Apps articles
May 10, 2013
Leisure Suit Larry is one of those games that has been around for quite some time now and has seen many games added to the franchise including one that made its way to both the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3. The original game was released in 1987 complete with 64 whole colours in it amazing [...]
May 10, 2013
It is no secret that I am a fan of the Pebble smart watch. Unfortunately I missed out on the Kickstarter campaign so I am still waiting for my Pebble to ship, but that doesn’t mean I can’t keep track of all of the exciting new developments. A few days ago, RunKeeper saw a nice [...]
May 9, 2013
Google Translate is one of the best things ever invented, and its Android application just got even more awesome today with an update that adds support for 6 additional languages, bringing the total to 70. The update also added a new feature called ‘Phrasebook syncing’, which lets you save a number of common phrases for [...]
May 9, 2013
There are plenty of Android launchers in the Play Store but one of the most popular is Apex Launcher. For those of you that haven’t used Apex before, it takes the “stock” Android launcher experience (as found in the Android Open Source Project, or on Nexus devices) and adds a range of customisation options for [...]
May 9, 2013
Music streaming service Spotify has updated its Android app, bringing a host of changes, updates and bug fixes. For those of you with friends that insist on using $trang3 usernames, this will no longer crash the app When you return to the app, Spotify will return you to where you were previously (ie the song [...]
May 9, 2013
Viber, one of the many cross platform messaging solutions, just got better. The latest update brings an overdue Holo update to the Android app as well as some bug and security fixes. In late April we reported that Viber suffered a major security flaw, and, in what seemed to be a near immediate response, there [...]
May 9, 2013
There aren’t too many hurdles left to big business adopting Android tablets as productivity tools. They integrate with secure email solutions (Exchange and Good are two examples), they run most of the same apps as iOS tablets do, but there’s always been one hurdle — there’s the perception that they don’t integrate too well with [...]
May 8, 2013
Since the release of the Pebble smart watch and their open API model, devs have been working very hard to make the Pebble watch as useful to as many people as possible. Now with some further tweaks and development the SDK will soon allow apps to communicate back to the linked mobile device and utilize [...]
May 7, 2013
If you have not heard of Leviathan Warships previously, that means you missed perhaps one of the best pre-order trailers ever released. The Jazzy Trailer from Paradox Interactive shows off a strategic action game which sees you take control of a fleet of warships. The game features an editor to allow you to plan tactics [...]
May 7, 2013
Much-loved media centre software XBMC has been gaining traction in its move away from the desktop space towards smaller, personal devices. Their Raspberry Pi release had thousands of installs since its release, and their first Android version was released in preview form earlier this year. Now, the Android version is available on stable release with [...]
May 7, 2013
The much leaked, frequently talked about and speculated upon Google Babel may actually be going by a familiar name; Simply “Hangout”. Since the first murmurs of the pending change and Google looking to centralize and unify their disparate messaging solutions, the Babel rumour train has done nothing but gather momentum. It’s pretty well known now [...]
May 5, 2013
When Android first emerged as a viable alternative to iOS, it was not an aesthetically-pleasing platform. It had features out the wazoo, but there was no cohesive design style, nor any guidance from Google about how an Android app should look. The story these days is very different, however, with Google having a set of [...]
May 5, 2013
Digical by Digibites is a calendar replacement app for Android that is available for phones and tablets running Android 2.2+, which comes with six different calendar views and 5 different widgets. The calendar views can also be switched up with a Holo light or a Holo dark theme. There are also your standard calendar options [...]

















