Google Maps is the world’s best navigation and mapping app (sorry Apple Maps and Nokia Maps). With the latest update, Google Maps got a lot better at planning out the best route to your destination. Google Maps has now integrated Waze traffic reports into Google Maps. What does that mean? Waze is a real-time traffic report service that delivers information on traffic incidents and accidents around your city. With Waze integration, Google Maps will now alert you to any incidences along…
Android 4.4 is officially a thing for Nexus 5 owners. For the rest of us, it’s not a ‘thing’ and it won’t be a ‘thing’ for a while. Nevertheless, the Nexus 5 has some cool Android 4.4-exclusive features that might be worth an upgrade – especially if you haven’t upgraded your phone in a long time. 5) You can create unlimited home screen panels Some people only use two or three home screens. Other people fill up every single home screen with useful information and apps.…
Android 5.0 was rumored to be the next version of Android for quite some time. After Android 4.3 was released, people figured that Google was gearing up for a big release for Android 5.0, which, as everybody knew, was going to be called Key Lime Pie because what other dessert starts with ‘K’? No other dessert starts with ‘K’ without being trademarked, which is why everybody figured that Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie was a lock. And then Google teamed up with Nestle to make Android 4.4 Kit…
The LG G2 will be remembered as one of the best Android smartphones of 2013. Alongside the HTC One, Note 3, GS4, and Xperia Z, the LG G2 is one of the bestselling devices of the year. Want to get more out of your LG G2? Here are some tips and tricks you can implement today for a better Android experience: Use the ‘Show Desktop’ shortcut One of the most useful buttons in Windows History is the Show Desktop button (Windows Key + D). It instantly minimizes all your programs and shows your…
Get Rid of Those Pesky App Notifications with Notif Are you an app junkie who can’t help himself whenever you see a good app trending on Google Play. Unfortunately, the cold hard truth is that you might not always need it or use it and end up dumping it from your app collection in favor of another novelty app that catches your fancy in the future. Some of you just like knowing it’s silently lingering around in your phone just in case you need to use it in the future. This nonchalant…
We all know that radio’s role as a news and information disseminator has been dying a slow death for the past few decades as it just can’t keep pace with its competitors on the information highway. Surprisingly, the emergence and growing popularity of podcasts has served as a powerful alternative model for radioheads to switch over to and access a whole new dimension of on-demand content. Podcasts abandon the conventional touch-and-go Q&A interview formats in favor of having an…
Hipmunk Hotels & Flights - The Complete Tour Package Nowadays the online travel business is really booming. There are a million website all offering you different deals and different prices for the same flights and same hotels. You want the best deal. You want to pay as little as you need to for the best of the best services. You want to know what your options are but it is physically exhausting if you have to sit around and cross-reference these sites so you can get an accurate idea of…
Make the Dark Come Alive with Nightsky As an Android user and a proud one at that, there are these moments that you enjoy calling yourself a part of the clan. Sometimes simple due to the sheer dexterity that it hones in its outlay and sometimes in what it provides to you, the user in terms of the interface, the games and what it does to you and the world around you. The later taking centre stage in this one introduces the game Night Sly to you. A game, as an Android user, every single one of…
Still relying on primary methods of keeping track of the weather, are you? Stop now! Go the Android way and upgrade to an app that is designed to be your very own pocket weather Nostradamus. Except that it is a lot more accurate than Nostradamus. Radar Now is an intuitive and user-friendly weather app that is for the Android phones and deals exclusively with weather. The weather image presented through Radar Now is not like on conventional apps, it is an animate radar image so it adds some…
Food – the all so important thing in our lives that has proved its worth in our lives for years has finally begun to harness the attention of foodies and connoisseurs across the world that it rightfully deserves. The passion for culinary perfection and experimenting with exotic cuisines is not just a discussion limited to the tables of aristocrats, but is being cherished by food lovers from all walks of life. Its importance today is not only inside our stomachs, but outside it as well. With…
