Tav Shande's Vanity is Selected as one of the
World's best apps

post from prMac on 25 January 2012 10:02:00 PM. © prMac

Vanity, has been selected as one of the World's best apps by The Sunday Times in London. Writers and experts from the Sunday Times have hand picked the 500 best apps in the world & published their list known as the App List. Vanity uses The Vanity Engine which incorporates Fibonacci's Golden Ratio to calculate facial attractiveness by allowing users to mark key facial features and measure against this ratio. Mathematicians, scientists, and naturalists have known this ratio for years.

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Apple shareholders are going long [Infographic]

post from Apple on 25 January 2012 08:04:20 PM. © Apple

Apple reported some very impressive financial results on Tuesday, setting new records in terms of its revenue, profit and items sold for its first financial quarter of 2012. And according to Apple’s current record-high market cap of more than $400 billion, the old Wall Street adage of “buy on the rumor, sell on the news” did not hold true in this case.

That’s also reflected by new research out of online portfolio manager SigFig. The site tracks more than $25 billion in its clients’ assets, and SigFig says its users are four times as likely to hold Apple in their portfolios than any other stock in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, so the company had a nice pool of data to tapped into to analyze activity around Apple’s earnings release.

One interesting thing they discovered is that just five percent of SigFig users who own Apple actually trade it on earning days. And of that small portion that does trade the stock, the majority of activity — 60 percent — is on the buy side. According to SigFig, that could mean that these investors see Apple as a long-term holding.

SigFig put all the data into a handy infographic, which is embedded below (click to enlarge):

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Zynga Shamelessly Rips Off Indie Game

post from Daring Fireball on 25 January 2012 08:04:18 PM. © Daring Fireball

Eli Hodapp, writing for TouchArcade:

It doesn’t take more than a few quick glances at the screenshots and iTunes text to realize that Zynga has firmly focused their copy machines on NimbleBit’s Tiny Tower. It’s really incredibly just how blatant of a clone this is, as Zynga has gone far beyond just copying the premise of the game — they even directly lifted the restocking mechanics, elevator upgrades, UI elements, and more.

Looks like someone’s angling for an acquisition by Samsung.

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Nvidia and AMD Blame Hard Drive Shortages for
Poor GPU Sales

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Sean Hollister, The Verge:

Yes, you read that headline right: despite the fact that neither AMD nor Nvidia manufacture a product that requires a magnetic drive, both claim that the hard drive shortages that resulted from the 2011 Thailand flood disaster impacted their ability to sell graphics processors, and ultimately their bottom line. Both AMD CEO Rory Read and Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang had said last quarter that they didn’t expect any impact at all from the floods ? “it’s really a non-factor,” said Huang ? but Nvidia just told the world that it may have earned roughly $116 million less revenue than the company originally expected due to the hard drive shortage (as well as Tegra 2 decline), and AMD told investors that it saw “a little bit of pressure in terms of hard disk” during its earnings call today.

Sure, that’s the explanation — not that demand for Windows PCs is drying up. I’m surprised Nvidia couldn’t make up the difference with Tegra 2 chipsets that powering all those best sellers on the “non-iPad tablets” list.

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Con Artist Starred in Government Sting on Google

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Thomas Catania, reporting for the WSJ:

The government’s case also contained potentially embarrassingallegations that top Google executives, including co-founder LarryPage, were told about legal problems with the drug ads.
Mr. Page, now Google’s chief executive, knew about the illicitconduct, said Mr. Neronha, the U.S. attorney for Rhode Island who ledthe multiagency federal task force that conducted the sting. “Wesimply know from the documents we reviewed and witnesses weinterviewed that Larry Page knew what was going on,” he said in aninterview after the August settlement.

Everyone who’s surprised, raise your hand.

Crickets.

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Introducing ModMap NYC - A new way to explore NYC

post from prMac on 25 January 2012 07:21:00 PM. © prMac

Ricky Robinett is pleased to announce the launch of his newest app, ModMap NYC 1.0, an innovative iPhone app that let's you explore NYC in a new and innovative way. Using Augmented Reality, ModMap NYC helps you find monuments, museums and trending locations nearby. It features over 100 NYC museums and over 800 monuments in NYC. Monument and museum data is powered by NYC government data. Trending data for ModMap NYC is powered by foursquare.

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Phone Size: Web-Based Phone Size Comparison

post from Daring Fireball on 25 January 2012 07:03:52 PM. © Daring Fireball

Gives you a good sense of just how big phones like the Galaxy Nexus and HTC Titan are.

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Apple vs. PC Shipments: PC Decline Worse Than
Reported

Tom Reestman on numbers from Gartner and IDC that show “PC” sales slipping but Mac sales growing:

It makes sense until you realize Apple’s (i.e., Mac) data is included in the same total to which it’s being compared. In other words, Apple’s stellar year is propping up the “PC” (i.e., non-Mac) numbers, making “PC” shipments look better than they really were. If you truly want to know how Apple did in the US on its own against “PCs”, you must subtract it from the latter’s numbers. […]
The originally reported dismal “PC” growth of -5.9% becomes an even more dismal -8.5% without Apple’s numbers propping it up. That -2.6% delta is not insignificant, it’s over 40% worse than what was reported.

Ding-dong, the Wintel witch is starting to slowly wither away.

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Money Advice - Cut Back Calculator & Money
Stretcher

CrimsonDesign introduces Money Advice - Cut Back Calculator & Money Stretcher 1.0 for iPad, an exciting new iPad app with easy to use financial calculators to help you stay in control of your numbers. A lot of people go wrong where they do not know where there money is disappearing to. This app will stop that problem entirely. Enabling you to keep in total control of your finances will inevitably stop you spending so much, thus helping you save. Work smarter, not harder.

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Do you want to be an Iphone Video Hero

British TV Director and Pro-Videomaker, Jules Watkins has released what is believed to be the worlds first iPhone Video Training course. An online video based training course aimed at biz people, bloggers and YouTubers who want to leverage the power of Video Marketing to promote their products, services and talents using the tools they already own. With the newly improved video camera that comes with with the iPhone 4s, your iPhone now packs a real punch when it comes to pocket video shooting.

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