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It's only been three days since Instagram launched on Android and the only thing that seems to match the influx of new users is the pace at which the company is pushing out updates to enhance support and tweak a few glitches.

The latest one to hit today (1.0.3) promises expanded support for tablets and WiFi handsets, app installation on the SD card for storage-limited users and fixing an audio mute bug during capture.

Just a few weeks after teasing an Android app at SXSW, Instagram just announced that it's making an Android version of its app available today in the Google Play Store. According to Instagram, over 430,000 Android users had signed up for the app on the company's waiting list a week and a half ago.

Since its launch in 2010, the app has been an iOS exclusive, and today after years of waiting, it's finally up as a free public download.

A large majority of active Android devices run Android 2.3 or Gingerbread, while the latest version of Android, 4.0 or Ice Cream Sandwich, is still used on a relatively small number of devices.

According to new data about the number of active devices running different versions of the Android platform, various Gingerbread iterations are used on 63.7% of devices. Android 2.2 or Froyo is used on 23.1% of devices, and Ice Cream Sandwich is used only on 2.9% of devices.

At a time where millions of games are available in your pocket, going back to playing actual board games can be dull. However, there are ways of keeping a board game's charm while adding a little bit of geekery to it, too.

RealMaze, created by software technician "PCDev", is a cool and quirky take on the Labyrinth board game (you know, the one where you guide a ball through a tilting maze without falling down the holes) using an Android phone and a DemoKit. The idea is based off Google's own ball maze demo presented at Google I/O 2011--albeit a scaled down version with a few tweaks to the phone's controls.