The Android Market search is just atrocious, I’m not sure how a search company could make a search product as bad as the search in the Google Android Market app is.  But finally someone has come out with an alternative app that will search the Android Market called Chomp. Chomp returns much more relative results but seems to lack and not show anything for less popular terms. I tried searching for RSS Reader, Netflix, and Movies and all returned good results. I then tried Nagios and it returned “We couldn’t find any result for Nagios” but there are a couple of good Nagios apps. The interface is much nicer than the Android Market App as well. Chomp displays the apps screenshot, description and user rating in a well presented box which you can slide to see the next app. All in all it seems like a good app but if you don’t find what your looking for don’t rule out the Google Android Market app or Alternative App Markets.

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1. Angry Birds

Use the unique powers of the Angry Birds to destroy the greedy pigs’ fortresses!

The survival of the Angry Birds is at stake. Dish out revenge on the greedy pigs who stole their eggs. Use the unique powers of each bird to destroy the pigs’ fortresses. Angry Birds features challenging physics-based gameplay and hours of replay value. Each of the 225 levels requires logic, skill, and force to solve.

2. Words with Friends

The #1 mobile word game Words With Friends Free is now available on Android.

Play Words With Friends Free, the #1 mobile word game, with both your Android and iPhone/iPad-toting friends. Experience for yourself why millions of players are addicted to the word building, triple score seeking, chat bubble sending goodness of Words With Friends.

3. Solitaire

Simple Solitaire Collection
Regular, Spider, Freecell, Forty Thieves

4. Jewels

The casual match-3 hit is still addicting as ever! Try Jewels now! Also for iOS!

Jewels is a simple, yet quite polished and fun match-3 puzzle game. It’s quite addicting!

Features:
– Global, cross-platform leaderboards (Scoreloop) — compete with players around the world!
– Nice, clean graphics and smooth game play
– Four game modes: Normal, Timed, Quick and Infinite

5. Bubble Buster

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Blu-Ray videos are starting to come with an Android option so that you can download the video to your device.

Unstoppable which just came out this week is the first movie to come with this new technology.

To access Blu-ray Digital Copy on Android, users must have Blu-ray disc, a wi-fi connected Blu-ray player, Android 1.6  or higher, and the PocketBLU app, which can be downloaded free from the  Android Market.

Here’s the Press Release

“Industry First for Blu-ray from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment as Blu-ray Digital Copy of UNSTOPPABLE available for Android

With tomorrow’s Blu-ray launch of UNSTOPPABLE, the action-thriller starring Denzel Washington and Chris Pine, Blu-ray Digital Copy will be available for the Android platform for the first time ever. This functionality is an added feature on the UNSTOPPABLE Digital Copy thru BD Live, marking the first time fans with an Android-enabled device will be able to transfer a sell-through movie to their handheld device.

UNSTOPPABLE is an electrifying action-thriller that follows Oscar-winner Denzel Washington* and Chris Pine (Star Trek) as they try to derail an unmanned, half-mile-long runaway freight train transporting deadly toxic material. Only two men can stop the train that is barreling towards Scranton, Pennsylvania: a veteran engineer (Washington) and a young conductor (Pine.) Thousands of lives hang in the balance as these ordinary heroes attempt to chase down one million tons of hurtling steel and prevent an epic disaster. Helmed by visionary director Tony Scott (Man On Fire), this story inspired by actual events delivers excitement and suspense that are…UNSTOPPABLE!

Android users will be able to unlock the feature presentation, as well as UNSTOPPABLE Blu-ray extras (Disc One):
• Derailed: Anatomy of a Scene
• Hanging Off the Train: Stunt Work
• On the Rails with the Director and Cast
• The Fastest Track: Unleashing Unstoppable
• Director Commentary Track
• Tracking the Story: Unstoppable Script Development

To access Blu-ray Digital Copy on Android, users must have the UNSTOPPABLE Blu-ray disc, a wi-fi connected Blu-ray player, Android 1.6 or higher, and the PocketBLU app, which can be downloaded free from the Android Market. UNSTOPPABLE Blu-ray and DVD will be available this Tues., Feb. 15.”

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Redbox the Movie and Game Rental Kiosk company released and Android App. Now you can check out and rent movies right from your Android device. The App has location support built in so that it will show you the locations that has the movie you want right around you without you having to tell the app anything.

Download Redbox in the Android Market.

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Twitter for Android is one of the fastest growing Twitter applications. Six months ago, it wasn’t among the top 10 most-used Twitter applications. However, in the last two months, usage has doubled, and now it’s among the top five – along with twitter.com, m.twitter.com (our mobile web site), Twitter for iPhone and Twitter for Blackberry.

This is a much needed update that users have been waiting for.

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Swappa is the ultimate marketplace for used Android devices.

Swappa is a marketplace for buying and selling gently used Android devices. Only fully functional, ready to activate Android devices are allowed (no phones with bad ESNs, water damage or cracked screens).

Selling a device is free and easy. Buying a device is easy too. There are no auctions and no confusion to what’s being bought and sold. A listing’s price includes shipping costs and other fees. Overall, Swappa provides a streamlined experience for buying and selling gently used, fully functional Android devices.

Above all, Swappa supports CyanogenMod and what it provides for the community. To show their appreciate that further, they are donating for every time you purchase a phone from Swappa. What are you waiting for?

Web: Swappa ♥ CyanogenMod
Twitter: @swappa

[via CyanogenMod]

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Wireless Music System for Android Provides Unlimited Music, Incredible Control and Amazing Sound in Every Room

SANTA BARBARA, CA – February 10, 2011 – Sonos, the leading developer of wireless multi-room music systems for the home, today introduced the Sonos Controller for Android, a free app that transforms most Android™ smartphones into a wireless music controller for the award-winning Sonos Multi-Room Music System.  The Sonos Controller for Android, available in late March as a free download from Android Market™, will make its public debut next week at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.  To watch a video introduction of the Sonos Controller for Android, please visit www.sonos.com/android.

[via Sonos.com]

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