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I was extremely excited to hear Google had a cloud music platform in the pipeworks. This means you can upload your music to their servers and have access wherever you are in the world with just an internet connection, device and Google account. Unfortunately, it was only available to US residents. Fiddlesticks. A year later [...]

Is augmented reality just a tech fad? Tech news was once rife with how AR would become an everyday occurrence. Well I’m still waiting for that day. A video recently caught my eye and I’ve come to the conclusion: AR is fun for about 5 secs, as this video proves. Wow! You can change a can of beer into the [...]

Love Google Doodles? Then you’ll love this video taking a look behind the Doodle. It first started when the founders of Google (Larry Page and Sergey Brin) left the office to attend the Burning Man Festival. They simply inserted the infamous Burning Man logo into their logo and the rest is history. The idea behind [...]

While there are a ton of running apps on both the App store and Google Play, there are few that motivate you to actually lace up your trainers and go. Introducing Zombies, Run!, a game/app that does exactly that. It’s a really interesting concept that rewards you the longer you run. I won’t reveal too [...]

Mobile games centred on the beautiful game may be plentiful, but very few are worth downloading. A couple of honourable mentions go to the free Fifa alternative Real Football 2012 and Football Kicks, the free kick game. New Star Soccer is a must for any footy fan with a smartphone. The premise is simple; start [...]

Everything seems to be moving towards tablets these days. Desktops are rarely favoured in the home while laptops will eventually get to a stage where they are second favourite too. Tablets have exploded in popularity due to their portability which makes them the perfect travel companion, great entertainment systems for videos, games and music and [...]

The Android market – sorry…Google Play Store – is awash with music players for your smartphone. Check any forum discussing this topic and you’ll find at least five different suggestions for the ‘best’ player. I’ve tried countless music players over the years and found there isn’t one to rule them all. So instead I use [...]

Instagram finally made its way to Android last week. The much sought after camera app has already been downloaded over 5 million times in only six days, proving how hungry Android users were for its release. Its success has now seen the company being bought by Facebook for $1 billion! It’s still unsure as to [...]

The mobile game Draw Something has taken the world by storm recently, becoming the number one game in most major countries. It was only a couple of months ago when the developers Omgpop were staring down the barrel of bankruptcy. That is until Cityville developers Zynga bought them for £113 milion.  Now, Draw Something has become [...]

One of many great things about the smartphone is the ability it gives you to stay clued up with the latest news and gossip; we have never been more informed. I can’t remember what it was like without Twitter and RSS readers. There are a ton of apps out there that perform the same function [...]