While the functional features of most sophisticated smartphone apps are excellent and varied, many of them cause an excessive phone battery drainage. In what follows, readers will be acquainted with a few actions that can improve the energy performance of mobile applications. Are you in the habit of downloading plenty of free gaming apps and… Read More »
To create and share wireframes and prototypes of advanced, personalized smartphone apps, developers typically use a series of software tools. Some of the tools that have been tried and tested for wireframe creation have been highlighted here. While designing custom mobile applications, it is of essence for professional developer companies to keep their clients… Read More »
During the last year, both Google Now and Siri showed significant improvements in terms of command-recognition accuracy. In terms of reports, the improvements in the former have been higher than those in Apple’s virtual assistant. We here present a few guidelines to use Google Now in the best possible manner. Google Now, the highly-regarded virtual… Read More »
Among iPhone-users, Siri is already a rage – but can the virtual mobile assistant become even better? It definitely can, and here’s how! We have already dwelled on the enormous range of tasks that Siri – the virtual assistant on iPhone – can perform for users. The ready wit and humor that has been… Read More »
It’s birthday time, and that too of an entity all of us are very much familiar with. Mac was launched in late-January 1984 – and on its 30th b’day, we take a trip down memory lane about some facts associated with it. When Steve Jobs presented the Apple Macintosh on the 24th of January,… Read More »
Obtain a Facebook App ID If you haven’t already registered your app with Facebook by creating a Facebook app, you can create a new app on the App Dashboard. In the App Dashboard, select Apps > Create an app: And fill in the information: On the ‘Settings’ page, set the ‘Native or Desktop App?’, ‘Social Discovery’… Read More »
Since its release late last year on the Google Nexus 5, Android Kitkat has managed to garner a pretty respectable device distribution figure. The following discourse is focused to familiarize you with some salient features of the latest mobile OS version of Android. Google Android has this strange tradition of naming all its versions… Read More »
Although the basic security features of Apple handsets are more than reliable, it is still a smart option to get an additional antivirus application installed in them. For your iPhone and/or iPad, you can consider using any of the antivirus tools listed here. If you do a bit of online research, you will find… Read More »
Over the last three years or so, Blackberry has fallen far behind the pace, in terms of popularity figures among mobile-users worldwide. Several factors have contributed to the steady decline of Blackberry – some of which have been highlighted here. According to many experts from the worldwide mobile markets, the failure of the ultra-hyped Blackberry… Read More »
With a device distribution share of nearly 60%, Jelly Bean is, undoubtedly, the most popular Android operating system platform. Jelly Bean is not entirely free of problems though, and we focus on some common user-complaints about the OS here. Since its release in July 2012, the Jelly Bean has been widely hailed as the… Read More »