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For golf players there is nothing more tedious than having to write down their score on a sheet of paper or standard score card. They have to make certain they don't lose their writing tool or score card as they travel the length of the course and they have to be make certain their numbers are legible. There are many apps available for download that take care of this from an electronic angle but few are a solid and reliable as the Golf Score Card Android app.

It's a common occurrence. You are walking the lengths of the course of choice for the day and your pen gets lost, your score card is damaged, or something similar happens that causes a minor annoyance. To repair this situation may require a decision on both parties to simply write down on a new score card what they believe their scores to be. With the Golf Score Card Android app this is no longer a concern. As long as the android powered mobile device using the app is functional the score will never be lost.

Further, unlike a traditional score card there are many upcoming bells and whistles for this app coming down the pipeline in the future. Such functionality as sharing score cards with friends over the net and the ability to be used for varying golf games such as disc golf make it stand out. Currently images of the score card can be saved for later review and are less likely to be lost than a typical score card that can be easily damaged or otherwise impaired.

This simple and effective app is easy to utilize and utilitarian in performance. while there are many bells and whistles considered for adding onto it in the future the app excels at performing the primary function it was designed for. It keeps score well and with a save function it manages to remain useful between series of games played to show improvements and declines in skill.

The Golf Score Card Android app is perfect for any golfer interested in improving their game by focusing on their weak points. It is useful for a variety of separate game types such as minigolf, nine hole golf, discus golf, as well as tournament and standard eighteen hole play. The program works well and does not malfunction as long as the machine it is installed on has been properly maintained and has an appropriate up to date operating system.

One of the primary reasons people adore this app is that it is a small one hundred fifty-three kilobyte download. An app that performs all the essential functions of a score card without the downside of using a physical one is something that continually draws many people to the Golf Score Card Android app. While it is utilitarian in its purpose without a large amount of sidereal benefits it is very good at doing its primary function. The best reason to use this app is for the express pupose of its existence. It is a solidly programmed and fully functioning electronic gold score card app.

Overall it is a solid four out of five. Once the new functionality that is slated to be added into it is released then it may very well achieve the true perfection that only exists at the five star level.

For those individuals that adore the sport of Nascar there is nothing better than being at the races themselves. However, this is not always an option and the next best thing is to watch the races on television. When even this option is not available these diehard fans still desire to know who won what race and at times like that they must turn to news outlets and similar institutions. The people at Stock Car Spin, world renowned for their up to the minute and detailed racing blog and news site, have crafted the perfect method for true Nascar fans to keep in touch with the latest news and race results. This answer to Nascar fan prayers is the Stock Car Spin app Android app.

This app guarantees quick results and continual data feeds designed to bring every facet of Nascar to the viewing public. Continual updates occur whenever anyone accesses the app and anyone with the program will know the winner of a race and any important information the moment it happens. The information is up to the minute and uncensored in a manner that true fans demand. Requirements to run the Stock Car Spin app Android app are that the user must have an android powered phone such as the Motorola Droid to run it.

This app is perfect for any avid Nascar fan that doesn't have the time or the schedule to actually watch races as frequently as they would like. The information granted is complete and uncensored so the race fan never has to miss a moment of the action even if they can't see or hear it. Anyone who loves Nascar, has a Motorola Droid or similar android powered device, and is literate will love this app.

There are many races throughout the year and the only way to keep abreast of all of them is to either watch them from work, for those lucky few that can, or actually be at the races. The news feeds from various sources vary in content and usefulness but the people at Stock Car Spin are well known for unbiased content and straight talk about racing performances.

The reason to use the Stock Car Spin app Android app as opposed to "googling" the net for information or waiting for the sports news on television is simple. The information is immediate, unbiased, and uncensored. The modern fan base demands detail and information that our forefathers of racing enthusiasm did not know or care for. The knowledge of what racing team is being sponsored by which sponsor is just as important to some people as the races themselves. The market for racing information has gone far beyond who won and who lost. Fans want to know who crashed, how many tire changes, how fast did they fuel up and change out tires, etc.

For the true Nascar fan that must know everything about the race and must know it now the Stock Car Spin app Android app is the best answer to this question going.

The golf tracks applications are excellent for any golfer that wants to easily understand their handicap and to maintain a greater knowledge of their strengths and weaknesses while playing the game of golf. There are two distinct version the Golf Tracks lite and pro versions. There are only a few differences between the Golf Tracks Lite and Pro Android app versions.

The Golf Tracks Lite version is basically a demo of the full system. It comes with a capacity to track the score of the device owner, a handicap calculator, and a quick links to Google maps to view local courses with a capability to locate them via GPS. The lite version is a free download that is roughly three hundred ten kilobytes in size. It is usable by any android powered phone but requires the system to be up to date.

The Golf Tracks Pro version takes all the best parts of the lite variant and removes some of the annoyance such as the nag screen that occasionally pops up to ask if you'd like to switch to the pro version to locate things faster, and to improve capacity all around. The pro version costs four dollars ninety-five cents American and has a download size of six hundred seventeen kilobytes.

The Golf Tracks Lite and Pro Android app, whichever is chosen, are considered the preeminent Android apps for keeping gold scores as well as maintaining game scores. The app helps to improve the game of any owner by showing weaknesses and calculating specific information on the fly. Between their capacity to calculate information and locate worthy courses that may either challenge the golfer or help them improve on a slightly easier course these variants of the same app are the way to go to help any golfer reach their true potential.

If the mobile device owner upgrades to the pro version they are capable of saving their last twenty games for later viewing. This can allow them a form of trend analysis so that they can consider the best way to improve their game. If they require too many strokes they may need to go to a driving range to improve their distance precision. If they know that they can get the ball to the hole quickly but lack the capacity to get it into that hole readily they will know that the extra strokes come from close precision.

Either way the Golf Tracks Lite and Pro Android app is the perfect way to catalog the progress of a golfer and help them understand the way they have been playing. If nothing else the fact that they can use the GPS function to locate the nearest green or a golf course they might not have been aware of will be a reason to utilize this app. The constant world traveler that enjoys golfing in new places will find that using this app to locate courses while traveling abroad will wonder how they ever did without it before now.

Due to its capacities, ease of use, and solidly programmed software architecture I rate this app five out of five. There are few if any apps currently on the market that approach this level of utility this app possess, fewer still that can be said to equal it, and none that surpass it.

The Tiger Woods Photo Application is so much fun. It took about 30 seconds to creat this pic. Its Tiger watching TV and shaving in the morning. I think we would all be laughing if we saw news about closing Madonna's legs first thing in the morning. Wonder what he's thinking with that razor in his hand?

The people that brought us Obama Cam and the Twilight New Moon sound board have finally unleashed their much anticipated Tiger Woods Cam. The results so far are mixed, but considering that it is only the first iteration released by Diligent Labs it is quite incredible and more than a little hilarious.

The Tiger Woods Camera Android app works in similar regard to the original Obama Cam. There are a wide variety of poses and sometimes awkward positions that Tiger will find himself in during the utilization of this fun program.

The app works via a camera image overlay process. This process allows Tiger to be seen on the viewing portion of the android phone camera in any manner of situations. The hilarity ensues whenever an interesting shot presents itself.

Tiger can be seen bending over, kissing the air, swinging a golf club, as well as merely smiling and jocking for the camera. The number of uses for this are limitless but a few truly interesting things that have cropped up are people that have had him kissing just about anyone or anything they can imagine from a gold fish to edited images of Michelle Obama; talk about scandal in the White House!

While there are a few bugs and other kinks that still need to be worked out of the system it is a solid start on an entertaining way to poke fun at the world around you. Each of the bugs or glitches found is being cataloged by the makers of the Tiger Woods Camera Android App for their next iteration of it. Some known issues are the inability to work with android flash and a few photo gallery related issues. In future iterations this will be fixed and more images of the formerly squeaky clean image bearing Tiger will be available.

The app is a free download from Diligent labs that is a 576.1 KB and on most sites that have reviewed it the mixed reviews have roughly ended up giving it a four out of five stars despite the minor issues it can have at this first release stage in its development. The Tiger Woods Camera Android app has reignited the celebrity camera app craze once again and already people are calling for even more celebrities like Shaq, Bill clinton, and Jennifer Aniston.

There are a wide variety of websites where the images taken in this manner can be shared. The most common are Twitter and Picasa followed by various e-mail programs that many individuals use. With such rapid sharing there are already people beginning to develop fansites for this sort of thing in the hopes that the trend will catch on.

Over all despite the few small glitches that can crop up with the program in this early iteration it is a well designed and humorously entertaining android app. The Tiger Woods Camera Android app has definitely earned a well deserved four out of five stars. Once the minor issues are fixed this will be a five star app in its entirety.

Gesture Search from Google Labs lets you search your Android-powered device by drawing alphabet gestures on the touch screen. It allows you to quickly find a contact, a bookmark, an application, or a music track from hundreds or thousands of items, all in one place. It is fast and fun to use.

We played around with this a bit. T came up with everything starting with T. All my T contacts, Twitter ,Twoid, Google Talk, Tiger Woods Camera, etc.

Once you have what you want, Be it a App or contact users can call it use it with ease. For the short period of time I used this I was impressed. It found everything I searched for.

Droid Users can search for and download the Gesture Search App in the Android Market, Or Use the Bar Code Scanner App.
1. Open 'Barcode Scanner'
(available from Android Market).
2. Point your phone camera at the screen,
and scan the QR code above.
3. Follow the onscreen installation directions.

If a target item is not shown just keep writing and search resuly are always updating, refined as you ad each letter. You can wipe off one letter or cleaned the entire screen and start over.
Draw directly on top of search results to ad letters and refine search further.

Google seems to think this app will relieve stress. I created home screen short cut during setup. This enables the user to search there phone even faster.

The Gesture Search App is sure to be a hit.

Gesture Search currently supports English and requires Android 2.0 or above.

Have you heard of IFood Assistant or are new to the application? You will be happy to know that this application is now available on the Google Android phone.

The application is brought to you by Kraft Inc and offers many of the recipes which can be found on the Kraft Foods website.

In truth this app is a widget and activated by long pressing the home screen.

If you are into gastronomy the IFood assistant brings a lot to the table, no pun intended. The application is formatted similarly to most of the other phone applications; it is pleasing on the eyes and easy to navigate for users. Like I said before the application offers a wide variety of recipes from the KraftFoods website. Once the user clicks on the application in the apps window the user is presented with five options to choose from:

Recipe of the Day - This is where everyday a recipe is showcased. This is good because there are so many recipes on the KraftFoods website, it can be easy to overlook a good one.

Browse Recipes - This option allows the user to search the recipes.

Dinner Tonight - This options allows the user to pick a recipe for preparation.

Simple Shortcuts - This option shares tips that the user can use when preparing the meal.

Snacks & Treats - This is pretty self-explanatory. This option allows the user to browse through snacks and dessert recipes.
The last option, Cooking Videos, is the most helpful one because the user can watch videos of the meals being prepared by professional chefs. This can help if the user wants to actually make the recipe while referring to the video for assistance.

Another feature that the user can choose is to look at the recipe ingredients. If the user does not have all of the recipe ingredients the user can find a store near them using only the application to buy the ingredients. In the application there is a store locater and information on what stores have what is needed and where it is located within the store.
The application also has nutritional information on all of the recipes such as calories, fat, sugar, serving size, etc. In addition the user can see how long it takes to make each recipe.

The application basically functions like an electronic recipe book in that it allows the user to search for recipes using the KraftFoods recipe database. The user can edit their list of recipes and add new ones. The application also allows ways for users to find the ingredients that they need to make the recipe. All recipes on the IFood application have appealing pictures of the finished product. There are also reviews of the recipes as well so the user can know how others liked the recipes.

The Android Bar Code Scanner App is an application programming interface (api) that allows cell phone owners with the Android mobile operating system to scan an item's bar code to get more information on the item. Since bar codes are used in stores everywhere to quickly inventory and process the purchase of the item, this simplifies the search for information on it.

How does the Android Bar Code Scanner App work?

The Android Bar Code Scanner App is simple to install. Most of the work is done by the already installed Android Bar Code Scanner Application programming interface. All the cell phone owner has to do is go to Android.com, Google's dedicated website for the Android mobile operating system and Google's new Nexus One smart phone. Just go into the Android market, select a bar code scanner application and download it. Once it is installed, the cell phone's camera lens becomes the scanner. Just scan the bar code of the item and the Google Product Search for Android will gather the requested information in a few seconds. It will work with 1 dimension and 2 dimension bar codes.

How will the Android Bar Code Scanner App help users?

The Android Bar Code Scanner App will be a great personal assistant for its users. The major limit on its uses and benefits will be the imagination of the user. Over time, as the user becomes more familiar with the app, more and more uses will be discovered. Some of the users with computer programming skills will develop new programs for the Android Bar Code Scanner App that will expand the utility of the application.

The most popular use of the Android Bar Code Scanner App is comparison shopping. With the bar code scanner's ability to access the Google Product Search function, product information is readily accessible. Google Product Search will not only retrieve information on the product, it can even find the same product in nearby stores without leaving the store where the scan was done. It can also search for the product at online venders such as Amazon.com, Half.com and Ebay. For books, it can search local libraries for the book's availability as well. Not only can the Google Product Search provide the specifications and uses for the product, it will also suggest similar products that compete with the original product. Their locations and prices will be provided on a comparison basis.

If the cell phone owner finds an item of interest online, either at a home, work or public computer, the item can still be scanned and the same information retrieved from the bar code on the item's image on the monitor.

The Google Sky Maps Android app is a true marvel of modern technology and simple usage. With this app a mobile device owner can discover the wonder and beauty of the night sky simply by positioning themselves and pointing their mobile phone toward space.

By utilizing the Android phone’s location and orientation sensors you can be shown a star map for the local area. Every star, planet, and constellation within the phone’s point of view that is currently known to man and able to be seen by modern technology will appear in a brilliantly detailed map on the phone’s display.

The mobile device owner can take the time to explore the local area of their galaxy by looking up and learning the names and locations of objects on a cosmic scale. With this android app astronomy can become a simple hobby based on charted and known space. Anywhere in the world with a view of the night sky will allow the owner of this app to find and discover the stars and other heavenly bodies beyond their view.

In conclusion this Android app is the perfect addition to any mobile phone. It can turn a normal run-of-the-mill night into a night of beauty and celestial discovery. There is much to be discovered out in the wider universe and this app allows the owner of a cell phone it is installed upon to be part of the wonders of that discovery.

It is said that leaning starts at home. This Android app is a pertinent reminder of the truth of that statement.

Alice

Alice is an Android app that centers its purpose on locating local events of interest for the social oriented individual. With this app a mobile device owner can find any gig such as concerts and the various music stars of interest that will be performing in a nearby venue.

The app can be configured readily to create a detailed watch list for anything of specific interest or the Alice android app can be set to automatically create one based on the music artists listed on your mobile device. If the mobile device owner has a LastFM account that automatic watch list can also be created utilizing that data as well.

Of further interest is the fact the owner of the Alice app can search or browse for events and artists in the manner of a regular gig guide. They can view maps of the area to locate the venue, buy tickets, send or receive email about events and look for artists in a similar genre among other things.

The Alice Android app is connected to both LastFM and BandsInTown. This provides excellent event coverage and allows up to the minute changes in venue and scenario.

This Android app is for any individual that loves going to concerts or at the very least enjoys being the hub of the social scene when it comes to doling out information regarding upcoming events. A mobile device owner that enjoy music and concerts can’t go wrong with purchasing this little gig guide gem.

Trip Journal

We used this app on a recent trip to New Hampshire skiing. Worked great for easly logging the trip. There are two versions. A free one and paid. The free version is a bit limited, but works fine.

I tend to put non work related apps in the Best Droid Apps category. I'm sure some may find other apps more useful for work and business travel.

Trip Journal is an app dedicated to logging your vacation and the experiences you had on them. You can store them and share them with your friends to allow them the full blow-by-blow coverage of everything you did while away.

With Trip journal, an android app, you can track you travel route, take your photos and notes to attach them to specific trip files, and record your individual waypoints along the way. You can further visualize this previously recorded information and even follow yourself from your specific position en-route via real time on Google Maps.

Trip Journal allows the mobile device owner to send real time updates from the places they are visiting. These journal entries can be sent via well designed KMZ files that can also be viewed via Google Earth. Further you can export vacation or other trip photos to an album you create on Picasa Web.

The features of this Android app are as follows:

* Track your travel route

* Record way points

* Take your photos, notes, and statistics then attach them to a trip file

* Uses Google Maps to follow your progress and allows for the exporting of KMZ files to Picasa, Flickr, and even Facebook.

This travel app is the perfect thing for long trips, or simply keeping information about your vacations. A picture of that nice guy or girl someone met on their road trip can easily be combined with a short information screen, with such information as name, number, and anything else of interest.

Please lets us know what you think of this Droid Application or any other Android App you use while traveling!