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( Back to Top ) Itsectornews lunched a Report on China Software package Market place Forecast to 2012
Tue, Oct 25 @ 3:52 PM
Itsectornews lunched a Report on China Software package Market place Forecast to 2012 Traditionally, China has been broadly identified for its world-class reduced cost production amenities. But the ongoing battle to make China a 'hi-tech' service-based economic system has fuelled expansion in the domestic computer software business in modern many years. Aspects encouraging the software [...]
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( Back to Top ) SportCaster Review
Tue, Oct 25 @ 6:08 AM
Even without the Yankees in the playoffs and an NBA regular season, it's pretty much a perfect time to be a sports fan. Nelson Cruz broke the MLB record for most home runs and RBIs in a playoff series, Tom Brady has somehow found yet another gear, and Jaromir Jagr is back on the ice at 39 years old. And with all of that great action filling the days, fantasy die-hards still have to find time to manage multiple teams.Whether your squad is playoff-bound or your star player is saddled on the sidelines, there are any number of iPhone apps to keep track of touchdowns, goals, and penalties. But committed fantasy owners need more than just stats and play-by-play -- and they should definitely consider downloading SportCaster. Casual fans, not so much.On the surface, the app offers little benefit over ESPN ScoreCenter or Yahoo! Sportacular -- that is, rudimentary stats, scores, and standings -- but SportCaster's strength is not in numbers. Rather, words are what sets it apart from the pack, as inside each game is a "Conversation" tab that collects tweets from all corners of the Twitterverse. And this isn't just mindless hashtag stuff: feeds from players, teams, analysts, and local sportscasters populate the feed, more than making up for the app's surprising lack of play-by-play.Non-fantasy freaks, however, probably won't see the value in sifting through dozens of tweets -- there aren't any advanced filters for content -- just to find out how far Rian Lindell's last field goal sailed. SportCaster clearly isn't meant for nonchalant fans; its target audience is face-painting fantasy addicts who follow Teemu Selänne's post-game press comments and want to digest as much news and commentary as possible about the day's action. Who knew the little blue Twitter bird was so macho?The bottom line. When Tom Brady threw his fourth interception against the Bills in week 3, fantasy owners reading SportCaster could have followed the whole scene -- right down to any inappropriate post-game comments. Let's see a Monday morning box score do that.Review Synopsis Product: SportCaster 2.5 Company: OneLouder Contact: http://onelouder.com Price: <a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=ApuPaiKIpxg&offerid=146261&type=3&subid=0&tmpid=1826&RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fitunes.apple.com%252Fus%252Fapp%252Fsportcaster-football-hockey%252Fid455388588%253Fmt%253D8%2526uo%253D4%2526partnerId%253D30" target="itunes_store">Free</a> Requirements: iPhone or iPod touch running iOS 4.0 or later Positives: Packed with information and unique in-game analysis. In-app tweeting abilities. Negatives: No play-by-play function. Limited appeal. Weak feed filters. Score: 3.5 Good
Powerbag Charging Backpack Review
Tue, Oct 25 @ 7:45 AM
An electrifying way to carry your gearI kinda have a thing for bags. I know exactly what I want from them, but it's so hard to find one that does everything a gadget-hauling nerd like me could wish for. But if I ever get to design my own backpack someday, it's going to look an awful lot like the Powerbag.Right off the bat, it dazzles by offering an ingeniously designed, built-in charging system. That's right, a battery is built into the actual backpack, and it's just awesome to use. Inside a small pouch on the side are built-in micro USB, mini USB, and 30-pin Apple cords—just tuck your device in there, press the power button on the backpack for two seconds, and the 3000mAh battery starts pumping juice into your device. There's even a light-up power indicator on the backpack that briefly shows how much charge is left in your battery, as well as a tablet pouch in the medium exterior pocket that's perfect for an iPad—complete with loops that let you run a charging cord to the battery's USB port.Hidden power lurks inside this bag…for your iDevices and more!When it's time to charge up your battery, the outside of the backpack has a power port for the included AC cord, so you just plug in your backpack overnight and away she goes. (If your devices are connected inside the bag, they'll charge first.) You can also easily snap the battery out of its casing and charge it separately if you can't leave your bag just lying around.Looking at this well-built backpack, you'd never know it was packed with power. Its clean, modern lines make it unobtrusively fashionable, and everything is well padded, extremely comfortable, and sturdily constructed. It's one seriously well-built bag.There's one caveat—the entry-level backpack that we reviewed is a bit short on interior pouches, and it could really use an exterior "quick grab" pouch for things you don't want to rummage for, like subway tickets. Fortunately, you can get those things by spending another $30 on the "deluxe" model of this backpack (not tested), which includes a 6000mAh battery as well. Also, because MacBooks only charge via a MagSafe connection—and Apple sues companies that use its patented MagSafe connectors—you can't charge your MacBook with this bag. (Hypermac.com sells an interesting workaround, if you're interested.)The bottom line. A cleverly designed, well-made backpack that'll charge up to four devices at once? Yes, please!Review Synopsis Product: Powerbag Company: fūl Inc. Contact: mypowerbag.com Price: $139.99 Requirements: iDevice or USB-chargeable device that you want to carry around and charge. Positives: Ingenious, built-in battery and charging cables. Cool charging light. Well-designed and well-built backpack. Negatives: Needs a few more interior pouches and a "quick grab" exterior pocket. Can't charge MacBooks (Apple's "fault"). Score: 4.5 Excellent
App Showdown: Photo Editors
Tue, Oct 25 @ 10:34 AM
With iOS 5, iPhone users finally have native photo editing. But Apple kept things simple, so all you get is rotate, crop, red eye removal, and auto-enhance doing its thing. Prior to this small selection there was nothing, so the App Store is packed full of alternate cameras and photo editing apps for your shutterbug delights.Adobe Photoshop Express (Free/Universal)A dead simple interface makes this easyPhoto editing stalwart Adobe got into the game with Photoshop Express and their app is a decent entrant. Choose between taking a picture and loading one in from your camera roll to get started, then you get two more choices -- tap the arrow to share the picture on Twitter, Facebook or Photoshop.com or tap the pencil to start editing.Drop downs say it allFour fairly obvious buttons cross the top of the app and four more cross the bottom. The Crop button does what it says but it also allows straightening, rotating, or flipping photos. Adjust the color saturation or exposure by tapping the next button, make it black and white, change the tint or adjust the contrast. These adjust as you slide your finger horizontally across the screen, the changes denoted by number or on a color bar.Nice color palette, no?More artistic effects include a sketch adjustment, soften or sharpen the focus, and (if you buy the $4.99 add-on) reduce noise. Photoshop Express also includes seven color filters such as Pop that makes four copies and tints them all differently, Rainbow that splashes ROYGBIV across your picture, Soft Black & White and more. Choose borders to add frames or ragged contact sheet style edging. Save your picture to the camera roll then share it if you like though your options here are pretty limited.We hoped for more filters from the photo top dawgPhotoshop Express is well done, free, and works fairly well delivering lots of edits within its simple UI. More sharing options would be nice and the add-ons (noise reduction, a timer, and multiburst shots) aren't really worth five dollars, but overall it's a solid performance from the leader in photo editing software.Instagram (Free/iPhone)Cats still rule the interwebzThe darling of the Internet, Burbn, Inc.'s Instagram is either a free camera app packed with social sharing or it's a social media app based around pictures. Either way, if you do a lot of sharing, you most likely are familiar with this one. First you set up your Instagram account then link to various social sites and find your friends.109 people like a girl in the restroomYou first open the app to your feed. These are people whose photos you follow. Or expand your horizons beyond friends by tapping the Popular button. There stroll through a gallery of pictures beloved by the Instagram masses. Tap a picture and it opens bigger and you can like it, comment on it, or choose to follow this person's photo life.1977 dog likes filters, not catsThe middle button says Share, opening the camera. Add a frame by tapping the square in the upper left, a tear drop in the upper right pops in a pinchably adjustable tilt shift focal point, and the X takes you back to the Popular gallery. You can also add pictures from the camera roll. The eye in the lower right turns on the filters. Nicely, these filters can be applied live, so if you don't have to catch a pic on the fly, you can choose between Lomo effect or the Toaster filter and more before snapping..Tiltshifting photo of world's creepiest dollApprove your picture, then you're taken to a screen to title it, enable geotagging, and determine where you'll share. Instagram has Twitter, Facebook, Email, Flickr, Tumblr, Foursquare, and Posterous options built in so no one has to miss out.Sharing galoreThe news button lets you see the pictures your friends and those you're following have liked. The Profile button will allow you to adjust your sharing settings, pick a new profile picture for yourself, and do other under the hood stuff.As far as editing pictures goes, Instagram has seventeen filter options and each comes with its own specialized frame, plus there are the tilt shift and rotate options. As a photo editor, it feels less robust than Photoshop Express, but for sharing there's no competition between the two.Camera+ ($0.99/iPhone)tap tap tap has something remarkable going on with Camera+. If you're looking for a camera with features, this one will fit the bill. The app opens directly to the camera where the digital zoom slider is visible. Tap the screen and a pinkish square appears. Tap it a second time and a pinkish circle appears within the square.Adjust focus and exposure, separately for best resultsDrag the circle about to get the best exposure applied to the whole picture while the square sets a certain focal point. With two finger action, great pictures are a snap. After the shutter goes off, Camera+ saves your shots to the app's Lightbox for editing.The Lightbox is where you do your workTap a photo here and you get an X to delete, a magnifying glass to enlarge and four more buttons. Save sends it to your camera roll, Info provides EFIX data including date, location, exposure, f-stop and more, and Share lets you upload to Flickr, Facebook, or Twitter as well as email and MMS. But Edit is where the magic happens.Tons of editing magic all the way throughTwo rows of buttons appear across the bottom. The top row are controlled by the bottom five. Scenes allows you to sixteen lighting conditions or subjects (improve your food snaps!). Adjust flips and rotates; Crops gives you nine pre-set options including the Golden Ratio plus freeform photo trimming.All kinds of filters packed in hereFX Effects delivers 27 filters (with nine more for sale) and each comes with an Intensity slider for more fine grain control. Best of all, each effect is recorded in the Info panel so you can revisit a photo to recreate the same effect on other pictures. The info button gives you the goodsEditing photos after the fact is one thing, but Camera+ helps you out during the taking. Tap the gear next to the shutter button and choose between the Stablilizer, a Timer, or a Burst of rapid-fire shots. Nor is the app limited to photos taken within it. From the Lightbox tap the boxed gear wheel to open your camera roll for quick import. Camera+ is a sweet app we've taken many a good photo with and we were completely set to fully and whole-heartedly give it the prize. Until we tried the next app.PictureShow ($1.99/iPhone)It seems with each app we introduce, more features are added. graf's PictureShow goes hog wild. Two buttons greet you when you open it: start shooting or import from the camera roll. Tap the shutter button to shoot or tap the lens kit to the far right to take quad shots and more fancy types. The gear next to the shutter button gives you your timer, a grid, and sequence shots.Lotta teeny tiny buttons thereBut PictureShow is just getting started. Once you've taken or imported your picture eight tiny buttons cross the bottom of the app. Tap Style and pick from 23 frames, 10 light exposures, 13 noise filters, and adjustable vignette framing. Tap Special to drop in tilt shifting or HDR after-effects (both with adjustable sliders for fine-grained control). Tap Color to slide-adjust the red, green, and blue, as well as brightness and contrast. Transform offers cropping in five ratios and a freehand option plus flipping the picture along the X and Y axis.So many different styles you can applyYou can add text to your photo by tapping on that button, and here you can alter the color, size, and alignment of fourteen different fonts. Finally, the kicker, PictureShow has the name of your photo style up top. Tap the name to access 45 preset filters such as LomoGraphy, BlueVintage, IndigoHalo, Noir, and dozens more.These filters go on and on, on top of everything elseFlick your finger up or down the picture to change styles in the full-screen view or hit the shuffle button to pick a random style. And if you tweak your own style and love it, tap the heart to save that particular picture recipe.Flick up or down to see the next full screen filterPictureShow also includes sharing at Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, tumblr, and Blogger, as well as saving to your camera roll or emailing the photo to someone, because after all the work you do, these pictures are crying out to be shared.Share and share alikeDevelopingIf you're looking for the full package of sharing and editing, look no further than PictureShow. The app is feature rich, infinitely customizable, fun to play around with, and hits the vast majority of sharing options. It could almost replace Apple's Camera app as our go-to picture taker. Camera+ runs a close second as far as features go, though it offers fewer than PictureShow and even fewer sharing options. Instagram is nice for sharing but rather limited in its palette. Photoshop is your best free option, though if you share beyond the majors, you'll be working it run-around style.
Tuesday Recap: More Apple TV News, Fetch 5.7, LTE iPhone, Macworld Registration
Tue, Oct 25 @ 2:28 PM
Does it feel like a long week to anyone else? Yeah, we know it's only Tuesday, but still… the weekend can't come soon enough! The week has brought bad news for both Netflix and Amazon (both taking a hit after reporting third-quarter results), but there are plenty of other things happening as well. Take a look at what you might have missed for this Tuesday, October 25, 2011.Apple's Television Spearheaded By iTunes Creator Jeff Robbin?Apple co-founder Steve Jobs lived to realize his dream of taking on the smartphone and tablet markets, but he may have left behind a legacy in the living room as well. According to Bloomberg, the company's iPod and iTunes guru, Jeff Robbin, has been put in charge of the Jobs' final creation, an Apple-branded television set. It's been widely reported that Jobs told official biographer Walter Isaacson that he had "finally cracked" that elusive goal with "the simplest user interface you could imagine." Analysts are predicting a true Apple TV could be introduced in late 2012 or early 2013. Would you like our credit card number now…?Apple TV Gets 4.4.2 Update, Resolves Updating ProblemsSpeaking of the Apple TV, that little black box hasn't been pushed aside quite yet. MacRumors is reporting the second-generation device has received a third update this month, version 4.4.2, which appears to clear up problems with the 4.4.1 update released last week. Apple suggests resetting all settings on the device prior to updating, but recognizes "that this is an inconvenience" and apologies.Veteran FTP Software Fetch Bumped To Version 5.7There are plenty of ways to access FTP servers on the Mac, but one of the oldest is still the best: Fetch, who released a new version 5.7 update this week. Among the laundry list of changes are improved compatibility with OS X Lion as well as better control over files, monitoring the progress of transfers and support for syncing Fetch shortcuts between computers using Dropbox. Unfortunately, in a sign of the times, Fetch 5.7 requires an Intel Mac running Mac OS X 10.5 or later. Fetch 5.5 and 5.6 users who purchased after January 28, 2009 are eligible for a free update; older version upgrades are $10 and a new license is $29 from either the company's website or the Mac App Store.Rumor: LTE iPhone Targeted for 2012?There's little doubt that Apple is working on a 4G LTE version of the iPhone, and many expect it to arrive as early as next year, when the carriers finally roll out across the country. According to a new report from DigiTimes, Apple will be among the members of "the LTE club" in 2012 alongside Nokia, RIM and Sony Ericsson. Third-place U.S. carrier Sprint is planning its own LTE rollout next year, with 15 devices already planned for release at the same time. Could the iPhone 5 be one of them?Macworld Expo Rebrands, Adds iWorld to "Ultimate iFanEvent"We've been wondering when registration for the 2012 Macworld Expo would open, and it turns out that today was that day. Unfortunately, this year event hosts IDG World Expo has done away with the early bird free passes (they're now $25 until December 1), but the show is expanding its horizons as "the ultimate iFanEvent" which is now rebranded as Macworld/iWorld to incorporate more iOS into the mix. The three day event kicks off on January 26, 2012 and promises tech talks, music, film and more. Will MacLife.com be there? You'll just have to attend and find out...Follow this article's author, J.R. Bookwalter on Twitter
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