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With Apple’s App Store cruising past the incredible landmark figure of 50 billion apps downloaded, the company has released updated lists of its all-time top iPhone and iPad apps.
Apple reveals top 50 apps of all time as App Store hits 50 billion downloads Read More
The quite fabulous Google Now service has now been made available for iOS users, as part of the updated Google Search app.
Google Now comes to the iPhone and iPad, via the Google Search app Read More
The new Sherpa app for Android is an attractive and powerful personal assistant app that mixes up features from Apple’s Siri and Google Now. It’s now available in the UK as a …
Sherpa personal assistant Android app mixes up Google Now and Siri functionality – now available in UK Read More
There’s been a bit of a mad scramble by developers to to promote their rival RSS products given the impending demise of Google’s much loved Google Reader service. Keen to lure over …
Reeder app for Mac and iPad fiven away free for limited period – get in quick Read More
Evernote has announced the latest release of their Android application, with version 5.0 introducing some new features and an updated UI. The app now has a Shortcuts page which pops up when the …
Evernote moves up to version 5 on Android, video shows off new features and practical issues Read More
Born from a Kickstarter project, the Chameleon launcher was originally released as as an alternative launcher for Android tablets. We gave it a go – even though it was quite a pricey purchase …
Chameleon Launcher for Android phones lands in Google Play Read More
We’ve been battling away with different note-taking apps for a long time but – like U2 – we still haven’t found what we’re looking for – so we’re pretty excited …
Google Keep note-taking web and Android app takes on Evernote – review Read More
Now this is annoying. We’ve long been fans of the versatile Android, iOS, and desktop client TweetDeck which immediately became our Twitter client of choice years ago.
Evil Twitter kills off Tweetdeck app to focus on web-based application Read More
We’ve been mightily impressed with the tablet version of Adobe’s top-notch photo editing app Adobe Photoshop Touch, so we’re stoked to see the graphics giant releasing a smartphone version.
Adobe releases Photoshop Touch beefy photo editing app for Android and iOS smartphones Read More
We’ve been big fans of Swiftkey – the third-party keyboard for Android – for a long time now, and have enjoyed trying out the beta of their latest update (known as …
SwiftKey 4 Android keyboard goes on full release and it’s ruddy fantastic [video] Read More
We suspect that the folks at Urbanears may have imbibed a bit too much snort juice when they declared their Slussen to be the “most powerful after-party weapon known to man,” …
Urbanears Slussen DJ iOS app and splitter claims after-party weaponry powers Read More
Fitness freaks keen to feast on facts as they flap along the streets should be jogging with joy at the news that a new Android app from the Fitbit folks …
Fitbit activity tracker app syncs with Android Bluetooth 4.0 devices Read More
It seems we weren’t alone when we encountered all sorts of annoying glitches and performance issues when we used the well-established secure password manager SplashID on our Android and iOS handsets – but we’ve …
Safe In Cloud: finally a password manager that actually works. Goodbye SplashID Read More
If you’re having trouble getting up in the morning, then perhaps the supremely annoying sounds of a bellowing Brian Blessed will do the job.
Wake up to a bellowing Brian Blessed Read More
The Pebble Smartwatch proved to be a Kickstarter phenomenon, managing to raise $10,266,845 in one of the most successful crowd-sourcing projects ever launched.
Pebble Smartwatch Kickstarter sensation ships, Android app ready, iOS held up Read More