Archive for: application
- December 13, 2010 10:26 am
After briefly appearing in the App Store last week, and after over a year of web app-only service, Google’s Latitude iOS app is finally available. The official number is ver. 2.0.0.346, and brings with the the simple functionality of being able to tell where your friends are. Why it took so long to make its way into the App Store may never be known. But at least we now have it.
Interested users will need an iPhone 3GS/4, iPad, or iPod Touch (3rd & 4th Generation) running iOS 4.0+ in order to run the official Google Latitude application.
- November 22, 2010 6:22 pm
Fancy a good challenging game of Scrabble? The folks at EA Mobile would like to let you in on a little not-so-secret secret. They’re giving away 2,000 iTunes redeemable codes to download Scrabble for iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad for simply liking their Facebook Fan page. Afterwards, fill out the short form and be on your way to brain-stumping goodness. Likewise, if Twitter is more your style, follow @EAMobile, fill out the same form, and enjoy the same game.
Who doesn’t like free stuff, especially free, entertaining stuff?
Thanks, Jorge
- November 22, 2010 7:05 am
Popular Angry Birds (original) publisher Chillingo has another big name release to add to the books — Bear Grylls. For those who frequent the Discovery Channel, you’ll know that he is the survival expert that goes around the world and shows you how to get out of various situations with a still beating heart. On the show, the most useful tools aren’t gadgets, but instead various tools and survival knowledge. But now that Bear has teamed up with Chillingo, the next best tool will be your iOS device
The app developer, VEEMEE, will work with Chillingo to bring “The Bear Essentials” to the Apple App Store, which will include various pictures, articles, quizzes, how-to’s, and other tools to help train your brain to instinctively react in the wild during adverse conditions/scenarios. And that’s it — for now. In closing, we’ll leave you off with a few words from Bear himself:
I’m so pleased that through a simple app I can now share all my outdoor and survival skills that I learnt from my time with the British Special Forces, through Everest, the French Foreign Legion, the Scouts, and countless expeditions into the wild. We have distilled them all down into this easy-to-use survival guide app. Which is really the ultimate multi-media survival Swiss-army knife of an app! The goal was to nicely blend all the best, most functional aspects from my TV shows and books into an interactive instruction manual, and mobile tool kit all rolled into one. This really could one day save your life! Enjoy!”
Keep checking back for more information on “The Bear Essentials” as the release nears.
- November 18, 2010 5:18 pm
EBay junkies listen up: eBay 2.0 is now live. Besides the usual allotment of bug fixes, eBay took the time to have a little fun design-wise. Upon launching the eBay iOS app, a greatly re-designed page will welcome you. From there, you have quick access to messages, your account, starting new auctions, and a whole host of other feathers. The most prominent new change however, is the new Watching/Buying/Selling banner.
Overall it looks really slick. The only grip I have is that the developers didn’t completely spread the new design throughout. Navigate away from the main page and you’ll find a lot of the old UI and layout rearing its ugly head.
Of course, the main focus of this app is to buy/sell things. And on that front, it’s much more intuitive, faster, and enjoyable.
Head on over to the App Store to get the eBay 2.0 update now.
- November 17, 2010 5:55 pm
I’m sorry if you were slightly misled by the title. I can see how it may sound like little LEGO Angry Birds figures were coming to market. And seeing as how Rovio is aiming to beat Tetris by “Angry Birding” every aspect of our lives in the near future, LEGO figurines certainly isn’t out of the realm of possibility. Though the nifty Bomber Bird you see above was hand crafted by Flickr user “Beuk, and isn’t coming to market. Sorry folks. You’ll have to build your own.
- November 17, 2010 6:59 am
Love surfin’ the web on your new WP7 device but aren’t too keen on the new mobile version of IE? You’re in luck. A new WP7 browser by the name of “Browser+” was recently released. One special aspect of this 3rd party offering includes being able to see your tabs and search box in the same view, whereas the stock browser makes you hunt and peck a bit. Even more impressive however, is a “reader” feature similar to Apple’s own Safari browser — it strips out elements of the page and neatly display the text in an easy-to-read book/page-like view. The browser itself certainly isn’t all that earth shattering, especially considering Browser+ doesn’t even make use of it’s own unique framework (it’s built off of mobile IE). Nevertheless, options are options.
There are a few bugs here and there. But what new software/mobile app doesn’t have at least one or two these days? Still, that may turn some potential users off. Regardless, be sure to hop inside and check out the video.
You can find Browser+ in the Windows Marketplace for $1. Any WP7 users tried it out yet?
- November 15, 2010 7:37 am
iPhone users whom also frequent Facebook’s digital halls will want to head to the App Store this morning (or night). In there, you will find version 3.3.2 waiting for you. Besides the usual assortment of bug fixes, Facebook has pushed account settings, security settings, and help center support to the app so you don’t have to visit the desktop version of the site to do so. Handy.
- November 10, 2010 3:23 pm
iOS and Android users have been enjoying 45 new levels of Angry Birds over the last couple of weeks. WebOS users, however, have not. An update is near according to @RovioMobile. SO those crying fowl, thinking Rovio was ignoring your OS of choice, chill. They’re working on it.
- November 10, 2010 12:30 pm
When Facebook Places first debuted, it was an iOS-only affair. Android joined the game not too long after. But BlackBerry users have thus far been left out. Thankfully, that streak of solitude now comes to and end. Facebook Places is now live for BlackBerry! The news comes on the heels of news regarding the Facebook for BlackBerry standalone application being updated to version 1.9. Perhaps the greatest thing BB users will enjoy is a pretty similar feature set compared to the iOS and Android counterparts:
- Check in to Facebook Places within a 1.25 mile radius of your location
- GPS and BB Maps Integration
- View Places where friends have checked in
- View Places, “Here Now”, “Nearby” and “Elsewhere”, that friends have checked in to
- Tag and comment on a friend’s check-in/li>
- Select a Place from the available Nearby Places or add a Place if location does not already exist in the Places database
- Check ins will appear in the News Feed
- View a map of the location you’re checking in to and get directions to and from friends’ locations
While I can see the benefit of having your location-based check-in service tied closely with your Facebook friends, Foursquare already integrates rather well into Facebook, and plenty of people are already loyal users. Nevertheless, Facebook Places users is sure to rise as more platforms jump on board.
