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Leisure Suit Larry: Reloaded; flirting its way to Android on 31st May
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 [...]
RunKeeper updated with Pebble integration
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 [...]
Google Translate adds support for phrasebook syncing and additional languages
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 [...]
Apex Launcher updated to version 2.0
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 [...]
Spotify update brings new functions and bug fixes
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 [...]
Viber update brings Holo interface and desktop application
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 [...]
Microsoft Office web apps playing nice with Android, no really!
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 [...]
Two way app interaction with Pebble
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 [...]
Leviathan Warships – Now available in Google Play for Android Tablets
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 [...]
XBMC for Android, stable touch-friendly UI now available
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 [...]
Google Babel, or is it Hangouts?
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 [...]
Beautiful Android – April roundup
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 [...]
Digical — Review
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 [...]