Tag: apps
The Apple App store celebrates its 5th birthday on July 10th and as an early birthday present from Apple, you can get a range of top apps for free (and everyone likes free stuff). What’s more is that these aren’t your usual run of the mill apps there …
Since Twitter introduced the new restrictions in the latest version of their API various new Twitter apps have been having problems. Once such app is Falcon Pro. The developer has had no end of problems with pirates, API restrictions, Play Store updates and what seems like Twitter blocking …
If you share a lot of photos to every social network thinkable then this app might be of interest to you. As long as you like applying filters and frames to your shots anyway. The Polamatic app brings back the instant nostalgia of Polaroid pictures. Capture or import …
Windows Phone is slowly catching up with apps, and another of the big names has come on board – Tapatalk. For those who don’t know, Tapatalk is an app for reading and posting on compatible social forums (including the Coolsmartphone forum and XDA Developers). It’s been available for …
I’ve been meaning to write this for a while but never got around to it. This is a problem that every Android user has encountered at one time or another. You’ve probably been sitting there at home, or you’ve left your phone on overnight and suddenly you hear …
The BBC Weather app is the latest in a growing arsenal of high quality Android tools from the Big British Castle. I’ve had many weather apps over the years. Many have been terrible and most concentrate any premium features on the States. The BBC have kept things simple …
So you’ve taken a nice picture and want to edit it. What do you do? Well, some handsets have some on-board editing tools and you could shove a picture into Instagram but here’s something a bit more in-depth. Fotor is a complete multi-platform solution. You can get in …
If you drive a flash car you might know about the “stop-start” technology that usually kicks in when you stop at traffic lights. Your engine will stop and then, as you touch the accelerator, it’ll start again. To be honest it drove me a bit mental when I …
Twitter are continuing their recent push to turn their Android app into something you’d actually want to use. With the 4.0 update, I actually switched to it as my go to Twitter app, and with 4.1 they’ve made it that little bit better. The compose screen is actually …
Although I technically use three different operating systems, long before Android was a powerhouse, I ended up going all in with Google. This means it both helps and hinders when it comes to picking my five favourite apps that I always install. 1. SwiftKey As it’s so easy …
Now, last night I read an article which really didn’t add up. Yesterday morning we found that all of the Sky Android apps had been hacked but now Sky telling customers that there’s no need to worry and that the Twitter account was hacked. The “Sky statement” given …
A number of Google apps have been updated recently. Google Drive, the online storage facility, has now got an updated Android app. The improvements include a new grid view to make file-finding easier, a “quick preview” option and the ability to scan documents, receipts and letters. In addition …
If you’ve visited a forum such as ours then you’ll probably have seen the Tapatalk app pop up. It’s usually a paid-for app but, if you download it via the Amazon store right now then it’s free. The Tapatalk Forum App will make most forums a much easy …
How about 80% off. 80% off! That’s like…err… almost free. Well, almost. “Game of the Year”, World of Goo is now just 65p. You have to drag and drop globs of goo in order to build things. Yes, this is a bit hard to explain, but there’s a …
Hands up if you use the same password at more than one website. Now keep your hand up if all your passwords are more than 12 characters, contain a mixture of upper and lower case letters, numbers and characters. Where did everyone go?! Until recently I used two …
If you’ve got a Windows Phone then you’ll noticed that a lot of the “big apps” are now available to download. Microsoft are going to great lengths to show that major Android or iPhone apps are available, or versions of them, on Windows Phone. But, although it shouldn’t …
The best way to see the third planet from the Sun or the best way to zoom in on your ex-girlfriends back garden? You decide. Whatever your reasons, the Google Earth app got updated late last night and now includes Street View too. The newly-updated street-level images reveal …
So you might have noticed that a few of us here at CoolSmartphone want to give you a bit of help selecting apps from the billions available on the Play Store. Most of us have been using our respective ecosystems for quite a while and built up a …
YouTube for Windows Phone has been awful for years. It was basically just a shortcut to the mobile website. For ages people have been waiting for Microsoft to update the app, it’s one of those things that are awkward to deal with as Google own YouTube and Google …
Earlier on today I posted an article about our articles covering our favourite apps for our chosen OS. As I came up with this idea I’m going to start the whole series off. So what do I use that is worthy of recommendation, well lets have a look shall …
Today it’s been announced that the Google Play store will be available for both the Nook HD and Nook HD+. You don’t have to wait either, just ensure that your little Nook is firmly attached to WiFi and an over-the-air patch will roll out to give you all …
Great news – another popular app is now available for Windows Phone users! From today, you can download Cut the Rope: Experiements from the Games Store (it’s under Xbox Games) for £2.29. In Cut the Rope: Experiments Om Nom teams up with a mad scientist, who creates new …
You may not see it on your device immediately, but you will, and it’ll thank you for it. The Google Play marketplace has gone through another iteration (one of our colleagues called it Google Play 4 due to the APK being 4.0.25). The formerly-named Market more has a …
Amazing Alex is Rovio’s lesser known game, it’s a physics kind of thing. You place items around the room to get balls to drop into the correct location. Sound simple yet it is quite addictive. It marks another big name app becoming available on the platform. A bit …
Flipboard has today hit version 2.0, and the big new feature of this release is the ability to create your own magazine(s). Borrowing a trick from Instapaper/Pocket/Tumblr, users can now Flip stories using a bookmarklet, instantly adding them to their very own magazines. These can be both public …
It was called Android Market at one point, then it all changed and became Google Play. Now a new version is about to hit your Android-powered phone and the boys at Droid Life have sneaked a look at the all-new version… The fourth iteration seems to be cleaner …
Almost two months after the launch of BlackBerry 10 OS, BlackBerry have announced that it now has over 100,000 apps on its marketplace: a 30,000 app increase in less than two months – pretty impressive. To help mark the special occasion a number of new apps have been …
Should you be a Windows Phone 8 owner and after a new car then you’re in luck! Auto Trader have now launched their Windows Phone app giving you the chance to search, browse, compare and share potential new cars. Here’s some of the features of the app: Easily …
Mailbox, the iPhone app designed to ease the pain of trying to clear your inbox on a daily basis, has gained a lot of attention since its launch, helped no doubt by the waiting list system the team have used to manage the rollout, allowing the app to …
Can you believe that it’s already been a year since Google relaunched the old Android Market as the Google Play Store? To celebrate this momentous event, they’ve decided to have (another) big sale. It’s already started over in Australia as I write this and should hopefully be on …
It’s not often that you see an (non-Google) app launch on Android before iOS. However Shift Jelly have today released Version 4 of Pocket Casts for Android, with its iOS cousin nowhere in sight. And it’s a fairly dramatic update at that. Gone is the tired old iOS …
If you use Twitter on Android, chances are that you’ve heard of Falcon Widget and the sister app, Falcon Pro. Falcon Pro was one of our Highly Recommended applications in the Coolsmartphone 2012 Awards and with good reason – it boasts a wide variety of features and an …
Ouch. Body shot. Boom. The Federal Trade Commission have slapped HTC for the security issues on many Android handsets made by the company. The FTC complaint states that… HTC (..) customized its Android-based mobile devices by adding and/or modifying various pre-installed applications and components in order to differentiate …
For Windows Phone 8 users the wait as finally over as Angry Birds Seasons arrives! Joining Angry Birds Space and Angry Birds Star Wars, Seasons offers more than 300 levels across a variety of special seasons including Halloween and Christmas. The style of the gameplay sticks close to …
Keyboard anoraks rejoice. SwiftKey has just been updated on the Google Play store and the big new feature is the addition of (Swypeesque) Flow gesture typing. Similar to the stock Jellybean keyboard, SwiftKey now lets you type out words simply by swiping over keys in fluid one gesture. …
Any Hootsuite users out there just dying to have a widget for their Android device? Well, you’re in luck! Hootsuite is a very popular social media app that combines Twitter and Facebook feeds, giving you centralised control over both of your cyberspace social accounts. One of the main …
Sure, I could’ve used some professional software to demo this but heck – where’s the fun in that eh? 🙂 Today I took a look at Mobile Device Manager, a free service which tracks, locates, secures and manages your mobile device or devices. I’ve spoken about it before, …
So that’s it, the last of the “big” players to reveal their hand has now done so and BlackBerry 10 has been launched with a big fanfare and a promise from all the major carriers to stock the handsets. BB10 devices are out there and ready to take …
Also announced by BlackBerry today was big brand partners for the BlackBerry World launch on BB10. Along with the tens of thousands of applications submitted over the past two Port-a-thon weekends, Rovio Mobile, 2DBoy (creators of World of Goo) and Facebook are amongst the big names to have …
You want online storage, you normally head to Dropbox. However, if you’re looking for more storage, you might want to check bitcasa.com. They provide “infinite” storage, yes – you heard right. Currently there’s no limits so you’re free to download the app (currently Android only, but an iPhone …
