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Angry Birds Space Lands At Last
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Bird-lovers and pig-haters, today is your lucky day: Rovio has finally pushed the button on the launch of its newest installation of its hugely successful Angry Birds franchise: Angry Birds Space. The game — which Mighty Eagle Peter Vesterbacka told us last week will be its biggest launch yet —...
BlueStacks Allows You to Run Android Apps on a Mac
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BlueStacks announced a public alpha version of their Android App Player for the Mac today at Google I/O. The company had originally released a beta version of their App Player for Windows back in March. The software allows users to run Android apps directly on their Windows PCs, and the...
Angry Birds Space released for iOS, Android, PC and Mac
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Rovio pushes the button on the game it hopes will send its feathery franchise past 1bn downloadsAngry Birds fans craving a fresh fix of Rovio's game franchise can breathe a sigh of relief: the latest instalment, Angry Birds Space, has now been launched on several devices.The new game is available...
VLC 2.0 arriving with all-new UI, native full screen in Lion, Blu-ray support, more
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This slideshow requires JavaScript. VideoLAN, the organization behind the open-source cross-platform VLC media player, is gearing up to launch VLC 2.0, a total rewrite of the program sporting an all-new user interface on the Mac platform and welcome new capabilities. Available on Mac OS X, Windows and a variety of...
Sparrow for iPhone is a beautiful, natural mail management experience with one major flaw
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There are very few things that are more integral to daily life on an iPhone than mail. Everyone uses email. Your mom uses it, your cousins use it, your grandmother probably uses it. Deciding to make a mail app for the iPhone isn’t something that you undertake without some balls....
Tweetbot for Mac
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It’s finally here! (sort of) Tweetbot for Mac is finally available! However it may not be quite as you had hoped. Developing for the Mac is no easy task, especially a full-featured Twitter client. However, we’ve gotten to a point where while not complete, it is useable. We’ve decided to...
Angry Birds Space now available for $0.99 [video]
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Rovio on Thursday released Angry Birds Space for iOS and Android devices, as well as OS X and Windows PCs. In the fourth major Birds release, users will get to fling birds on zero-gravity planets while utilizing new gameplay features such as slow-motion and lightspeed destruction. “This is Rovio...
Microsoft opens Office and SharePoint up to web developers
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In the run up to the Office 15 release, Microsoft execs are talking up a key goal: Making it easy for non-Windows web developers to build add-ons and enhancements to both Office and SharePoint. This is a shift in strategy — Microsoft is trying to make Office — the company’s...
PlayStation Vita to get maps and video recording via firmware v1.6, Mac support this week?
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Andriasang is reporting that February 8th will see the first significant firmware update for the PlayStation Vita. The update will add a new Map application, which looks to be using Google data with standard functionality like direction search, building information and so on. This may well be the first...
iOS 6 Beta 4 Removes Dedicated YouTube App
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As noted by several users in our forum, Apple's new iOS 6 Beta 4 just released to developers removes the dedicated YouTube app that has been included on the iPhone operating system since its launch in 2007. The reason for the removal is unclear, although speculation naturally turns to the...
Amazon releases "Send to Kindle" desktop software for the Mac
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More than three months after releasing software for Windows-users to send documents to a Kindle, Amazon has now released the Mac version. Announced on Tuesday afternoon, the "Send to Kindle for Mac" application allows Mac users to wirelessly send personal documents to their Kindles via drag-and-drop in the Dock...
Jumala Aims To Be An Unboring Minecraft
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While I seriously doubt the staying power of this game platform, the concept is pretty cool. Called Jumala, this free-to-play online game allows players to stop the action mid-game and flip things around and change the entire level. Level too scary? You can add flying hot dogs and flowers....
Facebook launches Messenger for Windows, Mac version on the way
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Although Facebook Messenger for Windows leaked in late December, it's now officially available through Facebook's website. As far as we can tell, not much has changed since December. There are still Chrome-esque conversation tabs, navigation buttons taken straight from the mobile site, pop-up notifications, and News Ticker support. The...
Popular screengrab tool Skitch for Mac finally gets Evernote sharing feature
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One of the handiest tools that I use daily is Skitch for Mac. Most of the screenshots that you’ll see in my articles are taken with the popular tool that Evernote scooped up last year. The companies are a match made in heaven and the Mac version of Skitch has...
Google Chrome for Windows gets more secure Flash player, gives users a browsing sandbox safety net
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Chrome turned 21 last week, and in that new version, Google's made playing Flash videos in its browser even safer... for Windows users, anyway. This latest release puts Adobe's Flash Player plug-in for Windows in a sandbox, much as Chrome 20 did for Linux. This sandbox is "as strong"...
How AOL Squandered WinAmp
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It’s always nice to plop down to a big bowl of hot dog food and read about how the company you work for (ostensibly and/or on paper) squandered one of the most recognizable brands in PC history. As you’ll recall, the turn of the century was a time of great...
Apple Seeds iOS 6 Beta 4 to Developers
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We're receiving numerous report that Apple today released the fourth beta of iOS 6, the company's next-generation mobile operating system set to launch "this fall", presumably alongside new iPhone hardware with an official announcement at Apple's September 12 media event. As with previous builds, the new one is arriving as...
Boot up: Skylanders v Angry Birds, smart TV analysed, Facebook swallows Lightbox and more
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Plus Steve Ballmer considered, Robbie Bach on the lessons from Xbox and Zune, Microsoft analyses Mac malware and moreA quick burst of 8 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology teamWhat's the best cellphone ever >> Wolfram|AlphaChanged since last week.The Immobile Web >> Jason GrigsbySlides from...
Tweetbot's new Mac client gets buzz as Twitter crackdown looms
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Tapbots, maker of the popular Tweetbot iPhone Twitter client, announced in a blog post Wednesday that it has finished the early stages of development on a Mac version of the application, an exciting development for fans of the product. But the news arrives weeks after Twitter announced plans to restrict third-party uses...
Latest Mountain Lion preview includes automatic Mac app downloads
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Apple appears to be preparing to include an Automatic Downloads feature in its OS X Mountain Lion operating system. The feature, discovered in Mountain Lion Developer Preview 3, is partially enabled according to 9to5Mac, who spotted an Automatic Downloads option recently. Like the iOS equivalent, Automatic Downloads will let...
Here’s a photo of Tweetbot for Mac running on the Retina Display MacBook Pro, availability details still unclear
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Click image for larger view The creators of the wildly popular iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch Tweetbot Twitter application have long been working on a Mac version, and today, we have our first peak at the app. The company’s graphic designer, Mark Jardine, posted the photo on his Twitter account....
Here’s a photo of Tweetbot for Mac running on the Retina Display MacBook Pro, availability details still unclear
iWork.com finally leaves beta (because it's dead)
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. Apple introduced iWork.com at Macworld in 2009 as a beta web service for sharing and collaborating on documents created in the iWork ’09 productivity suite. Since then the site has remained in a perpetual “beta” state, never becoming the full product Apple envisioned. Like MobileMe, which was shut down...
Apple's Smaller Dock Connector Reportedly Coming to Entire iOS Device Lineup Including iPad This Fall
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iMore, which was the first source to report that Apple will be moving to a smaller dock connector with the launch of the next-generation iPhone, now claims that Apple will be moving its entire lineup of iOS devices to the new connector later this year. This includes the current 9.7-inch...
Apple's Smaller Dock Connector Reportedly Coming to Entire iOS Device Lineup Including iPad This Fall
AT&T's 'Mobile Share' Service Plans Launching August 23
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Last month, AT&T announced that it would join Verizon in offering shared data plans including unlimited talk and text on phone while allowing users to share their monthly data allotments across multiple devices. The plans are structured with two basic components: a monthly cost for a data allotment and a...
Checkmark Brings Better Geofenced Reminders To iPhone, Mac Version In The Works
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Checkmark is yet another one of those buzzy iPhone apps which people were talking about, blogging about and raving about, even before it officially launched. And today, it launched. It’s hard to resist taking a look at it, when even weeks before its debut, people were saying this is the...
The hotly anticipated Tweetbot comes from iOS to the Mac as a free public alpha
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If there’s a Mac app that has been as hotly anticipated as Tweetbot for Mac, I can’t remember it. As the premiere Twitter app on Apple’s iOS platform, it has set the standard for how third-party clients should look and work. The demand for the app is so high, in...
Apple Updates Java for Lion and Snow Leopard in Sync with Oracle
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Apple yesterday released a pair of software updates for Java, issuing versions for both Lion and Snow Leopard. The update in part builds upon an earlier Java update for Lion that disabled automatic execution of Java applets in an attempt to minimize the impact of Java-based malware threats like Flashback.This...
Pokki Releases Instagrille 2.0, An Updated Instagram Desktop App For Windows
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Sweetlabs, a four year-old, Google Ventures-backed startup, is releasing Instagrille 2.0, a “completely revamped” version of its current application, today on its Pokki app platform. The new app gives users features not seen on Instagram’s iOS or Android apps, such as the ability to browse photos “Nearby” and download their favorite...
Facebook Messenger coming to Mac, hits Windows boxes
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In another display of how native apps are beating the web, social networking behemoth Facebook revealed intentions to launch its first native chat client for the Mac. Facebook posted Messenger app for iPhone back in August and today they released the Facebook Messenger for Windows client, bringing the Facebook Chat functionality to...
Sparrow for iPhone 1.3 released with POP email support
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The team behind Sparrow for iPhone has pushed out updates on a pretty regular basis — today, the app has been updated to version 1.3. There's only one change of note, though: Sparrow now supports POP email. This addition came to the Mac version of Sparrow a few weeks...
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