Tag: apps
How successful is Windows Phnoe 7 ? Well, a lot has been said about app numbers and handsets sold, but until now we’ve only seen the amount of phones sold to suppliers and networks – not to actual customers on the street. This Windows Phone Developer blog post …
Well it’s been a while since the last episode hasn’t it? I was forced to take a hiatus from producing the show on account of the growing amount of projects I had to undertake for my University degree but as of today that has all finished. Hopefully after …
New versions of some of Google’s official Android apps have leaked online and also been made available for download. The highlight is probably a new version of the default Android Music Player which has been brought in line with it’s Honeycomb counterpart. There is a greater emphasis on …
Swiftkey is a great keyboard that has been available for a while now. “Swiftkey predicts your most likely next word based on what you’ve already written. It learns as you use it from your message archive to make predictions amazingly accurate over time”. They have two new free …
Earlier this week Opera released a new version of Opera Mini for Android. The new version has an updated look and feel which is more polished than before. There are also new features with the browser offering support for pinch to zoom for the first time. The …
Floating Image is a replacement for your gallery app, the app also contains a live wallpaper. It shows a nice 3D floating thumbnail slideshow of your images. By default it uses your “DCIM” folder on your memory card plus a random selection of photos from Flickr’s top 500 images, …
Earlier today Amazon officially launched their Appstore for Android. The store will feature apps that have been given Amazon’s seal of approval which we hope means that it will be free of all the crapware that plagues the Android Market. Amazon will be giving away a free app …
Earlier this week Google released a new version of their Google Mobile App for iOS. The newly dubbed Google Search App has a new UI which in my opinion makes it nicer to use than Google Search on Android. The default view gives you a text search box …
Quick System Info is a great app, it’s main purpose is to give you detailed information on your SD card storage, A2SD storage, Internal storage, System storage, System cache, Memory and your Processor. Once you select a piece of information you get a breakdown of capacity, used and …
SMS Backup & Restore lets you backup and restore your sms messages! This could be helpful for many reasons, you could be swapping phones, you could have a new phone, you could have recently reset your phone or you could have installed a custom rom to your phone. …
The title says it all really. With the Amazon app market coming up soon, do we really need another app market? I know that some of these markets offer an alternative market for tablets that do not have market access, such as Archos using Appslib and there are some markets which let …
Triposo Travel Guides have guides for various cities around the world. I first found out these guides in a post Andrew Fraser wrote about his trip to Italy. These travel guides all contain information and maps of the relevant cities that is stored on the device. You can …
Crimes Near Me is a great app that is informative and helpful. It allows you to see Police crime statistics for the area you are currently in. If you were thinking of moving house you could search for the postcode and see crime statistics for the area. The …
Say what you will about Windows Phone 7, the apps are increasing. 10,000 apps are now available (10,106 as I type) according to WindowsPhoneAppList.com and that’s good news amonst these last few weeks of update problems. Link – WindowsPhoneAppList.com
Cordy is a fairly new game with incredible graphics. To quote the market description “Help Cordy power-up his mechanical planet! Use special powers, solve exciting puzzles and explore engaging environments. Cordy is FREE, with many thrilling updates coming soon. Download now and get ready to harness the power …
I have been looking at various different clock widgets trying to come up with one to recommend. This is an almost impossible task. There are so many different designs and styles out there. There are three main types of clock widgets “fully featured”, “minimal” and “ordinary”. I will …
Plug In Launcher is a neat little program that activates when you plug your charger in or when you plug your headset in. So when you plug your phone in to charge at night it can load your ebook reader, your desk clock, run angry birds or open …
“Wave Launcher is a unique, gesture enabled quick action bar for Android. It resembles a well known and loved feature on WebOS phones like the Palm Pre” that is what the developers say about this app on the Android Market. What I say about it is “it is …
Wifi Analyzer is an app that will graph out your wifi and your neighbours wifi. When it opens and scans your surroundings it will display a graph, the default graph is of Signal Strength and Wifi Channels which allows you to see if your network is clashing with …
Google pulled 21 apps from the Android Market yesterday after many were found to contain trojan horse-style exploits. Many of the apps were re-packed versions of existing applications, including free pirated versions of paid-for utilities already in the Market. The root exploit used in some of these apps …
CircleLauncher is an app that gives you several shortcuts attached to one icon. Clicking on the icon brings up a circle on which the shortcuts sit. These shortcuts can be frequently used apps, contacts or bookmarks. There is a full version as well that costs £0.85 which allows …
Dropbox is an easy way to synchronise files between your phone, your desktop computer, your laptop, your ipad, your iphone, your ipod touch or your blackberry, in fact most mobile devices or computers have software to suit. To sign up for an account is free, you get 2gb …
Keeping track of what is stored in our phones memory is at times a struggle. Newer phones like the Nexus S, Desire Z and Desire HD have a large internal memory and large memory cards. Keeping track of what is taking up space is becoming harder. I came …
The number of apps in the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace continues to rise. WindowsPhoneAppList.com now reports that over 9000 applications are available – up from 8,200 a couple of weeks back. Nearly a quarter of those apps are games and, although it’s still a small number compared to …
Imagine the scene, you’re down the pub and all around you people are playing games on their iPhone. There you sit with your Android phone, playing Angry Birds and hoping that something equally cool appear in the Android Market so that you can compete with your friends. If …
I have read no end of “top ten android apps” type articles and they are all very similar. Google maps is usually their top app, followed by some sort of task killer! These articles are great for beginners though, they show new users what is possible with their new …
There’s a few VNC viewers already kicking around the Android Market but, during Mobile World Congress, the official app was announced by VNC themselves. VNC is a system that allows remote access into machines across the web and operates a little like RDP (Remote Desktop). To get it …
Do you have an Android Handset? Well, the title is the Italian for that phrase… You see, myself and Miss T are off to Italy for the week and being a geek, I want to do as much as possible without resorting to a paper based guide book. …
Fans of Chillingo’s iOS puzzler can rejoice as the plucky devs have today released a new set of levels for Cut the Rope. For those of you unfamiliar with this little Gem the aim, as you may have guessed, is to cut various ropes attached to a sweet …
The BBC have announced today on their Internet Blog that their brand new iPlayer apps for Android and the iPad should available by the end of this week. While the iPad app has been long awaited, the news that the Android app will launch simultaneously has to be …
Our lives are becoming increasingly busy, so it’s almost unsurprising to see an iPhone app which helps you confess your sins. The new app, by Litte iApps, costs $1.99 and offers “an examination of conscience, step-by-step guide to the sacrament, act of contrition and other prayers.” It’s the …
Want to use your favourite Android app on a non-Android phone ? Well, it’ll be possible soon thanks to “Alien Dalvik”, an innovation from a company called Myriad. They’re founding members of the Open Handset Alliance (OHA) and have already created Dalvik Turbo – a performance enhancing system …
Google look set to recruit a new team of people to develop apps for Android. The Wall Street Journal states that “dozens” of software developers will be taken on to create apps for Android. They appear to be trying to increase the quality of apps whilst at the …
Another website is now available for those looking to browse Windows Phone 7 applications and games on their desktop browser. It joins AppsFuze, MarketPlaceBrowser and WP7AppList to name just a few. The new WindowsPhoneAppList.com site lets you filter by price, category, language and get statistics about WP7 apps. …
Sony have just announced a new software framework to bring advanced PlayStation games to more and more phones. Soon their “PlayStation Suite” will help create games for all sorts of Android handsets more easily. They’re to kick things off with “PlayStation Store” for Android devices and an emulator …
There’s a healthy library of apps in the Android Market, that’s a given, but there’s also a selection of pretty poor ones too. Google look set to correct this with a larger “human team” charged with removing apps that violate the Android Market terms and conditions. They will …
A decent application library is usually on the “want” list for smartphone buyers when they’re hunting for a new phone. Today Windows Phone has reached almost 6000 applications according to WP7Applist.com. It’s only a few days since this number was 5000 so those Windows Phone developers are definitely …
Rockbox is an open source firmware for MP3 players provided by the likes of SanDisk, iriver, Archos and Toshiba. Ports are now available for a range 's. A port is now available for Android which plays tunes without stutter and includes neat touches li...
Screw it, I'm going to do an editorial here. Microsoft have yet again released a load of very useful apps but there's nothing for their own mobile OS. Snowboard Hero and Powerboat Challenge are both out for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. Meanwhile a...
This weekend a lot of you received the new Android Market app. It looks a lot nicer but there seems to be an issue when accessing the "My Apps" area. Many have received the "Server Error has occured" message and, despite clearing the cache, rebooting ...
