If you had any doubt about the existence or the availability of Google Play Store gift cards, then the company themselves have dropped one of the biggest hints yet that their arrival is extremely imminent. We've been hearing about the gift cards for quite some time now, with various logs showing up in certain retail databases, but Google has updated one of their own support pages with extensive information about the cards and the balance of individual Play accounts.
In a world where we all live our lives on our smartphones, one of the scariest and personally affecting things that can happen to us is the loss of that smartphone. It might not sound like the end of the world on the surface, but if all your personal data, photos of your children and documents for work are saved on a smartphone that's gone missing, you'll no doubt feel its loss.
If you have deep pockets, or more likely just a large handbag, it might often be difficult to hear notifications from your phone, leading you to return home with multiple unanswered notifications of text messages, important emails or Facebook notifications. A new Kickstarter project, known as the EMBRACE+, is an electronic bracelet that will light up whenever a notification from your phone is displayed.
We all, at some point, find ourselves in a situation whereby we put off a task for a moment, forget it, and only get around to considering it again when it's too late. In terms of our daily digital errands, this could take the form of replying to an e-mail, calling somebody back, or perhaps responding to a text massage; and iOS developer Joshua Tucker has created a beautiful concept to help deal with the latter.
Every year, Fortune Magazine compiles a list of the world’s most admired companies, based on their financial performance, products and brand impact among consumers. For the sixth year in a row, Apple managed to maintain its lead as the “World’s Most Admired Company” of 2013, ahead of such well-known companies as Google, FedEx and even Walt Disney and Washington-based Starbucks.
Most of people nowadays carry smartphones around with them wherever they go, and while this is useful for a multitude of reasons, it means if that so-called Kodak moment arises, it will not be missed. As time goes on, smartphone cameras have gotten much better, and through the last couple of revisions of iOS, Apple has experimented with ways to make it easier for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users to quickly take a shot with minimal fuss. iOS brought he camera button to the lock screen, which has since evolved into an icon/slider, but if that still isn't quick enough for you, jailbreak developer flux has come through with a nifty tweak called QuickShoot which allows you to take a shot almost instantaneously by tapping that Camera app icon.
Unless you've been in hiding for the past fortnight, you will have caught Sony's announcement of the PlayStation 4 last week, and since the big unveiling left quite a few elements to the imagination (namely, what the console actually looks like), chins have been wagging in gaming circles ever since. Shortly following the event, we heard of the interesting development that while it would not apply to games, the PlayStation 4 would support 4K video playback, and today, that has been confirmed by the Japanese company's COO Phil Molyneux.
Facebook is not only central to the world of modern technology in general, but also a significant part of the lives of its one billion (and counting) user base. One of the key elements of the world's foremost social networking service is the famed News Feed, and Mark Zuckerberg's team has just sent out invites to various members of the press inviting them to an upcoming special event, in which many significant changes to the News Feed will be showcased. The event will take place on March 7th at Facebook's Menlo Park headquarters, and although specific details remain under wraps for the time being, the very fact Mark Zuckerberg's company has opted to host the event at its HQ suggests whatever is announced will be of great significance.
Oxford University's Department of Engineering Science has developed a technology which allows a car to essentially drive itself - controlled by an Apple iPad. As demonstrated in a video of a Nissan Leaf electric car independently navigating through stretches of private roads, the robotic technology certainly takes the phrase "automatic car" to an entirely new dimension.
The look and feel of iOS is generally smooth, but since Apple is in the habit of keeping changes and alterations fairly incremental between revisions of its mobile software, the way certain elements behave can become a little cumbersome. With famously little by way of customization, modifying the behavior of iOS is essentially a closed door, but if you participated in the recent Evasi0n jailbreak, you’ll be more than aware of the many alternative options at your disposal. Adding to the seemingly endless list of great tweaks comes Animer, which affords you the opportunity to rejuvenate your device somewhat by customizing certain animations.
