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iOS has a lot going for it when it comes to mobile music creation, curation and performance. Apple's App Store is absolutely jam packed with synths, drum machines, effects processors, DJ tools and other weird and wonderful noisemakers for your musical pleasure. One such app that produces fantastic results with relatively little skill is Crossfader, an app from DJZ that launched on the App Store at the beginning of April and has been "free for a limited time" ever since.
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I have been looking for something that could clean up my iPad for me and, according to iMobie, PhoneClean is the program to do that. The free program that claims to free space on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch by deleting files that should be useless to you, such as temporary files, cached and offline files, cookies, script files, and media files that failed to sync properly. On paper, this should be quite useful, especially if you own a 8GB or 16GB iDevice. But does it really work?
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With the recent releases of the Samsung Galaxy S4, the HTC One, and the Nexus 4, there's a pretty good chance that, as an iPhone user, you may be looking at switching over. These Android phones have been creating a lot of buzz because of the great hardware and software they've been packing. However, switching over to Android isn't as easy as simply picking up the new phone -- or at least not as long as you have contacts, pictures, music, and more that you'd like to move over. How can you do this as quickly and painlessly as possible? Sadly, there isn't a single utility which can do everything for you automatically, but with a minimal amount of effort you'll get things moved over in no time.
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When people talk about iOS games, and how much their popularity has grown, Angry Birds is generally one of the first examples cited. Those crazy birds with their various gimmicks have become something of a sensation, with shirts, plush toys, and all kinds of other merchandise available. In the background are the pigs, the bad guys of the Angry Birds world who just don't get the same attention as their bird counterparts. That is until Rovio gave them their own game called Bad Piggies.
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Most home movies are boring, tedious lengths of footage with little to no editing. But impose some strict rules, cut it down to the good bits, and you might just end up with something pretty cool. Take just a second of interesting video a day, and in a single year you'll have 6 minutes of highlights. That's the premise behind todays article, and I look at 3 different ways of documenting your life with short video clips using an iPhone.
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The true meaning of mobile for me is pulling out my iPhone and getting something done quickly while waiting in traffic at a stoplight, in line to order fast-food, or in the morning after my alarm goes off. I use Triage for quickly checking emails, Pastie for pasting quick snippets to text, Swipy for quickly emailing myself, Reach Fast for quickly locating contacts, and Scraps for quickly writing notes and saving or exporting them somewhere else - and now I'm going to tell you why.
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Apple doesn’t offer an all-in-one office suite, so users who want to handle these tasks on their tablet must turn to a third-party solution. One of the most popular is QuickOffice Pro HD, a $19.99 iOS productivity suite that is actually owned by Google. The app promises the creation and editing of Word, Excel and Powerpoint files and lets users save documents to .PDF. All of which sounds great – but does it actually work?
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Free call and text platform Viber is coming to desktop with the release of a new client for Windows and Mac OS X. The new desktop version of Viber brings all calling and texting features to your PC or Mac, and adds some new ones such as video calling and desktop to desktop calls, which are currently still in beta. The announcement comes as part of the roll out of Viber 3.0, which includes major updates for the app's iOS, Android, and Blackberry versions as well.
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Everyone has a story to tell. It's not always a story in need of an audience, sometimes a story just needs to be told. You may want to continue the journal you started when you were just a kid, or keep a weekly account of your travels around the world. Maybe it's thoughts, not events that need writing down. Day One is a great application aching to serve as your digital scribe, across platforms on OS X and iOS.
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Have you ever thought that there might be a reason Android users brag about their customizability? Sure, as an iPhone user, you can add and configure apps, change your wallpaper, and otherwise make yourself feel at home. But at the end of the day, you've only changed a few small details. If you happen to have jailbreaked your iPhone and are enjoying Cydia, you can do more. But users with stock iOS are able to do much less. Don't believe me?
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Are you the kind of person who prefers to ride on two wheels instead of four? Do you prefer those wheels be powered by your own strength and not a motor? If so, you just might be a cyclist. Riding a bike is great for exercise, and it helps the environment because you are not using a car with all the emissions and fuel cost that accompany it. We've found four of the best applications for cyclists of all kinds, whether street, mountain, or beyond.
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I don't know about you, but I still find checking, writing, and managing email a tedious task. Two recently released iOS mail clients, Mailbox, and now Mail Pilot ($14.99) make great use of the iPhone and iPad's gesture navigation features to help you turn your inbox into a to-do manager for the email you receive. Today we'll be looking at Mail Pilot, a client that's not just about checking and reading email but also performing actions with those messages so you can get things done.
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Twitter's new music discovery service for finding bands and artists has been out for nearly two weeks now and that has given us plenty of time to put the aptly named #music through its paces. Available in the form of a free iPhone app and as a web app that works in a standard desktop browser, it's time to find out whether the service is the powerful discovery tool that many of us have been hoping for.
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Jawbone, a company that develops human-centered wearable technology and audio devices, announced on Tuesday its new UP Platform for iOS. The new platform adds integration between the UP wristband and app system, which keeps track of your walking and sleep activity as well as your meal and drink intake, and 10 existing iOS apps you might already be using.
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The Facebook app of today isn't the same app it was when it was first released. It's a new kind of monster with extra features and a sexier design. Yes, it has the same basic functions that Facebook (and the original app) has always offered, but over time, it's been redone almost as many times as my ex-girlfriend's MySpace page. It's time to take a good look at the latest iPhone app and its features.
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