Tag: software
Spotify have announced plans to update their Android App to be more compliant with Googles new design guidelines. The result is a pretty nifty looking holo themed app that’s been built from scratch to fit in better with the rest of Ice Cream Sandwich. The app is still …
It’s what many consider to be the biggest legal battle in the technology industry at the moment and it all kicked off this week. Oracle Vs Google are in dispute over the licensing and use of Java and whilst I’m not here to break down the legalities of …
Further to our previous article we can confirm that the app does work on an android phone, in this case a Samsung Galaxy S2, as you can see from the attached screenshots. In tests I couldn’t get every channel to work but I’m not sure that is the …
The bods from HiDrive have been twiddling around with their mobile apps and have added stacks of new features. Their service is similar to DropBox but locks your important stuff away in one of their ISO 27001-accredited datacentres in Germany. All versions now have bandwidth-friendly image previews, with …
Battery life is always a lot shorter than you’d like it to be, so when there’s a free app which lets you charge up your phone easily, many are prepared to believe. This time the app will apparently let you charge your phone merely by shaking it. This …
Got a HTC phone? Used the Watch service? It’s definitely worth a try this weekend, because they’ve reduced the rental price on a whole splodge of new movies down to just 5p. Once you’ve rented you have 30 days to watch it, so don’t worry if you don’t …
If you’re a HTC Sensation user and you got your handset from Vodafone, listen up. They’ve just finished testing the Ice Cream Sandwich update and should be available now. A post on their blog states that.. Great news. The testing of the ICS update for HTC Sensation is …
Last year Bluestacks released the Alpha version of their app. It basically allowed you to run certain Android apps on your Windows pc. It was a little laggy and getting new apps to run involved another Android transferring the app across. Games were a no starter as there …
What a great start to the day. The eagerly awaited iOS hit has now appeared on the Android Market. It is a running jumping puzzle solving type game and it’s free so head over to the play store and see what all those Apple users have been playing …
Zeptolab have released the sequel to the hugely popular game Cut the Rope. It is a very addictive puzzle game involving a weird little green creature, some annoying spiders and lots of candy. Cut the ropes, deliver candy to Om Nom, collect stars, and unlock new levels.The follow-up …
Browsing around the Android Market Google Play last night, I couldn’t help but notice this Solar Charger app. It’s had hundreds of thousands of downloads and converts your screen into a solar panel. Magic eh? Well yes. It’s actually more of a trick really. The app doesn’t actually …
Ice Cream Sandwich has for a while been flaunted as the pinnacle of Android development. Yes many problems with the Android OS did indeed get fixed with the release of Android 4.0. But I keep coming across new problems. I have been using a Samsung Galaxy Nexus for …
Had notification this morning that my Lumia 800 phone has a o/s update which now takes it to 7.10.8107.79 this fixes the frustrationg dissapearing keyboard among other things as well. Full list of fixes below On-screen keyboard. Fixes an issue to prevent the keyboard from disappearing during typing. …
After a brief break from the Windows Phone Marketplace, due to some issues with the name TV Guide+ is back. It is a full Sky+ remote record and TV guide app. It is free as well which is also nice. App features Full 7 day Sky TV Listings, …
We’ve had a lot of interest around the Sky TV mobile apps during the last few months, and rightly so, they’re really rather good. The Sky Sports TV app – already available on iOS – is said to be in the final stages of beta testing. This app …
Google have decided to rebrand the Android Market under the new name Google Play with different apps for different services. The change is happening right now and you’ll soon see your Android Market changing into this…. Bye bye Android Market, hello “Play Shop”. An interesting move by the …
Android developers whilst making an app can almost do what ever they want. If they want to, they can code their app to get at a huge variety of personal information stored on your phone. In the news recently there has been a lot of fuss/propaganda saying how bad …
A new version of the iPlayer got released a couple of days back. If you update now then you’ll be able to watch TV across 3G – not just WiFi. There’s also improved streaming with new versions of Adobe Flash. The usual warnings apply of course, so don’t …
During the Nokia event this morning they announced that Skype is in beta as a free download for their devices so you can finally keep in touch worldwide at super low prices. It had been rumored that Skype was coming on Windows Phone for a little while now, …
A few months ago we reviewed Paper Camera. Which turns any photo into one of many hand drawn looking images. Well they have updated the app now. It now supports video as well. The videos like the photos are not the most highest definition you have ever seen. …
SPB have been making software for a good few years now and the SPB TV software has been around for most of them. Well now at MWC it looks like they are going to be showcasing a new slant on the SPB TV software. It looks like they …
I am a fan of big screen phones. There I admit it, so why I may here you ask do I have HTC‘s latest offering in the Rhyme sitting in front of me for review. Well the reason couldn’t be simpler, if you are a regular reader of …
I know, for the tech-hungry phone lovers out there this might seem like a weird question. In just a matter of days you WILL see an explosion of Twitter hash-tags (#mwc #mobileworldcongress) and more news items per hour than at any other time of year. Put simply, Mobile …
Have you heard of Clik? Tried it? We have, and it’s pretty amazing. Currently it’ll let you play and control YouTube videos on you PC or any device with a browser from an iPhone or Android phone. Plug your laptop into your TV, fire up the app, snap …
Today, I did a very stupid thing. A very stupid thing indeed. I left the house without my phone (a Samsung Galaxy S2). I contemplated going home to get it, but decided that maybe I could live one day without it. I began going over in my head, …
On the recommendation of Tim Bradshaw at the FT I tried out Path – the social network for your close friends, apparently. Tim (who’s a fine purveyor of all things new and trendy) was particularly impressed by the iPhone app, so I gave it a try. It is …
I don’t generally play many games on my phone, usually saving that for my Xbox 360. Those games that I do play are generally puzzle games like Cut the Rope. This week a friend of mine got his first Android phone (the excellent Samsung Galaxy S2), switching over …
A recent study by Symantec has found Trojans attached to various apps in the Android Market. The Trojans found are Android.Counterclank and Android.Tonclank, which worryingly is a bot-like threat that can receive commands to carry out certain actions, as well as steal information from the device. It sounds like the Trojan …
Can you remember Reckless Racing? It is a overhead view dirt road racing game. You raced against other players or against your phone. Either way it was great fun. Well Polarbit the games developer have released a trailer for Reckless Racing 2. With improved graphics and more maps. …
If you’ve got an iPhone you may well have used Instagram. If shares your pictures for free to Facebook, Twitter or Flickr. The Android version is coming, but there’s rumours now that the Windows Phone version could, possibly, be arriving a little earlier. Fast Company has received pretty …
Head over to https://www.crazygames.com/game/cut-the-ropee with any HTML5 web browser and off you go. I tried it this morning using Windows 7 and the Chrome browser and it was great. Yes, I know I can just install it from the Chrome Web store, but lots of people don’t use Chrome. Lots …
Have you ever been sent a Word document that needs your Signature? There’s a couple of ways of getting around this issue. You could print the document, sign it, scan it back in, then email it back.. Or you could print it, sign it and fax it. However, …
OK, imagine the scene. It’s Christmas Day and you are forced to watch some boring TV show at a relatives house. A new app from the guys at FilmOn.com is now available to let you watch a rather large selection of live TV channels. Available for iOS and …
Grab the new Dropbox app for Android today and you’ll receive an improved gallery view, bug fixes, bulk uploads and single-tap access to all file and folder actions. You can now rename files and folders plus there’s offline access to files through the favourites function. They have also …
Fancy spending a few hours playing a classic first-person shooter? Duke 3D is now available for free in the Market, and there’s no adverts either. It’s the ideal distraction from tense family festive meals or when you’re getting dragged around the shops. Just don’t start shouting “Got ya …
Do you fancy roaming around a large city and randomly shooting people, stealing cars, robbing banks and just generally recreating normal life? Well Grand Theft Auto 3 will be right up your street. Most of you will have heard of the Grand Theft Auto games and now you …
You’ve got Skype, right? No? Ohh man, you’re missing out. The new Android refresh includes some tweaks to give you better battery life and better video quality on devices with the NVIDIA Tegra 2 CPU. For the unaware, Skype let’s you make video calls with friends, but now …
I love listening to radio on my Android phone. It’s great, and I’ve found a number of online radio stations that are either exclusive to the internet or broadcast in an area I’m not in. TuneIn Radio has been an app I’ve used for a good while now. …
Twitter look to be giving their site a new look at the moment so it’s good to see that both the iPhone and Android apps have had a facelift too. The new look is clean, fresh and simplistic. Everything is now easier to use and it’s better at …
OK, hands up if you use Noseybook? Sorry, I meant Facebook of course. Everyone uses it for keeping in touch with their friends (and by “friends” we generally mean nosing around the lives of people you bumped into and a few dozen people you bumped into over the …
