Apple Archive
02 Apr 2015
Google’s Inbox email app adds support for custom Snooze times
Google’s Inbox email app adds support for custom Snooze times One of the most useful features in Google’s new Inbox email client is the ability to set Snooze times for when you want to save some email to read for later. Google’s now making the tool a little more versatile. Previously, you could only assign
02 Apr 2015
All developers can now submit Apple Watch apps to the App Store
All developers can now submit Apple Watch apps to the App Store Apple has today quietly announced that it’s now expanding Apple Watch app submissions to all developers. In a short post to the developer site, Apple is encouraging developers to prepare and submit WatchKit apps for review ahead of the April 24th launch
02 Apr 2015
Microsoft updates Outlook for iOS and Android with a new address book and calendar improvements
Microsoft updates Outlook for iOS and Android with a new address book and calendar improvements microsoft has updated itsOutlook email apps for iOSand Android with a raft of new features, rounding out the address book, calendar and search functions. The People section has evolved from displaying only your top contacts to a full-blown address
02 Apr 2015
Periscope updates its iOS livestreaming app, Android version coming soon
Periscope updates its iOS livestreaming app, Android version coming soon Twitter’s new livestreaming iOS app Periscope been updated to display broadcasts from people you follow more prominently. The updated app now displays broadcasts from people you follow at the top of your feed, so they’re easier to find in the ocean of streams from
02 Apr 2015
Google releases a tool for developers to launch Android apps on Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome OS
Google releases a tool for developers to launch Android apps on Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome OS Google has opened up its App Runtime for Chrome (ARC) to developers so they can run their apps on any desktop with a Chrome browser, reports Ars Technica. ARC is a project that allows Android apps to run
01 Apr 2015
WhatsApp for Android now allows all users to make voice calls, iOS coming soon
WhatsApp for Android now allows all users to make voice calls, iOS coming soon If you’ve been wondering when, oh when, someone will ring you via WhatsApp so you’ll get its new voice calling feature, you won’t have to sit by the phone any longer. Updating to WhatsApp version 2.12.5 via Google Play does
30 Mar 2015
Review: 7 excellent mobile app builders
Review: 7 excellent mobile app builders Credit: Shutterstock Alpha Anywhere, AnyPresence, and Salesforce1 lead a rich field of low-code mobile development tools Over the last six months, I’ve been examining and testing a variety of mobile app builders and mobile back ends. In some cases, the app builders and back ends were part of a
30 Mar 2015
Facebook’s iOS UI development framework goes open source
Facebook’s iOS UI development framework goes open source Credit: Image credit: IDG News Service/Zach Miners ComponentKit framework, now offered for general use, reduces the complexity of writing code Facebook has open-sourced ComponentKit, its React-inspired framework for iOS. Facebook says ComponentKit is a native Objective-C++ view framework with a declarative, functional approach to building a UI.
27 Mar 2015
The FREAK HTTPS exploit: Now even easier, affects 2,000 iOS, Android apps
The FREAK HTTPS exploit: Now even easier, affects 2,000 iOS, Android apps A few weeks ago, we covered the FREAK (Factoring attack on RSA Export Keys) issue, and how building a backdoor into encryption standards more than twenty years ago isdamaging security today. A recent set of announcements has confirmed that the potential for
25 Mar 2015
Google Self-Driving Car Project Hopes To Be Standard On Roads Within 5 Years
Google Self-Driving Car Project Hopes To Be Standard On Roads Within 5 Years Google’s Chris Urmson recently spoke about the autonomous car project that the company has been working on, saying that the company hopes to have a car on the road within five years. Google has been working on its autonomous car for only