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The Olympics, Shot Exclusively With An iPhone 4S [PICS]
03 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Dan Chung is a photojournalist for the Guardian on assignment at the Olympics. Instead of lugging around a bag full of heavy, expensive equipment like everyone else, he’s using just his iPhone 4S and a few aftermarket attachments. The results have been amazing.
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Apple’s New Ads Targeting Their Fanboys Draw Negative Backlash [VIDEO]
31 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 7 Comments
While we’ve pretty much come to expect Apple to offend at least one group of people – normally BlackBerry or Windows users – in their adverts, poking fun at the people actually BUYING your products is perhaps going a bit too far. Their latest three commercials, flighted during the Olympic coverage on Friday in America, feature an Apple Store employee (a ‘genius’) who has to help idiotic Mac users make videos and other simple tasks. Can you guess where this is going?
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Prototypes Of iPads And iPhones Come Out In Court [GALLERY]
27 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The iPhone design, like quite a few Apple products, is iconic, yet we hardly ever get a chance to see the development process that leads up to the product ending up on the market. Recent court documents reveal early design stages of both products.
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Treasure Trove Of Steve Jobs Videos Released Online, For Free
01 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Throughout his life, Steve Jobs imparted many inspiring words of wisdom, many of which were caught on video during his onstage appearances at Apple events and during interviews. Yesterday a host of these were made available, for free, on iTunes. Click through for the details.
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New iPhone App Can Calculate Your Blood Alcohol Content
08 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Getting behind the wheel of a car after having a drink or two is always risky – you may feel perfectly fine, able to do maths, whatever. But the moment you see a roadblock, you’re not too sure if you’ll pass the breathaliser. Why not check your blood/alcohol level using a new app for your iPhone, BreathalEyes?
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Are You A Lonely Bro? Now There’s An App For That Too
29 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Are you a bro just looking to hang with another bro, with no funny business? Then new app, Bromance, might just be for you…
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Got Siri Envy? There’s An App For That
11 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
A lot of us are currently using the iPhone 4 are only now coming to terms with Apple’s reluctance to allow Siri to run on our hardware. There’s probably even a bunch of us using Android that wish we could have something similar. Well, iHave good news. There’s an app for that.
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Apple iOS Security: There’s A Hack For That
09 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Apple recently showed a St. Louis, USA-based app developer a red card, giving him a one year ban from their App Development Programme, all because he tried to prove a point.
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RIM Offers Free Apps To Apologize For That Whole BlackBerry Crash Thing
17 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
While Mike Lazaridis, co-CEO of RIM, has already publicly apologized for last week’s three-day BlackBerry outage, the PR guys figured that that probably wasn’t enough. Which is why they’ve announced that they’re offering BlackBerry customers a bunch of free “premium apps,” in the hopes of winning back some love. Check the app list after the jump.
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Apple’s Siri: The Greatest Comebacks So Far
13 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Those blessed with early access to the iPhone 4S have spent most of their time talking about Siri, the voice-activated feature that can answer questions like “What’s the time?”, and “What does prawn mean?” They’ve also found that it has a pretty decent cache of responses for people who ask their phone stupid questions.
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Hands-On Video For Siri On The iPhone 4S
12 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Apple’s Siri, the fancy voice-activated feature that was supposed to make people feel less disappointed about not getting a shiny new iPhone 5, was actually pretty cool when Phil Schiller showed it off on stage. But how well does it do in real life? See the hands-on after the jump.
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“Steve Jobs Day” Set For 14 October
06 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
News of Steve Jobs’ death resonated around the world this morning. A sad day for many, but Steve’s death has put tremendous momentum behind the move to have 14 October named as “Steve Jobs Day”.
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‘Find My iPhone’ App Helps Locate Wreckage Of Chilean Plane Crash
08 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
In the aftermath of last Friday’s plane crash off the island of Robinson Crusoe, Chile, officials have stated that no effort would be spared in the rescue/recovery of the 17 passengers. This apparently includes using the Find My iPhone app to isolate the coordinates of one of the passenger’s last known whereabouts before the crash.
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Got A Secret To Share? Now There’s An App For That [VIDEO]
02 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
I love Postsecret. I’ll just put that right there. It’s an ongoing community art project that started in the States in 2005. Now, after almost seven years of receiving the secrets, Postsecret are releasing their very own app for iPhone.
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Apple ‘Loses’ iPhone 5 Prototype In A Tequila Bar
02 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The device, which is due to be released shortly, was supposedly lost in a San Francisco tequila bar and then sold to Craigs List, an internet listings company. Apple engineers were reportedly franticly trying to get it back. Duh. This isn’t the first time a prototype has been ‘lost’, in April last year the iphone 4 was ‘found’ in a beer garden and sold to Gizmodo for $5000. Sneaky.
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$1.99 Skin Cancer App – Thank You iPhone
18 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
If you think that owning an iPhone is a waste of money, think again. An American company called Health Discovery Corporation has invented an app, called MelApp, that uses mathematical algorithms and image based pattern recognition technology, to detect early stage melanoma. What’s that? Can’t get an American iTunes account? Oh yes you can.
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How About A Beer With Your iPhone?
07 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
There is a lot you can do with an iPhone these days and there is a lot that Australians will do for a beer or two. Not too long ago those clever buggers even invented a pair of slip slops that could open a beer. Naturally, they have now merged their love of beer with their iPhones.
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Richard Dreyfus Gives Stirring Rendition Of The iTunes End User License Agreement
09 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Tech site cnet is having an important Reporters’ Roundtable discussion on a topic that affects us all: Why are end user license agreements and terms of service so incredible long and virtually indecipherable? Academy Award winner, Richard Dreyfus, helps to illustrate this point, by performing the iTunes EULA.
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Push Notifications From Real Life [VIDEO]
21 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Okay, now a revelation: I have a degree in Information Science. So there, now you know. Here I leap out of the nerd closet and admit that I have a thing for cool tech projects and nothing I have ever seen is as cool as this. Just take a moment of your life to watch this video from Make Magazine and you’ll be amazed.
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The End Of The Wallet As We Know It
20 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The American coffee giant Starbucks announced this week that customers with iPhone and Blackberry smartphones can now download an application to purchase their daily fix. The app will display a bar code that the barista can scan and voila, off you go. How much longer until cards are rendered obsolete?
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Meet The Justin Bieber Of iPhone Apps
17 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
While the rest of his classmates were off investing their time in real pursuits, like playing the latest video games and surfing the internet for free porn, Robert Nay was developing the single most popular free app for the Apple iPhone.
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The Mophie ‘Juice Pack Plus’ for iPhone 4
03 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
On the whole, I try and stay away from jokes that hinge on understanding two languages, because usually those jokes are goddamned awful and I mean hey, Leslie Nielsen died a few days ago, show a little class. That said, today is Friday, and there exists a product called the Mophie ‘Juice Pack Plus.’
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What Burns Faster – Android, WinPho 7 Or iPhone 4? [VIDEO]
16 Nov 2010 by Seth Rotherham / 1 Comment
I’ll be honest, it HAS been on my mind. I mean, everyone goes on about battery-life and camera quality and storage space and keyboard use and reception, when everyone is actually, consciously skirting around the real issue at hand – how do they handle on a braai grid? Which one dies first? What happens after that? All revealed after the jump!
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