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• Penguin and Beyond the Story’s new Anne Frank iPad app

  The Guardian recently published their 30 best iPhone and iPad Apps for the week, one which included a new iPad that features a multimedia take on the Anne Frank diary. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/appsblog/2013/jan/25/best-iphone-ipad-apps-vine-wave-trip Read more →

• CES 2013 Mobile App Showdown

  This week I attended the 2013 CES convention, one of the highlights of which included attending the Mobile App Showdown. This breakout session filled the meeting room with mobile enthusiast, reporters, and developers. The agenda featured the top ten mobile apps submitted for the showdown. Each finalist introduced the concept Read more →

• The Room – Fireproof Games

  The Room Fireproof Games Genre: Games Price: $1.99 Release Date: September 19, 2012 Welcome to The Room, a physical puzzler, wrapped in a mystery game, inside a beautifully tactile 3D world. - App Store Editor's Choice in 146 countries - #1 App in US#1 App in UK#1 Game in 19 Read more →

• iPhone 5 First Weekend Sales in China Top Two Million

  Apple today announced it has sold over two million of its new iPhone 5 in China, just three days after its launch on December 14. “Customer response to iPhone 5 in China has been incredible, setting a new record with the best first weekend sales ever in China,” said Tim Read more →

• iPhone 5 is Time Magazine’s ‘Gadget of the Year’

  Time Magazine has named iPhone 5 its Gadget of the Year for 2012. The device is “one of the most artfully polished gadgets anyone’s ever built,” says Time’s Harry McCracken. He highlights the new thinner design and the camera’s “particularly well-done panorama mode.” McCracken concludes, “[W]hen it comes to melding Read more →

• Procreate updated, now supports 4K (yes, that's 16MP!) canvas sizes

  Things are moving so swiftly on the iPad creative scene. Just over a year after Savage provided an HD canvas in Procreate, version 1.7 embraces the next step in high-end display sizes, 4K. It’s hard to believe that a thin tablet computer costing as little as $329 has the power Read more →

• Foldify, a different take on 3D printing

  Foldify from Pixle on Vimeo. It may not be 3D printing in the popular sense of the term, but it sure does look like a cheap way to dip a toe into the future. Out on the 13th December, Foldify allows iPad owners to ‘draw, create, print and fold’ 3D Read more →

• Apple iMac Review: A Reason to Get a Desktop Computer

  Reviewing the new iMac on ABC News, Joanna Stern says the desktop has “as much sex appeal” as iPad and iPhone. “Even if you aren’t a tech enthusiast,” Stern writes, “this is a machine — or perhaps sculpture — you can admire.” Stern says the improved display’s sharpness makes looking Read more →

• PC Mag: iMac is Editor’s Choice

  PC Mag has added Apple’s new iMac to its Editor’s Choice list for high-end all-in-one desktops. Reviewer Brian Westover says the iMac is “faster and more responsive, offering larger, smarter storage.” He put the iMac through its paces with a number of media and processing tests and found that it Read more →

• Grand Theft Auto: Vice City – Rockstar Games

  Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Rockstar Games Genre: Games Price: $4.99 Release Date: December 6, 2012 Welcome back to Vice City. Welcome back to the 1980s. From the decade of big hair, excess and pastel suits comes a story of one man's rise to the top of the criminal pile. Read more →

• Jet Set Radio and Crazy Taxi. Classic Dreamcast games find a new home on the iPad

  We are huge fans of Sega’s final games console. Given that it was released in November 1998, the Dreamcast provided a surprisingly solid hardware platform for so many of the classic video games of that era. As we’ve mentioned before, the iPad is in many ways the spiritual successor to the Read more →

• Apple Puts Eye into iDevices

  Reporting in the Sydney Morning Herald, Garry Barker describes how Apple accessibility technology has enabled disabled users to thrive both personally and professionally. Barker tells the story of David Woodbridge, a technology manager for a large non-profit who has been blind since childhood. Woodbridge uses VoiceOver and other assistive technologies Read more →

• ZAGG is giving away 24 iPad's in 24 hours

  ZAGG, the iPad and iPhone accessories maker who we have mentioned many times, is about to begin it’s Black Friday promotional competition. At the time of writing, details of the competition are a little thin on the ground, but I’m sure everything will became apparent soon enough, but with an Read more →

• NFL Playbooks: There’s an App for That

  Katie Linendoll of ESPN.com reports that across the NFL teams “are trading in their 500-page printed playbooks for iPad.” Linendoll notes that iPad and an app called PlayerLync have revolutionized how the Denver Broncos, Green Bay Packers, Chicago Bears, Cincinnati Bengals, and San Diego Chargers share plays and distribute practice Read more →

• Innovative Education in China with Mac

  In a country where education has emphasized test taking and memorization, RDFZ XISHAN, an experimental middle school in Beijing, is the first school in China to participate in a Mac one-to-one program, which provides each student with a MacBook Pro. The program has transformed learning at the school into a Read more →