Archive : Applications

Do you want to know where your kids are all the time? I don’t have kids yet, I’d like to think that when I do, I’d at least like to know that they aren’t hanging out in a dodgy part of town. Alert.Us allows you to do that and also has a few more tricks up its sleeve. There...

Yesterday, a tiny update to the newly enhanced Play Store hit the interwebs, and many jumped to update their app. Today, the awesome developer B-boy has blacked out and made a transparent version of this update. So if you want to get your hands on the themed out version of the new Play Store update,...

Google’s latest endeavor is called One Today, an app focusing on nonprofits. The mobile app brings together people and nonprofits, supported with donations of $1. New projects from nonprofits are highlighted daily. You can donate to projects you are interested in with one click, users can then...

One year ago, Read It Later was redesigned and recreated as the app Pocket (even though its original name was probably more intuitively descriptive). One year on, is has become a very popular app for saving content for later perusal. I find that its greatest appeal comes from the fact that your...

The new version of the Play Store hit last week, and we already have an update to the that UI overhaul version. The version you downloaded last week was version 4.0.25. We are now one point higher. I am sure there a plenty of fixes in this version, and you can either wait for Google to push it to...

If you’re anything like me (and chances are, you are) then you’ll have one big pet peeve with Google Play; it struggles with a convenient way to suggest apps appropriate to you. Sure, there’s the “Suggested for you” sections here and there, but sometimes I wonder if Google...

Google Babel is on all of our Android powered minds, and we are getting closer and closer to its launch. The latest supposed screenshots and info have definitely the community excited. Seems that the highly anticipated messaging app, is playing a little hide and seek in the code of an app we use at...

LinkedIn has enjoyed increased interest in recent months as its platform gradually gains more users. Most of these users are starting to use LinkedIn as it becomes increasingly obvious how effective it is at displaying business profiles and for looking at other profiles, generally for recruitment purposes....

  In what is apparently the trend this week, WordPress joins Outlook.com and LinkedIn in also overhauling their horridly outdated Android applications. I hadn’t used the old WordPress app much, but when I did, it definitely wasn’t the most pleasant Android experience I’ve had...

Silicon Valley has given us a lot of things that we want with each new iteration of our beloved Android. We have speed, multitasking, great sound, display quality, cameras, and the complete source code to patch wholes that we feel need improvement. The one thing Google has constantly slipped on, though,...

Those people who have been wondering when Microsoft would bring the Windows 8 chic to its Outlook.com app, wonder no longer; Microsoft has today updated its Outlook.com Android app. The change to the Windows 8 style is a welcome change to the dingy app of yesteryear. The changes aren’t all cosmetic, however, as...

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock somewhere, you would have heard that Facebook released its high touted “OS”/”launcher”/”lockscreen” called Facebook Home last week. Unfortunately, for those of us across the ocean, the original release of Home was localized...

So the Google Glass specs have just been confirmed, now its companion app has hit the Google Play Store in all its exclusive glory. If you are lucky enough to be getting your hands on Google Glass in the coming months, the app will allow you to manage your Glass’ settings. The UI looks to be similar...

While our lovely iOS friends have enjoyed the delights of Libon for some time now, Orange Vallée has finally made good on its promise and released an Android version of its VoIP app to Google Play. Libon allows users to make free calls, send messages and even read voicemail over wifi and mobile data....

Telenav announced today that it will be adding updates to its free Scout app. Some of these new features include 3D landmarks and buildings along with improvements to traffic content and user interface fixes. Telenav’s 3D enhancements were developed using screen space ambient occlusion (SSAO),...