Everguide: the essential entertainment app

post from prMac on 17 November 2011 11:13:00 PM. © prMac

Lifelounge Group announces Everguide 2.6.12, for iOS devices. No matter which capital city you're in around Australia, Everguide will help cut through the noise to quickly find what's on in your city, or the city you're visiting. It lets you find events of all shapes and sizes. Everything from comedy, cooking classes, theatre and music gigs. Everguide is the ever growing, never sleeping guide to music, entertainment, the arts and culture that lives in your pocket via an easy to use iPhone app.

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post from Daring Fireball on 17 November 2011 11:03:59 PM. © Daring Fireball

David Pogue:

Then, on the ?Learn More? page, there are nine more referencesto the Nook Tablet?s ability to play high-definition video.?HD videos stream smoothly.? ?Enjoy HD Video.? ?The bestin HD entertainment.? ?Netflix and Hulu Plus pre-loaded toinstantly watch HD movies.? ?Streaming HD videos and more.??Supports HD content up to 1080p.? And so on.
Hmm. Well, I don?t know about you. But if I read all of this, Imight come away with the impression that the Nook Tablet can showhigh-definition video!
Well, guess what? It can?t.

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The Rise of Digital Omnivores

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Interesting usage data from ComScore. Check out the graph showing which devices are used at which hours of the day — “tablets” skew heavily toward morning coffee and after-dinner usage. And by “tablets” they mean the iPad:

Although tablets have yet to be widely adopted, they alreadycontribute nearly 2 percent of all U.S. Web browsing traffic,driven almost exclusively by the iPad, which currently accountsfor more than 97 percent of all tablet traffic. More notably,iPads have also begun to account for a higher share of Internettraffic than iPhones (46.8 percent vs. 42.6 percent of all iOSdevice traffic), despite accounting for only half of the number ofiPhones in use.

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LittleZee Game App

post from prMac on 17 November 2011 09:09:00 PM. © prMac

TYGAMER introduces LittleZee for iOS devices. LittleZee is due to go live on the App Store November 24, 2011. You must, should you take this challenge, destroy the evil forces that have risen and help Little Zee save YellowBright. They have unleashed a army of angry bees to attack and destroy YellowBright. Protect Little Zee! Do not let the Angry Bees attack YellowBright and take her Magical Petals. This is the 3rd Smartphone App from Tychicus Jones. LittleZee is Simple, Fun, and Exciting.

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iPhone 4S Demand

post from Daring Fireball on 17 November 2011 08:04:01 PM. © Daring Fireball

Greg Bensinger, reporting for the WSJ Digits weblog:

Verizon Wireless customers may have to wait more than three weeksfor the device, according to the carrier?s website. Thatcompares with as much as 21 days at AT&T and up to 14 days atSprint Nextel. While some tech blogs have suggested Apple?smanufacturing isn?t keeping pace, the carriers point tounexpectedly strong demand for the handset.

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Marco Arment Reviews the Kindle Fire

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Marco Arment:

I?ve read part of a book, three magazines, and a newspaper.I?ve played two games and watched four TV shows from twosources. I?ve also taken far too long to set up my email, failedto find a good RSS reader, turned a lot of pages accidentally,repeated taps that did nothing the first time, and crashed a fewapps and the Fire itself.

Scathing.

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Apple Removes Texas Holdem, Its Only iOS Game,
From App Store

post from Daring Fireball on 17 November 2011 08:04:01 PM. © Daring Fireball

I suppose it was starting to show its age, but why not update it? It was a pretty good game.

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WTF Mobile Web

post from Daring Fireball on 17 November 2011 06:03:37 PM. © Daring Fireball

Nice collection of shitty mobile web experiences.

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Josh Topolsky Reviews the Galaxy Nexus

He likes it:

I want to note that moving around all of these screens is butterysmooth. There’s no lag, no stutter. Animations are fluid, andeverything feels cohesive and solid. It’s like Ice Cream Sandwichis more “there” than previous versions of Android. Additionally,there are repeated motifs that really work, such as the concept ofswiping left of right through panels of an app to get at differentpieces or layers of content. That’s used throughout the OS now,and it makes a lot of sense.

If you’re like me, you’re skeptical about this, because every time a new Nexus phone has arrived (along with a major revision of the OS), the initial reviews have been along the lines of, “Hey, Android finally got its act together”, but then when the excitement wears off it turns out the whole thing is still a jumbled mess and second-rate (at best) experience and we’re really supposed to wait for next year’s Android.

But there aren’t many buts in Topolsky’s review of the Galaxy Nexus and Android 4.0.

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Half-n-Half

This week’s episode of America’s favorite podcast. Topics include: the new AIM for Mac app, Muji gloves, the Kindle Fire, the imminent revamped Netflix “tablet” app, and further discussion of Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs biography.

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