Good podcast catchers are hard to come by. Shifty Jelly has released a new app in Google Play called Pocket Casts, and it looks like the best podcasts app there is for Android.
HBO on your smartphone, on your TV. Nirvana!
HBO today updated both its HBO Go and Max Go apps to support a physical connection from your Android-powered smartphone to the big TV in your living room, via HDMI.
It’s been about ten days since the entertainment company updated it’s iOS app to allow for wireless AirPlay streaming. As the native streaming technology for Android is somewhat less mature than the iOS/AppleTV system, it makes sense that HBO would standardize on the physical connection via HDMI, rather than trying to find a comparable Android wireless streaming solution, and a wired connection will be ever so much more reliable, anyway.
You’ll still need to be a subscriber to get any use out of either of the HBO Go or Max Go apps, but if you are, head on over to the Google Play store and grab them, your smartphone, and an HDMI adapter, and watch great TV on an actual TV! Though, we guess you could do that right ON your TV, since you’re a subscriber.
There are many Craigslist apps out there, but let’s be honest, most of them suck. A new app for Craigslist on Android and iPhone has arrived, and it’s beautiful. It comes from Mokriya, the development company behind high profile apps like Path.
Mokriya’s app is officially licensed by Craigslist, and it’s available now for free in Google Play and the App Store.
Now with more computer!
Bump, the free, easy file sharing app for Android and iOS, has just updated to version 3.5.6 on both the Apple iTunes App Store and the Google Play Store. The new version of the app will let users share any files on their smartphone or tablet with a computer. Previously, Bump users were only able to share files from mobile device to mobile device.
Lookin’ good, Opera.
In an internal video released today by web browser company, Opera, the initial programmer of the new concept showed off a beta of the new Opera browser scheduled to go live for iOS and Android in February of this year.
The video, posted on Pocket Lint, shows a browser that looks to redefine the typical mobile browsing experience, with icons instead of tabs and gestures instead of buttons. The focus is on the user and using rich web applications, like Google Maps.
