Download Floating Touch: How to Make Your Favorite Apps Closer to Your Thumb

How does Floating Touch work? I’m glad you’ve asked. Once you install it you will have a button floating on your screen over other apps (you can also move it around), which will allow you to launch your favorite apps without leaving the current app. Remember that routine when you had to leave the app, open app drawer, search for an app then launch it? Forget about it because Floating Touch is now up for download in Google Play store and it’s here to help.

If let’s say you want to watch a video or play Angry Birds and the Floating Touch point gets in your way longs press it and it’s gone. You will find it in your Notifications area, then with a simple click you will have it back on screen.

Floating Touch it’s like Paranoid Android’s HALO and Pie Controls had a baby. Press the floating button and it will open a pizza-looking menu on top of your running application. There are eight slices where you can add shortcuts to your favorite apps. By default, the one in the right is a folder that contains WiFi, GPS, Ring Mode, Airplane Mode, Brightness, Screen Rotation, Bluetooth, and Data toggles. The guys at Boat Browser Design were kind enough to include that folder given that creating folders feature is only included in the Pro Version.

Besides being able to place app shortcuts in the Floating Touch panel, you will also be able to choose from various actions like Lock Screen, Home, Clear Memory, Recent Apps, Menu, or Back, but you will require root access in order to be able to use the latter two of them.

You can choose from five colors for the Floating Touch panel and the Floating Touch button is customizable as well. You can choose its size, transparency, and even its icon. You can even set a custom picture as an icon for the Floating Touch button (or Point), but for that you will have to upgrade to Pro.

Summing up, Floating Touch is one of the greatest apps I’ve seen in Google Play in a while, being very useful and bringing great design and implementation in the same time.

Floating Touch is available for free in Google Play Store and you can download it yourself. Anyway, don’t forget to upgrade to Pro, as you will both support the developers and get your hands on some cool features.

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Nice Weather Flow updates for Windows 8 and Windows Phone apps

Day by day Windows Phone is perfect by the time going. It is more coming in nice features we need. We love it when apps get updated, especially when it’s one of our favorite apps. One of which is the Weather Flow. It has been on our favorite apps list for quite a while because it is well designed, and the developers keep it updated. Today they have sent out updates for both their Windows and Windows Phone apps.

The phone update will be important mainly to Windows Phone 7.8 users. They now get the double-wide tile, complete with rich or metro themes. The tiles can also now show minimal data or full weather forecasts for the week. Now 7.8 users will have most of the features that WP8 users have.

The Windows update gets some love for the live tiles too. They now have the same rich and metro theme options of the phone app. It also adopts the same detail options as the phone app. Lastly, both apps now support 10 languages. If you use either of these apps you will definitely want this update, and if you’re looking for good weather apps give Weather Flow a try.

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Download Instagram for Windows Phone (3rd Party) Called Instagraph

As we can see for now, WP is still lack of apps available on market. But still this OS need more development. One for sure is there is no Instagram for WP as for the moment. But there has been a lot of talk about Instagram for Windows Phone around these parts lately. There have been a lot of official apps arriving on the platform, like Pandora, and it has been making people more anxious for Instagram. Last night WPCentral posted a little teaser saying “Anything is possible” with a photo clearly taken on a Windows Phone and uploaded to an Instagram account. Today we have more information on that app, and a video walkthrough (must be watched on YouTube).

The app is called Instagraph, and it appears to be an officially certified app that can upload photos to Instagram. It doesn’t use the standard Instagram filters. Instead it uses the open source Aviary photo filters. Aviary provides quite a few more options than Instagram users have. After adding filters and applying effects you can then upload the image to Instagram. It might not be the official app that many people want, but this is probably the closest we are going to get. We will let you know as soon as it arrives!

UPDATE: We have learned more about Instagraph. It is not an officially certified app by Instagram. Apparently the developers have found a way to upload images to Instagram without an official API. The interesting part is it doesn’t appear that they have reverse engineered the API, like 3rd-party Pandora apps. This means Instagram can’t suddenly change something and kill the app. We will keep following this interesting app.


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