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Angry Birds Space now available as Premium and HD version

The latest in the series Angry Birds from Thursday to download Google play. Besides the free version, there are now two paid versions of Angry Birds Space available: Premium Space Angry Birds and Angry Birds HD. Angry Birds Premium costs 75 cents, for the HD version you pay 2.27 euros. It is the first time developer Rovio also paid versions of its Angry Birds apps Google offers Play. For the time being you could only versions of Angry Birds without advertising found in the Amazon App Store. It is strange that Rovio has chosen a special HD version. Both paid versions look practically the same and there is no visible difference in picture quality. This has partly to do with the way Android handles with different screen resolutions. It is therefore strange that Rovio significantly more for the HD version of Angry Birds Space asks. For those who do not keep advertising it is good that finally Angry Birds without commercials on an Android device to play. For the time being you cou

Android users can now enroll for Instagram

Android users can now log in to be the first to make use of Instagram. The makers have a special page opens where you can specify. Through your e-mail address to receive notification and you will soon, hopefully the chance to the official Android app Instagram try. The page indicates that this app is finally starting to come. Previously, the developers know that the Android version in some ways even better than the very popular iPhone app. With Instagram you can easily add effects to your photos quickly and share with others. During the SXSW conference it became clear that the team of Instagram quite busy with the development of the Android app. The iOS app has long been available, but there was still waited with the Android version as it does from the beginning must be good. Now the service has more than 27 million registered users on iOS, with the arrival of an Android app that number are expected to increase rapidly.

Paper Mill: elegant Instapaper app for Android

One of the apps are still missing on Android is Instapaper. There are many third party apps that allows you saved Instapaper articles to read, but these are not as good as the official iOS app. The creator of this app has not itself indicate Android app to go, but it encourages other developers to do this. Paper Mill is one of the first Instapaper-apps which actually makes use of the official API. In terms of operating the app looks very good. Quiet menus are optimized for use with Ice Cream Sandwich and easy to operate. So you can quickly archive or articles of a star with. You can black text on a white background reading or vice versa. The app is stable and responsive. Folders missing Unfortunately, like widgets. The biggest drawback to Paper Mill is the price. The app costs 2.99 euros, but that's not a lump sum. You must subscribe to Instapaper of one dollar per month. Otherwise you may not use the official API. It is paid every three months. This is pretty pri

Police can easily bypass iPhone PIN with specialized software

The PIN code on your iPhone is a first block prying eyes, if you leave your iPhone somewhere lying around. But the method is not entirely safe, as it appeared several times in the history of the iPhone. Forbes has now published a video of Micro Systemation, a Swedish company that sells for easy access to telephones of suspects. They sell their solution called XRY to law enforcement and defense establishments. The solution looks like a jailbreak hack, although the company would not say exactly what vulnerability they use to gain access to the iPhone. It is not about loopholes, but vulnerabilities in software of a phone, just like jailbreak developers do. The company has 75 full time employees who are engaged in research. They will focus not only on iPhones. Every week a new phone with another operating system. Therefore there is a cat and mouse game developed between the producers and the company. A PIN code helps if you leave your iPhone in a taxi down and prevents the driver from

Grabber Camera: camera shortcut iOS 5.1 in iOS 5 (jailbreak)

iPhone users can iOS 5.1 since their camera quickly booting ontgrendelscherm by the camera icon to sweep up. Are you still on iOS 5, because I would like your untethered jailbreak not want to risk, you have this icon appear still get through twice on the home button and then select the camera icon. The jailbreak tweak Camera Grabber allows you boot the new method can also be used without your untethered jailbreak of iOS 5 to give up. Camera Grabber ensures that the camera just like in IOS 5.1 quick start up from the ontgrendelscherm. The camera icon on this screen to sweep up, start the Camera app and lets you start shooting. The icon is always on your ontgrendelscherm, so you do not get twice the home button you have to press. This tweak works currently only under iOS 5. Too bad, because iPhone 3G owners can iOS 5 does not install, making it the shortcut on ontgrendelscherm the iPhone can not use. Camera Grabber is freely available in the repository of ModMyi.

Samsung I9300 from mid-May sale, probably not the Galaxy S III

According to a tipster from GSM Arena , the Samsung I9300 from mid-May sale. Contrary to earlier reports, this is probably not to the Samsung Galaxy S III. Rather it is a midrange phone that may or Samsung Galaxy M will be called. In appearance, it seems, nor on the next flagship of Samsung. If we are to believe information from GSM Arena, the camera does not take too long to be officially announced. According to the previously leaked rumors of the Samsung Galaxy S III I meet this phone is not up to expectations. The Galaxy S III would be a ceramic back and get a Full HD screen. Well it seems the Samsung I9300 home to fit in the Galaxy line. The Samsung Galaxy M does not seem strange name for this phone. Some time back, Samsung has decided new names in order to enable more clear with what smartphone you have encountered. The S stands for the best the company has to offer, the M for Mid-tier. That is rather a cheap midrange phone than a high-end device with the latest features.

Online game character Char Adium II removes gametypes after update

Draw Something In addition, there is a drawing game that sells like many users who like a game of online sketching: Char Adium II. As of the last update, the game features a simplified interface so that the game is faster to grab for new players. The appearance of the app is in the main menu and game screens become much more manageable. This also has a reason: both the King of the Hill mode as the free drawing mode disappeared. This means that Char Adium II now has two game modes about: Live game and the ping pong game. In the live game board you have more than one line to the drawing of another. Who the word behind the drawing as a first guess for getting the most points. The Ping-Pong mode of Draw Something we also know and lets players take turns drawing each character and word guess. In Char Adium II is however a winner. A significant, positive innovation of the game is that you can zoom in the drawings. Other improvements include mainly the friends section. Adding, manage

Find My Facebook Friends: always your friends rummage ( iPhone Application)

Apple's Phone application Find My Friends on Facebook with your extensive network and you'll Find My Facebook Friends. A new iPhone application which you at any time of day, live your location can give your Facebook friends. You can indicate which of your friends will be notified of your location and others can do the request to share their location with you. This of course immediately send your requests via Facebook. If your friends accept you as a person they wish to share their location, you can place them on the Google Maps map. Except on the map, you can see the results in a list view. You can list by name and distance of your contacts. If friends are in another time zone, you see their local time are neatly under their name and location. For users Find My Facebook Friends certainly see it, is there a snake in the grass. The Tuesday votes integrates service is not the location you from Facebook itself can pass. Even if Facebook puts half a location in a messag

Nokia Apple refuses to license essential for nano-SIM

Selects the European Telecommunications Standardization and Research Institute (ETSI) to make Apple's nano-SIM as the new SIM card standard to choose, it will refuse to Nokia, Apple licenses on patents for this grant. This enables Nokia today . Without the licensing of Nokia, Apple their idea for a nano-SIM can not implement think Nokia. Apple, according to Nokia abuse the approval process of ETSI. Henry Tirri, executive vice president and chief technology officer at Nokia, says that Apple abused makes the approval process of ETSI as soon as possible its own new SIM card back to default. This nano-sim while it would not meet the technical requirements of ETSI. Nokia calls upon ETSI members to not to go with Apple's proposal, but to look at what's good for the current telecom market. Previously claimed Financial Times that Apple still had made ​​agreements with subsidiaries within ETSI. Nokia's refusal to grant licenses on patents would, according to the Finnish co

Firefox within the tablets Android Honeycomb

Mozilla did not stand for nothing and worked hard on the new version of Firefox Mobile for Android tablets. Obvious differences relate to the better use of screen area, a little higher in tablets and allows placement of navigation options interesting, especially identifiers for tabs that are positioned on the left side when the tablet is used for landscape and the upper, in a much more compact when it is used in portrait mode. Although Firefox uses intense all the features of the Android UI Honeycomb, identification of Firefox classical elements, such as increased Back button or address bar are very easily recognizable emblems remained browser.

SmartPet: turn your iPhone into a moving robot dog

The SmartPet Bandai makes your iPhone into a Furby or Tamagotchi. With your iPhone in the head of this dog to digital cities and corresponding app to launch, he walks by your room around like any other pet. The camera on the iPhone makes your dog will recognize and execute certain commands. It is also possible to give commands to your SmartPet via voice commands or screen movements. The more you play with the dog, he would always get to know you and learn more commands. A Bluetooth connection lets you SmartPet with other Smart Pets play. It's still wait until the SmartPet sale in the Netherlands is: the moment we only know that the toy until 24 April in Japan will be available. He will cost 6,500 yen, converted about 59 euros. The corresponding app appears on March 31 already in the App Store, though we do not know whether he was alone in the Japanese store to download will be. The app is also without SmartPet use.

IPhone signal bars brings into sharper focus (jailbreak)

The jailbreak tweak Bars makes it easier to see how strong the signal from your iPhone. By your signal with half signal bars at the top of your iPhone display, you no longer have to guess what that means exactly one full bar. Bars used the original five bars left of the screen of your iPhone, but also ensures that each line is half-filled can. This will improve the signal mapped: Got a signal of 3.5 bars, you see three full bars and half-filled. Normally you would in a situation to see three or four. It was then up to you to guess where the signal is approximately located. In the animation below shows how the lines are shown with bars. Bars available via the repository of BigBoss

Used Apple for patent not pull to refresh Twitter?

The pulling down a list to refresh is now one of the best known functions in many iOS apps. That while it is still not possible to do this in Apple's own apps. Designer Dustin Curtiss thinks he knows why : the pull to refresh patent is owned by Twitter , which got him after they took over Tweetie. Apple probably wants no patent case with Twitter risking. Tweetie was the first iPhone app that made use of pull to refresh. Subsequently, the developer of the app acquired by Twitter and the app renamed Twitter for iPhone. Although a patent on the idea was completed, many developers did this not against the idea still in apps to implement. Meanwhile make apps like Facebook Tweetbot and frequent use of. Apple would be possible to have chosen because of the patent itself does not pull to refresh use. The company has itself a number of patents for certain interface features in IOS. Apple would of course also choose to license the patent to take on Twitter. Is your iPhone jailbroken,

The Stand: iPhone standard amplified sound without speakers

The standard aluminum iPhone The Stand amplifies the sound of your iPhone in a special way: the shape around the speaker of your iPhone amplify any sound played through the use of a simple acoustic trick. Because no power is needed, and you do not stand on a wall outlet. You can The Stand is connected to a power source to the iPhone via the built-in 30-pin connector for charging. The Stand charges your iPhone on iPhone through the included cable into the stand. Have you ordered the accessory, to be sure you get an extra charging cable included. At the time of writing The Stand, a project kick . There you can donate money to the project, to be assured that you have a The Stand will be sent once the project has collected $ 15,000 minimum. If this is the accessory makers are not, then no money is debited from your account. The risk is big: the moment of writing, the project almost half of its target amount, with another 53 days to go. To a The Stand to be insured, you need at least

Card Witcher 2.0: grid interface and dynamic previews (jailbreak)

The jailbreak tweak Card Witcher did last year quite a few heads to turn. The tweak allows you to multitask on your iPhone as it was possible to WebOS. The large 2.0-tweak update has been published in which a lot of innovations and improvements have been added. WebOS was the operating system of the HP TouchPad, a tablet that last year the market was reached. One of the impressive features of this OS was how you could multitask: here you exchanged between different cards, you saw what happened in the app. Card Witcher mimics the multitasking screen after WebOS. In Card Witcher 2.0 now see a dynamic display for each option multitask. This lets you know what you exactly which pages were open in an app before you exit. In the previous version you saw just a static screenshot of an app. The new Grid interface to tweak the finer use for iPhone users by filling the screen with multiple multi-task cards. Besides these additions must Witcher Card 2.0 is a lot faster and more efficient

Angry Birds Space downloaded 10 million times in three days

Angry Birds Space in three days ten million times. This Rovio today announced via the Twitter account of Angry Birds . The download number not only looks at the iPhone version of Angry Birds Space, but to all platforms where the game last week appeared. Angry Birds Space appeared before the iPhone, Mac, Windows and Android. All these platforms were able to gather together ten million downloads. Rovio said the following on Twitter: Angry Birds ✔ @ Angry Birds Angry Birds Space 10 million downloads in less than 3 days! Thanks to our fans, stay tuned for more! # angry bird space The achieved ten million downloads is impressive: Angry Birds all previous games together took them together two years to half a billion times downloaded . To further earned ten million downloads in perspective: the drawing game Draw Something hit the headlines when she thirty million downloads in six weeks managed to achieve. Download Angry Birds Space (€ 0.79)