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Opera Takes On Mobile Web Browsing With Ice For Android And iOS

Lookin’ good, Opera.

In an internal video released today by web browser company, Opera, the initial programmer of the new concept showed off a beta of the new Opera browser scheduled to go live for iOS and Android in February of this year.

The video, posted on Pocket Lint, shows a browser that looks to redefine the typical mobile browsing experience, with icons instead of tabs and gestures instead of buttons. The focus is on the user and using rich web applications, like Google Maps.

According to Pocket-Lint, CEO Lars Boilesen was also on hand for the staff meeting, and he called for Opera to take it’s game to the next level. “We need to go into a new phase, we need to lift our games on certain areas to ensure we continue to grow,” he said.

He told the gathering that Opera will release the new browser for iOS and Android devices in February, saying, “We need to focus on getting strong products out on iOS and Android. These are the two leading platforms we will focus on… They are the ones phones are being sold for.”

Innovation is a good thing, and the popularity of Google’s Chrome web browser on both iOS and Android shows there is a consumer desire for web browsing experiences that don’t come built in, like the Safari browser on iOS.

Here’s hoping that Opera can take this intriguing gestural concept to fruition by next month; we’re excited to check it out.

Source: Pocket Lint
Via: Apple Insider

Jordan Ostreff
19 януари 2013

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Wargame – European Escalation Releases On Mac, Offers Free Download For Previous Game Owners

Looks good, right? Today, Eugen Systems announced the Mac version of popular real-time strategy (RTS) game, Wargame European Escalation, with the trailer above.

In even better news, if you own the PC version of the game and own a Mac, you can download the new Mac version for free. How’s that for Mac-friendly?

Released last year for Windows, Wargame European Escalation lets you play one of several national factions across the Warsaw Pact (Soviet Union, Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia) and NATO (United States, UK, France, West Germany) and use any of the associated historical units to play across four individual operational campaigns that chronicle actual historical events that came close to starting a war between the two superpowers.

Wargame European Escalation is available on Steam for PC and now Mac for a reasonable $34.99. It has four free expansion DLC packs as well, so there’s bound to be a ton of content to digest if you pick it up now.

Source: Steam

Jordan Ostreff
19 януари 2013

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The Inside Story Of How Apple Bought Music Startup Lala, And Then Bought It Again

Lala was the pioneer in online music streaming before services like Spotify and Pandora really took off. If you Googled a song pre-2009, a Lala link was the first result. Founded in 2005, Lala underwent some business model changes until it became a full-fledged music streaming site. A partnership with Google’s Music Beta and good connections with the record industry allowed Lala to grow and gain attention from bigger tech companies.

It made sense for Apple to buy Lala in December of 2009. Lala.com was shut down in May of 2010, and Apple has since introduced products like iTunes Match. When Lala was bought, we all knew that Apple had paid around $80 million for the small startup. Now the inside story of how the deal was reached over dinner at Steve Jobs’s house has surfaced.

Aubrey Johnson is a designer who worked with Lala people after the Apple acquisition. He explains how Lala founder Bill Nguyen had received offers from both Google and Nokia, but the bids were too low. Nguyen pulled a few strings and got a meeting with Apple to ask for a higher offer. Nguyen knew that Lala’s good ranking in Google search would ultimately undermine iTunes sales. The top executives at Apple granted him an audience:

In late November, Nguyen was seated at the dinner table in Steve Job’s home on Waverly St in Palo Alto. Also present were Eddy Cue and Tim Cook and other Apple executives. Steve led the conversation while eating a beet salad:

“I’m going to give you a number, Bill, and if you like it, let’s do it and just be done with this whole thing. Okay?” Bill agreed.

Jobs passed a piece of paper to Nguyen and Bill nodded. The deal was done.

Lala was bought out for $80 million plus an additional $80 million in retention bonuses and stock options for employees that stayed on at Apple through the acquisition. Not a bad deal given that Nokia had only offered $11 million.

The story gets better. Soon after the deal was closed, Bill Nguyen left Apple to start Color, the photo sharing app that generated a lot of buzz back in 2011. Nguyen’s employees from his Lala days were loyal, and many engineers left millions in stock options at Apple to work at Color. After Color failed, Apple swooped in and acqhired around 20 employees back for $2-$5 million. So Apple got the talent back from its Lala purchase at a significantly cheaper price than it would have cost if the engineers would have just stayed on at Apple in the first place. Brilliant.

Apple is rumored to launch a Spotify-like ‘iRadio’ streaming service this year if negotiations can be reached with record labels. What are the odds that Lala engineers have been working on the project?

Source: Aubrey Johnson

Jordan Ostreff
18 януари 2013

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This Old G4 iMac Can Now Run Mountain Lion Thanks To Its New Ivy Bridge Processor [Video]

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Jonathan Berg, aka “Dremel Junkie,” shares our love for the iMac G4. Rather than letting his old G4 waste away in some landfill, he decided to resurrect it by putting an Intel Ivy Bridge processor inside and using some hackery to get it running OS X Mountain Lion.

Even though there’s not much space inside the G4′s base, Jonathan was able to squeeze in a DVD burner, a Core i3 processor, and some other new internal upgrades without compromising the original design. If you’re not afraid of a soldering iron and a Dremel Moto tool, Jonathan made a video explaining how to create your own Ivy Bridge iMac G4 that you can watch below.

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Source: YouTube

Via: TUAW

Jordan Ostreff
18 януари 2013

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Transfer Google Contacts To iCloud Simply And Easily [iOS Tips]

Tired of welcoming our Google overlords? Have a free Gmail account, and just lose your contact sync via Exchange? Well, why not put your contacts over on iCloud for easy synchronization across all your Apple products? Makes sense to me.

Here’s how to do it.

Launch your favorite web browser, whether that’s Safari or Chrome or Firefox, and head to your Gmail contacts. Click on the More button above your contacts list, and then choose Export. Click on The Group and then choose a group of contacts you’d like to export. You can also just export All Contacts, or Select a bunch of contacts before you hit the More button.

However you choose to do it, click on the vCard format down below and then hit the blue Export button. You’ll get a .vcf file download, and it will go wherever your downloaded files go.

Next, head on over to iCloud.com and login with your iTunes account. Click on the Contacts icon, and then click that little gear icon in the lower left of your Contacts page. Choose Import vCard from the menu that pops up, navigate to the .vcf file you saved from above, and click the Open button. Boom–just like that, your contacts from Google will go to iCloud.

On your iOS device, tap the Settings app icon to launch it, then tap on Mail, Contacts, Calendars. Click on the iCloud account there, and make sure that the Contacts toggle is set to ON.

Now you can have a Google-free contacts experience, if that’s your thing.

Source: 148Apps

Jordan Ostreff
18 януари 2013

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Al Gore Buys $29 Million Worth Of Apple Stock Ahead Of Next Week’s Earnings

No one tell former Vice President Al Gore that it’s a bad time to buy AAPL. He just exercised a big chunk of his Apple stock options, walking off with $29 million worth of shares at a steep discount.

According to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Al Gore exercised options to purchase $59,000 shares of AAPL for just pennies on the dollar.

Right now, at APPL’s current stock price of just $498.52 (down from a $700 high last year), those shares would cost around $29 million. Al Gore, however, got them for just $7.475 a share, or around $441,000 for the whole bundle.

Quite the steep discount, but Al Gore, a longtime board member of Apple, Inc. is entitled. With Apple’s earnings set to be reported next week, Gore’s move might prove a canny one. Apple’s stock is perceived by many right now as being chronically undervalued by Wall Street. Moreover, Apple share price tends to plummet before earnings announcements, only to rise afterwards.

Via: CNET

Jordan Ostreff
18 януари 2013

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Ending Soon! Keep Your Mac Clean With CleanMyMac Double Pack [Deals]

So you got a new Mac over the holidays. (Or your old Mac makes you wish that you did.)

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You’ll get 9 cleaning utilities to eliminate the clutter that can slow your Mac to a crawl:

Cache Cleaner: Reset outdated cache files to zero and give your apps relief.
Logs Cleaner: Running out of free space on your Mac? Remove useless logs with a few easy clicks.
Universal Binaries: Let CleanMyMac remove the burden of unused binary code incompatible with your Mac generation.
System Junk: Your apps and the Mac OS create tons of ‘disposable’ files. Remove them in the blink of an eye.
Language Cleaner: Why keep localized software in languages you can’t even speak? Exclude those with ease.
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Jordan Ostreff
18 януари 2013

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The iSpy Tank Is Controlled By Your iPhone, Has A Built-In Spy Camera

Although the iSpy Tank may not end up in James Bond’s gadget collection, it’s more than ideal for amateur espionage missions. The device is controlled by your iPhone and has a built-in camera relays real-time video directly to your iPhone’s display, so you can see exactly where it’s going even if you’re in another room.

The name’s a little misleading; it looks more like a sports car than it does a tank. It’s also a little expensive at $99 — especially when you consider that it connects to your iPhone via Wi-Fi, so couldn’t be used outdoors. But like any remote control toy that works with your iPhone, it is damn cool.

Here it is in action:

The iSpy Tank promises to offer a “top notch gaming experience and adds a whole new level of functionality for those who want to get the most out of their iDevice.”

It’s powered by six AA batteries, and has a 20-30 meter range. If you have $99 to drop on this thing, you can purchase it from iHelicopters using the source link below.

Source: iHelicopters

Via: Today’s iPhone

Jordan Ostreff
18 януари 2013

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Take Better Charge Of Your Calendar With Calendar Paste [Review]

Create template events and paste ‘em in when needed

Calendar Paste is a calendar events templating app for iOS. It’s a place where you can store calendar events that don’t repeat in a predicable patten, or that only need to be in your calendar at certain times. It’s one of those apps you never thought you needed.

Calendar Paste is perfectly suited to those events that keep cropping up, but not so regularly that you can set a repeating calendar item to keep track of them.

They’re things that happen every now-and-again, things that crop up unexpectedly but repeatedly. Things you have to add to your calendar and it bugs you every time because arrrgh you wish there was a quicker way.

Calendar Paste is it. You set up templates for events and save them in here. When you need to add them to your actual calendar, a couple of taps will do it.

Your templates have a title, a location and a duration. There’s optional alerts, URLs and a notes field too. Set them up and forget about them until the time comes.

When it does, you can add one of your templates as a new event to your primary calendar with a couple of taps. It will work seamlessly with the built-in Calendar app in iOS, which means your event will get synced through iCloud or with Google Calendar or any other extras you normally make use of.

Adding a template as a scheduled event still means that you have to specify the date and time it needs to happen, so you’re not saving all the steps needed to add an event in Calendar. But you are saving some of them.

I think Cal Paste will have limited appeal, mainly to people who find themselves constantly setting up new items in Calendar. Maybe it’s work meetings, maybe it’s rehearsals, maybe it’s meeting friends for a drink, maybe it’s many variations of all of those and more. If you inwardly groan every time you open up Calendar and start typing the same thing for the 200th time, Calendar Paste is definitely for you and worth spending a dollar on. It’s not the only app of its kind on the Store, but is certainly one of the better-looking ones amongst its rivals.

Source: App Store

Jordan Ostreff
18 януари 2013

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Apple Should Turn This Lock Screen Concept Into A Reality For iOS 7 [Video]

The iOS lock screen is a boring place. It displays the time, any notifications you’ve received since you last unlocked your device, and a shortcut to the Camera app. But that’s it. When you compare it to Android’s lock screen, which now has support for all kinds of cool widgets, it’s clear there’s room for improvement.

One way Apple could start improving it for iOS 7 is with this awesome concept from Jean-Marc Denis.It simple, but it would make the lock screen a much more functional place. By introducing a pull-down tray with some basic toggles for frequently used features, users could toggle Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Airplane Mode, and Hotspot without even having to unlock their iOS device. Check it out in the video below.

What would make this feature even better is if the user could customize the toggles in that tray. For instance, I hardly ever use the Hotspot feature on my iPhone, but I frequently find myself adjusting its brightness, or flicking Do Not Disturb on and off.

Apple has shied away from features like this in the past, but I think iOS users are beginning to want more from the company’s mobile platform. The basics have remained largely the same for the past five years, while rivals like Android have caught up and even overtaken in some areas.

What do you think?

Source: YouTube

Via: Macgasm

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Jordan Ostreff
18 януари 2013