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iBooks Update 1.2.1 For iPhone/iPad Available Today

, Feb 9th 2011 Discuss [0]

If you've been enjoying some good books on your iPhone or iPad then most likely you've been using Apple's free ebook reader, the iBooks app. The app received an update today to version 1.2.1 with much improved performance and stability. Read The Full Story

Google Translate App Available For iPhone

, Feb 8th 2011 Discuss [3]

Google just announced today that their Google Translate service is now available as an iPhone app. This should be welcome news for those often lost in translation and find that the old Google Translate web browser app a nuisance to navigate to. This newly released iPhone app version should make your language adventures go more smoothly with a whole slew of neat features. Read The Full Story

Smuggle Truck Game Pending Apple Approval

, Feb 8th 2011 Discuss [1]

Throw political correctness out the window—or in this case, over the side of the truck—with the new “Smuggle Truck: Operation Immigration” game developed by Boston based Owlchemy Labs. The aim of the game is to smuggle as many illegal immigrants across what looks to be the US-Mexican border. As the truck drives over rough terrain including cliffs, mountains, and even dead animals, the immigrants start falling off the truck bed. Read The Full Story

SG Comics Presents: Angry Turds

, Jan 31st 2011 Discuss [6]

Game developers, Apps Genius Corp, recently released a new game called Angry Turds available now at the App Store. No joke, you get to be a monkey flinging poop, bananas, and coconuts at island invaders.

Pixelmator App makes $ 1 million in just twenty days

, Jan 25th 2011 Discuss [0]

The Pixelmator app is about to give Apple’s App store all types of good press.  The image editing application has been on sale only twenty days and has already surpassed the million dollar mark.

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Parrot AR.Drone Review

, Dec 5th 2010 Discuss [8]

Parrot’s AR.Drone was the surprise hit of CES 2010, breaking the French company out of its Bluetooth prison and instead taking to the skies with an iPhone-controlled quadricopter. Reminiscent of something out of a William Gibson novel, the AR.Drone promises to best all R/C helicopters before it, with its combination of four-rotor stability and onboard autopilot intelligence. Check out the full SlashGear review after the cut.

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The App Dilemma

, Sep 24th 2010 Discuss [6]

In the year 2020 there will be 31 billion connected devices and 25 million* applications available for purchase or download. There is no question that apps and the app marketplace is becoming one of the most important trends in the industry.

Software drove the initial PC boom of the 80’s and 90’s and it is again driving the boom of the Smartphone market. During that time period predominantly here on the West Coast we had a thriving retail computer software outlet called Egghead Software. Egghead Software was where you could go to shop for all the latest shrink wrap software. Today the in store experience Egghead Software represented is now found in our current App Store marketplaces. There is however a dilemma with our current App marketplace that didn’t exist back then to the extent it does today.

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Sound ID 510 Review

, Jun 5th 2010 Discuss [4]

As the technology packed into Bluetooth headsets gets more complex, the method by which wearers control them gets similarly confusing. Where once a multifunction button was enough, now manufacturers are experimenting with voice control and intelligent DSP systems. Sound ID has taken a slightly different path, offloading control from their new Sound ID 510 headset onto a dedicated iPhone app. The question is, has Sound ID made things easier or is remote control software one step too far for the average Bluetooth user? Check out the full SlashGear review after the cut.

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