There are two kinds of people: those whom soccer completely captures their imagination, and those who don’t. Both types, however, will like ‘The Football Playbook’, a FREE game of tactical soccer that accomplishes something remarkable: transforming soccer into an enjoyable and quite addictive touchscreen puzzle game. →
Viber comes to Windows and Mac, allows free calls and texts from the desktop
Watch out Skype, for Viber just might eat your lunch. Viber’s simple innovation was to combine VOIP with your contact list on your mobile, letting you make calls and SMS’s for free over WIFI (or a data connection). The obvious next step: a Skype style desktop →
Create and publish your own personal polls, with InstaPoll for iPhone
Which is it: Android or iOS? Barca or Real? Coke or Pepsi? Blue or Red? If you’d like to design your very own such dichotomous poll and send it out for people to answer via SMS or email (and to iPhone users who have installed a →
zeZebra: right-click to share extremely large files on PC, Mac, iOS, and Android
Two things we love: powerful functions in the Windows right click menu, and easy ways to transfer large files. ZeZebra is free software that combines both, but it is not your typical file file hosting ‘upload’ service; rather, it installs as a desktop client and lets →
Get that ‘retro’ image look on your desktop, iOS, or Android, with XnRetro
If you want that ‘Instagram’ retro photograph look for some of the many images on your destkop, then check out XnRetro, a free program available for Windows, Linux, and Mac, as well as mobile desktop apps for Android and iOS. XnRetro is as as simple as →
Create a text adventure and publish as a desktop or mobile app for free, with Quest
Do you remember games like Zork, Beuracracy, Infidel, and all those other great text adventures? Remember choose your own adventure novels? Ever wished you could create awesome interactive stories like that, and better? If so, you should check out Quest, free software that can help you →
Yahoo launches a beautiful FREE weather app for Android and iOS
‘Yahoo Weather’ is a free weather app that displays beautiful pictures from Flickr for the place you are checking the weather for, and that reflect the weather and the ‘mood’ of the moment. The app displays the kind of information you would expect: temperature highs and →
iPhone has largest share of mobile security vulnerabilities, study finds
A new study entitled “25 Years of Vulnerabilities” by security firm Sourcefire released in March attributes 81% of instances of mobile malware to the iPhone and iOS, compared to 9% for Android, 6% for Windows phones, and 4% for Blackberry. It draws on two sources: the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) as →
Will ‘The Minuum Keyboard’ live up to the hype?
It’s a simple concept: take the three rows of letters that constitute the QWERTY keyboard and consolidate them into one, then touch-type as you normally would.The software will then guess your intent, so you don’t actually have to hit the right letters. It apparently works, and →
How to send ebooks and documents to Kindle or Kindle mobile app WIRELESSLY
So you have some ebooks or documents on hard drive, but how to transfer these to your Kindle or your iPad Kindle app or other device? Typically, you would need to attach the device to the PC via a USB cable, but wouldn’t be easier to →
InFocus Pro: an iPhone task manager with calendar integration and hand drawn input support
Are you looking for a good task-management app for your iPhone that can manage different projects? If so, you should try Infocus Pro, a nifty little app that allows you to manage your tasks, add meetings to and events to your calendar, as well as take →
‘Listen’ to print articles and RSS feeds on-the-go as MP3 podcasts, with SoundGecko
Do you like reading articles but just don’t have the time? Would it be more convenient to LISTEN to the many articles you want to read as podcasts on your daily commute? That’s where modern technology comes in to bring us programs like SoundGecko. No, it’s →
