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iOS 6.0 Beta 3 Changes and Fixes

Posted by Anthony on July 17, 2012 in Reviews

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iOS 6.0 Beta 3 was just released recently, and though the changes between Beta 2 and Beta 3 aren’t worthy enough of a whole video like last time, the changes definitely improve the OS.

Humorous iOS Game Reviews

Posted by Mark on July 14, 2012 in Reviews

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Games on iOS take many shapes and forms, departing from the realistic in many absurd ways. Have you ever actually sat down and thought about what you’re doing in these games? Let me enlighten you a little, with a gracious helping of humor fully intended along the way.

How To Make Money Off a Free Game

Posted by Peter on July 13, 2012 in Theory

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The oldest act of making money has reached new fronts with the iOS app store: in-app purchases, advertisements, and “freemium” business models drive the pockets of countless app developers. How do these schemes work, and why do they work? Here are your answers.

iOS 6 (Beta 2) Hands-on Review

Posted by Anthony on July 11, 2012 in Reviews

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iOS 6.0 is nearing release around the corner, and we have an early look at the second beta release of the OS (installed on an iPad 3rd generation). Here is our video review, also the second episode of our YouTube series, for all to get a glimpse of the new and upcoming OS, its new [...]

Apple-Yahoo! Acquisition or Merger Coming?

Posted by Chris on July 7, 2012 in News

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In what could be the biggest non-Obama bailout in history, strong evidence indicates that Apple may be very interested in buying out Yahoo! in the short term.

Rule 34 on Siri: Artificial Intellect

Posted by Raphael on June 23, 2012 in Software

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So a fellow editor, Anthony, sends me this from a friend of his: Although funny hilarious for all practical purposes, what are the implications of this about Siri (shown in commercials on TV with kids using it) and its AI?

Computers in The Avengers Movie: A Reality

Posted by Stephen on June 17, 2012 in Theory

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If you’ve seen the movie The Avengers, you’re almost certainly mystified by the computers featured within the film: transparent glass, superimposed scientific graphing, multitouch gestures that can move an image from a hybrid mobile computer to several stationary networked screens, etc. But how far off is this technology from being mainstream? Let’s have a look.

An Overview of the iOS Architecture

Posted by Anthony on June 15, 2012 in Hardware

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The iPhone architecture, although generally out of the scope of application development, is a very simplistic design in terms of operating system theory. A decent understanding of it is necessary for a detailed overview of the iPhone’s functionality, and this article may help to satisfy the curiosity of those interested in how it works (i.e. [...]

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