On Monday Blackberry announced during their 2013 BlackBerry Live keynote address that they will finally be releasing BBM for Android & iOS this summer. Up until now, the popular BBM service has only been available to BlackBerry users. The existing app allows users to bypass calling, text-message and data charges by communicating using text, photos, videos, and voice via WiFi and the Blackberr... »
The beginning of the end is almost here. Beloved RSS feed Google Reader will cease to exist in about a month and a half and millions are scrambling to find alternatives to replace it. As an apparent Google fan-girl at this point, Reader was actually one of those Google services I hardly used until I found phone apps that would tap in to the service. With Google’s announcement that they are p... »
The Inky email app is a new and innovative way of checking your emails. Think of it like a mixture between your webmail account like Gmail, or Hotmail and a local email app like Thunderbird, Geary, or Outlook. The Inky email app isn’t just another app that lets you check your emails though. It approaches email in a completely unique way. It’s quite strange at first, but once you get us... »
So the WordPress elves have been working hard on a new version of their Android app, which allows bloggers to connect to to their WordPress.com or WordPress self hosted site in order to manage their content. Previous versions of the app were frustrating to say the least, and whilst the post editor in the new version still needs some love in my opinion, it is definitely a marked improvement over pr... »
A lot of applications have been created around a single need, the need to stay connected using SMS. Years ago, when cellular phones became SMS enabled, a lot of people started using them, first the young ones, then later as they started to grow up, more people started using SMS as a way to stay connected. Why is SMS so appealing? Well, they are cheaper than a phone call and they are not as disrupt... »
Yesterday Facebook announced the release of Facebook Home, a social overlay for the Android operating system. If you’re an avid Facebooker then this is well worth a look… Getting Social When Zuckerberg & Co announced Facebook home, they pushed it as an easy to use, fully immersive social media experience. Allowing users to communicate, interact and share with their friends righ... »
Yesterday, Google announced on the Chromium blog that they will be forking the excellent WebKit rendering engine to a new version dubbed Blink. For those that don’t know, a rendering engine is a piece of software with the job of processing a web pages code and rendering the result on a computing device’s screen. So, if you right click on this page and select ‘View Source&#... »
GIMP, or the GNU Image Manipulation Program as others may well know it are re-naming/re-branding themselves to “CHIMP”. In a post on the official GIMP Magazine website they have confirmed that GIMP will in fact be renaming itself over the next few weeks. So why is GIMP renamed to CHIMP?* Why the re-brand? Well, in short we don’t know. Within the article the folks at The GIMP M... »