Skype offers free calls to France after Paris attacks
Skype has announced that it is offering free calls to landlines and mobile phones in France for the next few days, following a series of attacks in Paris on Friday night.
Skype has announced that it is offering free calls to landlines and mobile phones in France for the next few days, following a series of attacks in Paris on Friday night.
BlackBerry has released an emulator for its BlackBerry Priv for Android developers so they can simulate the hardware keys on the smartphone while they are creating their apps.
Proximity Photos is an app that lets you discover places around you through photos taken by other people. It pulls publicly shared photos from Flickr and will contain any notes left by the person that shared the photo. We took a quick look at the app previously and it's a great way of discovering new things and places in unknown places.
We first mentioned this nifty app in one of our Weekly Roundup articles. Camera Organizer is an app that allows you to manage better the photos you take on your BlackBerry 10 smartphone.
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A weekly look at new, exciting, and cool apps to try. If your favorite did not make the cut this week, remember you can help by offering your suggestions at the end.
Facebook is currently testing a Snapchat-style ephemeral messaging feature in Messenger. The trail is being conducted in France, and may eventually roll out to all 700 million Messenger users.
Although the BlackBerry Beta Zone has been a little wonky the past few days, that hasn't stopped WhatsApp from uploading a new beta release. This time around the change log isn't exactly huge, but it offers some improvements that will need to be tested before fully being rolled out.
BlackBullet is a native client for Pushbullet.com which lets users transfer links, notes, and files between all your devices quickly and easily. In the latest update, the developer has added Clipboard instant share. What this does is the minute you copy an item to the clipboard, you can quickly share through BlackBullet to all connected devices by responding to the BlackBullet toast...
Whether you are surrounded by loud noise or have to keep your phone on silent at work, this headless application uses your LED as a strobe light for incoming calls. Users can customize the flash and color of the LED to make sure they receive the notification.
Tundra Core Studios Limited has just updated Dossier, a native productivity application that stores contact data and client file information all while keeping this data safe through on-device secure techniques. This latest version brings new features, fixes, and improvements.
With the release of its first Android-powered smartphone, the BlackBerry Priv, BlackBerry has updated its DevZone with tons of information for developers to get started on Google Play.
Amazon has announced that its Amazon Underground app, which offers free Android apps and in-app content, has now tripled the amount of free apps available for users since it launch in late August.
Visual Arts gives users the ability to set a wallpaper for both the homescreen and lockscreen when the outside weather condition changes. Information such as the current temperature, city name, battery percentage, and current date are displayed on the wallpaper as well.
While many are getting their hands on the new offering from BlackBerry - the Priv - those on BlackBerry 10, who also have access to BlackBerry Beta Zone, can check out the latest beta update to BBM. It brings some new features such as the ability to retract photos, just as you can retract messages and more.
Facebook Messenger will soon make it easier to find and share photos of specific friends thanks to new facial recognition technology. Called Photo Magic, it is now launching in Australia, before expanding to more countries in the coming months.
Getting double notifications from your Gmail and Google Apps email accounts on your BlackBerry Priv? There's an easy fix.
The easiest way to keep your apps up to date on your new BlackBerry Priv is to let the Play Store update them for you automatically. Here's what you need to know.
One of the few visual changes BlackBerry made to the user interface on the Priv over stock Android was to the recent apps view. Not everyone will be a fan but fortunately it's also really easy to change for a different look. Here's how.
You might know this, or you might not. But CrackBerry has an official app for Android in the Google Play Store which means you should totally download it right this very second to your new BlackBerry Priv!
The BlackBerry Priv is going to introduce a good many people to Android, and we're here to help guide you along the way. You'll eventually see talk online about things you can set in the developer options on your new Priv, so here's a handy guide to enabling them.
A weekly look at new, exciting, and cool apps to try. If your favorite did not make the cut this week, remember you can help by offering your suggestions at the end.
Out of the box, all Android phones are set so that only applications from Google Play can be downloaded and installed. It's a safety thing, and keeps you from installing those malicious applications you keep hearing about but don't know anyone who was ever affected by them. We think that most users should leave things at the default and enjoy the over one million apps in Google Play,...
Love movies? Who doesn't? Love to get all the information you can on upcoming movies? Check out CineTV10. It is a movie database app where you can find movies trailers, search information about TV shows, actors, as well as create playlists of your favorite trailers.
Ultimate Backup is a headless application with which users can backup to their device, SD card or the cloud, the data on their BlackBerry. This includes photos and videos, SMS/MMS/PIN, contacts and favorites, calendar events, documents, downloads, and other items.