Sony releases Xperia Z1’s Timeshift burst app on Google Play, available for select Xperia devices

Sony Xperia Timeshift burst

Sony Mobile has released the Timeshift burst app on Google Play that would let users with select (Xperia Z, Xperia  ZL,  Xperia Z Ultra and Xperia  Tablet Z) Xperia users to use the feature. This app captures 61 frames in 2 seconds starting even before you press the shutter, just like HTC One. Once it is captured, you can scroll back and forth to select the perfect image. It also comes pre-loaded in new smartphones such as Xperia T2. Continue reading “Sony releases Xperia Z1’s Timeshift burst app on Google Play, available for select Xperia devices”

Todoist Next update for Android and iOS brings Collaboration, Visual scheduling and more

Todoist Next for iPhone

Todoist To-do-list app gets a new Todoist Next update for Android, iPhone and iPad, that brings a new streamlined design, lots of new features such as collaboration, visual scheduling and more. The to-do list app is now available for 13 platforms. The collaboration feature is free, which is definitely one of the best features compared to other To-Do List or Task List apps. Continue reading “Todoist Next update for Android and iOS brings Collaboration, Visual scheduling and more”

VLC media player 2.2 for iPhone and iPad brings iOS 7 UI refresh and new features

VLC 2.2 for iPhone and iPad

VideoLAN brought the VLC media player back to Apple iTunes Store last year. Since then the app has been updated gradually, now the app received a major update that brings a new UI for  iOS 7 and a lot of new features including Google Drive integration, Dropbox streaming, better WiFi upload and lots more. VLC for iOS7 was first demoed back in November last year. Continue reading “VLC media player 2.2 for iPhone and iPad brings iOS 7 UI refresh and new features”

Rightware launches Basemark OS II for Android, iPhone, iPad and Windows Phone 8

Basemark OS II

Rightware has launched the Basemark OS II cross-platform benchmarking tool for Android, iPhone, iPad and Windows Phone 8.  It is built on Rightware’s own engine (BOS2Engine) and includes performance tests for system operations, permanent storage reading/writing, 2D/3D graphics rendering and web browser features across all 3 major mobile platforms. Continue reading “Rightware launches Basemark OS II for Android, iPhone, iPad and Windows Phone 8”

Google Chrome for Android and iOS gets data compression, Translate coming soon to iOS

Google Chrome for Android and iPhone data compression

Google has updated its Chrome browser for Android and iOS devices that brings data compression and bandwidth management. This lets you help you reduce data usage, which can reduce data usage by up to 50% while browsing on-the-go. This uses Chrome’s Safe Browsing technology that helps protect you from malicious webpages, says Google. Opera Mobile for Android already has this feature called Off-Road mode with built-in Opera Mini compression. Continue reading “Google Chrome for Android and iOS gets data compression, Translate coming soon to iOS”

CyanogenMod GalleryNext Beta for Android released

CyanogenMod GalleryNext Beta

CyanogenMod team has released beta version of CyanogenMod GalleryNext, a new gallery app for Android. Apart from the gallery, the app has cloud service integration, automatic grouping, gif support, video playback and more. AOSP Gallery shipping with CM currently is severely lacking. we sought to address that, says CyanogenMod. It also plans to add new features including editor support in future versions. Check out the complete list of features and upcoming features below. Continue reading “CyanogenMod GalleryNext Beta for Android released”

Seven Disney Games are free on Windows Phone Store for a limited time

Disney games have been popular on the Windows Phone platform and just after the New Year, the company has made seven of its games free for a limited time on the Windows Phone store. The Windows Phone store definitely isn’t the most popular platform for developers or consumers, but is catching up pretty fast. In what seems like a strategy to boost the downloads, Disney are giving away seven games for free(only for a limited time).

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The following games are free for a limited time on the Windows Phone Store

The total worth of these games is around 15 bucks and today is your lucky day – go download them all for free.

Among the games that are on sale, the physics based puzzle games – Where’s My Water?, Where’s My Mickey? and Where’s My Perry? are usually available for USD$0.99. The other games Monsters University and Wreck-It Ralph are also usually priced at USD$0.99. The other two games – Avenger’s Initiative and Toy Story: Smash It! are priced at USD$4.99 and now are completely free. For the folks envying about offers in both Play Store and App Store, this is a great time to go download some cool games for free.

Facebook rumored to launch Flipboard competitor Paper this month

Flipboard for iPad

Facebook would launch Paper, a news reader app for mobile devices in coming weeks, according to a report from Re/code. The company launched a redesigned messenger app recently for both Android and iOS with a flatter design. Google launched Google Currents back in 2011 to compete with Flipboard, but it didn’t do well. Later the app got transformed into Google Play Newsstand that also includes magazine subscriptions. Continue reading “Facebook rumored to launch Flipboard competitor Paper this month”

UC Browser 9.5 for Android brings new features, Tamil and Telugu support

UC Browser 9.5 for Android

UCWeb has updated UC Browser for Android to version 9.5 that brings  support for more languages including Tamil and Telugu, improved performance, faster downloads, fonts on web pages, Web Application Center, Image Viewer for webpages and lots more. Version 9.4 brought upgraded Speed Mode, Auto Pager, Hindi support and more. Continue reading “UC Browser 9.5 for Android brings new features, Tamil and Telugu support”

Yahoo’s beautiful News Digest app for iOS is Summly, enhanced!

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Yahoo’s mission for today’s CES 2014 keynote was literally this – simplifying daily habits. One of them, according to Marissa Mayer, CEO, was daily news and the way we consume it. It’s a total information overload, with multiple news sources reporting the same news, according to Yahoo, so to fix that, they have announced a new app for the iPhone, called the Yahoo News Digest. This is basically the result of the Summly acquisition that happened during March last year, because the resulting app is striking and beautiful, very much like Summly, the very unique news summarizing app that was. Nick, Summly’s founder who got acquired by Yahoo in the process, demoed the new app, based on the same principles of news collection and short summaries that made Summly popular, but this takes that concept further.

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Apple App Store sales top $10 Billion in 2013, Now has more than 1 Million Apps

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Apple has just announced that they have achieved $10 billion sales on the App Store in 2013 . Customers have downloaded almost 3 billion apps in December alone since it is the holiday season, an all time record in the App Store history that made $1 billion revenue in the month. Apple has paid $15 billion to their developers. Continue reading “Apple App Store sales top $10 Billion in 2013, Now has more than 1 Million Apps”

Google acquires Timely Android Alarm Clock app maker Bitspin

Bitspin Timely

After several reports, Bitspin has confirmed that Google has indeed acquired the markers of Timely alarm clock app for Android. It also announced that the app is now free forever, including in-app purchases. It would work with Google to build new apps. These companies did not reveal the price of the deal. Continue reading “Google acquires Timely Android Alarm Clock app maker Bitspin”

Carbon for Twitter gets a makeover

Carbon, one of the popular third party Twitter clients has recently received a massive overhaul. Carbon is considered one of the better Twitter clients because of its buttery smooth UI and minimal design. The Carbon team pushed the version 2 just in time for New Year and it brought along a major redesign.

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The starting screen that you see is your timeline. Swiping right takes you to the mentions and swiping right once more takes you to the direct messages. This is the basic structure of the application and it makes it quite easy and smooth to navigate between them. You can swipe up or down with two fingers to reach the top or bottom of the timeline respectively. This can be particularly useful if you want to go back to the top after checking out a lot of tweets.

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A single click on the tweet will make the links, hashtags and mentions clickable. It also displays a quick action menu that lets you retweet, favorite or share the tweet. When you double tap a tweet, it will let you edit and retweet it. Swiping right from edge brings the favorites menu that has your favorites, retweets and recent searches. You can compose a new tweet with the + sign along with your display picture on the bottom right corner. The latest redesign also changed the way a profile is display and the new look is just gorgeous. Clicking on the Profile picture at the bottom right reveals a small menu with the settings icon and links to your profile.

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Do you use Carbon? If not, are you willing to try? Do let us know what you think in the comments below.

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Sony launches My Cloud app for Android devices

Sony MyCloud

Taking a break from the usual routine of releasing smartphones, Sony is now launching an Android app – My Cloud. Sony’s My Cloud application hopes to be your one stop app for connecting all your cloud accounts. At launch, Sony’s My Cloud application lets you connect with three services – DropBox, Box and Tonido. Continue reading “Sony launches My Cloud app for Android devices”

Hike messenger for Android updated with Chat Themes

Hike for Android Chat Themes

Hike cross-platform messaging app for Android from Bharti SoftBank has been updated to version 2.7.0 that brings new Chat Themes. This option lets users set images as their chat backgrounds. It comes bundled with 20 preset backgrounds and has option to download more backgrounds. The two-way chat theme feature allows either of the users to set or change the background anytime during the chat and is also applicable to group chats. Continue reading “Hike messenger for Android updated with Chat Themes”