At long last, the newest Angry Birds: Seasons update is here! Angry Birds: Seasons has been updated to include a new set of Easter-themed levels, and even more golden eggs! Additionally, you can send Angry Birds Easter cards to friends from the app.
Talkatone is a free app that allows you to make FREE calls via an iOS device. This works for iPhone, iPod and iPad. You can also send unlimited free SMS messages.
It was a blessing when Google launched Google Docs, no need to download and install a word processors, you could do it all on your browser. Slowly improving and adding new old features from your basic word processor, Google Docs eradicates the need of another word processor for me. I’ve always found it annoying that there were no page breaks and I couldn’t keep track of how long my document was. Google has finally introduced Pagination, which basically means that you won’t have an endless Google document anymore. Pagination is being rolled out to everyone today.
Permalink: Another Google First – Pagination for Google Docs
It is surely as strange as it sounds that the vastly hyped Motorola XOOM tablet running latest Android 3.0 Honeycomb OS is missing the YouTube application for many customers. A large number of buyers have been complaining about the disappearing of YouTube on their tablets, an app that the company had advertised quite strongly while promoting its new tablet. Even after multiple factory resets, as instructed by the manufacturer’s official support forum, users seem to be running out of luck when trying to get YouTube re-installed.
Permalink: Install / Fix YouTube On Motorola XOOM Honeycomb Tablet [Guide]
Finally, the final build of Cyanogen Mod 7, the most popular after market Android firmware has been released. This release was a long time in coming ( took 4 months ) and is based on Android 2.3.3, otherwise known as Gingerbread. The great thing about this release is that despite most companies having dropped support for providing newest Android releases for their phones, CM7 brings all Gingerbread goodness to those phones. The current list of supported phones and tablets is 30 and contains lots of old models as well as new ones.
Permalink: Cyanogen Mod 7 (CM7) Final Version Released – Based on Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread
Samsung’s original Galaxy Tab is officially shipped with Android 2.2 Froyo which according to the manufacturer, will never receive the advanced tablet specific Android 3.0 Honeycomb update. Instead, the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and 8.9 will be released with Honyecomb OS on board. However, Spacemoose1 at XDA has been able to port Android 3.0 Honeycomb successfully on to the original 7″ Galaxy Tab.
Permalink: Original Samsung Galaxy Tab 7″ Running Android 3.0 Honeycomb [VIDEO]
While rooting Nexus S isn’t that difficult via ADB, it isn’t the easiest thing to do either for the average joe. Luckily, PaulObrien, an Android developer/hacker has created a simple one click SuperBoot which is probably the easiest method to root your Nexus S on Android 2.3.3. It automatically flashes your Nexus S with the boot.img file which roots Android 2.3.3 as well as install SU and SuperUser.
Permalink: How to Root Google Nexus S with Android 2.3.3 (Gingerbread) using SuperBoot
If there’s one thing about the Kinect that we love here at iTD, it’s the creative uses people find for it. Ever since the Kinect was hacked, the ideas and uses for it just keep coming. Yesterday, Google posted a video demonstrating Gmail gestures interpreted by your computer’s webcam. While this was an April Fool’s joke, the team that created FAAST (a Kinect hack that works with World of Warcraft) has now released a new program called SLOOW. This program uses the Kinect to make the Gmail gestures possible. You can see both the Gmail prank and SLOOW in action below.
Permalink: Gmail April Fool’s Prank Brought To Life Using Kinect!! [Video]
Nowadays, it’s not normal for smartphones to be released with slide out keyboards. Thanks to iPhone and Android devices, the trend has shifted towards virtual keyboards. But there are still users who would rather have a device with a keyboard that can come in handy during messaging and typing in long emails. Amongst such Android devices with physical keyboards, one of the choices for users is the T-Mobile HTC G2.
Permalink: T-Mobile G2 with Android 2.2 Review
With Amazon’s new Android Appstore rolling out, there is a feature that makes Amazon’s Appstore look like it’s a step ahead of Apple’s. “Test Drive” allows potential Appstore customers to try out the app in their browser, on a virtual, cloud-based, Android virtual machine. This is a remarkable step towards both showing the power of cloud-based computing and giving customers a fair idea of what they can expect from an app before they buy it. While “Test Drive” only allows for 30 minutes of app testing, it is still a very impressive move on Amazon’s part. It’s not difficult to imagine Apple implementing something similar into iTunes sometime in the near future.
Permalink: Amazon’s Appstore Lets You ‘Test Drive’ Apps On Your Computer!
