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Pebble Smartwatch App Got the Update





Pebble Smartwatch in an iOS application developed for... Pebble smartwatch. If you don’t know what’s this, I’ll try to explain. In short, this is a tiny smart gadget you wear on your wrist that is paired to your iPhone via Bluetooth. And here there’s an update for the app that controls this gadget.


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Written by Andrey

Saturday, August 3rd, 2013. 13:32

Old iPad mini vs New Nexus 7



Google has recently released its new Nexus 7 - a budget tablet, which costs only $229 for the version with Wi-Fi and 16GB of memory. But can this device compete with the iPad mini, released in October 2012? Let’s find out.


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Written by Andrey

Sunday, July 28th, 2013. 17:16

LA Unified School District students will get iPads



Apple has recently won a large supply contract for iPads to LA Unified School District. According to the program, all students in the school district will be equipped with iPad. The gadget will boast the Pearson Common Core System of Courses presented as a new app. Moreover, Apple’s iWork (Pages, Keynote, Numbers) and iLife (iMovie, iPhoto, GarageBand) suites will be preloaded on each iPad as well as some educational third-party apps.  Apple says that the $30 million commitment is the beginning of a bigger contract from Los Angeles schools.

The first 31,000 iPads are only the initial phase of the program, which plans to buy and distribute iPads to all 640,000 students in the nation’s second-largest school district by late 2014, Mark Hovatter, the chief facilities executive for the LAUSD, told CITEworld.

“The most important thing is to try to prepare the kids for the technology they are going to face when they are going to graduate,” said Hovatter. “This is phase one, a mix of high school, middle school, and elementary students. We’re targeting kids who most likely don’t have their own computers or laptops or iPads. Their only exposure to computers now is going to be in their schools.


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Written by Lizzen

Sunday, July 28th, 2013. 0:43

The Thinnest iPad Mount Ever Created - MagBak



Those who have an iPad may sometimes need to use it to watch a movie or cook a dinner following a recipe found on the Internet. So far, the only more or less convenient way to do that was to buy a bulky mount. But things have changed.


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Written by Andrey

Friday, July 26th, 2013. 17:35

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Apple Wins a 'Brand of the Year' Award



Harris Interactive, a marketing research firm, gave Apple the title of “Brand of the Year” in three categories - Computers, Tablets and Smartphones, VentureBeat reports.


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Written by Andrey

Friday, July 26th, 2013. 14:14

Apple's Patent for Another Invention



According to the US Patent and Trademark Office, Apple has filed another patent. Or, to be more precise, it has already got the patent for its would-be invention. This time it’s a new technology that is said to make you phone battery life much longer.


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Written by Andrey

Thursday, July 25th, 2013. 18:05

New Lower Cost iPhone Back Shell Compared with Older iPhones



Michael Kukielka (the DetroitBorg) has made a new video comparing a leaked back shell of a would-be plastic iPhone with the older versions of Apple smartphones as well as with iPod touch.


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Written by Andrey

Wednesday, July 24th, 2013. 13:56

Apple's Looking for New iWatch Designers



We all know that Apple’s currently working on a kind of wearable computer, right? Moreover, we even know it’s called iWatch. However, when would Apple release this device and whether it would do that at all - these are still the questions to answer.


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Written by Andrey

Monday, July 15th, 2013. 3:21

Some More Lower Cost iPhone Photos



Here’s another suggestion on how would the new lower-cost iPhone look like. This time it’s Martin Hajek, who made some renderings and 3D models of something that would be a very nice device if released. Apart from the colorful pictures showing the device itself, the author went further and re-designed the Apple homepage. And I must admit it looks great.


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Written by Andrey

Thursday, July 11th, 2013. 18:26

Foxconn's Hiring Workers for the iPhone 6



According to China Business News, Foxconn’s currently hiring new workers for, presumably, a next generation iPhone. As the source claim, the recruitment firm, which works with Foxconn, has recently began a campaign aimed to find people capable of assembling the new Apple device.


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Written by Andrey

Wednesday, July 10th, 2013. 18:53

Apple's Poster to Commemorate the Fifth AppStore Birthday



Looks like Apple has hired a new guy responsible for all kinds of graphics and the way Apple gadgets look. At first he paints new ‘cheap’ iPhones red, green and yellow, then completely redesigns iOS 7 and after that persuades the executives to register a new FaceTime logo, which he likes immensely, as a trademark.

Well, there’re probably some other reasons for all that to happen, of course, but it really seems that Apple is currently centered primarily on the appearance – in addition to the things mentioned above, it has released a new poster commemorating the fifth anniversary of AppStore, Tim Bradshaw of Financial Times reports.


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ScreenFade – wake and sleep your device with animation



If you do not like abrupt waking and sleeping of stock iOS devices, then ScreenFade is the program you need. Install this jailbreak tweak on your gadget and enjoy fade in and out animation!

It is a simple program with no options and settings. Just remember that it works only if you wake the device with Home button.

Now have a look at the video to grab the idea.




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Written by Lizzen

Friday, July 5th, 2013. 8:57

Bluetooth wireless audio Creative D200



Almost every iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch user faces a problem of listening music at home. Some use headphones, others listed through embedded speakers, however everybody wants to connect their gadget to some loud high quality home stereo system.

There tons of dock stations for various players and smartphones including ones for iPhone and iPod. However dock stations allow users to plug in just a single set of devices due to connection port incompatibilities. Even Apple changed it's port when iPhone 5 was released with lightning port. So if you actually bought expensive iPhone 4 dock station and realized you want iPhone 5 - you're in trouble, because a new dock station for iPhone 5 is needed. There are adapters and converters on the market that might help, but the idea is clear - there have to be some technology that would allow us to use different devices from various manufactures including iOS, Android, Windows Mobile, etc. Here comes Bluetooth. It is not just supported by almost all modern smartphones, players, tablets and even notebooks, it also does not require users to physically connect their gadget to a stereo, because it is wireless technology.

Today we want to take a look at Creative D200 - wireless speaker system that supports Bluetooth. While the quality of this device is quite good, the price is attractive as well. You can get one for about $100.


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Corning Announces Substrate Glass Lotus XT For Brighter And Cheaper Displays



As Engadget reports, Corning announced the launch of its latest glass substrate Lotus XT Glass for OLED and LCD displays. While Corning is well known for its Gorilla Glass used by a number of device makers to provide durable covers for displays, Lotus Glass is used within displays to support components necessary for displays to operate.

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Written by maxim

Friday, May 17th, 2013. 19:50

Google Search App For iOS Is Updated With Google Now



Last month Google leaked a video showing that Google Now tool would be coming to iOS, and today the company has released the updated version 3.0 of its Google Search app with support for Google Now service.


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Written by maxim

Monday, April 29th, 2013. 19:45