Are you addicted to SMS like I am? If so, SMS Backup is probably the one app you can’t live without! SMS Backup backs up your SMS messages to your Gmail account (using IMAP) and neatly files them away under the SMS label. You can even set SMS Backup to mark new SMS as read in Gmail, so you won’t have to even worry about reading the messages unless you need them! My only complaint with SMS Backup is the speed – sometimes it can be incredibly slow, and it only syncs up to 100...

Pandora Radio is an online streaming music service that uses the “Music Genome Project” (like DNA for songs) to find new music you’ll like based on songs & artists you already know you like. You enter a song or artist, it finds music for you, then as it plays you can give each song a “thumbs up” or “thumbs down” so the station gets more tuned to your preferences the more you listen. If you haven’t used it before, here’s an example of a...

Welcome our 2nd guest-poster, Ellie, who describes herself as the “ultimate geek girl” and has a blog at thepinkc.net. Enjoy her app review! ~Renee Android is a great platform for mobile phones – but bloatware is added to it by our phone companies to subsidize the cost of our phones. Unfortunately, there wasn’t anything we could do to stop these applications from starting at boot until Startup Auditor became available on the Market. As its name indicates, Startup...

22 of you took part in our sidebar survey, which asked, “What Twitter client do you use on your Droid?” The winner by a large margin was Twidroid, with 11 votes (50%). Seesmic and Tweetcaster tied for 2nd with 4 votes each. Touiteur, Twicca, and “Other” each got one vote. Neither HootSuite nor Swift got any votes, but maybe their strength will increase now that they joined forces. What I find interesting is that Android Central was running a similar Twitter survey...

Liz, a frequent traveler and fellow DROID-loving woman from Maryland, has written our blog’s first guest-post! Her article is the first in a series about utilizing your phone while traveling to make going out of town less hectic and more enjoyable. Keep an eye out for future posts in our WomanWithDroids Travel Series! ~Renee Luggage…Check. Plane Tickets…Check. Apps…Wait, what? Spring is coming soon and we cannot wait to escape the cabin fever of our homes,...

As described on Android Central, Swype has opened up their Beta for a limited number of new users, so go here to sign up if you want a chance try out this early version of Swype. I had heard Swype was a new method for entering text using the on-screen keyboard that involved swiping the screen (obviously), but I didn’t know much more than that. I was skeptical about how well it could work – I’m a physical hardware keyboard kind of gal, which is one of the reasons I chose the...

Evernote, the popular note-, image-, sound-, and idea-storing program, was recently released for Android. I have used Evernote on my computer for a while to clip interesting web pages, to store family addresses, and to store code snippets to use as a computer programming reference, so I was happy to hear I could now create and access notes on my phone! There are lots of creative uses for Evernote. In fact, I’ve been using it to store ideas for articles to write for this blog, including...

I promise that even though I last posted about the TV Guide App, I don’t use my Droid primarily for television-watching purposes! I just wanted to write a quick post about the TV.com application I found recently because it is really neat. You can watch full episodes of some TV shows right on your Droid! A WiFi connection is necessary for some of the higher-def episodes, and I’ve found that the streaming was smooth and there were surprisingly few ads during the shows I watched. The...

Do you have a TV that won’t display the “info” as you flip through the channels? Or maybe you have a remote-hogging hubby that won’t let you browse to see what’s on? Or maybe you’re out and wondering whether to hit another store or head home to catch that show that you like but always forget what time it comes on? Enter: TV-Guide USA This app tells you what’s playing on all of the major channels right now, as well as displaying the next 2 shows on each...

My parents were good about drilling into my head that I should have safety equipment (flashlight, flares, etc.) in the car at all times, a first aid kit, and ‘Hot Hands‘ and a granola bar in the glove compartment in case I get stranded! I think I’m pretty prepared, especially considering I live in suburban Mid-Atlantic USA and not the extreme rural North. But all this snow and the recent earthquake in Haiti had me thinking – what could I put on my Droid that could help...