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Top Ten iPhone and iPad Apps Released This Week

Browsing the App Store this weekend?  If so, here are ten applications released recently. NASA Visualization Explorer. Get the latest insight into NASA’s projects through your iPad with this official app.  As you’d expect, there’s plenty of interactive content including videos and presentations.  Free, iPad only. TaskRabbit. An unusual social network where ‘TaskRabbits’ can be commissioned to perform [...]

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Zinio 2.0 Arrives, Embraces Apple’s New Rules

Earlier in the week we took a quick look at the first wave of eBook-related apps who had applied a few changes to conform with Apple’s new rules, among them Amazon’s Kindle app and Kobo’s reader.  They had both chosen not to add in-app purchases and instead removed the option of buying content from within [...]

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I Get Around! Ten Best Navigation Apps for the iPhone

The App Store is stacked with navigation apps for the iPhone, with prices ranging from absolutely nothing to really quite a lot.  If you’re confused by the sheer volume of choice, they we’ve gathered together a collection of ten top GPS apps for your iOS device, making sure we cover all the bases at the [...]

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BBC iPlayer Goes International on iPad, Many Countries Left Wanting *Updated*

It was back in June when we last heard about an international version of the BBC iPlayer, when new plans were unveiled to make it an archive collection rather than a catchup service.  At the time, nothing was said concerning a release date or which countries would be eligible, however Europe was mentioned as more [...]

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New Case Image Provides More Evidence of Tapered iPhone 5 Design

Several pictures and schematics of iPhone 5 cases have appeared over the past couple of days, all suggesting a redesigned device with a tapered back and a larger Home button.  We’ve received an email this morning with the following image of an iPhone 5 case from a supplier in China, which resembles the one obtained [...]

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Battle Realms Coming to iOS in 2012, as a Collectible Card Game

Liquid Entertainment has made a very early announcement of their intention to convert their successful Battle Realms game to iOS.  Released back in 2001, the game was a real-time strategy affair with a Japanese theme, made for Windows computers. Even if you’re a Battle Realms fan, you’re likely to be thinking ‘great, another RTS game for [...]

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Comedian Tries to Get Thrown Out of an Apple Store, Fails

The Apple Store has a reputation for allowing eccentric activities to take place inside, but comedian Mark Malkoff wanted to see how far you need to go before an employee said ‘no’ and threw him out.  The results are in the video you see below, and while he unfortunately didn’t go far enough to be [...]

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Battle Squadron’s iTunes Rating Soars, Updates Confirmed

If anyone out there needed proof that putting in months of work converting a ‘retro’ game to iOS was worth it, then Cope-Com’s Battle Squadron is it.  I had the pleasure of being involved with the beta testing, and my review reflects just how good I think the game is; but it’s always refreshing to [...]

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Wooords iPhone/iPad App Review – One Word: Gem!

What is it about puzzle games involving words?  This simple concept has been used time and time again, with varying degrees of success, but we never seem to have tired of it.  Wooords is the latest word-challenge game to hit iOS, and I happened to catch news of its release in a press release late [...]

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Yet Another Version of iOS 4.3 Released, iOS 4.3.5 Out Now

Just ten days ago, iOS 4.3.4 was released, a firmware update fixing a problem with the way iOS handles PDF files in Safari, which allowed jailbreak services such as jailbreakme.com to function.  Now we’ve got another version of iOS 4.3 to download, and unsurprisingly it’s called iOS 4.3.5. Plugging in your iPhone, iPod or iPad into [...]

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