A 42 meter, $15 million yacht isn't cool. You know what's cool? a 42 meter, $15 million yacht that can be controlled by a tablet! You're probably going to think that we are making this up as we go along, but believe it or not, we couldn't have imagined any of this even if we had tried! Sometimes the truth really is somehow stranger than fiction.
When it was released in 2010, the iPad was labeled as “a large iPod touch” and predicted to be a market failure by many (including a younger, more naïve version of myself). As it turns out, the fact that it is a large iPod touch is precisely what makes it so darn awesome, especially for non-tech-savvy people like my mother.
With the anticipation for Samsung's Galaxy S III reaching fever pitch, the predictable influx of supposed leaks is in full swing. Following on from Samsung's immensely-popular Galaxy S II, the expectation of the device cannot be underestimated. We've sifted through quite a few images purporting to depict the next best Android device - some which do look plausible, while others fail to convince.
Phillippe Starck, a highly-regarded and respected contemporary designer, has revealed in an interview that he's been aiding Apple with a new product set for release in the next eight months, which he describes as being "revolutionary".
With the Xbox 360 now in its seventh year on the market, the ardent gamers are getting increasingly excited about the prospect of its successor, and the rumor mill has been fairly rampant over the past 6 months or so, covering just about every eventuality possible.
Jailbreaking an iOS device brings a number of well documented advantages to the table. It includes things such as gaining full control over software installations on the device, as well as being able to easily manipulate app file names and strings to change the default behavior, look and feel of how the whole thing works. On the whole, the additional control that jailbreaking gives users can only be a good thing, but with that being said, there are certain pitfalls to be wary of.
With so many apps claiming to make daily task managing just that tidbit easier, the App Store is a goldmine for those looking to keep their lives in check. Thus, Pocket Lists by 1312 is a mere statistic among the hundreds, but nevertheless manages to tick most of the required boxes - and then some.
While there are many great Twitter clients helping us voice our <140, quickly upload pictures and check up on what everybody else has to say, there's a glaring lack of proper Twitter management apps out there.
If you're a fan of tweaks a little out of the ordinary, then AppMosaic by ctrled may be just the sort of thing you look for. Probably classifiable as an app as opposed to a tweak, it portrays the top 200 apps (free and paid) in one elongated mosaic. It only depicts the icons, but by tapping on them, a box appears at the bottom of the screen denoting the title and its publisher/developer.
With the recent Facebook acquisition of Instagram, and the app having just been ported to Android - and enjoying over a million first-day downloads in the process - the market for photo-manipulation apps is undoubtedly at an all-time high. While not everybody is convinced by Instagram's photo-editing credentials, there are plenty of alternatives offering a vast array of features enabling the most beautiful snaps to be made out of the most seemingly bland, boring, inanimate objects.
