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Super-popular annotation and drawing app for Android and Mac is now available for iPad! As you can imagine, it takes advantage of the large screen Apple’s tablet rocks to allow you to do much more. You can work with existing photos, screenshots, maps (very cool), take a new photo (if you have the iPad 2),…
Mobile video service Tango launched two new features – Video Messages and Tango Surprises. The first of the two allows users to record and send high-quality video content to their friends so that even when a Tango call is missed, people can leave a video message to “complete the experience.” The new feature works across…
Taptu Guardian Environment is a new iOS app that packs all the green news you can handle. Available as a free download, it brings together environment content from the Guardian’s Open platform as well as other media brands known for their environmental coverage like Yale Environment 360, Mother Jones, BusinessGreen and the New York Times.…
Freemium apps are obviously working both for consumers and developers/publishers, and the trend will continue in 2012. Already of the top-ranked 250 iOS apps across all categories, an average of 88% are free to download, monetized with advertising and in-app purchases. In that sense, the research company says that at this time next year in…
Samsung has made a new version of the S Pen SDK available, allowing developers to take advantage of the Galaxy Note’s built-in stylus. In this release, the configuration classes and APIs for the pen and eraser have been added, as well as CanvasView APIs. More precisely, here’s what’s new: Added PenSettingInfo class – so developers…
Mozilla has just released Firefox 9.0 for both the desktop and for Android devices. Besides being faster, less prone to crashes, and the things you’d usually associate with newer versions of browsers, what makes 9.0 special is that it finally supports tablets. The key question on our minds is of course what’s so special about…
The makers of the YouMail visual voicemail app released a fresh new calling tool in the Android Market today. It’s WhoAreYou, and this creatively titled app answers that question by bringing visual caller ID to smartphones at last. There’s a number of handy features in WhoAreYou. The main one, of course, is seeing who called.…
I get the feeling that many of you will be playing Angry Birds over the holidays on your new gadgets but I’ll bet that you haven’t decorated your house with these birds and pigs in Christmas light form. That’s what the video below shows and it’s either really, really cool or an obsession taken too…
WordPress released version 2.0 of its Android app, calling it a major update that “focuses on a new UI and enhanced post editor features.” First there’s a brand new look with the central Dashboard from where you have one-tap access to create new posts and pages, upload media, view your stats, manage comments, read blogs…
Apple iPhone and iPod touch owners running the now antiquated iOS 3.1.3 are having trouble browsing through the App Store and worse, downloading any new apps. A thread on Apple Support Communities was started four days ago bringing the complaint to public attention and it still has not received an official confirmation from Apple. The…