Google ports Chrome data compression to PCs

Great news for you bandwidth-conscious users, Google is bringing its mobile data compression used on Chrome for Android and iOS to the PC. The Data Saver (beta) extension works similar to what is done with Google compressing the data on their servers first. This method is said to reduce data consumption of some pages to as much as 50 percent. Like in mobile, it doesn’t intercept SSL-protected or Incognito tabs to protect user’s privacy and security.

Source: Engadget | Download: Chrome Web Store (Free)

Find out what news your friends are reading with Nuzzel app

Care to know what news or hot topics your Facebook and Twitter friends are talking about? Nuzzel can help you with that. The app has finally made its way to Android and with it comes the ability to see the most-shared news of your network. The Android app gets the same functionality as its iOS counterpart such as seeing the top news your friends are sharing, receive alerts for widely linked to items, and see what friends of friends are reading. Nuzzel worked with Google’s design team to make it adhere to Android’s Material Design language.

Source: The Next Web | Download: Google Play Store (Free) + Apple iTunes App Store (Free)

Students honour Canadian soldiers with Juno Beach Project app

Hoping to pay tribute to the Canadian soldiers who fought on the beaches of Normandy, France on D-Day, grade 11 and 12 history and computer science students from Ontario developed the Juno Beach Project app on Windows Phone. The app features graphics that show access maps of the battlefields as well as the hour-by-hour progression of the Canadian regiments to Normandy. There is also a listing of regiments that fought on D-Day as well as stories of about 371 Canadians who died in combat. You can also get more information about the soldiers like their rank, regiment, hometown, education, employment prior to the war, date of death, and their burial location. You can download the app for free on the Windows Phone Store.

Download: Windows Phone Store (Free) 

Get a great bod even without the gym with Gym Tuck

If you don’t have a budget for gym but want to get fit, there is an app ready to help you out. Celebrity trainer and fitness entrepreneur Joshua Lipsey has a new fitness app called Gym Tuck. The app has over 500+ tucks (fitness exercises) to choose from. There will be beginner and advanced descriptions as well as demonstration video from Joshua Lipsey in the app. You can also track your stats on the Gym Tuck graph and see which ones you can do better and which ones you enjoy doing.

But what sets this app apart is a method Lipsey calls BOYTAM or “Bet on yourself to achieve more.” This lets you bet on how many or how long you can hold a particular tuck for. This sort of starts an internal competition to help you overcome and even surpass your threshold. The app is available for free download on the iTunes App Store.

Download: Apple iTunes App Store (Free)