September 10, 2011
What’s the easiest way to make people pay attention to you? Give away free stuff! Android Market alternative GetJar is the latest to use this tactic, which was previously used by Amazon to launch its own marketplace. Rather than merely copying the competition, GetJar has raised the stakes by offering not one free premium app but fifty.
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September 9, 2011
The first Snood game for the PC launched way back in 1996, and it is still popular today. There have been hundreds of spin-offs and games based on the Snood premise on almost every gaming platform, including the iPhone. All those wannabes and spin offs aside, the official Snood game is out on the iPhone now, and it is available completely free.
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September 8, 2011
With all the updating going on with the Facebook website, it only stands to reason that their mobile apps would receive an update as well, and now that update is here. Facebook for iPhone version 3.5 has the hit the App Store and it improves the mobile Facebook experience a great deal.
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September 7, 2011
Storing documents in the cloud is an excellent idea, but it doesn’t solve all of your problems. Printing is often an issue because it’s not possible to conjure a printer through a WiFi connection. Fedex is now offering a solution in the form of the Office Print Online service, now available via Google Docs.
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September 7, 2011
The video serving giant Netflix has expanded to a brand new market, bringing their online streaming service to Brazil. As of today, people in Brazil will be able to use Netflix streaming content just like in other territories, meaning they can watch content from a computer, PS3, Xbox 360 or any other supported Netflix streaming capable device.
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September 6, 2011
Since Google launched its +1 button for websites this past June, it says that more than one million sites use the sharing feature . To extend the use of the button, Google recently launched two more features that enable users to use +1 buttons with their Google+ circles, and the ability for content publishers to customize the +1 content using what Google calls "+Snippets."
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September 5, 2011
It seems that Google has a hand in nearly everything, from feed readers to email to smartphones, but there are limits to the company’s patience with the products under its wing. Now Google has announced that a number of under-performers will be given the axe.
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September 5, 2011
For all you Kindle users out there, Amazon.com has just started a new @Author Questions and Answers forum in which participating authors can be asked questions about themselves and their books. Any Amazon member who has purchased items from the site can ask, reply to or read existing questions to and from participating authors.
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September 4, 2011
One of the many features included in OS X Lion was a set of application enhancements, such as a full-screen view with multitouch gesture support, enhanced auto-saving, and more. The new features are only available in apps updated to support them however, and Apple is now highlighting software updated for Lion in the app store.
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September 3, 2011
Social media giants Facebook launched the Facebook Like Button extension for Google Chrome that adds the ability to "like" any webpage visited from the comfort of Chrome's toolbar and context menu - back in July. As well as adding a "like this page on Facebook" thumbs-up button to your Chrome toolbar, the extension also adds other options.
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September 3, 2011
In an effort to make Google+ a trustworthy social networking service, Google is exploring a policy of requiring members to use their real identity for their Google+ account. The policy, similar to the real name requirement for Facebook, follows the profile verification program Google started recently to verify celebrities and public figures who are added to lots of circles.
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September 2, 2011
Although Apple attracts a huge market with its computer hardware, portable devices and software, some magazine publishers and content providers are indifferent to paying the company over 30% of their revenue generated from their magazine apps sold in the iTunes Store. Instead, some publishers are pulling their apps and directing readers and subscribers to use their HTML 5 web-based apps.
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September 2, 2011
Dedicated television apps are not a new idea, but HDTV buyers are usually restricted to using only those that ship with their HDTV. Opera today announced a new app store, called the Opera TV Store, which could provide access to a wider variety of software. Using HTML5 as its language of choice, this new app store hopes to give developers access to a market of users that have so far been inaccessible.
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September 1, 2011
I think at this point we can all agree that the infamous cloud is not going away. That being said, the cloud does have some disadvantages, and the most glaring of these is when you do not have an Internet connection available. Fear not, because Google has you covered as they are now offering offline access to Gmail, Docs and Calendar.
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September 1, 2011
One of the most popular, and arguably the greatest, third-party browser for Android is now available for the iPhone. Dolphin is now available in the App Store for free. iPhone users rejoice, because when it comes to mobile browsing, this is one amazing little browser. One of my biggest problems with third-party browsers is that they offer some cool [...]
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