apps

Tinder hits Apple TV: get gran to find matches for you

Tinder is a rather private experience for many people, but the hookup/dating app is now available on Apple TV, if you can believe that. What’s…

Google launches PhotoScan to save your old photo albums

Google Photos has become an indispensable tool for scores of people, allowing them to seamlessly back up their smartphone snaps. But what about physical…

Opera: OLX, Letgo tracks you more than Takealot, Gumtree

New research from Opera Software found that over half of the top 60 Android shopping apps collect personal information via trackers. However, South Africa’s…

Here’s why Snapchat is Snapchat’s own worst enemy

It’s tough to think of another mobile platform that’s enjoyed as much success in as short a time as Snapchat. The service has managed…

10 WhatsApp tricks you should know about

One of the world’s most popular messaging platforms, WhatsApp has gone from strength to strength since its 2011 launch, eventually being swallowed by the…

EFF: 4 big security concerns for WhatsApp

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has been on WhatsApp‘s case this year, taking the platform to task over its new data-sharing policy with Facebook….

Google Sprayscape: spray weird 360 snaps with this app

Another week means another app from Google, but this one, dubbed Sprayscape, comes from its Creative Lab. In other words, expect something less like…

5 cooking apps that’ll turn you into a Masterchef

I’ll start this article off with some complete honesty: besides toasted sandwiches and the occasional omelette here and there, I’m not much of cook….

Facebook announces App Centre, just like everyone else

Facebook has been has been big on apps for a little while now. It’s a little surprising therefore that it’s taken it so long…

Are smartphones encouraging self-diagnosis?

I’m going to start this post with a little disclaimer to save my own ass: if you’re ill, go see a doctor. Of course,…

We will download 66bn apps a year by 2016 [Report]

Apps are everywhere. There are app stores, fuelling the app economy, which is part of the app ecosystem. It stands to reason that we…

ForgetMeNot Africa eTXT Apps Challenge: Win big in Zimbabwe

If you’re a Zimbabwean tech entrepreneur, this might be of interest to you. A competition launching next week at the Harare Club of JumpStart…

Mozilla’s tech evangelist on the web’s immortality: The Memeburn interview

Robert Nyman could be the geek of all geeks. As the Swedish-based Technical Evangelist for Mozilla, Nyman is a strong believer in HTML5 and…

10 Mac only apps I can’t live without

Mac owns a mere seven percent of the world’s desktop operating system market share (Windows has over 92%) and yet, it has some of…

Instagram envy: 4 similar photo apps for BlackBerry users

With over 50-million users, Instagram is the photography app of choice for many photographers with an iPhone and a love of vintage-inspired pics. Instagram…

Geek Love — there’s an app for that

Geek love. If the lads from The Big Bang Theory can do it, anyone can. The theory is resoundingly sound: go online, find a…

Entertainment apps rule Android store downloads, not games

iOS users have fun, Android users get down to business, according to mobile app search company, Chomp. In its first ever annual app search…

Online auction site Bidorbuy launches app for iDevices

Online auction site Bidorbuy has launched an app designed to work across a range of Apple’s iDevices. The South African-based site, which claims to…

We appear to be living in the golden age of apps

Are apps the only way to do mobile, and in fact, any computing? We appear to be living in the golden age of apps….

Rumours of the PC’s demise have been greatly exaggerated

The personal computer is not dead nor is it dying. Hype and slick marketing may be painting such a scenario, but that is not…

App of the week: Sword & Sworcery

A gaming sensation from a hip little Canadian outfit that is as strange and eerie as it is wonderfully engrossing: old skool graphics and…

App of the week: TweetBot

This week I take a look at the most popular of the infamous Tapbots app range, Tweetbot, a stylish, easy to use and cleverly…

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