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If you like stargazing, you’ll love Star Walk’s new universal app for iOS

Aug21
by on August 21, 2014 at 4:08 pm
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Software developer Vito Technology already has a roaring success on its hands with Star Walk, the uber-popular stargazing app that launched back in 2008 and won an Apple Design Award two years later. 10 million downloads on (iOS and Android), Vito has lifted the lid on a brand new standalone app called – wait for it – Star Walk 2. The basic principle remains the same for the sequel: you can find and identify stars, satellites, and comets in real time, simply by holding your device up to the sky. However, the revamped incarnation has had a big makeover with…

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If you like stargazing, you’ll love Star Walk’s new universal app for iOS

Aug21
by on August 21, 2014 at 4:08 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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Software developer Vito Technology already has a roaring success on its hands with Star Walk, the uber-popular stargazing app that launched back in 2008 and won an Apple Design Award two years later. 10 million downloads on (iOS and Android), Vito has lifted the lid on a brand new standalone app called – wait for it – Star Walk 2. The basic principle remains the same for the sequel: you can find and identify stars, satellites, and comets in real time, simply by holding your device up to the sky. However, the revamped incarnation has had a big makeover with…

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There are 18,796 distinct Android devices, according to OpenSignal’s latest fragmentation report

Aug21
by on August 21, 2014 at 3:58 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Mobile

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The much-maligned Android fragmentation problem has blighted the mobile operating system for years, though Google has been steadily taking corrective measures in recent times. The issue? So many different devices and form-factors, running a multitude of Android versions which purportedly cause developers no-end of pain when striving to cater for the increasingly-dominant mobile platform. But how serious is the problem? OpenSignal sheds some light on this today, with its 2014 Android fragmentation report. OpenSignal on Android To recap, OpenSignal is the company behind the eponymous app that creates maps of mobile phone network coverage based on information crowdsourced from smartphone…

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There are 18,796 distinct Android devices, according to OpenSignal’s latest fragmentation report

Aug21
by on August 21, 2014 at 3:58 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Mobile

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The much-maligned Android fragmentation problem has blighted the mobile operating system for years, though Google has been steadily taking corrective measures in recent times. The issue? So many different devices and form-factors, running a multitude of Android versions which purportedly cause developers no-end of pain when striving to cater for the increasingly-dominant mobile platform. But how serious is the problem? OpenSignal sheds some light on this today, with its 2014 Android fragmentation report. OpenSignal on Android To recap, OpenSignal is the company behind the eponymous app that creates maps of mobile phone network coverage based on information crowdsourced from smartphone…

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Vemory grabs all the photos from your social networks and creates a video photo album

Aug21
by on August 21, 2014 at 3:51 pm
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The digital world allows us to take as many pictures as we want and post those to all the social networks. But when it comes to aggregating the events surrounding those memories, it’s like trying to find a remote control in the house of a hoarder. The Vemory (like memory but with a V, get it?) app creates photo albums from all your photos, either stored on your iOS device or on your various social network accounts. The aggregated photo albums are presented as movies with music and peppered with the comments left by your friends on the photos pulled…

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