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Android Gaining On Apple iOS

Nick — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:17:34 +0000

In recent months Android has been taking a steady incline in market share as what it appears to be at Apples’ cost. Android devices are quickly approaching the number of iPhone devices. Also Android is available on all major US mobile carriers including AT&T which is the sole provider for the iPhone. Looking into the future, it is possible for Android to surpass iOS. Stay tuned for the release of Android 3.0 to try and take even a bigger chunk of market share.

Lang Lang Wraps Up Concert With iPad Piano

Nick — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:24:29 +0000

Chinese pianist Lang Lang plays Flight Of A Bumblebee solely on an iPad after a concert he was giving at Davies Symphony Hall. This is extremely impressive. Most people think he used the Magic Piano iPad application, but that is still speculation.

See How Your Website Looks On the iPad with iPad Peek

Nick — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 02:02:24 +0000

With all this buzz of the iPad, don’t you want to know how your website looks on it? Now you can. If you go to iPad Peek you have the ability to see what your website looks like in a iPad simulator. The only thing that isn’t right about this simulator is you can view flash objects. On the iPad flash is prohibited. Go ahead and check out what your website will look like when someone views it on a iPad.

I’d say ours looks pretty good

How To Read eBooks on your iPhone

Nick — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 14:35:09 +0000

With the release of the iPad, many people are looking to put eBooks on their iPhone’s. However, Apple does not let iPhone users have access to the iBookstore just yet. Many publishers are publishing books in the both MOBI and EPUB formats.

I recently purchased some eBooks and wanted to get them onto my iPhone. There is no way to do this through iTunes. One way is to load these eBooks onto your Kindle and you can download the Kindle app from amazon onto your iPhone. I do not have a Kindle though and I was running out of ideas.

Then I came across Stanza. It’s an iPhone app and desktop application. What you do is download the app onto your iPhone and download the desktop application onto your computer. You can download Stanza for desktop here. Also search “Stanza” in your iPhone App Store and download the app for free.

What Stanza does is, takes the eBooks you have on your computer and through your wireless network shares them with your iPhone. Watch the video below to learn how to do upload eBooks to your iPhone with Stanza.

iBookstore Launched by Apple

Jeff — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 22:49:29 +0000

The e-doors are open. Apple has just launched an online store full of digital iBooks made for use on the iPad. Users can browse, preview, and download a wide variety of books, but only iPad users will be able to use iBooks. A complimentary digital version of A.A. Milne’s Winnie the Pooh is being offered to celebrate the grand opening. Watch your back Amazon.

Steve Jobs On His Liver Transplant

Nick — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 17:36:55 +0000

Steve Jobs talks about his life saving liver transplant at around the 13:00 minute mark.

iTunes Passes the Ten Billion Mark

Jeff — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 02:33:39 +0000

This past week iTunes reached a significant milestone: over ten billion songs downloaded. Started in 2003, this amazing amount of downloads pays tribute to not only a significant amount of revenue, but also to Apple’s extremely powerful presence in the music industry.

All-time-most-downloaded song? The hip hop group Black Eyed Peas take top honors with “I Gotta Feeling”. Their “Boom Boom Pow” is the third.

Most songs in the top 25 most downloaded? Lady Gaga with three singles: “Poker Face,” “Just Dance,” and “Bad Romance.”

Other artists in the top 10 include Jason Mraz, Flo Rida, Taylor Swift, Leona Lewis, and Ke$ha.

Who won iTunes’ contest to be the 10 Billionth person to download? Louie Sulcer of Woodstock, Ga. Sulcer purchased Johnny Cash’s “Guess Things Happen That Way,” and as a reward for downloading the 10 billionth song from iTunes, was given an iTunes gift certificate worth $10,000.

Just as significantly, iPhone apps are making their mark. Last week they passed the 3 billion mark. Pretty amazing given their relatively young existence.

Battle Between Google and Apple

Nick — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:19:38 +0000