With the recent Facebook acquisition of Instagram, and the app having just been ported to Android - and enjoying over a million first-day downloads in the process - the market for photo-manipulation apps is undoubtedly at an all-time high. While not everybody is convinced by Instagram's photo-editing credentials, there are plenty of alternatives offering a vast array of features enabling the most beautiful snaps to be made out of the most seemingly bland, boring, inanimate objects.
The more popular the App Store has become, the more susceptible users have become to breach of account, it would seem. Naturally, Apple has upped the ante in an effort to combat the potential threat, although as some users have been finding out, the added security measures do seem to bear the hallmarks of a scam.
A new iPhone and iPad app shuns the bight for more megapixels in photos in favor of a 1-bit aesthetic that, we have to say, takes us right back to the early days of graphical computing. 1-Bit Camera takes us back to our childhood, and in the process makes us feel incredibly old!
Since it's largely regarded to be an integral part of the smartphone experience as a whole, developers spend much time and effort trying to improve and enhance the social experience.
If you're a fan of console and PC games being ported to iOS, then today seems like a pretty good day to be you. Just as Rockstar Games has dropped Max Payne over at Apple's App Store, fellow mighty publisher Electronic Arts has also released Burnout CRASH! to iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch device owners.
We feature many Android-based modding tutorials here at Redmond Pie, helping you get your custom ROMs, launchers and other bits and pieces installed onto your device as smoothly and efficiently as possible.
For the most part, Apple has the media and general public swooning over them. From iconic product releases, memorable ad campaigns, and, in many cases, secrecy, Apple is talked about a lot, and mainly positive things are said. However, a more negative cloud looming over Apple's press parade are the allegations of terrible working conditions in China. Foxconn, the company which is tasked with manufacturing Apple products has been making plenty of headlines over the past few years due to reports of bad working conditions, and even employee suicides.
If you frequently dabble in the iOS jailbreaking community, you will be familiar with the oft-lifesaving little utility known as TinyUmbrella. For those uninitiated, it’s like a jailbreaker’s Swiss Army tool, allowing a device to, amongst other things, be kicked in and out of recovery mode with a touch of a button.
Having a good backup mechanism is an integral part of maintaining not only a smartphone, but in fact any digital device. Settings and data can easily be lost due to numerous eventualities, and when such situations occur, those bereft of a decent backup system are quickly left exposed - losing some, most, or all of their important, irreplaceable data.
There's a lot of talk right now about Nokia and its Windows Phone 7 handsets. Specifically, it is the newly released and much hyped Lumia 900 which is seeing most of the headlines and clicks right now.
