The most popular iOS app of all time, Angry Birds Space, is today free on iOS. Rovio’s smash hit follows on from the original Angry Birds series, taking users, their birds, and their pigs into the outer reaches of the Galaxy. The game is most likely going to be free for the next seven days, but why wait! Reaching the number one spot in 116 countries,…
Microsoft has just launched its new Windows Surface commercial, in which it uses Siri to mock the iPad. It features a side by side comparison, and Siri can be heard saying things such as “I’m sorry I don’t update like that” and “I’m sorry, I can only do one thing at a time”. Despite my obvious iOS connections, I’m a really big fan of the Surface, and…
Shazam has today released a brand new universal iOS app designed to improve “shazaming” and the apps wider user experience. The Shazam experience is now available on the iPad, with some awesome new features for tablet users. The iPad now features auto-tagging, a new feature which removes user interaction from tagging. Essentially, your iPad will…
Going into applications to use them is a thing of the past thanks to a new tweak called Velox. Velox allows users to interact with their applications in a whole new way. Tasks like clearing notification badges or quickly making a note can now all be done without actually opening an application. The tweak I’m looking at today is an add-on to the…
For Microsoft, growing in the tablet market is key for success of its flagship operating system, Windows 8. In order to succeed in the tablet market, Microsoft has one large competitor standing in the way of marketshare: the Apple iPad. The iPad reinvented the tablet computer as we know it. Since the launch of the first iPad, the market for tablets has…
The rumored iWatch is perhaps the most hyped product that doesn’t exist yet, but if there’s one thing most analysts agree on it’s this: the iWatch is coming. It’s now a matter of when, not if. Ming-Chi Kuo, analyst for KGI Securities, claims that the iWatch will debut next year sporting a 1.5-2 inch display. Production on the iWatch, according to…
Otterbox made one of the biggest accessory announcements today during a press conference at CTIA. The case maker announced that they have reached a deal to purchase rival manufacturer LifeProof. The executives of both companies made a joint announcement today, and announced that the deal had been in the works for over four months. It was also…
If you like to make to-do lists on your iPhone, you have probably heard of Clear by now. The app is a clean and simple app that helps users organize to-do lists and makes it easy to prioritize the list as well. The app was updated today, both for iPhone and Mac, and now allows users to share their lists with other Clear users by email. This new…
Being a guitarist is a lot of fun, but it sure does cost a pretty penny. Not only does a decent guitar cost a lot, accessorizing it can be equally as expensive. Effects pedals, recording equipment and all the rest are not only potentially bankrupting, but they require an entire room in your house to live in. Simply put: it’s expensive and takes up too…
At Google I/O, Google announced that Chrome would be getting a revamped voice search feature similar to that of Google Now in Google’s mobile applications. Well, to accompany that new change, Google announced today via the Chrome blog that the iPhone and iPad versions of Mountain View’s browser of choice will also be seeing this feature implemented. Google…
With the case on the horizon, the U.S. Department of Justice has released the emails that it will be using during the court case to “prove” Apple is guilty in organizing a set of companies to price-fix e-books for the iBook Store. If you are interested in reading them, you can easily do so by heading to this link: Email exchange between Steve Jobs and James…
Is this news really any surprise? If so, it shouldn’t be. Yet another year, and yet again another chart saying the iPad leads in online commerce traffic. Sure, it dropped a few points, but in the grand scheme of things, those points aren’t very much. Almost 9 of every 10 users that visit an e-commerce site are doing some from an iPad. Android tablets took…
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