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It’s prank time… time to revisit one April Fools’ joke that caught my attention this year. During a newscast on April 1st, Raoul Martinez of Fox 5 in San Diego managed to pull the wool over the eyes of co-anchor Shally Zomorodi in an unusual way. While describing a new app called ‘Virtual Sip’ that…
The folks at Pixable have just put out a new Photofeed app and the new version of the photo-viewing program adds support for Flickr and Instagram, in addition to its Facebook foundation. The Photofeed iPhone app is aimed at giving you access to your friend’s photos and that’s it. Why? Well, some people love to…
The folks at NowhereElse.fr took all the iPhone 5 rumors and summarized them in an impressive infographic. What makes this one different from your standard billboard-style image is the Apple-themed layout of this creative graphic that makes it look like it was lifted off the back pages of Apple’s website. All the leaked details on…
Another win for Apple as a federal judge in Texas threw out a $625 million verdict against the company for allegedly infringing on three Mirror Worlds patents. The sum was awarded to Mirror Worlds by a jury last October, $208 million for each patent that Apple was accused of infringing: Coverflow, Spotlight and Time Machine.…
There is a story making rounds on the Internet today that FaceTime, the video calling application for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, is taking photos of users without permission and storing them. It’s unsettling to think that this could be happening, but it would certainly be cause for an uproar if it were. But…
Yesterday, Apple released an app called iAd Gallery, which lets you browse through the library of rich iPhone advertisements currently being used in a variety of existing apps. You can see what’s new, search for a specific ad, browse through categories, or mark favourites. It sounds like a weird thing to do for what most…
Camera+, my favorite photography app for the iPhone, announced yesterday that it has reached 2 million sales through the iTunes App Store. The app initially launched last summer, but was taken off the market and introduced again late in 2010 after some changes were made to suit Apple’s strict demands. The company behind the app,…
How many iPad 2 units is Apple planning to sell this year? A lot, that’s how many. Apple rarely ever fails to disappoint shareholders these days when it comes to dishing iOS devices, and this year might not be any different. Citing touch panel suppliers, DigiTimes says that Apple took delivery of 2.4 – 2.6…
The US Patent and Trademark Office granted a patent for a new type of dock connector to Apple. It is a slim hybrid DisplayPort/USB 3.0 high speed connector which will most likely be used in the upcoming iOS devices. Apple has recently introduced another high-speed connector called Thunderbolt (originally codenamed Light Peak) which comes with…
Canada’s General Election is coming up on May 2, 2011, and citizens of the true north strong and free owe it to themselves (and their country) to make an informed vote come election day. With that in mind, I stumbled across a new app from the folks at The Globe and Mail that is a…