There's going to be one big difference between the downloaded Facebook Home and the one that arrives pre-loaded on the HTC First -- Notifications. The HTC First eats them all up and spews them out in the Facebook Home style, but the downloadable launcher for other phones can't intercept the standard Android news updates. Read More >>
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"Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Without root, you need to have an accessibility service (Pebble smartwatch does this) which complicates things way beyon..." More »
Facebook is notorious for testing all sorts of wild and crazy ideas before implementing them site wide — assuming they ever even make it that far. So, for the sake of everyone's sanity, we hope that this newest venture will soon make its way to The Graveyard of Horrible Facebook Features Past, and join the others. Because an iOS notification begging you to post an update (any update!) is perhaps one of the most annoying things Facebook has tried to subject us to yet. Read More >>
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"But the for browser one, you have to be on Facebook anyway. If you're on Facebook, I don't see why you'd be averse to being made aware that someone is..." More »
Because batteries enjoy dying so much when we really need that last little bit of juice, low battery warnings really should be more animated than the plain "20 per cent of battery remaining". I don't know how many times I've ignored that message. But if the alert made fun of me and said something like, "Oh I'll just charge it tonight" You idiot, then my God I would listen to it so much more. Read More >>
The interesting little Pebble smartwatch has been turbocharged by a clever coder, who's developed a way of giving it full access to all iPhone notifications. But you need a "jailbroken" Apple phone to fully exploit its power. Read More >>
If you're using Chromium on Windows, you can now get a notification centre. The feature's just in the developmental stage right now, but it could lead to some neat creations with Chrome that tie it closer to the Android operating system. Read More >>
If there's one thing that really grates on me about iOS on the iPhone it's the notifications. They were much improved in iOS 5, but compared to Android, they're just backwards. Not if this awesome-looking concept became a reality, though. Come on Apple, make it happen. Read More >>
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