There are some pretty weird apps out there. The yet to be launched app,Cloo, lets you rent out your loo to strangers, that is if it doesn’t turn out to be an elaborate hoax. There’s also apps that we know for a fact exist, like theDeath App, which shows you murders in your area, using nothing less than a Google-powered map. Poking fun at some of the stranger apps we’ve seen, and some of us have actually downloaded, the parody video about an app called Poopons is a great reminder that sometimes our desire to turn every little concept into an app should sometimes stay right there – at the conceptual stage....

We see literally thousands of pitches here to TNW every week. Without fail, every single week, something goes wrong either due to bad timing, poor communication or just poor planning. Combine those frustrations with the added, unnecessary weight of an embargo and you have a near-literal recipe for disaster. While I could go on a thousand-word rant about every point here, I was once told that you should never bring up a problem without proposing a solution....

Pirates around the world are in mourning after the death of one of their idols: Popcorn Time. The “Netflixfor piracy,” which used the BitTorrent protocol to let users (illegally) stream films and TV shows, has passed on to the digital afterlife. At least, so it would seem to visitors ofpopcorn-time.tw. A message was this week posted to the website, emblazoned with the letters “R.I.P.” Alongside the fatal abbreviation was a macabre revamp of the service’s iconic logo....

We’ve long said goodbye to the days of rock and roll records, VH1 music videos and glossy music magazines as we’ve listened to music abrasively cross over into the digital space over the past decade. Print magazines like Rolling Stone,SPINand Relix have struggled to transition to the web, in heated competition with the likes ofPitchfork, (est. 1995), which is devoted to sharp music criticism and news andStereogum(est. 2002), which was one of the world’s first successful MP3 blogs....

Ten years ago, mobile phones came with nothing more than a basic notification system, and little more than monophonic and polyphonic ringtones. Now you can assign pretty much any song or sound, personalizing each and every tone for each app, contact or message. Popsis a brand new Android app which takes the whole ringtone feature to a new level, introducing animations and videos as part of your notification system. Pops is the brainchild of the three man Israel-based team, Yaron Orenstein, Nir Ofir and Kfir Goldman....