with Google.