Smartphones are the ultimate example of the convergence of technology. They play your music, TV shows, movies, take great photos, run games, can act as a flashlight, let you browse the internet, send/receive email and, before I get, let you make calls and send text messages. You can now add one more feature to that list: scan your documents. Yes, a new app called Handy Scanner essentially turns your Android phone into a document scanner. Check it out after the break.
Whenever a new product release draws nearer, we brace ourselves for the inevitable barrage of rumors surrounding the technical specification and the aesthetic appearance of the product. Post launch, we then sit in amazement as somehow people manage to perfectly predict just what is going to be announced, and laugh uncontrollably at the others who were so far off the mark. It was like they just tickled a random idea generator and printed the result.
Instagram is one of those beautifully simple concept that has millions of amateur and professional photographers alike completely hooked. You take a photo, edit, and share. And that, as they say, is that.
Simon Prakash, Apple’s former senior director of product integrity, has just been hired by fierce rivals Google to begin work on a supposed “secret project”, details of which are currently unknown.
Apple's release of the iPhone 4S brought with it more than a few raised eyebrows. Was Apple really launching a new iPhone that is, for all intents and purposes, last year's model with a few bells and whistles added on?
We've been hearing rumors and counter-rumors of an Apple television for a couple of years now, but things have really heated up of late.
What do you get if you cross a British rock band, a stylus, a Hollywood movie director, a Korean electronics company and a mobile device big enough to sink an ocean cruise liner? Yes, that's right, you get a truly cringe worthy Samsung Super Bowl commercial.
I remember the old days of having to carry about different A4-sized pads of paper for different lectures in my bag when going to university. Getting home at the end of the day and having to face the laborious task of going through each notepad trying to collate my notes and put them into some kind of workable order. Needless to say, the novelty of keeping on top of things soon wore off and left me with notepads and notepads of unorganized, badly taken notes which probably affected my performance.
If you're an observant type, then you've probably noticed in the past how Apple's iPhone ads always seem to show its handset displaying the same time - 9:42. It's a curious thing, and one that has led to much speculation over the years.
At the end of January we brought you quite an exciting article which focused on a new project called iOSOpenDev which aimed to make the process of creating 'open' iOS tweaks for jailbroken devices significantly easier. The idea alone of a project such as iOSOpenDev should be enough to make the world stand up and take notice that the art of jailbreaking an iDevice isn't going anywhere anytime soon, but the actual release of the initial version is surely enough to prove that the community means business.
