The developers behind the popular Dolphin web browser for mobile devices have released version 7.0 for Android. The key new feature is a cloud synchronization option that lets you sync your bookmarks, gestures, and other preferences across all your phones and tablets.

The new service is called Dolphin Connect and right now it only supports Android — but support for the Dolphin Browser for iPhone and iPad is in the works. Eventually you’ll be able to sync your preferences between an iPad and an Android phone.

Dolphin is one of the most powerful, customizeable browsers for Android. Users can create custom gestures, install add-ons to extend the functionality of the browser, and use the Webzine mode to view some websites in a clean, magazine-style layout.

Dolphin Browser HD 7.0 tweaks the Webzine feature by displaying the 16 most popular channels on the home screen — which kind of suggests to me that I’m not the only person who isn’t really using the Webzine feature and Dolphin is looking for ways to highlight it.

For now Dolphin 7.0 is available exclusively from the GetJar app store. On October 23rd it should go live in the Android Market.

Most Android devices make it easy to move files between your phone or tablet and a computer. All you have to do is plug in a USB cable, enable the USB storage option, and start copying and pasting. But if you’re looking for something a bit more automatic, there’s Synx.

This open source app for Windows allows you to synchronize all of the photos, videos, and music in a directory with the click of a button. Just tell Synx where your media is stored, plug in your phone, and hit the big button.

Synx supports two-way sync, so if you download a new song or take a new photo with your phone, it will be copied to your PC hard drive. And if you add a new movie to your collection on your PC, it will be copied to your smartphone or tablet.

Unfortunately you still need to manually mount your Android device in order to use Synx. On most Android hardware you can do this by connecting your device to your PC with a USB cable, pulling down the notification bar, and choosing the option to enable USB mass storage.

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HP has launched a public beta of HP Play — a new application designed to let you synchronize your media between a PC or Mac and an HP TouchPad tablet or webOS phone.

The software is based on the open source Songbird media player and right now it only lets you sync your music over a USB cable. But eventually HP plans to add wireless sync capabilities so that you can manage media on your mobile device without physically plugging it into your computer every time you want to make a change.

You can use HP Play to import music from iTunes playlists or from other directories on your computer. You can also create playlists or rip your own CDs.

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Apple won’t fully roll out its new iCloud service until this fall, but the company is already allowing users to upload their music collections to iCloud. And this afternoon the company rolled out another piece of the puzzle. If you’re using multiple iOS devices you can now go into the “Store” section in the Settings menu to enable Automatic Downloads.

This allows you to automatically download music, apps, or books purchased from iTunes, the App Store, or iBooks on some or all of your devices. In other words, if you buy a book on your iPhone and enable Automatic Downloads, then the title will be downloaded to your iPad as well with no user intervention required.

A little bit of info about Automatic Downloads leaked this weekend… but at the time all we really had to go on was the name, which implied a feature that would let you download updated versions of apps you’d already purchased with no user intervention. That’s something Google Android users can already enable. But it looks like we’ll have ot keep waiting for that kind of automatic download on iOS, because all we’ve got for now is the ability to sync purchases across devices.

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This week researchers spotted a security flaw affecting more than 99 percent of all Android devices that could allow an attacker to steal your account credentials when you tried to synchronize with Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, Google Calendar, or other services on an insecure wireless network. Today Google acknowledge the issue and promised that the company is already rolling out a fix which will work for all Android users, regardless of which version of the operating system they’re running.

Google says the fix “requires no user action,” and should be available globally within the next few days.

Unfortunately there’s still no fix for Picasa. When you sync your gallery photos with Picasa Web Albums, you’re still exposing your data, so you might want disable sync when you’re using a public WiFi hotspot until Google solves the Picasa vulnerability.

Online file synchronization service SugarSync lets you back up files from your computer and access them on the go using another computer or a mobile app. Today the company has released an updated Android app which also makes it easy to backup files from your smartphone or tablet thanks to a new AutoSync feature.

AutoSync automatically backs up photos from your Android phone’s camera roll to the web making it easy to access them from anywhere — or to download them to your desktop without using any wires or emailing photos to yourself.

You can also enable support for AutoSync folders, synchronizing documents and other files in folders on your mobile device.

Since SugarSync is a synchronization service, and not just a backup utility, it supports two-way sync. If you change a document on your computer, the changes will be reflected on your phone, and vice versa. SugarSync can check for updates and sync your files in the background, so you don’t need to leave the app running for it to do its thing.

SugarSync is available as a free download from the Android Market. SugarSync provides 5GB of online storage for free. Larger plans start at $4.99 per month (or $49.99 per year) for 30GB of space.
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File synchronization and storage service Dropbox has updated its mobile apps for Android and iOS. Dropbox 1.1 for Android fixes some compatibility issues with Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablets and adds support for French, German, Japanese and Spanish languages. The latest version of the iPhone app also includes support for additional languages, but the update also makes it easier to upload files from an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad.

Dropbox 1.4 for iOS has a new dedicated tab for uploads and supports bulk uploading of photos and vidoes. You can also import files from Mail and other apps to upload with Dropbox.

Dropbox provides users with 2GB of online storage space for free. You can also sign up for a Pro account to get up to 100GB of storage.

Dropbox for Android is available as a free download from the Android Market. You can grab the iOS version for free from iTunes.

Password synchronization service LastPass offers and Android app which lets you login to web sites quickly on a mobile device as long as your username and password are stored on the LastPass server. In other words, you can create a Twitter account on your PC and the LastPass plugin for Firefox, Internet Explorer, or Chrome will automatically save your login information to the web. Then you can open the LastPass browser on your phone and login to Twitter without entering your password all over again.

Up until recently the LastPass mobile app only worked when you used the built-in browser to open web pages. But the latest build of LastPass for Android has an experimental feature that lets you login to some third party apps.

Basically, LastPass 1.73.1 now includes a keyboard utility. When you open the Twitter app, Facebook app, or other supported app and hit the login button, you can bring up the LsstPass keyboard for Android and tap the LastPass icon to automatically login. If you have multiple Twitter accounts (or accounts with other services), you’ll see a list of accounts to choose from.

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