Apps, Games & Google Services

Transport for NSW has announced that the Opal Travel app has received an update which brings three major new features including the ability for the app to send you a notification alert when your stop is coming up. As well as stop notifications, the latest update also includes personalised disruption …

Video streaming service Stan is following in the footsteps of competitor Netflix by testing price increases for a short period of time to see if this impacts on the percentage of people signing up to the streaming video service after their trial period ends. The AFR reports that Stan: “Temporarily …

Pokemon Go has seen an update in which it sees cheaters getting lumped with crap Pokemon instead of being banned outright. The update, which has begun rolling out to users around the globe, sees users who do cheat being able to find only the fairly lousy Pokemon, like Pidgey or …

Android has some beautiful features to it and the ability to quickly and easily change the behaviour of the OS is just one of them. Nova launcher is one of the leaders in this field well exceeding 10 million installs and with their latest Beta update, they’re adding a taste …

Remember Google search? Google’s little product that kicked off the whole Google juggernaut thing. Google certainly hasn’t forgotten it and has quietly pushed out a new update to Google search on the Web and mobile that lets you filter search results using a new “Personal tab”. When you search for …

Magikarp isn’t the most exciting Pokemon; all it does is really flounder around … though it does evolve into something fairly useful, hence I try to level it up and evolve it as quickly as I can. However, to get you a bit more excited about Magikarp, the Pokemon Company have …

If there’s one thing most people love to know about it’s the weather and Accuweather has today launched an Android TV app with almost all the weather information you could want. The app is available for Android TV – and my Bravia and Nexus Player are both supported – with …

It’s no secret that we use and like Todoist here at Ausdroid (it’s one of the things I write about regularly), but sometimes it can be a bit hard to know what others are up to. The notifications have been an all or nothing approach when you open them, all …

It’s a little late this week, but Google has finally updated both the Google Play app and game Deals of the week, which this week are Universal Book Reader and Colin McRae Rally – both of which are available for just 20c each. Google Play App Deal of the Week …

If you’re like me and get a lot of email – some days its hard to remember what you need to follow up, when you need to send specific or important emails as well as a wide range of ways to schedule reminders through this fantastic Chrome plugin. There’s several …

With Google announcing a bunch of new and exciting features for Google Photos on stage at the I/O 2017 Keynote we weren’t expecting any more Google Photos features to roll out any time soon. Well one just did, Archiving. And just like it sounds it lets you archive images and …

Instagram is working to make discovering stories and pictures from locations more discoverable, this morning adding Location and Hashtag Stories to the Explore tab. It’s pretty simple, if you’re looking at the explore tab and a friend uses a location stickers on their stories, you’ll see a new Story Ring …

After PayPal and Google announced last month that they will be offering US customers the chance to use their PayPal credentials in Android Pay, it looks as though the integration is going live. But will it come here? The PayPal integration is showing up for users inside the PayPal app, …

Google has been slowly enhancing their family sharing features with services like Google Play Music and now YouTube Red having a family plan option, as well as sharing of most app, book, music and movie/TV purchases in Google Play being shared across your family group. Today Google announced family group …

If you’re after a couple of new games this week, then the epic team at the Humble Bundle have updated their Mobile Bundle bringing ‘Epic Platformers’ to the fore. In this latest bundle, you can grab Devious Dungeon, Devious Dungeon 2 and Eggggg – The Platform Puker from as little …