I recently saw some screenshots of Android phone homescreens online that had hidden status bars, and I really liked the cleaner look. I already had a date and time widget on my homescreen (which I will tell you more about in a future post), and I use LauncherPro which has an option to hide the notifications bar, so all I needed was a nice battery indicator widget and I wouldn’t need the notification bar displayed all the time anymore. I already had the geekyouup “Battery...

Dinner is one of my favorite parts of the day. Figuring out what to make for dinner, on the other hand, can be a pain. There’s something about having to make this decision day after day after day…. I want it to be easier, and also more fun. The Allrecipes.com Dinner Spinner offers a little of both. Not just for dinner: Despite its name, the Allrecipes.com Dinner Spinner is a comprehensive recipe app that includes breakfast, desserts, appetizers, beverages, salads, side dishes, soups, and...

This is the 3rd post in the “Female Faves” series, where we pick a category of apps and feature the ones that are highest-rated and most-downloaded by women according to AppBrain’s “Popular Among: Women” filter. Since it would be difficult to fully test all of the apps every week, we won’t review all of them, but if you have or try any of them, please chime in in the comments! This time, we’re taking a look at apps in the Health & Fitness...

For years now, whenever I lose track of my car in a big parking lot or forget which street I parked on, I’ve been asking: “If we can put a man on the moon, why can’t we get a team of pirates to remind me where I left the car?” At last my entreaties have been answered, in the form of Carrr Matey. The Android Market offers a few apps for finding your car, all with similar functionality; but according to my investigations, this is the only one with a pirate theme. Dropping anchor: When...

Oh, look, I have some updates. Let’s just hit the “update all” button…wait a sec, where’d my Starbucks Card app go? And what the heck is this Coffee Card? I didn’t install this! In the most recent round of updates from the developer, the Starbucks card app for your Android phone has been renamed to “Coffee Card.” The app itself has a new icon which no longer resembles anything related to Starbucks. Peeking at the “What’s New”...

In the bookstore the other day, I noticed a whole section of books on green living. I wish I was committed enough to sit down, read them all, and truly follow their advice. But until the ocean levels rise enough to fully submerge my California home, I will probably have too many other things on my mind. Until then, the bite-sized tips on Go Green are digestible enough to have some chance of sinking in. Hey, I didn’t know that: Go Green offers up a simple concept. Every time you open the app,...

We started a new series here on Women With Droids earlier this month called “Female Faves”, where we pick a category of apps and feature the ones that are highest-rated and most-downloaded by women according to AppBrain’s “Popular Among: Women” filter. Since it would be difficult to fully test all of the apps, we won’t review all of them, but if you have or try any of them, please chime in in the comments! So for our 2nd Female Faves series post, we’ll...

Eating locally grown, in-season fruits and vegetables sounds like a great idea, doesn’t it? It’s better for the environment, and it generally means fresher, better-tasting produce. Yet the supermarkets have gotten so good at providing every imaginable fruit and vegetable throughout the year, sometimes it’s hard to figure out which ones are actually in season and which ones were shipped in from thousands of miles away. Seasonal Harvest aims to help by giving you an up-to-date list of...

This will be my last post in the current “Renee’s Homescreen Makeover series“, I hope you’ve enjoyed it! You saw this screenshot in my Launcher Pro follow-up review, and I promised to feature the widgets at the bottom in a later post. It always bothered me that there was no easy way to tell what the various volume levels were on my phone or set them easily, so I sought out some widgets to help me with that. As a disclaimer, I’ll say that I installed these apps...

I’m far from being an expert on meditation, but from what I’ve been reading in The New York Times and elsewhere, it seems that meditating should make me smarter, healthier, happier, and an all-around nicer person. But meditating can be hard, and frankly, sometimes it’s more fun to watch Glee. It helps to set aside a very specific amount of time to devote to meditation. And, to avoid watching the clock, a timer comes in handy. Zen Timer is a fairly simple app that lets you set a...