Wednesday 28 February 2018
Asus ZenFone Max (M1) (ZB555KL) With 4000mAh Battery Launched at MWC 2018: Specifications, Features
Asus ZenFone Max (M1) was launched on Tuesday at MWC 2018 alongside
the ZenFone 5 series, which includes the ZenFone 5Z, ZenFone 5, and
ZenFone 5 Lite. The Asus ZenFone Max (M1) is very similar to the ZenFone
Max Plus (M1) that was launched in Russia last year, before being made
available in the US earlier this year. There are some differences
however – instead of running on the MediaTek MT6750T, it is available in
two variants, running the Qualcomm Snapdragon 425 or the Snapdragon 430
SoC. It also has a smaller display, at 5.5-inch, compared to the
5.7-inch display on the ZenFone Max Plus (M1). No pricing information
has been revealed.
Asus ZenFone Max (M1) (ZB555KL) specifications
Pac-Man: Championship Edition 2 Review
It’s always a risky proposition to take a beloved classic franchise
and move it forward with added twists. Change too much, and a reimagined
retro game can lose its nostalgic charm. Don’t change enough, and
players might not see the point at all. Bandai Namco has been toeing
this razor-thin line with Pac-Man for quite a few years, but with good
results. In 2007, Pac-Man: Championship Edition bolstered the series’
simple maze template with different modes, challenges, map
configurations, and eye-catching effects–and the result was one of the
best arcade revamps ever made.
Fast-forward nine years, and Bandai Namco has successfully
rejuvenated Pac-Man once again in Pac-Man: Championship Edition 2. It’s
so overhauled, in fact, that it uses a progression meter to unlock new
modes–starting with a tutorial. Who’d have thought that a Pac-Man game
would need instructions? Yet Championship Edition 2 definitely does.
Rather than merely teach you how to play, it also serves as a quick trip
down the road of game design to see how developers can successfully
evolve a game from 1980.
Moss Review: Tiny Triumph
Too often VR games seek (and fail) to replicate the feel of
traditional games. Their inability to translate the smooth gameplay
we’re used to–as opposed to working with the strengths of the hardware
to create something new–often sours the experience. Moss, a new
PlayStation VR exclusive from developer Polyarc, does the complete
opposite. With its careful use of the hardware it’s running on, Moss is a
platformer that isn’t just full of charm and surprises, but one that
wouldn’t feel at home outside of VR.
Moss stars Quill, an incredibly adorable white mouse with
an aptly tiny sword and satchel on her back. Quill lives within folk
tale, the sort of whimsical fantasy that comes to life from the
watercolours of a story book and narrated over with a single personable
voice. Due to a terrible war years earlier, Quill and an adorable city
of similar rodents live on the outskirts of a castle that kisses the
horizon. There’s mysticism and magic at play around every corner,
different factions controlling parts of the thick forests surrounding
you, and dangers that have everyone keeping their heads down.
Quill doesn’t seek to change this balance, but like in all
good fantasy tales, fate doesn’t share that opinion. It doesn’t take
long for her to stumble upon a magical item that introduces a second
protagonist: you. You control Quill with a standard DualShock 4, but you
also play the part of the Reader, a ghost-like figure with a mask that
only Quill can see. You do double duty as an ever-present deity,
actively observing Quill’s adventure and aiding her where you can.
Your relationship with Quill and the investment in her
journey are paramount to why Moss entangles itself in your heartstrings.
Using motion controls, you’re able to give Quill a little head scratch,
which she reciprocates with an appreciative smile and wave. At certain
times, Quill will gesture for a high-five after completing a difficult
task or gesture toward the solution of a puzzle when you’re stuck. Quill
is almost unbelievably animated; her motions give her personality and
entice you to just watch as you control her scamping about. The way she
kicks her legs at the end of a climb or communicates through sign are
both contextually fitting and wondrous in both minute detail and
fluidity, and never ceases to bring a smile to your face.
Tuesday 27 February 2018
Into The Breach Review: A Mechanized Masterpiece
In 2012, Subset Games released FTL–a strategy roguelite whose best
moments were when everything worked like a well-oiled machine, but also
when you were frantically trying to adapt to dangerous, unexpected
situations in the spur of the moment. Into The Breach, Subset’s
sophomore effort, again has you enacting carefully planned strategies.
The difference is that when the going gets tough, Into The Breach’s
turn-based mechanics and tactical tools allow you to improvise
precisely, and respond purposefully, with perfectly choreographed
counters in an aggressive ballet that feels amazing to conduct again and
again.
In a world where giant monsters called Vek threaten the
earth, humanity has devised equally giant, human-operated mechs to
combat them. Humanity has also invented time-travel technology to give
pilots the opportunity to go back in time and start the whole conflict
over, should the worst happen. You command a squad of three mech pilots
whose purpose is to deter the advances of the Vek, one region at a time,
through four different island stages with the ultimate goal of
destroying their hive.
In each region, your primary objective is to stop Vek from
causing collateral damage–each civilian building destroyed depletes part
of the game’s overall power grid meter, and if it hits zero, your game
is over. However, Vek almost always outnumber your squad, with even more
continually spawning in, which makes wiping them out entirely a
difficult task. Into The Breach is a tactics game with an emphasis on
deterrence and creatively mitigating damage with the limited tools at
your disposal.
It’s a daunting task, but there is one central feature that
makes this process enjoyable and manageable: Every action the enemy
will make in their next attack phase is clearly telegraphed through the
UI during your turn. You can see which tile a particular Vek will hit
and how much damage it will do, meaning you can assess your priorities
and the response options you have available, then take direct steps to
address the fated outcome. In the critical moments, just before a Vek
flattens a hospital, you might dash in and tackle it out of range, and
into the firing line of another Vek. Or, if your mech lacks close-combat
abilities, you might move into harm’s way to prevent the building from
destruction. You might notice that more Vek will be spawning from the
ground, and decide to throw a boulder on the tile to stop them from
emerging, or shoot an off-the-mark missile, letting the explosion push
another Vek on top of it.
How To Get Your App Featured On The App Store
Imagine having your product featured right at the entrance of Dubai
Mall, the world’s largest and arguably the most popular mall. It
attracts more than 80 million visitors per year, and has been named the
world’s most visited destination on several occasions.
If you think that’s something, now imagine having an app featured on the app store, which hosts half a billion visitors each week. If the App Store was a mall, Dubai Mall would only be able to match its weekly shoppers in six and half years. No wonder featured apps receive up to 1747% boost on their organic download rates.
According to research conducted by Apptopia, the resultant exposure has seen at least half of the featured apps make $10,000 or more revenue per day.
The best thing about it is that, unlike Dubai Mall, you don’t pay to be featured on the App Store. It’s completely free of charge. Sadly, that’s also the bad news, since all developers dream about having their apps featured.
It’s a scramble of over 1600 application submissions per day, and Apple knows this all too well. So your app needs to stand out with exceptional all-around features to beat the rest. Of course, this can be difficult, especially when you’ll be competing against seasoned developers utilizing top-of-the-range app marketing services.
In this post, we’ll help you put your best forward by expounding on all the critical elements you need focus on to win Apple over, and get your app featured on the App Store.
If App Store was a company on its own, it would be among the highest ranked Fortune 500 companies. In 2015 alone, at a time when Apple was earning 30 cents on every dollar made through apps, the App Store grossed over $20 billion in revenue- placing it in the league of businesses like Netflix.
They recorded a 40% growth in the following year, with developers earning $20 billion and Apple taking home a little bit over $8 billion. Cumulatively, according to a 2017 press release, developers had made over $70 billion through Apple’s App Store.
All things considered, it’s evident that the App Store is raking in more money than Apple Inc. And that arguably makes the App Store their biggest asset.
If you think that’s something, now imagine having an app featured on the app store, which hosts half a billion visitors each week. If the App Store was a mall, Dubai Mall would only be able to match its weekly shoppers in six and half years. No wonder featured apps receive up to 1747% boost on their organic download rates.
According to research conducted by Apptopia, the resultant exposure has seen at least half of the featured apps make $10,000 or more revenue per day.
The best thing about it is that, unlike Dubai Mall, you don’t pay to be featured on the App Store. It’s completely free of charge. Sadly, that’s also the bad news, since all developers dream about having their apps featured.
It’s a scramble of over 1600 application submissions per day, and Apple knows this all too well. So your app needs to stand out with exceptional all-around features to beat the rest. Of course, this can be difficult, especially when you’ll be competing against seasoned developers utilizing top-of-the-range app marketing services.
In this post, we’ll help you put your best forward by expounding on all the critical elements you need focus on to win Apple over, and get your app featured on the App Store.
Why Apple Features Apps On The App Store
There’s a powerful, dynamic and mutually beneficial relationship between app developers and Apple. It’s hard to tell who needs the other more, but Apple is sure making a lot of money from the App Store.If App Store was a company on its own, it would be among the highest ranked Fortune 500 companies. In 2015 alone, at a time when Apple was earning 30 cents on every dollar made through apps, the App Store grossed over $20 billion in revenue- placing it in the league of businesses like Netflix.
They recorded a 40% growth in the following year, with developers earning $20 billion and Apple taking home a little bit over $8 billion. Cumulatively, according to a 2017 press release, developers had made over $70 billion through Apple’s App Store.
All things considered, it’s evident that the App Store is raking in more money than Apple Inc. And that arguably makes the App Store their biggest asset.
I am for iOS
As I was actually away, I did
notice few new scintillating apps that hit the App Store, so I have bit
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Spotify
The highly competitive streaming music space gains and loses services
every few years, but one thing remains certain: Spotify is one of the
best music services around. Despite serious competition from everyone
from the pioneering Pandora Internet Radio to the relatively new kid on
the block, Microsoft Groove, Spotify is still a major player in this
crowded category. Spotify lacks the live radio, sports, and in-depth
artist retrospectives found in the co-Editors’ Choice award-winning
Slacker Radio, but it makes up for those shortcomings in other areas.
It’s an excellent music streaming service that delivers the goods.
The desktop apps have an advantage over the web player and mobile apps in that you can use the former to play MP3, M4P, and MP4 audio files that are stored in your computer. This is a particularly neat feature for people who want to play all of their music streams and audio files from one central location. The Android and iOS mobile apps, however, have an extra benefit, which I’ll explore later in this review.
Spotify’s Family Plan grants six people individual premium accounts for an incredibly wallet-friendly $14.99 per month. This directly competes with Apple Music and Google Play’s $14.99 per month family plans. Apple and Google’s offerings also let six household members subscribe to the service for $14.99 per month.
Tidal has two family plans, Family Premium ($14.99 per month) and Family HiFi ($29.99 per month), that let up to five household members sign up for the service. The difference between the two tiers is audio quality; Tidal Family HiFi boasts lossless, high-fidelity sound, while Family Premium does not. Sadly, Slacker Radio lacks a family plan. The co-Editors’ Choice really needs to step up in that area.
On the topic of Tidal, if you’re an audio fiend, you may want to check out that service. The streaming music platform, fronted by the music industry’s Illuminati, has a high-end $19.99 plan that delivers non-compressed, FLAC (at 1,411Kbps) audio that sounds absolutely incredible with a decent pair of headphones. That’s not to say that Spotify’s audio is spotty; it’s actually quite enjoyable, with decent audio separation.
Clicking an artist’s name pulls up additional songs by the artist, and an About tab that contains an artist’s biography, photos, and hyperlinks to related Spotify pages. I quickly killed quite a few minutes leaping from Alicia Keys to Isaac Hayes to Booker T. and The M.G.’s and reading the in-depth bios and sampling tracks. However, Slacker Radio’s DNA station does a better job of fleshing out artist profiles through the use of interviews and playing the music that influenced the artists’ sound.
You can build playlists with any of the tracks or albums in Spotify’s deep catalog. By default, Spotify streams tracks on your playlists with gapless playback. Spotify also gives you the option to crossfade songs, and even the ability to adjust the number of seconds (1-12) to fade. It’s not something I use, but DJs (or wannabe DJs) might find it appealing. If you want to build a playlist with a friend, turn on the collaborative playlist option to let your playlist be edited by others.
Besides listening to singles, albums, and playlists, you can create an Artist Radio station that plays music from your favorite musicians, as well as similar-sounding musicians. I was quite pleased with Harlem’s Artist Radio, as it served up tunes from Dum Dum Girls and other indie rock notables. Oddly, I was able to skip more than a dozen tracks in the little time I spent with Spotify Free before I upgraded to Spotify Premium; typically, streaming music services like Slacker Radio limit you to six skips. Not that I’m complaining. You can, of course, like and ban songs to customize the Artist Radio experience.
Spotify lacks Slacker Radio’s live radio and informative DJs who host particular playlists and the music history-filled Slacker DNA stations. Instead, it has Spotify Sessions, original artist recordings made in Spotify Studios. I tolerated Kelly Clarkson’s mediocre cover of Prince’s “Kiss,” but rather enjoyed John Legend’s “All of Me.”
Sadly, Spotify no longer serves up lyrics in its browser- or desktop-based apps. You can find lyrics on the mobile side, however.
How to Get Spotify
You can access Spotify by launching the web player, or by downloading the desktop apps (available for Linux, Mac, and Windows) or mobile apps (available for Android, iOS, and Windows Phone). You can also find Spotify on TVs, set-top boxes, smartwatches, and home video game consoles.The desktop apps have an advantage over the web player and mobile apps in that you can use the former to play MP3, M4P, and MP4 audio files that are stored in your computer. This is a particularly neat feature for people who want to play all of their music streams and audio files from one central location. The Android and iOS mobile apps, however, have an extra benefit, which I’ll explore later in this review.
Pricing
Users can dive into Spotify using one of the two listening plans: Spotify Free or Spotify Premium. The free version serves audio and banner ads as you listen at 160Kbps, manage your digital music files, and connect with others using the built-in social networking features. The $9.99-per-month Spotify Premium lets you hear select albums before they’re released, play songs on demand, and cache songs for offline playback on your computer, phone, or other devices. It also increases audio quality to 320Kbps. Feature- and quality-wise, Premium is worth the extra moolah. That said, Spotify doesn’t let you record audio as SiriusXM Internet Radio, the Editors’ Choice for streaming services focused on live content, does.Spotify’s Family Plan grants six people individual premium accounts for an incredibly wallet-friendly $14.99 per month. This directly competes with Apple Music and Google Play’s $14.99 per month family plans. Apple and Google’s offerings also let six household members subscribe to the service for $14.99 per month.
Tidal has two family plans, Family Premium ($14.99 per month) and Family HiFi ($29.99 per month), that let up to five household members sign up for the service. The difference between the two tiers is audio quality; Tidal Family HiFi boasts lossless, high-fidelity sound, while Family Premium does not. Sadly, Slacker Radio lacks a family plan. The co-Editors’ Choice really needs to step up in that area.
The Catalog
Spotify’s library boasts more than 20 million songs, plus audiobooks, comedy, radio dramas, poetry, and speeches. It’s a rich collection, and I was pleasantly surprised to find Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech in its entirety. Spotify’s non-music extras act as a counter to Slacker Radio’s The Weather Channel, live ESPN, and lifestyles content, and Tidal’s in-depth music editorials and exclusive tour videos.On the topic of Tidal, if you’re an audio fiend, you may want to check out that service. The streaming music platform, fronted by the music industry’s Illuminati, has a high-end $19.99 plan that delivers non-compressed, FLAC (at 1,411Kbps) audio that sounds absolutely incredible with a decent pair of headphones. That’s not to say that Spotify’s audio is spotty; it’s actually quite enjoyable, with decent audio separation.
Clicking an artist’s name pulls up additional songs by the artist, and an About tab that contains an artist’s biography, photos, and hyperlinks to related Spotify pages. I quickly killed quite a few minutes leaping from Alicia Keys to Isaac Hayes to Booker T. and The M.G.’s and reading the in-depth bios and sampling tracks. However, Slacker Radio’s DNA station does a better job of fleshing out artist profiles through the use of interviews and playing the music that influenced the artists’ sound.
The Spotify Experience
Spotify’s library didn’t let me down. I streamed the entirety of A Tribe Called Quest’s We Got It From Here…Thank You 4 Your Service, Hannah Williams & The Affirmations’ Late Nights & Heartbreak, and Led Zeppelin’s Led Zeppelin II. Spotify has a good mix of major and indie artists, including Taylor Swift, who once had a notable falling out with Spotify over money that saw her remove her catalog from the service.You can build playlists with any of the tracks or albums in Spotify’s deep catalog. By default, Spotify streams tracks on your playlists with gapless playback. Spotify also gives you the option to crossfade songs, and even the ability to adjust the number of seconds (1-12) to fade. It’s not something I use, but DJs (or wannabe DJs) might find it appealing. If you want to build a playlist with a friend, turn on the collaborative playlist option to let your playlist be edited by others.
Besides listening to singles, albums, and playlists, you can create an Artist Radio station that plays music from your favorite musicians, as well as similar-sounding musicians. I was quite pleased with Harlem’s Artist Radio, as it served up tunes from Dum Dum Girls and other indie rock notables. Oddly, I was able to skip more than a dozen tracks in the little time I spent with Spotify Free before I upgraded to Spotify Premium; typically, streaming music services like Slacker Radio limit you to six skips. Not that I’m complaining. You can, of course, like and ban songs to customize the Artist Radio experience.
Spotify lacks Slacker Radio’s live radio and informative DJs who host particular playlists and the music history-filled Slacker DNA stations. Instead, it has Spotify Sessions, original artist recordings made in Spotify Studios. I tolerated Kelly Clarkson’s mediocre cover of Prince’s “Kiss,” but rather enjoyed John Legend’s “All of Me.”
Sadly, Spotify no longer serves up lyrics in its browser- or desktop-based apps. You can find lyrics on the mobile side, however.
Spotify’s Mobile Apps
As previously mentioned, Spotify is also available on Android, iOS, and Windows Phone. The version available for Microsoft’s platform does as advertised—it brings Spotify to your Windows Phone-based handset. The Android and iOS versions, however, add an extra feature that’s only available to Premium subscribers: Spotify Running.
Spotify Running matches your running tempo to a song with a
similar beat to give you the perfect sound for your sprint. The music
in Spotify Running is curated by Spotify, rather than based on your own
playlists. Options for the style of music you can choose appear with
short descriptions, like “Burn: Massive running beats by Tiesto” and
“Blissed Out: Happy, blissed-out pop and indie.” You don’t have any
control over the artists you’ll hear, and the options provided are on
the vague side. The music tends to be pretty ambient.
When you launch Spotify Running, the app tells you to start
running at your normal speed while it detects your cadence, which could
take a minute or longer depending on how much variability you have in
your footfalls. Once it detects the cadence, it announces it to you and
starts playing the music at the right beat. Spotify Running rounds to
the nearest multiple of five, and you can adjust the speed up or down by
multiples of five as well. The music is divided into chapters rather
than tracks, and they flow one right into the other seamlessly. If you
skip a chapter, the change to the next one is barely noticeable.
An Excellent Streaming Music Service
Siimply put, Spotify is an excellent streaming music service, whether or desktop or mobile. It has tons of great music, exclusive tunes, and features for health nuts. Sure, Spotify doesn’t boast Slacker Radio’s live channels or lifestyles stations, but it’s a service that’s just as good, and thus our co-Editors’ Choice.Giflay for iOS
Giflay for iOS would be the best
way to view and organize all of the GIFs. The app is all about
simplicity. They automatically grab all of the GIFs from your photo
library and enumerate them in a large scrollable grid. GIFs could be
imported from your computer over Wi-Fi as well.
The users are able to play GIFs,
zoom in, and expediently view them frame-by-frame. Your GIFs could also
be gathered into albums and passcode protected. The Giflay
app comprises eight color themes, the immense ability to open GIFs in
other apps, and the high ability to share GIFs. This app is sincerely
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Apple continues to dominate the tablet market as sales decline once again
Bitcoin and crypto aren’t the only things on
the decline, sales of tablet devices once again dropped in 2017,
according to new data.
Figures from analyst firm IDC show that overall tablet shipments fell
by 6.5 percent to 163.5 million units last year. That’s down from 174.9
million in 2016, when the annual decrease was in double digits.Despite demanding falling overall, Apple managed to grow its shipments from 42.6 million to 43.8 million, giving it a leading 27 percent market share, up from 24 percent a year previous. Samsung (second) and Lenovo (joint fourth) saw their sales drop, but Amazon (third) and Lenovo (also fourth) registered gains.
In a show of just how dominant Apple is, “others” accounted for 34 percent of the market with only Samsung and (just about) Amazon registering double-digit market share for 2017.
The Ultimate Mobile App Marketing Strategies For 2018
Imagine competing against only 500 other apps on the market. Sounds
like a dream, right? You probably wouldn’t even need an extensive app
marketing strategy.
Believe it or not, that was the landscape back in 2009 when Apple launched App Store. Even Google only had a handful of apps on the Play Store, back when it was called “Android App market” in 2008.
Things suddenly picked up when users started discovering the sheer power of smartphones. Four years later, in 2013, Apple made a milestone announcement that it had surpassed 1 million apps in their App Store. Google Play Store subsequently followed suit in a few months, and they also made a press release after
Believe it or not, that was the landscape back in 2009 when Apple launched App Store. Even Google only had a handful of apps on the Play Store, back when it was called “Android App market” in 2008.
Things suddenly picked up when users started discovering the sheer power of smartphones. Four years later, in 2013, Apple made a milestone announcement that it had surpassed 1 million apps in their App Store. Google Play Store subsequently followed suit in a few months, and they also made a press release after