Apple Marketing Senior Vice President, Philip Schiller has reportedly deleted his Instagram account post the developers came up with an Android application. However, according to a reply in an email from Philip, he clearly said that there are variety of reasons why he decided to quit using Instagram any further. One of them is the lack of small community which used to share their photographs on the servers. Due to which the user experience has been completely changed. It’s not the same that he had experience before.
Also, Philip Schiller added in the email that the sole reason is the signal to noise ratio lately. The whole of the debate started when @pschiller DM’d over twitter that Instagram “jumped the shark” when it went to Android. It clearly shows that Philip Schiller was not happy with the developers to pull an application for Android as well. Perhaps, he felt that it was not necessary at all when the application was doing exceptionally well on App Store. Many times, it had won the recognition of “app of the year”. [click to continue…]
Initially priced at $2.99, Read it later became one of the must have application for many people. The ability to save articles, videos, web pages etc for the later use made really simple and handy. Recently, the application has been relaunched to be called ‘Pocket’ with a redesigned UI and many new features. Doesn’t matter if you are on a tablet, smartphone or a computer, save from one device for the later read and access from anywhere through the application.
In addition to saving articles from the web, you can save articles for the later read from various other applications such as Zite, Flipboard, twitter and pulse. Once you have made your account and logged in to the application, you would find the user interface eye soothing and filled with tutorials on how you could save articles from different sources.  Also, tagging, favoriting and editing are some of the new features of the pocket application. [click to continue…]
Few days ago when we got a prompt reply from the official twitter account of Beejive that the application for iPad  is in the works, we were pretty much sure that the update would be released soon. Today, when we were going through the list of apps in the App Store which were due for the update, we came across the BeejiveIM for iPad. Finally, the application is now updated to support Retina display graphics for the new iPad and various bug fixes.
Since the day i have owned an iPhone and started exploring several Instant Messengers, i have been a fan of BeejiveIM application. Although the application is priced at $9.99 and continued to be priced consistently excluding sales on some special occasions, it has been in the top charts of the social networking category of App Store. However, there has always been competitors which compete with the application head to head, the Beejive application has remained one of its kind. [click to continue…]
Even though there’s no tablet available in the market which would let you experience the Windows 8 Metro UI, some developers have come up with a solution to run it on iPad. Yes, this application is fully functional and works flawlessly on the world’s top selling tablet. Don’t worry, this is not a hack or any illegal way. Fortunately, you would be able to turn your iPad into a Windows 8 based tablet using an application called – ‘testbed’.
The only complication is that you would require to connect your iPad with PC/Mac if you want to run Metro UI on iPad. Nevertheless, for the same purpose, you should have Windows 8 installed on the PC/Mac. On PC, the procedure is simple. All you need is do is to boot it up from an image or a bootable disk after burning it on a DVD or Pen drive. Whereas, on Mac, you could use bootcamp or Parallel desktop (if it’s supported) to run it on a partition. The consumer preview can be downloaded from the Microsoft website for free. [click to continue…]
Well, it was already expected that Max Payne Mobile would hit iOS devices on 12th of April followed by an Android version two weeks later. When it’s 12th April in most of the countries, the game had made its way onto the respective App Stores. At first, the game was released in New Zealand App Store and now, it’s available in majority of the countries including United States.
Max Payne Mobile is a shooter game which gained its popularity from the PC and gaming consoles. But it’s assumed that it would conquer the heart of many people the same way it did on other platforms on iOS devices as well. If we simply jump over to screenshot, we would realize that graphics looks really promising and attractive. Also, it supports the retina display iPad from the very first day of its release. So the new iPad users need not to worry about the support and start enjoying the gameplay today in HD.
Zuckerberg has shared a message on his Facebook wall and Kevin writes his feelings on the Instagram blog. Facebook has acquired Instagram. The popular photo sharing app / network was always seen as a parallel network to Facebook that is dedicated to photo sharing, however with Facebook deciding to acquire Instagram, the first thing on our mind is, will Instagram be merged into Facebook? And the answer is No. Both Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Kevin of Instagram have confirmed that Instagram would stay as it is and would keep growing independently. [click to continue…]
You must have surely played Max Payne on your PC/Mac or gaming consoles. Now, the Rockstar games have decided to extend the Max Payne series to mobile devices as well. The game would hit iOS devices on April 12th followed by Android devices on April 26th, according to a report from iLounge. Through the screenshots, the game on a mobile device looks promising and impressive.
Even though Rockstar games have brought their one of the most popular game called ‘Grand Theft Auto: China Wars’ on iOS & Android devices, it was not able to live up to the expectation of many people. The overall experience was merely different from PC/Mac and various consoles available in the market. Similar to other games on mobile platforms, players might need to use the virtual analog and three buttons to perform actions. [click to continue…]
Do you remember when Apple demoed a real-time counting of 5 billion apps download at WWDC where one application was falling over the top of another randomly? Now you can have the same experience on your iPad with the help of a twitter client called ‘Crest’. Crest is an altogether different approach to view your twitter timeline in the form of falling people from the top to bottom, one over the another randomly. Though it offers limited functionality, but the gestures have been made really simple.
Once you open the Crest application, you would be thrown with a tutorial. Just read the tutorial on how to control the application using gestures. However, even if you skip the tutorial, it won’t cause you much harm. The application is really intuitive and requires a negligible effort to understand it completely. Enter your twitter credentials when prompted. Unfortunately, it doesn’t link itself with the system integration of twitter in iOS. So, you would need to enter them manually.
As soon as you have surpassed that login page, you would see a completely black screen. Now the Crest application would fetch data from twitter and boom! you would see icon of people from your twitter timeline falling onto your screen. Depending on the orientation, those icons would fall from top to bottom. If you want to read a tweet, tap on the icon and it would appear instantly. But don’t confuse yourself about the way in which those icons have been arranged. The arrangement of twitter timeline is absolutely random. Hence there’s not a way to figure out who tweeted first until everything is loaded perfectly and timeline slows down. [click to continue…]
Despite the fact that Sparrow for iPhone was released sometime ago, there was not support for the push notifications. And the reason was assumed to be the Apple restrictions. However, no official words came up from the developer team until now. Today, they have updated the application with some more new features including the support for an integrated web browser. It means that you would not require to navigate to separate application, preferably safari, if you click on some link in an email.
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Other features include send and Archive, ability to empty the trash & spam, dock badge preference, show hide labels as well as folders & attach a file while forwarding messages. Although the push notification is not supported yet, but you can use a tweak via Cydia to enable the service. Needless to say, the sparrow team is working really hard to use push notification in their application. Even if Apple has some restrictions in Push API, they are trying to partner with other people to pass it in the next version. [click to continue…]
Truth to be told, there are lots of Android users who prefers Handcent SMS application from the market over the default application. It might be one of the reason for the developers to push it on iPhone as well. Now, the application is also available for download on iOS unofficially, that is, from JailBreak Store (Cydia). Handcent SMS application is known due to its amazing interface on Android, but it seems that the expectations have not been fulfilled on iPhone.
We played with the application for couple of minutes, tried sending and receiving the messages. And figured out that the application is in tad early stages which you can see through the current version – 1.0.0. Sometimes, while navigating inside the Handcent SMS application, it crashed for us. Also, the lags when you flicker inside a specific thread are normal. However, in terms of the functionality  when compared with that of the default application, Handcent SMS application serves the purpose completely.
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