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New Samsung Galaxy S4 commercial takes shots at the iPhone

by Yoni Heisler (May 5th, 2013)

When Apple announced the iPhone 5 this past Fall, marketing executives from Samsung were keeping tabs on the unveiling in real time, this according to a January profile of Samsung in Fortune magazine. They huddled around tables mounted with laptops and TV screens, carefully tracking each new ...

Shooting fashion photos with an iPhone

by Steven Sande (May 3rd, 2013)

So you're looking for a new career as a fashion photographer. To kickstart your job, look no further than today's iMore post by Rene Ritchie where he asked Mobile Nations' David Lundblad to take high-fashion photos of model Amanda Del Duca in Manhattan's Bryant Park with an iPhone. Videographer ...

Origin Stories: Naturespace

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (May 3rd, 2013)

I've always been a sucker for soundscapes -- those looping sound effect CD's that whisk you away to the beach, or a rainforest or whatever. As I have a hard time "shutting down" my brain, these sounds give me something to get lost in and focus on, helping relax me. I think it's the same way for a ...

Rare Apple-1 hits the auction block

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 3rd, 2013)

There are only six known working Apple-1 computers in the world, and one of these units will go on sale later this month. According to a report in Computerworld, German auction house Breker will be auctioning off the machine that was owned by Fred Hatfield. The Apple-1 includes the original ...

Origin Stories: Index Card helps organize your notes like its real world namesake

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (May 3rd, 2013)

If you've ever used index cards to organize lots of notes or ideas, take a look at Index Card by Dennis Vogel. Available for iPad and iPhone, Index Card is ideal for researchers and fiction writers who need to put cards on a wall, but need that wall to go with them. A good example of skeumorphic ...

Origin Stories: Graze is an alternative browser for iPhone

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (May 3rd, 2013)

Why create a browser for iOS when Safari ships with every device? Creator Dave Wilson explains the numerous features in Graze, a browser for iOS. It has a very different user interface, and adds gesture controls and additional browsing oomph for iOS that has yet to be seen in Apple's Safari. While ...

Origin Stories: Tango Remote allows you to control music using iOS devices only

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (May 2nd, 2013)

I've run into this issue a number of times while producing comedy shows: I want to play intro music for a comedian, but I don't have a staff available to sit there and punch buttons on my iPad. Enter Tango Remote, a handy tool which allows you to remotely control your playlists from iOS to iOS ...

Origin Stories: Vectrex offers nostalgic gameplay

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (May 2nd, 2013)

If you were a kid in the 1980's you may remember the oddball consumer gaming console called the Vectrex. Notable for it's use of vectors instead of bitmapped graphics (like every other console), the Vectrex never quite took hold but before it was discontinued a number of fun retro games were made ...

Origin Stories: EpicSesh aims to improve sports tracking with Xensr

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (May 2nd, 2013)

While the iPhone has GPS, and it's good enough for most people, performance-oriented athletes may find the precision lacking. Enter EpicSesh, makers of the Xensr line of "sports motion-sensing devices." While it looks like the sensors are still undergoing testing, the promise is that athletes will ...

TUAW TV Live: Little keyboards, big eyes

by Steven Sande (May 1st, 2013)

I'm not sure if Doc Rock will be joining me today for TUAW TV Live or not, seeing that he's at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2013. But if that's the case, I should be easily able to fill an hour of time talking about some of the fascinating projects being touted at this year's event. There are also some ...

polychord for iPad: an inspiring way to create music

by Matt Tinsley (May 1st, 2013)

polychord (US$9.99) is a virtual instrument for making and creating keyboard / electronic-style music on the iPad. With its easy-to-use approach and layout, polychord makes it painless to get your head around the basics and start making some really lovely sounding and creatively inspiring music. ...

New iPhone ad focuses on wonder of photography

by Michael Rose (Apr 26th, 2013)

If you're old enough to remember the Polaroid SX-70, celebrating its 41st birthday this week, you may remember how it felt to instantly, miraculously see the images you captured appear right before your eyes with one of Polaroid's cameras. Now that we all have superpowered cameras in our ...

Crazy Talk 7 puts character animation power on your Mac

by Michael Rose (Apr 25th, 2013)

Putting words in other people's mouths: more of a hobby than a vocation for most people, I'd say. If your work or play involves facial animation, however, you know how much work goes into making fake speech look convincingly real. Although there are impressive pro animation tools for this ...

Mike Doughty's musical 10th birthday gift to iTunes

by Kelly Guimont (Apr 25th, 2013)

Mike Doughty, a singer/songwriter (formerly of Soul Coughing) and now an indie artist, was asked by Yahoo Music to write a song celebrating 10 years of iTunes. Not content to put yet another spin on the standard birthday song, this became an ode to drunken iTunes purchases (I believe "drunken ...

Origin Stories: Hopper

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Apr 25th, 2013)

Hopper is a Mac app for deconstructing binaries for analysis and debugging. If you're not a developer, it's probably not for you, but it's a cool tool nonetheless, built from scratch by a developer who built it himself. Once again a developer needed something, didn't like what was out there and ...