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4 Tips for How to Develop a Perfect iPad Magazine App

July 12, 2011

The revolutionary iPad 2 has reached an interesting point and companies are enthusiastic about working on iPads and developing apps for their products, websites, blogs and magazines. Digital magazines for iPads are becoming quite popular in US and UK and people love the new enhanced reading experience. Digital and iPad magazines are popping up everywhere [...]

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Apple to unveil iOS 5, Mac OS X Lion and iCloud at WWDC

June 1, 2011

Apple just announced in a press release that it will be unveiling iOS 5, Mac OS X Lion and iCloud at the next WWDC to begin on Monday June 6th. Steve Jobs himself will, as usual, take the stage at the opening keynote address to make the announcements. Usually Apple doesn’t release such information before [...]

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Facebook + Spotify (and how to use Spotify internationally)

May 26, 2011

Facebook and Spotify teams up to provide a new music service to Facebook users. The new service will probably be named “Facebook Music” or “Spotify on Facebook” and is said to be launched in as soon as just two weeks, according to Forbes. Apparently there’s no money shifting hands in this deal, Facebook doesn’t pay [...]

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iPhone Tracking: “Engineering Mistake”

May 3, 2011

The latest drama at Apple has been over the apparent tracking of user location via a hidden program deep inside the phone. Apparently this ability came as a surprise to Apple programmers who were busy looking for other forms of data collection committed by their iPhones. In looking for these suspected collections they discovered that [...]

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How to Get the Most Out of Your iPhone Battery

May 3, 2011

Apple’s iPhone revolutionized the smartphone market when it debuted in 2007, and since then it’s continued to set the standard for how the devices look, feel, and perform. Although Apple’s lost its market-share dominance because of competition from other phones like the Android, the iPhone remains a great choice for smartphone users interested in power [...]

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3 Android competitors for the iPad

April 10, 2011

Apple is dominating the tablet market with iPad 1 and iPad 2 since ever. Actually there was no real tablet market before the release of iPad 1. The sudden success of the iPad “forced” many other companies to get into the process of developing their own tablet and try to challenge Apple. Among the strongest [...]

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Best Wireless Routers for Mac Users

March 22, 2011

There are dozens of wireless routers in the retailers’ electronics departments that infamously claim to be “Mac compatible.” If you or one of your friends has ever purchased one of these routers, they either own a PC or know that compatible is used quite loosely. So what router should you buy if you have a [...]

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How big a data plan do you really need for your iPhone?

March 21, 2011

iPhone sales really took off in the Summer of 2008 when the iPhone 3G came out. Then another huge boost came in the Summer of 2010 when iPhone 4 was released. In between we also saw the upgraded 3G, known as iPhone 3GS, but the sales didn’t increase as much as when the “3G” and [...]

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Why I will not upgrade to new Sandy Bridge MacBook Pro’s. Or, what I’m hoping for in next upgrade

March 8, 2011

Apple updated their MacBook Pro’s last month with super fast Sandy Bridge stuff. They also got the new Thunderbolt I/O technology which is brand new so there’s basically nothing out there you can connect to it yet, but I’m sure it will come soon – I’m just not sure what we need that much speed [...]

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Apple presents iPad 2 & iOS 4.3 — Yeah, I’m getting one!

March 2, 2011

To some surprise, Steve Jobs himself took the stage during his medical leave of absence, as he “didn’t want to miss it”, as he said, since they had been working on the product (iPad 2) for awhile. Before the iPad 2 presentation, Steve Jobs explained how 100 million books were downloaded so far from iBooks [...]

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Apple reveals new MacBook Pro’s with Sandy Bridge, AMD graphics and Thunderbolt I/O

February 24, 2011

Surprise, surprise. As if the world didn’t already knew that Apple was going to release Sandy Bridge MacBook Pro’s in the near future – well, the near future has arrived, because today the Apple Store was updated with new MacBook Pro models. All of them with the new Intel Sandy Bridge Core i5 and i7 [...]

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Hey, look, rumors were true – Apple holding iPad 2 event on March 2nd

February 23, 2011

Engadget received an invitation from Apple to join an event on March 2nd. When looking at the invitation (see below), there’s no doubt that it’s about iPad. Engadget will of course report live from the event. I wonder if iPad 2 will look as displayed in the image below (ie. basically the same as iPad [...]

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7 iPad Apps That Can Save You Money

February 19, 2011

Your iPad is capable of much more than gaming, browsing the web, checking email and staying up to date with everything on the social web. In fact, come to think of it, there’s not much that it can’t do – including helping you to stay on top of your personal finances. Hand picked from the [...]

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Apple App Store: 10 billion downloads!

January 24, 2011

Apple reached another milestone this saturday with their highly successful App Store: 10 billion downloads. Download number 10,000,000,000 was a free app called Paper Glider and was downloaded by a british woman by the name of Gail Davis who shortly after received a call from Apple, telling her she won a gift certificate worth $10,000. [...]

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Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, takes medical leave. Tim Cook in charge.

January 17, 2011

BusinessWire has posted a message sent from Steve Jobs to all Apple employees, indicating that he will be taking a medical leave of absence to focus on his health. There’s no mentioning of how long he’s going to be away but he will still be involved in major strategic decisions, though Tim Cook will run [...]

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iPhone 4 comes to Verizon CDMA – with three changes…

January 11, 2011

In February 10, after putting Verizon cell phones for sale, now Verizon will start selling CDMA iPhone 4′s to be used on their network. It will be $199 for the 16GB model and $299 for the 32GB model, both with 2-year contract and required data plan. Same price as with AT&T. Regarding the three changes… [...]

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Mac App Store now open!

January 6, 2011

The Mac App Store was launched today which now gives you access to tons of apps and games directly on your Mac and not just on your iPhone and iPad. The apps are not the same as the apps in the iOS App Store are developed and designed for use on a Mac, so if [...]

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Rumor: Apple to launch new product later this month?

January 6, 2011

According to AppleInsider, Apple is restricting retail employee vacations by disallowing vacation three weeks early in 2011. The three weeks are said to be the last week of January and the first two of February. Rumors are suggesting that Apple will be launching a new major product later this month which is why they need [...]

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Android closing in on Apple’s iOS in the US

January 4, 2011

Apple’s iOS, Google’s Android and RIM’s Blackberry OS are somewhat even in the United States in terms of market shares. Apple is leading with 28.6% market shares for smartphones and Android is just behind with 25.8%, according to data collected by The Nielsen Company in November 2010. A difference between iOS and Android of just [...]

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Aperture 3.1.1 released – ready for download in Software Update

December 10, 2010

Apple just dropped a new update to their pro photo management and editing software, Aperture 3 ($188 at Amazon). This new update is version 3.1.1 and it improves overall stability and performance. A complete list of fixes: iLife ’11 Compatibility Fixes an issue that could cause iMovie ’11 to stop responding while scanning the Aperture [...]

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Top 10 Gadgets I Want For Christmas – And Maybe You Would Too? [2010]

November 12, 2010

Christmas is closing in on us, but according to the stores and malls it kinda looks like it’s Christmas already. It’s amazing how they manage to make everything look Christmassy sooner and sooner almost every year. Anywho, what’s a tech blog without a top 10 list of some of the greatest gadgets that most of [...]

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Smartphone reliability: iPhone 4 with fewest failures, but…

November 11, 2010

A new study conducted by SquareTrade after analyzing failure rates of over 5,000 smartphones covered by SquareTrade Care Plans, shows that Apple’s iPhone 4 has the fewest failures with 2.1% failures within its first year. Below Apple you find Motorola with 2.3% and HTC with 3.7%. Another interesting observation is that when it comes [...]

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Flash coming to iPhone & iPad … ish!

November 2, 2010

Three months ago I mentioned the Skyfire browser might be coming to iPhone soon. Well, now it has been approved by Apple and is expected to appear in the App Store on November 4th with a price tag of $2.99 in the US App Store. Skyfire has a trick up its sleeve. It doesn’t fully [...]

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I wish I could play online poker on my iPhone…

November 1, 2010

I remember back in the days, probably 6-7 years ago, when online poker was really starting to become popular. It was everywhere, on television, in the newspapers, online – they gave us updates from the big tournaments such as WPT, WSOP etc. Then there was a few poker players who sort of became “celebrities” in [...]

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iPhoto ’11 bug may cause data loss – update before launching!

November 1, 2010

There’s a serious issue with the new iPhoto ’11, announced as part of iLife ’11 on October 20th. If you’re an existing iPhoto user and you have an iPhoto library with photos in it, you’re at risk of losing all your photographs when you upgrade to iLife ’11 because it will also upgrade your iPhoto [...]

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Flash no longer included on Macs per default

October 27, 2010

The new MacBook Air from Apple comes without Flash pre-installed, something which Mac’s have had for a long time. But as you might know, Steve Jobs is not a big fan of Flash and Flash is not even possible on the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. Apple is now doing the same as Microsoft by [...]

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