iPad By Davis: “Die Hard official game arrives in the App Store, just in time for the latest movie launch” plus 16 more |
- Die Hard official game arrives in the App Store, just in time for the latest movie launch
- Apple TV and the future of gaming
- Pulling back the curtain on Apple's Lightning connector licensing program
- Hulu Plus for iPhone and iPad introduces Kids Lock
- Apple promises fix for iOS 6 passcode bypass bug
- Demo: The One Jailbreak Tweak That’s Making My iPad Crazy Fast
- Regarding iWatch, iTV, iPhone 5S, bigger and less expensive iPhones, iPad 5, and iPad mini 2
- LinkedIn Employees Reward: iPads for Everyone
- Best Valentine's Day apps for iPhone
- 50% Off ZAGG iPad Keyboards Today
- Kickstarter launches terrific new iPhone app, but their fulfillment still needs a lot of work
- No Office for iPad: Microsoft Leaving Billions on the Table?
- iOS 6 passcode bypass discovered, could allow snooping
- Deal of the Day: 43% off Krusell Hector Leather Case for iPhone 5
- Valentine's day app and accessory deals!
- ZEN and TECH 50: Fitness month nutrition special!
- Fix for the Microsoft Exchange bug in iOS 6.1 coming soon according to Apple
| Die Hard official game arrives in the App Store, just in time for the latest movie launch Posted: 15 Feb 2013 12:05 AM PST Fans of the hugely popular Die Hard franchise are in for a real treat this week. Not only has the latest film in the series, which dates back 25 years been released but you also get a game to play on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. Die Hard has arrived in the App Store and if you are a fan, it is a must buy.
The Die Hard game is available as a universal binary so will look great on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. If you are a fan of Die Hard or the endless running type of games or both then this one should be a good one to add to your collection. I am off to see the movie over the weekend, sure the stories are a little exaggerated but you can't beat a bit of John McClane or even Jack in the latest movie! 
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| Apple TV and the future of gaming Posted: 14 Feb 2013 09:29 PM PST Earlier this week, Nat Brown, one of the original Xbox team members at Microsoft, wrote a piece on the present and future of gaming, and Apple's potential to shape it. From iLike.code:
M.G. Siegler, who has good sources on Apple, says that while he hasn't heard anything about an Apple TV SDK specifically, he does believe that something is on track for the fall. From TechCrunch:
Just like with power users vs. empowered users, hardcore gamers would likely lament the death of the dedicated console market, but their numbers and concerns would be dwarfed by the influx of casual, mainstream gamers. Read both posts, it really would be a "delicious twist". Source: iLike.code, TechCrunch 
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| Pulling back the curtain on Apple's Lightning connector licensing program Posted: 14 Feb 2013 08:07 PM PST Way back in our iPhone 5 review, iMore mentioned new restrictions Apple had put in place for their new Lightning connector licensing program. Now, thanks to iOS device accessory maker mophie, even more information has come to light. Ross Howe, vice-president of market for mophie, spoke with Brian X. Chen of the New York Times and revealed:
While the chip can be, and is being, reverse engineered, Apple could also theoretically issue software updates that would disable Lightning products that did not use authentic chips. In controlling Lightning products in the way, Apple also has some control over the quality of such products. Apple's policies with these accessories ensure that the market isn't flooded with cheap knock-off products that could potentially damage the Lightning, and thus Apple, brand. The most take away is that Apple wants the best possible user experience with its devices, and by exerting some control over third-party hardware, they make sure that customers have the best experience however they use their devices. Source: New York Times 
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| Hulu Plus for iPhone and iPad introduces Kids Lock Posted: 14 Feb 2013 06:22 PM PST Hulu Plus for iPhone and iPad has been updated with a new Kids Lock features that limits the app to be safe and fun for kids. When enabled, only programming for children will be accessible and it'll all be ad-free. To exit out of this mode, you will be required to enter your Hulu password, so you can rest assured that your child will not be able to exit and watch shows and movies that are inappropriate for their age. To enable Kids Lock, select the Kids tab and tap the Kids Lock button. To disable, simply tap Unlock Kids and enter your Hulu Plus password. This is a great feature that is similar to Netflix's "Just for Kids" feature. I prefer Hulu's approach, however, because it doesn't require use of Guided Access to keep your kids locked in kids mode. Automatically requiring a password to switch back to normal mode is much better. What do you think of the new Kids Lock? Do you plan to take advantage of this new feature?
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| Apple promises fix for iOS 6 passcode bypass bug Posted: 14 Feb 2013 01:23 PM PST Apple has release a statement concerning the iOS 6.1 bug that, through a complex series of button pushes and taps, will allow someone with physical access to an iPhone to bypass the passcode lock and get at the private content inside. An Apple spokesperson told Jim Dalrymple of The Loop that it's known and being worked on. No date was given for the next release, of course, though given the nature of the bug, as well as other issues like the Microsoft Exchange bug, it'll hopefully be soon. To read Apple's comment in its entirety, hit the link below. Source: The Loop 
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| Demo: The One Jailbreak Tweak That’s Making My iPad Crazy Fast Posted: 14 Feb 2013 02:28 PM PST Accelerate is a jailbreak tweak that promises to make your iPad (or iPhone) faster – and boy does it deliver. When I think of its effect on my iPad mini the first two words that come to mind are Vrooom Vroom. It has speeded up app launch times, page refreshes, returning to the home screen, and other common actions. It has also just provided a notable speed boost to just about everything I'm doing on the iPad – and I don't even have it set at any of its maxed out speed levels as yet. Check out the demo and see what you think. © patrickj for iPad Insight, 2013. | Permalink | 2 comments | Add to del.icio.us         Related Stories
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| Regarding iWatch, iTV, iPhone 5S, bigger and less expensive iPhones, iPad 5, and iPad mini 2 Posted: 14 Feb 2013 01:30 PM PST Absent fact, rumors run rampant. It's only natural. Secrecy breeds curiosity, and huge fall releases of almost every product in Apple's lineup leads to speculation about what, if anything, they have left for the new year. The broad strokes are probably obvious -- there'll be new phones and new tablets, but this year we're seeing renewed rumors of bigger and less expensive phones, and of watches and television projects as well. Like any year, we also have major newspapers publishing leaks, and financial analysts reporting nonsense. So what can be made of all of this? Well, according to people who have provided accurate information to iMore in the past... iWatchLast night I took a look at the idea of an iWatch, and the difference between it being an iPhone- or iPad-level business, and an Apple TV-style hobby. The iWatch project -- regardless of how the device is eventually named or marketed -- sounds like its a go. We haven't heard anything specific about feature sets or timelines yet, but we have heard it's moving forward. If the entire project sounds like a dumb idea to you, however, just remember how dumb Apple phones, tablets, mini tablets, and set top boxes sounded to many back before -- and even after -- they were first announced. iTVConversely, it doesn't sound like there's much if any movement on an iTV, or actual Apple television panel. What was in the lab remains in the lab, what was being explored is still being explored, but the realities of that market haven't changed. iPhone 5S, bigger iPhone, and less expensive iPhoneiPhone 5S -- or whatever Apple ends up calling the S-class internal update to the existing iPhone 5 platform -- sounds like it's well underway and will once again be the major phone product from Apple in 2013, just as the iPhone 5 was last year, the iPhone 4S was the year before, and so on. With the iPhone 5S keeping the focus this year, the bigger iPhone sounds like it's still more prototype than product. Last month I did the math on how Apple could scale the existing iPhone 5 platform to a 5-inch form factor, and followed up with how the interface would scale to 5-inches with it. Technically, it all seems solid. In terms of go-to-market, however, it doesn't sound imminent. The less expensive iPhone seems like it's been on the drawing board for years, but so far Apple's chosen to reduce the price of previous iPhone models instead of introducing new, deliberately less expensive ones. Massive deals with carriers in emerging markets, or the prospect of reducing the iPhone 5 to cheap or free on contract, and the pressure that puts on margins and ASP (average sales price) could be what ultimately causes Apple to change strategies and introduce the less expensive model. Like with the bigger iPhone, the way for Apple to get to a less expensive iPhone seems all worked out, it's the timing that's in question. iPad 5 and iPad mini 2To bring the full-sized iPad casing in line with the iPad mini's, and to bring the iPad mini display up to the full size iPad's Retina quality, will take improvements to the efficiencies of the screens, the LED that lights them, the chipsets that drive them, and the batteries that power them. All of those are coming, it's just a question of when they get here. If you want to imagine the iPad 5, look at the mockup I posted last month (above), or the mockup at the top of this post, or picture a 9.7-inch screen with an iPad mini casing, making it effectively a package that fits halfway between. If you want to imagine a Retina iPad mini, picture the existing iPad mini with a display as dense as the iPhone 5. Achieving displays that dense in casings that thin and light is beyond non-trivial, so if you even think about calling them "boring", please hand in your gadget-lovers card at the door on your way out... 2013 and beyondEven with the massive updates last year, 2013 looks poised to hold its own. Even if some of the updates seem obvious and iterative, there's a chance for new, ecosystem expanding, perhaps breakthrough new products in the pipeline as well. Sexy next generation hardware aside, I still feel like the next couple of years need to be more about iOS 7 and 8, iCloud and Siri, than iOS devices, and even given the recent management changes and turnovers, people sound excited about not just the atoms but the bits as well. That's a good sign. 
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| LinkedIn Employees Reward: iPads for Everyone Posted: 14 Feb 2013 01:03 PM PST It's always good to see companies recognize and reward their employees when they have success. Apart from doubling up vacation days, there are probably not too many more popular rewards than a free iPad these days. And that's exactly what all the employees at LinkedIn got this week. As TechCrunch reported, iPads were given out to all 3,500 of LinkedIn's employees because of the great success the company had in 2012. A spokesman told TechCrunch:
Wonder what the company has planned if they have an even greater 2013? © patrickj for iPad Insight, 2013. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us  Related Stories
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| Best Valentine's Day apps for iPhone Posted: 14 Feb 2013 11:55 AM PST It's Valentine's Day, the day to celebrate love, and your iPhone can be a wonderful assistant in making your day better. Whether you're looking for a fun love-themed game, Valentine's cards, dinner reservations, or something sexy, there's an app for that. And we've rounded up some of our favorites for you to check out. Angela's ValentineEvery Valentine's Day, many of us get nostalgic over the little cards we would hand out to our classmates as little kids and with Angela's Valentine, you can send similar cards to your special someone via email, Facebook, Twitter, or text (by saving to Photos, first). It includes 10 Valentine's cards as well as two cute music videos featuring Tom and Angela.
The Photo Cookbook - BakingNothing says "Happy Valentine's Day" like home-baked goods. The Photo Cookbook - Baking is an excellent app filled with recipes for delicious treats including cookies, cakes, pastries, and breads. In addition to the great recipes, The Photo Cookbook - Baking also features gorgeous photography that illustrates the steps. So what are you waiting for? It's never too late to bake some cooking for your friends, family, and lover!
TextPicsWhy send a boring "Happy Valentine's Day!" text when you can exciting text art instead? TextPics includes a great selection of romance themed art including hearts, arrows, flowers, and more.
OpenTableForget to make a reservation for Valentine's Day? Stop panicking and download OpenTable. With OpenTable, you can simply chose a general location (like your city) and a time, and it will spit out a list of restraunts with reservations available at the time you requested. Once you find a location you want, simply tap the time you want, enter your information (either from Facebook, an OpenTable account, or as a guest), and boom, reservations are made!
OkCupidDon't have a special someone in your life this Valentine's? Now is as good a time as ever to join the online dating game, and OkCupid is an excellent social dating app that will let you meet and chat with new people wherever you are. OkCupid claims to be the highest rated dating app available and features powerful matching algorithms to help you find a compatible partner.
AvocadoAvocado is a fun way to privately stay in touch with your partner. In addition to being a fast, private, and beautiful messaging service that allow you to share photos in a shared media gallery, but you can also have shared lists for everything from weekly groceries to new date ideas. It also includes fun and quirky stickers, the ability to draw pictures, and more.
Pocket KamasutraValentine's Day is all about love and with love, there's -- sex! Pocket Kamasutra is filled with 100 (if you get the upgrade) highly detailed positions with illustrations. You can also keep track of the ones you've tried, mark your favorites, and create a to do list (or custom playlist). Pocket Kamasutra also includes a sex game, customizable sex dice, love quotes, and sex facts and tips. Spice up your relationship, tonight!
Disney Where's My Valentine?What's Valentine's Day without a good iPhone game? Disney Where's My Valentine features a similar gameplay to Where's my Water and Where's my Perry and actually features the main characters from both those games, Swampy and Perry. These twelve heart-themed levels are sure to put you in the Valentine's spirit! This free version of Where's My Valentine includes the same themed levels that are included in the paid versions of Where's my Water and Where's my Perry.
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| 50% Off ZAGG iPad Keyboards Today Posted: 14 Feb 2013 10:22 AM PST ZAGG, makers of some of the very best keyboards and keyboard cases for iPad, are having a 50% off sale today. They've got a number of their popular iPad keyboard cases available at half price for 'a limited time'. Included in the sale are their ZAGGKeys Mini 7 and Mini 9 keyboard cases for the iPad mini. I've been debating about whether to try a keyboard case for the iPad mini – and seeing this one at just $45 today was too good to resist. I just order the Mini 9 model. If you're a fan of ZAGG's iPad keyboards, or you're just on the lookout for a good one for your iPad, today is a great day to check out this ZAGG sale. If you manage to pick one up, let us know in the comments. © patrickj for iPad Insight, 2013. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us  Related Stories
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| Kickstarter launches terrific new iPhone app, but their fulfillment still needs a lot of work Posted: 14 Feb 2013 09:29 AM PST Kickstarter has, at long last, launched their iPhone app. It's focused on helping you discover interesting projects to back, getting updates from your friends and the stuff you've backed, and, if you're a creator, keeping your backers informed and updated. According to Perry Chen, Yancey Strickler, and Charles Adler, writing on the Kickstarter Blog:
The app looks clean, flows quickly and smoothly, and once you login via Facebook, let's you do pretty much everything you need to do on Kickstarter while mobile. In terms of design and implementation, it looks to be a home run. If you enjoy Kickstarter and you have an iPhone, get the app.
Now here's the point where I go off the rails. As good as the Kickstarter app experience is, Kickstarter's fulfillment process remains poor. I get the whole argument about "backing" isn't "buying", but that's sophistry. Kickstarter, from inception, was set up as a way to get creators money and people, stuff. It's ecommerce as surely as Apple Online or Amazon. If that's not the service they want to provide, they should disallow any reward offering beyond a simple, sincere acknowledgement. Once rewards become goods and services, it's ecommerce. Of course, there's absolutely a huge difference between Kickstarter and more conventional ecommerce sites in that unfunded projects will never ship, and even funded projects may fail due to the people behind them. But Kickstarter's current problem is far more elementary, and far less forgivable than this: Funded projects that are successfully completed can still fail to get into the hands of backers due to simple logistical confusion. Kickstarter can't fulfill. I've backed a dozen or more projects. By which I mean I've hit the button and pledged money. I've gotten maybe 2 or 3 of them. Some never shipped, others are still delayed, but several simply never got fulfilled. Invariably, somewhere along the way, the backer needed my address, or to confirm billing, or product details, and I needed to visit their website and login to some extra account, or... the list goes on and on. Worse, I've seldom if ever been aware of any of the above. I've found out while checking junk, or when I happen to login to Kickstarter, or when I'm trying to find out where something is that should have shipped long ago. Just today, curious why I hadn't heard word one about my Pebble still, I went poking around inside Kickstarter, found nothing, started searching, came across a separate Kickstarter site, found out I had to login there, and was promptly asked for my shipping address. They didn't have it. And I only found out by happenstance. The process should be: I click, they ship. That's it. Instead, it currently involves multiple, unnecessary points of failure that results in projects not getting all the money they should, customers not getting the awesome stuff they expect, and a poor experience for everyone. If they have limitations due to Amazon handling transactions, or concerns about sharing user information, figure them out. That's not the customers' problem. Make it "just work". I click, they ship. That should be it. 
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| No Office for iPad: Microsoft Leaving Billions on the Table? Posted: 14 Feb 2013 09:33 AM PST Image Source: gearlive.com Fortune reports today on a Wall Street analyst's premise that Microsoft is leaving billions of dollars on the table by not offering MS Office on the iPad. The analyst is Adam Holt at Morgan Stanley, and his figure for how much Microsoft may be missing out on is $2.5 billion. His number is based partly on the fact that Microsoft Surface tablets have poor sales and very low market share thus far. He also argues that a much higher percentage of Mac users (30-40%) install paid versions of Office than their Windows PC counterparts – and then assumes a similar 30% install rate for around 200 million iPads. Check out the Fortune article for all the details on how Holt does his figuring. I wouldn't venture any sort of guess on the accuracy, or lack thereof, of his numbers – but I absolutely agree that Microsoft is losing out by not selling Office on the...  Related Stories
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| iOS 6 passcode bypass discovered, could allow snooping Posted: 14 Feb 2013 07:26 AM PST Once again a way has been found to bypass the iPhone's Lock screen passcode, this time for iOS 6.x, and involving a complex series of button pushes and screen taps to basically put the system into apoplexy. This particular Konami code of doom was reported by Adrian D'Urso of Jailbreak Nation:
It's not the first time a vulnerability in the the iPhone's Lock screen passcode has been found; providing just enough functionality to make emergency calls yet not enough to get into the rest of the system seems to be an error-prone process. Apple, for their part, will likely patch it in the next update, as they've patched similar bypasses in the past. All that said, it's important to remember that bypassing your passcode requires physical access to your iPhone, and in this case, for long enough to successfully enter the complicated series of steps successfully. To learn more about this latest security snafu and it's parameters, hit the link below. Source: Jailbreak Nation 
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| Deal of the Day: 43% off Krusell Hector Leather Case for iPhone 5 Posted: 14 Feb 2013 07:13 AM PST | ||||||
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Valentine's day app and accessory deals!
Posted: 14 Feb 2013 06:49 AM PST
Happy Valentine's Day! Today's a day not only for love and romance, but for the crass commercialization of love and romance, and the modern world, that means sales, deals, special offers, and all manner of other enticements to not only get you to spend them day with the person that matters most to you, but spend your money on them. With that in mind, here are some of the best sales we've found so far:
- iMore store: 14% off today and tomorrow with coupon code vday13.
- Anostyle: $100 off red and pink colors, today only.
- Infinity Blade: Free until Feb. 21.
- Karateka: $0.99 this week.
- iTunes albums and songs to love: $6.99 for albums, $0.69 for singles until Feb. 17. (I can't find a direct link to the album promotion but will add one when/if I do.)
We'll be updating this post throughout the day, so check back often, and if you find any great deals of your own, add them to the comments below!
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ZEN and TECH 50: Fitness month nutrition special!
Posted: 14 Feb 2013 05:57 AM PST
Georgia and Rene are joined by Android Central's Phil Nickinson to talk Mobile Nations Fitness Month and the benefits of good nutrition. From crazy schedules to family and work stresses to modern technology, we break down the habits, challenges, and importance of eating right and feeling great!
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Fix for the Microsoft Exchange bug in iOS 6.1 coming soon according to Apple
Posted: 14 Feb 2013 03:28 AM PST
When you respond to an exception to a recurring calendar event with a Microsoft Exchange account on a device running iOS 6.1, the device may begin to generate excessive communication with Microsoft Exchange Server. You may notice increased network activity or reduced battery life on the iOS device. This extra network activity will be shown in the logs on Exchange Server and it may lead to the server blocking the iOS device. This can occur with iOS 6.1 and Microsoft Exchange 2010 SP1 or later, or Microsoft Exchange Online (Office365).
Microsoft released a support article earlier in the week giving iOS 6.1 users with an Exchange account three options to try. The final two options included throttling iOS 6 user's access to the server or even blocking them from the Exchange Server altogether. It is good to hear that Apple will have a solution coming through although there is no time frame given for the update.
Source: Apple Support Article
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