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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…
Trimble Outdoor’s fitness app for Android, AllSport GPS, has undergone a big update, including a lot of new features and a new look. You can now take pictures, audio, and video, and keep them geotagged on a map of your hike, run, or biking trip. Actually, AllSport can be tailored to 14 different kinds of…
This one’s a few days old but I wanted to touch upon it because I think it’s pretty neat. New York City recently opened up its databases to mobile app developers and it has crowned some of its winners of its second BigApps competition. What entails a winning app? Well, there’s some innovative stuff like…
Last November, Capcom released a free app called Capcom Arcade that brought some of the company’s classic arcade titles to the iOS platform. When the app was released, there were only a handful of games available such as Ghouls ‘n Ghosts, 1942, Street Fighter, and Commando. That’s a great Capcom line-up if you ask me,…
It’s happened to all of us. You’ll be reading an interesting article on your laptop or looking at an image that you want to send to your device, but instead of hooking up your smartphone to your computer or setting up a Bluetooth connection you either send yourself an email or in most cases just…
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,…
A popular mobile music app, Grooveshark, has been removed from the Android Market for violating developer terms of service. It’s likely to have something to do with copyright infringement since Grooveshark operates by allowing users to upload music to the communal database for others to play on demand. Apple kicked Grooveshark from the iPhone App…
Want to grab panoramic video clips with your iPhone 4? A company called EyeSee360 thinks you may not be alone, thus they’re about to launch a new product to enable 360-degree video recording with Apple’s smartphone. The product is called GoPano Micro and it’s comprised of a plastic case for the iPhone, a detachable 360-degree…