Despite the recent Instagram acquisition, Facebook has its own dedicated photo sharing app for the iPhone. The new Facebook Camera app is an easier way to take photos to upload to Facebook, share multiple photos to social network, and view friends’ Facebook photos. The app features Instagram-like features for editing photos, but has a few [...]
Facebook has pushed out a major update for its Windows Phone application that pull the application closer, feature wise, to the versions found on Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android operating system. In a blog post, Microsoft has detailed the software update which brings the version of the Windows Phone application to version 2.5. The update [...]
After the Facebook IPO, or initial public offering, Facebook is valued at over 104 billion dollars, but the Facebook apps for the iPhone, iPad and Android are as awful as ever. Over half of Facebook’s monthly active users use Facebook mobile apps and the mobile web. Read: Facebook IPO By The Numbers That’s 500 million [...]
In case you missed the news on your way to Facebook this morning, the company is worth 104 billion dollars. As Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg rings the NASDAQ opening bell, the opening share price of $38 is expected to climb, just like the number of monthly Facebook users. Up until today, Facebook has been a private company, [...]
Facebook is spinning off another feature into its own iOS app. The new Pages Manager app helps users separate their personal and professional Facebook identities. According to 9To5Mac, New Zealand Facebook users started seeing messages about the app today in the Facebook for iPhone app. The message tells users the new app can help them [...]
Socialcam is a hot new iPhone app that lets users make, watch and share videos. Some are calling Socialcam, Instagram for Video, but I’m calling it annoying and shady. In addition to forcing users to sign up with a Facebook app to watch videos that are shared as well as showing videos you can already [...]
Instagram for Android, one of the more popular applications on the Google Play Store, has received an update today that squashes some pesky little bugs while shoring up reliability on certain devices. This latest update comes just a short time after the Instagram team brought the popular tilt-shift affect and tablet support to Android users. [...]
Facebook users that mostly use mobile apps to access the social network should start seeing a new layout today. The new layout reduces the amount of white space by making photos in the news feed three times larger than they were before. The new design also separates individual status updates and photos by placing them [...]
In an announcement today, Facebook unveiled its App Center, a place where iOS and Android users who use the Facebook app will be able to find and download both free and paid Facebook apps. In addition to being able to download free and paid applications, Facebook users will also be able to find HTML 5 [...]
Just a few weeks after launching on Android, Instagram has grown to over 50 million users. According to Mashable, the Instagram API now says that over 50 million users have already joined the photo sharing service. The app is gaining about 5 million users very week. Two weeks ago, on April 13, Instagram crossed 40 [...]
There are reports that Microsoft may try to spinoff and offload its Bing search engine service as pressures mount from inside and outside Microsoft. The idea is said to be opposed by current CEO Steve Ballmer, who says that Bing is a core strategic asset for the company as it tries to integrate Bing into [...]
The iPhone 5 can’t get here soon enough, but the software that powers the new iPhone is just as important as the hardware itself, and we can expect a look at it in just a few months. iOS 6, the next version of the software that will come to the iPhone 4S and the new iPad, [...]
HTC could be trying its hand at making a Facebook phone once again, this time with the help of Facebook itself. According to Digitimes, HTC and Facebook are working together on a Facebook phone that will launch later this year. Digitimes’ sources say the phone is the first in a line of Facebook-branded phones that [...]
The Facebook for Windows Phone team is listening to users and promises a big update soon. On their own Facebook page this morning, the team announced some of the v2.5 changes that are being tested now. The more important news is that they are reading comments and listening to users. The initial version of Facebook for [...]
Facebook for Android is better than the iPhone app, but it still falls flat on my Galaxy Nexus. That’s where Friendcaster, a premium Facebook app for Android, comes in. After just a day of Friendcaster on Android I’m ready to uninstall the official Facebook app from my Android phone. That’s the sound of me saying [...]
The Facebook app for iPhone is so buggy that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s profile picture has replaced my own in most areas. Maybe Facebook programmers are partaking in 4/20 celebrations today or maybe there’s a glitch in the matrix. Whatever the cause, this is yet another example of Facebook not putting enough resources into its [...]
Instagram came to the Android platform just over one week ago, and it’s already on its third update. This newest update fixes problems on Tegra 3 devices, and adds support for HTC’s newest flagship device. According to The Verge, after a week of waiting, HTC One X users can finally use Instagram to share photos. The [...]
Nokia was just awarded a patent for automatic uploads to social networks, making it easy for users to share their life events with others on various sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, Microsoft Live, and others. As it stands, for example, in order for a user to share a photo with others, they must [...]
Instagram, which was recently bought out by Facebook for $1 billion, has seen its Android application top the five million download mark in the apps first six days of existence on the Google Play Store. The milestone, reported by The Next Web, comes after the application saw one million downloads on its first day on [...]
With iOS 5, Apple integrated Twitter into the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. The integration is great, but some users want more social networks than just Twitter integrated into their phone. For those users there’s the new Jailbreak app, Fusion. Fusion is a $2 app in the Cydia store that was first spotted by iDownloadBlog. [...]
Hot on the heels of Instagram for Android’s release, Facebook announced that it has acquired Instagram for $1 billion in stock options. Instagram is a photo editing and sharing app for Android and iPhone which allows users to apply artistic filters to photos and share them on Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr. Instagram is also a growing social [...]
Skyhook Wireless CEO Ted Morgan says that his company will be part of a “major” non-Google Android smartphone launch at some point this year, however, now, it’s unclear as to who the company behind the launch actually is. Morgan, in comments to Technology Review, stated that Skyhook is going to play a big role in [...]
Last week, I told you about my horrible experiences with Facebook for iPad and how I hoped the issues I had been having with the software would be fixed with the app’s rumored Retina Display update. Well, that update has arrived today and the let me tell you. Facebook for iPad does, indeed look gorgeous [...]
With apps gaining support for the new iPad‘s Retina Display on almost a daily basis, it was only a matter of time before we heard something about Retina Support for the iPad’s Facebook application. MacRumors has acquired an image that seems to indicate that the Retina Support is on the way which is great news [...]
Dropbox, the cloud storage service, just made it a lot easier to share your files with friends on Facebook. You no longer need to know your friends’ email addresses to share files with them, now you just need to friend them on Facebook. Dropbox has added Facebook Connect to its service, so now you just [...]
On March 7th Apple will announce the iPad 3, a new version of Apple’s best-selling tablet. Apple hasn’t confirmed any details about the new iPad or a release date, but that hasn’t stopped schemers from offering up a free iPad 3 to Facebook users. The Apple event invite, shown below, features what may be the [...]
Before filing for an IPO Facebook made quite a few changes to its service, and many of them have taken a long time to reach mobile apps. Today some of those new features have come to the Windows Phone Facebook app thanks to a badly needed update. The Windows Phone Facebook app still follows the [...]
As promised late last month, Rovio finally took the sheet off the newest version of Angry Birds, now for Facebook. Anyone who’s played the game on a smartphone, tablet, in Google Chrome or elsewhere will be able to slide right in to gameplay. But Rovio didn’t just port the game to a new platform. They [...]
When I started seeing posts about this YouTube video in which a father shoots his daughter’s laptop with a gun because she posted something on Facebook he didn’t like, my immediate reaction was not to applaud his actions and shake my fist at the state of youth today like so many other people I saw. [...]
Facebook is pushing out the new Timeline layout to all Facebook users in the next few weeks. If you want to stand out in a crowded sea of mediocre timeline photo layouts, you need to check out this simple tool that will help you create an awesome Facebook timeline photo. If you aren’t familiar with [...]
Here’s a list of mobile apps that will help you get ready for the Super Bowl and help you enjoy the game. I’m not as excited about the Super Bowl this year as I would be if my Packers made it. So I looked for some apps to make the game more enjoyable as I hang [...]
Getting a better job is an ever popular New Year’s Resolution. If you’ve decided that 2012 is your year to make more money, get better benefits or just have a better work life balance, I want to share a collection of iPhone apps and Android apps to help you find a new job in 2o12. [...]
As always this isn’t a list of gadgets, geegaws, accessories, or Apps. This wish list is about things I’d like to see happen in mobile tech in general. As always I’m an impatient old elf and would prefer to see movement here sooner rather than later. Here are links to last year’s wish list as [...]
One interesting tidbit in the Distimo app store report TechCrunch wrote about today is the list at the bottom of the top apps of 2011. The list is based on number of downloads across all major app stores and platforms, and reveals something about what most people use their mobile devices for right now. Of [...]
Yesterday if you were looking at the Lady Gaga Twitter and Facebook pages( it’s OK, I won’t tell), you may have seen an Oprah-esque offer for free iPad 2s and free MacBooks for all of her little Monsters. Sadly, this is all a big scam. Hackers took control of Lady Gag’s Twitter and Facebook accounts [...]
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Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE Review: A Worthy Successor to the Original (Video)
When Sprint had debuted the original WiMax-capable HTC EVO 4G nearly two years ago, it was an instant hit on the Now network. Not only was the HTC EVO 4G the first 4G smartphone in the world taking advantage of Sprint’s then speedy WiMax network, but it brought some new features and pizzazz to the [...]
Last year Toshiba waded into the Android tablet market with the Thrive, a 10.1-inch slate that served as the company’s response to what they deemed missing in the then current crop. Thus, it had several full-size ports, a rugged-ish exterior, and a thick chassis to accommodate both. Though a decent tablet, the Thrive didn’t generate [...]
Samsung Shows That It Is a Software Company
As exciting as it has been to talk, postulate, and speculate about the Galaxy S III’s hardware and specs before the third-generation Galaxy flagship smartphone was announced on May 3rd in London, once the device was announced one thing became apparent: Samsung is now a software company. That doesn’t mean that Samsung is shying away [...]
Autumn Dynasty Review: A Great RTS for the iPad
With its large touchscreen, the iPad seems like the perfect platform for Real Time Strategy games, and Autumn Dynasty proves it, mostly. Autumn Dynasty is an RTS iPad game with art that looks like tradition Chinese painting. The story involves quelling a rebellion while solving a mystery of shady noblemen. The story though, just serves [...]
Griffin GuitarConnect Pro Review: Record Your Jams with Ease
The Griffin GuitarConnect Pro interfaces with your Guitar and your iPad or iPhone so you can record your music easily using apps like Apple’s GarageBand. My son Daniel, who’s learning to play guitar, helped me test it out and he loved it. When he gets as good as Jimi Hendrix, I’m sure he’ll steal my [...]
Google Search App iPhone and iPad Update Looks Beautiful (Video)
Google just delivered a beautiful update to the company’s Google Search app for the iPhone and iPad The Google Search app for iPhone and iPad replaced Safari as my browser of choice, earning a spot in the iPhone and iPad dock. It’s faster and offers a beautiful new full screen image search which looks awesome on the [...]
