By Sean P. Aune |
Choosing the apps that will be the most useful to you can be a difficult task. Despite Google recently purging 60,000 apps from Google Play, there are still thousands upon thousands for you to sort through to find the ones that will best suit your…
By Brandon Russell |
Not many devices have access to Facebook Home—no HTC One, Nexus 4 or Droid Razr Maxx HD, etc., etc. That’s pretty limited availability, especially when you consider only folks in the U.S. can download Facebook’s fancy new tweak. But of course it was only a…
By Brandon Russell |
To coincide with the launch of Facebook Home, the social network has revealed a great new commercial demonstrating the software’s capabilities—and it stars, of all people, CEO Mark Zuckerberg. This isn’t about mainstream celebrity, or corny parody. The ad smartly demonstrates how Facebook Home introduces…
By Adriana Lee |
If Facebook Home was one of my friends, I’d be breaking out the ice cream and letting her cry on my shoulder right about now. She just had her coming-out party and basically got rejected from most of the people who danced with her. Facebook…
By Brandon Russell |
There’s no shortage of Android launchers on Google Play, and by now you probably already have a favorite. We’re particularly fond of Nova, but this new one, called Everything.me, puts a pretty cool new spin on your typical smartphone experience. Rather than just focusing on…
By Brandon Russell |
Twitter’s new music app may not be available for us mere mortals, but that’s not stopping folks from snooping into its details. Right now, all that’s available to everyone that’s not Ryan Seacrest is a landing page, but not much else. Thanks to designer Youssef…
By Brandon Russell |
As promised, Facebook Home is now available to download for select devices on Google Play. The social network’s new home on Android (get it?) was detailed by Mark Zuckerberg and team last week, and introduces an entirely new experience to mobile users—if you’re in the…
By Brandon Russell |
Chat Heads, probably Facebook Home’s standout feature, has been added to the social network’s Messenger app for Android. Home is great and all, but you probably only wanted the new launcher because of how it handles communication. If you haven’t already seen, Chat Heads handles…
By Brandon Russell |
Looking at an iPad’s lock screen is about as fun as eating wax. Nobody, save for a few psychopaths, enjoys it. Notifications are neat, kind of, sort of. Really, though, an iOS lock screen is just a flat, lifeless digital ghost town, devoid of useful…
By Jon Rettinger |
Facebook Home is pretty neat, but probably the coolest feature in the tweaked Android app is Chat Heads. The unfortunately-named feature is essentially the company’s vision of what messaging on mobile should be, across any platform. Without taking users out of the experience they’re already…
By Brandon Russell |
Google on Wednesday introduced version 27 of its Chrome Beta for Android, bringing users new features such as the ability to view your tab history on a tablet, and a full screen mode—also on the iPhone—for handsets. The additions add some very useful functionality to…
By Brandon Russell |
According to a freshly leaked roadmap, Office for iOS and Android, which have been rumored time and time again, won’t be out until October 2014 at the earliest. I’m sure folks are hoping to take Microsoft’s beloved suite for a spin on their iPads and…
By Brandon Russell |
Google has determined nearly 60,000 apps weren’t up to its strict standards, yanking them right from the Play store as it continues to fight against spam. The mass deletion occurred in February alone, highlighting the rampant frequency of such apps. Now that Google Play is…
By Todd Haselton |
HTC Backup is amazing: it saves all of your information so that you can quickly restore more than 150 settings should you lose your phone or replace it with a new HTC device. It’s available on the international, T-Mobile and Sprint versions of the HTC…
By Todd Haselton |
Google released yet another update for its Chrome for iOS browser that works on the iPod touch, iPhone and iPad that includes several new features. According to the update log posted in the description in iTunes, users can expect the following new features: Fullscreen for…
By Todd Haselton |
A recent report suggested that Google was eyeing a possible $1 billion bid for the popular messaging service WhatsApp. That rumor was quashed by WhatsApp director of business development Neeraj Arora on Tuesday. The exec didn’t provide a quotable statement, but told AllThingsD that the rumors of…
By Brandon Russell |
AppGratis, a popular app-discovery service, has been banished from the App Store for apparently violating guideline clauses 2.25 and 5.6. Apple recently confirmed the move to AllThingsD, and the Cupertino company recently outlined the specific clauses in question. Both of the clauses are described as such:…
By Sean P. Aune |
A redesign of the Google Play app appeared briefly on a Google+ account before the post was pulled. YouTube’s Eileen Rivera posted a screenshot of a redesigned Google Play app to her Google+ page, but the link now comes back as broke, and perusing her…
By Sean P. Aune |
According to a new report, Google is in talks with the makers of WhatsApp to acquire the popular messing app for as much as $1 billion. Digital Trends is reporting that it has spoken with a source with inside information on the talks currently going…
By Ron Duwell |
Mozilla has announced that it and Samsung are teaming up to deliver a next-generation smartphone browser called “Servo.” The new browser will be written in a new programming language called “Rust,” which Mozilla has been working on for the past several years. The new browser…
By Brandon Russell |
Maybe you already knew about this—maybe not—but it’s definitely new to me. If you’ve been relying on pinch-to-zoom in Google Maps all this time, your experience is about to change and become so much better. This needs to become a standard gesture for every app…
By Brandon Russell |
Google Reader’s head is in the guillotine, but the blade hasn’t yet been dropped—that date is still set for July 1, save for any last minute changes. While companies vie for attention as the go-to replacement, one name in particular keeps popping up as a…
By Brandon Russell |
Videos you record with Vine are much, much easier to embed on the Web, the company announced on Friday. As of now, there are two distinct embeddable post styles you can choose from depending on your taste; “Simple” presents Vine clips in a minimal style…
By Brandon Russell |
Ridiculous Fishing is a highly stylized iOS game that takes the quaintness and strategy of fishing and completely turns that practice into utter chaos—almost like an 8-bit game of Duck Hunt. Instead of catching one or two fish to survive, players are tasked with hooking…
