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OS X Mountain Lion’s New Messages App [Feature Review]

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If you’ve been following the buzz around Apple’s latest OS X release (no longer to be called Mac OS), then you know that it’s got a slew of new features, one of which is Messages. The beta version of Messages is available for download and will run on OS X 10.7.3. Messages is by far one of the more talked about apps there is, and will replace iChat. According to Apple, the noteworthy features of this app are sending unlimited messages to any Apple device (Mac, iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch), transferring files between your devices, and AIM, Yahoo, Jabber, Gtalk account support. Here is a step by step break down of how to get started with Messages, set up your account and understand the interface. Read More

xMessages: Add Timestamps & Contacts Photos To All SMS Threads [Cydia]

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In most iOS devices, Apple’s main focus is to make things as aesthetically pleasing as possible, and at times, this might lead to omission of some useful features. Take the Messages app in the iPhone as an example; it is difficult to find the exact time of every message, as timestamp is not added to each SMS in a thread. xMessages might not be the first Cydia tweak which brings this feature to the iPhone, but it does come for free, and also has the functionality to add photos of your contacts to their respective SMS threads. Read More

iMessage Is A Native 3G / WiFi Messaging Service For All iOS 5 Devices

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iMessage can be called the flagship feature of iOS 5 in many ways. Simply put you can think of this feature as a hybrid of an Instant Messenger and a texting app running over a data connection. It can prove to be extremely helpful if many of your contacts use iDevices. The biggest perk; iMessage works on iPad and iPod touch too! So how can you use this marvelous on your iOS device? Read on to find out. Read More

Privnote Sends Private Self Destructing Notes Mission Impossible Style

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Ever wanted to communicate discretely? Ensure your messages couldn’t be intercepted? Pretend you work for the Secret Service? Keeping things on a level of sanity, what you can do is send secure self destructing messages using Privnote. Privnote is a free web service that lets you create a private message and provides a link to it that works only once. When you send the link to someone, they can use it one time only to read your message and after that it becomes useless. It doesn’t necessarily explode like in movies but your message can no longer be read, not even by the original recipient. Read More

Post To Multiple Social Media, Blogs & More With Sendible For Android

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Sendible is a social media management app and for Android that allows you to publish content with multimedia and send messages to multiple social networks, mail services, messaging services, blogs and select web services all in one go. Messages can be easily composed and sent instantly or you can also save them as drafts. The app keeps a track of all your messages, status updates, comments and more. Sendible has been around in the iTunes App Store for quite some time and now its available on the Android Market. To use Sendible services, you need to have a valid Sendible account. Sendible offers free sign-up to all users. A new account can be set up from from within the app or you may visit the Sendible website to do so. Read More

Viber For Android – Free Calls & Text Messages Over WiFi & 3G

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Viber is a well-known VoIP client with well over 20 million registered users worldwide. Viber offers its users free calling and messaging features without requiring you to set up additional accounts or login to some external application – a feat unmatched by most clients as of this writing. With Viber, you can call and text all phone contacts that have Viber app running on their devices. Communication is done over Wi-Fi or 3G and Viber doesn't charge you a dime for its services. The voice and service quality provided by Viber is near perfect. After gaining ample popularity in the iTunes store over the past 12 months, Viber has just shed its beta tag and hit the Android Market with some force. Perhaps, Android variant of the app has taken a bigger stride forward with couple of handy options such as using Viber as a default dialer, in-app call logs and pop-up text notifications. Remember, only registered users can enjoy Viber services. Read More

Add Contacts To Android From Browser And Send/Reply To SMS From Gtalk

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Your Android may be your life line when you’re on the go but when you’re planted in front of your system and it’s always ringing/vibrating or doing backflips whenever you get a message it can be anything from distracting to annoying. Android Push Contacts is a web service that lets you add contacts and send messages from your browser to your Android device. It also lets you receive and reply to messages by connecting with GTalk. It uses your Google account to connect your phone to your browser and requires you have the Android app installed on your device. The web service responds fast; it lets you see all contacts that you’ve added, search them in real time and send a message to any one of them. Read More