Remember AR.Drone, that sexy-lookin’ quadricopter we’ve first seen at last year’s CES? Thus fur it was an iPhone thing only, but not anymore. Nope, Parrot (which makes the AR.Drone) hasn’t unveiled its own application for other platforms — rather we’re talking about a home-made project that allows Symbian^3 device owners (i.e. those of you with…
The Masters iPhone App Updated for 2011 Tournament
Seems like every spring, when spring is in the air and it’s time for The Masters golf tournament (in my opinion, the best golf tourney in the world!), I always find myself writing up a little post about their app. This year is no different. The Masters app for iPhone was recently updated for the…
Google Launches Android Voice Search for Pig Latin
Google has updated Android Voice Search to work with the language known by fourth-graders the world over: Pig Latin. Sounds like an April Fool’s joke? Guess again buckaroo, the feature is actually in there. Just go to Settings, Voice input and output settings, Voice recognizer settings, Language, and scroll all the way down to the…
Review: Monkey Labour – A Labor of LCD Handheld Gaming Love on your iPhone & iPad
When I first stumbled onto the trailer for Monkey Labour, I was immediately reminded of my childhood. I’ve always had the gaming bug in me, even at an early age. My parents couldn’t buy me all of the games that I wanted, because quite frankly, I wanted a lot of them. So, from time to…
BabbleOn allows iPhone, BlackBerry and Android user to post voice messages on Facebook
A company called BabbleOn Technologies is literally “giving a voice to social media” with the launch of a mobile app called BabbleOn. Available as a free download for the iOS, Android and BlackBerry devices – the new application allows users to record messages and easily post them on Facebook and the BabbleOn Community. To get…
PC Classic Death Rally Releases on the iPhone & iPad; Price Dropped to Celebrate
If you’ve been playing Reckless Racing but wish your top-down racing game had more guns and violence, then you’ll be happy to hear that Remedy Entertainment has just released an iOS version of the PC classic, Death Rally, onto the App Store. If you haven’t had the pleasure of playing Death Rally when it was…
Dungeon Defenders Goes Free-To-Play on Android & Receives iPad 2 Optimization
Back in late December, we published a review for an iOS & Android title called Dungeon Defenders which is one of the first games to be released on mobile devices using Epic’s Unreal Engine. We really enjoyed the game, especially on the iPad since the game took advantage of all the of extra space, and…
Twitter drops QuickBar for iPhone app, haters rejoice!
Several weeks ago, Twitter for iPhone was updated with a number of new features. Perhaps the most prominent and undoubtedly hated feature was the QuickBar, which quickly earned the Twitter hashtag #dickbar. It was permanently stuck on your main timeline showing you trends you didn’t really care about – trends that were typically generated by…
NFC Task Launcher makes near field even more useful [Android App]
Chances are that if you buy a smartphone towards the end of this year, and most certainly in 2012, it’ll have a little chip inside that handles near field communication or NFC. Right now NFC is used for simple tasks like reading a tag, so instead of having to take a photo…
Slate goes Android
Good news for the Android smartphone ownin’ liberals among our readers. After launching mobile apps for the iPhone and iPad, Slate is finally out with the version of its app made for devices running Google’s mobile OS. Available as a free download — with Slate getting its money from Volkswagen sponsorship — the application provides…