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Endomondo Sports Tracker app reaches 20 million users Oct 18th 2013, 01:23, by Juan Carlos Torres Fitness-related apps on Android are almost a dime a dozen and competition is a bit fierce with many giant players in the field. That is why it is no small matter for Endomondo to reach a milestone of 20 million users of its Sports Tracker fitness app, just in time to celebrate its fifth anniversary. According to some numbers revealed by Endomondo, since the app launched in 2008, users have logged more than a billion miles of activity enough to make 4,500 trips to the moon. This includes activities such as running, cycling, and walking, in order of popularity. Endomondo reports that its user base continues to grow steadily in Europe and the US but has seen a jump in South America, Australia, and Southeast Asia. Profits that it earns from its Premium subscription service and the paid version of its app has let it become self-sustaining, without additional funding from venture capitalists. The Endomondo Sports Tracker app is quite simple in concept and not that different from most fitness tracking apps. It basically takes note of distance-based activities such as the above mentioned exercises but also lets users manually enter other sorts of activities like weight training. Of course, it uploads all these data to the Endomondo’s cloud service for storage and analysis. It also has social networking features such as posting on Facebook and challenging friends for a workout battle royale. Here’s a short video clip of the app in action. The Endomondo Sports Tracker app is available for free, which you can get from the link below. Endomondo also offers a paid version of its app that has additional feature such as graphs and training plans. There’s also a subscription-based Endomondo Premium service available for more fitness perks. Download: Endomondo Sports Tracker on Google Play Store SOURCE: Endomondo Microsoft Remote Desktop app makes its way into Android Oct 18th 2013, 00:48, by Juan Carlos Torres Windows 8.1 has just landed on the scene and it seems that Microsoft also has a surprise for Android users. It has just launched its promised Remote Desktop app for Android and iOS earlier than the expected end of the month release. Last week, Microsoft made it known that it was planning to make available native apps on Android and iOS that would make it possible to control Windows machines from mobile devices via its Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) technology. It was also speculated that this app would even enable the use of familiar Windows 8 gestures, which would be quite handy when controlling such a machine from a tablet. And indeed, that seems to be the case. The Microsoft Remote Desktop app uses up the whole screen to display the remote Windows desktop, save for the Android panel on tablets. The apps seems to work seamlessly on both Windows 8 touch and desktop modes and supports multi-touch gestures, presuming your Android device supports multi-touch. It does seem to make use of Windows 8′s own keyboard rather than the native Android keyboard when text input is required. But more than just a remote desktop control, the app also allows access to remote resources via the Remote Desktop Gateway that heavy users of Microsoft’s remote desktop services would be familiar with. The app also supports high quality video and audio streaming, though we still have to try that out. The Microsoft Remote Desktop is available for free and already up on Google Play Store, so hit the download link below if you’re interested in trying it out, maybe with your newly updated Windows 8.1 machine. Download: Microsoft Remote Desktop on Google Play Store

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