Facebook announced the Facebook Home last week that comes pre-installed with the HTC First. It brings several features including Chat Heads feature. We brought you the hands-on hands-on impressions of the Facebook Home last week, but it didn’t have the chat heads feature, since it was a pre-release version. The Facebook Messenger for Android has received an update to version 2.4.2 today that brings Chat Heads. Continue reading “Facebook Messenger for Android updated with Chat Heads”
Disney UTV’s Indiagames has launched IPL Cricket Fever 2013, the official IPL season 6 mobile game for Android. This game has all the official 9 teams – Mumbai Indians, Chennai Superkings, Hyderabad Sunrisers, Delhi Daredevils, King XI Punjab, Kolkata Knight Riders, Rajasthan Royals, Royal Challengers Bangalore and Pune Warriors. You can play your favourite cricketers including Sachin Tendulkar, Michael Hussey, M.S.Dhoni, Gautam Gambhir, Virendra Sehwag, Adam Gilchrist, Brett Lee, Yusuf Pathan, Kevin Pollard, Lasith Malinga, Dale Steyn and many more. Continue reading “IPL Cricket Fever 2013 game launched for Android”
DailyCost is a simple, yet useful expense tracking app that has intuitive interaction-based functions. It also has statistics on the top that changes according to your expenses every day. You cal pull down to enter the expense from range of categories including Food, Drinks, Groceries, Shopping, Movies, Transport and lots more. You can swipe through to go backward, to a particular date. Continue reading “DailyCost is an expense tracking app for iPhone”
Foursquare for iPhone has been updated to version 6.0 that brings a new check-in button, easier way to explore nearby places, a new slide out drawer to access your Profile & History, To-Do List and more, instead of bottom buttons and a new Maps in the home screen that shows your friends near by, The previous v5.3.5 update for iPhone brought new check-in screen and check-in highlights. Foursquare for Android got these features in an update back in February. Continue reading “Foursquare for iPhone v6.0 brings new check-in button, easier Explore and more”
Google has updated the Chrome Beta browser app to version 27.0.1453.49 that brings new features including full screen support for phones, simpler browsing that shows search terms in the omnibox, instead of the long search URL and the in-page Google search box. Chrome Beta version 26 brought data compression experimental feature, now you can can go to Bandwidth Management in Settings and enable Reduce Data Usage to enable this feature instead of enabling it from chrome://flags/ This version also bring Tab history on tablets. Continue reading “Chrome Beta v27 for Android brings fullscreen support for phones, Tab history on tablets and more”
Cinemagram, one of the popular iPhone apps is finally available for Android. This app lets you record a short looping 4s video, apply effects and share the GIFs to Facebook, Twitter or Tumblr. It has likes, comments, hashtags and more just like Instagram that was launched for Android last year. Cinemagram was launched first on iPhone back in February 2012 for $1.99, and went free after a month. Continue reading “Cinemagram finally arrives for Android”
Viber has launched a new beta version for the BlackBerry OS 5 and OS 7 devices that brigs VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) calling support over WiFi and 3G, as they promised. The Viber for Android had voice calling feature since the launch back in May 2011. Voice calling feature for the Viber app for BlackBerry and Windows phone has been the most expected feature since the first beta release back in May 2012. Viber for Windows Phone 8 got voice calling with HD voice and lots more new features in the latest update earlier this month. Continue reading “Viber beta for BlackBerry brings voice calling finally”
Google has updated Chrome for iPhone and iPad to version 26.0.1410.50 that brings Google Cloud Print and Apple AirPrint support for the browser. Google Cloud Print is already available for Chrome for Android, Google Drive for Android, Gmail Mobile app. Google released the Chrome app for iPhone and iPad last June. Continue reading “Chrome for iPhone and iPad updated with Google Cloud Print and Apple AirPrint support”
Rightware has launched the Basemark X benchmarking tool for Android, iPhone and iPad that would offer high-quality and objective performance information for smartphones and tablets. It is built on Unity 4.0, a real-world gaming engine used in hundreds of mobile games. It has advanced game-like content, including particle effects, advanced lighting effects and post processing. Continue reading “Rightware launches Basemark X Benchmark for Android, iPhone and iPad”
Four Xbox games including Gravity Guy, Monster Island, iStunt 2 and Fragger from Miniclip are now free in the Windows Phone Store for a limited period. All these games usually costs $2.99 / Rs. 160 each. All these games work on Windows Phone 7.5 and above. Temple Run, Gravity Guy 2, Amazing Alex and more games arrived for Windows Phone 8 devices recently. Continue reading “Gravity Guy, Monster Island and more Windows Phone games free for limited time”
Google has announced the new Play Store for Android smartphones and Tablets. The new Google Play version 4.0.25 is a major update from the current version 3.10.14. This update brings a redesigned Holo-inspired user interface with new fonts, bigger images and lots more. This update also lets you discover things faster. The Google Play v4.0 sufaced in a leak last month, that revealed some of the features. Continue reading “Google Play v4.0 announced, brings redesigned UI”
Facebook announced the Facebook Home last week that comes pre-installed with the HTC First. It is expected to launch on Google Play for select Android devices on April 12th, but the pre-release version has been leaked ahead online. The Facebook Home is an Android Launcher with Cover feed that offers photos and updates from your newsfeed, Notifications, Chat Heads, App Launcher to launch Facebook apps and more. Continue reading “Facebook Home beta leaks out ahead of official release”
Gaudi Bruno or Bruno the brown bear is an interactive and narrative story book app for iPad. It is developed by Tales Factory, Italian digital publishing house who creates children’s stories. This tells the story of Bruno and his adventures in an interesting and interactive way. There are three different languages, English, Italian and Spanish to select from. This iPad app is aimed at children from 3-7 years of age. This also reads the book loud in the language you choose, and has interactive elements at several places of the book that would let the kids explore the world of bruno. If you are looking for an interactive story for the iPhone, check out Kitz, the Street Cat, an unique apptoon for kids. Continue reading “Gaudi Bruno for iPad is an interactive story book for Kids”
Evernote has updated their Hello app for iPhone to version 2.1 that brings lot of new features including a Passcode lock for premium users, Flash control that would let you scann glossy cards easier and lots more new features. Evernote introduced option to scan business cards, a premium feature in the previous version of Hello app with 2 months of free usage as a promotion. Now they have increased the free usage for one more month, after that it would be available only for premium users. Continue reading “Evernote Hello v2.1 update for iPhone brings Passcode Lock and more new features”
PhotoCal with Event, is a new application for iPhone and iPad that arrange and view your photos more efficiently, while keeping you up to date on your events. It lets you arrange your images in chronological order and displays them on your monthly calendar view along with all of your upcoming appointments and errands. This app would be much useful to view photos based on a date, since it arranges the images according to the date they were taken and displays them on your monthly calendar view, instead of searching for a picture in the default camera roll. Continue reading “PhotoCal with Event app for iPhone and iPad lets you arrange and view photos in a calendar view”
