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30 Mar 2015
Google Maps for Android now lets you view custom maps
Google Maps for Android now lets you view custom maps ogle Maps for Android now lets you view your customized files from My Maps more easily. To view your saved maps, launchGoogle Maps, tap ‘Your places’ in the menu, and scroll down to find your maps, highlighted with red marker icons. Google’s My Maps tool — available
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
The 5 best new features in Android 5.1 Lollipop
The 5 best new features in Android 5.1 Lollipop Google fixed a ton of bugs, and it also pushed through a few helpful features that should have been bundled with Lollipop from the start Android Lollipop 5.0 was supposed to change everything. It was supposed to inspire a revolution, a better — and betterlooking —
30 Mar 2015
What Google Code’s end means for Bitbucket, CodePlex, and SourceForge
What Google Code’s end means for Bitbucket, CodePlex, and SourceForge Credit: Signum Comminatio Vitae With most of its projects migrating away to GitHub, Google Code is shutting down; how will other competitors fare? For a time, Google Code was where many open source projects made their home. Then came the rise — and rise andrise — of
30 Mar 2015
Facebook: We don’t hate the Web
Facebook: We don’t hate the Web Credit: Thinkstock But for the time being Facebook is sticking to native development for mobile apps and open-sourcing its React Native technology Facebook does not hate the Web — as in Web development — but the social network giant does prefer native development when it comes to prominent device
30 Mar 2015
How to succeed with microservices architecture
How to succeed with microservices architecture Credit: Thinkstock Developer empowerment is a key part of the microservices trend, says Nginx’s Owen Garrett, who offers lessons learned from real world implementations The term “microservices” might be relatively new, but the practice of breaking applications into single-function, discrete services has gone on for years — long enough
28 Mar 2015
How to Use a PS4 DualShock 4 Controller on a PC
How to Use a PS4 DualShock 4 Controller on a PC The DualShock 4, the PlayStation 4’sbundled controller, is one of the finest gamepads I’ve handled. It’s comfortable and solidly built and with analog sticks and triggers that feel just right. Unfortunately, you can only use it with the PlayStation 4 console. Well, officially. Fortunately,
28 Mar 2015
The 6 Best Media Streamers
The 6 Best Media Streamers There are many ways to watch online content on your HDTV. Your television itself might have apps, or you might have a Blu-ray player orgame system connected with built-in streaming services. If neither case applies, or if your HDTV, Blu-ray player, or game system doesn’t have the exact media features
28 Mar 2015
Report: WhatsApp Voice Calling Finally Coming to iOS
Report: WhatsApp Voice Calling Finally Coming to iOS Good news, WhatsApp users. The Facebook-owned chat app is about to get a new feature on iOS: free voice calling. Speaking at Facebook’s annual f8 developer’s conference Thursday, WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton said the long-ago promised voice-calling feature will finally arrive on iOS devices within a
28 Mar 2015
Facebook Shows Off Solar-Powered Internet Drone
Facebook Shows Off Solar-Powered Internet Drone Facebook is moving ahead with its plan to connect the next 5 billion people to the Web—with a fleet of drones. At today’s f8 developer conference in San Francisco, Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer unveiled the social network’s first solar-powered drone (pictured), which can beam Internet access down to people