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Tap Tap Love: Bubble Wrap iPhone Game Rip Off

Steven Finch — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:15:00 +0000

We received a very interesting tweet today suggesting that we take a look at Tap Tap Love. Tap Tap Love is a new game on the iPhone and iPod Touch. Tap Tap Love is exactly the same as a previously popular game in the App Store, that game was Bubble Wrap.

Bubble Wrap and Tap Tap Love are games in which the user just tries to pop as many bubble or hearts as possible in an alotted time. Currently Tap Tap Love is priced at $0.99 and Im really not too sure they are going to sell many copies, especially when I can get Bubble Wrap for FREE!

Benq MID S6 Touchscreen Portable Laptop

Steven Finch — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:05:46 +0000

BenQ S6 is a high-end mini touch-screen computer created for wireless communication and high-speed Internet access, sporting a 4.8-inch widescreen display of 800 x 480 resolution, and measuring 6.2 x 3.5 x 0.9 inches at 370 grams.

It is powered by the 800MHz Intel Atom processing technology with low-power consumption, providing a longer battery life, and uses an advanced user interface accessible via the touch-sensitive screen with motion-based finger actions.

In addition, the mini touch-screen computer supports highs-speed 3.5G, full HTTP, WLAN, email, multimedia playing, and others, allowing you to tap on the icons, rotate the handset to enable the landscape view, resize web pages, quick shake for viewing thumbnails of all open files, swipe to flip through pictures, and drag images with the finger to attach them to your emails.

You can send files via Bluetooth, manage Office documents, talk on the built-in microphone, listen to the music using headphones, store 2GB of content on the 2GB Solid State Drive, and upload files from your PC via the miniUSB port.

Sony Launch Sony Reader PRS-600: Just In Time for Valentine’s Day

Steven Finch — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:29:41 +0000

It has been announced that Sony has launched their Reader. The Sony Reader has come out just in time for Valentine’s day and is priced at $329 for the Touch Edition.

The limited edition has a red cover and comes with a light. The PRS-600 Reader included in this bundle is compatible with ePUB, PDF, Microsoft Word, BBeB Book and other text formats. The device also has a built-in 512MB of storage space, which is upgradable via a card reader. Other features include a built-in MP3/AAC player, a 3.5mm headphone jack, a built-in dictionary, the ability to enlarge text, and a stunning two week battery life (7,500 page turns).

Chomp: The App Recommendation and Review App

Dean Sherwin — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:10:58 +0000

Sometimes, finding the right tool for the job can be hard. The app store now has millions of apps which can do just about anything. Apple’s slogan – “There’s an app for that” rings true. What’s more, the App Store’s search feature is known to be rubbish and biased. Chomp however, a new app which recommends apps based on user reviews isn’t.

It has just gone live on the App Store itself and with Digg founder Kevin Rose on board they have a good chance of taking off in a competitive market. Here’s how it works.

When you load the app, you’re greeted by a home screen with four option; Live App Reviews, Recommendations, Add People and Bookmarked Apps.

The App review section allows you to see what others think of apps (in the form of a ‘heart’ for good and a ‘broken heart’ for bad) and give your own reviews. Actually reviewing apps yourself is important as it opens up the apps community aspect which allows you to interact with other users and ‘Friend’ them. The recommendations section gives you a list of apps which the system thinks you may like based on your previous downloads. Kind of like TiVo for apps. Finally, you can bookmark apps for later.

Chomp make their money via an affiliate program. So for every app you download via Chomp they get a small percentage at no extra cost to you. This is a promising app and well worth a try for the iPhone power-users among us.

iCascade: Rotating Addictive Puzzle Game for iPhone / iPod Touch

Steven Finch — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 09:24:10 +0000

Everyday we get some interesting emails from iPhone application developers who are looking for a bit of extra press and insight into their apps. Today I thought I would run through iCascade a new game for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

iCascade is a puzzle game that comes with a new addictive gameplay. Try to find the right place for your blocks, but think ahead because the playing field rotates! Get points for 3 or more contiguous blocks. iCascade is a very addictive game that really promotes a huge amount of thought process (well for me anyways).

Download from iTunes here.

Organise Your iPhone and iPod Touch Apps into Folders

Steven Finch — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 09:23:44 +0000

No I know what most of you are thinking, why the hell isn’t this an iPhone app or why hasn’t Apple done this already, well they should have! The Next Web is reporting on a new app that is really going to help.

It’s an awesome app in Cydia called “Categories” which lets you organise your apps into folders. The app provides an array of different icons you can use, you can easily rename folders via the app and adding/removing apps is relatively easy. However, this is not available in the app store and you need to have your iPhone jailbroken.

Currently, on my iPod touch I have over 5 pages worth of applications that I use on a monthly basis. At the moment I’m having so much trouble keep track of the apps and actually arranging them so they can be easily used and organised. Apple needs to come up with an app like this, either that or they need to be able to arrange your apps directly in iTunes.

One limitation: the app doesn’t recognise iPhone web apps only genuinely local apps.

As I noted above, this is only for Jailbroken iPhones. Other features which Cydia (jailbroken app database) brings is copy & paste, 5 apps in the dock amongst hundreds of others.

Increase The Sound Volume on your 3G iPhone with SoundClip

Steven Finch — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:02:19 +0000

Ten One Design has created a way to boost the sound for your iPhone 3G. The product is called SoundClip and it increases the sound by about 10dB with signal between 6kHz and 20kHz.

This would be useful to people that especially love to listen to music through the built-in speaker, but the device just gets in the way of iPhone gamers in landscape mode.

Storing the SounClip is simple. There is a cord-gripping feature that keeps it fastened to your iPhone charge cable during syncing and charging. To buy the device, visit Ten One’s website here.

Apple Macbook Touch Rumoured To Be Coming on October 14

Steven Finch — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:51:51 +0000

Apple is a company that always seems to have a lot of rumours about their upcoming product launches. Here is a new one to add to the group, the Apple Macbook Touch. Some sources claim that

Apple is planning to launch the new Macbook on an event that is to be held on October 14. At this stage there is no official word that is actually a reality, but I think that this is definitely a product that will soon be launched.

There are other sites who have already reported on this rumour, including Gizmodo and Sizlopedia. As Sizlopedia mentioned, I doubt however Apple will launch a revolutionary new product at such a small gathering, when they have Macworld Expo 2009 not so far away.

AT&T and Microsoft Surface Reveal New Customer Experience

Steven Finch — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:08:27 +0000

It has been announced that AT&T will join forces with Microsoft and use the Microsoft Surface. The announcement was made yesterday at the 5th Annual AT&T Press Luncheon during CTIA.

The Microsoft Surface features a 30″ multi touch screen which can detect any phones on its surface. With AT&T the Surface will have the capabilities of dragging videos, photos, ring tones, songs and dropping them into the phones. The Surface is a great concept but I cant see this making too much difference in phone shops throughout the USA. It would be much better if it could be used in restaurants. However, that being said im sure this is a nice additional revenue stream for Microsoft.

Add Crenk WebClip To Your iPhone or iPod Touch

Steven Finch — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:01:52 +0000

After yesterdays big announcements at MacWorld, Crenk can now be added to your iPhone or iPod Touch Home Page.

If you head to crenk.com in your Safari browser and then bookmark the site, a few options will appear and one is to add Crenk to you Home Page. This will bring up a confirmation page and then it will be amazingly added to your Home Page, with a nice little icon that looks like this:

iPod Touch and Coverflow

Steven Finch — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 15:18:25 +0000

I have just got a new iPod Touch and while upload all my songs i noticed that pretty much none of them have album artwork. This isnt too good when you go into coverflow mode. Does anyone know what the best program to upload album artwork is?? Please help me!