Apple has today lifted the lid on this week’s free App of the Week, with Quetzalcoatl getting the nod this time around. More details and download link can be found right here.
If you're old enough to remember the iconic Nokia phones of the late 1990s then you will probably remember the classic came Snake game above all other features that the phones possessed. That's probably fair, because if you are anything like us you probably spent more time playing Snake on your phone than making or receiving calls. We loved Snake.
Starbucks has just confirmed that quite a few customers using the coffee-maker's smartphone app have had hundreds of dollars stolen from their accounts through customer rewards. It may not have been an alarming concern if the theft was limited to some pre-paid account worth a few bucks, but it's much more than that.
Concept videos are now part and parcel of the technology industry, and with fans and other interested parties now more than capable of creating highly detailed concept art, some of the resulting works are absolutely stunning. Even if you don’t think they are even remotely close to a real, shipping product you have to at least take your hat off to the work.
BitTorrent has officially updated and launched its first secure messaging service - called Bleep - on iOS, Android, Mac, and Windows platforms. All messages are encrypted, and operate through a direct peer-to-peer connection, meaning no conversations stored in the cloud. More details and download link can be found right here.
Samsung's Galaxy S6 looks like an iPhone 6 and you should probably just get last year's Galaxy S5. That's the opinion of Consumer Reports, with the new Galaxy S6 having had a rough time during its review process.
Google may be head-to-head with Apple in both the mobile space and now that of wearables, but it has already made it clear that it will continue to produce apps for iOS, with even Google Now having a place to call home on the platform. Today Google also gave Apple the thumbs up by updating one of its apps to support the Apple Watch.
Here’s how you can use iPad as a second display monitor for your Windows PC. More details and download link can be found here.
Top 11 iPhone 6s / iPhone 7 features revealed by industry’s most trusted analyst. Full details and list of features can be found here.
In this day and age online security and encryption is often at the forefront in the minds of those of us that all but live our lives on the Internet. We send so much information about us over the wires that we often forget that the mediums we use may not be as secure as we would hope. It’s a modern problem that isn’t going to go away.
