Event confirmed for “rock n roll”… no tablet I suppose…
by Chiyin on Aug 31st, 2009 @ 12:40 pm
Arstechnica is confirming the event Apple has scheduled for September 9th… As the invite indicates it says “It’s only rock and roll, but we like it.” Which lead me to believe there won’t be announcement of the highly anticipated tablet. Now what I want to know is… Will we see The Beatles catalog in the iTunes Store?
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Amazon opens wireless store, no iPhones yet
by Justin Horn on Aug 29th, 2009 @ 2:44 pm
Amazon just opened up the virtual doors to a new section of their online megastore, AmazonWireless. Trying to be like Google the new store is currently in beta, but seem fully functional. The store is open for a variety of phones sold through AT&T and Verizon. As you know the iPhone is only sold in Apple, AT&T, Best Buy, and Walmart stores, but I wouldn’t be surprised if Apple allowes AT&T to list the iPhone with Amazon in the future.
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Facebook 3.0 hits iTunes
by Justin Horn on Aug 27th, 2009 @ 5:12 pm
It isn’t showing up in the updates yet or even showing the 3.0 version number when you navigate to the iTunes store page, but just download it as a new app and you will have 3.0 installed!
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App Review: AppCritics… See what other people are saying…
by Chiyin on Aug 26th, 2009 @ 12:22 pm
With so many apps available in the store, how do we decide what to spend our hard earned cash on? Most of us will surely rely on the reviews left by fellow users in the App Store, but most of the time there will only be one or two reviews for any given app. Is that a good indication as to the quality of an app? For all I know it could be written by some friend or family of the developer. But what if we have a way of seeing what people are saying about an app across all the app stores in the world? That’s where AppCritics (iTunes link) comes in.
AppCritics basically taps into iTunes App Stores around the globe, grabs app reviews and puts them all in one place. With App Stores currently in 62 countries this gives you a lot more feedback at your fingertips.
For the most part the app works great but it does have its shortcomings. The interface is nice and very easy to use. The ability to translate a single review (or all of them) with the touch of a button is a neat feature and it works very well. Now, getting to the reviews is where it falls a little bit short on execution. In order to get to the reviews you have to search for a specific app, that’s fine and dandy when you already know what you are looking for, but not so much when you are just browsing around to see what’s new and cool. Perhaps the developer can include something akin to the App Store’s “Featured” and “Top 25″ sections in an update?
As it is right now, AppCritics will be most useful to developers wanting to see what people around the globe are saying about their apps. For the rest of us it won’t be that useful until sections for “Top apps” or “Featured” apps are added.
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Snow Leopard poll complete…finally!
by Justin Horn on Aug 26th, 2009 @ 11:10 amOur longest running poll on When Will Apple, when will snow leopard be released, has finally come to an end. A few months ago Apple sort of announced a release date, “September”, so we decided to start up a new poll with just that month. So what does Apple do? …they pull a fast one and release it early. So we rounded up all the eligible entries and pick one lucky winner at random.
So Jasonstar7 come on down!
Read more about the Snow Leopard release on the poll page here.
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