If you need a reminder that Google can still make cool stuff, check out their latest app for iOS and Android: Google Currents. It's pretty much a Flipboard clone in that the app turns web content (news sources, rss feeds, etc.) into a slick digital magazine with awesome visuals.
Tell your friends. Tell all your friends. The world's most famous pointy-eared psychotic has emerged from the shadows of the App Store, ready to dispense some two-fisted vigilante justice to the criminal underworld of Gotham City. One question, though. Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?
Hot new video game streaming service OnLive has been hacked on to Android before. Now there's an official app, giving Android owners the chance to join the disc-free streaming service.
Instagram. It's one of the iPhone's most popular apps—50 million users just a year after launch—probably our favourite social network, and the envy of Android users worldwide. However, at the Paris LeWeb conference today, Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom announced—again—that a team is working to port the app to Android OS. Promises, promises.
Step aside, Schwarzenegger. Jog on, Stallone. There's a new action hero in town. Major Mayhem is lantern of jaw and brick of brain, and he likes to approach complex international affairs with two diplomats named Smith and Wesson. And YOU, lucky player, you get to be his guide through three worlds of bullet-riddled carnage.
BBC Worldwide has recently released an iPad app it calls Top Gear News. It's a mixture of standard car news and your "your favourite clips" from the popular BBC man magazine programme.
Popular UK-based music shopping service 7digital revealed some of its future plans last night, which include the launch of a fully featured Windows Phone app early in 2012.
Zynga's popular mobile word puzzle game has earned itself the sort of publicity money can't buy, with actor Alec Baldwin preferring to get himself kicked off an American Airlines flight than stop playing Word With Friends.
The new iBooks 1.5 is out. It's great. It has a nighttime mode to make reading books in the dark easier on the eyes and full-screen layout with none of the stupidly gimmicky backdrop. Just beautiful typography. More useful features:
Another day, another gaming app festooned with zombies. But it has to be said, what an utterly splendid name – Corpse Granny. Say it aloud next time you're in the vicinity of a Daily Mail reader. Give it some gusto, and then innocently show them the app. They might just keel over with indignation.
Anybody who's worked in a cubicle is familiar the Outlook Request Read Receipt — that horrid popup that demands you confirm you have indeed read (and summarily deleted) the TPS report Ted from accounting had sent out. Now, Tout, a new email tracking app, does the same. Huzzah?
Budget airline EasyJet is about to launch a mobile app, designed to give customers a full booking service through their phones.
Ever considered a glamorous career as a private military contractor? No? But think of all the perks; you get to shoot mindless zombies, stock up on valuable secret intel, and collect all the first aid kits, upgrades and ammo you could possibly eat. At least, that's the prospectus according to Extraction: Project Outbreak.
With scant regard for the electricity bill, or the harm it's doing to the planet, we plan to sleep with the lights on for the next three months. Why? Because we've just had a couple of rounds with Elder Sign: Omens. By golly, this game is frightening, packed to the gills with demons, ghouls and other unspeakable fiends inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft.
Although phone manufacturers have been distancing themselves from the Carrier IQ furore, there are plenty of other pieces of software that could be tracking you, too.
There's box-office, and then there's BOX-OFFICE. The original Infinity Blade is something of a benchmark for the graphical capabilities of the iOS platform, its signature bouts of duelling rendered with a blend of epic fantasy and lyrical beauty. One year and countless plaudits later, no-one is surprised to see the release of a sequel. Is Infinity Blade II going to be a bland retread, or will it improve on the original?
