James Thornton

Discover new music with MTV Music Meter

MTV has unveiled an interesting looking new online music discovery service called Music Meter. The service trawls social media web sites for emerging bands and musicians.

How to use WhatsApp on Windows

WhatsApp offers a great way to chat with friends for free from your phone. But did you know you can also use WhatsApp on a Windows PC?

What’s the best browser for Android phones?

How to restore deleted WhatsApp chats on Android

The Softonic Minute: Flickr gets generous, Twitter ramps up security, and more

The Softonic Minute: Flickr gives out 1TB of free storage, Twitter tightens security, and some good news for fans of Call of Duty and FIFA.

New iOS version of HotSpot Shield released, adds iPad support

HotSpot Shield VPN for iOS received a major update today, optimizing the app for iPad and adding useful new features. The popular VPN (virtual private network) application allows you to browse the internet securely, save data and access web sites and apps that are blocked outside of certain countries, such as Netflix, Hulu or Pandora.

Top 25 apps for your Android tablet

If you’re lucky enough to have just got hold of a new Android tablet, you might be wondering which should be the first apps you install on your shiny new device. Google Play is awash with great applications but figuring out which are the best Android tablet apps is tricky.

Which Opera browser for Android to install?

The new Opera browser beta for Android was released last week. It’s a fine looking mobile browser that allows you to access the web quickly and painlessly on a phone.

Mobile app of the week – Sonic Dash

This week saw the release of two big behind-the-back endless running games for mobile. On Wednesday Temple Run: Oz came out – which takes the original Temple Run format and applies an Oz the Great and Powerful theme to it. Then yesterday Sega’s Sonic Dash was released –  which takes the original Temple Run format and applies a Sonic the Hedgehog theme to it. And they said that innovation was dead!

The best apps of Mobile World Congress 2013

As the Mobile World Congress 2013 draws to a close, we’ve been discussing what were the best mobile apps we saw featured at the show. Here are the ones that really caught our eye (in no particular order):

Firefox vs Ubuntu – a new mobile platform war begins

Firefox OS and Ubuntu Phone have captured most of the headlines at the Mobile World Congress 2013. We already knew a bit about each but the Barcelona show has seen both platforms step into the limelight.

Hide Facebook messages and chats using NQ Vault

Ever wonder what would happen if Facebook messages and chats could be seen by someone else? The thought of it is a little terrifying, right?