Flixel: Create Your Own Cinemagraphs

by Jenny Reichhold on May 15, 2012 in Apps, Product Reviews

Just like in the Harry Potter movies, you too can create moving pictures with the simple app called Flixel. Flixel was launched in March of 2011 and has since been creating “living pictures” for all the world to see. The idea is very simple: users take a short (usually around 2 second) video of a [...]

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iOS tweak lets you skip typing your password in at home (Jailbreak)

by Morgan W. on May 11, 2012 in Apps

One month ago, I wished for an iOS feature that would keep my iPad unlocked whenever I was at home. iPhone/iPad feature idea: never type your password to unlock if you’re at home. If you’re on your home wi-fi, it knows you’re home. — Morgan Williams (@morganfwill) April 11, 2012 Today, I read about AutoProtect, [...]

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The Mobile Box Office Will Change How You Go To Concerts

by Joshua H. on May 9, 2012 in Apps, Gadgets, New Technology

Have you been to an indy concert recently? Any kind of live event for that matter? You might run into a situation where you need to go throught he box office, and it takes some time. In fact, at an indy concert I went to recently there was only one person manning the pay booth [...]

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Gifture makes animated stylized GIF creation easy and sharable (the Instagram of GIFs?)

by Brett B. on May 8, 2012 in Apps

Many times showing someone something you need more than a picture or a thousand words. A new iPhone app called Gifture allows you easily take a video of up to 20 frames or take up to 20 photos and add them together to easily create a animated GIF. Creating a animated GIF on the computer always [...]

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Wired: Why iOS Apps Look Better Than Android Apps

by Caleb Hicks on May 3, 2012 in Apps

Wired ran a feature this week on why the exact same app can look so much better on iOS than it does on Google’s Android platform. And before you get up in arms, read along to find out why that is, or check out Wired’s article for a trove of screenshots and explanations. But the [...]

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How Blind People Use the iPhone

by Caleb Hicks on May 2, 2012 in Gadgets

Apple has received a lot of good press as of late for a myriad of reasons: record setting profits, a steady stream of popular gadgets, the highest stock price in the world, and a general dominance of the markets they’ve chosen to participate in. So it is hard to say that Apple is underrated or [...]

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AirTight puts AirPlay inside your Google TV (by @brettbristow22)

by Brett B. on May 1, 2012 in Gadgets, How To, Product Reviews

Apple is working hard to make its AirPlay technology the only thing that you need to use to get your content from your portable device to the big screen. AirPlay is even better when others are able to take this technology and integrate it into other devices. Developer Yossie has done this with a Google [...]

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Snapguide gets the first shot at in-app pinning to Pinterest (via @jkhowland)

by Joshua H. on April 27, 2012 in Apps, Social Media

Have you used Snapguide? It’s a slick iOS app that makes it easy to create, view and share guides online. The app is addictive and gorgeous. One of the best designed apps on the store. Pinterest addition I’ve pointed out before that Pinterest isn’t an overnight success. The service has been around for years. They [...]

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Socialcam makes a big splash – 3 million users in a weekend

by Joshua H. on April 27, 2012 in Apps, New Technology, News

You know, now that Instagram had it’s big exit, we’re going to hear ‘it’s Instagram for _‘ more times than any of us can stand. I’m going to write this whole post and try to avoid that phrase. Instagram really has been a phenomenal app. What Instagram did for personal photo sharing, we likely need [...]

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Tegra 3 vs. A5X – Does it really matter? (via @jkhowland)

by Joshua H. on April 22, 2012 in Apps, Gadgets, New Technology

I can’t find any hands on reviews that validate Asus’s claim that the Transformer Prime gets 12 hours mobile on a charge. But if the device really has that kind of battery life then Nvidia has stepped it up big time with their chips. For the user this isn’t just about battery, and it’s not [...]

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