Archive for June, 2011
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The Cool Features Apple Didn’t Announce At WWDC

Apple announced iCloud, iOS 5 and previewed Lion at WWDC but amidst the 450+ new features between all 3 new products, a few awesome things fell through the cracks. Here’s a roundup of the cool things Apple left out of its keynote.

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Pay With Sound thanks to Zoosh

Leave your wallet at home, you won’t need it anymore. Naratte, a company based out of Sunnyvale, California, has found a way to pay for things through a small app. The best part is, no expensive chip is needed, and any device with mp3 playback can do it. That is …

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Free Useful Background Textures

An attractive and appealing background pattern gives your website design a fresh vista.

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Cut the Rope Android App Free for One Week

Cut the Rope has been an extremely popular app for iPhone for quite some time, and it has finally been unveiled for Android. To add more good news, it is also available for free for one week (not in Market).

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Skype Shows Off New iPad App

Skype’s official iPad App has been missing since the iPad’s debut over a year ago. After a long wait, Skype has not only developed a native iPad App but has already submitted it to Apple. While the iPhone App could be used, a lot of tablet specific features were missing …

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An Acoustic Cloaking Device

Harry Potter fans rejoice, because even though scientists have not found a way to make an invisibility cloak, they are certainly working on it. Through their trials and tribulations, a technique has been found to cloak objects from incoming sound waves.

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Iron Man Origami Figure and Mask

The popular Avenger, Iron Man, has been remade and folded together out of colorful paper by Brian Chan. The result is spectacular.

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5 Top-Ranked Doctor Who Audiobooks

No matter if you are an NuWhovian or if you enjoy the Old Who more, you will surely like the adventures recounted in the Doctor Who audio books. Here are five of the most loved audio books that feature the Doctor and his companions.

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iRemoco Is Another Helicopter Controlled By iDevices

Remote control helicopters, planes and cars are almost as popular as they were when they were first created.  One change is that the way that these devices are being controlled has evolved over the years.

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Angry Birds On Rooted Nook Reader

Angry Birds are pretty much everywhere these days, even where they’re not supposed to be, like on this Barnes & Noble eReader.