Google Reader is retiring

By Sami Mughal While the biggest news today might be the Galaxy S4, the biggest impact will probably be by the little message we saw earlier today when we signed into Google Reader. Personally, I have used and relied on Reader since 2005 if not earlier, signing in almost every day to catch up on … Read more

TWEETCASTER : Trolling Twitter’s Official Android App

With this post we welcome Ammar Mahmood (@dedarkpassenger), the latest addition to our writers panel. Here he analyses Tweetcaster, the alternative to Twitter’s official app. One of the few scenarios where a 3rd party app is more rated than the official one and not by thousands of user but by more than 0.4 million users. … Read more

Fixing a broken HTC ONE X, and recovering your old software

In this article, Becca tells of her tale when her HTC ONE X started to show some battery issues. She goes through how she reported the problem, how HTC responded, and what she had to do to get her phone back in its original state. I’ve had my HTC One X for just over a … Read more

Weather apps on Android–a comparison for Oxford!

With this post we welcome Becca Chaplin (@ox_bex) to our team of writers. She starts off by doing a comparative analysis of the different weather apps available on Android and how well they work in the lovely city of Oxford. One of the things pretty much all of us have on our smartphones and/or tablets … Read more

Review: Fisher Price Laugh & Learn™ Apptivity™ Case for iPhone/iPod

With this post we welcome our latest writer to the website, Jen Watkiss. You can read more about her in our Authors page. I am a firm believer that life is better with gadgets. There was no question that my kid would end up either using our devices, or having some of his own. So … Read more

Pakistani App Release: Duddoo aur Dhobi

By Sami Mughal I got an interesting email the other day from a Pakistani company called JugnooMedia. In a world full of apps, somehow the slice for little kids and toddlers is still void of many popular ones. They have come up with an app which focuses on local Urdu (and Hindi) nursery rhymes and … Read more