Google Voice for iPhone has received an update to version 1.4.0.2372, anddespite the small numerical bumpit’s a pretty significant jump. In addition to offering full Sprint integration with native dialer routing, users can finally take advantage of one-touch copy and paste, multi-line text entry, word counts, contact auto-complete, and group texting. Unfortunately, the release does [...]
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Apple has posted a support article to back up its recent silent roll out of iTunes Match content internationally. iTunes Match has been available in the United States since November but last week some other international countries started to see it appear too. The support article confirms that iTunes Match is now available across seventeen [...]
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Air Dictate ([substring:0:500] Air Dictate ($0.99) by Avatron Software, Inc. allows you to use your iPhone 4S to dictate on your Mac (sorry Windows users). If you have an iPhone 4S, then you should be aware of how much easier life is when you are able to dictate things like email and messages, perhaps even [...]
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I’ve seen resumes that are riddled with typos. I’ve seen resumes that are inconsistent bullets in some places, dashes in others, bold in some headings, plain text in others. But if you are aiming for your dream job, you definitely don’t want to give a bad impression to your manager in your first interview. Your [...]
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The popular platform/adventure game from WiiWare, LostWinds, is now available on the iPhone and iPad. An innovative, fresh platform-adventure bursting with gameplay ideas wield the awesome elemental powers of Enril the Wind Spirit, from raging tornados to the subtlest breeze, in a stunningly presented combination of combat, exploration and puzzle solving. Guide and protect Toku, [...]
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Rene, Georgia, and Seth talk Santa Siri commercial, sexism charges, AT&T and T-Mobile deal, Nuance buying Vlingo, how to replace your iPhone 4 vibrator assembly, jailbreak, Facebook Timelines, Kindle updates, FPS games, and more. This is iPhone and iPad Live! Subscribe via iTunes: Audio | Video Subscribe via RSS: Audio | Video Download directly: Audio [...]
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Physics 21 HD ([substring:0:500] Physics 21 HD ($0.99) by Batuhan Akalin changes the classic casino game of Blackjack by shuffling physics into the deck. You might be asking, “How on earth do you combine physics with a card game-” Do you use a slingshot to fire the cards- Does gravity have anything to do with [...]
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Dear Aunt TUAW, More of a question rather than a tip, but with the App Store lockdown today, I presume OnLive’s Player App will not be live in time for Christmas. I was thinking: Do you think Apple delayed approval of the app to maximize profits by sales over Christmas, including the significant revenue likely [...]
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Noted iPhone Jailbreak developer Grant Paul, better known as chpwn, has started the ICS Papercuts blog to share his thoughts on user interface and user experience inconsistencies in Google’s latest version of Android, Ice Cream Sandwich. Android Central‘s Jerry Hildenbrand has responded, agreeing with some of Paul’s complaints and calling him out on others, and [...]
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I’ll ‘fess up — on our wish list earlier this week, I was the one who asked (reasonably, I thought) for an Apple Camera. I’ve been shopping for a DSLR lately, and while the quality of some cameras are great, the interfaces are pretty terrible. I really do wish that Apple would step in and [...]
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pod2g has handed over his A4 untethered jailbreak to the Chronic Dev Team in order to concentrate on A5 devices. This comes after accomplishing an untethered jailbreak for all A4 devices as well as overcoming a cache issue for A5 devices. The Chronic Dev Team will test and finish his A4 untether for release as [...]
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TiPb Awards: Productivity app of the year Apple finally (yes, finally, deal with it) released the iWork apps for iPhone, namely Keynote, Numbers, and Pages. Agenda Calendar brought elegance to our appointments. Noteshelf made our iPads useful in planning sessions. Elements made Dropbox note-taking sing. [Orchestra To-Do] (http://www.tipb.com/tag/orchestra-to-do) packed out tasks with functionality. Due made [...]
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The U.S. Department of Transportation has refused to work with the National Transportation Safety Board’s proposal to ban the use of the iPhone and other smartphones in cars. U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said he won’t back a proposal to prohibit drivers from talking on cellphones, even hands-free devices, giving a boost to car makers [...]
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Apparent Corporations Doxie scanner has been a hit since it arrived a few years back. It’s small, lightweight, and pretty well perfect for mobile use. So when I heard that the company had come out with a new scanner called Doxie Go (9) that allegedly removes the need to have a computer around when you [...]
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NEW ORBIT ([substring:0:500] NEW ORBIT ($0.99) by Blackish is a universal space adventure game that requires timing, skill, and a basic understanding of gravity to succeed. Fly through space in a flimsy shuttle using zero gravity and the gravitational pull of nearby asteroids to make your way home. The game is story driven. Before each [...]
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So, where would you expect an iPhone case that also opens beers to come from- If you guessed Australia, you’re absolutely correct. I first heard about the Opena Case (AUD.95) when it was a Kickstarter project, and now that they’re in production, I really wanted to try one. What better device to use to open [...]
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Santa’s Big Helper: 9 Christmas Apps in 1 ([substring:0:500] Santa’s Big Helper: 9 Christmas Apps in 1 ($0.99) by Wet Nose Design Ltd is a nine-in-one app for all your Christmas needs. Designed for the whole family, this app has plenty of features to entertain and help prepare for Christmas. Adults should be the first [...]
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Launch Center Flashlight, shortcuts, and more! ([substring:0:500] Launch Center Flashlight, shortcuts, and more! ($0.99) by App Cubby is an app that allows you to quickly do your most-used actions, all from one convenient app. I’m a fan of App Cubby’s beautiful interfaces, as I mentioned in the last review with Tweet Speaker. The design of [...]
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iPhoneWorld.ca writes:In today’s December 22, 2011 compilation of the coolest Games, from the Apps Store: Mouse Maze! iPhone Game (PAID) Touch the screen and the mouse will follow your finger. Help the mouse collect all the stars before the cats get him! Mouse Maze is a highly addictive game! Gingerbread House Maker iPhone Game (PAID) [...]
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Christmas from Quicken is coming pretty late, but it will be appreciated by many Mac users. The company has emailed users that it will finally offer a version of Quicken that runs under Lion and Snow Leopard. Intuit Personal Finance Group GM Aaron Forth wrote users today “I understand the frustration this may have caused [...]
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A leaked memo from media giant Gannett Company reveals plans to buy thousands of iPhones, iPads and other accessories to use in news gathering. The memo, from Gannett Newspaper President Bob Dickey says that the new devices “will help our journalists meet the demands of the new news cycle, one that requires agility in real-time [...]
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I was going to rip Shave Me a new one for being ridiculous. I forgot all the mean things I was going to say while I played with it. Honestly, I had a blast maniacally laughing while I cut the holy bejeebies out of someone’s cheek. Maybe legs. You know, I’m not entirely sure what [...]
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I’ve spent months and months with the iPad’s software keyboard at this point, and although I can still type pretty quickly with it, I can’t do it for very long. This may have to do with my having a pair of sissy wrists, but after a good 5–10 minutes of typing, I start to feel [...]
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With Apple shutting down iTunes Connect for the holidays, developers won’t able to change the prices of their apps for the next seven days, so we figured this would be the best time to add to and edit our sale list from earlier in the week. We have over 80 new additions to our holiday [...]
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EA and Gameloft are slashing prices for the holiday, Evernote has released a new app, and one app to help you light candles ’cause it’s Hanukah time. Menorapp Skitch for iPad TETRIS® for iPad The Sims 3 AppAdvice Daily: Huge App Sales From Gameloft And EA, Skitch Hits The App Store, And Menorapp For Hanukah [...]
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Apple’s rigid app approval system can be quite unpredictable at times and when it comes to emulators in the App Store, there is never any certainty of whether or not they will stick around. Soon after the release of iMAME, iDOS made its return to the App Store under the name Aemula Oldies S (yeah, don’t ask). [...]
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Firemint and EA have launched Real Racing on the Mac App Store just in time for Christmas. And not only does the game offer up the same high definition racing fun of the popular iOS series, but there’s another twist as well: You can use an iPhone or iPad to control the game on your [...]
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Let’s wind back the clocks a bit so those of you who weren’t around for the great iDOS fiasco of 2010. It all started with Apple ever-so-slightly easing up on their approval guidelines which opened the floodgates for quite a few apps (such as the Google Voice apps) that seemed to eternally be trapped in [...]
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I really enjoyed LostWinds when it came out on the Wii a couple of years ago — it’s a physics-based platformer, essentially, but the twist is that you don’t just control a really beautifully rendered little kid named Toku wandering around a very artistic world, you also control the wind spirit that can push him [...]
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Surprise! Grand Theft Auto 3, which saw a release this December 14 at .99, is now just Surprise! Grand Theft Auto 3, which saw a release this December 14 at $4.99, is now just $2.99 in celebration of the holidays. If you were one of those day-one guys saying he’d wait until a price drop [...]
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Hey, Shadowgun [ Hey, Shadowgun [$2.99] now has more content via an update. Madfinger has added an “expansion” to the overall package that directly follows the events in the core game. Overall, this new expansion contains a total of four new levels, as well as new little visual tweaks, a new gun, new collectibles, and [...]
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A lot of people don’t like Square Enix’s App Store prices mainly because they’re so much higher than the norm. Good thing about the holidays, we guess, is that all of these prices tend to fall. And they have. Again. This year. Starting now and extending until after New Years Day, you can grab just about every [...]
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eWeather HD: An elegant, easy-to-use and powerful forecast application. It combines ten day and hourly forecasts from two weather sources with a beautiful radar images and unique “weather wheel” interface. 0:600.99 for iPhone and iPad App Store link GoDocs: This solution for Google Docs now has a new synchronization workflow, which synchronizes all your documents, [...]
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The nominations are in, and the poll is ready to go! The TUAW Best of 2011 awards are all about you — the readers — and what you think is the cream of the crop of Apple or third-party products and software. To vote, select one entry from the top nominations made by readers. We’ll [...]
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I have been an Apple follower and believer for many, many years. But when it actually comes to evangelizing about Apple I am usually one of the coolest cats on the block. I never preach to friends or acquaintances about Apple’s products’ attributes. I simply use my devices, others see it, ask questions, and either [...]
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App Name: Mystery Manor Description: Mystery Manor produced by Game-Insight is a Hidden Object Style Game with sense of adventure. This is no ordinary Hidden object game, this mystery styled game with several quests and tasks. The game is centered around Mystery Manor, which has many hidden secrets of the late Mr X who [...]
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Real Racing 2 – one of the most popular and critically acclaimed racing games for iOS – has now got a Mac version, and it’s available in the Mac App Store now. The game lets you take control of the steering wheel with your iPhone or iPad, or just use the Mac. Here are some [...]
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The App Store freeze goes down today, so this is the last chance for many developers to put their apps on sale. And of course, many have taken advantage of that chance. Before we even start listing sales today, many of the sales previously listed, including EA and Gameloft’s whole-catalog 99 cent sales, are still [...]
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If you were looking to find me 10 years ago, chance were you’d see me in the living room of my home, furiously mashing the buttons on my Playstation 2 while playing Grand Theft Auto III. I didn’t really like the series at first, but like many other gamers out there, I soon became hooked [...]
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Sometimes it seems like just about everyone in the US has an iPhone. A report by Kantar Worldpanel ComTech that was highlighted by Reuters today shows that the iPhone’s share of the US smartphone market jumped from 25 percent during the run-up to Christmas last year to 36 percent during the same period this year. [...]
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As David Pogue points out, O’Reilly Press is offering a number of its Missing Manual books for 50% off through January 3rd, with no DRM and lifetime access downloads and updates. Those looking for last minute Christmas gifts for slightly less tech-savvy relatives may want to check it out. Among the titles on sale: – [...]
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View Flickr in style with flickr hd for iPhone and iPad! This app will display your photostream, another user’s public photostream, favorites, or a custom search as a slideshow in intervals of 10, 15, 30, or 60 seconds. It also supports VGA and AV output to display on your TV, monitor, or projector. flickr hd [...]
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