SwiftKey has always been one of the best keyboards on the market. However, I’ve always preferred to swipe rather than tap so I always gravitated towards keyboards like Swype. When I found out that SwiftKey was going to be releasing a swipe style keyboard I was super excited and downloaded it right away. Ever since…
Man, I love this news. Google+ has replaced Twitter as the world’s number 2 social network, based on the amount of active users. As of the fourth quarter of 2012, G+ has accumulated 343 million active users. This is still quite a bit less than Facebook’s 693 million active users, but what’s significant is the…
You know that voice assistant that many in the Android camp have come to hate and mock? Yes, we’re talking about Siri. Well it turns out that it was almost a exclusive app for Verizon’s Droid products. The story goes something like this: a long time ago a team of developers came together and an…
Android will see a new challenger in the browser space soon with the upcoming release of Opera Ice. You may be familiar with Opera Mini, the browser that utilizes the company’s Presto Engine, pushing all content through a server optimizing mobile websites for users. Although not abandoning Opera Mini entirely, chief executive Lars Boilesen acknowledged…
The folks over at XBMC for Android have released a non-official build of the popular media center software promising a more user-friendly experience compared to what we’ve seen in the past. XBMC is famous for its media streaming capabilities and metadata-scraping add ons. In addition to being able to play any kind of video in…
If you are looking for more than the free 2GB of online storage available from Dropbox, 5GB from Google Drive, and the 7GB offered by Microsoft’s SkyDrive, you definitely need to check out MediaFire. For those of you hearing of the company for the first time, all new users since July 2012 have been receiving…
One of the worst things that can happen to your phone is losing all your information without any backup to restore from. Now the nice thing with Android is that some of your key information, such as your contacts, can be set to automatically back up to your Gmail account. Text messages and call logs…
Google has released its beta channel for Chrome for Android, containing some of the browser’s most significant developer updates since its unveiling last June. Google is promising the same speed increases and other optimization features found in Chrome’s desktop versions, including notable improvements when tested by the Octane performance benchmark. Expect a 25-30% speed boost….
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