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Pick, SayHi Translate, VFX, and More
Your photos won’t be short on crazy effects with this week’s best iPhone apps. We’re also giving your social calendar a little love, and your beefing up your brain with a little language learning. Pick: Instagram is fun, but eventually you might tire of it. Japan’s take on the photo filter app, though, is an … Continued
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Flight+, Touch TV, and More
You’ll be up-to-date on the best TV shows and the latest computing knowledge with the best iPad apps of the week. We’re also showcasing a tool for travelers and offering a bit of photography knowledge. Flight+ for iPad: Track just about all active flights around the world and see data from every airport in real … Continued
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Is Apple Eyeing Epix as a Streaming Video Partner For Apple TV?
According to Reuters, Apple is in talks to secure content from three major movie studios for the Apple TV, and potentially for the long-rumored Apple HDTV. The report says that Apple is talking to Epix—a streaming service co-owned by Lions Gate Entertainment Corp, MGM and Paramount Pictures—about securing the service’s library on its products. It’s … Continued
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TenOne Magnus Lightning Review: Handsome iPads Deserve Handsome Stands
A good iPad stand isn’t always easy to come by. The most functional ones don’t always look the nicest. The prettiest ones don’t always work the best. Can the all-aluminum, magnet-equipped TenOne Magnus bridge that gap? What Is It? A stand that uses the built-in magnets of the iPad 2 or iPad New to anchor … Continued
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Here’s Your Woz For the Upcoming Steve Jobs Biopic
And we have a Woz! Josh Gad, current star of the Broadway musical Book of Mormon will play Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak alongside Ashton Kutcher, who’s been cast as Steve Jobs, in the upcoming biopic Jobs: Get Inspired. https://gizmodo.com/anyone-can-play-steve-jobs-even-ashton-kutcher-5899751 Acting chops aside, if we’re scoring these choices based on appearance alone, the casting agents didn’t … Continued
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Jony Ive Prize, Beer Here, and Other Stories We Didn’t Post
So much news passes before our collective eyes every day that we couldn’t possibly cover it all. Mostly because much of it isn’t worth covering! But here are a some borderline tidbits we passed on, just in case. Jony Ive Won a MAJOR AWARD (Probably) Jony Ive was recently voted the British Visionary Innovator of … Continued
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There’s Finally a New Official Twitter App for iPhone and Android
Twitter just updated its apps for iPhone and Android. That’s great news, because both were getting a bit creaky and were due for a good polish. Here’s what’s new in both apps: The biggest change is that the Discover pane, which is sort of a waste right now, has been upgraded to add a new … Continued
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Steve Jobs Wanted to Be Willy Wonka For a Day
Even after crossing the Styx, Apple co-founder and organic chocolate aficionado Steve Jobs keeps surprising us with the most amazing ideas. Get a load of this: Steve wanted to be Willy Wonka. Like, become him for real, for a day. No joke. https://gizmodo.com/tribute-video-to-steve-jobs-5838922 Here’s an excerpt from the new book Insanely Simple: The Obsession That … Continued
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You Can Watch Live TV on Your iPhone or iPad with This Website (Update: Android Too!)
There are some apps like the NBA’s GameTime that let you watch certain channels or events live, but this site will let you watch a large selection of channels from the US, UK, France, Germany and Italy—for free. Crazy, awesome, and absolutely soon-to-be-sued-into-the-ground. There are comments as recently as a few hours ago saying that … Continued
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Leaked Verizon Roadmap Tips Fall iPhone, Summer Galaxy SIII
Verizon’s roadmap for late summer/early fall 2012 has reportedly leaked, and it includes a few interesting rumors. First of all, it squashes the dreams of those hoping to see a new iPhone at WWDC, and puts Apple’s next-gen smartphone on the docket for a fall release. But before that, we’re apparently going to see a … Continued
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User Experience: The Reason Apple Towers Over Sony
Sony is still a technological powerhouse with a massive R&D department, but as Sohrab Vossoughi explains at Harvard Business Review, everything has changed. Today it’s not enough to build a killer technology—you’ve got to carefully design how people use the final product.—MA Sometimes it’s useful to be reminded that a great strategy is only great … Continued
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Wrap Your iPhone In This Adorable 8-Bit Bumper
Does the iPhone 4’s Retina display make you nostalgic for the days when VGA was the equivalent of cutting-edge graphics? Well Big Big Pixels has the cure with its adorably pixelated 8-Bit bumper case that will transport your iPhone back to the Atari days. It’s just $25, comes with a matching pixelated Apple logo you … Continued
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An iPad Dock That Actually Looks Better Than Your Tablet
Because they seemingly outnumber the stars in the sky, speaker docks for iOS devices are rarely worth a second glance. But Jarre’s new AeroPad Two dock manages to do the near-impossible with a beautiful design that almost makes it feel like docking your iPad will muck it up. A standard 30-pin dock connector lets you … Continued
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Why the Next Generation MacBook Pro Will Probably Launch This June
Heads up, people! The 2012 edition of Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference—one of the company’s biggest yearly events—has been announced: June 11 to June 15 in San Francisco. Traditionally, big new stuff always appears at the WWDC, sometimes hardware, sometimes software. What will happen in this keynote, the first by Apple’s CEO Tim Cook? My bet … Continued
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Another Day, Another Flashback Variant All Up in Your Mac
For those Mac users who still haven’t taken the hint and updated their systems’ security (all, what, 140,000 of you?), here’s yet another version of the Flashback Trojan for you to enjoy. https://gizmodo.com/mac-flashback-trojan-find-out-if-youre-one-of-the-140-5902976 The new version, dubbed Flashback.S, isn’t really all that new in terms of technical prowess. It infects unprotected Macs in the same … Continued
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Greenpeace Ambushes Apple Stores with Balloon Prank
Apple’s iCloud is powered on the back of some seriously dirty electricity. That truly sucks. You know what else sucks? Cleaning dozens of balloons out of a cavernous Apple store after Greenpeace protesters attack. https://gizmodo.com/apple-is-one-of-the-heaviest-coal-users-in-the-industry-5902712 The stunt, further confirming that Apple has very little left of its hippie rebel bandana spirit left, is now in … Continued
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Apple CEO Tim Cook Made a Funny! (Updated)
During Apple’s call today to discuss its monster earnings last quarter, CEO Tim Cook was asked his opinion on Windows 8. He said all of the expected things about how the iPad has unlimited potential, but also weighed in on tablet-PC hybrid devices with this little bon mot: https://gizmodo.com/apple-hauls-insane-39-billion-revenue-despite-selling-5904803 You can converge a toaster and … Continued
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Apple Hauls Insane $39 Billion Revenue Despite Selling Fewer iPhones and iPads
The important thing to know about the last three months of Apple making money, the results of which were just announced, is that the company did not do as well as the previous quarter, but did way better than last year and than pretty much anyone else who produces and sells products. The raw numbers, … Continued
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Apple Could Build Its Products in the U.S. and Still Make Tons of Cash
You know how Apple makes most of its gear in far-off lands where the people that build them make shamefully little? We always assumed that it had to be like that for Apple to run a successful business. Turns out, that’s not the case at all. A new study from the University of Manchester’s Center … Continued
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How to Unlock the iPhone 4S Right Now
Hacker Loktar_Sun has discovered how to easily unlock your iPhone 4S—and any other iPhone. The unlock will free you from your carrier’s tyranny, which is great news, especially while traveling or switching companies. We have tested it and it works. You will only need a jailbroken iPhone. The rest is painless: https://gizmodo.com/iphone-4s-and-ipad-2-finally-get-an-untethered-jailbrea-5877909 IMPORTANT: Before starting, … Continued
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