The coolest things for the coolest phones
Music and visual effects go together like wine and cheese, as anyone who’s tried out some of the popular music programs’ visualisations will attest. The cryptically named Ethereal Dialpad attempts to go one step further than your standard run-of-the-mill visualisation though by throwing interactivity into the mix. It’s not the first app to do this, [...]
‘Augmented Reality’, just those two words conjure up William Gibson-esque visions in my head – from futuristic goggles to saying ‘jack into the mainframe’ with a straight face. Augmented realities are a mainstay of Sci-Fi in books, films and games, but it’s just fiction, right? There’s no way to currently layer information gathered from the [...]
Ever wondered just how many of your neighbours are anti-social ne’er do wells? There’s an app for that. Ever since the Blair Government introduced Anti Social Behaviour orders back in 1998, the authorities have been handing them out to happy slappers, vandals, shouty men and other social deviants as though they were going out of [...]
Recognizr is a new app that claims to be able to add facial recognition to any Android phone with a camera. Developed by Swedish coders The Astonishing Tribe, Recognizr will turn your phone into an augmented reality device that can recognise your friends’ faces and link them to contact info and their social networking presence. There [...]
The problem of how best to enter text on a handheld device has seen a variety of solutions – alphanumeric keypads, T9 predictive texting, touch sensitive virtual keyboards and even handwriting recognition. SlideIt Keyboard is another angle on the problem. It’s a sort of mash-up of the last two – a touchscreen that you use [...]
Surrealist comedy duo The Mighty Boosh have launched the Mighty Decider on the App Store, which combines the mystical talents of Naboo, and the slightly less obvious talents of The Moon and Crack Fox among others, to help make decisions in life. The 8-ball styled application developed by Tribal Games features original recordings from the [...]
We are quite fond of the Nokia N97, but even we have to admit that its not the all-sing, all-dancing smartphone extravaganza that Nokia implied it would be. That feeling of disappointment seems to have spread all the way up to the Nokia board room. Nokia’s VP of markets, Anssi Vanjoki has told Mobile Industry [...]
Cocktails are strange and magical alcoholic concoctions. Unlike other high-alcohol beverages like whisky or rum that you crack open and pour out of a bottle, cocktails require a very delicate balancing act of ingredients, meticulously measured up to produce a unique and pleasant taste. They’re also notoriously difficult to pull off successfully without at least [...]
Sky TV has released a mobile app to the Ovi Store. Sky Mobile is a free app for Nokia S60 5th Edition phones that will enable Sky subscribers to watch live Sky Sports and program their Sky+ boxes via their phones, even over 3G. Sky TV released a similar app for the iPhone last year, but [...]
Google launched a mobile version of its Google Earth program on the Android Market yesterday, bringing the popular PC, Mac, Linux and iPhone application to Android 2.1 users across the globe. Unlike the iPhone version of the app, Google Earth for Android adds layers, allowing map overlays from a variety of sources including big name [...]
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