Whenever someone brings up the various advantages of Android and its operating system as a whole, one of the first things that get mentioned is rooting. If you buy Android, you can root your device and exert an incredible level of control over its every function. Rooting allows you to control nearly every part of your phone. It’s pretty awesome. However, figuring out exactly how to root can be difficult. Android phones come ...

Undoubtedly, one of the most used apps on an Android device, or for that matter any smartphone, would be the mobile web browser. Thankfully, the stock Android browser is a pretty good and useful app. But this shouldn’t stop you from trying out other alternative browsers on Android. Third-party, alternative browsers on Android offer more functionality, better features, and great user interface that could make you forget the stock browser app. Here, we’ve rounded up some ...

Remember those animated GIFs before the Flash interactive webpages came in? Back then, having a GIF on a website was pretty cool. Not everybody managed to create a GIF though, since creating one takes some time and needs a special software. But today, you can quickly create animated GIF images easily - Thanks to the iPhone and an app called Loopcam.   Introduction to Loopcam iPhone App Loopcam is a free GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) creator app for iPhone. As such it allows you to create animated GIF ...

Following the release of their music player app for Android, Nullsoft, the company managing Winamp released their first application for Mac - Winamp for Mac. Still in beta state, this application provides a seamless way of synching music for Android phone owners who have installed the Winamp for Android app. Honestly, I was surprised to find out how amazing, pretty useful and true it is, to what it says it can do. And that is sync music or iTunes Playlists ...

One thing that’s common to just about everyone is boredom. At some point or another, everybody gets tired of whatever they’re doing and just want to waste a little time playing games. And let’s face it, we’ve all done that before. Even if it’s just Solitaire, everyone plays some form of a video game. They come in so many shapes and sizes these days that it’s pretty hard not to play ...

It’s odd how easy this is to forget, but modern smart phones can actually call people. It’s so easy to get caught up in rooting, custom ROMs, games, apps, tethering, and all that other fun stuff that sometimes you lose sight of the fact that your special device is still at its core a telephone. You know, something that you use ...

One major difference between a feature phone and smartphone is that the latter is capable of using messaging apps which are a lot more functional and feature rich when compared to the default stock app that comes with the Android OS. The stock messaging apps in general, are pretty basic and don't offer anything more than just sending, receiving, replying and reading SMSes. Another issue is that more often than not, you’re stuck with the same boring theme or skin that comes with stock app. ...

Despite Apple’s record-breaking sales after every release of an iPhone, Android still is the largest mobile operating system provider, owning 48% of this market. On the app store market Android holds the second place, but at a close range from the leader.  Android Market is however a testing ground for developers and publishers and lately over 185,000 of unsuitable apps were removed. According to a report published on Research2Guidance Apple users interested in App Store are millions of iPods or iPads owners, not only ...

Although TinyChat has been around for a couple of years now, it was only early this year that it got some boost by way of more funding from angel investors and even celebrities such as Ashton Kutcher, Puff Daddy and other. TechCrunch described how TinyChat is just getting started and it has a tremendous growth potential. The web service is also getting some good publicity lately with users of the service growing steadily. And most recently, the TinyChat ...

One thing that’s common to just about everyone is boredom. At some point or another, everybody gets tired of whatever they’re doing and just want to waste a little time playing games. And let’s face it, we’ve all done that before. Even if it’s just Solitaire, everyone plays some form of a video game. They come in so many shapes and sizes these days that it’s pretty hard not to play them. Thankfully, ...