As with the original, Reckless Racing 2 is a top-down driving game in which you need to negotiate a series of twisty tracks in order to win the race. There are lots of game modes to keep you busy in Reckless Racing 2 - a marked improvement on the previous version.

Game modes in Reckless Racing 2

The Career mode in Reckless Racing 2 contains 12 different cups - each consisting of several races over a series of tracks. The higher you place in the races, the more cash you win, which can be used to buy new cars or upgrade your existing car to improve its performance.

There's also an Arcade mode in Reckless Racing 2, which gives you a total of 40 tracks to race on. Each one is a single challenge, such as finishing third or higher, or winning the race. You can only pass to the next track once you've completed the challenge. Cash earned in Arcade mode can be spent in Career mode, too.

If you want a bit more freedom in Reckless Racing 2 then head for Single Event mode. Here you can choose to race on one of six different areas, either as a straight race, hot lap, or elimination event. Again, there are lots of different tracks to race on in Single Event mode.

If all of these single-player modes in Reckless Racing 2 aren't enough for you, then check out the Multiplayer mode. You can race against up to three of your friends or against strangers online, in any of the game modes mentioned above.

Graphics and presentation

The graphics in Reckless Racing 2 are even better than the already excellent visuals of the first game. Menu systems are much slicker and more 'grown-up', as the developer tones down the rather childish, hillbilly theme of the original.

In-game, Reckless Racing 2 looks sublime. The natural backdrops are more gorgeous than ever, with all types of terrain (desert, forest, beach, circuit, etc.) all meticulously crafted in fine detail. The Micro Machines-style viewpoint may seem a strange choice for a mobile game, but you'll instantly fall in love with it.

The techno music soundtrack provides a thumping accompaniment to the on-screen action, although it tires after a while and you'll wish there was more varied music in the game.

Other features of Reckless Racing 2

There are lots of options to tinker with that let you customize your Reckless Racing 2 experience. You can choose between five different control systems, with the option to place buttons anywhere you like on screen. You can also tweak steering sensitivity, enable auto-accelerate, and turn on various assists such as racing line, mini map and pace notes, which tell you when to slow down.

If you're looking for a helping hand to progress quicker through the career mode, Reckless Racing 2 offers the ubiquitous in-app purchase of extra game cash for upgrading your vehicle or buying new cars.

Although it doesn't quite have the same charm as the original game, Reckless Racing 2 is a mighty mobile racing game with few equals.

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When signing into the Flickr app, it will open Safari just to validate your account, but unless you sign out you don't have to do it again. Still, it's a shame sign in is not integrated with the app itself.

Once you're in, Flickr is a very neat app. You can view your photostream, add comments, search for users and view your contacts. There's a tab that gives you your recent activity and uploads on Flickr too. The interface is smooth, fast and intuitive.

Of course, the obvious thing is allowing you to upload pictures from your iPhone, and this couldn't be easier. You can choose an image from your library, or take a new one then just hit upload and it will be added to your photostream in moments. Unfortunately, the iPhone app seems to take some time to learn that your photostream has been updated, which is strange.

Other than refreshing itself, the Flickr app is a slickly-integrated program that makes uploading to Flickr a breeze. To top it all off, you can use GPS to add location data to your pictures, and if you have a 3GS you can upload your videos too.

The Flickr app is a great example of how to integrate with a web service, offering an experience which is both mobile, finger friendly and yet just as rich as the original browser service.

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You can use the Flickr app to view recent activity, add contacts, upload photos from your device or camera, and manage your photostream. The Flickr app also includes a search function for finding people or photos based on a keyword.

The user interface of Flickr for Android is well laid out and kept very simple. It's divided into three areas: 'Activity', 'Contacts', and 'You'. You can flick between these sections by clicking on the tabs or simply swiping the screen.

There's also a camera icon, which allows you to take a photo and upload it directly to Flickr, or to choose an image to upload from your device's gallery. There are a variety of effects you can apply to your images with the Flickr app. However, these are limited and there are no editing tools included.

Viewing your photos in the Flickr app is also very straightforward. You can swipe between photos to browse them, and click on a photo to open it full screen. In full-screen mode you'll find a slideshow tool, which automatically displays your photostream in sequence. Unfortunately, the swiping and slideshow tools don't work when browsing other people's photos that you've searched for.

Although this official Flickr app is very usable, it isn't perfect. Users might experience some glitches with the built-in camera app, which may lead to having to force close the app. The application lacks functionality for uploading more than one image at a time, too, which gets a bit annoying.

Despite its limitations, the Flickr app still makes for an easier way to upload and browse photos than Flickr's mobile site.

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Easy install

uTorrent Remote for Android is a tiny download that won't take up much space on your device's memory. Once it's on your phone, you'll have to open up the desktop client for Mac or PC and set up an account from there - the app doesn't allow you to do this from your mobile device. Located under the "preferences" options, signing up is as easy as choosing a computer name and password. Then open up the uTorrent Remote app on your phone, and you'll be able to control all your torrents remotely.

User-friendly interface

Once inside the app, you'll see that it's very easy to use. Although the uTorrent Remote for Android is simplified, it's still very understandable at first glance. You'll quickly see what's downloading, seeding and completed, as well as your labels and feeds. Clicking on any of the categories will show you the files currently in action, and clicking on any of the files will let you see more details. Of course, uTorrent Remote has clear and simple buttons to pause, delete or view the individual files of any download.

Features

From your menu button, you'll be able to manage additional tasks with uTorrent Remote. Adding the URL of a torrent or feed is achieved via Add, while you can also view local files and logout. uTorrent Remote's settings on your actual Android device are pretty limited, but bear in mind that most of the tweaking will be achieved via the desktop client, so the Android settings don't need to be too advanced. You can, however, limit uTorrent's upload and download speeds, and enable or disable downloads to your phone over 2G and 3G.

A small issue

We only had one issue with uTorrent Remote - it proved to be very buggy at times. This can be frustrating, but was usually remedied by logging in and out of the various clients a few times. Also bear in mind that your home PC or Mac must be on with uTorrent running for the app to work.

If you use uTorrent and have an Android phone, you'd be mad to miss µTorrent Remote.

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If you're a fan of crossword puzzles or other word games, 7 Little Words is a fantastic little app to take with you on the go. It'll keep you challenged and test the vocabulary prowess of even the most advanced wordsmiths out there.

Much like what Astraware Sudoku does for numbers, 7 Little Words will challenge the limits of your knowledge of different words. In each puzzle you're given seven clues with which you'll have to figure out the seven mystery words. To help you out, 7 Little Words gives you 20 letter sets. Use these number sets to spell out the mystery word based on the clues you're given. Once you think you've figured out the mystery word, click the "guess" button. If you're right, the clue will be bolded. You can guess the words in whatever order you like.

Once you've figured out all seven mystery words in 7 Little Words, you can move on to the next puzzle. The only real complaint some users might have is that the game's a little repetitive. It would've been nice if 7 Little Words had offered more than just the standard game set-up.

Avid wordsmiths will enjoy 7 Little Words though for its challenging clues and clean interface.

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What's the aim?

The object of Where's My Water? is to help Swampy the hygiene-obsessed alligator take a bath by digging a path for fresh water to run down through the sewers and through his shower head. Hold your finger down and draw a path through the mud to send the water cascading down (or up in some cases!). You can scroll down levels using the somewhat cumbersome slider bar.

Borrowing elements from the classic Pipes puzzle game and more recent water-based puzzlers such as Sprinkle, Where's My Water? challenges you to complete more than 140 different puzzles (just 25 in this free version), each with a different route through to Swampy.

A tough challenge

Completing levels in Where's My Water? isn't as easy as you might think. There are lots of obstacles to negotiate, such as acidic water that will burn Swampy if it touches him, conveyor belts, bridges, barriers, and much more. It's complicated by the rather crude digging controls, which aren't very precise - especially if you have fat fingers!

In each puzzle you should try to collect as many of the three rubber ducks as you can by filling them with water en route. There are also unlockable items and achievements to complete along the way, so there's plenty of gaming to be had in Where's My Water?

How good is it?

Besides having an original and captivating concept, a great game needs to be well executed in its presentation, and Where's My Water? certainly ticks this box. The cartoony graphics are great fun, and the physics of the water is very realistic.

Swampy himself is a real character. We love the way he sings in the shower, complains when not enough water is coming through, and gets so excited when the taps come on. The music in Where's My Water? is very catchy, and unlike many games like this, it rarely gets boring.

Where's My Water? is one of the most enjoyable casual games for iOS, and is challenging enough to keep you playing for hours and hours.

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Your mission in Angry Birds is to destroy all the green pigs by catapulting birds at them. This wouldn't be too difficult, except for the fact the hogs are holed up inside fortified castles which you need to smash into in order to enter. As the levels progress, these fortresses become ever more impenetrable, so Angry Birds requires a bit of lateral thinking as well as a steady aim.

Playing the game

To fire one of the angry birds you simply pull back on the catapult, adjust the trajectory, then release your finger. You can shoot four birds per turn, and if you don't destroy every pig then you'll have to start the level again. This free version of Angry Birds includes 15 playable levels. It gets very difficult, very quickly so even this trial version should last you a while.

As well as being great fun to play, Angry Birds looks the part too. Graphics are colorful and fun, and the bird noises and sound effects are hilarious. Playing the game on high resolution screen such as that of the HTC Desire is a real dream.

Challenging, fun and great to look at, Angry Birds is one of the best Android casual games you'll find.

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Available for more platforms than competitor Gowalla, and having a larger community, Foursquare should be the best of the location based apps. However, when you first install it, it can be hard to see what to do with it. Once you've found or invited some friends, and checked in at a few locations, Foursquare begins to make sense.

Foursquare allows your to post mini reviews of places you've been to, and collect badges - like achievements in video games. You can see where your friends are too, and as checking in to locations gives you points, you can see who's winning.

Foursquare is a mix between a social game and useful tool. This type of app only works if you can get enough of your friends to use it. You can find places to go and things to do, read user recommendations and sometimes even get free gifts from places you check in.

The interface is simple to navigate, although it's a bit dry in its design. Competing app Gowalla looks much better. Despite this, as long as Foursquare's community is larger there are more places to find, with more user tips and more incentives to become the mayor of your favorite spots. Competing with your friends can be fun, even if it might feel like you're turning your entire life into an RPG.

As it's community grows, Foursquare is becoming a really useful service, great for finding friends and things to do wherever you are.

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This app stands out for its ease of use and intuitiveness. Songbird automatically detects and organizes your music, and presents it for listening in a simple, well-thought out interface that reminded us of Spotify, but better!

Songbird has all the usual suspects – playlists, a good search function, a now playing window that supports album artwork, etc. It’s easy to navigate through your music using the buttons at the top of the app, and shuffle and repeat are easily accessible through the now playing window. Touching the Songbird icon will bring you to the main screen.

Among Songbird’s nicest features – apart from the design – is the availability of a homescreen widget, and the presence of lockscreen controls, so you don’t have to unlock your phone to control your music. On the downside, it has very, very few options. This will probably be a plus to some users, but most will miss the ability to carry out even very basic tweaks, like equalizing their music.

Songbird is a great music player – it’s just a shame it’s not slightly more advanced.

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Available for more platforms than competitor Gowalla, and having a larger community, Foursquare should be the best of the location based apps. However, when you first install it, it can be hard to see what to do with it. Once you've found or invited some friends, and checked in at a few locations, Foursquare begins to make sense.

Foursquare allows your to post mini reviews of places you've been to, and collect badges - like achievements in video games. You can see where your friends are too, and as checking in to locations gives you points, you can see who's winning. Foursquare is a mix between a social game and useful tool. This type of app only works if you can get enough of your friends to use it. You can find places to go and things to do, read user recommendations and sometimes even get free gifts from places you check in.

The interface is simple to navigate, although it's a bit dry in its design. Competing app Gowalla looks much better. Despite this, as long as Foursquare's community is larger there are more places to find, with more user tips and more incentives to become the mayor of your favorite spots. Competing with your friends can be fun, even if it might feel like you're turning your entire life into an RPG.

As it's community grows, Foursquare is becoming a really useful service, great for finding friends and things to do wherever you are.

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Players control Steakfries as he reclaims the machine gun jetpack seen in Monster Dash and attempts to go the distance again. Jetpack Joyride is a distance arcade game, keeping track of how far players get while avoiding hazards and collecting coins.

Jetpack Joyride uses the same style as previous Barry Steakfries games with the cartoon and slightly 8-bit visual style. The game has a specific graphic look that is immediately recognizable for a Halfbrick Studios game. Audio in Jetpack Joyride is also great with a soundtrack that matches the quick gameplay.

The one-touch gameplay is simple. The longer players hold their finger, the higher Steakfries will hover in the side-scrolling level. Jetpack Joyride features electronic gates, missiles, and lasers that all try to stop the player from accumulating more distance.

Jetpack Joyride features an upgrade system where players can purchase new jetpacks, character skins, and power-ups that can be used in-game.

Another excellent addition are the tokens that are collected in Jetpack Joyride. Used in a slot machine, players will randomly be rewarded different power-ups like extra coins, revival power-ups, or bombs that will extend Steakfries’ distance after the player has died in a level.

While coins are collected in-game, Jetpack Joyride also features in-app purchases. Player can purchase coins to buy items and even purchase completed missions. It is a different progression style than seen before.

Jetpack Joyride is much more than a simple distance arcade game. Players will level while playing. Completing the various challenges give coin bonuses as they level up. The challenges are varied and challenging, increasing the replayability of Jetpack Joyride.

Jetpack Joyride is the perfect distance arcade game. The game offers much more than just trying to get the farthest distance in one session. The challenges are extremely fun and challenging while the upgrade store contains some of the best purchasable content of any game.

Jetpack Joyride is a required game for iOS and another solid game for Halfbrick Studios.

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Once you've installed the program on your device, you'll need to sign up for a free Evernote account. After this short registration process you'll be presented with a very clear and touch-friendly interface. From here, you're just a tap away from adding a text note, a handwritten ink note, taking a snapshot on your camera, recording an audio note, or uploading a file.

The revamped Evernote interface in this fourth version of the app makes adding and managing notes very simple. Touch the plus button and you can add a quick note, with one-click options for adding tags, location tagging, in-line voice recording and adding pictures by taking a snapshot or browsing your Camera Roll.

Evernote for iPhone makes it so easy to peruse your notes. You can view all notes in a timeline, browse by notebook or tags, or search through all your notes using keywords.

Now, whenever you don't have your iPhone in hand you'll be able to access any notes or files you've added in Evernote from any web browser. These can then be edited, deleted, printed or emailed at your leisure. Personally, I found the layout of the online interface quite uncomfortable - unlike the hand-held version of Evernote, the text is very small, and the strange menu system makes browsing through your items overly complicated.

From the browser-based version of Evernote you can add notes and files like with the device version. There's also a 'web clipping' tool, available as a Firefox plug-in, which lets you quickly grab web pages as you browse and save them to Evernote.

All in all, Evernote is a powerful productivity app that ensures you're never far away from your important information.

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The problem however, is that the light on most devices then goes out again after a few seconds, meaning you need to keep pressing buttons or opening and closing the device to keep the light constant. OI Flashlight solves this problem by permanently keeping your backlight on to give you a constant source of light.

One great thing about OI Flashlight is that it allows you to select a background color for the light. You can select precisely the shade you want from a color wheel, then this color is permanently lit on your screen. Changing the color is useful because it helps your natural night vision. After using white light, it takes longer for your night vision to be restored to normal than it does if you're using red light, for example.

The only bad thing about OI Flashlight is that it quickly sucks up battery, so be sure to deactivate it when you can to preserve power, or you could find yourself shrouded in darkness at a crucial moment.

OI Flashlight is ideal for camping, caving or just for getting up to pee in the middle of the night!

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Forget about trawling web forums, cutting out magazine articles, or scribbled notes, GTA Cheats offers a very convenient way to get Grand Theft Auto cheats on your Android device. Cheats are presented in an easily accessible way. Just click on the GTA Cheats game logo that corresponds to the version of GTA you're playing to view the full list of cheats for that game.

GTA Cheats contains lists of cheats for all of the following versions of Grand Theft Auto:

- Grand Theft Auto - PC/PS1/GBC
- Grand Theft Auto: London 1969 - PC/PS1
- Grand Theft Auto 2 - PC/PS1/DC/GBC
- Grand Theft Auto III - PS2/PC/Xbox
- Grand Theft Auto: Vice City - PS2/PC/Xbox
- Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - PS2/PC/Xbox
- Grand Theft Auto Advance - GBA
- Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories - PSP/PS2
- Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories - PSP/PS2
- Grand Theft Auto IV - PS3/360/PC
- GTA IV: The Lost and Damned - PS3/360/PC
- GTA IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony - PS3/360/PC
- Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars - DS/PSP/iOS

GTA Cheats is great for finding quick hints to get you through the game (extra vehicles, money, weapons, etc.) but it would be nice if it included some mission guides, or at least maps of each city in GTA.

If you're having trouble getting through any Grand Theft Auto game, GTA Cheats will give you a welcome helping hand.

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If your schedule is jam-packed with work, school or other "distractions" and makes it difficult to keep up with your favorite television shows, or even take in a movie once in a while, Hulu Plus will help you get back on track. An impressive number of different television show episodes and movies are available for viewing on Hulu Plus.

Hulu Plus has a simple interface that's easy to navigate and search for your favorite shows. Different types of media are divided by categories, such as movies, television shows, clips and trailers. You can add shows you want to watch at a later date onto your Hulu Plus queue and can sync it from different Hulu devices, making it a perfect compliment to Hulu Desktop for your PC. Shows can be watched with a 3G (or higher) or WiFi connection. The picture quality of the content was also great on the iPad it was tested on.

The Hulu Plus app is free through the iTunes App Store. Unfortunately, to make use of the actual service, there's a monthly subscription fee. Thankfully, it's pretty comparable with Netflix's fee if you're looking for an alternative way to watch media. Plus, you can try the service for a few minutes for free after installing the app to decide whether it's worth it. The only downside is that not all television shows are available on Hulu Plus and even when they are, sometimes full seasons aren't available.

Hulu Plus is a fantastic app for viewing anything from television shows to movies on your mobile device.

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The story is based on the motion picture, Angry Birds Rio. The original Angry Birds have been kidnapped (or should that be 'bird-napped'?) and dragged off to Rio de Janeiro. There are 150 levels in Angry Birds Rio, set across five different episodes. The developer tells us we can look forward to more new episodes being added throughout 2011.

One of the objects of Angry Birds Rio is to set the rare exotic birds free by catapulting the Angry Birds at the intricate structures and cages they've been imprisoned in. You will also be asked to squash chattering monkeys by flinging your birds at them, which is great fun.

Angry Birds Rio looks even better than the original game. The graphics are much more vibrant and have a certain cinematic feel to them. The squawking sound effects are excellent as well, although we missed the cute grunts of the famous green pigs.

In terms of gameplay, Angry Birds Rio hasn't really innovated on the first game. Sure, there are new twists, such as collectible fruit and some new achievements, but the basic concept of launching birds at constructions is the same.

But if you enjoy the format of Angry Birds, you should definitely install Angry Birds Rio.

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With the Flash Player plug-in installed on your device, you will automatically be able to load Flash videos, animation, games and applications from the web. Android's support for Flash Player gives Google's operating system an advantage over big rival Apple, whose iOS system still doesn't support Adobe Flash.

For a more complete view of the web, install Flash Player on your Android phone.

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While there are many web browsers for Android, the beta of Chrome is easily the fastest. Much like its partner for desktops, Chrome is dedicated to loading websites and allowing you to browse quickly.

If you have used Chrome before, Chrome on Android will be familiar. The interface is optimized for small screens and most websites load in their native versions, meaning you are not going to be looking at mobile versions of sites.

Chrome connects to your Google account and can import your bookmarks. The connected accounts also send pages from desktop Chrome to your device to read later.

Text heavy sites are easy to read and do not require a lot of zooming. Chrome’s scaling of pages is very intelligent and does not skew text in favor of sidebars.

Looking at YouTube and Vimeo, Chrome had no problems opening and playing video. YouTube opens into full screen in landscape mode and it was possible to play a video inside Chrome on the Vimeo website.

Tabbed browsing in Chrome is the best available on any mobile browser. In Tab view, tabs sit behind each other, shifting up and down as you tile your device. There is no lag between opening different tabs and even with six tabs; Chrome was still able to open content within a couple seconds.

Chrome’s simplicity and performance shoots it past any other browser available.

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If you're a YouTube addict, then TubeMate YouTube Downloader is the perfect app for you. Besides, allowing you to watch movies on your phone, it allows you to download YouTube videos in a variety of video formats and resolutions, or as MP3 files. This means you can watch YouTube clips and listen to songs without connecting to the internet.

The Preferences section of TubeMate YouTube Downloader is packed with options to customize your downloads. You can choose to store temp files, queue up downloads, change the destination folders, etc. There's even a Fast Download mode that uses multiple connections to make quicker video downloads.

In general, TubeMate YouTube Downloader is easy to use, although some users might not be fans of the floating toolbar that's used for sharing YouTube links and searching for videos.

TubeMate YouTube Downloader makes for a fast and reliable way to download YouTube videos to your phone.

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This free chat app is supported by ads, but fortunately they are really not intrusive, and you'll hardly notice them at all. Like any messaging client you need an account, which means first creating an eBuddy account before adding other web messengers.

eBuddy supports lots of networks - MSN, Yahoo!, AIM, Google Talk, Facebook, ICQ, MySpace and Hyves. Adding them to the app is as simple as entering your details, and you'll be automatically signed in. All your account contacts will be listed alphabetically, in online and offline groups. This is fine, but if you're signed into lots of services it can get pretty busy!

eBuddy is very user friendly, and you'll have no problems opening chats with your friends. Each service varies slightly, but in general, chats follow the 'bubble' design seen in the iPhone's SMS app. It works in portrait or landscape, great for people who like the larger keyboard.

eBuddy is a functional and attractive messaging client, offering a good range of networks in an easy to use package.

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