When you spend time checking out the buzz of activity in the RootzWiki Applications Forum, you're sure to find yourself at some point running into gems like Lily Pad HD. Lily Pad HD is an instant messaging app which adds a desktop-like or floating chat list to the screen of your Android tablet. The floating chat list allows users to perform every day tasks like checking email or watching YouTube videos while chatting without having to relegate chat to the notification bar.

If sources for the Wall Street Journal are correct, you could soon have another layer of choice in how you purchase your next Android smart phone or tablet. Journal sources, citing those "close to the issue," have put out word that we could see not just a new Nexus tablet, but perhaps as many as 5 Nexus devices in the fall of this year. Those devices would be sold straight from Google, unlocked, and as stock as they come.

Evernote has become an absolutely indispensable tool for the mobile community; its ease of use and cross-platform availability combined with its powerful organization and in-picture text search have made it one of the iconic apps of the decade. Evernote's creators aren't happy resting on their laurels and have just released a much-improved version 4.0. The cleaner look and even easier organization and search are going to make a lot of people happy.

Top-down dungeon crawlers have a special place in the heart of many gamers, with the Roguelike subgenre having its own enthusiastic set of fans. Dungeon Ascendance, from Seramy Games, advertises itself as just that style of game. While it does graphically resemble some versions of the classic genre it does have enough changes to the core to be something just a bit different.

In a move that brings Google Play Music more in-line with its competitors, Google has lowered the number of devices that can be "deauthorised". There are several implications to make a note of here, with the main one affecting the ROM community. Users who regularly flash ROMs are in trouble as each ROM is treated as a new device; it will be easy to reach the new limit and we have to wonder whose back Google is scratching that could be worth turning their back on the users.

If Apple really wants Siri to ever be taken seriously as a personal assistant app that users can rely on, then the recent change in the system to no longer say that the Lumia 900 was the best smartphone ever was a big mistake. While the veracity of the initial information is questionable, changing the functionality because the information source doesn't return your own product as the most spectacular isn't the best thing to do if you don't want to come under fire. This is bothersome on multiple levels, but clearly the integrity of Siri's answers now has to be questioned. Siri-ously, Apple; you may have just shot yourself in the foot with this one.

For the right-brained person, the desire to be organized is a driving instinct. There's so much interest in apps to keep your life organized and on track that it is an industry in and of itself. While some may prefer full-featured task tracking software with bells and whistles beyond compare, others prefer a more simple experience. Noodles and Google Tasks Incredible occupy the minimalist task tracker niche, each one with its own set of strengths and weaknesses.