Morning, the Fantastic iPad Dashboard, Comes to the iPhone

iOS: Morning is one of the better dashboard apps for the iPad, working somewhat like a Google Now in that it dishes the weather, your to-dos, and more from a single screen. Now, it's available on the iPhone.

Morning is essentially a customizable wake-up screen for your iPhone. Once it's installed, you can set it up to show you the weather, your to-do list, different RSS feeds, your calendar, and more. You can customize the look, color, and location of all that information. It's filled with all kinds of different options so you can make it your own, but the main goal is to provide with your whole day at a glance. It's great looking app that does exactly what it says and it's a pretty nice way to start your day.

Morning ($3.99) | iTunes App Store

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Wonder Timer Comes with Presets, Widget and Good Design

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Android: Whether you need to set a timer for your eggs or a reminder to call your boss in an hour, Wonder Timer makes it easier than ever. It packages good design with easy functionality to become one of the top Android timer apps.

My previous favorite was Ovo Timer, but Wonder Timer has edged ahead. Why? The presets are a big sell. There are nine of these, each with their own icon (or you can assign a photo too). These presets are customizable too, but you can't add more than nine. Tap and the timer starts, no fuss. Once the timer is counting down, you can even add or subtract a few minutes (in increments of 5 or 1). Wonder Timer also lets you start multiple timers, all of which can be swiped left-to-right in order of time left, and which also show up in your notifications tray.

Of course, you can also set a custom timer, adjusting hours or minutes how you like, while adjusting seconds only in intervals of 15. It's a little difficult to use this custom timer at first, but once you get used to it, you will get precision numbers. There's also an option to set it to repeat.

Once the countdown is over, your phone will ring an alarm that you set. And all of this with a minimalistic, gorgeous interface. Plus there's a neat widget to use it all. Wonder Timer is a winner.

Wonder Timer (Free) | Google Play Store via MakeUseOf

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Dropbox’s popular iOS email client ‘Mailbox’ finally comes to Android

Roughly a year ago, Dropbox acquired popular iOS email client Mailbox for $100 million. Now after all this time, Android users can finally get their hands on the Mailbox app as well!

Just like the iOS version, Mailbox’s biggest features are its unified inbox that lets all your mail come into one place, as well as its swiping functions that allow you to snooze emails until later, or you can even archive and delete messages depending on whether you short or long swipe to the right. One change from the iOS version is a brand new feature called Auto Swipe, which basically learns your swiping actions in order to bring automation to certain tasks like archiving.

For those looking for “one email client to rule them all”, it’s worth noting that Dropbox is introducing a version of Mailbox for desktop computers as well. This handy for those who enjoy the Mailbox app and are looking for a uniform experience both on mobile and desktop.

Mailbox is free to use, though at the moment it only supports iCloud and Gmail accounts. Dropbox promises wider email platform support is coming down the pipe line, though.

Anyone try out Mailbox for Android yet? If so, what do you think so far, how does it compare to other popular Android clients like the official Gmail app?

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The Walking Dead: Season One comes to Android, two years late

Kris Carlon 2014-04-09T08:29:06Z8 hours ago

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Putting down roots in Berlin after six years of traveling is a major step for Kris Carlon, who has spent more time living out of a tent lately than sitting at a desk. Kris comes to the AndroidPIT Editorial Team via a lengthy period spent writing on art and culture in Australia and other places he has lived. He joined the Android community while resurfacing in civilization back in 2010 and has never looked back, using technology to replace his actual presence in other people's lives ever since.

The first season of the five-part The Walking Dead video game series has just arrived in the Play Store for free install. Seasons two through five will cost you via in-app purchase but the first season will give you all the zombie-fleeing action you can handle to see if you want to invest further. You won't be following the characters of the television series, but the action will be much the same as in the comic and television series: run, shoot, live with your choices.

Two years late, but The Walking Dead Season One is finally on Android. / © Telltale Games

The Walking Dead Season One follows Lee Everett, a down on his luck ex-con just trying to make a go of his second chance in a zombie-infested apocalypse. If he doesn't exactly seem like a likable anti-hero to you, never fear, he has a ward to protect called Clementine who is, as you could have probably guessed, an orphan. The action in the first season is actually a precursor to the events that occur to Rick and gang in later seasons of the television series.

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The game has been available for a long time on various consoles and PC and iOS users have had it since mid-2012. While the action follows the storyline of the early days of the outbreak in Georgia, player choices will affect character responses and events. Telltale Games monitored the choices players made in earlier episodes which in turn influenced their writing of later seasons and episodes. In the zombie apocalypse, no choice is a minor one. Remember that.

Check out our list of the top 5 free zombie games for Android.

Have you played The Walking Dead Season One on other platforms before? What do you prefer: the comics, TV show, or or other The Walking Dead-style games

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Popular game ‘The Walking Dead’ finally comes to Google Play

Last year we learned that the popular TellTale game The Walking Dead was on its way to the Android-based Ouya, marking the first time the game had ever graced an Android device. At the time we wondered whether or not the game would eventually make its way to other Android devices as well. Today we get our answer, as the Walking Dead: Season One has finally arrived to Google Play.

Although many of you have probably already played this on another platform like the PC or a game console, for the uninitiated, the Walking Dead is a popular zombie apocalypse comic and television series, which also spun off a very successful episodic video game series.

The game focuses primarily on different characters than from the television show and is full of tough decisions that will follow you throughout the episodes. The first episode of the game is yours for absolutely free, though the remaining 4 episodes and the extra 400 Days DLC are offered via an in-app purchase.

So is this one worth picking up? The answer to that depends. If you’ve already purchased and beat all five episodes of the Walking Dead, it’s probably not worth repurchasing. For those that have never played it before and at are all into survival games with solid storylines? We absolutely recommend this game.

To check out the Walking Dead for yourself you’ll want to head on over to Google Play.

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MirrorWeb Comes Up With A Simple Site Uptime Solution For SMEs

MirrorWeb is a new startup offering a slightly different take on website uptime. While the main competitors such as DNS Hat simply add hardware and server loading to keep sites up if they go down, MirrorWeb does what it says on the tin: mirrors a site during maintenance or problems with a carbon copy. It’s now launched with multiple currencies, including dollar pricing.

You log in, type in your URL. MirrorWeb copies your site then monitors it. If there’s a problem it just flips the traffic to the mirror. When the website is back online they send the visitor traffic back to the original site.

Although there are many companies that provide services to monitor a website’s uptime and provide a backup of the entire site, hardly any do both.

This is a little like having Cloudflare, but this is aimed at small SME with smaller budgets.

The service is particularly relevant to companies that rely on search engines traffic and don’t want to be penalized for periods of downtime.