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There's certainly no shortage of iPhone photography apps - if anything, there might be a tad too many to choose from. If there's one app you definitely need to add to your iPhoneography arsenal, it's VSCO Cam. The free app is the second iteration to hit the app store courtesy of Visual Supply Company and this time it's free so you can try out the app and get a feel for it, before deciding if you want to shell over more money for additional filters.
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Following its recent major update, Soluto has announced on Tuesday that its services are no longer limited to regular computers. From now on, Soluto users will be able to remotely support and manage their clients', colleagues', friends' and family's iOS devices, including iPhones and iPads.
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When Facebook iOS integration came onto the scene, Apple and Facebook joined forces in an effort to enhance your life - not to burden it. Cook and Zuckerberg didn't get together in some secret layer on a private island in the Pacific to concoct some evil plan that would ruin millions of peoples' lives by adding Facebook to the iPhone. I'm not one to view the world through rose-colored glasses, but let me at least show you some of the benefits and their nuisances of having Facebook on your iPhone.
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Buying an iPad is a predictably expensive decision, and once you’ve paid for your tablet, you’ll realize you’re not done: what about a case? Your new tablet will need protection from the drops and bumps and scratches that can occur during day-to-day use. Apple sells the Smart Case, which fits perfectly and works with the iPad’s magnetic clip, turning the screen on and off when the cover is replaced or removed. This case costs $49 and offers only basic protection, and you might find you get much better value if you buy one of these eight alternatives.
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With the Prism-Verizon scandal, what allegedly has been happening is that the United States of America's National Security Agency (NSA) has been data mining. That is, they have been going through the call records of Verizon's approximately 99 million users looking for, well, anything! If the thought of the occasionally overzealous government official isn't enough reason to encrypt your smartphone, then all the identity thieves and scammers out there ought to be. Today, I'm going to show you a few things you can do to make that information a bit more secure.
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If you check your email a lot on your iPhone like I do, you now have some awesome choices as to which iOS mail client you use. Quite frankly, Apple's default iOS Mail client can't compare to the recently released third-party mobile apps, including Mail Pilot, Mailbox, Cloze and my favorite, the one trick pony Triage. If you want to actually do something with your emails, and get the functionality of many desktop mail clients, then you might want to check out the recently released Dispatch mail app for the iPhone.
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iOS user or not, you’ve probably heard of the latest release from Apple. iOS 7 is only available in beta so far, but has already made some waves, with users calling it anything from revolutionary to the bastard son of Android and Windows Phone. So where do you stand when it comes to iOS 7?
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No, it isn't April Fools Day, and no Steve Ballmer hasn't gone totally insane and switched to the Dark Side Of The Net. Microsoft really has introduced an iOS app for Office, but there's a catch - to use it, you need a paid Office 365 subscription. Now there's the Microsoft we all know and love - the money-obsessed company that would barf up a lung if they were asked to give away something free.
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Tower defense games are one of the most well-suited genres for playing on the go. Relative to other genres, they are fairly passive, and they allow the player to plant their towers, defend their bases, and only half focus. Today, we're putting two of the more popular tower defense games on the App Store head-to-head: in an interesting clash we have Fieldrunners 2, which comes with a $2.99 price tag, and Towers N' Trolls, which is a free-to-play.
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A new generation of iOS is nearly upon us, revealed at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference last week. Guided strongly by (Sir) Jony Ive, iOS 7 marks a clear departure from the skeumorphic UI elements of the past decade as 3D shadows and leather stitching have been replaced with clean lines and flat layers. In terms of features, there's certainly nothing groundbreaking - but more than enough to bring iOS inline with the competition. Read on for a sneak preview of what's to come in iOS7, arriving in the autumn.
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The best camera you can possibly lay your hands on is the one that you currently have on you, or so the saying goes. Ever since hardware manufacturers started putting bigger and better cameras on our devices, we're always in the presence of a capable camera - so what about video? If you have a recent smartphone capable of shooting 1080p full-HD video, you might be surprised at the potential you have in your pocket. With the right apps, techniques and a few inexpensive accessories you could turn your iPhone or similar into a highly capable video capture device.
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During Apple's opening WWDC opening presentation this past Monday, Craig Federighi, VP of Software Engineering, introduced a tighter "activation lock" for iOS 7, to be released this Fall. The new security feature is designed to prevent a thief from reactivating a stolen iPhone, or turning off the Find My iPhone signal without the owner's iCloud username and password.
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The web is awash with talk of Apple's new mobile operating system in the wake of WWDC 2013. As with all new iterations of iOS, Apple developers get access before the rest of us who will have to wait till "fall" for the official build. While having your own developer account is one way to secure early access to the iOS 7 beta, it's not the only way of doing so. There are a couple of other things you can try, so if you lack patience and absolutely need to get your mitts on iOS 7 - read on.
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RunKeeper, the popular iOS application for keeping track of your runs, walks, and bike rides, has just updated to version 3.5. With this update, users will now get a whole new social way to interact with their fellow runners directly from within the free application.
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If you use Evernote on your iPad or iPhone, you may have found it difficult to get copies of articles, snippets of text, or photos from you device into your Evernote account without having to copy content from one application and paste it into another. Thanks to a handful of third-party developers, there are several apps which enable you to export content directly to your Evernote account without having to open the app. Read on to find out how to better make use of Evernote on iOS.
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