Doodle Jump, a popular iOS game, has been updated with a Doodle Jump Egg Hunt featuring new Easter Monsters and Achievements.
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Doodle Jump Gets an Easter Update
Doodle Jump, a popular iOS game, has been updated with a Doodle Jump Egg Hunt featuring new Easter Monsters and Achievements.
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Mike Daisey exposer Rob Schmitz gets a Foxconn factory tour
The reporter who exposed Mike Daisy ‘inaccuracies’ to NPR, Rob Schmitz, is now the second reporter after ABC’s Bill Weir to get a tour of the Foxconn factory. It appears that Foxconn rewarded the long time Marketplace Asia reporter for his work in exposing a lie.
From Fortune:
Schmitz’ radio reports can be heard starting Monday, April 9, on your local public radio station (or on Marketplace’s special page on the Apple Economy.)
Meanwhile, Schmitz has been writing about the tour on his reporter’s notebook blog, and Marketplace has posted a couple of teasers: A 3:30-minute radio interview and a 20-second YouTube clip of iPads with their innards exposed.
You’ll recall Schmitz is a long time China correspondent who tracked down Daisey’s translator and verified that almost none of what Daisey said he saw was actually seen.
Daisey, humiliated, has had to cancel his shows and recently lost his honorary degree and commencement speech at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle. //
Tweetbot Gets iCloud Integration, YouTube and iTunes Thumbnail Previews
Tweebot, a popular Twitter client for the iPhone, has been updated with iCloud integration, YouTube and iTunes thumbnail previews, and more.
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Google+ has updated its iPhone app with support for hashtags.
NYC gets live iPad IPTV of broadcast channels with Aereo
Want to watch TV on your iPad? It's natural, healthy and it sure does seem like everyone is doing it. There are hearty hardware-supported options from companies like Elgato, and most pay TV subscription services (Time Warner Cable, Comcast, DirecTV, RCN, Dish Network etc.) have figured out a way to move some of the programming you're paying for from the big screen to the small.
Waiting a day or so, of course, means that prime-time programming on Hulu Plus and Netflix has you mostly covered; but that loses you local news, sports and talk. Even single channels, brands or sports leagues (ESPN, NBA Courtside, MLB At Bat) are getting into the action -- but getting live access means hefty subscription fees, being an existing cable/satellite customer, or both.
If you're not interested in the supra-broadcast offerings that cable or satellite can deliver -- or if you just can't stomach the idea of paying $ 60, $ 75 or more per month to watch television -- there is this ancient and hoary concept called "over the air." Yes, Americans are still benefiting from their divinely granted inalienable rights to free TV, but they need antennas and reasonable signal strength, not to mention TVs. Elgato's HDHomeRun product works well to take your TV programming to your Mac or PC, but it's a $ 179.95 cost and you can't really carry it around with you.
That's why Aereo's offering -- $ 12 a month for broadcast TV to your iPhone, iPad, Roku box or browser, as long as you live in New York City -- is so intriguing. Aereo has chosen to deliver over-the-air television programming straight to the browser, rather than through a native iOS app, and the result is remarkably smooth and easy to use. By combining your device with a remote antenna/DVR combo, and allowing easy AirPlay/Apple TV streaming or Roku integration for big-screen viewing, the service seems to have found a way to deliver a premium live and recorded programming experience without the steep price.
Gallery: Aereo live OTA TV for the iPad
The geofencing limitation on Aereo's market is a consequence both of the technology that Aereo has invented and the television industry's regulatory ecosystem. Aereo is working around the legal minefields of "rebroadcasting" to customers by making every subscriber the renter of a tiny bit of New York real estate -- a pair of teensy HD antennas, each the size of a dime, rack upon rack of them in the company's datacenter. Through the subscriber website, you can browse and search the live TV program guide, assign episodes for recording on a 40 GB DVR, share viewing choices with Twitter or Facebook contacts -- it's all there, and all pretty easy.
The proof of any streaming service, however, is in the video quality. Aereo allows users to force a low, medium or high quality setting, plus an automatic setting that adjusts to available bandwidth. In my testing of Aereo's service, I made a point of sticking to high-speed WiFi on my iPad 2 to give the video quality the best chance to show off -- and show off it did. The video clip above gives you a taste, but keep in mind that you can quickly take the video full-screen (I didn't do that in the demo, as it would have broken my recording). The full-screen streaming looks fantastic; it's largely indistinguishable from broadcast at its best, and even when it chunks up a bit it's still very watchable.
Aereo is offering 90 days of free trial service to New Yorkers on a rolling invitation basis as it spins up into full operation. There are still a few rough edges to fix; if you're timeshifting a program by a few minutes, for instance, it has a habit of cutting off when you reach the scheduled stop time (rather than just rolling forward as it would on a conventional DVR). Building the service on a pure HTML/mobile web platform, however, gives the company space to iterate rapidly and fix bugs faster than Apple's review process would allow. Support for more browsers and more devices is also in the immediate plans.
If I was in a cord-cutting mood -- but I still wanted to keep my DVR capability and supercharge my TV mobility -- I'd put Aereo at the top of my service list. It remains to be seen how well customers take to it and what kind of geographic range the service will eventually cover; if you don't live in NYC then (forgive me for this) you'll have to stay tuned.
NYC gets live iPad IPTV of broadcast channels with Aereo originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Another US carrier gets the iPhone: nTelos announces availability starting April 20th
nTelos, a regional carrier that offers service in Virginia, West Virginia, and portions of Maryland, Ohio, Kentucky, and North Carolina today announced it will be carrying the iPhone 4 and 4S on its CDMA network and nationwide roaming on Sprint and Verizon CDMA networks.
nTelos, like another US regional CSprire, will be carrying the iPhone with a $ 50 discount vs. the big boys. Customers can pre-order now for delivery on April 20th.
“As a wireless service provider well-known for delivering the best value in wireless, we’re pleased to offer the amazing new iPhone 4S to our customers,” said Jim Hyde, president and CEO for nTelos Wireless. “iPhone 4S offers an abundance of new features, and with our industry-leading, nationwide smartphone plans, customers can now enjoy the nation’s best networks for less.”
nTelos Wireless retail stores will open early, at 7:00 AM on Friday, April 20. Nationwide smartphone plans start at $ 79.99 and include unlimited data and messaging. Plus, family plans start at $ 134
Press release follows… //
nTelos Wireless to Offer iPhone 4S on April 20
WAYNESBORO, Virginia – April 4, 2012 – Today, nTelos Wireless (NASDAQ: NTLS) announced that it will begin offering iPhone 4S and iPhone 4 to customers on April 20. iPhone 4S will be available starting at $ 149.99 for the 16GB model, $ 249.99 for the 32GB model and $ 349.99 for the 64GB model. iPhone 4 will be available for just $ 49.99. All models will be available in nTelos Wireless retail stores, online at www.ntelos.com, and through telesales at 1-888-427-8858. Customers can pre-register their interest starting today at www.ntelos.com/iphone.
iPhone 4S is the most amazing iPhone yet, packed with incredible features including Apple’s dual-core A5 chip for blazing fast performance and stunning graphics; an all-new camera with advanced optics; full 1080p HD resolution video recording; and Siri, an intelligent assistant that helps you get things done just by asking. iPhone 4S comes with iOS 5.1, the world’s most advanced mobile operating system; and iCloud, a breakthrough set of free cloud services that work with your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac or PC to automatically and wirelessly store your content in iCloud and push it to all your devices.
“As a wireless service provider well-known for delivering the best value in wireless, we’re pleased to offer the amazing new iPhone 4S to our customers,” said Jim Hyde, president and CEO for nTelos Wireless. “iPhone 4S offers an abundance of new features, and with our industry-leading, nationwide smartphone plans, customers can now enjoy the nation’s best networks for less.”
nTelos Wireless retail stores will open early, at 7:00 AM on Friday, April 20, so customers can take advantage of the best value in wireless. Nationwide smartphone plans start at just $ 79.99 and include unlimited data and messaging. Plus, families can save with the industry’s best value unlimited everything smartphone rate plans, which start at just $ 134
iPhone 4S and iPhone 4 require activation on one of nTelos Wireless’ individual or family Nation’s plans and a new two year agreement:
*Calling may be restricted from certain geographies.
**Throttle after 5GB
Note: 24-month contract required
For more information on iPhone 4S, please visit: www.apple.com/iphone
About NTELOS
NTELOS Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ: NTLS), operating through its subsidiaries as “nTelos Wireless,” is headquartered in Waynesboro, VA, and provides high-speed, dependable nationwide voice and data coverage for over 400,000 retail subscribers based in Virginia, West Virginia and portions of Maryland, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Kentucky. nTelos’s licensed territories have a total population of approximately 8 million residents, of which its wireless network covers approximately 5.9 million residents. nTelos is also the exclusive wholesale provider of network services to Sprint Nextel in the western Virginia and West Virginia portions of its territories for all Sprint CDMA wireless customers. Additional information about NTELOS is available at www.ntelos.com or www.facebook.com/nteloswireless and www.twitter.com/#!/ntelos_wireless.
nTelos Wireless is the best value in wireless, offering smartphone plans on the nation’s best networks for less, a 100% money back guarantee, and personal service in more than 100 retail outlets and 3 regional call centers. Plus, the Company and it’s employees support a wide variety of local community programs such as The United Way, The National Kidney Foundation Walks, and initiaves such as nTelos nSpirit, which is used in partnership with local organizations to raise donations for worthy causes.
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Nokia Lumia 900 gets lackluster reviews. Here’s why it isn’t going to take off
What question is the Lumia 900 the answer to? Why would you buy a Lumia over an iPhone or a top Android device?
The Metro interface is fun for a little while but when consumers are ticking off their “gotta haves” list, what feature is a Lumia 900 going to have that iPhone or Android don’t already have? Perhaps the responsiveness of the interface edges out iPhone. But that’s not going to sway anyone. Live tiles? Glorified widgets.
Walt Mossberg concludes of the device:
If you’re looking for a $ 100, high-end smartphone, or are a Windows Phone fan who has been waiting for better hardware, the Lumia 900 is worth considering. But the phone had just too many drawbacks in my tests to best its chief competitors.
This is the problem: It doesn’t do anything noticeably better than iOS or Android. From the Verge’s review, Josh Topolsky was smitten with the hardware but I don’t think it holds up with the iconic iPhone and at best it runs neck and neck with HTC’s new One line. And once you turn it on, it has the same 4.3-inch 480×800 display that the HTC EVO had two years ago. Most reviews say it is pixely. Mossberg is stretching with ”high end” above.
The camera? // Once one of Nokia’s strong points, review after review says the pictures are washed out and that pink spot above is painful. LTE has been on most Androids for a year and will be coming to iPhone later this year so that’s not going to sway many. It has 16GB of RAM, not upgradeable via SD Card. A single core processor isn’t going to impress anyone when some Androids are coming to market with quad cores and the iPhone has been Dual Core since last year.
Even with huge money being thrown around, I just don’t see it. I imagine Microsoft is trying to sneak its Windows Phone 7 platform in between Android and iPhone but I don’t think it has found its niche.
I’ve had a few Windows Phone devices including the Samsung Focus (Which is Galaxy S hardware repurposed) and the Lumia 800 on T-Mobile. I never really needed to use them once I reviewed them because neither of the devices could answer a problem that an Android or iPhone couldn’t answer, usually better.
Air Display Gets Updated to Support HiDPI, Retina Display Devices
A major update to Air Display has been released that brings support for HiDPI and Retina Display devices.
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Facebook for iOS gets Retina Display support
Good news for owners of the latest iPad. An update to the Facebook app now provides iPad Retina Display support. The 4.1.1 update also includes some other fixes and features, such as the ability to go offline in chat, fixes to photo displays of friends, and some language additions for users outside the US.
The latest version of the app requires iOS 4.0 or greater, and it is universal so iPhone users will get an updated version as well.http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/facebook/id284882215?mt=8
The Facebook app also allows you to see what friends are near you if your iPhone or iPad is it is equipped with GPS capability. The app is 10.5 MB and is free.
[Via MacStories]
Facebook for iOS gets Retina Display support originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Mon, 02 Apr 2012 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
OmmWriter Dana distraction-free word processor gets an iPad version
The concept of a distraction-free environment for writing evidently has substantial appeal for a lot of folks, given the number of applications available that purport to provide one, both on the Mac and for the iPad. Perhaps it would appeal to me as well if I were writing a novel or short stories, but for the kind of short-form journalism and blog prose that is my stock-in-trade, and being an intuitive multitasker, I find the “distractions” of a busier, more variegated work space stimulating (although one has to exercise self-discipline and stay focused on the project(s) at hand). However, one “distraction-free” writing app I find aesthetically interesting is OmmWriter Dana, which has been around for a while in its two OS X iterations (one of them free), and now is available in an iOS version for the iPad, as well (not free).
Dana, incidentally, is a Sanskrit and Pali word meaning giving. The developers says it is Sometimes also referred to as the practice of cultivating generosity.
The major difference between the OS X and iPad versions is the keyboard. With OmmWriter for iPad, you can amplify the keyboard as well as adjust its position to your liking, rather than having to adjust your writing to it.
You can save work created in OmmWriter for iPad as a .txt or export via email as a .pdf. OmmWriter for iPad currently does not offer a spell-check.
OmmWriter Dana is a lightly-featured, full-screen text processor intended to help focus the user’s mind on writing in a pleasant, soothing, attractive and non-distracting space, hopefully making the muse’s whisper easier to hear. While OmmWriter predates the iPad, it’s whole concept seems especially tailor-made for the iOS user interface.
OmmWriter’s interface in any of its versions (there’s one for Windows PCs, too) is Zen-like in its simplicity, with scattered, leafless trees punctuating a barren, snow-covered winterscape. If that’s not minimalist enough for you, there are also plain white and textured gray backgrounds a button-click away. You can also choose from a selection of tranquil background music themes featuring soft music, bells, and other relaxing tones to play in the background as you work, or opt for no music.
The base version of OmmWriter Dana is freeware, but there is a paid upgrade version that offers more background options—seven audio and eight visual experiences, including two visual chromatherapy backgrounds created in consultation with a color therapy expert that employ dynamically-changing color techniques to subconsciously promote tranquility and to stimulate creativity.
Another visual experience is intended to stimulate writer creativity through use of subliminal inspirational text that changes with every session. The additional audio experiences have been designed to provide background sounds that promote concentration. One reproduces the sounds typically heard in a library, while the other tries to simulate the sounds an unborn child would hear inside the mother’s womb. I only tested the free version, OmmWriter 1, which, aside from fewer audio-visual options, is identical to the OmmWriter 2 paid edition.
I find it all quite charming, although it can be perhaps a bit too peaceful for someone like myself with a tendency to drift off all too readily at the keyboard during late-night composing and editing sessions.
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