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Google Voice Search, one of the best features built into every Android phone running version 2.0 or higher, has solely been the domain of English, French and Chinese speaking users for quite a while. There may be one or two more languages it can handle, but I’m not too sure. Anyway, today Google is happy…
For those of you tied into the LinkedIn app for BlackBerry, there’s a quick update to tell you about. Looks like the app is now compatible with BlackBerry 6, so if you’re on a compatible device running OS 6, LinkedIn is ready for you! The other big news in this update is an updated profile…
Get ready to waste a lot of time because Zynga has brought its Farmville juggernaut to the Apple iPad. The Farmville app hit the iPhone earlier this summer and the Apple iPad version features a few enhancements to take advantage of the larger screen. It’s labeled as “HD” and it does look noticeably better on…
So you’ve just got yourself a Logitech Revue for Google TV, and you’d rather not use the bulky keyboard/remote that came in the box, eh? Well, you don’t need it, all you really need is the nifty Android app that turns your phone into a remote control for Google TV. It’s free, and available now.…
The web media-savvy Skyfire web browser has finally gotten real on the iPhone. This is great news for all you iPhone users who just can’t live without embedded videos and interactive websites based on Adobe Flash technology. But, before you get all worked up trying to find the Skyfire browser in the iPhone AppStore, you…
The official YouTube application for Android has been updated and is now available as a standalone app in the Android Market, but only if you’re running 2.2 (a.k.a. Froyo). There are a ton of features, like portrait and landscape viewing, channel info, commenting, liking, sharing on Buzz, Facebook, and Twitter, in-page viewing (so you can…
This morning I was excited to find a new version of Angry Birds in the iTunes store. It’s a Halloween special edition that’s available only for iOS. Of course, there were no surprises here as it was announced yesterday that the new version of the game would be arriving today. What do I think so…
Recently, a colleague of mine tipped me off to a new sleeping aid for iOS. Well, not an aid exactly, but an app that measures your sleeping patterns, and analyzes the data to determine the best window of time for you to wake up. Called ‘Sleep Cycle‘, so far I’m having nothing but success, and…
If you’re as much of a fan of retro-games as I am, you’ll remember my post from the other day about Martin Kool, and his ‘Quest’ to bring classic Sierra games to the iPad. Well, since that first post, Martin has been in touch with me, and he tells me that his work on Space…
Several months ago my 4 year old 15 inch IBM ThinkPad T61 died and I immediately panicked since it was the machine I used to do my job. When it came time to buy a new laptop, the 17 inch MacBook Pro stood out as the best possible replacement due to the super high resolution…