0 PhotoComic For iPhone Lets Anyone Create Comic Strips With Ease

The release of movies like Avengers, Spiderman and Batman is a real testament to the popularity of comic books. Technology has changed and taken over a lot of things, but comics remain as popular as ever. People might have started reading them online, or on their smartphones, but comic strips still have a huge fan-following all over the world. It is natural to get ideas of your own if you are into comics, but most people never get down to creating these caricatures due to the lack of drawing prowess.PhotoComic is an iOS app that solves this problem, and using it, you will be able to create your very own comic strips. The app just needs you to provide it with a few photos, and all other tools are available within the app. The end result will leave you with a quite authentic-looking comic. The app is also perfect for captioning your photos and sharing them with your friends.

0 WebSnap: Capture Selective Or Full Websites & View Them In A Live Widget [Android]

With the previously reviewed SnowDeer Web Scrapper, we have already seen how to effectively capture snapshots of an entire webpage on Android. Though quite helpful in its own respect, said tool was effective only in situations that demanded grabbing snapshots of the complete page. What if you were to capture a specific area or elements of the required website? New to the Play Store, WebSnap is a promising Android app that makes capturing select parts of any webpage as easy as one-two-three. Just like SnowDeer, WebSnap comes with a built-in browser that you can use to explore and capture virtually any part of the required website. It also supports UA String selection to help you quickly switch between mobile and desktop layout of the current website. In addition, it provides easy-to-use navigation controls, supports pinch-to-zoom gestures, and lets you natively manage, preview and share your snapshots. All aforementioned features aside, the mainstay of WebSnap remains its nifty little dynamic homescreen widget that not only sports the captured view of your preferred website, but can also be set to automatically update as per user-defined intervals.

0 Create Short Movies Out Of Music, Photos & Videos On Your iPhone

Photo sharing has really become popular among iOS users, thanks to services like Instagram, but there are still new apps coming out in the App Store that bring a whole new dimension to this genre of apps.Ptch is one such iPhone app that has been designed to let users share media after editing it, but rather than focusing on just photos, the app incorporates music, photos and videos into one short movie (called a “ptch”). You can apply a number of artistic effects to any ptch, and the media used to create it can be pulled from any of your social network accounts or the camera roll of your iDevice. In addition to having a sharing network of its own, the Ptch app lets users publish content to Facebook, Twitter, Viddy and a number of other similar services. Apart from that, if a shared ptch is public, users can re-share it after making changes of their own, too.

0 Perform A Wolfram Alpha Search On iPhone Using An Activator Gesture

Wolfram Alpha is a rather unique search engine, and can help a lot of users in getting more information on any subject in less time. If you don’t know what Wolfram Alpha is, it is a search engine that integrates content rather than results consisting of pages. The service comes up with a complete article related to any entered keyword, complete with images, text and related links. Although the service has got an iOS client and a web version, now you can search Wolfram Alpha even faster than before, if you have a jailbroken iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. Gesture control is all the rage these days, and the new tweakWolfRam Quick Search makes use of Activator gestures to let its users look for any Wolfram Alpha definition you want. Its like having a widget for the search service, waiting for you to perform the chosen gesture so that it can come into action.

0 Reddit ET: An Elegant Android Reddit Client With Extended Filters

In spite of not having an official Reddit client, Android users are blessed with plenty of quality third-party Reddit apps. As can be seen in our comprehensive compilation of the crowd-favorite Reddit apps for Android, each candidate brings something visually as well as functionally fresh to the table, yet one can’t help but be startled upon seeing an alternative that is laced with several never-seen-before goodies. Fresh to the market, Reddit ET happens to be one such power-packed unofficial Reddit app for Android that has in it what it takes for an app to claim as the being the most complete solution belonging to its genre. Like most apps mentioned in our best Reddit apps collection post, Reddit ET sports true flavors of Ice Cream Sandwich, with Holo-style menus, dropdowns and tabs/columns. Also included within the package are several typical Reddit features, including threaded comments (with expand/collapse option), native browser, up/down voting, Subreddit un/subscription and searching, multiple themes, option to save, share, hide and/or reply to posts, custom link and text submission, save photos to SD card, complete Inbox support (with customized message sync & notification), wide array of options to filter content, fully customizable & highly informative homescreen widget, NSFW support, navigation via swipe gestures, and inline text & image preview etc. What’s different in all that, you may ask? In order to find the answer, continue reading past the break.

0 ClockWind: Make Your iPhone Seem Faster By Speeding Up UI Animations

If you have a lot of Cydia tweaks and apps installed on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, your device is bound to start getting a little slow after some time. Mostly, the reason behind this lag is nothing really serious, and you can pin the problem down to something as simple as UI animations taking longer than usual to load, giving the appearance that your iPhone’s performance has diminished. So, even if you can put your finger on the problem, is there any possible way you can fix it? Well, maybe you can’t, but a 12 year old Cydia developer, iHackerMe, has certainly come up with a rather neat solution for these lagging animations. ClockWind is an awesome tweak (specially for older iOS devices), using which you will be able to control the speed of all system UI animations in iOS. The end result is that your iPhone will appear to be working faster, as less time will be spent on animations, and you will be taken to your desired OS destination in the blink of an eye.

0 Speaktoit’s Talking Personal Assistant Comes To Windows Phone

Siri might be responsible for creating all the hype for personal assistants having speech recognition capabilities, but there are services and apps that adopted the concept long before Apple introduced Siri.Speaktoit Assistant is one such service that is among the pioneers of talking personal assistants. Since the Assistant app has had more time to evolve and learn, it is much better than Siri in many regards. The app has been around for iOS and Android for quite a while, and after the two bigger smartphone platforms, Windows Phone has become the third one to receive the app. Assistant for WP7 has got all the features that made it popular on iOS and Android. You can use the app as your day planner, newsreader, music and video player, web browser, or just a buddy you can have a light chat with every once in a while.

0 How To Get Jelly Bean Style Makeover & Features On Any Android Device

At Google I/O 2012, not only was the world introduced to Nexus 7 – the first ever Android tablet in the Nexus series – but the event also brought with it the announcement of the latest iteration of Google’s mobile OS, Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. As it turned out, not even the most die-hard Android fanboys had anticipated the goodies that Big G had up their sleeves for the latest version of Android, especially considering that it saw the version number of the OS leap by a mere 0.1 points from its predecessor, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. However, the fact of the matter remains that Jelly Bean is hands down the fastest, smoothest, safest and most user-friendly version of Android to have arrived to date. Ranging from the knowledge-powered Google Now to a better predictive keyboard and expandable notifications to auto adjustable widgets, there are dozens of innovative features in Jelly Bean to look forward to. However, as long as you can manage to go through our detailed post covering the most noteworthy features of Jelly Bean, we won’t be required to do a Déjà vu here, since this particular post focuses on the apps and mods that can help you get the taste of Jelly Bean on almost any Android device.

0 Set Mobile Safari’s Default Search Engine To Wolfram Alpha, Baidu, Yandex & Others

A few months back, we covered a rather complicated method for adding more options to the list of default search engines in Safari for iOS. While that method (involving iFile and file system editing) still works perfectly, the margin for error in it is very little. One wrong entry in the registry, and you might end up rendering your iPhone’s Safari completely unusable (I landed my iPhone in that condition doing that, so that’s personal experience right there). So, it was about time some clever developer came up with a one-touch solution for this issue. SearchEnable is a new tweak that automatically adds 8 new search engines to Safari’s stock list, which natively includes only Google, Yahoo and Bing. Of course, you cannot add a search engine of your choice to the list using this Cydia tweak, but the offered options should prove to be sufficient for most people.

0 Manage Your Delicious Tags & Bookmarks With Droidicious For Android

Social bookmarking and bookmark sharing web services are gradually increasing with the increase in the overall usage of the internet, and the competition in this regard is certainly heating up at a matching pace. When talking of some quality services belonging to said genre, Reddit, Digg and StumbleUpon are a few names that instantly pop up in one’s mind, but above all, there is Delicious (aka del.icio.us) – an innovative web service that focuses solely on letting users store, share and explore tag-laden bookmarks pertaining to virtually every topic that exists in the wide world of web. Quite surprisingly, the service doesn’t yet support a companion app that can help users access their Delicious content right from their mobile devices. That said, there are quite a few third-party Delicious apps available to Android users that try to fill the void, but none of them is known to be offering the complete set of Delicious goodies. Adding to the list of candidates is Droidicious, another promising unofficial Delicious client with some much sought-after features; the most noteworthy of which remains remote access to, and sync with, your Delicious account, a beautifully and smartly designed Holo-themed UI with full support for Android tablets, and a plethora of customary Delicious features that will certainly make your social bookmarking experience on Android more enhanced, fun and thorough.

0 Groove 2: Rediscover Your iPhone Music Library, Get Missing Album Art & New Mixes Of Favorite Songs

Unless you pay particular attention to it, the Music app in iPhone and iPad can be a real mess. A lot of songs have their album art and artist info missing, while the alphabetical arrangement of tracks might lead the user to completely forget about some decent songs. Groove 2 is an app that addresses all such pesky music-related issues. The app is just another iOS music player on the surface, but once you start using it, Groove will take care of just about everything that has got anything to do with your iPhone or iPad’s music library. The album art and other song information will be fixed, you will be able to learn more about your own music collection, and on top of all that, the app can create smart mixes of songs and artists that you like!

0 Google Handwrite: Enter Search Queries By Scribbling On Your Smartphone

After yesterday’s GTalk outage, Google appears to be on a roll today. In addition to the huge Google Earth update for iOS, Handwrite has also been unveiled a few hours ago. Handwrite is not an app, it is just a feature that has been added to Google’s web interface for smartphones. For now, Handwrite supports iOS and Android devices, and if you enable it on your phone, you will be able to write your queries in the search engine rather than typing them. This use of freehand scribbling certainly improves the time in which you can search for a particular keyword, and is more convenient than typing. If you are already making up your mind about Handwrite and all its potential downsides (not the least of which is the fact that people will have trouble entering longer queries), then wait a little more and read the rest of the article. Google has thought of just about everything.