Apple's 9.7-inch iPad continues to hold onto its place at the top of the popularity charts in the market, which essentially means that there is a whole heap of iPad users out there. Those users will undoubtedly value the iPad that they shelled out their hard-earned cash for and will be looking for some way of protecting it from damage. Twelve South has extended their excellent line of accessories by launching this unique vintage leather carrying case designed specifically for Apple’s famed tablet, called the BookBook Travel Journal for iPad.
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It's hard to believe that it's been a year since the previous installment of Call of Duty was thrusted into our lives. For the sake of wiping away any worry that you may have, we are happy to report that Activision hasn’t just been sitting on the profits from previous iterations of the title, but instead have been hard at work alongside Infinity Ward to produce the latest in the series. Incase you managed to miss the announcement, Call of Duty: Ghosts officially became available today and has been released alongside a companion mobile app that is available for Android, iOS and Windows Phone 8 devices.
It seems rather strange to design and manufacture a smartphone called the G Flex and then not advertise anywhere that is has the ability to bend and flex. It's perfectly understandable not forcing your consumer to put unnecessary pressure on the device and attempt to bend or flex it beyond its physical capabilities, but when the unique selling point of a product is its curved form it seems like a missed opportunity to promote that fact. LG, for some reason has decided to not openly advertise the G Flex's malleable properties, although it has been proven that consumers can manipulate the frame of the device if they see fit.
Remember back in 1999 when Sony released the bizarre looking PocketStation accessory to accompany the original PlayStation? The creative little device featured an LCD display and was intended to be a combination based product that offered storage and personal digital assistant based functionality. The device never actually managed to see the light of day in the United States or Europe, partly because Sony used all available stock to satisfy demand in Japan and partly because it was killed off after three years. It seems that the PocketStation memory lives on not only in the thoughts of Sony but also in a second-generation form as a native app for Sony's PlayStation Vita handheld.
One of Apple's most useful, but often overlooked, in-house app has today received a substantial update. When Apple first launched the App Store, their own Remote app was one of the few apps that really provided any kind of innovative solution for music control. In the time that has followed; a number of third-party developers have released extremely powerful creations that offer the same functionality plus a little bit more thrown in for good measure. Remote for iOS has been allowed to fall a little bit behind the times but all that has been rectified with this big v4.0 update.
Google Street View is an invaluable resource in certain situations. If you're dashing out to meet a client, or visiting the new home of a friend or family member then Street View is fantastic for getting a real-world look of the address that you're heading to before actually setting off. Even if you're just the inquisitive type who is sitting in the comfort of your own home looking eagerly at streets in your local area then you can easily lose countless hours to the wonder that is Street View. If you're bored of looking at terraced streets or local parks then maybe you should cast your eyes over the internals of the HMS Ocelot, which is now fully documented thanks to the power of Google Street View.
Apple’s hardware is undoubtedly one of the defining characteristics of iOS devices, but it's the underlying power of Apple's proprietary software that really makes the difference. With that said, there are still certain parts of iOS that users don't seem to want to embrace - and it seems the makers of The Simpsons are keen to exploit that.
The age old saying of "you can't know where you're going until you know where you've been" can be applied to so many different things in life. It's widely accepted that those words of wisdom were first uttered in the context of taking a look at our ancestry and heritage with the aim of planning a future for ourselves. However, the same words can also be applied to consumer technology with the embedded GIF summing up beautifully the evolution of the Nexus smartphone over the last three years.
Manufacturers like Samsung and Nokia had the freedom to push out whacky devices they liked into relatively innocent and emerging market. It's also worth remembering that Apple didn't even exist in the mobile space a few years back. Things have moved on a great deal in the last decade, but it seems certain markets are still hungry for the old-school designs of yesteryear. And now, Samsung is still keen to supply new and innovative clamshell style devices to those markets.
The official launch date of the Sony PlayStation 4 and Microsoft Xbox One is fast approaching and we are starting to get to that point where undecided consumers will be pulling together all of the resources possible to decide which hardware to opt for. Sony has recently published a list of things the PlayStation 4 can and cannot do and Microsoft has now followed that pattern by confirming that the Xbox One will be capable of not only playing back audio CDs, but will also be DLNA compatible on launch.
