Here are the five new Android apps and games you need to check out this week.
I'm feverishly counting down the days until
This week,
It's been a good year for Pac-Man, what with that
If you have an older
HTC has revamped its Blinkfeed app, renaming it
The original HTC One M7 on AT&T is also making the leap to Android 5.0 in a busy week of new software.
LG is evidently rather proud of the display in its
The South Korean company says it's already mass-producing a display with a 1,440 x 2,550 resolution, also known as "quad HD." It boasts 538 pixels per inch, an impressive number for a 5.5-inch screen. LG didn't specify the G4 by name, but a "forthcoming flagship smartphone to be unveiled at the end of the month" doesn't require much speculation.
LG is also touting what it calls Advanced In-Cell Touch (AIT) technology, which allows the screen to sense touches even if the display is wet.
After nearly a year of drama, the widely-used encryption software TrueCrypt has come out from its security audit with a mostly clean bill of health.
TrueCrypt has long been a popular way to
To audit TrueCrypt’s 70,000 lines of code, a group called the Open Crypto Alliance Project raised more than $70,000 through crowdfunding. And last April, the first phase of that audit turned up
The floodgates are open! Any Android developer can now put their Android apps in the Chrome Web Store with the
But that positive news carries a darker undertone. Google’s “Chrome app” platform was already underperforming, and now developers have even less incentive to write Chrome apps when they can reuse their existing Android apps.
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I love keyboard shortcuts. They are incredibly useful, but sometimes they can be a little impractical. Especially when a key combo is particularly far apart on the keyboard (
That's why it's handy to know about a Windows feature called Sticky Keys that lets you activate important keys including
We've
If our phones get any smarter, they’ll have no more use for us.
