Infographics provide a great way for comparisons between tech devices and events to be presented, and for those a little bamboozled by endless lines of text, it keeps things clear interesting. We feature many here at Redmond Pie, and although it would likely take a substantial level of Photoshop knowledge to create your very own, but one very nifty app for Android is devoid of all that complication.
The Championships, Wimbledon – the world’s oldest and most prestigious tennis Grand Slam event – is all set to start in a week’s time on June 25th. It’s where the biggest names in tennis will be volleying, slicing, smashing, lobbing, back/fore-handing and serving each other while we kick back, relax and enjoy the show.
One of the many bug bears that a lot of users have with Apple's mobile operating system is the severe lack of personalization and customization options, meaning that in a stock installation of the OS, every user is doomed to the same fate of having to use a standard looking interface. Granted, iOS is still one of the, if not the most powerful mobile OS in the world, but there is nothing wrong in being unique.
Those hoping that Google's next release of Android, Jelly Bean, would be a major release with plenty of new features may be out of luck if a new discovery proves to be accurate.
Regardless of whether they are aware of the terminology or not, every single iPhone and iPod touch user manages to interact with the device’s home screen every time they use it. Flicking between home screens, editing icon locations or deleting them, as well as launching installed apps is the main purpose of the home screen on an iOS device and provides users with a centralized desktop interface between themselves and their installations.
Although mobile devices have garnered a reputation for occupying the "casual" gamer with tricky puzzles, there are plenty of high-end, aesthetically sound titles resembling the console experience. Of the car racing titles, the Asphalt series is one of the foremost, and having been present on mobile devices prior to the App Store, it has still found a welcome home on Apple's application portal.
In almost the same breath as confirming it would no longer pursue any further tablet ventures - not that consumers were remotely aware the company had made any in the first place - the South Korean electronics giant LG has announced its interest in taking on Apple's lauded (yet temperamental) Siri Voice recognition services with its own offering.
Fruit Ninja has grown to become one of the most popular games on both Android and iOS, and although most would not necessarily have foreseen it, the title has made a fruit-hating, sword-toting ninja of many millions of consumers.
People wanting to see what Microsoft announced during its Windows Phone Summit today can now find out by watching the presentation in video format, right from the comfort of your own computer after the Redmond outfit published the entire thing online.
Instagram was well on its way to being the destination for all our photos long before Facebook bought it, whether they be clean, unedited efforts or images that have been doctored to within an inch of their lives using some of the app's built-in filters. We're big fans of Instagram here, and the addition of the Android client recently only helped to make the app more popular.
