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Control your VLC player from your iPhone with VLC Amigo [iPhone]
VLC Amigo is the only VLC remote control you will need for your iDevice. VLC is one of the most popular media players on the market due to its flexibility in playing almost any media file. VLC Amigo provides you with the ability to control the player from across the [...]
Carry around a portable scanner with Scanner Pro [iPhone]
Scanner Pro transforms your iDevice into a portable scanner. The app allows you to scan single or multi-page documents, business cards, receipts, notes, whiteboards, and even personal checks. Once scanned, all documents will be PDFs that can emailed, shared over a home network, or uploaded to any one of your [...]
Incorporate every contact you have ever known into one place with Smartr Contacts [iPhone]
Smartr Contacts is an all-in-one address book for all your communications. The app scans your email, calendar, and social networks to find everyone you know and creates a profile for each of them. Smartr Contacts is quite easy to use as well, given that you can call, SMS, or email [...]
Going on vacation or a business trip? Plan your full itinerary with Kayak Pro [iPhone]
Kayak Pro is an all-in-one travel app. The app allows you to conveniently search and compare flight, hotel, and car rental deals, while giving you the option to set price alerts. You can even book your hotel from the actual app itself. Kayak Pro provides a large amount of airport [...]
Set up price drop alerts for any product with ShopAdvisor [iPhone]
ShopAdvisor is an excellent shopping companion. After selecting an item from the app by searching or with the barcode scanner, the app will find all relevant data that will assist you in your purchase. ShopAdvisor will grab all online and local prices, product ratings and descriptions, and a very useful [...]
Get your most local forecast with Weather Underground [iPhone]
Weather Underground is one of the more reputable weather sites on the internet. What separates it from the other weather-related sites is that personal weather stations (24,000+ of them) are also a part of their global network of weather providers. This allows you to get more pinpoint weather forecasts, rather [...]
Glympse shares your location with friends and family [iPhone]
Glympse allows friends and family to keep track of each others’ locations. Without even having to sign-up, this app allows you to share your location privately with anyone within seconds. Glympse accomplishes this by sending a link containing your location information feed via SMS, email, Facebook, or Twitter. The recipient [...]
Send email anonymously with Secret Sender [iPhone]
Secret Sender is a unique app that allows you to send an email message to anyone anonymously. Whether you are trying to avoid the ramifications of being “the messenger” of bad news or you want to tell someone you secretly admire them, then this is the app for you. There [...]
Interest in Samsung products has increased thanks to Apple v Samsung trial

Generally when you get slapped with a $1.05 billion fine and the potential ban on your products, it is a bad thing. In the case of Apple v Samsung, Samsung may not have received the short end of the stick after all. As it turns out, the Apple vs Samsung [...]
Read More »Be your own bartender with Alcohology [iPhone]
Alcohology is the ultimate app for aspiring bartenders. The app features over 1200 recipes accompanied by highly-polished photos. You can search the recipes by keyword (with or without a filter) or find them by category (classic, martini, blended, cream, sour, hot, shot, smoothie). You also have the option of marking [...]
Navigate your way through any mall with FastMall [iPhone]
Fastmall is a navigation app for your nearby mall. Get complete directory maps of every mall in your area and use them to find your favorite retail stores. Fastmall even provides the option to download mall maps for use offline if you know you will be without a Wi-Fi or [...]
Apple does not sell overpriced products, stop whining people [Rant]

…With the exception of Macs. I need to clarify this point before I get flamed. With the exception of Macs, Apple does not sell overpriced products. What exactly am I trying to say? I am saying iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch are not overpriced, when compared to the competition. Don’t [...]
Read More »Tweetbot is a superb Twitter client for your iDevice [iPhone]
Tweetbot is the only Twitter client you will ever need. On top of its incredibly attractive user interface, Tweetbot has an equally tremendous assortment of features. The app boasts multiple timelines, smart gestures, and native push notifications that make the user experience a quality one. Besides your timeline, mentions, and [...]
Snapseed is a full-featured photo editing app for your iDevice [iPhone]
Snapseed is a full-featured photo editing client for your iDevice. You are able to use Auto Correct to adjust your photos with a single tap, tweak your photo with Tune Image, and or enhance areas/objects in your photos with Selective Adjust. Snapseed also provides a bunch of innovative filters (i.e. [...]
Bookworm is an addictive word puzzle game [iPhone]
Bookworm is one of the classic word puzzle games on the App Market. Much like other apps its genre, the goal of the game is make words by swiping over consecutive adjacent letter tiles. The bigger the word and rarer the letter, the more points you will earn from your [...]
iPad Mini will be revealed in October, after iPhone 5′s September appearance [Rumor]
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iPad Mini, a 7-ish inch iPad priced between US$200-$300, has been one of the hottest gossips in the tech world for 2012. Many rumors have surfed over the past 8-9 months, rumors that not only speculate the specifications and price of the iPad Mini but also the release date. Up [...]
Read More »Samsung’s forthcoming injunction (ban on products) will hurt more than the $1 billion fine [Apple vs Samsung, Opinion]

Yesterday Samsung lost in court against Apple. As a result, Samsung was ordered to pay US$1,049,393,540 to Apple. Some people may feel the roughly $1.05 billion fine is Samsung’s punishment for ‘copying’ Apple, and it is true — the fine, which is no small sum, is Samsung’s punishment. However, it [...]
Read More »Discover an all-in-one time manager with Timegg [iPhone]
Timegg is a time management app. It provides the ability to set alarms, timers, and reminders for any event. The app provides the ability to set up alerts any time you need in advance, as well as provides a unique set of tunes to alert you.
Timegg is a brand [...]
Read More »Manage your MySQL databases on the go with MySQL Mobile Database Client [iPhone]
MySQL Mobile Database Client is an excellent resource to search, browse, and update your MySQL databases. Currently compatible with MySQL versions 3-5, this app allows you to directly connect to an unlimited number of databases. The app shows you all of your database entries in a simple chart and allows [...]
Countdown to your favorite movies being released with Movie Clock [iPhone]
Movie Clock is a great way to keep track of your favorite movies, both in the theater and coming soon (up to Summer 2014). You can set an alert for any movie to remind you when it will released into theaters, as well as find showtimes for movies that are [...]
Samsung feels verdict is “a loss for the American consumer” while Apple applauds the message “that stealing isn’t right” [Apple vs Samsung]

Sometimes after a big, public embarrassment corporations keep mum about their feelings. (Yes, corporations have feelings too, ya’ know.) Not Apple and Samsung. Apple and Samsung have both issued public statements after today’s Apple v Samsung verdict was read. The following is what they had to say.
As expected, Apple [...]
Read More »Samsung must pay Apple more than $1 billion, is found guilty of infringing on Apple patents in USA [Apple vs Samsung]

Apple sued Samsung in the United States for violating a variety of utility patents, design patents, and trade dress(es). The court room battle, which was presided over by Judge Lucy Haeran Koh in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, saw many allegations flung back and [...]
Read More »Easily find cheap(er) gas with GasBuddy [iPhone]
GasBuddy is an excellent way to find gas on the cheap. The app provides the closest gas stations to your current location, as well as their location (on a map if you choose) and the current price of gas. GasBuddy also provides a point system for reporting gas prices, as [...]
Good Reader is a top-of-the-line, robust PDF reader app [iPhone]
Good Reader provides the ability to view/read just about anything on your iDevice. The app is best known for its superior PDF handling, but you can also read/view books, movies, maps, pictures, other documents, and much more. Many apps in the same genre have trouble reading larger PDF and TXT [...]
Poker Fury2 is a unique poker matching game [iPhone]
Poker Fury2 is a matching game for users who enjoy poker. The goal of the game is to attempt to create as many poker hands as possible, with more points rewarded for the more difficult to find poker hands. Poker Fury2 only allows you to make one swap of adjacent [...]
iOS apps of the day [August 23, 2012]
Today’s Apps
- vokul (A voice control app)
- PicFrame Illustrator (Create unlimited photo frames)
- Windows Games Collection (Bring your favorite Windows games to your iDevice)
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Read More »Get over $400 for trading in your iPhone 4S with Amazon, over $200 for iPhone 4

How much can you resell your Samsung Galaxy S II? Motorola RAZR? Google Nexus S? HTC Sensation 4G? I guarantee not as much as an (comparable) iPhone. If you head over to Amazon.com’s Electronics Trade-in section and type “iPhone 4S”, you will find Amazon is giving up to $500 for [...]
Read More »Is this Apple’s supersecret ‘protologo’ logo? [rumor]

The back of Apple devices (iPhones, iPads, iPods, Macs, etc.) typically display the iconic partly-bitten apple logo. Why do I say “typically”? Because there are rumors of a supersecret Apple ‘protologo’ which Apple uses for prototype devices. And one such prototype with one such protologo just happened to appear on [...]
Read More »iOS apps of the day [August 21, 2012]
Today’s Apps
- Mobile Mouse Pro (Wireless remote and trackpad for your Mac or PC)
- Swell Info (The complete surf forecast and report tool)
- W.E.L.D.E.R (A uniquely designed word puzzle game)
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Read More »iOS apps of the day [August 20, 2012]
Today’s Apps
- Best Album - Picasa Web Albums Manager (A Google Picasa client for your iDevice)
- SloPro – 60fps Slow Motion Video (Record at full speed and play back in slow motion)
- Mileage Keeper (Gas mileage and fuel economy tracker)
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Read More »iOS apps of the day [August 19, 2012]
Today’s Apps
- Slice – Shopping Organized (Keep track of what you buy online)
- Movies by Flixster, with Rotten Tomatoes (Movie reviews, trailers, and showtimes)
- Dice With Buddies Free (Play YAHTZEE with your friends & family)
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Read More »Google attempts to get iPhone, iPad, and Mac banned from the USA by filing a patent claim against Apple with the ITC

Do No Evil. Tell that to the little boys and girls and grandmas who might miss out on their shiny new iDevice thanks to the latest happenings in patent wars. Google, through its newly acquired subsidiary Motorola Mobility, has filed a patent claim against Apple in the International Trade [...]
Read More »iOS apps of the day [August 18, 2012]
Today’s Apps
- imo instant messenger (Talk to your friends on any IM network)
- Pimp Your Screen (Customize the look of your iOS device)
- Swordigo (A top-rated adventure game)
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