Most of us, to varying degrees, use social networks on a day-to-day basis, and thus, Apple's Twitter integration into iOS 5 was a move met welcomely by iOS fans far and wide.
Instagram - one of the hottest image-based social networks at this point in time - has just been acquired by the world's foremost social platform, Facebook.
Creating and sharing images in a quick and sociable fashion has been made simple by smartphones, and made popular by the wonderful Intstagram.
With the iPad release cycle well and truly behind us for another year, the focus of the tech industry is now firmly toward the Cupertino company's other big iDevice release, which is, of course, the next iPhone.
One of the primary colossal improvements made to the recently-launched iPad 3 is the Retina display, a vibrant, extremely high-resolution display which makes pixels as hard to spot as Waldo. However, Apple did not address an issue which has impacted the device since day one: You cannot use the iPad in the portrait orientation while wearing polarized sunglasses. Bad news for all of you who planned to do some reading in the sun by the waves this summer (avoiding glare issues by wearing your polarized sunglasses, of course).
Gesture based implementation is not only extremely useful for adding additional functions in areas otherwise bereft, but it also adds a wonderful touch of finesse to proceedings.
The free of charge Instagram photo sharing application has been going from strength to strength over the last couple of years and is widely regarded as one of the most successful apps available on the App Store, something that was recently recognized by Apple when they named Instagram as their app of the year.
With the number of basic Alarm apps throughout the App Store and Google Play Store now well over a billion strong, the devs looking to improve the management of our sleeping habits are being forced to work a little harder and bring something different to the table.
When Apple announced iOS 5.1 to the public last month, some hoped Siri for iPad would be somewhere on the list. Unfortunately, the fruit company only implemented Voice Dictation, which, although better than nothing, left the Siri hunters to continue using the alternatives available.
We feature many useful, productive, prim and proper apps here at Redmond Pie, but sometimes one comes along which allows us to simply kick back and geek out a little. It's on these occasions when we just like to tinker for the heck of it, and Prox Pro for Android proves that an app download doesn't always have to be serious business.
