For some reason I have given up on the thought completely why Apple made the decision to include Notification Center in iOS 5 on the iPad without the addition of the native Weather and Stocks widgets. This decision obviously came on the back of the fact that the iPad doesn't ship with the stock Weather and Stocks apps like the iPhone and iPod touch, but it is still a cause for concern for a lot of people who use those apps on a daily basis.
Gentlemen, load your guns. As announced back in February, he highly popular iOS game Death Rally has just been released on the Google Play Store for Android (albeit slightly late from the original target of March.) Described as an action-packed combat racer, the game blends together combat and rally racing in an all-around fun package. And best of all, it's currently free on Android, while it is 99 cents in the iOS App Store.
While question marks still remain regarding Siri's ability to properly recognize spoken word, judging by the amount of parody videos going viral, Apple's voice assistant software certainly has a pretty enviable career to fall back on in the entertainment industry.
As far as mobile browsers go, Dolphin has built up a reputation as one of the best. With a vast range of useful features along with a smooth, gesture-based user interface, it's claim as the Google Play Store's number one web browser is not surprising.
If you're an iPhone owner with [insert carrier here] and happen to constantly find yourself raising your phone to the heavens in search of cell reception in certain areas (i.e. the building you work in, even your home; a specific location that you spend plenty of time at and need cell service), then you're in luck. A new app called CarrierCompare plans to help people find the best iPhone carrier for them, at least based on cell reception in your precise location.
Proxy Browser is a new third party browsing app for Android that makes it easier for people on restrictive Wi-Fi networks to access the data and services they want, right from their smartphone or Android tablet device.
While Macs have been notorious for being impervious to viruses - at least in terms of perception, while they were vulnerable, far more viruses were produced for Windows than OS X - their reputation for impeccable security is certainly being questioned now. Flashback, malware built to grab private information such as passwords entered in by users in applications, has evolved over time into a very dangerous piece of malicious software. In its beginnings, it required user interaction - through a dodgy looking Adobe Flash Installer - to lodge itself into one's Mac.
There are many scientific theory behind the perfect wake-up call - elements of which have trickled into many of the Google Play Store's alarm-based titles. Despite Google's recently re-branded app farm already housing many different wake-up utilities all boasting a certain quirk or element of uniqueness, Agens AS has decided to have another crack with his currently free Morning Routine app.
A 42 meter, $15 million yacht isn't cool. You know what's cool? a 42 meter, $15 million yacht that can be controlled by a tablet! You're probably going to think that we are making this up as we go along, but believe it or not, we couldn't have imagined any of this even if we had tried! Sometimes the truth really is somehow stranger than fiction.
When it was released in 2010, the iPad was labeled as “a large iPod touch” and predicted to be a market failure by many (including a younger, more naïve version of myself). As it turns out, the fact that it is a large iPod touch is precisely what makes it so darn awesome, especially for non-tech-savvy people like my mother.
