Photo Enthusiasts Get Instagram for Android

Instagram

Now that Facebook has bought Instagram from its original creators for roughly $1 billion worth of stocks and cash, the hype for the said photo-sharing facility has sky-rocketed once more. Just a couple of days away from its release, The Instagram for Android has already been downloaded by more than 1 million Android device users. Even before, it was has already been a famous app among social media, such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and Foursquare, and there is no wonder its developers didn't take it too long to release it in Android version.

This 13 Megabyte application, which was once available to iOS, allows you to edit and alter your mobile pictures through its streamlined filtered effects and borders. With this, you can easily transform your images from crap to zap. Go social with your friends by sharing your photos with a single click of a button, and get to see and give feedback about your friend's collections as well. For now, it is in for grabs without any cost, but you'll have to make sure you are using Android 2.2 and higher versions to make it work.

See for your self Instagram for Android in action:

Get to see some screenshots from its official Google Play page:

You could go directly to its official developer site and download the application for your Android device or you could simply scan this bar code with you device's bar code reader.

Enjoy! And please share if you like it or not.

Examining Apple's OS X Mountain Lion Closely

Mac OS X Mountain Lion

With the inevitable release of Apple's OS X Mountain Lion this coming summer, Mac fans and lovers are going gaga.

Aside from its a little varied bluish-tinge-unlike-that-of-Lion-with-reddish-dots wallpaper, do you really know what makes Mountain Lion different from all other Macs. With the early release of it's developer preview we have some perspective of what the new Mac OS will certainly be most likely.

Here are some things you need to know before you buy your own Mac OS X Mountain Lion this summer:

As mentioned, there is a great difference even on the previous OS
and the new Mac OS X Mountain Lion wallpapers.

The Old and New Features

Also dubbed as OS X v10.8, Mountain Lion of the Mac OS X series has all its features inspired from iPad, a series of tablet computer also designed and sold by Apple, Inc. This is the ninth release of Mac OS X that started way back in 2001 with the release of Mac OS X Cheetah. All operating systems in the 10th series (hence the X Roman numeral for 10) were named after from the large members of the feline family. By far this release has dropped "Mac" from its name, making it officially called as OS X Mountain Lion.

Here are some features, both old and new, that OS X Mountain Lion could offer:

iCloud

This is an old feature that was highly improved to include Open and Save dialogue boxes among all built-in applications, iWork and other third-party application that uses this API.This also include an all new UI for viewing an and managing files that falls under the category of the application being used. Automatic synchronization is also supported.

Messages

An old feature but was renamed and improved from iChat that could support services provided by iMessage.

Reminders

This is a to-do list application with notification system that is entirely different and separated from Calendar. This is also an iOS.

Notes

This application was once combined and included in iOS and Mail app, but obviously developers find it more appropriate to separate it and make it as a separate application. This newly separated app now supports desktop notes.

Notification Center

This is a feature similar to which it was introduced in iOS 5, but has now desktop support. With this feature all applications are located and concentrated on the corner screen and the Notification Center can be pulled from the right hand side corner of the screen.

Share Sheets

this adds the "Share" button to the Safari browser and other related applications. This feature presents the dialogue box for sharing items along.

Twitter

As the features name implies this is an integration with twitter for easier use and manipulation of your twitter accounts.

Game Center

This is a feature cloned from iPhone OS. Game Center is an application released by Apple for online multiplayer social gaming network, where one could invite friends and play games among themselves.

Gatekeeper

This feature is for user protection against malware that detects such anomalies through digital signatures and information from Mac App Store.

There are more features other than these ones like the Time Machine and other Chinese supported features like Baidu, Youku, Tudou, Sina Weibo, etc.

Some applications were renamed, obviously to make somethings fresh: such as Calendar from the old iCal; Contacts, which sounded more appropriate than Address Book; and Messages, which is an improved and more streamlined version of iChat.

Unfortunately there are also some applications that were dropped from this release. Such applications include RSS support for the browser Safari and Mail application; Software Update, which was now integrated into the Mac App Store; and many more.

What Do I Have To Say?

As always, nothing beats the Mac's sleek look and lighter-than-ever built. With iPads rule on the mainstream, it is ideal that Apple, Inc. should incorporate into the Mac Series what makes an iPad a hit among consumer and Apple lovers alike.

It is natural that we, the users, are easily attracted to the hotness of these beauties. Aside from the fact that Mac OS are never attacked by viruses and seldom inflicted by malwares, Mac OS are definitely for the rare, the non-techy and the high society. Who doesn't ever want to belong?

Even Windows upcoming release, the one that is called Windows 8, couldn't match the beauty of this OS. Yeah, it tends to copy Apples aesthetic superiority, but I have reason to believe they are still a few decades away. What with all its bugs and virus attacks, which is mostly a consistent trait of Windows OS?

Apple, Inc. designs and manufactures most of their softwares and hardwares on their own, in which Windows still have to rely on other hardware manufacturer to incorporate its Operating systems or softwares.

Epic Android App: Simsimi is Really Funny

Simsimi

Once in a while we get some really good apps from the Android market. Sometimes we do also get some useless ones, some of them were even featured on the Ellen Show. But there are some apps also that we could not understand cause it would sometimes work, some times it wouldn't. But for some of us there is nothing more than a unique app that sometimes makes us laugh, but for the right reasons. Take Simsimi, for example:

Simsimi is a chatting robot created by SimSimi, Inc. This app intends to exceed the "limitation of technology of natural-language processing system by collective intelligence." This is usually useful when you have no one to talk to and this app will give you a virtual company, fun, and of course, hilarity.

Try to have a conversation with Simsimi here:



If you really think that you should have Simsimi on your Android device, you could download the application from its official website or you could scan this barcode to directly download the app to your device:

There are some really great apps in the market out there, all we need to do is discover them.