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Facebook to Launch “Blazing Fast” iOS App Next Month
Google Announces $199 Nexus 7 Tablet, $299 Nexus Q At Google I/O [Video]
Google Unveils Android 4.1 Jelly Bean
Brvsh Stylus: Innovative, Elegant, & Stylish Stylus
Cashculator Makes Managing And Planning Your Finances Painless [Deals Hub]
Apple May Use Ambient Light Sensor to Display Shadows Based 3D UI Elements in Future Version of iOS
Apple TV Launches in 9 New Countries
WinterBoard Theme Brings iOS 6 UI to iOS 5

Facebook to Launch “Blazing Fast” iOS App Next Month

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 02:42 PM PDT

Facebook’s iOS app is essentially a mobile website wrapped around familiar navigation elements. Most of the app is HTML5, and since Apple hasn’t brought the Nitro JavaScript engine to UIWebViews, Facebook on iPhone is annoyingly slow. According to The New York Times’ Nick Bilton, Facebook will be throwing away the app’s HTML5 dependencies and going fully native sometime next month. Continue reading →

Google Announces $199 Nexus 7 Tablet, $299 Nexus Q At Google I/O [Video]

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 02:26 PM PDT

At Google’s annual developer conference today, the company announced two new pieces of hardware, each competing directly with an Apple product. The first one is the widely rumored $199 Nexus tablet, which Google calls Nexus 7 and the second is a $299 media streamer called the Nexus Q. Continue reading →

Google Unveils Android 4.1 Jelly Bean

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 01:52 PM PDT

Google unveiled the new version of their mobile operating system – Android 4.1 “Jelly Bean” at the Google I/O developer conference earlier today. Jelly Bean includes a number of new features and improvements such as smoother, faster and more fluid user interface, Siri-like voice search, improved notifications, offline voice typing, redesigned search, smart app updates and more. Continue reading →

Brvsh Stylus: Innovative, Elegant, & Stylish Stylus

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 12:32 PM PDT

I think there are two groups of iPad owners—those who use a stylus and those who don't—I fall into the former group. I love using a stylus to sketch, take notes, work in iPhoto, and, yes, play Draw Something. The thing about using a stylus is you have to find the right one for you. Continue reading →

Cashculator Makes Managing And Planning Your Finances Painless [Deals Hub]

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 11:15 AM PDT

Raise your hand if you really like managing your home/personal finances. I'm betting the few of you who did raise their hands are either in the financial industry or just dig numbers. The rest of us? Well we all hate trying to track budgets, spending, the "can I afford a new 32GB iPad now…" questions, and keeping work/tax expenses straight. I think I might have the solution for you. Cashculator. Thinking about the iPhone 5 we all expect to come out in the fall? Wondering if you can afford it? The genius of Cashculator is that you could plan for that! Manage all your finances, simply and easily and only $15! Continue reading →

Apple May Use Ambient Light Sensor to Display Shadows Based 3D UI Elements in Future Version of iOS

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 11:12 AM PDT

Apple’s really fond of bringing real world metaphors to its software interfaces. Notes, Game Center, iBooks and the newly introduced Podcasts app are all examples of this. But off late, it has also demonstrated a great level of attention for detail while implementing these interfaces. The shining metal volume slider in the iOS 6 Music app is perhaps the best example of how the company is using sensors like the gyroscope and the accelerometer to travel the extra mile in order to deliver an extra real interface. Continue reading →

Apple TV Launches in 9 New Countries

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 09:31 AM PDT

Hot on the heels of launching the iTunes Store in 12 new countries in Asia, Apple has also quietly launched Apple TV in some of these countries. Earlier today, Apple launched the iTunes App Store in 12 new countries in Asia including Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Sri Lanka and Vietnam. Continue reading →