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Record, Edit & Organize Audio Clips On iPhone With Pocket Recorder

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Just last week we covered the feature-rich Recordium audio recorder for the iPad. While apps like Recordium might go well with a tablet, you are likely to prefer simpler alternatives for your iPhone. The stock recording app is pretty decent for many scenarios but if you want to make even the most basic changes to the recorded clip, Voice Memos is not going to be much help. While apps like Highlight look to have a pretty simple concept on paper, using them is not always a piece of cake. Pocket Recorder is a new voice recording app for iOS that, in addition to being universal, offers the perfect balance between simplicity and features. You can edit the basic properties of your audio clips and organize them into folders. There is also the possibility of resuming a recording session by stitching new clips with existing ones. Read More

Clear Timer Is A Gesture-Based, Themable Stopwatch App For iPhone

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Despite making headlines for infringing upon the trademark of Swiss Railways Service’s clock design, the stock Clock app in iOS 6 received a lot of positive attention from Apple back in September last year. The app is no longer just a place where people set their daily alarms, as other features like stopwatch and countdown timers have been improved as well. And if you want an app that offers some unique features, there are choices like Wave Timer, which lets users control the countdown without even touching the screen. Clear Timer does not offer any such exotic features, but it is by far the most efficient timer app we have seen for iPhone in a long time. You can configure multiple reminders simultaneously using the app’s gesture controls. and the app comes wit plenty of themes and alert sounds for the customization fans among us. Read More

Use Your Computer’s Keyboard To Type On Android Over WiFi Or USB

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Ever wondered if you could use a full computer keyboard to type messages and emails, and jot down those notes on your Android device? There are those Bluetooth keyboards that you can pair with your smartphone but if you’re looking for a free solution, there’s a very simple method that works like a charm, thanks to free Android app Remote Keyboard. The app allows you to connect your desktop keyboard to your Android phone or tablet via Wi-Fi. And the best thing is that the app is fairly simple to configure, requiring no complicated connection methods, and we’re gonna tell you exactly how. Read on for details. Read More

Schedule Encrypted Backups On Android & Save To Dropbox With truBackup

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A timely data backup can save you a lot of hassle. Android users have long been using NANDROID backups to make a ditto copy of their phone’s system and data storage to the device’s internal or external sdcard. These backups prove very useful in case you need to revert back to previous working state of your phone, especially if something goes wrong. However, NANDROID backups don’t let you store separate copies of each category of items, which means you cannot specifically backup or restore only your SMS, photos or applications separately. There are many solutions out there for this, Titanium Backup being the most famous, and truBackup is the latest one that you might like to give a try. This Android app works perfectly as advertised and lets you create as many backups as you want, allowing you to backup only the type of files you want, be it contacts, SMS, apps, or media files. Besides letting you store backups on internal/external storage, the app can save files straight to your Dropbox account as well. Read More

Official imgur Android App Now Available For Download In All Regions

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If you’re a frequent redditor, you've most likely heard of imgur. It’s a simple and fast image hosting service that lets you easily upload and share pictures, with or without an account. imgur has been around for quite a while and has become almost as popular as Reddit (or perhaps made popular by Reddit), but it’s official Android app debuted only last month, and that too with download restrictions based on your country. The restrictions have now been lifted, and you can download the app from any part of the globe. The app is just as fast as its web interface and allows you to upload images from your camera roll without signing in. You get an email and deletion link for any and all images that you upload. You can set a number of days to browse past images from, explore images uploaded to a particular sub-reddit, or simply browse images randomly. Playback of animated GIFs is also supported. Read More

Browse & Watch Free Online TV Channels On iPhone With Universal TV

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There are already a number of TV streaming services that offer iOS clients of their own. Just.tv, Ustream and even relatively newer names like Vinson have a presence on the iPhone. You can also enjoy YouTube’s live channels on your smartphone but despite all these choices, one might argue that there is still room for an app that doesn't make it overly complicated for users to find a channel. Universal TV is a Cydia app but while using it, you might easily forget that you didn't download it from the App Store. The interface of Universal TV is pretty neat, and it supports gestures to let users easily switch between channels. The search feature is quite comprehensive as well, and can be used to browse through channels from different regions and categories. Read More

Adobe Kuler For iPhone Lets You Create Color Themes From Images Or Your Surroundings

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Some people are tone deaf, others just fail trying to mix, match, contrast, or create color combinations. This might pose a problem for people in everyday life and occasionally, for designers who have hit a wall trying to come up with a good theme. One really easy way to come up with a great color theme is to look at your surroundings for inspiration; anything from a soothing landscape to the floral arrangement on your desk can be instrumental in finding a nice combination of colors to use in your project, and Adobe’s new iOS app Adobe Kuler is is a helpful tool that lets you do just that. The app, which is available for free in the App Store, lets you take pictures and detects the different colors in them to give you a theme. You can either snap an image and extract color themes from it, use an image from your camera roll to do the same, point your camera at anything in the room and have the app pick colors from the input, live, or use the built-in color wheel to create themes from scratch. Adobe Kuler also has a web app that gives you a color wheel for creating themes but doesn't allow you to pick them from an image. Read More

Popular Language Learning App Duolingo Now Available On Android

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Let’s just admit the fact that learning a new language isn’t as easy as it might seem. No matter how hard you try, it takes quite a period of time to become as fluent in a foreign language as you are in your mother tongue. But wait, you don't have to go through unpleasantly rigorous hours of practice to make that happen, especially when there are solutions like web-service-turned mobile app Duolingo. When we reviewed its iOS version back in 2012, it left us fairly impressed by its auspicious teaching lessons that treat each language learning task as a game. As good as it could get, the app is now available on Android and we must say that it was definitely worth the wait. Read on for further details. Read More

Shazam Updated For WP8 With Free Unlimited Tags, Start Screen Tagging, Nokia & Xbox Music Support

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Shazam was among the first apps to come to Windows Phone 7, but the mobile team behind the service took a rather lengthy sabbatical after that. Shazam only came to the iPad last week, after years of iPhone-exclusive presence, and today the Windows Phone app for the service has been updated with WP8 compatibility. The update takes full advantage of everything Windows Phone’s latest iteration has to offer, including lock screen access for third-party apps and better live tile support. The app’s own features have gone to the next level of awesomeness as well, with support for both Nokia Music and Xbox Music. The best thing about the revamped app though, is the fact that you can now tag an unlimited number of songs for free, just the way Shazam Encore works! Read More

Twitter Mobile Apps Get Easier Image Sharing, Richer Notifications On Android

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Twitter has just released an update for both its iOS and Android apps and it comes with new features, an improved interface, as well as the removal of a few features that many active Twitter users will miss. The interface change, in Twitter’s own words, gives you wider timelines across the app. This interface change is for the iPhone only, and not the iPad. More functional changes to both iOS and Android app include viewing a thumbnail of the image you’re sharing instead of the cropped-out top half only, along with the ability to preview your tweet before sending it, toggle location information on/off for it, and switch between accounts as you compose a tweet. For users running Android 4.1 or above, the updated app also brings richer notifications, complete with user avatars and markers that tell you if it's a reply, a retweet, a DM etc. Read More

Windows Phone Desktop App Gets Auto Updates, Better Podcast Management

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While it will be unfair to brand Windows Phone 7 a complete failure, a lot of people ran into problems regarding almost every aspect of the platform. The objections on Mango aren't just about apps and bugs, as the Zune management suite has never been too popular either. Windows Phone 8 is Microsoft’s attempt to right all wrongs that have lead to the downfall of their previous two forays in the mobile arena. The OS itself is pretty decent, and the management tool that comes with it is way better than its predecessor as well. The Windows Phone desktop app has been in beta until now, but hasn't been a cause of many complaints. A few hours ago, the tool just came out of beta, and now flaunts a lot of improvements in performance and features. The update is a must-have for you if you like listening to podcasts, since it handles them much better than before. It is also possible to easily change the source folder for syncing podcasts, thanks to the tool’s improved iTunes compatibility. Read More

Tweak Playback Quality On Android With The Sleek Music Equalizer

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Over the years, smartphones have vastly improved in pretty much every aspect. They now have better cameras, more vivid displays, sturdy yet aesthetically pleasing build quality, enhanced audio output and better connectivity options, in addition to more powerful processors and large amounts of RAM & storage. When it comes to audio, many people now use their smartphones to listen to music from cloud-based music streaming services like Spotify and Pandora. That said, smartphones have almost replaced dedicated portable audio players as well, that once used to dominate the market. While the sound quality varies from one device to device, and purportedly depends on how expensive your phone is, there are certain apps that can spice up the sound output through software equalization. One such free app for Android that we stumbled upon is Music Equalizer. The application is fairly powerful, and comes with quite a few different presets from various music genres. Read More

Design, Buy & Sell Your Own T-Shirts On iPhone With Snaptee

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iOS has a lot of photo editors, but very few apps let you literally bring your art to life. CaseApp is one example of an app that's capable of turning your photos into real-life objects (namely, iPhone cases). While CaseApp is great, not every iPhone owner is likely to want a cover for their device. T-shirts, on the other hand, are something that a majority of people use with varying degrees of frequency. Snaptee is an iPhone app that lets you design your very own T-shirt, using photos from Instagram or your device’s camera roll. You can then get these shirts delivered to you anywhere in the world for $19.99. The app can also be used to sell your T-shirt designs to other users of the service, or just to show off your talent and wit, thanks to the great sharing options offered by the Snaptee. Read More

ThingLink For iOS Tags Photos With Twitter Mentions, Text & Videos

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A picture might be a good replacement for words, but there are some photos that just can’t be understood unless they have a caption with them. Apart from such inexplicable images, publishing your thoughts about a picture is always a nice way of really expressing what’s on your mind. Adding a textual description and mentioning your friends in a photo’s description is nothing new, as services like Facebook and Twitter have been offering the capability for quite a while. Google+ recently introduced automatic tagging as well, highlighting the feature’s importance. The concept upon which ThingLink is based might appear to be similar at a cursory glance, but in reality it is much deeper. With ThingLink, the tags you add to your posts become a physical part of the image, rather than merely accompanying it. You can place the tags anywhere you want on the photo to get your full message across to all the recipients. Another great thing about ThingLink is that it allows users to embed video tags into their photos as well. Read More

Google+ For iOS Gets Better Photo Management, Auto Enhance & More

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Google+ has always been pretty keen on staying relevant in the ever-changing social networking scenario, and maybe that’s why the service has received several major updates on all platforms pretty frequently. The latest big Google+ update came out about a fortnight ago, the same day Hangouts was introduced as a standalone service. It took Google a week to add all the exciting new features to Google+’s Android app, and a little more than a week after the Android update, Google+ for iOS has caught up with other versions of the service as well. Google+ 4.4.0 for iOS enables the app to do everything its Android counterpart is capable of doing; you get automatic enhancement for posted photos, the ability to edit past comments, and support for automatic hashtags for posts. Read More

The Transit App For iPhone Goes Free & Gets Real-Time Tracking

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There can be little doubting the fact that the Google Maps app is the most comprehensive navigation solution available in the App Store, but Nokia’s HERE service is pretty great for those who use public transit regularly. Having said that, neither of these apps focus exclusively on public transit and route planning for people planning to take the subway or bus. The Transit App, on the other hand, does exactly that. It has been around for iPhone owners for quite some time, and offers offline maps for close to 40 cities in the U.S. The app generates multiple routes for most locations you key into it, and also gives quite detailed directions for the entire commute. Thanks to the latest update of the app, now you can also see any vehicle’s location in real-time, which means you get an accurate idea of its ETA no matter where you are. Read More

Tapatalk 4 For Android Brings New Holo UI, Photo Editor & More

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Tapatalk, is synonymous with forum browsing apps for Android and iOS. Having been around for some time now, the app has been quite popular with forum browsing junkies and during all that time, it has been evolving for the better. Enter Tapatalk 4 - Community Reader – a public beta app by the developers of Tapatalk that is set to redefine forum browsing apps and hopefully integrate into Tapatalk - Community Reader and Tapatalk HD on the Play Store. Where the later two apps are paid-only, Tapatalk 4 can be installed from the Play Store for free on devices running Android 4.0 or later. With an all new redesigned UI based on the much-demanded Holo theme along with Google Now-style cards, the apps looks poised to impress. Let's take a closer look at what the app has to offer and how well it fares. Read More

Discover New YouTube Music Videos By Taste With Kixar For iPhone

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Rokker, Music Monster and plenty of other services have effectively demonstrated that YouTube-powered music services can gain popularity among users, since a lot of people go to YouTube to listen to their favorite songs anyway. Kixar is a bit different from other YouTube clients that focus on music streaming; this iPhone app is all about letting you discover music based on your preferences. You can use Kixar to browse through YouTube’s music collection based on what’s popular among users these days too, but the app shows its true colors when you start rating songs. Kixar generates song suggestions for you using these ratings, making the app a great music discovery tool. To top it all off, the app is pretty decent on the UI and playback fronts as well. Read More

Find New Friends For WhatsApp & Other iPhone IM Apps With Pingbox

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While there are many messenger apps that focus on location, very few of them rely solely on this aspect to let users discover new profiles and interact with strangers near them. In the past, we have covered a service by the name of GeoCha that provides an interactive map of users in any given area, letting them chat and share information with each other. The messenger scene on iOS has gotten really crowded lately though, and not many people might like to maintain a new account just in order to discover new friends. This is why Pingbox might be the perfect option for some of our more adventurous friends, who want to connect with more people without moving away from their existing chat accounts. Read More

Reddit Illustrated For Android Offers A Google Now-Like Cards-Based UI

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Reddit doesn’t have  an official app for the Android platform, which is disappointing especially considering there is one for iOS. Though that makes it an opportunity for developers to create apps that fill this void. If you’re looking for a better way to Reddit on your Android device, you can take you pick from our list of best Reddit Apps for Android. Though if you’re on the hunt for something that’s slightly more appealing in the visual sense, give Reddit Illustrated a try. It’s a free Android app for browsing Reddit built entirely on the Holo guidelines by Google. It’s also somewhat similar, interface-wise, to Google Now; individual posts in any subreddit appear as cards. You can browse popular subreddits, view the front page, add any subreddit of your choice for quick access (sign in not required), download and share photos, and set a downloaded photo as your wallpaper from within the app. NSFW content can be filtered out, you can sign in and upvote/downvote content, and post comments in thread. The only downside at the moment is that the app doesn't support GIFs - a shortcoming the average redditor is quite likely to be disappointed with. Read More