First launched in March 2011, Pimp Your Screen for the iPhone/iPod touch and iPad customizes the look of your iDevice by giving you an exclusive selection of specially designed backgrounds, icon skins, app shelves, and neon combos. Best of all, new content is added daily, including special holiday goodies.The new update includes Retina display support for the new iPad. In addition, Pimp Your Screen now includes new icon skins, app shelves, neon combos, and Home screens to spice up the look of your iDevices.Pimp Your ScreenOne of Pimp Your Screen’s most noteworthy features remains not having ...
Available on Apple iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, the Kung Fu Panda 2 storybook app is free from Wednesday, May 16 through Sunday, April 20, 2012.Featuring a digital sticker book, automatic navigation and narration as well as highlighted text to help early readers, the Kung Fu Panda 2 is perfect for engaging children’s creativity and encouraging them to read. The storybook is available in English, Spanish, Chinese, German, French, Portuguese, Russian and Korean so teachers and students across the globe may enjoy the adventures of Po.“Teachers are our super heroes,” said Woody Sears, ...
TDK has introduced five products to its Life on Record range, all of which are compatible with the iPod, iPhone and any smartphone that sports a 3.5mm headphone jack.TDK App-Enhanced Rechargeable Travel SpeakerWith its folding design and svelte features, the App-Enhanced Rechargeable Travel Speaker can be tucked away in a picnic hamper for a day out while the built-in rechargeable battery should ensure you don’t run out of juice before sunset.Take the device back home and using the various alarm clock apps you’ll able to select what dulcet tunes to wake up to.Retailers will be selling the ...
Music apps will never lose their novelty. For most of us, having Spotify, iTunes and Last FM at the tips of our fingertips is sufficient, though. For the more dedicated musicians amongst us – there is sometimes the demand for something a little more niche.The history of jazz This iPad app is an essential for any jazz cats. This app offers an interactive timeline, detailing the history of jazz. It also includes music samples, videos and playlists. This is the perfect excuse for putting your feet up, getting the speaker docks out and listening to the best jazz music there is, whilst swatting ...
A new start-up called Electric Imp promises to turn almost any product into a connected device with the addition of a tiny card in a slot.Former iPhone engineering manager Hugo Fiennes, former Gmail designer Kevin Fox and long-time firmware engineer Peter Hartley co-founded the start-up, which is intended to help users monitor, control and get alerted by their devices.Electric Imp founders Peter Hartley, Hugo Fiennes and Kevin FoxSome potential applications are a laundry machine that texts a user when the wash is done or a power charger that turns on when the price of electricity goes down. ...
If screen size counts, you might want to hold off a bit. A 6th generation iPhone growing the panel to "at least 4 inches diagonally" is set to begin production in June. So reports "people familiar with the situation" blabbing to the Wall Street Journal, also first to slip that a new, smaller screen iPad is on the way this fall. (WSJ's Walt Mossberg was thisclose to Apple founder Steve Jobs.) Apple had a great first quarter of sales for the iPhone, selling 35.1 mlliion units world wide. But that figure was boosted by newly opened markets like little ol' China. Here in the ...
The transportation system seems to be pointing to more tonnage courtesy of tech product launches. One analyst connects the Apple dots.Instead of following Apple rumor mill, tips from contract manufacturer workers and a bevy of unknown sources, perhaps all we need to do is watch the tonnage coursing through the transportation network to figure out what’s coming down the pike.Jefferies analyst Peter Misek connected the dots between what the likes of shippers such as FedEx and UPS are saying and Apple’s future product launches.To wit:FedEx has said that it expects several tech launches in ...
When it comes to smartphones, the two most popular platforms would have to be Apple's iOS for iPhone and Google's Android. Both platforms have their fair share of advantage and disadvantages, as well as different hardware options when it comes to Android.Being in the tech reporting industry, I carry both with me - an iPhone 4S and a Samsung Galaxy S2. Both devices have their pros and cons and today I am going to tell you my biggest likes and peeves with them in hopes that it will make it easier to decide which direction to go with your smartphone purchase.iPhone vs Android: which is better ...
Apple Inc CEO Steve Jobs discusses the iPhone during his keynote address on the opening day of the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2007 (WWDC 07) at the Moscone Center West in San Francisco, California 11 June 2007. (Image credit: AFP/Getty Images via @daylife)The fall in sales is partly due to a downturn in the Asian markets.The fall in sales were revealed by Gartner on Wednesday in its latest quarterly report. The research firm claims that 419.1 million cellphone units were sold during the first quarter of 2012, representing a 2 percent fall, or some 20 million units, compared to ...
While Facebook is slowly working out the kinks to bring more games to mobile, there’s a small company in Menlo Park, Calif., that has beat them to it.ISwifter is announcing a new iPad app today called theWorx for Facebook, which gives users the full Facebook experience — social games and all.That means users can check their crops, maintain their cities and feed their fish without having to boot up their computer.A small company of 20 employees, iSwifter is almost entirely bootstrapped, having generated $10 million in revenue last year.As my colleague Ina Fried wrote, the previous iPad ...
Apple Inc., which is expected to launch its next-generation iPhone later this year, has ordered screens from its Asian suppliers that are bigger than the ones used in iPhones since they debuted in 2007, people familiar with the situation said.Production is set to begin next month for the screens, which measure at least 4 inches diagonally compared with 3.5 inches on the iPhone 4S, the latest phone from Apple, the people said.Here’s what we believe a bigger iPhone could look like:The report is somewhat contradictory with its statements that Apple is “trying to make its popular smartphone ...
The latest version of the American Customer Satisfaction Index has named Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) as the number one company in customer satisfaction with 83 points.The ACSI said in a statement, “At 83, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)’s iPhone is a game changer when it comes to customer satisfaction. No other cell phone company has ever broken into the 80s. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)’s nearest competitors this year are three companies tied at 75: Nokia (+3%) and ACSI newcomers LG and HTC.”Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) stocks were at 558.22 at the end of the last day’s trading. There’s been a ...