Archive : Software

Google I/O has passed, any many of us were wondering what happened to Android 4.3. That was shortly answered after a White Nexus 4 was spotted in the wild running some of that Android 4.3. Reports suggested it hit the community next month in June. Well today, some screenshots of the next version of...

The battle to design the thinnest phone in the world will probably continue till they are as thin as paper, but until then, everybody’s going to keep giving it a crack. Everybody’s favourite source of leaked smartphone photos, evleaks, has leaked photos of the soon-to-be-announced Huawei...

The animated film, Epic, will be coming to theaters tomorrow, and Epic: The Official Game is available in the Google Play Store. Gameloft, Fox Digital Entertainment and Blue Sky Studios, the production company behind the film, collaborated on the game. Users team up with the Leafmen, a band of samurai...

Starting today, Google has rolled out some beautiful little “rich notifications” for our much-loved Chrome browser. These notifications act as Google Now style cards, to let you see notifications for, Gmail, Hangouts, Calendar events, Drive, Spotify, as well as other apps you use daily....

Earlier this week, you might have heard me sing the praises of Combo Crew, a new fighting game from The Game Bakers that incorporates the use of touch controls to great effect. Well, we were fortunate enough to get our hands on Combo Crew, so let’s review it and see what’s what. The premise...

So, how about that HTC M4 huh? HTC has announced today that they are making the HTC Desire 600, a mid-range phone that will be heading first to Russia, Ukraine and the Middle East, and reports that there will be variants heading to China too. The Desire 600 will be the first phone outside of the HTC...

In the wake of the various hacking stories of high profile Twitter accounts being hacked and abused, Twitter has begun the roll out of its new Two-Factor Authentication service. Similar to Google’s Two-Factor Authentication, users will need to enter a 6 digit code, which is sent by SMS to the...

Google‘s magazine discover app received an update today, changing up the design to match the their Music and Books apps. Version 2.0.0 switches up the navigation menu that matches other publication-reader apps. While it is still missing some of the features of other readers on the market, the...

Opera for Android recently updated their mobile browser and dropped their beta tags, and today Chrome answered with some updates of their own. Updates include performance enhancements and some bug fixes. Search queries are now included in the omnibox. Users can view and refine more results in their...

Google Drive has seen a nice little update today, and some of you will probably dig the new UI layout. Just like our other Google applications, they have updated the UI to represent the Google Now card layout. Swiping and using gestures have now been emphasized in this new update, and you will also...

Just when you thought there couldn’t be any more smartwatch concepts… Enter Agent, the self proclaimed “World’s Smartest Watch” which aims to combined newer technology that doesn’t compromise battery life for power. Secret Labs + House of Horology has embarked on...

Now that Google I/O is over, I guess there’s no better time to reignite the hunt for Motorola X-Phones. It was just over a week ago that the Motorola XT1058, or XFON, was picked up at the FCC. This phone was widely suspected to be the AT&T variant of the Motorola X-Phone (whatever that actually...

Although still in closed-beta, Google‘s team at Niantic Labs added an update to its game, Ingress. Described as a “global game of mystery, intrigue, and competition,” Ingress combines socially-driven interaction with strategic planning. The story involves a controlling, “mysterious...

Opera for Android is out of beta and the full version is now available for Android users. The full version brings a new UI, some customizable features and modes for organizing content. In February, the Opera team stated they were making the move to WebKit, which powers a number of other browsers like...

Today Microsoft unveiled their next genration gaming console that many thought would be the Xbox 720. Assumptions that they would just double the rotations of the last Xbox I guess seemed like the right answer. Microsoft decided to go a different direction. We now have the Xbox ONE! Where is Peter...