VoodooPad 5.0
Major update to Flying Meat’s personal wiki app for the Mac. Chock full of great new features, but my favorite is this:
VoodooPad 5 includes a new Markdown page type with syntax aware
editing and preview. And when you export for the Web, ePub, or
even PDF, VoodooPad will render your page into rich text for
display.
VoodooPad is one [...]
New in-browser experience for Netflix
Video player gets lick of paint
Netflix subscribers have been treated to a new, tasty in-browser video player that adds a feature or two and simplifies the viewing experience. It allows users to select other episodes of a TV show from within the player itself and adds an information overlay when video is paused.
Using Microsoft Silverlight, [...]
Facebook trialling ‘pay to promote posts’ in New Zealand
Would you shell out?
Facebook users in New Zealand are being given the option of paying to highlight particular wall posts and updates.
Payments of 25p, 50p and even ?1.25 have already been paid to the social network via credit card and PayPal. In return Facebook will promote posts by keeping them at the top of news [...]
Facebook for Windows Phone 2.5 update coming, adds new features
Even more social
Facebook for Windows Phone is about to get a big update according to its developers.
In a Facebook post details of the next version (v2.5) of the social networking app for Microsoft’s mobile platform have been detailed.
“The team has been working hard over the past few weeks on building the next version of Facebook [...]
BlackBerry PlayBook 2.0.1 update rolling out now
New features and improvements
RIM has released a new update for the BlackBerry Playbook bringing with it a number of improvements and optimisations on Wednesday.?
The new version; BlackBerry PlayBook OS v2.0.1.358 is now available to all users and available via the software update panel within the software.
According to RIM, the BlackBerry PlayBook OS v2.0.1.358 contains many [...]
Samsung Galaxy S II Ice Cream Sandwich update for unlocked models now out
Just Orange and T-Mobile left
Samsung has confirmed to Pocket-lint that the Ice Cream Sandwich update for unlocked version of the?Samsung Galaxy S II?smartphone is now available via Kies.?
In a statement issued to Pocket-lint the company has said:
“Samsung UK has been working as hard as possible over the last few weeks to get Android 4.0 (Ice [...]
Vodafone Samsung Galaxy S II Ice Cream Sandwich delayed
OTA not till 17 April now
If you are frantically hitting that update button on your Samsung Galaxy S II waiting for the Vodafone Ice Cream Sandwich update to be found. Stop. The UK network has just told us that the rollout has been delayed until the Thursday, 13 April (that’s tomorrow at time of writing) [...]
Google Chrome adds tab syncing for all devices
Live in Beta
The latest version of Chrome, Google’s desktop browser, will now offer tab syncing to multiple machines including your Android smartphone.?
The news means that if you use the company’s browser on different computers or devices at different locations, you can pick up where you left off.?
“Imagine you’ve looked up directions to a cool new [...]
Vodafone Samsung Galaxy S II Ice Cream Sandwich starts 12 April
Just Orange, T-Mobile, and Samsung to go
Vodafone has confirmed that Samsng Galaxy S II owners waiting for the Google Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update will have to wait no more, with the new update going out to an SGSII near you on Thursday, 12 April.
“The ICS update has passed our testing and will be [...]
New Swiftkey 3 removes the need for spacebar
Noneedforspaces
Swiftkey has announced the launch of a new version of Swiftkey, the popular Android keyboard, that promises to make typing on the go even easier.
The crux of the new app, Swiftkey 3, now compensates for when you don’t hit the space key, automatically inserting spaces and correcting words.
“People like software that turns their gibberish into [...]
