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An iPad App 2,000 Years In The Making: Air Harp

The iPhone is great, but it’s small. The iPad is bigger; you can cradle it, like a lap harp. Behold, Air Harp!
If fart apps are what the iPhone is all about, Air Harp is what the iPad is all about. You can sit there, with the device in you lap, and simply strum. You get [...]

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Tue, March 30 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Apple’s Market Cap Passes $210 Billion, Now Within $50 Billion Of You-Know-Who

With the iPad launching on Saturday in the U.S., Apple’s stock price continues to rise. Today, shares closed at $232.39, another all time high. Notably, this push Apple’s market cap past $210 billion for the first time, as it’s now as $210.73 billion. But even more notably is that Apple is now under $50 billion [...]

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Mon, March 29 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Brand New Apple Protable Speaker, Fashionable Design

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Listen to your music anywhere with this portable speaker. Get one today for your MP3 or MP4 players at home, office or anywhere you like. Simply plug in power adapter and you are ready to enjoy your music with high quality sound.
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Sun, March 21 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Apple Starts Accepting iPad Applications; Launch Apps Must Be Submitted By March 27

There are only two weeks left until the iPad’s April 3 launch date, and Apple has just started reaching out to developers to say that they’re accepting applications that were developed specifically for the device. We’ve included the Email below. The key takeaway: If you’re looking to have your app available at [...]

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Fri, March 19 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Spotify Consumes More Internet Capacity Than All Of Sweden

Today, during his keynote address at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek had a big revelation: “On certain days, we’re consuming more Internet capacity than Sweden has as a country.”
Ek made the statement when asked why Spotify chose to use a P2P model, rather than centrally store all of its music [...]

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Wed, March 17 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Music Distribution Service Zimbalam Opens

Zimbalam, the digital music distributor from Believe Digital, launches in the US today.
The service lets artists submit and distribute their music through 25 of the most popular music platforms, including Apple’s iTunes and Spotify, in addition to “several hundred additional stores worldwide”. This makes Zimbalam the largest music distribution network as measured by number of [...]

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Fri, March 12 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

The Slow-Mo Secrets of the iPad

Neil Curtis has a lot of time on his hands. Rather than just accepting the wool being pulled over our eyes by the Man, he decided to get totally Zapruder on the new iPad commercial and found all sorts of problems with the video, including a number of messy little transitions (the main actor, for [...]

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Mon, March 8 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Apple’s New Stance On ‘Cookie Cutter’ Apps: Add More Features Or Perish

In the wake of Apple’s sudden decision to remove nearly all “sexy” applications from the App Store, we’ve been hearing that the company is also clamping down on so-called “cookie-cutter” applications — iPhone apps that are built from templates using one of the many app-building services available. This would be yet another major change [...]

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Mon, March 8 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Duckshead Revisited: Apple Approves DuckPhone App After Minor Changes

Remember that guy who made the DuckPhone iPhone app? And how his app was rejected due to “Minimum User Functionality?” Well, Apple just approved his app after he added some news streams and a twitter feed from the stars of Jersey Shore. It just goes to show that one man’s dumb garbage app is another [...]

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Sun, March 7 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

New, Arbitrary App Store Rejection Reason: “Minimum User Functionality”

So say you’re really into Jersey Shore. And you want to make a phone like the duck phone in the show. And you’re like “Why not make an app that quacks like a duck and makes your phone quack like a duck?” Heck, it’s a free country, as far as you can tell. This [...]

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Tue, March 2 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments