The figure, according to AllThingsD, involves all of the games in the series – the “classic” Angry Birds, Angry Birds Seasons and Angry Birds Rio, and it constitutes a massive increase over last year, when the number of downloads was 2 million. Another important fact is that this involves paid and unpaid downloads, depending on the platform. The games are free in the Android Market, but there are also paid versions (in the App Store, for example)....

I completely understand the company’s attitude. They have a new iPad and iPhone, so the last thing it needs is bad press. A press release by the company says that the Fair Labor Association will be conducting special audits at the company’s suppliers. To its credit, Apple has requested this. No matter what targeted the decision, it is a good step in a normal direction. Factories checked will also include Foxconn facilities in Shenzhen and Chengdu, China....

However, the company recently added the “Free on iTunes” iTunes Section iOS and the desktop versions of iTunes. This new section offers free music singles as well as HD episodes of TV shows. Free on iTunes This new curated section, won’t just force content on you, but rather let you choose what you want yourself. It only contains a handful of songs (16 at the time of this writing), but provides more than the “Free Single of the Week” section it previously offered....

This update contains security content originally included in previous iOS Software Updates. The update is available over-the-air via WiFi from the Software Update Section. If you have a device that’s running iOS 7, there’s an update for it that fixes issues with FaceTime calls too – iOS 7.0.4. I’ll be using it to read email and it will just reset itself for no reason. Really buggy so I’m glad to see any update....

Rename Windows PC Sometimes you might need (or want) to change the name of your Windows PC. Maybe you want to change it to reflect ownership, or where it’s located in your home for easier management of computers on your home network. Personally, I change the name to something that allows me to remember what I’m using it for. Whatever the reason for changing your PCs name, the process hasn’t changed since the old days of XP....

When CyanogenMod was first getting started, the development team was in need of a domain. One of the team members, who is named Ahmet, volunteered to buy the cyanogenmod.com domain to serve as the rom’s development headquarters. This arrangement continued on for several years, with Ahmet maintaining ownership of the domain while it was in use by the rest of the CyanogenMod developer team. However at some point in recent months Steve Kondik, lead developer at CyanogenMod, discovered that Ahmet was secretly using the website for his own personal profit via referral deals....

F.lux Updated for Windows Most notable among changes to the software comes the expanded range of colors. The previous “warm” limit was 3400K. The new version can go down to 1200K. However, to expand the range will require a restart of the computer before it can be fully enabled. Was this update sponsored by Phillips? We’re not sure, but there is now a setting to connect it to Phillip lights in your house that are wired to your control network....

Within minutes, people who were locked out of their accounts flocked to Twitter to sound off on the matter. Not all accounts were affected, but there were enough to create quite a stir for its users. According to Gina Smith at aNewDomain.net — the website downrightnow.com has confirmed the problem existed for two hours. Facebook had no comment about the problem at the time of this writing. If this was a hack, now would be the perfect time to change your Facebook password....

But other than interesting Easter eggs in Cortana, there’s other settings that are hidden in the new mobile OS that users are finding daily as they continue to use Windows Phone 8.1 which anyone can install right now for free. One of a recently discovered hidden features allows you to use Cortana and Bing to search for the hidden USB settings menu which provides a couple of interesting features. Whether these settings do anything yet remains up in the air....

Whatever the reason, you don’t want to run to each computer or other devices to find its IP address, there’s a much easier way. It’s a free utility called Advanced IP Scanner and it will quickly do the work for you. Advanced IP Scanner I actually ran into this issue with my Windows Home Server the other day because and I wanted to remotely connect to it (WHS geeks, I know, I should be better prepared)....

Why Should I Benchmark My Android Phone? The quickest way to judge a phone’s performance is by testing its hardware. But some phones might not seem to be as responsive as its specs suggest on paper. Have you ever wondered why your Android phone is slower than your friend’s, even though both have similar specs? This can be caused by a variety of reasons, but before you can find out what’s slowing down your phone, you need figure out where it’s coming up short....

Even if Steve Jobs has expressed his skepticism concerning how useful Flash would be on a mobile device, that didn’t stop Adobe from developing it further. The people that will be the happiest will be the ones using a Motorola Xoom. The new version is a “finished production quality release for Android 2.2 and 2.3 devices and a BETA release for Android 3.0.1+ tablets”, according to the official notes accompanying the download....

Over the last few Friday Fun groovyPost’s, we’ve mentioned a few old-school gaming articles, like the Android Nintendo 64 Emulator, our ZSNES article and our tutorial guide to playing old-school DOS games on a Vista or Windows 7 computer. Well if old-schoolin it isn’t your thing, today I’ll explain how-to get a free copy of Team Fortress 2 on your Mac or PC. Downloading Steam Steam is a great online service that let’s you buy and download games for Windows and the Mac....

Do you use voicemail transcription on your Android phone? Does your carrier provide this service free of charge? If you answered “no” to either of those questions, then Yap might be just what you need. Yap is a free voicemail-to-text transcription app that runs on almost any Android phone and seems to be a lot more accurate than anything Google has to offer. It also doesn’t involve handing all of your data over to Google Voice....

Starring Gmail Contacts Why would you star any contacts? Well, because it makes it much easier to find them, especially if we’re talking about people you’re communicating with daily. The cool part is that wherever you star a contact, be it in the desktop version of Gmail or the contacts manager in Android; the “starred” status will be synced. To star a contact in Gmail, go to your Contacts – click the arrow next to the Gmail link on the left side of the screen and click Contacts....

Setting Up and Using Gboard for iOS Gboard is a free download for iOS from the App Store. It requires iOS 9 or higher and works on iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. Before you can use Gboard, you need to enable it as the default keyboard. Being new to virtual keyboards on iOS, I was a bit confused about how to switch from Word Flow then set Gboard as the default....

Format your text To send your words with bold or italic emphasis, just enclose them with an underscore or asterisk. italic = italicbold = bold Groovy keyboard shortcuts Here are a few keyboard shortcuts that only work in Google Talk. CTRL + Mousewheel Scroll Zooms text in for your writing box, the recipient of the message does not see the increased size.F11 Start a Google Talk callF12 End a callESC Close current windowALT + ESC Minimize current window...

This week the Google Labs team spawned a brain child of Wave, and it’s called Shared Spaces. Google Wave, whether you love it or hate it, was the first innovative product to really challenge the entire system of email collaboration. Last August Google said they were ending support for Wave, but by no means are they killing it off. Even as we speak, Apache and open-source versions of Google Wave are in the works....

Before we talked about a customizable personal Internet Radio service called Pandora. This time we’re going to look at a service that is at least twice as groovy, heck it even has “groove” in the name! Not only is it groovy but I feel it’s also the most complete, 100% customizable Internet radio. It’s called Grooveshark. The first thing to notice is that Grooveshark requires no registration. Of course optionally creating an account will enable many groovy features, so we’ll look at those further down in this article....

Sometimes, finding her phone is easy, like the one time I just looked at her and said, “It’s in your hand.” Other times, it’s harder, like when we used iCloud Find My iPhone, and I found it in the Dunkin Donuts parking lot, face down, inches away from the tires of an SUV. Also, it was raining. Nevertheless, the phone still worked and continued to work until I dropped it into the bathtub several months later....