It is no secret that RIM is gunning for its revamped BlackBerry OS to occupy third place among mobile platforms (behind iOS and Android). To this end, the struggling company — in particular Alec Saunders, RIM VP of Developer Relations — has been making a strong push to lure developers in droves. While we can’t …
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With the long-awaited unveiling of BlackBerry 10 finally coming later this week, it’s no surprise that we are hearing a lot of chatter about app developers planning to bring their work to the new platform. The latest to join the club is OoVoo, the free voice, video, and text-messaging app that has for some time been available on Android and …
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The folks behind the increasingly popular Falcon Pro Twitter client for Android have managed to push one last app update out the door before the new year, and it’s not all about bug fixes. Version 1.4 of the slick client brings a host of new features, including double-tapping on tweets and a log-out button. See the full changelog below. Added …
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Related stories BlueStacks ports Android apps to Mac BlueStacks goes Metro with Windows 8 Latest BlueStacks ARMs your PC After launching to public alpha back in June of this year, BlueStacks for Mac today advances to beta. This means that Mac users are one step closer to accessing a chunk of Google Play’s Android-apps catalog on their Apple-made desktops and …
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Related stories RIM teases with new BlackBerry 10 image BlackBerry 10 goes ‘gold’ for developers BlackBerry 10 will launch on January 30, RIM says According to leaked slides posted to CrackBerry’s reader forums, RIM’s upcoming device running BlackBerry 10 will include video chatting and screen sharing through BBM. The images have since been removed, but the folks at BGR were …
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By way of a new staff-curated page on Google Play, Google lists its picks for best apps of 2012. Titles include big-name hits like Pinterest and Evernote, as well as more-obscure choices like Ancestry and Grimm’s Show White. Overall, I find the list a bit underwhelming, but since it is composed solely of staff recommendations (and not best sellers), there’s …
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Editors’ note: Price of the app has been corrected. Meet Press, a slick new app for keeping up with your RSS subscriptions on your Android device. It syncs to your Google Reader account and presents all of your articles in a well designed package, with an attractive typeface and dead simple navigation. Perhaps the best thing about Press is its …
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It seems like almost immediately after news broke of Instagram’s updated terms of use policy, the hip photo-based social app became a lot less cool. Droves of Instagram users have been crying bloody murder, and many are already committing themselves to jumping ship. Dramatics aside, the reality is that Instagram is not irreplaceable. We Android users should know, since until …
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As of today, Snapseed, one of the more unique photo-editing apps for desktop and iOS, is officially available for Android. After enjoying much success on other platforms and even getting acquired by Google in September, it was only a matter of time before this increasingly popular product would make its way onto the Mountain View titan’s own mobile OS. Snapseed …
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Released yesterday, Adblock Plus for Android offers a no-nonsense way to completely remove ads from your mobile computing experience. Simply download and install the app, and let it run behind the scenes. From there, you should notice that display ads, video ads, push notifications, and even many in-app ads are no more. Related stories Adblock Plus for Mozilla Firefox Adblock …
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