software

Google Docs with new support for Photoshop, AutoCAD, Pages and other applications

Published on: 23rd February, 2011

Google has come with the first real update of Google Docs formats by adding twelve new standards. For the first time, the release brings support for an Apple-specific format and allows users to read Pages documents in the browser. Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator images can also be viewed now and the recognition of AutoCAD from [...]

Introduction of Opera for iPad at Mobile World Congress

Published on: 20th February, 2011

The Norway-based browser Opera, which has been more successful as a standard browser on mobile phones than as a browser on desktops, will be present with a version dedicated to the iPad in Barcelona, Spain, at the Mobile World Congress. The announcement of the company is accompanied by plans for new versions of Opera Mini [...]

Twitter 2.0 – new user interface for Android, improved search

Published on: 14th February, 2011

Twitter has made a major revamp of its application for Android users. The 2.0 version comes with a completely new and cleaner interface which goes directly to the timeline instead of showing a splash screen. Also improved is search, which is now more intelligent. Search can be made by using keywords based on location as [...]

Goggles from Google gets ad scanning and Sudoku puzzles

Published on: 26th January, 2011

A new update has been recently posted for Goggles on the iPhone and Android. The update is meant to expand what can be scanned and how well. The 1.3 application can pull up results based on advertisements from large magazines and publishers from the United States, starting with August 2010. The ability of solving Sudoku [...]

Apple’s application iTunes juggernaut is ten years old

Published on: 21st January, 2011

The iTunes application of Apple is already ten years old, as it was first launched on the 9th of January 2001, nine months ahead of launching the first iPod in October the same year. The application has reached some major milestones while evolving over the past decade. It was first available as a Mac OS [...]

Paid multi-party video calling launched by Skype

Published on: 15th January, 2011

Trying to hurry with adding video calling using 3G or Wi-Fi for devices with iOS, Skype recently announced the introduction of a paid service which would support multi-party video calling for both businesses and consumers. The new service is part of Skype’s Premium package that groups video calling and customer support for live chat at [...]

Colorblind users to benefit from iPhone application for image processing

Published on: 23rd December, 2010

Dan Kaminsky, security researcher, has introduced a mobile application that is able to process images for those users who experience red-green colorblindness. The application is named DanKam and is available for Android and iOS. It processes images through a series of color-shifting schemes and aims to overcome the condition. Images to be processed are taken [...]

Adobe says Flash 10.2 has a tenth of 10.1’s consumption

Published on: 20th December, 2010

According to product manager John Nack from Adobe, the 10.2 beta version of Flash Player has only a tenth of the CPU consumption of the previous 10.1 version in some cases. A primary feature of the new version is Stage Video, which is able to transfer most of the load for Flash video to a [...]

Google Voice officially reaches the iPhone

Published on: 23rd November, 2010

Apple recently posted Google Voice for its iPhone as freeware on the App Store after one of the longest delays in memory. The application allows users to make outbound calls through a Google Voice number, using its reduced rates. Free outbound messages are also supported. Users can check texts as well voicemail with push notifications [...]

“Hulu for magazines” coming first on Android to pressure on Apple

Published on: 18th November, 2010

Next Issue, a joint storefront from top publishers for selling tablet magazines, will launch first on Android and not on the iPad, as its CEO Morgan Guenther claimed. Although there were no technical issues to have an iPad version of the store, Next Issue said it preferred to have an Android version first as it [...]

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