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StillShot For iPhone Lets You Create High Quality Photos From Videos

Ben Reid — Wed, 23 May 2012 23:05:40 +0000

With a handful of new camera apps now arriving for iOS on a daily basis, the onus is most certainly on developers to bring something a little new to the table each time. Social plug-ins and filter effects have been implemented to the maximum, so in order to offer iPhone users a feature less prevalent, Macadamia Apps has put together a nifty number called StillShot.

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Google Will Reportedly Release 5 New Nexus Devices On 5th November To Commemorate 5 Years Of Android

Ben Reid — Wed, 23 May 2012 21:31:00 +0000

Last week, we skimmed over a report which suggested a wave of Nexus devices would be releasing this fall and sold directly through the Google Play Store, and now TalkAndroid has added a little more info to the pot by revealing that the devices will be released on November the 5th.

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Google Search App For iPhone Hits v2.0, Features A Completely Redesigned UI, Full-Screen Search And More

Ben Reid — Wed, 23 May 2012 20:32:15 +0000

When asked to look something up online, more often then not, you'll be told to "Google it," such is the prowess of the web company in the search department. Although Bing has a stronghold over in China, the Big G's search engine is the one consulted by most when the power of the internet's sparse knowledge comes to call.

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OS X Mountain Lion To Get Siri-Like Dictation? [SCREENSHOT]

Ben Reid — Wed, 23 May 2012 20:28:14 +0000

While Siri has managed to remain an almost permanent fixture on the majority of tech blogs - without actually being altogether that accurate - 9to5Mac appears to have spotted a a keyboard shortcut reference in the latest Mountain Lion beta, which possibly indicates that Apple's upcoming OS X release could also get some kind of Siri-esque dictation.

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Apple And Samsung CEOs Reach No Conclusion In Patent Talks

Ben Reid — Wed, 23 May 2012 18:25:26 +0000

Apple and Samsung have been at each other's throats for a good couple of years now, and the ill-feeling stems - for the most part - from Apple's firm belief that it's Korean rival has been plagiarizing its designs and passing them off as their own.

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Microsoft Reportedly Bringing Its Office Suite To iPad And Android Tablets This November

Ben Reid — Wed, 23 May 2012 16:15:59 +0000

Whew, that took a long time! It was always inevitable that Microsoft was going to bring its famed Office Suite to mobile devices, since it's too lucrative a market to miss. Still, the Redmond-based Windows maker is now said to be finally working on ports for tablets on both iOS and Android, a foreshadowing - we presume - to a Metro iteration in a future Windows 8 tablet.

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Diablo III Becomes Fastest-Selling PC Game Ever

Ben Reid — Wed, 23 May 2012 16:00:40 +0000

Whilst there was plenty of excitement and anticipation in the run up to the launch of Diablo III, nobody could have predicted just how anxious gamers were to get to grips with the third installment to the popular series.

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ooVoo For iOS And Android Now Offers Video Chat With Up To 12 Participants

Ben Reid — Wed, 23 May 2012 15:27:09 +0000

Beginning with mere text chat back in the days of IRC, communicating online via voice and video has now become commonplace, and thanks to the likes of Skype and FaceTime, it's never been so easy to have a face-to-face conversation with friends and relatives across the world from many different devices.

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Mass Effect Infiltrator For Android Now Available For Download, Is As Good As Its iOS Counterpart

Paul Morris — Wed, 23 May 2012 14:13:09 +0000

For those who are fans of the Mass Effect series - and let's be honest, there are plenty of you out there - you may have to be prepared to dedicate a larger portion of your life to Commander Shepard as gaming giants Electronic Arts have pushed out Mass Effect Infiltrator to the Google Play Store for Android Devices.

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Apple’s Current Project Is Its “Best” and “Most Important” Work, Says Jony Ive

Ben Reid — Wed, 23 May 2012 14:06:51 +0000

Jony Ive, or Sir Jony Ive as he is known in his native United Kingdom, is widely regarded as the man behind some of Apple's most iconic designs. Once described by Steve Jobs as the man with the most power and influence within the fruit company besides himself, he is responsible for the look of everything from the MacBook air to the market-defining iPad.

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