If you're the kind of individual who finds themselves spending far too much time searching for new ways to manipulate your images, you may want to check out PhotoMagic for iPhone. The brainchild of Softease Tech, it delivers on all fronts, and considers the less experienced wannabe photographer with a very user-friendly interface.
If you had any doubt about the existence or the availability of Google Play Store gift cards, then the company themselves have dropped one of the biggest hints yet that their arrival is extremely imminent. We've been hearing about the gift cards for quite some time now, with various logs showing up in certain retail databases, but Google has updated one of their own support pages with extensive information about the cards and the balance of individual Play accounts.
Modern smartphones are designed to be online constantly. With fast 3G and 4G radios built right in and Wi-Fi on tap, it's fair to say that we live our lives through our smartphones these days, and that means they're full of data that needs keeping safe.
If you have deep pockets, or more likely just a large handbag, it might often be difficult to hear notifications from your phone, leading you to return home with multiple unanswered notifications of text messages, important emails or Facebook notifications. A new Kickstarter project, known as the EMBRACE+, is an electronic bracelet that will light up whenever a notification from your phone is displayed.
Apple has a habit for going against the grain when creating some of its adapters and peripherals, and on closer inspection, that's perhaps never more apparent than in the Lightning to Digital AV adapter. You wouldn't expect a great deal when stripping it down, but as Panic (of Coda and Transmit fame) dug up, there's actually a fully-fledged computer, complete with an ARM chip and 256MB of RAM inside.
Every year, Fortune Magazine compiles a list of the world’s most admired companies, based on their financial performance, products and brand impact among consumers. For the sixth year in a row, Apple managed to maintain its lead as the “World’s Most Admired Company” of 2013, ahead of such well-known companies as Google, FedEx and even Walt Disney and Washington-based Starbucks.
With so many different legal battles roaring on between Samsung and Apple, it's easy to lose track of which court case is which. The one that really stands out from the crowd though is the infamous court decision which awarded Apple a cool $1 billion, with Samsung told to pay up for infringing upon some of Apple’s patents.
Unless you've been in hiding for the past fortnight, you will have caught Sony's announcement of the PlayStation 4 last week, and since the big unveiling left quite a few elements to the imagination (namely, what the console actually looks like), chins have been wagging in gaming circles ever since. Shortly following the event, we heard of the interesting development that while it would not apply to games, the PlayStation 4 would support 4K video playback, and today, that has been confirmed by the Japanese company's COO Phil Molyneux.
I was playing my favorite iOS game earlier today (Disc Drivin', for those interested), and, mid-shot, I was rudely interrupted by that very obtrusive, rarely useful popup notification telling me I had 20% battery left. Lo and behold, I messed up my shot, and like many jailbreakers, took to Cydia to find a solution. There are many tweaks offering to change the way popup notifications look and behave, but I was in the hunt for something battery-specific, and found solace in the form of LowPowerBanner.
Oxford University's Department of Engineering Science has developed a technology which allows a car to essentially drive itself - controlled by an Apple iPad. As demonstrated in a video of a Nissan Leaf electric car independently navigating through stretches of private roads, the robotic technology certainly takes the phrase "automatic car" to an entirely new dimension.
