Remember Yahoo!? You know, Yahoo! It has a search engine and other stuff. If you’re finding it tough to organise a Google Hangout session among friends, try this out instead. Once that’s done, you can view them individually or or as a collage that you can comment, share or download. Once it arrives, the group’s cameras will take a photo (it will give you 30mins, 1min or 10 seconds of notice).
You can invite people via iMessage to take part and select a time. If you want something a bit easier, Pixcall is designed around getting all your friends to take photos of themselves simultaneously. Chances are some of your close friends are abroad or working far from home so trying to organise a call with them can take a lot of effort. This week features an accessible way to start learning to code, a messaging app with silent video and some new life in old birds. There are a lot of apps released on a daily basis, but not all of them are worth paying attention to. Still, we’d love to Microsoft turn a blind eye to emulators.EACH WEEK, WE highlight five apps that are worth downloading for your smartphone and tablet.
Yes, Microsoft looks the other way when it comes to emulators on Windows Phone, but the Xbox One Store is a different matter. However, despite the source website claiming that it’ll be available when the Windows Store drops on Xbox One, I’m not holding my breath just yet. There’s a fat chance of this happening, but an Xbox One developer has managed to port the VBA10 Game Boy Advance emulator to Xbox One. There’s already an Xbox One reddit client in the form of ReddX, but we’d love to see popular mobile/PC apps Readit and Baconit come to Xbox as well.īoth apps stand out for their polished design and speedy performance, but they don’t skimp on features either. But if you do want a feature in there, the developers are very receptive to your feedback too (via reddit, of course). One of my favourite apps, PushBullet effectively allows you to share images, links, notes and other files between your devices.įor instance, if you spot a cool website or funny image while browsing the web on your desktop, you can simply right-click and send it to your Xbox One or phone via PushBullet. In other words, there’s never been a better time for Twitter to hit the Xbox One. The micro-blog has emphasised video content recently, increasing the length of clips to 140 seconds, offering up suggested videos for playback and delivering Vine integration. It may not have received much love on Xbox 360, but the evolving nature of Twitter means that an Xbox One version is looking more attractive. It’s already available on Windows Phone, Continuum and PC, but how cool would a Remote Desktop app be for Xbox One?Īgain, it’s another app that would benefit from upcoming keyboard and mouse support, so here’s hoping that the Remote Desktop app is in the works too. Office capabilities could make the Xbox One an easier sell to company bosses, as it could be used for Powerpoint presentations in the boardroom (when not used in the playroom, of course). Keyboard and mouse support is coming anyway, so the combination of Office and keyboard should turn the Xbox One into a light productivity machine. Speaking of Office, a version of Microsoft’s all-powerful productivity suite for Xbox One seems a bit silly at first.
Pairing the app up with VLC media player or Office would be a rather intriguing proposition, for starters… Microsoft Office Is it a ploy to drive users to OneDrive? I’m not sure, but I do know that there are more than a few Dropbox users out there that would love the app on Xbox One.
It’s available on Xbox 360, PC and Windows Phone, but there’s sadly no Dropbox app for Microsoft’s latest video game console. Not bad.įailing MyTube!, we’d like to see MetroTube and TubeCast hit Xbox One.
This little app offers video downloads for offline playback, audio-only playback and access to your favourites, playlists, liked videos and subscribed channels. There are loads of fantastic third-party apps though, and MyTube! is my favourite one of the lot. Thanks to Google’s vendetta against Microsoft, we haven’t seen any official YouTube app from the Mountain View company. The default Xbox players aren’t bad, but an all-in-one solution, capable of handling everything from MP3 and FLAC to MKV and AVI, would be a welcome addition to the Store. Easily one of the most popular apps around, VLC is a jack-of-all-trades media player, capable of handling almost everything you throw at it.