Recently a number of older games have been making their way to mobile devices via the Android platform. Earlier this year we saw Activision launch a suite of 80's games, but now the company has struck again with a stand-alone version of the iconic Atari game Pitfall, albeit four months after debuting on iOS devices. Activision chose to release the
This is the time of year when a lot of people are going to be shipping Christmas presents out to friends and family. Have you ever wondered just where on Earth that package went to after you dropped it off at the post office? There's an app for that! The U.S. Post Office has an app called USPS Mobile. You
The folks over at XDA Developers do great work. If you have ever thought of rooting a phone or searched for a custom ROM then you have almost certainly stumbled across that web site. However, you may not have realized that they also produce custom apps as well. Recently a custom NFL clock widget was unveiled there. For now, the
Google regularly slips out updates to it's Play Store for Android and sometimes those updates bring some major changes. Then again, sometimes the update is a boring behind-the-scenes little fix that takes care of bugs. Version 3.10.10, which showed up in the download channel today, seems to be the latter. The latest Google Play download is all of 1.5 KB
Flickr has just released the all new Flickr app for iPhone. I learned about this when I went to Flickr today to search for a creative commons image that I could legally put into a blog I was writing. Near the top of Flickr's page, a colorful banner read “Smile. The All New Flickr iPhone App is Here”. A bright
Some of you, who are at least as old as I am, remember when playing a video game meant using a joystick. When I was younger, I spent a lot of time playing video games on various consoles. While it wasn't the same experience as using the joystick that came with the earliest video game consoles, (or the ones in
This morning Facebook quietly pushed a fairly major update to it's Android app. The company has been largely taken to task over it's mobile app due it's lack of functionality and poor performance. This new update certainly doesn't fix all of the problems and it won't make customers suddenly happy, but there are a few nice new functions added. First up