We at TechNorms like to think we’re bright people. We understand most things we come across. However, we were left slack-jawed and baffled by the launch of the original iPad in 2009. It made no sense. Why would anyone want a giant iPod Touch? Why was it so expensive? Why would they name it after a tampon? Four years later, the iPad is phenomenally successful. It launched a new genre of electronics. Steve Jobs & Company created a third device between computers and smartphones. That’s remarkable. Today we’re ...

Hello, and welcome back to another week of the Weekend Games Corner. We’ve picked out a few interesting games for Android, iOS, and Flash. With any luck, one of these games will tickle your fancy enough to merit some play time this weekend. There is nothing weird about that last sentence. This week we’ve selected a few quality strategy games. Well, most of them are strategy games. We couldn’t help but pick a non-strategic title for Android. The other two ...

We’ve covered the themes in Cydia once before when we were feeling uncharitable. Too many people on Cydia forget that just because you can make a theme doesn’t mean you should. A lot, and we mean a lot of themes for jailbroken devices look utterly atrocious. There is a lot of crap on that store. Thankfully, there’s also a lot of good stuff buried between the bikini babe wallpapers. We went through Cydia and picked out five themes that are worth ...

As technology improves and Internet connections become faster, services which originated as expensive luxuries have slowly become accessible to everybody - for free. One example of this is the Viber for iOS app, which makes calls and text messages completely free, so long as you have an Internet connection. The Viber app allows you to send unlimited free messages and make unlimited free calls from across the globe, via any network or supported device. Additionally, Viber keeps you updated socially with photo supported instant messaging, profile status updates and more. How to use Viber ...

Amazon Cloud Drive was recently released, making accessing your photos from anywhere as easy as viewing them on your phone. After adjusting a few settings you’ll be able to snap a photo from your phone, get on your computer and view them in your pictures folder. Open your Amazon account and you can view them there as well. This provides three ways to access and share images taken from your phone or uploaded from ...

Welcome back to one more week of the Weekend Games Corner. We’ve scoured the internet for three games that can entertain you this weekend. We’ve got something for Android, iOS, and Flash, so there is a quality free game for every major casual gaming platform. Sorry, Windows Phone. Better luck next time. This week is all about puzzle games. We picked out three solid brainteasers that should keep you occupied for the weekend trying to solve their intricacies. ...

Making decisions, even on a small scale, is sometimes hard. Most people will look to friends, family or even the Internet for moral advice and feedback on what they should do. Seesaw is a new app allowing you to crowdsource different answers and feedback from the community. This can be anything from what shoes to buy to if you should go to university or get a job. The app is currently run by a small startup team, named Seesaw Decisions Corporation, who work in San Francisco. This is ...

Google Now is a powerfully unique service which allows you to access relevant information, exactly when you need it. Over time, the application will memorize your daily routine, and will eventually offer you useful information about your journey to work, upcoming appointments, and so forth. Google Now used to be a luxury available for Android users only, until now. On April 29th 2013, Google finally launched its popular Google Now service across iOS devices, via its Google Search app - a move which could change the ...

Hello, and welcome to the 42nd edition of the Weekend Games Corner. This is our weekly column where we find the latest and greatest mobile games for your playing pleasure. We pick a game for Android, iOS, and Flash so that no one feels left out. Well, no one except Windows Phone, but that doesn’t count. Cheap shots aside, we’ve picked some interesting and fun games this week for you to play. These titles are unique, clever, and free to play. Picking ...

The iOS store is teeming with great weather applications and the new ideas coming from developers on how to display and digest weather information overlaps anything we have previously seen. Yahoo! Weather has a big hill to climb to reach the top - it needs the information Yahoo is well known for and a design edge to rival the new diverse weather apps on the market. In Yahoo! Weather we see a lot of the redesign of the company, from the old Yahoo where you could display information in any ...