Apps

Apps to help you achieve New Year's resolutions

Whether it is improving health or managing finances better, many people will make resolutions for 2013 and there are plenty of apps to help them achieve their goals.

Rather than jumping into a rigorous fitness routine, a new app called 5K Runner suggests it might be better to ease into things slowly and focus on building sustainable habits. The iPhone app helps couch potatoes ramp up their running distance to 5 km over the course of eight weeks.

Nike Running and RunKeeper, two popular and free fitness apps, which use GPS to track distance travelled, speed and calories burned.

12:05 PM, Jan 01, 2013

Google's top 10 Android apps of 2012

Google has posted a list of the best Android apps of 2012. In the App Focus page on Google Play, Google merchandising manager Tavares Ford said,

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04:46 PM, Dec 28, 2012

Top 10 tech trends of 2012

Here is a list of the top 10 trends that ruled the tech world in 2012.

Photo filters - Many people were seen using photo editing apps thsi year like Instagram and Pixlr O-matic on Android, PicMix on BlackBerry and so on. This was evident as most of the photographs seen this year on networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and Google Plus had photo filters applied to them.

Large-screened phones - We witnessed a rise in the number of large-screened phones this year. From home-grown manufacturers to tech titans, almost every company came up with at least one large-screened phone this year.

03:47 PM, Dec 26, 2012

Siri clones: Top 10 personal assistant apps

Siri is not the only personal assistant that helps you get things done just by asking. Today, there are many other apps that let you do the same. Here is a list of apps that allow you to use your voice to send messages, schedule meetings, place phone calls, and more.

It is the advanced natural language user interface, to listen and respond to your words. It is claimed to present powerful functions in regards to device control and commands. It responds to you: you can tell the phone to wake up, answer an incoming call, or even take a photo.

Recently, LG announced a voice-driven virtual assistant, called Quick Voice, for its Optimus phones. It is yet another rival service to the Apple Siri virtual assistant. LG Quick Voice is the 'intelligent voice recognition software meant for the Android OS based Optimus series smartphones - Optimus Vu and Optimus LTE II, and is expected to launch in June and July.

04:05 PM, Jun 25, 2012

Top 10 free BlackBerry apps for fitness freaks

Are you a fitness freak? Do you use a BlackBerry phone? If your answer is yes to both the questions, then you are at the right place. Here are some interesting health and fitness apps for BlackBerry users.

Use your mobile as a free personal coach and training partner. Using the built-in GPS, it tracks your running, cycling, hiking, kayaking, skiing - you name it! As a bonus, you get audio feedback while working out.

Runtastic is your personal sports and fitness application. Whether you like to run, bike, skate, hike or ski – with runtastic you can map your activities, get motivated, burn calories and achieve better results.

06:38 PM, Apr 30, 2012

Top 10: April Fool's Day apps for Android users

Here is a list of apps that you can use to befool your friends on April Fool's Day. Use this app to trick your friends that you can see them naked.

You can use this app to trick your friends in believing that your phone can detect smells and see how embarrassed they get once the smell alert goes off as you move the device cross their body.

It is a perfect way to fool friends. With this app, within a seconds your phone is ready. Just one shake and screen will crack. This is really funny and interesting.

04:57 PM, Mar 31, 2012

Top 10: Must have free Android apps

We know that you just can't get enough of Talking Tom's parroting, helping some Angry Birds teach the pigs a lesson, keeping in touch with friends via the Facebook and Twitter Android apps, finding your way through Google Maps, checking what's new in your inbox with Gmail or knowing what's happening in the world of news with IBNLive for Android. But there is more in the bylanes of the Android Market. Here are our pick of the top 10 free and useful Android apps (excluding the ones already mentioned).

Android phones are the next most tempting target for the technology underground and securing your phones is as (if not more) important than securing your computer. While there are are number of paid security apps available, why spend when a free app from a reputed anti-virus company promises to do the job for free.

One of the world's most respected and trusted dictionaries can now fit into your shirt pocket at no direct cost to your wallet. The app also has a voice search feature, the only issue there is that it has (like so many of them) trouble understanding Indian accents. Not only meanings, the app also includes pronunciation, synonyms, antonyms, example sentences and more.

06:14 PM, Jan 28, 2012

All about the IBNLive iPad app

The entire CNN-IBN experience is now available on the iPad with the new IBNLive app for iPad.

You can download the free app from the Apple App Store.

Catch the latest news, events and more from India and around the world right with an enhanced tap and swipe experience on your iPad.

07:58 AM, Nov 03, 2011

11 mobile phone world records we want shattered

As in the world of sports, new records are constantly set and existing ones broken in the fiercely competitive mobile phone market. A selection of the top records from the world of mobile phones, some of which will have a longer stay at the top, while others may get shattered with a new product launch.

Apple may boast of selling 4 million new iPhones three days of its release, but the iPhone 4S still has a long way to catch up with the 250 million sales figure of the humble Nokia 1100. Targeted towards developing countries and users with limited needs the phone is the world's best selling mobile handset ever.

03:33 PM, Oct 22, 2011

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