iPad By Davis: “Fuzel Pro update allows you to import Instagram photos into collages” plus 17 more |
- Fuzel Pro update allows you to import Instagram photos into collages
- ScreenLab review: Create custom wallpapers for your iPhone and iPad
- HAPIfork hits Kickstarter, lets you use your iPhone to help develop healthier eating habits
- I spent $1800 on iOS and Mac App Store apps in 2012
- Pocket updates with new sharing feature Send to Friend
- Pocket for iPad Updated: New Send to Friend Feature & Lots More
- Why Apple's stock dipped below $400 and what investors should do about it
- Couch Music Player for iPad review: Create and edit playlists quicker than ever
- Forums: iOS 7 features, larger screened iPhone, iMessage issues, iPhone 5S release date
- How To Setup Google Contact Sync on the iPad
- Funny or Die releases iSteve
- Notable New iPad Apps: What Color Is Your Parachute? Job-Hunter’s Workbook
- How to selectively back up app data to iCloud in order to save storage space
- Candy Crush Saga updated with two new episodes
- Facebook iPad App Updated: Chatheads & New Look for News Feed
- Deal of the Day: 40% off Incipio Feather Ultralight Hard Shell Case for iPhone 5
- Google Apps and Gmail experiencing outages. Zombie apocalypse still not nigh.
- MacBreak Weekly 346: OS X Grumpy Cat
| Fuzel Pro update allows you to import Instagram photos into collages Posted: 17 Apr 2013 11:53 PM PDT
Fuzel Pro, a full-featured collage creating app for iPhone, has been updated with the ability to import photos from your instagram account into your collages. It has also added three new simple patterns, three new fancy patterns, and three new fun labels.
I've always been a huge fan of Fuzel because it allows an incredible amount of control when creating collages, and I'm really excited about the ability to import directly from Instagram.
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| ScreenLab review: Create custom wallpapers for your iPhone and iPad Posted: 17 Apr 2013 11:15 PM PDT
ScreenLab is an iPhone and iPad app that lets you create custom wallpapers for your lock screen. It's not just an app with photos and graphics that work great as wallpapers, but it also lets you add calendars, to-do lists, text boxes, and photos to your wallpapers, making them truly unique.
ScreenLab comes loaded up with 12 beautiful background images, but you can also use any photo stored on your iPhone or iPad. When adding an object, you can customize the color, opacity, size, and style. The types of objects included in ScreenLab are text fields, to-do lists, calendars, and photos. When you're done designing your wallpaper, you simply save it to your Camera Roll and assign the saved images as your wallpaper with the Photos app. The good
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The bottom lineScreenLab is a great app for creating custom wallpapers for your iPhone or iPad. Not only can you add meaningful photos, but you can also turn your Lock screen into a quick to-do list and display contact information to someone who may find your lost iPhone or iPad. ScreenLab is available at the introductory price of just $0.99.
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| HAPIfork hits Kickstarter, lets you use your iPhone to help develop healthier eating habits Posted: 17 Apr 2013 07:16 PM PDT
HAPIfork, the smart dining utensil we first saw at CES 2013 has finally found its way to Kickstarter and is now available for your backing pleasure. The concept is simple enough: HAPIfork includes some clever tech that measures how fast you're shoveling food into your mouth, and if it determines you're eating too fast, the handle vibrates to remind you to slow down and better enjoy meal. Since eating too fast has been correlated with weight gain -- essentially because the brain can't tell you your stomach is full fast enough -- slowing down can lead to better health and weight control. According to their Kickstarter page:
The data can also be fed into an iPhone app, which like other quantified life technologies, lets you see your progress over time. That hopefully creates both a sense of accountability and of achievement. Gamified eating. (How amazing is it that after spending years building up the iOS and mobile platform, iOS and mobile are now being used as a platform to build up so many other interesting technologies?) Mobile Nations' own Andrew Carton is working with HAPIlabs on the project, so I've had a chance to see the HAPIfork both at CES and a little bit outside the show. I haven't had the chance to try it out in a real world setting yet, but I've backed it and I'm curious to try it out. I routinely eat so fast, while surfing, writing, or just impatiently trying to get back to surfing and writing, that some kind of intervention is likely very necessary. There's a ton more HAPIfork coverage today, if you want to get some varied opinions, and if you decide you want to back it, or just watch the video and read more about it, hit the link below and then come back and let me know -- how much does technology like this interest you? Source: Kickstarter 
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| I spent $1800 on iOS and Mac App Store apps in 2012 Posted: 17 Apr 2013 05:29 PM PDT
One of the very few highlight of an otherwise arduous tax season is adding up all the iTunes receipts in my inbox and finding out how much I spent on iOS and Mac App Store apps the previous year. For 2012, that number turned out to be something just north of $1800. The most expensive was Lightroom at $150, which turned into $175 after Quebec and Canada were done with it. The least expensive, of course, were just $0.99. Remarkably little went to in-app purchases, almost none to in-app game purchases. Obviously, I'm not still using all the apps I bought last year. Some were for very specific uses, and those uses are done. Others were simply to try out. The paid apps I stuck with, and still use the most, include Launch Center Pro, Tweetbot for iPad, Tweetbot for Mac Fantastical for iPhone, Letterpress, Coda 2 Diet Coda, Paper, and Drafts for iPhone, Drafts for iPad, and, of course, OS X Mountain Lion. I don't regret buying any of them, however. Not any more than I regret buying a TV show or movie I watch only once or a few times, or a fussy caffeinated beverage I enjoy for a moment and is then gone forever. Apps almost always save me far more time than they cost me money, and as experiences go, games are both among the most incredible money can buy, and these days, among the cheapest. I still wish developers would Jury-up and charge more, and users would pay more, and Apple allowed for demos or trials or a short grace period for refunds so it would take the risk out of developers charging more appropriate prices for their work. Absent all that, I'll likely be once again stuffing $10 into their pockets come WWDC so they can make me more fantastic apps and I can sleep better at night. If you have a rough idea how much you spent on apps last year, let me know, and let me know which ones you're still using, and whether or not you plan to do anything differently this year? 
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| Pocket updates with new sharing feature Send to Friend Posted: 17 Apr 2013 02:59 PM PDT
Pocket, the popular read-later service for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, has been updated with a new Send to Friend feature that makes it easier than ever to share with the people you care about. Sharing to social networks may be a popular way to share content that interests you, but Pocket claims that users share via email more than twice as often as they do to networks like Facebook, Twitter, and Tumbler -- and this is what Send to Friend improves upon. With Send to friend, you can quickly share content from Pocket with a comment and highlighted quote, and the recipient will receive an email with a link; if they're a Pocket user, they'll also be notified in the Pocket app. Shared content will appear in your inbox where you can see comments and highlighted quotes. There is also now an option to receive notifications when a friend shares with you. Pocket has also redesigned the Share Menu to feature what you've used most recently, including which friends you shared with via Send to Friend. For those who like to share content they consume on Pocket, this update is fantastic. What are you thoughts on the update?
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| Pocket for iPad Updated: New Send to Friend Feature & Lots More Posted: 17 Apr 2013 01:48 PM PDT
The Pocket (formerly Read It Later) iPad app has been updated today, to Version 4.5. Today marks the one year anniversary of the app's name change and this is a suitably impressive update to mark the occasion. The headline addition in this update is a new feature that the developers say is a rethink of one of the core elements of the app, sharing. The new feature is called Send to Friend – here's the description of it in the update text:
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| Why Apple's stock dipped below $400 and what investors should do about it Posted: 17 Apr 2013 12:32 PM PDT
Today Apple stock dipped below $400, and is down about 5% as I write this. Yes, the overall market is down today. But Apple is down a lot more than normal. The reason? Cirrus Logic, a supplier of audio chips to Apple, warned today. To "warn" is Wall Street speak for press releasing preliminary results that are crappier than people expected. In a nutshell, Cirrus has a major customer transitioning to a new product, and this is causing the chip supplier to write down a bunch of inventory. Cirrus just wrapped up its March quarter, but the real issue surrounds the upcoming June quarter. That's because as part of its press release, Cirrus is warning investors that June quarter revenue will be only $150-170 million compared to Analyst estimates above $190 million. Here's the exact wording from the Cirrus Logic press release that has people freaking out: "The company also announced that it will record a total net inventory reserve of $23.3 million of which approximately $20.7 million is due to a decreased forecast for a high volume product as the customer migrates to one of Cirrus Logics newer components." So let's break this down a bit. Cirrus has a major customer who no longer expects to purchase certain old generation product, and is instead transitioning to a new generation of product. As a result of this, Cirrus is writing down the value of the product. If you're wondering why Apple stock is tanking because of this, no, there is nothing wrong with how your brain is functioning. I don't think the Cirrus warning says anything specific about Apple's sales. But Wall Street will speculate, worry, and trade based on all of this, and that's why the stock is tanking. For all we know, Cirrus has a new product that is about to be released, and Apple's manufacturing partners have enough inventory of the older part to get them through until the part transition is complete. We have no idea how much of this old part exists in the supply chain. We have no idea if Apple is transitioning a part within its existing iPhone and iPad lineup or if they're doing a component transition to line up with a new model. Could Apple be about to post weak results? Yes, it's possible. In fact Apple stock already took a beating as Hon Hai (aka Foxconn) reported weak results for the month of March as reported by the Wall Street Journal. So this release out of Cirrus Logic is what I'd call mounting circumstancial evidence of a possible problem rather than strong, convincing evidence. But investors and analysts are nervous about Apple, and whenever a major coughs, Apple is going to catch the latest Avian flu. Apple is currently a stock that has negative sentiment. That doesn't mean results are problematic, or that the business is in any kind of trouble. But it does mean that in the short term, anything that could possibly be interpreted as bad news will be. And the stock will suffer. That's life. As an investor, I just deal with it. Apple's position in the mobile industry is still far stronger than it ever was in the PC market. Long term, this is a very good thing. 
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| Couch Music Player for iPad review: Create and edit playlists quicker than ever Posted: 17 Apr 2013 12:00 PM PDT
Couch Music Player for iPad is not only a lot more visually appealing than the default music player, it functions like a music player should on the iPad by taking advantage of the screen real estate in more functional ways. Outside of just being a replacement music player, it's got support for AirPlay and up next playlists built right in. I've never been a huge fan of the default Music app on the iPad. It seems like a port of the iPhone version that Apple never really took time to fine tune specifically for the iPad. Couch Music Player for iPad does just that but combines some of the features of iTunes for an even better experience. The first thing you will notice is the interface, which is a lot more slick and refined than the default Music app.
Couch Music player has support for both landscape and portrait orientation. Your controls will be either along the top and bottom or bottom and sides depending on the orientation. Your music controls are the usual suspects with support for scrubbing, playing and pausing, shuffling, volume, and AirPlay. You'll also see a thumbnail of the album cover as long as you've got album art in your library. The binocular icon will automatically take you to the currently playing track when tapped. Along the sides or top you'll see tools to filter your library including the options to sort by artist, album, songs, or search. Not too much different than the options you've got in the default Music app. You also have some playlist controls that allow you to create playlists super quickly, and as many as you want. The paintbrush tool will allow you to quickly clear a playlist (queue) in a single tap. If you want to remove a single song from a list, just swipe it to the right and it'll disappear.
To add a new playlist, just tap on the plus sign. You can either tap song names in order to add them or simply drag them over. You can reorder them within a list however you'd like. Tapping the icon with two squares will take you to a grid view of all your playlists. Just tap on one to add or view it or tap the "x" in the upper right hand corner to remove it completely.
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The bottom lineIf you aren't a fan of the default Music app for iPad, Couch Music Player will make a much better alternative. Whether you've got music on your device physically or use iTunes Match, Couch Music Player will auto import it with no work on your part. The playlist queue feature is excellent and something I plan on using a lot going forward. The only options I'd like to see in a future version is the ability to view playlists I've already created in the default Music app as well as maybe social share options. I can live without options to share songs but sometimes I want to send a song title via SMS or Facebook to someone and it'd be a nice add-on. Regardless, Couch Music Player is already replacing the default Music app on my iPad.
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| Forums: iOS 7 features, larger screened iPhone, iMessage issues, iPhone 5S release date Posted: 17 Apr 2013 11:37 AM PDT
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| How To Setup Google Contact Sync on the iPad Posted: 17 Apr 2013 10:08 AM PDT
Google has made some changes this year to how Google Contacts sync with iOS devices. For years I had just setup Google Sync as an Exchange account in Settings on the iPad and iPhone and it has worked beautifully for me. It had been especially good whenever I got a new iPad or iPhone – as all I had to do was setup that account and within less than a minute all my Contacts info was up-to-date. Unfortunately, Google recently shutdown their Google Sync service – but luckily it is still easy to use Google to sync contacts on the iPad and iOS devices. Here's how you do it: *** Before embarking on this it is of course a good idea to make sure you backup your existing contacts. This can be done via iCloud or iTunes backup or whatever method works for the service or app you use for your contacts information. You should also note this detail about the CardDav sync method used here: ...  Related Stories
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| Posted: 17 Apr 2013 10:04 AM PDT
Funny or Die's Steve Jobs parody biopic iSteve, has been released on the site. Starring Justin Long as Steve Jobs and Jorge Garcia as Steve Wozniak, iSteve is a satirical take on the life of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. The producers have joked that while it won't be the best movie about Steve Jobs released this year, it will certainly be the first. Justin Long is known for, among other things, starring as "Mac" in Apple's famous "I'm a Mac" ads. Jobs, a serious biopic about Steve Jobs starring Ashton Kutcher was set to be released this month, but has been postponed indefinitely after a lukewarm reception at the Sundance film festival. Aaron Sorkin, writer of The West Wing, A Few Good Men, and The Social Network, is prepping a movie that is broken up into three distinct, thirty-minute segments that take place backstage before three major Apple events. The release date of this film is currently to be announced. iSteve, the longest video produced by the humor site, was originally set to be released on Monday, but was delayed until today following the bombing at the Boston Marathon. Source: Funny or Die 
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| Notable New iPad Apps: What Color Is Your Parachute? Job-Hunter’s Workbook Posted: 17 Apr 2013 08:48 AM PDT
What Color Is Your Parachute? Job-Hunter's Workbook is the new iPad edition of the hugely popular job-hunting guidance book. Here's a bit of its App Store intro:
What Color Is Your Parachute has always been more than just a sit back and read it type book; it was always more of a workbook which requires the reader to do some thinking and some work in order to get the most out of it. This iPad edition is true to that tradition.
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| How to selectively back up app data to iCloud in order to save storage space Posted: 17 Apr 2013 08:04 AM PDT
If you use iCloud in order to back up your iPhone or iPad, you're probably already aware that you only get 5GB per iCloud account for free. Depending on how many devices you have linked to your account, this may not be a lot at all. Unless you pay for additional storage, you may find your devices unable to back up after your storage is filled. Choosing which app data you want to back up can save tremendous amounts of space in some cases. Follow along and we'll show you how to turn off backups for storage hungry apps.
Keep in mind if you turn off app data, it doesn't mean that app will not return to your device during a restore, it just means the app data will not return. Typically the camera roll and document-centric apps are the most storage hungry. If you decide to turn these off, just make sure you're okay with losing the data within them in the event of a restore. We'd suggest saving any documents or photos to your computer frequently to free up storage space. 
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| Candy Crush Saga updated with two new episodes Posted: 17 Apr 2013 08:04 AM PDT
The highly addictive match-three game Candy Crush Saga has been updated with two new episodes, Candy Clouds and Jelly Jungle. You can also send extra moves and lives to your friends directly with the app. I've only been playing this game for a few days, and I hate it -- because I just can't stop playing! I'm on level 51, what level are you on?
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| Facebook iPad App Updated: Chatheads & New Look for News Feed Posted: 17 Apr 2013 07:50 AM PDT
The Facebook app for iPad and iPhone was updated yesterday, to Version 6.0. The two big changes for Facebook for iPad are a refreshed look for the news feed and the addition of the new 'Chatheads' feature – that allows you to 'keep chatting from anywhere in the app'. Here's the full change list for this update – note that the details are different for the iPad and iPhone apps:
I like the news feed revamp – it does feel a bit...  Comments
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| Deal of the Day: 40% off Incipio Feather Ultralight Hard Shell Case for iPhone 5 Posted: 17 Apr 2013 06:47 AM PDT | ||||||
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Google Apps and Gmail experiencing outages. Zombie apocalypse still not nigh.
Posted: 17 Apr 2013 06:25 AM PDT
Looks like Google Apps and Gmail are having some issues today, with tons of you telling us you're experiencing problems of one type or another. For my part, I'm getting authentication errors, but then I use Gmail in Mail.app. Yeah. Google Apps Status Dashboard is showing it's not us, it's them.
Here's the thing to remember: Every online service goes down from time to time. iCloud goes down. Microsoft goes down. Amazon goes down. BlackBerry goes down. Google is certainly, historically, better than most, but there's just so much complexity to the cloud that a few bumps along the way are bound to happen.
So, if you're a Google user and you're just not able to use Google right now, let us know what problems you're seeing in the comments, and when it starts working for you again.
And between the two, grab a cup of coffee, get some fresh air, and watch or listen to some of our podcasts. That's why we make them.
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MacBreak Weekly 346: OS X Grumpy Cat
Posted: 17 Apr 2013 06:13 AM PDT
Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, and I talk Facebook for iOS, whether we'll be able to update Lightroom 5 in the app store, and more.
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