Tag Archives: application

Paper for iPad update brings gallery and pinch-to-zoom

Paper for iPad, a popular iPad drawing app made by FifteeThree, released a major update today. In version 1.3.1 of Paper, developers finally added true pinch-to-zoom functionality that allows users to zoom in on a specific region of a drawing. This is a much-needed improvement over the old zoom feature, which just zoomed in on the whole…

Dropbox app updated with additional language support

Earlier this month, popular web storage solution Dropbox updated both its web application and Android app to support six additional languages with the promise that iOS compatibility would be soon to follow. Today Dropbox delivered on that promise, adding support for Indonesian, Malay, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Traditional Chinese and…

Tweetdeck for iPhone shutting down on May 7

Fans of the Tweetdeck app, listen up! Twitter has announced that the application will officially shut down on May 7 of this year. The social networking giant purchased Tweetdeck for a cool $40 million back in 2011, and has been hinting that it would kill the app off for a while now. Take note that it isn’t only the iOS app that is getting the axe, the…

Apple loses out on Goodreads integration to Amazon

If you’re a reader, you’ve probably heard of Goodreads. It’s basically the social networking for books, with ratings, reviews, recommendations, and more. All in all, definitely the type of thing major ebook publishers would want to get their hands on. In comes Apple. The Cupertino-based company reportedly spent about a year talking with Goodreads…

Google Babel set to launch with iOS support?

Code indicating a Babel iOS app If you haven’t heard about Google Babel, it’s basically Google’s answer to group chat services like Hipchat or GroupMe. Information about Google’s latest service resides largely in the realm of rumor and speculation at this point, but someone with much more patience than me has scoured through some Gmail HTML code and…

Google’s Quickoffice app now available for iPhone

For those of you unfamiliar with Quickoffice, this Google-branded application basically helps subscribers of Google Apps for Business manage their cross-platform productivity applications. Quickoffice users can access and edit Microsoft Office applications while saving compatible versions of the files to Google Drive, making it much easier to network…

Garmin apps updated with Bluetooth audio, Wikipedia integration

Navigation giant Garmin updated its NAVIGON and StreetPilot Onboard applications today. Both applications have a host of new features including Bluetooth audio support and in-app integration with Wikipedia. What’s more, the popular map manager function from the NAVIGON app is now available in StreetPilot Onboard as well. This will reportedly allow…

Apple files patent to prevent drop damage

Yesterday it emerged that Apple has filed for a rather audacious patent which seeks to prevent the significant damage of an iPhone when it is dropped. The patent was published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office yesterday, and it showcases Apple’s latest technology venture, suggesting Apple has been working overtime in a bid to alleviate damage…