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If you’re looking to stalk old St. Nick as he’s on his way to deliver gifts to all the good girls and boys of the world, it just got easier with Google’s app on the Play Store. If don’t have an Android phone, Google is offering up a number of different ways to follow the…
The rumors didn’t lie; Facebook just unveiled its Snapchat competitor, Poke. I use the word competitor loosely, of course — it’s pretty much a total rip-off. “With the Poke app, you can poke or send a message, photo, or video to Facebook friends to share what you’re up to in a lightweight way. You can…
What’s an over sensationalized day like 12/21/2012 without an over the top survival guide? At 11:11 Universal Time, the world as we know it will come to an end, apparently. Not ones to just sit down and take this sort of thing, we’ve compiled a handful of apps and a few accessories that should help you get…
The wildly popular message client known as WhatsApp is now free for all to download on iOS. This mobile application usually goes for 99 cent, but for a limited time, users will get it free of charge. WhatsApp is a cool way for users to avoid SMS fees in mobile phone plans, as it lets…
Google is doing something special for those business app users that felt wronged, as it recently changed its service from free to a charge of $50 a year. So as a token of its appreciation, the search giant will give disgruntled users a free version of Quickoffice for the iPad, which is an exclusive perk…
There’s only a couple of weeks left in 2012, so now’s the time to reflect back on the year and round up the highlights. One of my favorite roundups to do every year is to pick out which apps on my iPhone and iPad I used most and that are relatively new. The end of…
We’re some 6 weeks from the BlackBerry 10 launch and the company’s executives are running around getting us ready for what RIM’s CMO Frank Boulben claims will be the one of the greatest comebacks in tech history. He used that phrase in his interview with Forbes, adding that they’re in the midst of a soft…
Sparking controversy among many of its users like most major policy changes do, Instagram has updated its own with a key stipulation that is frustrating many people: Instagram (mainly Facebook, since Instagram is under Facebook ownership) has the right to license your photos to other companies for any purpose, e.g. advertising. Basically, all Instagram photos…
Another week is behind Appscovery. We’re glad to report that app listings look better and better, and that soon enough pretty much all of the apps submitted will be marked as featured. In the meantime, here are the apps we want to highlight this week: Track My Spending | Money Made Simpler Free Adventurous Dragon…
Google’s Jeff Huber announced today on his Google+ page that the Google Maps app released for iPhone just a few days ago received over 10 million downloads in the first 48 hours of availability in the App Store. “We’re excited for the positive reception of Google Maps for iPhone around the world,” he writes. “Congratulations…