15 Apps That Make Your Android Smartphone Smarter

Juice up your Android with the hottest apps from the past month.

Inching closer to eat away at iPhone’s dominance, the Android Market continues to flourish as we see more apps being launched to enhance their presence in the mobile world. Though it can be difficult to separate the wheat from the mountains of chaff, here’s our list of 15 Android apps that sprung forward in the past month.

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Celebrate 20 years of The Simpsons on Facebook

“Ooh, they have the internet on computers now!”

D’oh! Can you believe it’s been 20 years since Homer, Marge, Maggie, Lisa and Bart first entered our lives? Some of you reading Neonpunch were probably little kids when the yellow-colored family hit the airwaves in 1990 and dug the show for its basic Bart awesomeness. As you grew and as the show gained popularity, its in-jokes and adult comedy shone through to make it the most sucessful animated TV series of all time.

So, to celebrate 20 years, here is a desktop app that takes The Simpsons to a new level in awesome. Play digital tricks on your friends and invite them to compete with you to see who becomes the Prince O’Pranks. Have Homer keep you virtual company on your desktop while you work or play. Get updates on the latest and greatest episodes and info from your favorite TV show.

Your whole desktop becomes a Simpsons interface with Homer walking around showing you pranks you can play on your Facebook friends. Add your friends in and, while they have the Simpsons interface up, you can attack them with Duff Beer Bombs, Itchy and Scratchy bombs, Radiation sticks, baby bottles and more.

You’ll need Adobe Air and a Facebook account and you’re all ready to go!

The Boxee Box Will Transform the Way You View Your Digital Video

If you haven’t already, get ready to trash your NowTV box forever.

Tired of watching old shows on your NowTV? Wait, you still have your NowTV box? Ok, we know the Apple TV is a bit expensive, but here comes the Boxee Box to the rescue.

Stop flipping from your TV to your laptop to your favorite mobile device to watch music videos, current TV shows, movies and all your favorite YouTube clips! The Boxbee Box helps to put all your entertainment in one place so that it’s always accessible and easy-to-share through social networking sites. It’s entertainment without limits.

Hook D-Link’s Boxee Box to your high definition TV and you can start enjoying all your favorite shows and clips, plus a whole lot more. The Box comes ready-to-work with a vast Internet library of lectures, presentations, online videos and lots more. You can even add your saved RSS and XML feeds to get the content you want as soon as it’s published.

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Pingo is Probably the Only Facebook Friend You’ll Never Ignore

This robotic penguin reads and connects to the web and Facebook.

Tiny and yeah, ok, pretty cute, Pingo is a tiny robotic penguin and the first official mydeskfriend,  launching today at www.mydeskfriend.com. We first reported about this Facebook-talking robot back in July, and now it’s finally here.

Pingo integrates into its owners’ Facebook account via a Facebook application that allows users to give their device its own name, profile and personality, as well as nurture its moods and manage its daily life. The interactive playmate can zoom around desktops, express moods, respond to voice commands, sing songs and read aloud email messages, headlines, stock quotes and even the weather!

You can set mydeskfriend up to read RSS newsfeeds, spoil it with food and vitamins from a Facebook gift page, and lull it to sleep by gently rocking it in your hands. Pingo can follow fingers around a desktop, while sensory devices ensure that it never falls off a desk when moving around on its own.

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