Family arguments are a Christmas occupational hazard. But rather than making like your fourteen year-old self and storming off to your room when your dad starts getting all adamant that it was Mick Jagger who did a Christmas duet with Bing Crosby, not David Bowie, use the power of tech to solve your quibbles. These apps will sort any arguments sharpish.
It’s a particularly grim Monday outside, but no matter, as right here, we’ve got some cheery tech news for you, including an OS X friendly Kinect hack and the latest Android phone gossip. Read on through for it all in our roundup.
VideoSurf seems like voodoo magic, it’s essentially Shazam for video. The Videosurf mobile app analyses any video clip of a TV show or movie that you capture to identify the actor in the scene and offer up info from the web about them alongside related clips. We really want to have a go with it but right now it’s restricted to Verizon in the US on “select 4G smartphones” with no clue of when it’ll go international. Click through to see the VideoSurf video in action…
So Santa’s left you a mobile-shaped treat under the tree, has he? What is it? An iPhone? An Android-packing smartie? The latest Symbian-friendly Nokia? Or perhaps a BlackBerry or Windows Mobile cell? Whichever one you’ve got, we’ve got a Christmas treat for you, with the ten best apps for each OS. Come on then, get downloading!
Your predilection for pricey gadgets that need upgrading every year needn’t mean you turn your back on charity. And seeing as today is World Aids Day, you can do your bit for charity (Red) by heading over its (Product) Red store now and indulging your passion for bleeding edge tech. Whatever you stump up for, a percentage will go to the Global Found to eliminate AIDS in Africa. You can’t say fairer than that.
