May 2016

The Rock Clock is a new motivational motivational alarm clock for Android featuring messages by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.

Alarm clocks are a dime a dozen on Android's official marketplace, and if you want to get into the market you need features that distinguish your app from others, a deep promotional budget, or a celebrity that vouches for it.

While I cannot say anything about the budget of The Rock Clock, it is build around wrestling superstar The Rock and has features that you may not find in other applications of its kind.

Windows Firewall is the default software firewall of the Windows operating system. It is enabled automatically after installation unless another firewall has been installed already and taken over.

The firewall is configured for convenience and not maximum protection by default.  Microsoft configured the firewall to block all incoming connections and allow all outgoing connections except for those for which rules exist by default.

Any program for which no outbound rule exists may send data from the local computer to hosts on the Internet.

L Speed is a popular tweaking application for Android that offers tweaks to improve the performance and battery life of your Android device.

The advanced nature of the tweaks makes root access a necessity. While you can install the app on any device running Android 4.0 and up, tweaks become only available after root permissions have been granted to L Speed.

Google launched the Android application Arts & Culture recently which takes you on a journey throughout the world to explore art, history and all that good stuff.

The application requires no extra privileges which is always a good start but needs an Internet connection. Once installed and opened, it greets you with a list of featured items and "on this day" information that you can explore.

You may switch from the focus on art to history or wonders instead to get different featured items and recommendations on start.

Foobar2000 Mobile for Windows 10 is a new mobile version of the popular music player for Windows designed specifically for Windows 10's Universal Windows Platform.

The developer of Foobar 2000 held a fundraiser back in 2014 to port the music player to Android, iOS and Windows Mobile.

Mozilla introduced Collections to its Firefox Add-ons website (AMO) back in 2009 to provide users of the web browser with options to keep track of add-ons, and to showcase add-ons, for instance by creating themed collections.

It allowed anyone with an account to create and maintain collections by adding add-ons (which included themes) to them.

Creators could add and remove add-ons from collections, and others could follow them to receive notifications about changes made to these collections.