A new game has been released for the iPad and iPhone that ties right into the upcoming Total Recall movie remake. Set around the storyline you may be well versed in, the game weighs in at over 150MB and is available to download now.
Apple maintains a tight grip on the smartphone, tablet and premium notebook market with the iPhone, iPad and MacBook Air/Pro. They make their own software for these gadgets; controlling the whole “widget” as Steve Jobs used to say. Yet, there are markets where Apple is hardly relevant. One such market is online social networking. Microsoft has investments in Facebook, Google of course has their own Google+ while Apple has nothing at all.
The Olympic Games, held in London, England this year, will certainly be the highlight of the sporting calendar. Despite Wimbledon, EURO 2012 and many other big sporting events currently in full flow, none will quite live up to the glorious, diverse, and immensely entertaining Olympics. Living in London, the media has talked about little else over the past year, and as exciting as it is for us on a national level, most of the world will - in one event or another - be tuned in to a chunk of the coverage.
In keeping with the recent trend of user-experience and thanks to some minimalistic and beautiful weather apps, it is quite fitting that MinimalWeather has come into the public eye recently thanks to the power of the Twitter micro-blogging platform. Gone are the days of the overloaded mobile interface which brought stacks of information and text to read. Long live the minimalistic approach to mobile user interface design.
Sharing images with friends after a social event can be a real pain, especially since there are always those shots you want, but somebody else took, or vice versa. Nagging somebody to upload certain photos to Facebook or send them via email is a bit of a hassle, and in an age where our devices can do quite a lot already, sharing images should not be as time-consuming as it often becomes.
Throughout the constant back and forth legal bickering between Apple and Samsung lately, some interesting, formerly confidential tidbits have leaked out giving us a glimpse at some early internal iPhone prototypes. TheVerge spotted a few of them after scouring through various documents, and they're actually rather interesting. One interesting concept in particular draws a hefty deal of inspiration from one of Sony's designs, and Samsung plans to bring it up to basically tell the court that Apple, with all of their accusations, aren't holy angels in the situation either.
Seeing that we've been able to gather a few years of experience with touchscreen keyboards, they've become relatively easy to use for most, especially for simple and short search queries. However, if you want to add a more creative and personal touch to your input, you will be able to take advantage of Handwrite, which Google just announced. It's a new feature of Google's mobile search website that's actually built into the search webpage itself, so you'll be able to try this out on any touch-enabled smartphone (or tablet, for that matter.)
Cooliris, renowned for its sumptuous 3D browser add-on which offered a slick image-viewing experience, was always a rather nice idea without really making too much of an impact. Now, though, the concept has been duly enhanced, and with today's version 2.0 release over at Apple's App Store, it feels as though Cooliris has finally arrived.
This month has been pretty big for Apple with ongoing patent issues with Samsung as well as the Wall Street earnings report and the release of OS X Mountain Lion into the Mac App Store yesterday. The end of this month also represents a fairly important time for the technology giants as their legal representative head into a trial with Samsung over alleged patent infringements with Apple looking to claim more than $2 billion in damages from the world’s largest smartphone vendor.
Introduced back in 2008, Facebook for iPhone is the most popular iPhone app to date. The reason behind this is simple: Facebook has almost 1 billion users out of which more than a quarter use their mobile phones to access the network.
