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Tech NewsClever Doorbell App Automatically Calls Your Friends When You Get To Their Door
As long as the contacts listed in your iPhone include their full address, the Pocket Doorbell app will use your location data to automatically call or text them when you get to their place. When you get close to their home the person’s name will appear underneath the actual doorbell button on a faux engraved … Continued
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How the App Store’s Gunning For Your Retail Dollars
In advance of today’s Apple announcement, the company has started putting catalogs in their own category in the App Store. Is Apple plotting a new way for us to use its devices to shop? The new Catalogs category isn’t yet listed with the others, but a simple search of the App Store shows that many … Continued
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This Is the 25 Billionth App Downloaded From Apple
Just yesterday, Apple announced that App Store customers had officially downloaded more than 25 billion apps. Now we’ve got some new details about the person who actually pushed Apple over the edge to help put the hugeness of that number in perspective. The Next Web reports that the person who actually downloaded app number 25,000,000,000 … Continued
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Will the iPad 3’s Retina Apps Be Too Big for 3G Downloads?
Over at TheNextWeb, Matthew Panzarino argues that because expected resolution bump of the iPad 3 display would make app file sizes much larger, the App Store full of iPad apps larger than 20 megabytes which can’t be downloaded over a 3G connection. Honestly, however, it’s too soon to declare anything a problem. Here’s Panzarino’s analysis … Continued
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The App Store Is About to Get a Major Makeover
There are countless search systems floating around the web, but it has just been announced that Apple has purchased the app search company Chomp. This isn’t a normal Apple takeover though; it looks like Apple has serious plans for the expertise it just purchased for $50 million. According to 9to5mac, the staff of Chomp are … Continued
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How to Get a Refund from the App Store
There are something like a bazillion apps in the App Store. Do you know what that means? A lot of craptacular apps that should never be put on your iPhone. But sometimes you download an app not knowing it sucks or doesn’t work or is buggy or isn’t what you thought. Can you get a … Continued
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This Fake Pokemon App That Doesn’t Even Work Is the Dumbest Thing to Ever Happen to the App Store
A fake, completely unofficial and totally illegal port of Pokemon popped up on the App Store the other day and has been blazing through the App Store, even reaching the height of #2 in Top Paid apps. The problem? It doesn’t even work. https://kotaku.com/pokemon-on-itunes-hello-scam-5886455 That’s just the first part of it. If you want to … Continued
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An App That Promises Riches, Travel, and Love—In Your Dreams
Companies make a lot of claims about their products to help sell them, but this new app from a Japanese ad agency goes to the extreme, promising wealth, travel, love, and even the ability to fly, at least while you sleep. Yumemiru, or See the Dream, is available as a free download from the iTunes … Continued
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TypeWay iPad Keyboard Adapts To Fit Your Hands Perfectly
The limitations of typing on a touchscreen hinder how effective tablets can be as productivity tools. There is hope, though, at least for iPad users. This TypeWay keyboard supposedly makes things easier, by adapting the key layout for each user. Like the velociraptors in Jurassic Park, the TypeWay replacement keyboard learns and remembers, automatically adjusting … Continued
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Hardest Shot App Measures Slapshot Speeds: Decides If You’re NHL Material
Using the iPhone’s microphone, the NHL’s new Hardest Shot app can actually measure the speed of your slapshot and your NHL potential. With the right setup of course. First you’ll need the hockey basics, like a rink, equipment, and a frozen puck, as well as $2 for the app itself. You’ll need to aim at … Continued
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An Unofficial Android Store Will Provide All The Apps Banned By Google
Unlike getting hold of iOS apps, it’s always been possible to trawl the web for software that doesn’t appear in the Android Market. But that process is about to get even easier, because soon there will be an unofficial store for banned Android apps. Koushik Dutta, a member of the team behind CyanogenMod and the … Continued
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The Official New Year’s Eve Ball App Lets You Join the Times Square Party From Your Phone
Can’t make it to New York to ring in the new year tonight? With the official Times Square New Year’s app you won’t have to plant yourself in front of the TV if you want to see the ball drop. The app was officially released a few weeks ago, and while it does feature a … Continued
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How Some Crafty Devs Are Defying Apple’s App Laws
Developing for iOS has its share of tradeoffs: you get to put up a stall in the busiest app bazaar in the world, but only if you jump through Apple’s many, many hoops. Or, as these clever underminers did, just find ways around them. Maybe the best part of the WSJ’s tour of the rule-benders? … Continued
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Tech NewsAudi Ad Turns the iPad’s Slide To Unlock Into a Twisting Driving Course
Before you get too excited, you can’t actually turn your iPad or iPhone’s “slide to unlock” feature into a twisting race course. What you see here is actually an interactive ad created by Audi for the iPad, promoting their magazine. You’re still able to actually guide the “slide to unlock” arrow around the course, but … Continued
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Tech NewsAcoustical Ruler App Measures Distances With Your iPhone Like a Submarine
Thanks to a new app that uses the same approach as submarines for measuring distance, you can now add ‘semi-reliable tape measure’ to the list of things your iOS devices can do. Acoustical Ruler is available from the iTunes App Store for just a buck, and uses simple sonar techniques to measure distances with a … Continued
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Tech NewsiOS Security Flaw Allows Trusted Apps to Take Over Your iPhone
Apple’s pretty proud of its App Store approval system. Too bad security hacker Charlie Miller found a code-signing flaw that allows good apps to go bad. Here’s how an app downloaded from the App Store could become a malware threat. What Miller has discovered is that hackers can create an app that passes Apple’s strict … Continued
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Belkin’s iPhone Camera Remote Revealed By the FCC
Like an older sibling who spoils the surprise ending of a movie, the FCC has revealed photos and details of Belkin’s upcoming wireless camera remote for the iPhone. Except that in this case, the surprise is no Keyser Söze. The remote is actually a combination of two pocket-friendly devices that make it easier to take … Continued
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Philips Has a Free App To Battle iPhone Battery Woes
A supposed fix to the iPhone 4S’ battery life issues is on the way from Apple, but until the update is officially released to the public, Philips has stepped up to the plate with a useful app that will help you maximize the battery life on any iOS device. http://gizmodo.com/5855887/apple-seeds-ios-501-to-developers-adds-battery-life-fixes-and-multitouch-gestures-to-original-ipad While it doesn’t do anything … Continued