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Smartr Contacts

Federico Viticci — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:27:52 +0000

Sometime in the past five years, the Address Book got social. Our contact cards suddenly gained Twitter handles and Facebook links, whilst users more oriented towards business relationships decided to add their LinkedIn pages alongside standard phone numbers and email addresses. More importantly, the Address Book became mobile: adding a new entry to the Contacts [...]

Tweetbot for iPad Review

Federico Viticci — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:01:04 +0000

Since its release two years ago, the iPad has always needed a better Twitter client. Tweetbot for iPad is the better Twitter app I have been waiting for, and it sets a new standard that future Twitter clients will have to be compared with. From a Twitter power user’s perspective, the iPad came at an [...]

Tweetbot 2.0 Review

Federico Viticci — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:11:18 +0000

How do you improve something that’s already great? You keep working on it, trying to look at your product from as many perspectives as possible. If you believe in it, you can make something great an even greater product. Last year, I reviewed Tweetbot 1.0 for iPhone, the Twitter client many of us had been [...]

Your Kids Will Probably Enjoy This Cute iOS Platformer [Review]

Giles Turnbull — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:48:28 +0000

Meet Niko, star of a cute-character platformer for iOS that involves the usual amount of bouncing, running, hopping and collecting things. The flick-to-jump UI is quite entertaining and not difficult to get to grips with. The pace is slowed down slightly, giving you time to take aim carefully between one leap and the next. If [...]

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VooMote Zapper Universal Remote Appcessory: One Remote To Rule Them All! [Review]

Eli Milchman — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:01:17 +0000

Oh, sure. The idea of being able to reach out from across the room and dramatically direct your mighty will to zap stuff on, off, up, down, or cause the very Air to shimmer with Play is intoxicating — that is, until those nine remotes you’ve been using to control all your magical devices become [...]

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Weekend Time Waster: Solitaire Blitz brings excitement to lonely card clicking

Kyle Orland — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:00:00 +0000

Digital forms of Solitaire have been included with Windows since it reached version 3.0, and they may well represent the most widely played video game series this side of Angry Birds, enjoyed by bored cubicle workers a...

“Inside Apple” Will Challenge Your View Of The World’s Most Valuable Tech Company [Review]

Alex Heath — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:06:27 +0000

Adam Lashinsky is a veteran Silicon Valley journalist and Senior Editor at Large for Fortune. Lashinsky wrote a riveting feature last year on the inner workings of Apple’s secretive culture that prompted him to publish Inside Apple: How America’s Most Admired–and Secretive–Company Really Works in January of 2012. Inside Apple is a short read (about 180 pages) that provides [...]

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ZAGGFolio Keyboard Case Is Tough, Stylish And A Delight To Use [Review]

Giles Turnbull — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:00:43 +0000

If you do a lot of typing on your iPad, the ZAGGFolio keyboard case should be on your list of things to try. It’s a nice wireless keyboard and solid iPad case combined in one reasonably-priced unit. Let’s take a closer look. What’s good It’s slightly smaller and narrower than the standard Mac keyboard you’re used [...]

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Quick Review: Remarks

Graham Spencer — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:01:46 +0000

Readdle is today launching their latest iPad productivity app, Remarks. In some ways it is similar to their existing products such as ReaddleDocs or PDF Expert because it features full PDF annotation capabilities, but it is distinctly different because it is the first of their apps to really push the idea of handwriting and note [...]

If iBooks Author Is Overkill For Your Simple eBook Project, Try Book Creator For iOS Instead [Review]

Giles Turnbull — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:58:34 +0000

Apple’s new iBooks Author application for Mac is an impressive piece of work, even more so when you consider that it costs nothing. Although easy to use compared to many other page layout apps, it’s still quite a lengthy and complicated process to produce a book with it. It’s also squarely aimed at the education [...]

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Readdle’s new Remarks app offers PDF annotating, accurate handwriting

Mark Gurman — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:41:43 +0000

Readdle released a new application for the iPad called “Remarks“ that offers incredibly accurate handwriting recognition, PDF annotating, and more. At the heart of Remarks is PDF annotating, and PDFs can be imported by way of the iPad’s iTunes File Sharing feature or through opening the PDF with an email to the iPad. All of your PDFs [...]

Dropzone 2.0 Gets Path-like Radial Menu

Federico Viticci — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:38:34 +0000

Back in November when I took a look at the Mac App Store release of Aptonic’s Dropzone, I was impressed by how the utility transitioned to the Mac App Store whilst keeping most of its functionalities intact. Through a simple drag & drop interface, Dropzone allows you to save time on common and oft-repeated tasks [...]

Stuck On Earth, Perhaps, But Not Stuck For Lovely Photos To Look At [Review]

Giles Turnbull — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:44:26 +0000

Today’s Best Thing Ever has to be Stuck on Earth, an app for travellers who haven’t left home yet. The app uses the vast Flickr database of geotagged photos and plots them on a map. Tap on where you want to go in the world, and let the app dig out photos of it for [...]

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Stuck On Earth, Perhaps, But Not Stuck For Lovely Photos To Look At [Review]

Giles Turnbull — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:44:26 +0000

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Final Fantasy XIII-2: better than the last one, but not not by much

Ars Staff — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:57:00 +0000

Final Fantasy XIII-2 takes place three years after Final Fantasy XIII. Vanille, Fang, Snow and Lightning are gone; either dead, encased in crystal or disappeared to unknown adventures. Serah Farron, Lightning's sister and S...