Friday, April 1, 2011

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iVIP Black, The Millionaire’s App: Limited Edition iPhones

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 10:00 AM PDT

If you are a millionaire then please read the following, we are going to give you a few details about iPhones getting the golden touch from iVIP and the iVIP Black Exclusive app that costs a staggering £599.99.

Millionaires will be happy to know that iVIP has launched a few limited edition Apple iPhones ranging from a mere £2000 right up to in excess of £1-million, ouch. The price is dependent on customization, they do come in either gold, and platinum and diamond are available exclusively to members of iVIP.

Now we move on to the EXCLUSIVE iPhone app for millionaires, this can be yours for only £599.99 via Apple iTunes, the application is called 'iVIP Black' and has been marked the 'Millionaire’s App’ that offers iVIP members champagne on arrival, surprise gifts, exclusive rates, and priority booking and so much more.

iVIP covers all aspects of the luxury lifestyle including butlers, theatres, personal trainers, private jets, a concierge, casinos, personal styling, and more. Some names you might be familiar with such as Gordon Ramsay Restaurants, Virgin Limited Edition (Necker Island, The Lodge Verbier, and many more are iVIP members.

iVIP Black is the premium version of iVIP and when you download this app you will be required to certify that you are High Net Worth Individuals with assets and/or income in excess of £1 million. You will then be eligible for a personal consultation to explore how iVIP can manage their VIP lifestyle.

iVIP Black App Main Features Include: iVIP Black membership lasts for one year, Be treated like a VIP across their partner venues, Receive complimentary room upgrades at luxurious hotels, Benefit from unique iVIP privilege rates with many of their partner services, Receive complimentary amenities at various partner venues, Get priority access to unique events and experiences, Take advantage of priority booking at premium restaurants, Access a concierge directly through iVIP, Receive invitations to exclusive iVIP evenings, Purchase the unique, limited edition iVIP Black iPhone and Book private yachts, private jets, private islands, and more, directly through iVIP.

You must remember that these services come at additional cost; please let us know if you are an iVIP customer. For more information please visit ivipworld.com

NoDo Windows Phone 7 Update for T-Mobile Dell Venue Pro Users

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 09:29 AM PDT

If you are a T-Mobile Dell Venue Pro users will get the NoDo Windows Phone 7 update first, Dell announced that there will be two updates available and the first being NoDo Windows Phone 7 that has already started rolling out.

NoDo is the update you have all been waiting for because it brings the much awaited copy and paste functionality and a few tweaks and fixes.

HTC HD7 owners are already enjoying the new NoDo WP7 update, a new firmware update is on the horizon as well but we do not know much about this as of yet. We will let you know more when we learn more.

If you have the NoDo Windows Phone 7 update already please let us know how the download went, we would love to know if you have encountered any problems or if everything is running smoothly. Thanks.

Source – Engadget & WP Central via Twitter

Attract Birds to Your Yard iPad App: iBird HD

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 09:00 AM PDT

If you love birds then iBird Yard HD for iPad is definitely a download you should consider, how to attract birds to your yard is easy enough but to name all species is hard. Let this app help you with all the details you need.

iBird Yard is a stunning interactive guide to most of the planets species found in your backyard of North America, so far the app contains over 86 birds to the database including raptors and common shorebirds. This app has many photos, illustrations, bird calls plus comprehensive facts to help you identify and enjoy 234 North American bird species.

You do not need internet connection with this Apple iPad app because all the data is right there for you, this app will allow you to sync Notes and Favorites with iTunes.

Features Include: Attributes are grouped into basic, head and flight related area, Taxonomic and Alphabetical family sort options on Browse screen and Updated state and province bird lists using official references.

Main Features Include: 2 hours of audio bird songs and calls from the Macaulay Library at the Lab of Ornithology, Over 300 24-bit color high resolution hand-drawn illustrations from professional artists, 600 24-bit photos from respected expert photographers, Parameter-driven decision engine for quickly identifying birds by their shape, colour, location, habitat, head pattern, flight pattern, bill shape, length attributes, and Play bird songs and calls to attract birds right to your iPad for easier identification, clearer photographs and more enjoyment.

You can even find out more about behaviour, and habitat information, including everything from eye colour, Full colour range maps for every species, Links to detailed Wiki pages and hundreds of Flickr photos for each bird, Bookmark birds as favourites for fast access – use multiple favourite lists for keeping track of all your observations, Time and date stamped Notes for each species also sync with iTunes for backup and even Lifetime updates to bird information.

For more information please visit ibird.com, or simply install direct via Apple iTunes, this is a great app to have on your iPad. If you already have this application, please use the commenting area below and send in your personal reviews.

April Fools Apps: Top Picks for Pranks and Jokes

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 08:51 AM PDT

Well folk’s tomorrow happened to be a very special day, tomorrow is the 1st of April, April Fools Day, which just happens to be my birthday, yep I know how unlucky can a guys get, but I haven’t really been caught by any April Fools pranks on that day of days.

So with this in mind and as we know everyone loves to play a prank or joke now and then, we thought we’d bring you our pick of top April Fools mobile apps, so let’s get right to it, here they are…

First up with have the Prankster April Fools app for iOS devices, a free app for the iPhone, iPod Touch and Apple iPad running iOS 2.0 and above and is for the fun user who enjoys playing pranks or being pranked on April Fools Day.

The Prankster April Fools app for iOS devices is made by IntroWizard and has a rating of 12+ so isn't for the very young due to suggestive themes, crude humour and mild sexual content, but if you fancy giving it a whirl the April Fools you can download the app from iTunes.

Then we have the 50,000+ Jokes iOS app, with its huge extensive collection of jokes organised in over 20 categories such as April Fools, Yo Mama, Doctor, Animal, Children, Computer and many more that will have you laughing this April Fools Day.

The 50,000+ Jokes app for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch has an easy to use interface, lists all the jokes and enables the user to share jokes with friend via SMS, email and Facebook. With the 50,000+ Jokes app you’ll never be short of a joke again and the app is available from iTunes for $0.99.

Next we have the April Fools Video Greets app for Android, which is a video greetings app especially for April Fools Day enabling the user to share funny video greetings cards with their family and friends.

The April Fools Video Greets app also allows the user to preview short animated video greetings cards and edit them with your own text before shooting them off to your target. The April Fools Video Greets app can be downloaded for free from the Android Market.

Lastly we have another Android app, April Fools 3 tricks in 1, an application that enables the user to shock and jolt their friends with April Fools tricks. The application offers three April Fools tricks, Magic 8 Ball, Baloon Rise, and Amazed.

With the Magic 8 Ball you can entertain friends with predictions of the future while Baloon Rise turns you into a magicial with paranormal balloons, again the April Fools 3 tricks in 1 app is available for free from the Android Market.

There you have it but I’m sure you no doubt have your own favourite Apple Fools app for playing jokes on your friends, so feel free to share it with us by posting to our comments area below.

HTC Thunderbolt Battles MyTouch 4G in Comparison Videos

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 06:37 AM PDT

Let’s face it the main kid on the block at the moment is the new HTC Thunderboltsmartphone on the Verizon network, so obviously other 4G enabled smartphones are going to be compared; so we have a two-part Android against Android comparison video for your viewing pleasure below.

This round Aaron Baker of Phone Dog pits the might of the HTC Thunderbolt against the T-Mobile myTouch 4G so again pitting two Android 2.2 Froyo 4G devices against each other in a face off that lasts in total just over 23 minutes.

With these two smartphone Aaron is pitting 4G against 4G, Froyo against Froyo, 1GHz Snapdragon against 1GHz Snapdragon, and LTE against HSPA+, but can the T-Mobile myTouch 4G take down the might of the Thunderbolt?

Well obviously I’m not going to tell you the outcome and spoilt your viewing pleasure, so I’ll leave you to head on down and hit those play buttons and check out this 4G smartphone confrontation and feel free to let us know if you agree or disagree with the outcome…enjoy.

Motorola Xoom Tablet UK Release Date & Price

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 06:05 AM PDT

For those of you out there who like your tablet PCs, I bring some great news too you regarding the Android Honeycomb Motorola Xoom, which was unveiled at the CES 2011.

You may be interested to know that Motorola have announced that next week the Xoom tablet will be available in the UK for purchase. As indicated by the guys at Soft Sailor there is no definite date on when it will arrive, but it is believed that electronic retailer giants such as the Carphone Warehouse and Dixons will definitely stock the tablet.

Now there is speculation that the Motorola Xoom will retail for £600 for the 3G version of the tablet and possibly £500 for the WiFi-only version. However, at present, this is just rumours and the price is still yet unknown.

Well let us hope that there are no spanners in the works and that the Xoom does arrive in UK stores next week, without a hiccup.

For those of you interested in possibly purchasing the Motorola Xoom, you may want to check out our article regarding the Android 3.0 Honeycomb, which the tablet will be running or the comparison video between the Xoom and iPad 2.

Let us know your thoughts below.

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Posted: 31 Mar 2011 06:01 AM PDT

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AT&T, T-Mobile USA Merger will see Job and Market Losses

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 06:00 AM PDT

If you are of the ilk that the proposed merger of AT&T and T-Mobile USA if it is given approval by the powers that be, wont deliver any bad side, think again as the word is the merger would create job losses and market losses.

According to an article over on Phandroid, the chief exec of AT&T Randall Stephenson has spoken to the Wall Street Journal saying, “We anticipate there will be some markets we will have to divest.”

Although the exec couldn’t say which markets would be affected by the merger, and dismissed the notion that the merger if it goes ahead would be bad for competition… “This industry is anything but a duopoly. The industry is intensely competitive now, and will be intensely competitive after the deal.”

Another roll on effect should the acquisition of T-Mobile be given the official go ahead is that some employees will be left without a job, which apparently is a common side affect of a merger, although there’s no word on just how many employees would lose their employment.

We’d like to hear from our readers and what they feel about the proposed merger of AT&T and T-Mobile USA, do you think it is a good move or bad, will AT&T becoming bigger be bad or good for competition in your view?

States Attorney Concerns over the AT&T, T-Mobile deal video for your viewing pleasure below so feel free to check it out.

iPad 2 Xray Hack: Jason Bradbury April Fools Joke?

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 05:42 AM PDT

Can you really use the new Apple iPad 2 camera as an Xray machine? Well, there is a new video of a new iPad 2 Xray hack by Jason Bradbury.

The Gadget Show presenter is in a YouTube video courtesy of Expansys TV where he has discovered that the Apple iPad 2 can be used as an Xray machine using some cling film and an infrared digital camera lens, oh and a person to take a photo of Jason Bradbury.

Jason wraps the iPad 2 camera in clingfilm just twice as that is enough, aligns the infrared camera and gives the iPad 2 to another man who takes the photo of Jason, when the present gets the iPad 2 back he strips of the clingfilm and shows us the photo of himself.

Yes the photo does show that you can see right through Jason Bradbury's clothes, like the superman boxer shorts Mr Gadget Show man.

Personally we believe this to be a hoax, you know an April Fools Day joke, please watch the video and let us know what you think. Is it real or just a prank?

Source – Expansys Blog

Angry Birds Rio App Released on Android Market

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 05:15 AM PDT

The next instalment of the hugely popular multi-platform mobile game Angry Birds, Angry Birds Rio was originally exclusive to the Amazon Android Appstore and users had to pay for the privalage of downloading and playing the app.

However according to the Boy Genius Report, that exclusivity has now gone and Rovio has released Angry Birds Rio for Android to the Android Market, and about time too; furthermore the Angry Birds Rio app is free.

When Rovio gave Angry Birds Rio exclusively to Amazon they basically cut out the millions of international Angry Birds fans as anyone outside the US couldn’t download the new app, so at least now Rovio has put that straight and international users such as myself can grab the app from the Android Market.

In Angry Birds Rio you no longer get to smash the living daylights out of those pesky green pigs, but have to liberate birds from cages in the usual manner of launching the Angry Birds. The app has 2 episodes delivering a total of 60 levels, hidden fruits, and now features achievements, and the app will get episodic updates every month right through November.

So for all you Android Angry Birds fans that couldn't grab the new game before you can go grab it now, just like I did…video gameplay trailer below.

Sn0wbreeze Beta Video: iPhone 3GS Untethered Jailbreak on iOS 4.3.1

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 05:10 AM PDT

If you own the Apple iPhone 3GS you will be happy to know that it can now run the Untethered Jailbreak on iOS 4.3.1 and to do this you need the new Sn0wbreeze Beta jailbreak tool.

The new Windows jailbreak tool aka Sn0wbreeze has been updated to give a tethered jailbreak on iOS 4.3.1 and iDB mentioned the new release beta a few days ago and some of you have already been successful jailbreaking your iPhone on 4.3.1.

iDB do recommend holding off on iOS 4.3.1 until an untethered solution is released from the Dev Team because the Sn0wbreeze beta is a tethered jailbreak, but to their surprise one of their readers called Ryan (ryandodge) sent in a video (Shown below courtesy of YouTube) of his iPhone 3GS running an untethered jailbreak after using the latest Sn0wbreeze 2.4b1.

Ryan did say:

"Don't quote me, but mine is. I don't know how, or why. I had to restore it really weird, because my Power button is broken, and I had to restore to a custom, hacked 3.1.3 firmware to cause it to enter DFU Mode. Then, I used that DFU Mode to restore to my cooked Sn0wbreeze 4.3.1 firmware. So, when I installed WinterBoard, and my phone restarted, I expected to have to do some cooky thing to make Cydia work, but… it just worked. I can make a video if I must."

If you watch the video below it does show that his iPhone 3GS is running Cydia 1.1 untethered after using the Sn0wbreeze 2.4b1 jailbreak.

Please let us know what you think of the video provided below, is this something you would do or have you already tried it out?

Apple iPad Full Photoshop iOS App Coming: Demo Video

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 04:50 AM PDT

iOS users are no doubt aware that the Photoshop Express app for iOS devices has been available for a while from the App Store, but really isn't a fully features experience of Adobe Photoshop, but the word is that will soon change.

According to an article over on Phone Arena, by way of Electric Pig and Photography Bay, a fully functional Photoshop iOS app is coming for the Apple iPad, and we have a demonstration video of said app for your consideration below courtesy of YouTube user Zaone.

The video demo shows the interface of the “real” touch screen Photoshop app and shows off some astonishing effects with animated layers and shows what layers look like for people that don't quite understand the process of layers.

The video footage was captured during the keynote of Photoshop World 2011, and apparently the Photoshop app for iOS devices is still in development so no word on just when the app will be available or at what cost…enjoy the footage.

Microsoft Launching Similar NFC Tech into Windows Phone Software

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 04:30 AM PDT

Can Microsoft go up against the likes of Google and Apple when it comes to mobile-payment technology? This is a good question considering Microsoft Corp is working on a new version of its Windows Phone software to include similar NFC tech.

Microsoft is getting in on the act where you can simply buy products with a quick flick of the handset and a checkout counter.

This is great news if Microsoft adds the mobile-payment technology in its smartphones operating system, hopefully when this does happen it will nudge them forward a little step or two to narrow the gap between Google and its software.

The first handsets with this new technology could possibly be released this year if all goes according to plan, the new Microsoft software according to boston.com will be based on so-called Near Field Communication. Google have already introduced NFC capabilities into its devices in 2010 and Apple is working on it right now.

Do you think Microsoft with the new mobile payment technology can close the market gap against Google and Apple?

Controversial WankoMeter Android App: Your Views

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 04:18 AM PDT

Okay, to be honest when I first saw this Android app I laughed and thought it has to be some kind of early April Fools Day prank, but it appears that this controversial app is actually available to download from the Android Market.

The aforementioned app is called WankoMeter, and obviously doesn’t need any explanation as to what it refers to, the self-pleasuring of men, and apparently is a mobile app to enable guys to track and enhance their performance.

However, apparently the WankoMeter app for Android devices has already seen around 30,000 downloads in the last couple of weeks and has garnered a star rating of 4.5 on the Android Market, so one could presume there are quite a few guys getting handy with themselves out there.

Now I’m all for dragging sex out of the darkened corners where it has lurked in the past, but delivering a mobile app that basically is supposed to help a guy achieve the perfect self pleasuring act is taking things a bit too far don't you think?

Obviously the WankoMeter app would never make it into Apple’s iPhone App Store, but Android doesn't appear to be so fussy when it comes to controversial apps being available which can be downloaded by anyone of any age.

So we’d like to know your views on the Wankometer app, is it good or bad the Android Market has allowed the app, should it come with a sexual warning and somehow be restricted by age requiring the use of a credit card to download perhaps as currently the app is free from the Android Market.

Whatever your views on WankoMeter, whether it should be removed or is giving a service to men, we would like you to submit your vote in our poll below…many thanks.

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iPad 2 Accessories: CEO Hybrid Case By Marware

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 04:04 AM PDT

If you are one of the lucky ones to have got your hands on the new Apple iPad 2 you may be considering buying some accessories for the tablet PC, please read the following about the Marware CEO Hybrid iPad 2 case covering features and price.

The Marware C.E.O. Hybrid iPad 2 case is only $49.99 and is the sequel to the original best-selling iPad case, this is a ultra-tin profile injection-molded structure that will keep you expensive Apple iPad 2 safe whilst still giving it the trendy look it deserves.

This stunning case features an intelligent sleep/wake lid that allows the iPad to wake and sleep when the lid is open or closed, the case also acts as a stand for the iPad and a handle on the back for your hand to slide through that will make FaceTime chat very comfortable indeed.

Main Features: Ultra-low profile traditional hard shell and padded folio hybrid design, Innovative elastic interior hand strap, Injection molded interior for added support and protection, Soft magnets that secure the lid closed, Soft scratch-resistant interior, Reinforced grip corners for maximum hold, Protective lid that adjusts into multiple angles, cutouts for all button access, it also includes Folio case.

For more information and option to pre-order the C.E.O. Hybrid iPad 2 Case please visit Marware Website. Please let us know what you think
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