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As a concerned parent, You must be be worried when your kids use your smartphone. Who hasn't? But, it's impossible to trust your toddler to stay within a designated app and not explore. Enter Play Safe , it is an Android app that that gives your kids a sandbox, allows you to set a predefined list of apps your child can access which ensures that they can play, well, safe. The setup process walks you through selecting approved apps for your child, along with how to unlock the app once your child is done. Right now, you press and hold on the Play Safe logo for 5 seconds to exit the app. When you want to give your young one a turn with the phone, you just run Play Safe, then rest easy in the knowledge that he or she won’t be able to do anything but run the apps you’ve sanctioned. When the time comes to exit Play Safe, you simply hold down the app’s logo for three seconds. Older kids might be able to figure this out, which is why the developers will soon be adding password...

Good news for AT&T iPhone owners. AT&T has officially announced that the company will finally allow its customers to unlock their iPhone. This will allow its customers to use other carriers' SIM cards in your device, which you own, No jailbreak required. The official date for unlocks to commence was yesterday, April 8. Here is the process get get your iPhone unlocked:- To unlock an AT&T iPhone, subscribers must have completed their service contracts and their accounts must be in good standing or pay an early termination fee. Previously, AT&T refused to unlock subscribers iPhones, though the company had no problem unlocking other phones. The unlock can be conducted in your local AT&T store, but that’s not the only way you get your smartphone unlocked. You can also hit the AT&T website and have your iPhone unlocked using the company’s online chat feature. Apparently, the process takes only a few minutes and the only information needed is your iPhone IMEI....

After some delay Mozilla has finally released Firefox 11 of its open source browser, with improved developer tools over the previous versions. The latest version takes us into some new territory - 3D.  The new "tilt" feature lets you view a 3D representation of pages in layers of related content. A new live Style Editor, meanwhile, lets them make changes to CSS style sheets and see the results instantly.. The depth of nesting of a page element is mapped to its depth in a 3D view. So. for example. a button nested in a set of divs would stand out higher than a button in the body of the page. Once you have the 3D page on the screen you can rotate it and zoom to see anything that takes your interest.You can also select any area and see the tag list that creates it just as you can in the standard 2D representation. Firefox 11 now adds the ability to sync add-ons, extensions, and browser customizations. Previously, Firefox users could sync bookmarks, passwords, preferences, hi...

The new version of Sn0wBreeze offers a tethered solution, meaning jailbreakers will have to hook-up their iPhone to a computer if it powers down or reboots. This is a minor annoyance, but something the hardcore jailbreak fans out there will be willing to put up with in order to get Cydia back on their iOS devices. Using this application users can enjoy newly added support for iOS 5.1, for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, iOS devices. Besides support for iOS 5.1, iH8sn0w has made a number of bug fixes and performance improvements to the jailbreak tool. The new version of Sn0wBreeze offers a tethered solution, meaning jailbreakers will have to hook-up their iPhone to a computer if it powers down or reboots. This is a minor annoyance, but something the hardcore jailbreak fans out there will be willing to put up with in order to get Cydia back on their iOS devices. You can downloda latest version of Sn0wBreeze from here , for Mac and Windows. Get our regular updates in Google Curre...

OnLive is a cloud gaming platform: in which games are synchronized, rendered, and stored on remote servers and delivered via the Internet. The service is available using the OnLive Game System, PCs running Microsoft Windows (XP, Vista, 7), Intel-based Macs with OS X 10.5.8 or later, Android devices and iOS devices. Since the games are rendered on OnLive's servers, a low-end computer may be used to play any kind of game as long as it is able to play video. For that reason, the service is being seen as a competitor for the console market. All games on the service are available in 720p format. OnLive recommends an Internet connection of 5 Mbit/s or faster, and a 2 Mbit/s connection meets the minimum system requirements. In this Consumer Electronics Show, OnLive announced " OnLive Desktop " an iPad application. OnLive Desktop uses virtualization technology to create a remotely hosted Windows 7 desktop.  Firing up OnLive Desktop on the iPad 2 presents a full-scree...

Accrding to CNN , Apple's value on the stock market briefly rose to $400 billion on Thursday,a record high for what was already the world's most valuable technology company. The company's market cap slipped below the $400 billion mark by midday as Apple's stock fell back from the all-time high of $431.37 it set earlier in the morning. Shares ended the day slightly down, leaving Apple with a $398 billion market value. Still, that puts Apple in some pretty exclusive territory. Only Exxon Mobil has a higher valuation, at about $420 billion. PetroChina  is Apple's closest competitor, at $270 billion, and Microsoft follows at $235 billion.  Apple's market cap is higher than the gross domestic product of Greece, Austria, Argentina, or South Africa. (For more comparisons, check out this excellent blog: Things Apple is Worth More Than .) Despite its size, Apple is still one of the fastest growing technology companies. The company will report its finances for the p...

Any guess, how much it costs a smartphone maker to build a phone, most of you will say CPU, memory, camera or the screen being the most expensive parts. But the correct option is licensing for the operating system. According to IntoMobile reports that ZTE is paying Microsoft about $27 for each Windows Phone it makes. ZTE’s Tania smartphone will hit markets starting from next month and will be running Windows Phone 7.5 OS. The smartphone    features a 4.3 inch screen with the same 800 x 480 pixel resolution that all Windows Phones are required to have, 1 GHz processor from Qualcomm, 5 megapixel camera, no front facing camera, which makes it no special phone except its killer pricing. This phone is currently sold by SFR at 270 euros without ZTE branding. That $27 per device is a lot of money, but it seems that smartphone maker is getting quite a bit for its money too. According to IntoMobile, that $27 licensing fee gets ZTE a list of the exact specs it needs to make a w...

No doubt, Apple's Siri is quite a hit among iPhone users, whether for it's general voice assistant capabilities or funny sense of humor, Youtube videos etc... You can not only use it to control your iPhone 4S (or jailbroken iPhone), it can also tell jokes ,  sing a song ,  start your car , queue up Plex,  play the piano , tell you a story ,  set the thermostat , answer riddles  and some even claiming to control whole room . Currently, Macs are left out of all the voice control fun. Not anymore, Thanks to  Air Dictate . [Screenshots: Air Dictate from the Apple App Store]   Air Dictate from developer Avatron has found a way to use a Siri-enabled iPhone to dictate to Macs on your network using your voice.  For now it's limited to text input — there's no voice control of other applications just yet — but considering there's no public API for Siri, this is still impressive.  By use of Siri's technology, the app allows y...

Great! News for older iPhone users trying to get some Siri love on their phones can finally rejoice. Thanks to hackers  Grant Paul  (aka chpwn),  Steve Troughton-Smith  and Ryan Petrich. After months of work, they have developed an installer called Spire .  With Spire you can install Siri legally on your iPhone 4, 3GS, iPod Touch, iPad (all iOS 5) devices. The creators claim that their is no copyright infringement issues unlike previous Siri hacks. To achieve this they are using Proxy servers to connect to Apple's servers. Once installed it will connect to Apple servers to initiate official Siri download of about 100MB. Although, some limitations still exist for you before you can have Siri up and running on your device. To begin with, Your iDevice must be jailbroken in order to install Spire. Then you need to have some technical knowledge to set up the proxy servers, to identify your device as iPhone 4S.(Check back for official step-by...

  Now your latest iPhone 4 can be carrier unlocked which works now on iOS 4.3.5/5 firmware. With it you are can unlock iPhone 4 (and iPhone 3Gs running 4.3.5/5) and use it on any compatible GSM network. Head on to www.BestUnlockiPhone.com to unlock you iPhone. Their site states that it will work, not only to unlock the iPhone 4 running the latest iOS version but it will work with any iPhone model and any firmware or baseband version. If you still own the iPhone 2G/3G/3GS then it is probably the best unlock for you. Remember that unlocking the iPhone can only be performed once you have jailbroken the device. By unlocking your iPhone you unlock your iPhone to thousands of new features that will your make your iPhone experience a more pleasurable experience. Like the ability to install free games, free themes, free wallpapers, use Bluetooth to its full potential (read transfer and receive files) and many many other things that will make yo...

Untethered jailbreak for the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 is on the way, according to Chronic Dev Team . They have already found several exploits that could possibly be used in a future iOS 5 jailbreak. At the same time, Apple quickly patched these exploits before the public release of the firmware. One of Apple's weapons in the arsenal against jailbreaking is the log of crash reports, sent automatically from iTunes that serves to identify possible exploits. Chronic Dev Team is trying to stop Apple from finding out about these potential jailbreak opportunities by circumventing the automatic crash reports from iOS. Now the Chronic Dev Team is hard at work collecting submissions from iPhone users everywhere. As per the report, these will be 10 million in one week to be exact, which will help the team identify possible exploits for a new iOS 5 jailbreak. The Chronic Dev Team recently released an app that collects iOS crash reports in iTunes and sends them to the team’s private servers to help...

Nokia last year announced that it will ditch its rusting Symbian OS and embrace Windows Phone 7 on their next generation phones. After nearly an year Nokia revealed Lumia range of phones featuring Windows Phone Mango. The result is a mixed bag one side you have possibly the most fluid OS on the phone ever with no lags, no frame skipping etc... The animations and transitions are very smooth, pinch to zoom, rotation are really smooth. The home screen is really attractive and very different, overall the whole OS is very minimal and has almost no chrome. The build quality of Nokia Lumia 800 and 900 are top notch, clear Black AMOLED screen is vey bright. While on the other hand it is just like Apple a walled garden by Microsoft. You cannot change much look or feel of the OS like Android, Bluetooth file transfer is prohibited(really??? Whats the use of of putting a Bluetooth inside), the apps are too far too few, official apps like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube are missing...