Hey, React devs! Here’s why UI libraries will improve your apps

Slow and steady wins the race.We’ve all heard this phrase thousands of times, but is it really true for our modern time where new businesses and technologies are getting launched every day? You can definitely finish the race being slow and steady but there’s no guarantee of winning it. This thing is even more true for tech where each day new frameworks, libraries, tools, and websites are getting launched. Therefore, as a developer you should try to delegate/eliminate/substitute your less important tasks tofocus most on the high-value tasks....

6 min · 1251 words · Gina Ewing

Hey, space nerd! Here’s what Mars sounds like

We’ve long known what Mars looks like, but the Perseverance rover is finally teaching us how it sounds. The buggy shared thefirst audio of the Martian surfacein February and has gone on to record five hours ofthe planet’s sounds. NASAthis week released anarray of audible delightscaptured by the six-wheeled spacecraft. The sounds of gusting winds, rattling wheels, and whirring motors provide a new perspective on Mars. They also play key a role in Perseverance’s science mission....

2 min · 347 words · Jason Paul

HeyWire Canada is a solid iOS text messaging alternative

Canadians have long been saddled with high-priced text messaging from their local providers. In recent years, those costs have dropped somewhat, but not nearly to the level that our American neighbours enjoy. But there’s a new iOS app called HeyWire Canada that may just change all of that. HeyWire Canadahas launched the very first iOS texting app to provide a Canadian phone number for unlimited texting to any mobile phone in Canada and to 45 countries for only $1....

3 min · 492 words · Michael Anderson

HeyWire now lets you text your friends from Facebook

We first wrote aboutHeyWire, a Boston based startup at SXSWi when itintegratedTwitter, Facebook and Google Talk into its group messaging app. The app aims to be a truly multi-platform messaging service, but it couldn’t do that without a Facebook app too, right? Today, HeyWire launched its Facebook App, which is the first app that allows Facebook users to send both texts and Tweets via SMS from within Facebook. Unlimited texting from within Facebook to any mobile phone in the USA, Canada, Mexico and China, and to most mobile phones in the Caribbean and Central and South America costs 20 Facebook Credits per month....

3 min · 449 words · Antonio Cervantes

Heyzap for Android gets a Play tab to make playing easier and faster

When I had the chance to look atHeyzapafew months ago, it quickly became my favorite way to play games on my Android device (and now it’s on iOS, too). By bringing all of your games into one place, providing a gamification of the games themselves and even acting as a launcher, Heyzap has been a great addition for many mobile gamers. Now, to make things even better, Heyzap has revamped its Android app (iOS coming soon) to include a Play tab, where all of your game shortcuts will live....

2 min · 322 words · Julie Mendez
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