Popular BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) service will be coming to iOS and Android this weekend. Android users will get the new app on Saturday evening EDT, with iOS users following at midnight in their local time.
The makers of CyanogenMod, one of the best custom ROMs based on Android, announced on Wednesday that CyanogenMod will be turned into an app you can download and install from the Play Store on unlocked devices.
Angry Birds Star Wars II is out now for Android, iOS, Windows Phone 8 and the Kindle Fire for 99 cents. On Android, the game is also available as a free download, supported by ads.
Need to email someone but don’t have their address? Here are some common sense to come up with solutions that will help you figure out most people’s true email addresses.
Cloud storage service Box has stepped into the online collaborative note-taking game with the launch of Box Notes, a new free service that lets you create documents and collaborate on them in real time.
Chirp has finally come to Android, a nifty app that converts files such as photos, notes or links into sound, and broadcasts it so that other devices with Chirp can ‘hear’ the data.
Humble Bundle, the pay-what-you-want cult favourite, is back with six DRM-free games for Windows, Mac and Linux, all of which come with a Steam key if you pay $1 or more.
Multi-network posting app Buffer is on a roll. After adding custom timings for scheduled posts and then adding Google+ to its supported networks, it now lets users post to LinkedIn Company Pages directly.
Finally, the long wait is over! Simplenote has released an official note-taking app for Android, which is similar to the one that has been on the iOS App Store for a while now.
Who doesn’t fancy a shortcut? Life hacks are ingenious tricks that can make your life easier, whether it’s as simple as fitting two bowls in a microwave oven or making a DIY stand for your phone. Since we all know pictures are worth a thousand words, Instagram is an amazing place to find new ideas.
Sports are fun. Video games are fun. Combine the two on your Android device and it’s a guaranteed good time! Personally, I have always enjoyed arcade games (those that emphasize larger-than-life fun) over simulation (those that emphasize being as true to reality as possible). And especially on smartphones, I find that arcade games work better because it’s not as immersive a gaming environment as a big-screen console game. Android has a huge collection of fantastic games, including these sports games that are free, fun and addictive.
To uninstall a Windows program, you can’t just hit ‘Delete’ — you need to run the software’s uninstaller. Unfortunately, the ‘Uninstall a program’ option in the Windows Control Panel does not always completely remove it from your system. Traces like registry files or program folders might remain. To get rid of an app once and for all, you sometimes need to use a third-party tool. There are many third-party Windows uninstallers to choose from. Here are the right Windows uninstallers for your needs…
Bored of how the Twitter website looks? Want to get rid of all the clutter on Facebook or YouTube? Is there a more beautiful way to browse Reddit? And can the already minimal Instagram look any prettier? Oh yes! There are no shortage of third-party web apps that take popular web services and give them a stunning new skin. Here are some of our favourites.
Do you want to become an Omnibox power user and save plenty of time and keystrokes? All you need are a few good extensions and a little knowledge of how to tweak the search settings. The Omnibox in Google Chrome is useful for more than just searching with Google or visiting a link quickly. Omni literally means ‘universal’ and the Omnibox can be used for almost every task on the Web or otherwise, be it searching a site, setting a timer or sending a tweet.
It’s about time someone made an Office suite that can actually claim to be better…
The basic purpose of a hashtag, of course, is to find a list of all posts about a certain topic, but why not take it out of the Web services that already integrate it, and apply the humble hashtag in other areas where it can help making things easy to find? Here’s how you can use hashtags in novel ways to make your digital searchers easier.
