Losing a smartphone is a devastating experience. You may not know if your smartphone has been stolen or if it has just fallen into a deep crack in the couch. Your Android may be safe, sound, and powered off, or some thieving goofball could be prying into your deepest, darkest secrets. Google finally got around to making an official Android locating app. It’s called Android Device Manager, and it’s currently available as a free download weeks before it was scheduled to be released.…
Do you fancy learning new languages like German, French, Spanish and Portuguese, all for free and in a fun interactive way? If so, then you’ve got to get your hands on Luis Von Ahn’s latest project, Duolingo. Duolingo is one of the best Android apps to learn or improve on a language you fancy. This ingenious educational app offers extensive language lessons in German, Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese and English to help beginner and intermediate learners perfect their multilingual…
When it comes to financial news, you know there is undoubtedly just one place on the planet to go to – Bloomberg. Financial literacy is critical to our survival in these turbulent markets and recession-struck times. For both amateur and veteran investors, knowledge is an indisputable asset that drives the success of their investments, and those who keep with the financial times 24/7 will always have a leg up on the rest of the market when it comes to making the most profits. Bloomberg is a…
Here’s an app that will take you back to your school days and help you relive those moments of aimlessly scribbling on to a notebook in the middle of a boring class. We grew up to understand the importance of that very notebook and its utility and the actually started taking down notes on it for everyday life. Bamboo Paper is an app whose interface will give you the feel of the same old notebook you used back in your school days. From the makers of the Wacom, the company best known for…
There’s a lot the human mind can remember and a lot it can do. It’s capable of storing almost everything and every experience the human mind has been through. Recollecting these on the other hand is made easier with apps like Wunderlist – the ultimate to do list with integrated features that will set it apart from its peers and competitors on the android market who help you remember tasks and create to-do lists. Wunderlist is an app by Wunderkinder and is its premier app that has made the…
Last week, the International Trade Commission ordered that the iPhone 4 and iPad be banned from U.S. retail shelves because they violated Samsung patents. President Obama vetoed that order, marking the first time since 1987 that a U.S. president interfered with a direct ITC order. Apple praised the decision and said that: “Samsung was wrong to abuse the patent system in this way.” Well guess what. In classic “Pirates of Silicon Valley” fashion, the California company is turning…
The minute you read something that states, “in association with Canon,” you know that the content you are about to witness will be nothing less than a photographic marvel. Knowing things around you is a must and thousands of revolutionary apps on the Android platform are flurrying the market with their noses in front to take controlling stake in the news app market. Everyone is in a high stakes race to ensure that they are at the forefront of information dissemination scene on every major…
Technology has made it possible for children and adults to learn from almost anywhere. With mobile devices being more integrated into classrooms, educators are looking for more ways to apply them to the learning process because these devices can add a whole new dimension to the subjects and make them interesting. For any kind of help that a student needs these days, you can bet that there’s definitely an app for that. Thanks to the imaginative methods used by many developers, the…
Android smart watches are officially a thing. There are a number of Android smart watches available today, but a year from today, there will likely be many more. Samsung is about to launch a product called the Samsung Gear Smartwatch while Sony is already on its second generation of smart watches with the Sony SmartWatch 2. Even Apple may be getting a piece of the smart watch action with a rumored upcoming ‘iWatch’. So why should you care about Android smart watches? Do you really need…
Google released Android 4.3 earlier this year. It was one of the smallest Android updates in recent years, due largely to the fact that it was the third Jelly Bean update after 4.1 and 4.2. Fortunately, Google hasn’t run out of ideas: they were just saving their creative juices for the next big Android update. That Android update has long been rumored to be Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie. And now, we can confirm that Android 5.0 has been spotted in the wild running on the Nexus 4 and Nexus…
