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As I mentioned in my previous post, there was no new version of Android announced at Google I/O this year. I speculated, and suggested why I think they waited with the release of it, but since then I’ve been watching the keynote videos, checking what Android authorities are saying and I must admit, I think I got it slightly wrong previously.
I don’t think my reasoning was wrong, but I completely underplayed how important what we got instead of a new ...
Apple just celebrated 50-billion apps downloaded, but that number pales in comparison to the number of app updates it's delivered.
So I thought I’d examine the version history of every app currently on my phone, and even make a best guess of how many megabytes it took to keep all my apps up to date.
Since I don’t have the size of historical binaries, I’m only going to use the size of the latest version, which will probably overstate the true ...
My name is Danny and I'm an iPhone user. I have been actively using since the 4, and I can even remember the time and date that I first touched the device and fell immediately in love with it. I remember being completely and utterly blown away by every notion of it back then, and it took some time for me to see the flaws that were blazingly obvious to others at the time. Not the device, not the OS, ...
Everyone's using tablet computers these days, even graphic designers. But designers need maximum functionality on the go, including sophisticated graphics capabilities, vector graphics, image manipulation and drawing tools. Here are a few of the best tablet applications that will make even the most advanced graphic designers swoon.
ColorStrokes HD: Add Colors to Monochrome Images with a Click -- US$2.99
Some of the coolest images to hit the market today are monochrome images with a splash of bright colors. The ColorStrokes HD app ...
I have always unlocked, rooted and tired out custom software on my devices. That all changed when I got my Nexus 4 though. This has had quite an effect on the apps I use, have installed and purchased in the past. Root enabled apps are no longer required and I’m undertaking a mini quest of sorts, to use only holo themed apps.
Root Explorer has been my file manager of choice, basically since I can remember. But when I had no ...
While Nokia's moving towards Blackberry-inspired QWERTY keyboards and Samsung is starting to experiment with innovative gestures, Swype is now out of Beta and comes to the public with new and improved features.
A third-party app competitor to Google-acquired SwiftKey or Google Voice, Swype, is now available for Android on the Google Play store for US$0.99.
Previously, this innovative keyboard was only available on pre-installed devices and has now finally came out of beta. How fast do you care to type ...
Action Launcher 1.5.7 (US$3.99) is here, and Developer Chris Lacy released a brand new feature called, Shutters. What this does is eliminate the need for a ton of homescreens, so you can get where you want to be faster and with fewer actions. In my previous review of Action Launcher, I told you about Lacy’s take on folders, Covers.
This time I’m focussing on the coolest feature to hit an Android launcher for as long as I can remember, well, since ...
Since Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich), Google’s mobile OS finally started looking as well as it functioned. Pre-ICS was a horrible thing to look at if I’m honest. It wasn’t designed well and felt like more like an afterthought, but that all changed when Android introduced, it's “holo" design.
Holo is short for “hologram” and it has been implemented as part of Android’s creative vision for its OS. The design guidelines were created to achieve three goals, "Enchant Me", "Simplify my ...
The story of Facebook Home porting to Windows Phone and iOS broke earlier this week, and was quickly debunked as sources inside Facebook have confirmed that there are no porting plans for Microsoft and Apple’s platforms.
Bloomberg originally reported that Facebook Home, the software hub for all things Facebook, was planned for iOS and Windows Phone platforms. While both companies allegedly have great working relationships with Facebook, Home simply won’t appear on either platform. Mark Zuckerberg kind of confirmed it when ...
Firefox 23, codename: Aurora, is the latest build of one of the most popular browsers and includes a hefty security update: non-SSL contents on SSL pages are now blocked by default. Firefox 18 is where the SSL setting was introduced, but version 23 turns this setting on first run.
Let’s break this down. SSL at its simplest is a security protocol seen on, for instance, banking websites. Familiar with seeing “https” instead of “http”? That’s proof that the site you’re browsing ...
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