The regular readers among us may remember that it was only three weeks ago when we brought you the news about a United States-based programmer named Andrey Fedotov adding the finishing touches to his HackStore project for the Mac. The HackStore was built on the notion that it would offer a curated selection of apps and tweaks that wouldn't otherwise be available from one resource due to Apple's reluctance to let developers submit certain things to the Mac App Store.
With all eyes and ears waiting eagerly for Apple to announce their earnings for the second financial quarter of 2012, we are all wondering whether or not the company would continue to rack up record sales and profits. The information has filtered through from California, only moments before they officially held their earnings call with company investors.
When a game manages to garner a mass amount of attention a full year before release, there's usually a very good reason, and by releasing a gameplay trailer of Crysis 3, Electronic Arts has pretty much justified all the fuss in two minutes flat.
With smartphones and tablets packing in more, higher-spec hardware with each new iteration, it can sometimes seem as though your device is performing a million tasks at once.
The wraps have finally been taken off Google's mythical Google Drive online storage and collaboration service, with the news first being leaked via Google's own French blog. Now though, the app is available to download for anyone with the right hardware, and if the video Google has put out is anything to go by, it's going to be pretty awesome.
If you're a regular reader her at Redmond Pie, or indeed just a modder of all things Android, you'll be more than aware of the benefits of utilizing custom launchers.
One of the most sensitive sections of a smartphone has to be the media gallery, or in the case of an iPhone, the Camera Roll, where all photos get saved to when the camera hardware is used to capture videos or still images. Having my iPhone fall into the hands of one of my mischievous and them deleting some of my important images is always something that concerns me, but thankfully the jailbreak development community has us covered, once again.
In the time period that has elapsed since Microsoft acquired Skype from its previous owners, its fair to say that the Redmond-based company was planning on making some changes to the service and stamping their own seal onto it before going forward. While we are yet to hear of any radical changes for the way in which the service operates, or any new additional user features, Microsoft has developed and released a Windows Phone Skype app, and has today announced that Sony's new portable gaming device - the PS Vita - will also be given the Skype treatment.
SkyDrive vs iCloud vs Dropbox: Which Is The Best Cloud Storage / Backup Service That You Should Use?
To the cloud, file storage service! That certainly seems to be the mantra as of late. And the competition amongst companies who provide such services is definitely heating up. Dropbox, a popular choice for quite some time (its name is practically the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about cloud storage) is being threatened by SkyDrive, which really stepped up its game today. iCloud also provides an unbeatable seamless backup/syncing experience for users of iOS and Mac. On top of this, Google wants to get their foot in the door of this market with Google Drive.
In light of the recent Flashback malware infestation, it appears running OS X is not enough by itself to protect you from the bad stuff circulating around the web. Always considered to be a safe haven from the Trojans and viruses, Mac users can ill afford to be complacent nowadays, and many have been looking around for the best antivirus packages around.
