~Fanboy~ I got my first iPod in my second year at the university. It was the all new iPod Touch and not many people on campus had one. I remember not having enough money to get one and I knew I couldn’t ask my dad because he’d ask me if it was an asset or…
Category: Apps
8 things iMessage could learn from WhatsApp
iMessage’s blue bubbles are very popular among iPhone users and even though the application has seen some amazing updates in recent years including message reactions, a variety of share effects and screens, there are still ways in which iMessage could be more efficient and create an all encompassing experience for the user. Replies — There are many…
Welcome to macOS
A friend of mine recently got a Mac for the first time and asked me to recommend applications. She’s a designer/developer and she wanted to feel right at home coming from Windows. After much taunting and inevitably quoting ‘once you go Mac, you never go back’, I found some apps that I think will make…
Unfreeze Your iPhone With The Help of Siri.
Ever since I updated to iOS 8, I’ve been experiencing some unusual behavior. I’m on the latest 8.0.2 and I’m still having the same issues as when I got 8.0. The camera icon from the lock screen doesn’t turn of the flashlight like it used to, and some other pesky stuff like an app just refusing…
4 Reasons why you should download the Amebo app
So you’re in front of your laptop or with your tablet and you open four or five different tabs on your Chrome browser including YNaija, Bella Naija, Naij and maybe 360nobs. You’re switching back and forth between tabs and scrolling endlessly to get your latest gist. This might not seem tedious at first but after…
Snapseed: iTunes App of The Week
Just in case you don’t know, Apple recently started giving away freebies on the AppStore just like they do on the iTunes music store. Last week, it was Cut The Rope Experiments. This time around, it is Snapseed. Snapseed is an award winning photo editing application for the iOS that is just beautiful. The…
App of the Month – BBM (Blackberry Messenger)
Some might argue BBM is not an app because it comes preinstalled with the OS. That’s like saying ‘Maps’ is not an app on android or iOS (iPhone/iPad) because it is there by default. Please. The Blackberry messenger, which is the only reason a lot of people are still using RIM’s albeit outdated handsets,…
App of the Month–Flipboard
Flipboard is referred to as the world’s first social magazine. The fact that it was Apple’s iPad app of the year for 2010 is enough to let you have an idea of how really good this app is. First thing you notice after launching the app is the beautiful presentation of news in a slideshow….
App of the Month–Pulse
So many apps out there for subscribing to your news feeds, this one really shines. Say hello to our favorite app for the month of May: Pulse. Pulse is a reading app that lets you subscribe to, and neatly organize your favorite news feeds and links posted on Facebook by your friends. Launching Pulse for…
TweetDeck for Chrome – A quick review
TweetDeck happens to be one of the most popular twitter clients especially for power users who tweet from their computers. It all started as an Adobe Air app for Windows before it blew up into Mac and Linux and mobile platforms with versions for Apple’s iOS, Google’s Android. The only version I haven’t tested in…