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Android Market achieves a milestone of 10 billion downloads

December 7, 2011 Udit Malhotra Leave a comment

The most widely used smartphone platform The Android OS officially embarked a milestone by achieving 10 billion downloads during the past weekend. Celebrating great success Google also announced top applications at an amazing price of 10 cents, a joint effort with application developers that are a key success to the platform’s growth. The Android crave is set to grow even high with more than 5.5 million devices being activated daily, making sure that mobile applications are the next big thing for people as a key metric to entertainment, productivity and more. The next 10 billion app downloads are not far away with more developers, more users and more ideas to implement. Get set to download all the popular applications at a discounted price for the next 10 days beginning 6^th December 2011. The applications that are a part of the promotion are found below.

Asphalt 6 HD
Color & Draw for Kids
Endomondo Sports Tracker Pro
Fieldrunners HD
Great Little War Game
Minecraft
Paper Camera
Sketchbook Mobile
Soundhound Infinity
SwiftKey X

Enjoy the fun on your Android. Play hard and Rejoice 😉

Blackberry

New Blackberry App World 3.1 arrives Blackberry BETA Zone

December 7, 2011 Udit Malhotra 2 Comments

** Urgent Update **

The Blackberry App World 3.1.0.40 update helps users to resolve issues with their BlackBerry ID’s, for users still facing the same issue can download the application from the Beta Zone to get an immediate fix. The Blackberry App World 3.1.0.38 released earlier during the day faced major issues with users having trouble accessing the app world.

The Blackberry App World 3.1 will allow users to try some latest additions that include Gifting and Begging apps i.e. allowing users to pay for an application that you like or gift an application to your family and friends. The update also takes care of content sensitivity by allowing developers and content publishers to rate their Content Maturity level. Users also have an option to set their desired rating for the content according one’s personal discretion. The latest version allows application usage and functionality while one has only a Wi-Fi connection. The application will now have a better language support, which includes Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Thai, Indonesian, Vietnamese, and Dutch.

If you are interested in trying out more upcoming application to help and get some bugs fixed you can download them from BlackBerry Beta Zone.

All Improvements at a Glance:

Gifting/Begging – allows you to request that a friend or family member pay for any application within App World.
Content Rating – allows content providers to rate the maturity level of their content and for you to filter content based on their desired level
WiFi Only Support – will allow App World to still operate when a you only have a WiFi connection
New Language Support – Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Thai, Indonesian, Vietnamese, and Dutch

Enjoy the update guys. Have fun ;).

Android Apps

Google Maps For Android Gets Updated to V6.0

December 1, 2011 Udit Malhotra Leave a comment

Google Maps for Android gets an update. The news was shared on Google’s Official Blog on 29^th Nov 2011. The feature additions to the product included Indoor Maps that help you get a detailed view of where you are, one can find his location by pressing the “My Location” button in the navigation bar, the more one zooms the better the detail. Once you are at an airport or a shopping mall Indoor Maps helps you know what is around you so that you reach the correct destination, it includes floor level maps and object view within your radius. The update also includes a new menu bar in addition to the existing navigation bar at the bottom. It is a drop-down menu that helps in navigation to the most commonly used features with ease. Users also have an option to disable screen dimming during navigation. Additions to the features also include popular searches as per one’s location under Places tab. The Indoor Maps feature is available to users in US and Japan.

A simulation on new features and additions to Google Maps and be found on the here:http://maps.google.com/help/maps/starthere/index.html.

iOS

Top Games and Apps For Your iPad

November 30, 2011 Udit Jain Leave a comment

Top Games For Your iPad

1. PLANTS VS ZOMBIES – $9.99

Plant vs zombies, winner of over 20 ‘game of the year’ awards. Defeat the zombies in 50 fun dead levels of adventure in day ,night and fog modes. Earn 25 iPad exclusive achievements while playing the game with stunning graphics and show zombies that how awesome you are.

2. INFINITY BLADE – $5.99
Winner of 2011 apple design award and tops the list of apps awards. It is the best action based RPG game for your iPad, very amazing graphics and comes with a game center.

3. ANGRY BIRDS – $0.99
Developed by Rovio Mobile, featuring 288 amazing levels, a very addictive game. Birds are aimed using a slingshot at the pigs stationed in various structures. This game is available for free in various countries.

4. SCRABBLE – $4.99
The best word game of America. It supports multi-player and can be played via Bluetooth, Facebook etc. A new way to connect with your friends.

5. GTA: CHINATOWN WARS – $9.99
The GTA fever is still on with GTA: ChinaTown Wars, now available in HD, developed by Rockstar Games, has some best of the graphics. In this game you can play your own music library or play 100+ radio stations.

6. PINBALL HD – $0.99
Pinball HD, a game that was just made for the iPad. It has impressive controls and delivers the best of an experience which will take you right back to the golden age of the video arcade games.

7. NBA JAM HD – $9.99
NBA JAM HD, packed with more than 30 NBA teams and unlockable legendary players such as Scottie Pippen, Dennis Rodman, Karl Malone, Dr. J etc. Rejuvenate your golden era of the 90s arcade machines. Can be played with multiplayer option over Bluetooth and Wi-Fi.

8. DEAD SPACE HD – $9.99
Electronic Arts’ sci-fi title now comes to the iPad. The alien blasting horrors are served up in abundance. Play the game, and enjoy the frights.

Top Apps For Your iPad

1. MARVEL COMICS – Free
Read comics in their colourfully drawn glory. Marvel’s free iPad app offering a page-by-page view with zoom and pan controls, as well as a panel-by-panel, animated guided view come with a fully integrated store for buying your favorite comics.

2. NETFLIX – Free
Watch movies directly on your iPAD with your Netflix subscription, with negligible buffering. In the latest version, Netflix has made many modifications, like adding star recommendations and removing the status bar while titles are playing.

3. DRAGON DICTATION – Free
Featuring very accurate voice transcription and the ability to share messages via e-mail, Facebook, and Twitter, Dragon Dictation app proves to be really helpful if you’re having internet access on your iPad.

4. FILEMAKER GO – $39.99
With the ability to create new files and charts, FileMaker Go is a useful tool for businesspeople who want to access FileMaker databases on the go. It is a substitute of carrying bulky laptops and desktops every time with you.

5. SAVE2PDF – $9.99
A very useful app for the professionals who want to create and edit PDF files while on the go.

6. SKETCHBOOK PRO – $7.99

SketchBook Pro is a professional-level paint and drawing app with numerous tools, featuring, 75 preset brushes, pencils, and pens and support for up to six layers. The app also syncs with Photo Library and can even produce layered PSD files, for further work in Photoshop or other processing.

7. GOOGLE EARTH – Free
Traveling with free Google Earth is certainly not expensive. You can zip from one location to other in mere seconds. Geo-located Wikipedia articles just add insight to your journey.

8. INSTAPAPER – $4.99
Want to read online when you can’t connect to the Web? Then you must just install Instapaper, an iPad app that lets users save any webpage for anytime offline reading. The pages saved to your account can be accessed from the Desktop, iPhone and Kindle.