FriendCaller Blog

Apple's new firmware.

Yesterday Apple released its new firmware iOS4, which enables recent functions. But the most important innovations are the Multitasking and the Folders function.

Multitasking allows us to run apps and switch between them instantly without slowing down the performance of the foreground app or draining the battery unnecessarily. Authorized for multitasking are for example navigation-applications as well as audio streaming services or VoIP-Clients. But currently this is slightly problematic due to most producers have not updated their applications yet.

A folder in iOS 4 is a group of apps you access by tapping a single icon on your iPhone’s Home screen. When you tap a folder, which sports an icon that includes miniature versions of the icons of the apps inside, along with a name intended to describe the folder’s contents the dock fades and slides down, and the main Home-screen area fades and slides up to make room for a view of the folder’s contents. This view shows the name and full-size icon of each app. Tap on any app to launch it, or tap anywhere outside the folder area to close the folder and return to the Home screen.

Other notable new features are Spell Checking, a built-in dictionary, which automatically suggests words and corrects spelling. IBooks, a great ebook reader, which is also a place to browse and shop for books. And finally the possibility to create a playlists right on your iPhone.

But you should also know that many users claim that they met with several problems updating their software. Most of them complain about crashes when opening the photo album or apps. Moreover they had problems to backup their data. Nevertheless the free software update for the iPhone or iPod Touch can be found and installed on iTunes.

Tagging yourself it's worth it!

The third round of our gorgeous prize competition ended today and the incredible high prizes were send to our winners! It gives us pleasure announcing our first prize winner Amer Abu Nasr, who won up to 5000 elusive minutes of free international calls! We also mustn’t forget the 2^nd and 3^rd winners Pieter Rhijnsburger and Keane Owen who got phenomenal vouchers of 60 and 40 dollars! You see tagging yourself on the picture pays. Keep in mind, the 4th round of our amazing prize competition started today!

Just tag yourself and win!

This time it’s your job to take a stab at one of the most interesting games so far. On Friday, 25th of June Brazil will compete with Portugal and we wanna make this game even more exciting for you! This is why we want you to tag yourself on a final score! Every winner will get a voucher of terrific 10 dollars! That means up to 500 awesome international free minutes on FriendCaller! Just to recall, you can use FriendCaller on your iPhone. iPad or iPod touch as well as in your web-browser!

Tag you on the one you guess scoring the most goals!

The second round of our prize competition started yesterday. This time it is even more exciting for you due to the fact that you really have to know about soccer to win.

It is your assignment to guess which of the 12 nations will make the most goals on the 15th and 16th of June. The prize will be a voucher code for 10 bucks of free calling on your FriendCaller account. This means up to 500 min of free international calls.

Actually the competition should close at noon, but because of your great participation we will go into overtime. You will really have 4 extra hours to give your suggestion on Friendcallers Facebook Application.The winners will be announced on the 17^th.

Good Luck! We hope you’ll win the competition!

The first round of our prize competition on Facebook is closed now. Congratulations on our amazing winners! Your vouchers will be send to you soon. Now you really have chance calling your friends all over the world for free by using FriendCaller over your iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Android, Facebook app or WebPhone! We hope you guys will enjoy it! And for the persons among you who did not win don’t be sad. Just keep in mind, the next competition will start tomorrow! Further information will be brought to you soon!

Chrome for Mac went out its beta status and joined the stable status of its Windows brother according to Google.

So it is a good time to check how Chrome is doing with our FriendCaller VoIP website.
We have seen a steadily increase of visitors and users using the Chrome family accessing our www.FriendCaller.com website.
The share of accesses to our site from visitor using Chrome was already 8% in November 2009, bypassing Safari in December and now in May 2010 it has with 11% share established a solid third place behind Internet Explorer.
The Chrome version for MAC lacked Java VM support for a while but now it is executing our Java VoIP technology amazingly fast.
However, seems to be that JavaFX is not yet supported on Chrome for MAC.
However, we are confident tat this will be fixed soon and we are looking forward to many more visits from Chrome users!