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The one thing that I’ve always struggled with is finding a really good mobile app that gives me the level of interaction with Facebook that I have when I’m sitting at home on the PC. I’ve been using the official mobile Facebook app for quite a while, but I find that it’s somewhat slow on the Android, and the most recent version has started crashing on me. However, recently I came across the mobile Seesmic app.

At the end of the day, you might like to sit back and relax with some classic old gaming. With so many possible games for your system to choose from, which one should you play? Which ones will actually be worth your valuable time? Well, would a game that requires you to strategize and comes with many maps sound worth your time? TripleA is the answer for you!

Advertising is a very different ballgame now compared to the past. The Web has changed everything, and it’s no longer enough to just release a commercial on television and hope it resonates with the consumers being targeted. The rise of time-shifting and online video hasn’t helped either, as we’re no longer being exposed to as [...]

I own a Windows desktop PC, a MacBook and an Android smartphone. Because of the differences between these devices, investigating their performance relative to each other is difficult. It’s not impossible, however, thanks to Peacekeeper. This browser benchmark from Futuremark runs on a plethora of devices via the browser and now includes both performance and battery tests.

It’s that time again. Microsoft has released a new critical security patch and is urging users to update. The problems exist in Internet Explorer and are triggered by malicious web pages that, if designed in a specific way, could execute code remotely at the access level of the user visiting page. That’s particularly bad news [...]

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Developer Aurora Softworks has just updated the Quadrant application for Android to include support for multi-core processors and Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS). Despite its popularity, multi-core support was quite poor in previous versions. Devices with such hardware should now score higher than they did before. Benchmarking has long been a good way to judge a [...]

Android phone owners in want of voice transcription software somewhat similar to the iPhone’s Siri can now rejoice. The formerly US-only Voice Actions by Google has expanded to the UK, France, Italy, Germany and Spain, making it easier for users in these areas to speak to their Android phone and get things done more easily and quickly. Though no system is perfect yet, Voice Actions provides a good amount of functionality.