Dong Nguyen, whose .GEARS Studio developed the famed Flappy Bird title for iOS and Android, has come through with a follow-up title that, on first play, seems every bit as tedious and frustrating as Nguyen's smash-hit title. Rolling out for iOS and Android, Swing Copters is not so much tricky as infuriating, and given that Nguyen claimed to have pulled Flappy Bird due to the stress it was causing gamers, this new title looks set to raise heart and blood pressure levels all over again.
If you've ever wanted to make you Mac sleep remotely, and with the touch of just one button on an iPhone or an iPad, then you're going to want to read this handy little tip.
The App Store is full of great apps, but even though we're happy to pony up the cash for some of the very best experiences, it's always nicer when they're free. As usual, we've got a nice assortment of apps and games ready for you to download for your iOS device, so fire up the App Store app on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch and join us after the break.
Everybody likes a freebie, and on a daily basis, we strive to bring you the very best app deals for your iOS-running devices. Today, as ever, we're back with another cluster of paid apps and games gone completely free, and below, you'll find the download links.
If you have an iPhone, iPod touch or an iPad, then you more than likely browse the iTunes App Store few times a day in search of good apps to download. One thing that you might come across quite frequently, is that mostly, the apps featured by Apple or listed in new and noteworthy are generally paid, setting you back a buck or two. Well, since these paid apps keep going free from time to time, you can count on us to hunt down the best deals for you for all iOS devices in our daily feature like this one.
You'd have to have been living in a cave earlier this year to miss the whole Flappy Bird saga. Becoming hugely popular on the App Store and Play Store almost overnight, Flappy Bird raked in huge sums of money for its creator Dong Nguyen on an apparently daily basis. Unfortunately that wasn't enough to keep him happy though, and his newfound fame - or should that be infamy - caused him to pull the game and almost disappear.
Apple’s $3 billion acquisition of Beats Electronics and Beats Music wasn’t in vain at all. Earlier this week, the Cupertino tech giant started exposing first-time customers to Beats Music when they stepped into the App Store for the first time, and now, the company has included Beats Music app to the “Apps Made by Apple” list in the iTunes App Store, in order to guarantee not only just higher number of downloads for the app, but also cement its ownership of the company and its platform.
Having a smartphone who's battery won't last a day is the kind of thing that drives most of us mad. If you're carrying around a large Android phone that's got a battery larger than most notebooks inside it, then you're probably fine but if you're using an iPhone, we're willing to bet that you're charging that bad boy at least once a day. Sometimes twice.
There are many ways to evaluate a Wi-Fi network. You can either go for the hands-on visual approach by looking at the Wi-Fi signal bars, or just run a regular speed test and see the general performance of a network. But a regular speed test doesn’t tell the complete story as it's usually done on server side to check Internet speed, not local wireless network's speed. This is where a handy app for iPhone and Android comes in.
As ever, we're back with another list of five great apps for your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Not only are they worth downloading at their usual price, but for a very limited time, they're absolutely free, so pop on your downloading hat, fire up the App Store app, and join us after the break!
















