Anyone who bought the fake antivirus Virus Shield app from Google’s Play Store will get their money back. The app reached number in the Google charts after it was downloaded more than 10,000 times. However, researchers from the Android Police site checked it out and discovered that it was completely useless. It Didn’t Do Anything Useful After checking out the code on the app, the investigators realised that Virus Shield didn’t actually do anything useful at all. The advertising for it said that it would stop “harmful apps” from...
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How often have you wanted to chat with a friend using your iPhone but not been able to because you aren’t connected to the internet and don’t even have network coverage? Well, the new and free FireChat app could be just what you need. This app works by using an iOS feature which allows the user to set up their own mini network. When you open up the app you get put into the “Everyone” room, which is where you will find, well, everyone, really. Actually, not quite everyone is in her. This is because you can speak to nearby people...
Have you ever wondered how many days you have left until you shuffle off this mortal coil, pop your clogs and kick the bucket? Hey, they’ve got an app for that now. This cheery little piece of technological wizardry is called Days of Life and it is described as motivational app. Basically, it shows a little counter which tells you how many days you have left. In case seeing the numbers there telling you exactly how long you can expect to keep on breathing, there is also a handy pie chart which shows you how much of your life you have...
Apple Maps is a useful way of making sure that you get around quickly and safely. Unless you end up on an airport runway in Alaska, that is. The issue is that a problem with the app has been telling drivers to go along the taxiway at Fairbanks International Airport. Staff from the airport confirmed to the Alaska Dispatch newspaper that in the space of three week two drivers have followed the instructions from Apple but then carried on past various signs and warnings and ended up one of the airport’s runways. Now, they have had to close...
The idea of sitting down on a toilet which costs almost £4,000 is pretty exciting but it is also rather scary. After all, with most toilets the worst that can happen is that the lid falls down unexpectedly. However, when you are talking about the Satis luxury toilet then there is clearly more capacity for things going wrong. Any bathroom device which offers automatic flushing, music, fragrance release and, gulp, a bidet spray has got to be something to be wary of. The Satis was put together by a Japanese company called Lixil and it even...
The Angry Birds games franchise seems to have been about forever but there is still life in the format yet. The previous game – Angry Birds Star Wars – proved to be hugely successful, which means that we shouldn’t be too surprised to discover that the next instalment is going to be called Angry Birds Star Wars II. Lots of New Characters The developer of this series of games is Rovio and the Finnish software company expects to get the new game out on the 19th of September. As with the previous versions of Angry Birds, it will be available...
How would you feel about your phone telling you how happy you currently are? This is a situation you could be in before too long thanks to research being carried out at Cambridge University right now. The idea they have had is that the app they have developed could use a mixture of data from the phone and the user’s own input. The app is called EmotionSense and the people behind it believe that it is the first ever mobile phone app to combine these two factors to advise how happy the user is. There are other apps which do a similar sort...
A new study just released by British Gas suggests that by 2030 we will have considerably more gadgets in our homes and that some of them will help UK homeowners save millions of pounds off our energy bills. The report was put together with the help of The Future Foundation and it suggests the following: By 2030 we can expect to have 51 gadgets in our home, compared to 35 just now. By this year the appliances we use at home will use up 40% less energy. The use of remote control on our home technology could help cut down on the amount of...
The Philips Hue home lighting system promises to give you an unprecedented level of control over your home’s lighting from your phone. This system runs through a mobile app and is an advanced sort of mood lighting method which allows the homeowner to control the colour and brightness of every bulb in the property if they wish to do so. It works by hooking up Wi-Fi connected light bulbs to an iOS app which can be used to control them and a gateway which slots into a wireless router. The whole thing can be run from an iPhone, an iPod or...
If you have children then you probably don’t have to fight with them for the right to read the newspaper. After all, our daily papers aren’t exactly aimed at the younger reader. However, this could be about to change in the future. A new augmented reality app for smartphones has been developed in Japan in order for kids to get more pleasure out of newspapers. It was created by the Japanese advertising agency Dentsu in conjunction with one of the country’s most popular newspapers, The Tokyo Shimbun, and it is known as AR News. A video...