Ad-Free Media Management For All Your Devices

TVersity Pro (iOS, various licenses) now takes the most comprehensive media server file sharing system for iOS to a new level. With TVersity Pro and the TVersity server installed, your iOS devices will have unprecedented connectivity due to TVersity’s ability to recode and translate file formats across platforms with an app/server system that is iOS centric-- and because of this, it has an up-to-date iOS connectivity. Simply add the file to the server and you’re all set! After installing the TVersity server to your computer, moving files from device to device is a matter of following the menu prompts on the app and clicking. In addition to streaming media from the PC, TVersity Pro also allows saving media from the PC to the phone. This is for on-the-go access or when no Internet connection is available.

Works With All Major iOS Devices from iPhone 5 up, as well as most common iPods and iPads

Translates a wide variety of file formats across devices (such as MP4’s) and allows them to be rebroadcast on any connected device

Can be used with a variety of smart TV systems including Roku and others

Transmits file formats with little loss of quality across devices

Pro version is ad-free and allows direct camera sharing cross-device

Includes recoding ability for everything from MP3s, M4A and MP4 files as well as native files for file translation to other media

Easy-to-use interface means even a beginner can take advantage of the TVersity Server

Separate pricing models for individuals and discounts for households, allowing whole households of smart TVs to connect for less

A free version of Tversity app is available but it is ad supported and does not offer saving media from the PC to the phone.

This is the special discount code “APPSWORLD” and you can avail the discount of 20% off the TVersity Media Server Pro (for PCs not mobile), the code will expire on 1/1/2016.

VERDICT:
Personal media servers have been around for a very long time, but they’re not always as common or accessible on iOS devices. TVersity goes in exactly the opposite direction. Whether the new, app-centric direction of Apple TV 2 will make a difference because of a wider acceptance of AirPlay remains to be seen, but if you’re using anything else for your smart TV this is a good buy.

Youtube Gaming HAPPENING PLACE

“It’s best to do one thing really, really well”. That’s one of the 10 rules Google itself swears by. Shrugging off a panglobal or pan-industrial view of any market, Google became masters of creating and catering to niche markets. They were happy to act as a platform that other businesses used to prosper on, because when they made money, Google made money as well.

But Twitch was a bit different. The live streaming video platform specialises in streaming video gaming content, an area of speciality that should have been covered by Youtube (which is owned by Google). Youtube Gaming is Google’s answer to Twitch, which was bought by Amazon in 2014.

Before Youtube Gaming, it was still possible to find video game streams amid other videos on Youtube, but it wasn’t that easy. You had to know exactly what you wanted and what keywords to use before you got the search results you wanted. With Youtube Gaming, however, search is much simpler and more focused on gaming.

Critical to the success of Youtube Gaming is users feeling they are part of a gaming community. The app delivers what it’s asked of in this front. Gamers have the option of interacting in real time with fellow gamers over live gaming streams, play-throughs or walkthroughs. Youtube Gaming features a wide variety of games belong to all kinds of genres and played by all kinds of gamers.

VERDICT: TWITCH HAS DEVELOPED A LOYAL FOLLOWING THAT STILL MAKES IT THE LEADING PLAYER IN THIS NASCENT SEGMENT OF VIDEO STREAMING. BUT YOUTUBE GAMING IS A GOOD START BY GOOGLE, CONSIDERING TWITCH HAS A 4-YEAR HEAD START. YOUTUBE GAMING IS GOOD, AND WILL BECOME BETTER.

Fallout Shelter SUBURBIA UNDERGROUND

construct our own little worlds there, concocting living quarters for toys and stirring up imaginary skirmishes between them. We do more or less the same in Fallout Shelter, and it’s quite exciting. Fallout Shelter is set in the sobering climate of a possible nuclear disaster when people are constructing vaults deep in the underground to save themselves in the event of a holocaust. Playing the game, you are given the title of an Overseer who will have “total authority to create the perfect underground community”. Living in a vault sounds as bad as living in a submarine but Fallout Shelter makes it charming and enjoyable.

The game gives you real power over the dwellers of your vault and their life: right from choosing which dwellers to accept into your vault, you can build an entire city out of the muck, constructing living rooms, diners, water treatment plants, radio rooms, gymnasiums etc. You can send dwellers out to explore the wasteland and find new loot or weapons and protect your citizens from enemies from outside and within. You can even play matchmaker with your dwellers and make new babies!

VERDICT: FALLOUT SHELTER LETS YOU CREATE AN IDYLLIC WORLD OF NORMALITY DESPITE THE GLOOMY PREMISE THE GAME IS BASED ON. THIS IS THE WORLD WHERE PEOPLE CAN GO TO THE DINER AT THE END OF A TIRING DAY AT WORK AND HAVE A DRINK. CAN GO ON DATES AND GET HITCHED. PROTECT THEIR DWELLINGS AND EXPLORE NEW TERRAIN. BRAVO.