Posts Tagged ‘iOS’
HAND Stylus Has World’s Smallest Multifunctional Tip
California Pacific designs has made the HAND Stylus, the world’s smallest retractable, rotating, and replaceable tip for the portable electronic devices (4mm). The product was funded through Kickstarter and reached its initial funding goal in less than two days. The product will be on Kickstarter for another month.. The stylus has a hexagonal barrel design like the classic six-sided yellow pencil. Now tablet owners can draw, sketch, take notes, and retouch photos more efficiently with most touch-screen tablets or phones.
Line 6 Mobile Keys 49 Keyboard Controller
Love to play piano? Sound designer? Composer? Amateur? Well then the Line 6 Mobile Keys 49 and 25 Keyboard Controllers are right for you. I have recently been dabbling in audio composing and this plug and play device is perfect to get the job done. This is the first cross platform device that works on PC, Mac and iOS devices without any interface. This plugs directly into the iPhone, iPad or iPod and with the proper application, you can be playing away composing! Another HOT feature of the Line 6 Mobile Keys is it’s very low power consumption. You would think a controller of this type would drain your battery, but it won’t. I play a little piano, but I actually had a chance to sit down with a professional composer and sound engineer who really put the Mobile Keys to the test.
Head on in to view the video and see how it held up! If you’d like to learn more about the Line 6 Mobile Keys click here.
Facebook Takes a Shot at iMessage
While checking my iPhone this morning I noticed that Facebook Messenger received a big update, which looks like it wants to become your default app for messaging.
Checking out the app update you can get a feel for what I mean:
- Text friends for free over your data plan – One of the main reasons I use iMessage
- Typing indicator – Functionality that iMessage currently does
The reason I see this as a really powerful update is that most of my friends and family are on Facebook but don’t have an iOS device, which makes iMessage unusable in those cases. Also the younger generation of users are regularly ‘Facebooking’ each other rather than email, which seems a bit antiquated and sometimes from my experience these youngsters don’t even have an email address yet.
I’m going to start using it a bit more to test it out but these updates makes it use a bit more interesting.
Get your app updated now or download it for the first time here.
Spotify Launches iPad App – First Impressions
Since the music streaming service Spotify launched I’ve been a big fan of their premium membership allowing me to use it on my iOS devices, but it’s been really annoying me that there wasn’t an iPad app – until now.
Yes at last today we’ve seen the official launch and it’s now available to download in the App Store.
Read on for my first impressions.
AViiQ Announces Ready Clips, Tangle-Free Way to Charge or Transfer Data
I can’t begin to explain how frustrating it is trying to transfer data amongst various devices. I’m always on the lookout for convenient solutions for passing music, videos, and documents along to my gadgets.
AViiQ announced the release of their latest product, the Ready Clips. Ready Clips is a small band with a USB transfer tip on each side. One side will feature a USB 2.0, and the other will be available in the following options: microUSB, miniUSB, and Apple dock connector. On the top of the Ready Clips is also a clip which allows you to strap it onto you bag or pocket.
Ready Clips not only allows you to easily transfer data between your computer and device, but also charge them. The overall design looks to be quite impressive, with it’s really slim profile and appearance. The band is bendable making it easier to use and store in tight areas. The Ready Clips are available now in various individual and combo sets ranging from $19.99 to $29.99.
For more information on the Ready Clips, you can visit AViiQ’s website here.
Warning: Do Not Install Syn From the iTunes App Store
Whilst looking at Twitter this morning I came across a tweet by Leo Laporte highlighting a rather naughty app that can be downloaded in the App Store now. Further Tweets give more details, I then checked the app store and confirmed that all the reviews say that an app, Syn, spams your entire Facebook friends list. The app is said to keep your Facebook contacts in sync with those in your iOS address book (a function which iOS already mostly does anyway.)
Do not install this, I’d also be extra careful and let all of your Facebook friends you spammed know so that they know you have been caught out and don’t do the same thing.
I’m amazed that Apple has let this through, it goes to show that their approval process isn’t as good as we think it is. It’s a closed door process so we can’t see exactly what they do to approve but when I see this kind of thing it puts the ‘walled garden’ into perspective a bit and shows that anything can get through. The Apple approval process, once again, appears to be broken somewhere based on this app release.
Please don’t get caught out by this.
Review: About.me for iOS
The About.me app is your mobile companion to the now AOL owned About.me service, which you can think of as your digital business card. The service has been up and running for a number of years now and I’m not sure why it’s taken so long to get the app created but who cares, lets see what it’s like.
Read on to find out more.
Vimeo For iOS Adds 1080p Support And Network Quality Adaption
I have never really been a Vimeo fanatic, at least not with YouTube around. However, Vimeo has come in handy in many situations for me, as I typically find many tutorials to help me with some of my work. Vimeo has just updated their iOS application to support 1080p, and network quality adaption. The video streaming will switch back to 720p if you have a slower network connection, and to 1080p when you have a faster connection. According to Vimeo, the video playback and buffering have also been optimized to improve loading times and reliability.
For more information, visit Vimeo in the iOS App Store here.
About.me Launches an iOS App
About.me has become one of my favorite social networking services and essential for anyone with an online presence. Well yesterday it became even better with the launch of their very own iOS app.
If you aren’t familiar with about.me it’s essentially a place to put everything about “yourself.” You can add a profile picture, a bio and all of your social links. For me it’s replaced my website and now the only link that I need to send to anyone, think of it like my digital business card.
The iOS app allows you to manage your profile, search for people in the local area and search the larger directory for new people to follow.
Many of the writers here on Run Around Tech have About.me pages too. Check out Mine, Zach’s and Larry’s.
Keep checking the site for our full review coming soon. To download the About.me app head to the iTunes App Store page here.
Sparrow Gets Updated to Version 1.1
I reviewed Sparrow, the newest email app to hit the app store, and I haven’t taken it off my phone since. It’s not perfect and released today, was the first major update for the app.
Let’s talk about what they fixed, and whats still wrong.
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