Gesture Brightness is a cool and customizable brightness controller that you can activate without any navigation through menus or home screen pages. It doesn’t use hardware sensors and it doesn’t drain your device’s energy. It saves space on the home screens, it’s personalizable, works under locked screen too and it’s cool! The light of the sun won’t bother anymore.

If you are looking for a brightness widget, you should know that Gesture Brightness is more than a widget! It is a cool and customizable HD brightness controller. You can activate it with no need to look at your display, wherever you are and whatever you are doing, just tap on the top corners of the screen in sequence(tutorial inside) and that’s it!

Gesture Brightness Android App Features:

• SAVE BATTERY! It doesn’t use hardware sensors and it doesn’t drain your device’s energy.
• SAVE SPACE IN YOUR HOME SCREEN!
• PERSONALIZE IT!
• ALWAYS ON TOP! Once enabled, it will be shown in foreground, no matter what you were doing.
• WORKS ON SCREEN LOCK TOO!
• IT’S COOL! Animations, HD graphics, haptic feedback and…sound
• SAVE THE NATURE! It won’t ever make you yell at the sun anymore just because you can’t find the brightness settings under its light!

First of all we want to thank the CyanogenMod team and Jokersax for all the work they have done to get a fully functional CM9 build ported to the Motorola Atrix 4G. The CM9 build for the Motorola Atrix 4G does have a few bugs but for most they will not even be noticed and I’m sure that the current beta build will be released as a stable build very soon as it works great.

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Prerequisites to install CM9 on the Atrix 4G:

• Rooted Motorola Atrix 4G (How to root the Atrix 4G)
• ClockworkMod Recovery installed from the Android Market
• Unlocked Bootloader (How to Unlock the Atrix 4G Bootloader)

How to Install CM9 on the Atrix 4G:

1. Download CM9 and move the zip file to your SDcard (Download Link)
2. Reboot your Atrix 4G into Recovery from ROM Manager
3. When in Recovery select Wipe Data/Factory Reset
4. Wipe cache and wipe dalvik cache
5. Navigate to install downloaded zip from SDcard
6. Choose zip from SDcard and select the ROM
7. Reboot your Atrix 4G
8. Congrats your Atrix is on CM9 Ice Cream Sandwich!

After you have flashed your device to CM9 you will need to install Gapps to get all of the Google Apps required to access the Android Market etc (Download Gapps).  You will flash Gapps the same way you did CM9 from steps 5 and 6.

If you have any issues installing CM9 on your Atrix let us know here and we will try to help you out. As always we are not responsible for the use of these instructions and you flash your device at your own risk.

And after the ROM is Installed this is what it looks like:

There is a developer named Dan Rosenberg that has been releasing roots left and right for Android devices and now added to that list is the Motorola Droid XYBOARD. The process to root the Motorola XYBOARD is very easy and requires one click.

One Click Root files for the Motorola XYBOARD:

1. Download and Unzip the Root Files
2. Windows Version: (Download Link)
3. Linux Version: (Download Link)
4. Put your XYBOARD in USB Debugging Mode “Settings -> Applications -> Development”
5. Connect device to PC via USB
6. Navigate to the location you unzipped the files above
7. Run “run.bat” (or run.sh on linux) and follow any instructions if any
8. Congrats your XYBOARD is rooted!

Thank you Dan Rosenberg for all of your hard work and those of you that find this exploit useful and use it to root your XYBOARD please consider donating to Dan via the donate button at http://vulnfactory.org/blog/2012/02/17/rooting-the-xyboardxoom-2/

Our favorite group of hackers over at XDA, more specifically Dan Rosenberg has already created a utility to root the Motorola Droid 4 on Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sanwich. This utility will not only root your Droid 4 but unroot it, install Voodoo’s Rootkeeper app, Safestrap Recovery app, boot into fastboot for debugging and a few other options for the Droid 4.

This is a very easy utility to use and requires almost no thought process to gain root access on your Motorola Droid 4. Make sure you backup anything that you do not want to risk losing like pictures, videos, text messages, etc. Also you will need the correct drivers on your computer for your Droid 4 then its as easy as running the utility.

Instructions to Root the Motorola Droid 4 on Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich:

1. Place your Droid 4 in USB Debugging mode “Settings -> Applications -> Development”
2. Connect the Droid 4 to a Windows PC Via USB
3. Extract the Droid 4 Utility on your computer (Download Link)
4. Open the folder you just unzipped and run “Droid4Utility.bat”
5. When the Droid 4 Utility opens select option 6
6. Follow any on screen instructions
7. Congrats your Droid 4 is rooted on Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich!

Our favorite group of hackers over at XDA, more specifically Dan Rosenberg has already created a utility to root the Motorola Droid 4 on Android 2.3.6 Gingerbread. This utility will not only root your Droid 4 but unroot it, install Voodoo’s Rootkeeper app, Safestrap Recovery app, boot into fastboot for debugging and a few other options for the Droid 4.

This is a very easy utility to use and requires almost no thought process to gain root access on your Motorola Droid 4. Make sure you backup anything that you do not want to risk losing like pictures, videos, text messages, etc. Also you will need the correct drivers on your computer for your Droid 4 then its as easy as running the utility.

Instructions to Root the Motorola Droid 4 on Android 2.3.6 Gingerbread:

1. Place your Droid 4 in USB Debugging mode “Settings -> Applications -> Development”
2. Connect the Droid 4 to a Windows PC Via USB
3. Extract the Droid 4 Utility on your computer (Download Link)
4. Open the folder you just unzipped and run “Droid4Utility.bat”
5. When the Droid 4 Utility opens select option 1
6. Follow any on screen instructions
7. Congrats your Droid 4 is rooted on Android 2.3.6 Gingerbread!

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While this is user submitted we have looked through the reviews on the Android Market and it seems to be one of if not the best app in its demographic as it gets very high ratings.

The SCM Buddy App can be found on the Android Market via: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.manufacturing.calculator&hl=en.  Please let us know what you think of this app in the form of a comment below.

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In most cases we will review the article submitted and add to it or edit it to make it fit with the rest of our website but will reference your apps website, Android or other Markets page. Thank you for letting us know about your app and keep an eye out as your articles will show up within 24-48 hours depending on submission volume.

We have all played puzzle games as children and now there is one like no other on the Android Market called Picture Puzzle 2in1. If you like to entertain yourself by making a beautiful picture from little details then this is the game for you!  The Picture Puzzle 2 in 1 is entertaining for adults and children. This game is not only for training your brain but also allows you to enjoy nice pictures which are a result of solving the puzzle.

The game has two different modes:

• CLASSIC mode. There is anyone does not restrict you in actions you do. You can move elements around the game area in way which you would to achieve the positive result.
• mode is named THE 15. This is more difficult mode than previous one, but really interesting. There is an empty cell on the game area and you cannot move picture items how you want. You need to use savvy and have a lot of patience to solve it. It is not easy because of impossibility to shuffle items. Remember – you can move elements to the next empty cell only.

PICTURE PUZZLE 2 in 1 has more than 60 levels with amazing pictures. The levels are opened one after the other. Each of levels is unique by the picture it has. Images from 4 themes will be presented to your attention – cars, desserts, cats and… there is one more theme but that will be surprise for you.  Also PICTURE PUZZLE 2 in 1 is needed to tell about several levels of complexity. You can play on the game area with 3х3, 4х4, 5Х5, 6х6, 7х7 and even 8х8 size. Somebody who opened all pictures, played all game’s modes can try “The 15″ without any digit hints – and just believe me it is not a joke to solve.

Google Maps has been updated to increase battery performance for latitude and location history users and a few bug fixes. Since Google Maps is the primary app that most users use for gps and other location services its nice to see these types of updates. While only a few updates to the app its always good to increase battery life and decrease its burn by even a little.

Of course you can just update the app via the Android Market so no need for a download here. Let us know if you notice any changes other than what we have mentioned above.

Acer has announced that the Acer Iconia Tab A500 will be receiving the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update in April. This was posted on Acers New Zealand Facebook page. This should make all of the owners of the Iconia Tab A500 very happy to see the device finally get the update they have been waiting for.

Great news, everyone! We’ve just got confirmation from HQ that the Iconia Tab A500 will be getting Ice Cream Sandwich in April. No exact date yet, but we’ll let you know when we have it. What are you looking forward to most in ICS?

There was no date in April set for the release of the Ice Cream Sandwich update although you’ve waited this long so whats the month of April. No reference of the update in the US or any other country so the update may just start in April in Australia. Either way its on its way.

Samsung released a “Guide to Samsung Developer Day” for Mobile World Congress this year that shows a Galaxy Note 10.1. We already knew that Samsung would not be announcing the Galaxy S III at MWC so have to assume that there is a reason other than the device not being ready for prime time. We see that the S-Pen is a big focal point for Samsung and with that they state that the Galaxy Note, Galaxy Note 10.1 and Wave devices will be announced together.

The Galaxy Note 10.1 Tablet is said to be created for education, art and financial planning. This will be a device that is being promoted to students and was a commercial said to be in the works. The posting has since been removed but was supposed to be filmed early this month.

As we find out more about this Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet we will be sure to let everyone know. Either way this should be an interesting MWC for Samsung.

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