Luke Porter / UnsplashThe internet is filled to the brim with opportunities to learn new things. But even if you have the willpower to push forward without the direct guidance of a teacher, it’s hard to dedicate the five to ten hours a week a lot of these courses require to stay on track. Plus, without regular positive feedback, your…
Amedia indexing firm by the name of Gracenote recently showed off an app that could fix — or at least mitigate — a longstanding criticism of Apple’s CarPlay system. Apple CarPlay does a lot, from navigation to podcasts to apps. But it’s never supported traditional AM/FM radio. Gracenote wants to fix that, and it’s debuted a new app at CES…
A startup called Current is today launching a new way for parents to dole out allowances to their kids: with an app. The company offers a Visa debit card that would allow teenagers to shop in stores or online using funds from their own bank account, which is funded through allowance money that mom or dad transfers from their own bank account.…
Team from Facebook engineers in London is working on a stand-alone application for camera focusing on live broadcasts of video, according to The Wall Street Journal (WSJ). This new application should encourage the capture and posting photos and video. At the moment it is only a prototype and may never be released for general use according to the report: A…
The mobile version of Chrome browser already enjoys more than 1 billion active users each month, announced Google. This means that since it was announced the previous statistic four months ago, 200 million more Android and iOS users regularly use the browser – one not bad achievement for the mobile application, which debuted less than four years ago. It is…
Google Keyboard for Android received big update, which brings function for writing with one hand, several improvements in the design and ability to change the size and height of the keyboard. Another useful innovation is the ability to distinguish the keys. The function for one hand writing allows users to choose whether they want the keyboard to adjust for left…
Already one billion people use the chat application Facebook Messenger each month, the company said. This makes the Messenger fourth Facebook application that enters the elite club of the services used by 1 billion users. Other products of Facebook, who have such a large user base are WhatsApp, Groups and main mobile applications. Over the past few years, Messenger has…
From Spotify sent a letter to Apple’s lawyer of “causing grave harm to Spotify and its customers.” The letter says that Apple rejected the new version of the app for Spotify’s iOS, citing “rules of business model” and demanded that Spotify use Apple’s billing system if “Spotify wants to use the app to acquire new customers and sell subscriptions.” The…
At the end of this week, HTC launched Viveport, an alternative to the Steam which is a catalog of games with virtual reality and now works worldwide. In fact Viveport was released earlier this year, but only in China. Now developers can register at the Vive website. We believe equal access to virtual reality experiences will make the world a…
Pokemon GO surpassed all expectations for popularity of a mobile game and obsession with playing her has reached monstrous proportions. This week we found an interesting project that was posted on Behance. Pokemoji Keyboard, is a project for a new emoji keyboard that will allow you to send emoticons with characters from Pokemon GO. From the pictures in our gallery…