iPad By Davis: “Unlock your out of contact AT&T iPhone with the new online unlock request form” plus 19 more |
- Unlock your out of contact AT&T iPhone with the new online unlock request form
- Forums: Early upgrade pricing seems silly, App Store cards, iCloud connection questions
- Avengers Initiative for iPhone and iPad review
- Animal Puzzle for Kids for iPhone and iPad review
- Remains of the Day: That ship has sailed
- iPhone 5 rumored to support LTE in Europe and Asia as well
- TechHive: Fox to try releasing movies as downloads before DVDs
- Should Apple fear Amazon?
- Period Tracker vs. iPeriod vs. Period Diary: Period tracking apps for iPhone shootout!
- TechHive: The Kindle Fire HD as an iPad rival
- iPod touch rumored to get colorful at September 12 event
- Report: Mobile security threats rise
- Notable New iPad Apps: NFL Kicker 13
- iOS Game Review: Walking Dead is scary good
- WowFX for iPhone review
- Windows RT Tablet Demo = Yikes
- Firefox 15.0.1 fixes bug that exposed websites visited in private browsing mode
- Apple starts readying Yerba Buena Center for September 12th event
- Judge rules you can't sue Apple over broken glass
- To avoid Dutch ban, Samsung says Android multitouch not as good as iOS
| Unlock your out of contact AT&T iPhone with the new online unlock request form Posted: 08 Sep 2012 12:36 AM PDT
To qualify for the free unlock from AT&T, you must either be a current AT&T customer or a former AT&T customer who can provide the phone number or account number of the account. The iPhone to be unlocked must have been designed for use on the AT&T network and all contract obligations must have been fulfilled. Also the iPhone in question must not have been reported lost or stolen. AT&T will unlock up to five out of iPhones per year per account as long as the account is in good standing. Additionally, AT&T will also unlock any active and deployed member of the military who can provide AT&T with deployment verification; and purchased the iPhone from an authorized location at the "no commitment" price and can provide proof of purchase. If you meet all of the criteria, you are good to go and can request an unlock online without the need to talk to anyone at AT&T customer service. Anyone with an out of contract iPhone 4 or iPhone 3GS considering selling to fund the iPhone 5; when it is released, should take advantage of this free service from AT&T. Having your device unlocked officially by AT&T will certainly increase its value and salability. Source: AT&T 
  
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| Forums: Early upgrade pricing seems silly, App Store cards, iCloud connection questions Posted: 07 Sep 2012 07:36 PM PDT Found an interesting article you want to share with iMore? Have a burning question about that feature you just can't figure out? There is ALWAYS more happening just a click away in the forums. You can always head over and join in the conversation, search for answers, or lend your expertise to other members of our community. You check out some of the threads below: If you're not already a member of the iMore Forums, register now! 
  
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| Avengers Initiative for iPhone and iPad review Posted: 07 Sep 2012 07:29 PM PDT Hulk SMASH puny iPhone and iPad in Avengers Initiative, Infinity Blade-style brawler from MarvelAvengers Initiative is Infinity Blade starring the Incredible Hulk. At least right now. Marvel, their parent company Disney, and developer Wideload promise more Avengers will be assembling to join the fray in future updates, including Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Hawkeye, and the Black Widow. If that sounds a lot like the cast of this summer's blockbuster Avengers movie, directed by Joss Whedon, that's probably not a coincidence. This is meant to be mainstream superhero game, but it hides a ton of comic geek love inside as well. The story starts off simply, and familiarly for anyone who's read Brian Michael Bendis' New Avengers series. Instead of the Raft, however, it's the Vault that gets broken wide open, but rest assured a slew of villains still escape to wreak havoc on the Marvel Universe. Instead of assembling a new team of popular, if non-traditional characters like Wolverine and Spider-Man to track them down, however, Ultimate Nick Fury calls on the classic roster. And first up is the Hulk. Hulk is given one job and one job only in this game, and I'm sure you can already guess what it is -- SMASH! More precisely, to track 'em and pack 'em for SHIELD to come and collect. And that's where the Infinity Blade part comes in. I don't know if it's licensed from Chair and Epic, but either way, that's what it is. With Avengers Initiative, however, Wideload has added an extra layer of sophistication. You have to have more precise timing to succeed with Avengers Initiative than you did with Infinity Blade. You have to block and dodge and parry nearly perfectly, and then counter without missing a beat. It makes every battle both more challenging and engaging, because you literally can't take your attention away for a micro-second. And that makes for a mixed bag. For advanced gamers, it's a better, sharper experience. For casual gamers, however, it's a more frustrating, more difficult one. You can't just swipe and slash your way to victory. You have to earn it. (And then some, because the detection isn't always perfect.) There's another problem brought over from Infinity Blade -- repetitive enemies. Right from the start you have to fight two Kronans (remember Korg from Planet Hulk?) and two Skrulls (what became the Chitauri in the Avengers movie, though equally absent their shape-changing powers) back-to-back before you even get to the first boss-level bad guy, a Wendigo (think cannibal Sasquatch). iOS is a constrained platform and models are expensive, but variety is the spice of gaming, especially when you want to lure in a brand new gamer. It's also awkward. Hulk isn't made of strategy and tactics. Hulk is made of rage. Hulk doesn't block or dodge or parry Skrulls. He flicks them away like you would a gnat. The Infinity Blade format might have suited Captain America more than Hulk, at least at the beginning levels. But let's chalk that up to artistic license and move on. For added depth, you have a full-on leveling system available to you, and you can increase health, damage, stamina, and rage as you collect experience. You can also buy new powers. You start out with World Breaker and you can buy more as your purple crystal collection grows. You can also buy costumes straight from the comics, everything from King Hulk to Fear Itself Hulk to Maestro Hulk to... you get the idea. Items like medical packs and rage boosts, augments, and more are all for sale. Which brings us to the in-app purchases. Avengers Initiative costs $6.99 up-front, and you can collect purple crystals in the game as you go. Like any enterprising title these days, however, you can also spend money in-lieu of time. Want 10,000 crystals? $0.99 and they're yours. Want 800,000 crystals? $49.99 will get them for you. Want to level up? $1.99. Want to redistribute? $4.99. No questions asked. (Tell 'em Joe Fixit sent you.) Balancing those who want to win at gaming vs. those who just want to win a game is tricky. I like the option to pay my way, even if I choose not to use it. As mentioned above, there will also be additional characters added to the game in the future, which should increase replay value substantially. It'll be interesting to see how Wideload balances their various abilities with in-game play as well. They may all be persons of mass-destruction, but their payloads clearly vary. A lot. Black Widow and Hawkeye are highly trained humans, but they're still humans. Captain America is a super soldier -- the ultimate human -- but still human. Iron Man is one-man Air Force, however. And Thor's a Norse god. It's the classic Batman/Superman problem. How does something that can go toe-to-toe with the Hulk not turn Hawkeye to paste at the slightest incidental contact? Will Marvel and Wideload have an answer for that, or will we simply have to suspend disbelief as usual. Back to the Hulk. The graphics here are outstanding. Marvel claims console quality and while that's not exactly true compared to the latest, greatest Play Station 3 games, they do look fantastic on the Retina display iPhones and iPad. There's a touch of lag at times on the new iPad, but the quality and quantity of pixels they're pushing is impressive. It's also a lot of fun. If you ever played the old Xbox Hulk game -- the free-world one where you just walked around and smashed the living hell out of an entire city -- there's a taste of that here. You're the strongest one there is, and you get to unleash it. The World Breaker. The Green Scar. The Sakaarson. He's come home to iOS. And soon, his friends will be coming with him. The good
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The bottom lineAvengers initiative is good but not great, and will appeal to fans more than regular folks. If you love Marvel, the Avengers, and the Hulk, get Avengers Initiative and revel in it. If you like fighting games in general, and Infinity Blade in particular, you'll get a lot of the same action here, but with a new flavor that's more challenging if not quite as smooth or balanced. If you could care less about the Hulk or Infinity Blade, and are just looking for a new game to try, Avengers Initiative may not be for you. It's not as casual-gamer friendly as some other games, and requires tolerance and perseverance to get into. You might be happier with something sporting a frowning fowl on the splash screen. $6.99 - Download now
  
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| Animal Puzzle for Kids for iPhone and iPad review Posted: 07 Sep 2012 05:02 PM PDT Animal Puzzle for Kids by Play Toddlers for iPhone and iPad is a fun app filled with up to 24 animal jigsaw puzzles. The puzzles are very simple and clearly targeted toward young children. You can choose the difficulty of the level (number of pieces) based on the skill of your child. Animal Puzzle is not only adorable, but a lot of fun and if you play with your kids, you can teach them about animals and the sounds they make at the same time! The free version of Animal Puzzles comes with 7 puzzles (lion, zebra, alligator, hippo, giraffe, monkey, and pig). Each puzzle has three difficulty levels to choose from. Level one turns the picture into a 4 piece puzzle, level two uses 6 pieces, and the third level uses 9 pieces. While playing with Animal Puzzle, there is fun, bouncy music playing in the background that every child is sure to love. My 2 year old daughter dances every time she hears it. When you finish a puzzle, the leaves in the background will swing back and forth as if they are dancing and cheering you on. I think it would be great if the appropriate animal sound was played upon completion as well, but I could see how that might be difficult for animals like the crab and octopus. For just $0.99, you can purchase 17 more puzzles to have a total of 24 puzzles. These puzzles include a donkey, sheep, cow, chicken, duck, snow leopard, reindeer, St. Bernard, seal, polar bear, penguin, crab, octopus, fish, whale, sea horse and starfish. The good
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The conclusionAnimal Puzzle for Kids by Play Toddlers is a fantastic little jigsaw puzzle app for young children. My favorite feature is actually the fact that it lacks a bunch of features. If a toddler app has too many features, then the young user can easily get lost and accidentally perform functions they didn't mean to. The simplicity of Animal Puzzle makes it a perfect app for little learners. Free for iPhone - Download NowFree for iPad - Download Now
  
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| Remains of the Day: That ship has sailed Posted: 07 Sep 2012 04:30 PM PDT  Nokia's marketing is looking increasingly like, well, marketing. Elsewhere, FedEx prepares for a deluge of packages, there's no use crying over broken glass, and Tim Cook and Jonathan Ive make a dynamic duo  
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| iPhone 5 rumored to support LTE in Europe and Asia as well Posted: 07 Sep 2012 03:47 PM PDT A long time ago, on a blog far, far away, iMore learned that Apple would be adding LTE networking to the iPhone 5, but it remained to be seen if it would be limited to the US and Canada, like the iPad, or if it would try and support some of the other 30+ segments needed for true international deployment. Now Jessica E. Vascellaro, Sam Schechner and Spencer E. Ante of the Wall Street Journal report that, in addition to North America, the iPhone 5 will indeed support Europe and Asia as well:
The WSJ doesn't say which countries specifically will be getting LTE iPhones, but based on which countries currently have functional LTE networks and run LTE phones, that list could include Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Australia. It would likely take several different models to properly cover all the bands and segments of bands required, or one hell of a chipset and radio. So Apple might cherry pick the best markets, at least for now. We should find out more on September 12 Source: Wall Street Journal 
  
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| TechHive: Fox to try releasing movies as downloads before DVDs Posted: 07 Sep 2012 04:00 PM PDT  Twentieth Century Fox is testing to see what happens when it releases movies as downloads from the iTunes Store and elsewhere before DVDs and Blu-rays go on sale.
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| Posted: 07 Sep 2012 03:20 PM PDT On Thursday afternoon, Amazon's Jeff Bezos got up on stage and introduced the world to an awesome set of updates to the Kindle Fire. Amazon doesn't just want to have the best priced tablet (Kindle Fire is now $159), but it also wants to have the best tablet "at any price". To that end, the 8.9" Kindle Fire HD is hitting the market in November. It has great technical specs, and comes with a $299 price point (16 GB, Wi-Fi only) and a $499 price point, which includes 4G (LTE) and 32 GB of memory. That's between $200 and $230 cheaper than a comparable iPad. Andy Grove, the former CEO of Intel, is famous for saying, "Only the paranoid survive". I think it's fair to say that it's time for Apple to get paranoid. No, I'm not saying Amazon will kill the company Steve Jobs founded. Far from it. But I do think Amazon is a serious threat, and paranoia would be healthy here. What Amazon has going for it is an incredible back-end business that it can monetize. Amazon isn't interested in making money on tablets. Instead they want to make money when people use their tablets. And with Amazon's incredible online retail size, Kindle Fire customers will buy lots of stuff. So Apple needs to be fearful of a competitor that essentially doesn't care about profit from hardware, which is in stark contract to Apple, which makes a ton of money from hardware by including incredibly good software. Even worse, Amazon isn't under pressure from Wall Street to make money in the very near term. Yes, the company is profitable. But profit margins are thin. Amazon has time on its side. By contrast, if Apple felt the need to drop prices on the iPad, its stock would get creamed instantly. I'm also impressed with Amazon's ability to change the game when it comes to paying for bandwidth. They somehow managed to convince AT&T to support a $49 per year LTE plan. It's a pretty limited plan at 250 MB per month, but I still think people will eat it up just as a convenient backup plan to Wi-Fi. I'm dying to know how Amazon made this happen. Are they cutting AT&T in on any e-commerce transactions done via LTE, essentially making AT&T a giant Amazon affiliate? Is there something special here that only Amazon can offer carriers? I think being able to offer customers a better data plan is a compelling advantage in the market. In Apple's corner, they've still got the best darn app ecosystem on the planet. It will be a while before Amazon's forked Android platform can compete on apps. But don't count them out. If it sells well, developers will rally behind it and the Kindle Fire will start to get the same quality of tablet-optimized apps the iPad currently enjoys. No question. Apple also wins with stickiness since iPhone and Mac users are much more likely to continue paying a premium for the iPad over any competing product. Add Apple Retail into the mix, with AppleCare and Geniuses and Specialist and everything else a real, physical location with great customer service offers, and it's an advantage we shouldn't under estimate. Another winning element for Apple is distribution. The first Kindle Fire was only available to US customers. Amazon is expanding European distribution somewhat with the Kindle Fire HD, but it still pales in comparison to the global reach of the iPad. Amazon has also had trouble striking the kind of global content deals Apple has managed to secure. Kindle FIre content is limited outside the U.S. whereas Apple has the best digital content availability on the planet. But again, this is not a long term advantage and we shouldn't act like it is. I remember when the iPhone first came out, and I was a sell side analyst attending the RIM analyst event in Orlando. A fellow analyst asked Jim Balsillie, then Co-CEO, if he was worried about the iPhone. Paraphrasing his answer: It's one phone sold by one carrier in one country. Steve Balmer laughed at the iPhone by asking who would possibly want to buy a phone with a $600 price tag. Ed Colligan of Palm said no PC guys were going to figure smartphones out. We all know what happened after that ... So, Apple needs to get paranoid. They've done an amazing job of bringing killer products to market at fair prices. Android vendors, Research In Motion, and (so far) Microsoft have failed to present any real threat to Apple's dominance with tablets. But in one short year, Amazon has become the price leader with a good product in an important market, taken significant US share (if you believe their numbers), and followed up with several much better products. Amazon is moving fast. They're innovating for real and not just copying Apple. Obviously this will be a long and hard battle. Apple gets to throw the next punch on September 12th and may just follow it up with a low-priced iPad mini. I can hardly wait. 
  
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| Period Tracker vs. iPeriod vs. Period Diary: Period tracking apps for iPhone shootout! Posted: 07 Sep 2012 01:29 PM PDT The iPhone can be used to store all kinds of personal information, even the most personal kinds. The App Store has tons of apps to help women not only track current periods, but predict future ones as well. If you're trying to conceive, a lot of period tracking apps can also give you information on fertility, ovulation cycles, and more. Period Tracker, iPeriod, and Period Diary will all handle the basic tracking, as well as provide additional information about your cycle, but is one better than the other, and which is best for you? Period Tracker vs. iPeriod vs. Period Diary: User interfacePeriod Tracker uses a standard type of navigation with a main splash screen that gives you an overview of your current or next expected cycle. Along the top you'll see an expected start date (if you haven't started already). Underneath that you'll see a countdown to your next cycle. When you start you can tap the Period just started button on the main screen. It will turn into a period end button that you can tap when it's over. Along the bottom you've got a navigation menu to view more detailed information. You can add notes, view a full calendar, view logs and charts, change settings, or jump into the social section. The calendar view will give you a complete month or list view of any symptoms or events for that month. There are also icons that represent different things such as your period dates, fertile days, ovulation, intimate encounters, spotting, and more. You can add moods and symptoms to the calendar at any time by just clicking the "+" sign in the upper right hand corner of the calendar. Here you can take notes, add symptoms for a specific day, log your moods, and enter your temperature, weight, and more. The charts and logs section will show you either a list log of periods or you can tap charts and view charts for menstrual cycle lenths, numbers of days your period lasts, symptoms, weight, temperature, and moods. iPeriod's layout is very simliar to Period Tracker. You'll be presented with a splash screen that shows a countdown to your next period or information on your current period. Along the bottom there is also a slider showing a cycle counter that'll always show what day you are at in your current cycle. When you start you can tap the "+" sign in the upper right hand corner of the main screen and enter your start date. The only issue I see with this is that you have to have a stop date as well. If you don't remember to go in and change it when you actually end your period, it'll just keep timing until you do. Alternately you can use the calendar view to mark the first day of period and go day by day. Just like Period Tracker you'll have a list of tabs along the bottom in iPeriod that serves as your main navigation. The tabs are for home, calendar, summary, Next 12, forums, and settings. The main navigation tab is just your main splash screen. The calendar tab will allow you to view a month at a glance of when your period is expected to arrive as well as things like what days you'll be most fertile. You can also customize icons and labels by naming them and color coding them. Tilting your phone into landscape mode will present you with graphs and charts as well. From there you can toggle between chart data for period duration, cycle length, weight, body temperature. The summary tab will give you an overview of all your cycles. Clicking into any one of them will take you to that month on the calendar. The Next 12 tab will give you a list of expected future periods based on the data you've already entered into iPeriod. The next tab over is the Forums tab where you can converse with others on many topics from nutrition to fitness to weight management. Period Diary takes a different approach when it comes to user interface than both Period Tracker and iPeriod. The main screen will show a flower with 6 petals. The middle portion will show a countdown to your next period or information on your current one. Tapping any of the pedals will take you into that section. Tapping the middle section will start your period and log it with Period Diary. When you finish your period you can just tap the middle section again to end it. The other sections consist of charts, add note, calendar, period log, forum, and settings. The calendar will show a month view and icons on certain days that you are most fertile as well as the days you are expected to ovulate. At the bottom of the calendar you will also see any detailed information you've input such as moods, notes, symptoms, weight, and temperature. The period log tab will show you a list of any past periods as well as a predictions tab. You can also choose the Add past periods option to program in past periods. So if you're used to just tracking them in a calendar or other app, this is a good place to start with entering past data. At the top you'll also see data about your current period. If you haven't started yet, the current info will be blank. You can also toggle between period info, fertility info, and ovulation info along the top to view past records on all three sets of data. The charts section will show you information and trends on moods, symptoms, periods, cycle, and weight in either one, three, or six month increments. You can also change the date range within Period Diary to show different dates. If you're looking for an app with a great interface that's easy to use, Period Diary presents information in the most pleasant and user friendly way. Period Tracker and iPeriod are by no means hard to use and navigate but Period Diary just has a much more pleasant and intuitive interface. Period Tracker vs. iPeriod vs. Period Diary: Tracking and predicting periodsTo log a period in Period Tracker you can either start your period from the main screen on the day you start or you can jump into the calendar and add it. You can also add past periods into the calendar view. When it comes to predicting periods, Period Tracker normally was within five to six days of the actual start date which isn't too bad. The more data you enter, the more accurate Period Tracker seems to be. It'll also get better at predicting period durations over time. By default it will always assume a period will last around four days. If your cycles are typically longer than that, Period Tracker will eventually adjust to suit your schedule once enough historical data has been entered into the app. iPeriod is a little more confusing when it comes to tracking periods as the options don't seem to be readily presented like they are in Period Tracker and Period Diary. The main screen has a "+" symbol in the upper right hand corner that you can tap in order to add a period. The bad thing about this is that you'll be required to pick an end date. It would make more sense to have a quick add for a start date in this position instead of a tool to track an entire period. Instead, to add just a start date you'll have to jump into calendar view and double tap your start date. From here you'll be able to tick the option for First day of period. The app will then give you the option to use your average duration or mark day by day. If you want to use your average duration but end up having a longer or shorter period than normal, you can always jump back into the calendar and edit accordingly. iPeriod will show large pink dots on the calendar over days that you are expected to have your period. These predictions seemed to be just about as accurate as Period Tracker in my experience as they always fell within 4-5 days of actual start and end dates. And as you'd expect, iPeriod gets smarter as it has more data to work with. The summary view in iPeriod will show you a quick overview of all the cycles you've already entered. The first column will show the first day of that particular cycle and the next two columns will show your period duration and the entire cycle length. You can also jump into the Next 12 tab in order to see your estimated start dates as well as predicted fertile days. Period Diary works in a similar way to Period Tracker when it comes to tracking actual periods and predicting future ones. On the main screen you'll see a countdown to when you're expected to start your next period. Once you actually start, just tap the center of the flower to start your period. When you finish your period, tap it again to stop it. Period Diary will automatically log your period. You can go into the Calendar pedal in order to view expected period start and end dates as well as to add information or notes. Jumping into the Period Log section will also allow you to view past periods and predictions about future ones. Above the log section for periods you'll see your average cycle length too which is based on past cycles. The Charts section in Period Diary can also give you period and cycle information in a bar graph view. Just tap either cycle or period off to the left, choose your time frame, and time range and you'll see bar graphs that are labeled to show cycle length and period duration for each individual month. When it comes to tracking periods and cycles, Period Tracker and Period Diary give the most complete information. iPeriod's charts and graphs just don't present data as well as both Period Tracker and Period Diary do. Period Tracker vs. iPeriod vs. Period Diary: Fertility, ovulation, symptom, and mood trackingPeriod Tracker allows you to easily add any notes, symptoms, moods, or other information on any day. Once in the Calendar view tap on the day you want to add data for and click the "+" sign in the upper right hand corner. Along the top you'll see tabs that let you toggle between notes, symptoms, moods, and others. The notes tab can be used to type any data you'd like. The symptoms tab lets you add things like backaches, bloating, acne, cramps, cravings, and more. You can then choose the severity of the symptom. The next tab over lets you log any moods you may experience. If the mood you're looking for isn't there, you can add custom moods at the bottom. The last tab also allows you to add things such as weight, temperature, and fertility information. Period Tracker will automatically try and predict ovulation and fertile days but you can go in and add actual ovulation days as well which will override the estimates. If you're trying to conceive this information can be helpful. You can also track intimate encounters as well. Under the notes tab you'll see a slider that allows you to turn it to on if you were intimate that day. iPeriod will also automatically predict days it thinks you'll be most fertile or what days you'll ovulate on based on the data you've already input into the app. You can override fertility data by double tapping on a day and choosing that as an ovulation day. To add information about your cycle, period, or fertility just double tap any day on the calendar in order to add information. Along the top you'll see tabs labeled general, symptoms, moods, and fertility. Under the general tab you can track things such as flow, spotting, intimate contact, and more. Under the symptoms tab you can log things like appetite, backaches, bloating, cramps, and more. The moods tab will give you a list of icons to choose from so you can easily track what kind of mood you're in on any given day. The fertility tab allows you to customize ovulation, track your temperature, the outcome of pregnancy tests, and other personal information. Period Diary allows you to add moods, symptoms, and other information right from the main menu by tapping on the add note pedal. It will default to the current day and you can toggle between notes, symptoms, moods, weight, and temperature. Along the bottom there is also a toggle for intimate encounters. Tapping it will turn it on or off. If you'd like to add data for a different day you can go into the Calendar area. Just tap into the day that you'd like to add data for. You'll be presented with the same menu you are for the add note screen. Period Diary will automatically estimate what days it believes you'll be fertile as well as what day you're expected to ovulate. This data should become more accurate as you have more of a history inside Period Diary. Fertile days will be represented on the calendar by an orange flower. Ovulation days will be shown as a pink flower. Along the bottom you'll see any symptom, mood, temperature, or other notes you've entered for any given day. Unforunately Period Diary does not let you enter actual ovulation days the way Period Tracker and iPeriod do. When it comes to tracking symptom, mood, fertility, and ovulation data, Period Tracker does it best and provides the best options. Period Tracker vs. iPeriod vs. Period Diary: Pregnancy modePeriod Tracker, iPeriod, and Period Diary all have a pregnancy mode that will allow you to track the time until the baby's birth. Instead of tracking periods, you'll see a countdown until the time your baby will be born. This will disable all period notifications for the duration of your pregnancy. You can enable pregnancy mode by tapping into the Settings section of either Period Tracker, iPeriod, or Period Diary. Tie between all three apps. Pregnancy mode will function the same across all of them. Period Tracker vs. iPeriod vs. Period Diary: Cross-platform support and syncingPeriod Tracker offers an iPad app counterpart but it's not a universal download. At this time there is no Mac or PC counterpart to add to the mix. You can, however, use their cloud syncing service or e-mail backup in order to import and export your data as needed. If you choose the cloud option, Period Tracker will sync your data automatically once a month for you. E-mail will allow you to export the data for import at a later date or to a different device. iPeriod also offers an iPad counterpart that you can purchase separately. If you'd like your data on your Mac, a version is available in the Mac App Store as well. iPeriod supports cloud syncing so your iPhone, iPad, and Mac will be in sync regardless where you input or edit data. Period Diary unforunately does not offer an iPad or Mac app so unless you plan on only using the data on your iPhone, Period Tracker or iPeriod are better options. As far as syncing goes, Period Diary can sync all your data to Google Calendar so you can access it from there as well. If you're looking for native cloud sync, you won't find it since there aren't any other app counterparts to sync with. When it comes to syncing and accessing your data across multiple devices, iPeriod has the best options due to cloud syncing and app counterparts on both iPad and Mac.
Period Tracker vs. iPeriod vs. Period Diary: PricingThe iPhone version of Period Tracker will run you $1.99 which isn't too bad. If you'd like to add the iPad version, it'll cost you an additional $1.99. There is no Mac app to add to the mix so you're looking at a total of around $4.00 for the entire set of apps. iPeriod offers counterparts on all platforms. The iPhone version comes in at $1.99 as does the premium version for iPad. If you'd like to pick up the Mac version to complete the collection it'll run you an additional $3.99 which puts you at around $8 for everything. Period Diary currently only has an iPhone version and it'll run you $1.99 as well. When it comes to price, if you only plan on picking up the iPhone version the pricing will be the exact same. If you'd like iPad versions, only Period Tracker and iPeriod offer them and those are the same prices as well. iPeriod is the only one that has a Mac version so it's somewhat of a moot point. As far as pricing goes, it's a tie between all three. Period Tracker vs. iPeriod vs. Period Diary: The bottom lineWhere syncing and cross-platform support is concerned, iPeriod is the only option that offers a well-rounded suite with iPad and Mac counterparts. If that's important to you, iPeriod is the app for you as long as you're willing to forego some functionality. Period Diary's lack of custom ovulation may be a dealbreaker for some, especially if you're trying to conceive. The lack of an iPad app may also deter some users. iPeriod is useable but overall, Period Tracker provides the best experience and has the most robust feature set. If you're only concerned with having a period tracking app on your iPhone, Period Tracker will give you the most options and flexibility. So, for now, Period Tracker is our favorite iPhone period tracking app. Period Tracker - $1.99 - Download NowiPeriod - $1.99 - Download NowPeriod Diary - $1.99 - Download Now
  
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| TechHive: The Kindle Fire HD as an iPad rival Posted: 07 Sep 2012 01:30 PM PDT  Amazon's is priming its newly unveiled Kindle Fire HD as an iPad competitor. Here's how the two tablets measure up.
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| iPod touch rumored to get colorful at September 12 event Posted: 07 Sep 2012 12:59 PM PDT Back in July, iMore learned there'd be new iPods alongside the iPhone 5 at Apple's now-confirmed September 12, and later that the new iPod touch would also be getting the new 4-inch, 16:9 screen. Now reports are coming in that Apple might keep the old model around at the low price point, and introduce some new colors to the equation as well. That's according to Mark Gurman of 9to5Mac:
Apple has famously kept the iPhone 3G around for 2 additional years, and the iPhone 4 and iPad 2 for over a year, and they've previously kept older generation iPod touches around at the entry level as well, so no huge surprises there. Apple can't give the iPod touch a 4-inch makeover and keep a bargain basement starting price, so they'll go with the tried and true something old, something new strategy. Gurman also says the iPod shuffle will be going to 8 colors, up from 5, and that the iPod nano sounds like a completely new model. Check out the whole story via the link below. Then come back and tell us which, if any, iPod touch is on your shopping list this year? Source: 9to5Mac 
  
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| Report: Mobile security threats rise Posted: 07 Sep 2012 01:00 PM PDT  Digital crooks are turning to mobile malware, SMS spoofing, and worse as people move toward smartphones and tablets, according to a new report.
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| Notable New iPad Apps: NFL Kicker 13 Posted: 07 Sep 2012 01:04 PM PDT NFL Kicker 13 for iPad (and iPhone) is this year's new version of the fun football kicking game from Full Fat Games. It lets you test your skills as an NFL kicker in a variety of fun challenges. Here's a slice of its App Store description:
I did a review of NFL Kicker HD for iPad, last year's version of this game, and enjoyed the heck out of it. Here's a bit of my summary on the game at that time:
I haven't tried out this new version just yet, but I will do over the next couple of days while taking in some of the NFL's opening weekend action. Here's an App Store link for NFL Kicker 13; it's priced at $0.99 and is a universal app designed for both iPad and iPhone. © patrickj for iPad Insight, 2012. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us
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| iOS Game Review: Walking Dead is scary good Posted: 07 Sep 2012 12:20 PM PDT  This iOS adaptation of the popular TV series offers compelling characters, unique worlds, and an interactive experience that's as intense as it is memorable.
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| Posted: 07 Sep 2012 11:36 AM PDT WowFX is a photo editing app for iPhone that features over 100 photo realistic effects like tornados, lightening, fire, water, smoke, clouds, and more. You can layer more than one effect, adjust their opacities, add a filter, then open in another app for further editing. WowFX will help give your photos that wow-factor that seems to be missing. After choosing or taking the photo you wish to edit, WowFX will take you the cropping screen where you will be forced to crop your photo as a square and even tilt and rotate the photo to the perfect position to ensure that your photo's composition is a good as possible. At this stage, the quality of your photo will look terrible, but once you progress to the next screen, it'll fully render and appear how you expect it to. The next screen is where you get to add all the fun effects. For each effect, you can scale and rotate it to your liking. Don't like effect or where you put it? No worries, you can delete it or move it somewhere else. You can also adjust the opacity to make it as realistic (or unrealistic) as possible. You can add as many filters as you want with WowFX and independently adjust their opacity and position. The Layers tab is where you go to select a layer to edit. Unfortunately, you cannot mass delete layers from this screen, you must select them one at of time to delete. A "clear all" button would be a great addition as well as the ability to swipe to delete individual effects. Once you've perfected your effects, you can select between 21 different filters to add you to photo. There is a good range of styles to choose from, but if you don't fine one you like, you can use the Open In features to open your photo in another photo editing app like Instagram. Surprisingly, sharing directly to Facebook or Twitter is not an option, but only to Open In another photography app. You can, or course, also save the photo to Camera Roll. The good
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The conclusionWowFX is an fun photography apps that makes it easy to add drama and excitement to your photos. With over 100 effects to choose from, there's plenty of options to give your photos more pizzaz, yet realistic, or to give them more fun, unrealistic effects like bursts or swirls of color, comets, and more. If you want to give your photos an exciting wow-factor, you should definitely take a look at WowFX. WowFX is available at the introductory price of $0.99. $0.99 - Download Now
  
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| Windows RT Tablet Demo = Yikes Posted: 07 Sep 2012 11:02 AM PDT Oh boy – if The Verge's recent video demo of Windows RT is anything to go by, Microsoft's upcoming tablets are going to be a flat out disaster. Ross Miller took a tour around a tablet running what they reckon to be a final build of Windows RT and it makes for horror movie style viewing – all that's missing is a scary soundtrack. Miller struggles during large parts of the demo to get much of anything done easily with the supposedly touch interface of the tablet – including when trying to use the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet app. From early on in the demo he mentions things like …
Those are always good things to hear when working with a supposedly touch-based tablet. The tablet has no accelerometer and changing the orientation via a tiny menu item looks like far from a barrel of laughs – you can check that out at about the 2:10 – 2:40 section of the video.
Miller repeatedly gets switched to 'classic mode' when trying to do something and concludes that if you're going to do anything even pseudo-serious you're going to need a mouse and keyboard. Check out the video (linked above) and see what you think. I think unless RT tablets are going to be near 100% different to this by release time then they're going to be yet another huge failure for Microsoft in the mobile arena. © patrickj for iPad Insight, 2012. | Permalink | 4 comments | Add to del.icio.us
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| Firefox 15.0.1 fixes bug that exposed websites visited in private browsing mode Posted: 07 Sep 2012 10:40 AM PDT  Mozilla released Firefox 15.0.1 on Thursday in order to fix a bug that potentially exposed the websites visited by users while in "Private Browsing" mode.
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| Apple starts readying Yerba Buena Center for September 12th event Posted: 07 Sep 2012 10:24 AM PDT Right on schedule Apple has started readying Yerba Buena Center for the September 12th event where we should see the iPhone 5 make an appearance along with some other product refreshes. A reader over at 9to5Mac managed to snag some photos of some Apple logos inside the building as well as some cherry pickers outside. We'll probably see more going up this coming week as well. Hit the link below to see more pictures. Source: 9to5Mac 
  
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| Judge rules you can't sue Apple over broken glass Posted: 07 Sep 2012 10:01 AM PDT A judge in San Jose has just thrown out a class-action lawsuit that was filed by a group of iPhone 4 owners. Their claim was that Apple misrepresented the strength of the glass used in the iPhone 4. As most probably expected, they lost spectacularly. One of the members of the suit, Betsalel Williamson, claimed that he had to pay to have his phone replaced when it fell off the arm of a chair and the back glass shattered. Well, common sense does tell us that glass will break upon impact. Considering the iPhone isn't the only phone made of glass or the only one that breaks upon impact, the verdict was what most people expected. The plaintiffs argued that Apple advertising led people to wrongly believe that the glass was "20 times stiffer and 30 times harder than regular plastic" when studies released showed that the iPhone 4 actually was 82% less drop resistant than its predecessors. It was also argued that airing commercials showing the phone in use without a case added to Apple misrepresenting the strength of the glass. The judge quickly threw out the argument:
Furthermore, Apple only charges $29 plus tax for a back replacement in store. The front glass of the iPhone 4 will warrant a complete replacement and weighs in currently at $149 plus tax which is still a pretty fair price considering you'll walk out with a brand new iPhone 4. Third party businesses will repair the screen for you at a lesser price or you could always do it yourself for even less. In my experience, the iPhone is no more or less durable than any other iPhone or other smartphone on the market. Glass is glass, and it breaks when dropped. If you're a clumsy soul, put a case on it and call it a day. Source: GigaOm 
  
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| To avoid Dutch ban, Samsung says Android multitouch not as good as iOS Posted: 07 Sep 2012 09:54 AM PDT  Samsung has claimed that the way Android's multitouch software works is not as good as Apple's, in a bid to avoid a recall and ban on sales of its Android smartphones in the Netherlands.
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