Nintendo had what I would call an excellent conference last week at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) 2014.
How To: Make a Raspberry Pi Media Center in 4 Easy Steps! (Low Cost)
If you haven’t heard of the Raspberry Pi yet, it’s time to come out from under your rock. It’s better than the delicious treat with which it shares its name, and is a powerful computer for its tiny size.
Hope for Privatized Spacecraft Soars with Dragon V2
When Elon Musk, PayPal and SpaceX founder, unveiled the Dragon V2 on May 29, my heart jumped into my throat.
Twitter Acquires Ad Specialist Namo Media
Twitter’s latest endeavor has been to find a way to seamlessly integrate advertisement with its services, especially its mobile apps. The 140-characters-or-less company announced today that they were acquiring Namo Media.
Review: Aurora UI Icon Pack (Android)
It’s nice to mix things up a little bit and use an icon pack on your Android device. There are a lot of dark and low-key icon packs available out there, but developer Fraom’s Aurora UI icon pack is just the thing if you’re looking for something more colorful.
Review: KooGoo Icon Pack (Android)
Andrea Corvi’s latest Android icon pack, KooGoo, is something altogether different. Typically, I favor minimalistic icon packs when using Nova Launcher on my Android devices. … Read more…
Review: Banded Icon Pack for Android
It should be no secret by now that I love icon packs. I love customizing my Android devices with custom themes and icons that suit my mood. Alex J. Miller of A Random Package has designed a beautiful, insanely minimalist icon pack called Banded.
Nintendo Lacks Focus – A Proposal
Over the last few months analysts and consumers alike have realized that Nintendo has a potentially serious problem. Sales are faltering and brand recognition is being overtaken by other companies, namely Sony, Microsoft and, to a lesser degree, brands available on more mobile devices than Nintendo’s proprietary mobile hardware. Our own Justin Jelinek reported on this earlier last week.
Console Versions of Elder Scrolls Online Delayed 6 Months, Zenimax Promises Goodies
Playstation 4 and Xbox One owners will have to wait a little bit longer to explore the sprawling world of The Elder Scrolls Online (ESO) on their TV screens. Zenimax Online confirmed rumors today in a blog post that the console release of their popular massively multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPG) has been delayed for 6 months.
Happy Star Wars Day: May the 4th Be With You!
There’s hardly a man, woman, or child alive today that hasn’t heard of Star Wars. This cultural phenomenon is a result of the work of filmmaker George Lucas. Just in case you’re not familiar, Star Wars is an epic space opera that takes place “a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away….” as the famous opening crawl explains.
Snapchat Gets Texting & Video Calls
An estimated 40 million users of one of the most popular mobile messaging apps, Snapchat, now have new ways to communicate within the app. Both the Android and iOS versions of the app have been updated to include private text messaging and face-to-face video calls in real time.
Review: Orpheus Music Player (Android)
If you’ve ever gone looking for a new music player for your Android smartphone or tablet, you’ll know that the Google Play Store is cluttered with hundreds upon hundreds of apps in that category. Less than half of them are worth your taps, and less than half of those are worth the price they ask for. Orpheus Music Player, however, is worth every single cent of the 99 cents you’ll pay for it, and then some!
Review: Struktur Icon Pack (Android)
Developer Alex Cronin’s Shamrock Studios has just recently put out a beautiful new icon pack.
First Successful Launch of SpaceX Reusable Rocket
On April 18, 2014, PayPal founder Elon Musk’s private spacecraft company, SpaceX, claimed its first successful launch of its reusable rocket, the Falcon 9, achieved through the launch of SpaceX-3.
Review: The Elder Scrolls Online
The official launch day for the PC version of The Elder Scrolls (TESO) has come and gone, and now millions of users are exploring the … Read more…
Review: Paper Icon Theme Pack (Android)
Graphic designer and Android developer Samer Zayer has created a unique new look for those of you who love to skin your Android device.
Review: Roku Streaming Stick (HDMI Version)
Odds are pretty good that you’ve heard of Roku, even if you don’t own one. Roku is one of the most popular streaming set-top box makers in the world, bringing high definition video entertainment directly into your living room almost exclusively via a small, square, purple box.
The times are always changing, and the latest craze is streaming dongles like the Google Chromecast.
Reversible USB 3.1 Is Coming Soon
It’s your first day back on shift, and as you stumble through the front door, so tired that you can barely see straight, you make it my personal mission to crash in bed for the night.
Status Report: PlayStation Vita
The Sony PlayStation Vita (PS Vita) is a little over 2 years old now, but don’t think for one second that this current generation handheld gaming platform has lost any of its forward momentum.
Top 10 Must-Have Chromecast Apps
It will come as no surprise to anyone who follows me on Techaeris when I say that I love the Google Chromecast. Earlier this year, I wrote an article as to whether the $35 dongle mattered and why; in short, I believe it matters because the proliferation of the device and an open SDK is helping Google create an industry standard for casting content to screens in a market where others have had either marginal success or failed.
Review: Front Facing Flash (XDA App)
The XDA Developers forum is a massive online community dedicated to trying new things on Android. They’re well-known for their comprehensive Android rooting and ROM flashing guides for virtually every phone released in recent history.
Android Wear Coming to Wearables in Q2 2014
Sundar Pichai, Google’s Senior Vice President of Android, Chrome, & Apps, announced in a post on the Official Google Blog today that Android Wear and smartwatches running the new operating system would be available to consumers as soon as Quarter 2 of this year.
Pocket Casts Gets Chromecast Support On Android
Shifty Jelly, creators of the beloved podcasting app Pocket Casts, have issued an update to the Android version of the app. Pocket Casts v4.5 now brings the promised and greatly anticipated Chromecast support to the service.
Google Drive Now Gives More For Less
Scott Johnston, Director of Product Management at Google Drive, put out a press release today announcing revamped storage payment options for Google Drive.
Free users will retain their current limit of 15GB of storage, but now you can acquire up to ten terabytes (TB) for insane prices.
NASA’s Morpheus Lander Flies Free Once More
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Morpheus Lander performed its ninth successful free flight test yesterday, March 11, 2014. The short flight took place at Kennedy Space Center located in Merritt Island, FL. This was the final test flight before the integration of Autonomous Landing and Hazard Avoidance Technology (ALHAT) on NASA’s Bravo vehicle.
Birthday Alert: The Internet Turns 25 Today!
Twenty five years ago today, while working as an independent contractor at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Sir Tim Berners-Lee wrote a proposal … Read more…
Why You Should Use Telegram Instead of WhatsApp
When Facebook acquired popular messaging platform WhatsApp on February 19, 2014, for US$19 billion in shares, stock, and cash, two things happened: The Internet went crazy trying to figure out Facebook’s angle on the purchase, and millions of users began flocking to Telegram.
Founded in 2013 by brothers Nikolai and Pavel Durov, Telegram is a free, open source messaging app that focuses on maintaining maximum security for its users. It is available on both Android and iOS officially and Windows Phone, Windows, Linux, and Mac OSX unofficially for free; indeed, the company makes it plain on their website that “Telegram is free forever.
