Flash games are a great way to kill time, and social network Facebook – along with various dedicated sites – offer thousands upon thousands of them. From Disc Pool to Words With Friends, if you’re feeling like procrastinating, said sites are more than accommodating.
We manage to get through boatloads of photo-based apps here at Redmond Pie, and thanks to the rise of Instagram, there are now hundreds - maybe thousands of apps available, which has seen the quality of this category rise to meteoric levels.
With the Dashboard X tweak hitting Cydia recently, and looking forward to become one of the most popular packages we have seen for quite a while, the question which is surely going to be asked is - what widgets are currently available for Dashboard X? There are very few, in fact only two, I believe, at the time of writing, widgets that were actually created specifically for Dashboard X. But luckily for us all, the majority of Notification Center widgets work flawlessly with Dashboard X.
Being an iOS user, if you want to have the best possible mobile experience, it may cause you a little concern to know that Android users have access to a number of handy little widgets which they can place at random locations on their device’s multiple home screens. If you have found yourself suffering from such a jealous curse, then worry not as a new tweak named Dashboard X will alleviate some of that pain.
The native Music app on the iPhone does the job, and does it well, but let's face it, it doesn't set the world alight, and for those who like their music to dominate the interface rather than the other way around, LeechTunes for iOS might be the answer to your prayers.
iOS isn't short of a decent task-managing app, and as an individual with something of an affinity to a good time-saving, organizational offering, I found myself drawn somewhat to Due, a relatively well-established app which - along with a long list of testimonials, prides itself on simplicity.
The Apple iPhone 4S has been with us for about seven months now, which means that we have also had the fabulous Siri personal assistant organizing our digital lives for the same amount of time. For those non iPhone 4S owners the lack of official Siri support has been very frustrating, especially considering numerous developers have proved that Apple's assistant performs perfectly fine on older generation devices.
We all know that the iPad is undoubtedly one of the most popular consumer gadgets of our time, praised from all corners for its beauteous design and advanced feature set. However, Apple has to live with the fact that it isn't possible to please all of the people all of the time. The physical form and technical advancements of the product are often talked about and complimented, but a lot of the native applications and user-interface techniques don't always sit right with all users.
If you missed last month's $0.99 sale of Chair's iconic Infinity Blade title, you'll be pleased to know that the sale is once again on, and those partial to an epic swordfighter (or games that simply look phenomenal), can grab the game for that same low price right now.
After months of waiting and frantically sweeping through the App Store, loyal users of the Spotify music service can now treat themselves to the official free-of-charge app on their beloved Apple tablet, the iPad. A lot of users have been left perplexed about Spotify's big delay in pushing out an iPad version of their app, but after recently signing a branding partnership with Coca-Cola, the update has finally come through and the Spotify app is now universal.
