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Instamatch – iPad app review

By | March 29, 2012 | No comment yet
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I’m not going to lie: the first thought that popped into my head when I started to peruse the Instamatch app was “what a waste of time.’

Then I spent an hour happily playing with it. Waste of time, indeed. Instamatch is memory concentration game that integrates with the Instagram, the popular iPhone app,  to create a card-matching memory game.

It works like this: Pick a game mode that either chooses from a pre-selected set of photos or from your own Instagram photos. (The game is not officially associated with the photo-sharing app, by the way). The goal is to match as many pairs of photos as possible–as quickly as possible.

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Two Years with The iPad– Distimo In-Depth Study

By | March 28, 2012 | No comment yet
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Research firm Distimo recently released a two-year study on the iPad and the App Store and offers detailed information as to how the Apple App Store has revolutionized the way media is distributed to consumers, specifically in the tablet market.

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New Retina Display Apps Section Available on iTunes

By | March 16, 2012 | No comment yet
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At about 9:00 p.m. PDT last night, I checked for new updates to my iPad 2 apps and, sure enough, there were 20 of them waiting to be downloaded. Most of them were getting the Retina display support. I never even managed to get them all updated because it was taking so dang long.

Today in the App Store, Apple has compiled a list of featured apps (Great apps for the new iPad) that have received the Retina display love for all of you new iPad owners out there looking to find the best way to really see what the third-generation tablet has to offer.

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App Store Gets a Facelift Ahead of iPad 3 Launch

By | March 7, 2012 | No comment yet
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With the much-anticipated Apple product announcement event mere hours away, Apple has made some minor adjustments to the “Top Charts” section of the iPad’s App Store. This redesign is just another teaser for what is to come in San Francisco later this morning.

The changes are minor and mainly affect the “Top Charts” section. Instead of the usual 25 top paid apps listed on the left side and top free apps listed on the right, they are listed horizontally in groups of six.

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‘Where’s My Water?’ was the 25 Billionth iOS App Downloaded

By | March 5, 2012 | No comment yet
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Early Saturday morning on March 3, many of us were waiting with anticipation as we watched the app ticker fly to its 25 billion mark. Once it finally reached its goal, the only thing on our minds was, who was the lucky winner of the $10,000 iTunes gift card and what app did they download?

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25 Billion iOS Apps Downloaded Since 2008!

By | March 3, 2012 | No comment yet
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Beginning on February 17 (with the counter set at around 24.29 billion), Apple has been actively counting down to the final download that would tip their App Store to over 25 billion apps delivered since opening in 2008. Early this morning it finally happened!

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Sprint Debuts a TV App for iOS

By | March 2, 2012 | 1 comment
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SprintTVIf you happen to be a Sprint iPhone customer, you will be delighted to discover the new television streaming app designed by the company for their subscribers.

Using this app you can tune in to your favorite prime-time shows on all of the major networks, watch live sports (including college football, baseball, basketball, hockey and horseracing) on ESPN Mobile TV or choose specialty services like those for weather or kids programming from Disney Channel.

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MoneyWiz Makes Home Budgeting Easier – iPad App Review

By | February 27, 2012 | 2 comments
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I’m not necessarily the best person when it comes to managing money, which is why I really need to devise a good system for organizing and tracking my income, expenses and various “miscellaneous” expenses (read: lots of apps, books and way too many pairs of shoes).

In the past, this has meant trying to reconcile various Excel spreadsheets with bank account information and notes scribbled on endless note pads on which I devise various budgets and expense scenarios.

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Distimo Report: Is the Amazon Appstore Making Money?

By | February 23, 2012 | No comment yet
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Developers should take notice because according to the latest Distimo Report it appears that the Amazon Appstore is making money! In contrast to the Google Android Market (that contains 14 times more apps than the Amazon Appstore), paid applications rest in the majority (65%). This, combined with the momentum gathered by the considerable sales-success of the Kindle Fire over the 2011 holiday season, downloads (and therefore, potential for profits) from Amazon’s Appstore increased 14-fold in December 2011 over figures from just two months earlier.

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Report Finds Android Apps Cost 2.5x More than iPhone and iPad Apps

By | February 23, 2012 | 4 comments
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iPad AppsDid you know that you can purchase all of the top 100 paid iPhone apps for a total of $147? That’s just $1.47 per app, on average, though looking at the list, many are $0.99.

If you were to buy the top 100 paid apps in the Android Market, though, it would cost you a whopping $374.37, or an average of $3.74 per app. That’s more than 2.5 times the cost of the top iPhone apps.

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