Ever want to hide away, lock the doors and just get on with what you’re doing without any distractions? Sounds like you want Mac OS X Mountain Lion. Or more specifically, one of its newest features: Do Not Disturb. The big question: why oh why is this not on iOS already? Read more
What madness is this? Windows? In my iPad? It’s more common than you think – or at least it could be, if you jailbreak your tablet and download Quasar from the Cydia store. Read more
Is iOS 5 starting to feel a bit stale? Apple’s latest mobile operating system is now nearly a year old, which means it’s nearly time to make the jump to the next iteration, just as Android settles into the slump between Ice Cream Sandwich and Android 5.0. Good news for Apple fans then: an event invite may have just revealed the launch date of iOS 6. What should it have baked in? Read our suggestions after the break… Read more
Just about mastered the controls on GTA 3 Mobile? Rockstar’s got something new and equally in-depth for you to wrap your fingers round: The original PC classic Max Payne is coming to iOS and Android devices very, very soon. Another milestone in mobile gaming? You bet. When’s it out? Read on after the break to find out. Read more
Last year Sky acquired the UK’s longest-running WiFi hotspot-enabling company, The Cloud. What with arch-rivals BT marching on with its free WiFi rollout, it probably didn’t take a genius to work out what Sky’s plan was. Now the company has announced its roaming WiFi plans, but what’s in store? Read more
Apple is going to launch a range of TV sets this year. Of this, everyone’s pretty certain. Thing is, where will that leave the Apple TV box? The current line of thinking is that it’ll act as a lesser-specced option. After all, why would you buy a new TV when you can get the same features for £99? But if newly revealed Apple patent applications are anything to go by, this could be wrong. Allow us to explain… Read more
“Over the next couple of years somebody’s going to build a game that reaches a billion people,” Bart Decrem, publisher of hit iPhone game Tap Tap Revenge, told a gathering of journalists and toy makers at a briefing in London this week.
That’s a sixth of the world’s population, but as daunting as that is, it’s a feat that’s beginning to look feasible. Angry Birds isn’t far off: Rovio has clocked more than 500 million downloads of its spectacular gaming success.
But Decrem doesn’t work for Rovio. Decrem is Disney’s new head of mobile, and he wants to get there first. But using Disney’s instantly recognisable characters to do so? Too easy.
We’ve been guilty of stirring this pot before and being wrong, but it seems as though the Android version of Instagram is really very nearly ready for launch. Not only that, but the app’s co-founder Kevin Systrom claims it has the edge over the iPhone original. Read more
