During the Mobile World Congress, we had a chance to see ooVoo Mobile app working on Apple iOS mobile devices. The company even promised to bring its super-fast growing, multi-point video chat application to the AppStore at some point in April. We don’t have the exact date, but I doubt even the ooVoo guys know…
App Genome: Android Market growing way faster than Apple’s AppStore
Although it’s still far from reaching the saturation point, Apple’s AppStore doesn’t grow as fast as it used to. According to the App Genome Project, the number of apps available in the AppStore increased by 44% since August 2010, while Android Market grew at an impressive rate of %127 in the same period. With nearly…
Social music service Rdio updates its iPhone app, big time!
On-demand social music service Rdio, which comes from the founders of Skype, released an updated iPhone app that feels like it’s has been revamped from the ground up. The first thing you’ll notice is a brand new user interface, which organizes all of the app’s features in a “springboard” dashboard, eliminating the tabs along the…
Japanese company sells iPhone-optimized printed notepads
Japanese company King Jim is offering a somewhat strange product for iPhone owners. We’re talking about printed notepads, which are specifically made for iPhone users allowing them to easily digitize, store and organize handwritten text. The concept called “Shot Note” requires that an iPhone user starts the same-named iPhone app, take pictures of their notes…
Windows Phone 7 Connector is in the Mac App Store
It is highly unlikely to have a Mac user owning a Windows Phone 7 device. Let’s say that happens, how would he or she connect its 1.0 smartphone to his beloved computer? I guess one could manage to sync between the two using some third-party cloud-based service or fire-up Boot Camp every now and then,…
ALK Technologies unveils CoPilot Live 9, GPS navigation app for smartphones and tablets
ALK Technologies announced a new version of its popular GPS navigation app (it calls it a “platform”) for smartphones and tablets. CoPilot Live 9 rocks a brand new user interface with context-sensitive menus, “cutting-edge routing technology” and access to local content. Among the key features included in this release, we find: Optimal routes – CoPilot…
iPhone App: NYC Condom Finder [For the days when you’re too cheap to buy your own rubbers]
Earlier this week couples around the world celebrated the artificial holiday known as “Valentine’s Day”. In America the 14th of February is also “National Condom Awareness Day” because couples tend to … you know … share a soda pop down at the corner diner. In order to celebrate both holidays the city of New York…
Back To The Future Episode 1 Now Available for the iPad; Biff Still Hates Manure
We’ve been keeping a close eye on TellTale Games’ Back to the Future ever since it was announced that it was going to be released on the iPad. When you factor in how great past TellTale Games have been on iOS, we couldn’t help but feel completely excited at the prospect of this game. Today…
Review: Volcano Escape – Someone Help Me Escape It
Have you ever felt your twin-stick shooter games lacked originality since nearly all of them take place on a flat surface where you take on wave after wave of enemies until either you die or complete the wave and then die in the next? What about “How high can you get?” games that don’t offer…
This is how Camera+ creates its neat effects
Please allow me to indulge my photography obsession once again by sharing with you Camera+ and the process the developers take to create effects. If you’re familiar with iPhone photo apps like Instagram, Hipstamatic, Camerabag and Camera+, you’ll notice that film-style photos – especially ones that look like they’ve aged or have been taken by…