Apple Products Among Most Popular Holiday Gifts

Black Friday saw a buzz of shopping activity, as consumers took to their computers to snap up hot holiday gifts on eBay, including PayPal and Shopping.com. The companies reported key online shopping trends, popular categories and hot gifts. Read more

Play Tennis Game with Hit Tennis for iPhone and iPod Touch

Hit Tennis app is a tennis game for iPhone and iPod touch where you hit the ball by swiping your finger across the touch screen. You directly control the timing, strength, and aim of each shot just as if you would do in a real tennis game. This game also lets you challenge your friends with the two player split screen mode. Read more

Yahtzee Adventures Dice Game for iPhone and iPod Touch

Yahtzee Adventures app is a popular dice game optimized for iPhone and iPod touch. Roll out the fun with this game on your iPhone by shaking, rattling, and rolling your way around the world as you rack up high scores in this classic game of luck and strategy. The object of the game is to score the most points by rolling five dice to make certain combinations. Read more

Night Camera App Reduces Noise in Photos Taken by iPhone

Taking photos at night with a smartphone camera will rarely produce satisfactory images. Due to low light conditions, the shutter time is longer, and even small shaking from the tapping of the camera button will make your photos unusable. Read more

Apple Analysts Expected More Aggressive Pricing Action

Apple investors are disappointed with weak Black Friday discounts. Comparing the deals to prior years, a Kaufman Brothers analysts said that he expected more aggressive pricing from Apple. However, the brokerage firm noted that many Apple resellers are offering discounts of 11% to 13%, and that Apple stores might be be willing to price match. Read more

Papa John’s Grabs $1 Million and Announces New iPhone App

Papa John’s International, the company that pioneered ordering pizza online and by text message, has surpassed $1 million in sales by mobile Web since launching the technology in July. The milestone is the latest in a rapid rise in “alternative ordering” channels and sales for the chain. Read more

Pixelmator 1.3.1 for Mac OS X Adds Color Management Tool

The Pixelmator Team today released Pixelmator 1.3.1, an update to the GPU image-editing tool that provides functions to create, edit, and enhance still images. According to the company the update adds a new Color Management sheet and a new Refine Selection Tool. Pixelmator 1.3.1 also adds ColorSync support for painting tools, iSight support, and PSD compatibility. Read more

QuickTime 7.5.7 Update Plays SD Movies on External Displays

Apple customers who purchased new MacBooks and MacBook Pros were less than happy to discover Mini DisplayPort on those systems using a copy-protection technology called HDCP. Read more

Google Broke App Store Rules With Undocumented APIs

Google used undocumented application programming interfaces (APIs) to activate iPhone’s proximity sensor for Google Mobile voice search when appropriate. Using undocumented APIs is against the original terms of the iPhone SDK. Google Mobile app with Voice Search starts taking commands as soon as users lift the iPhone in a “call-taking” position and start speaking. Read more

Music Infused Sports Headband for iPod Nano and iPod Shuffle

The i360 headband was developed by 22 year old Aaron Phillips. While using his iPod Nano at the gym Aaron came up with an idea that would provide a wire free environment allowing freedom of motion. His idea transformed into fashionable i360 sports headband system that includes a washable 3 jack wiring assembly infused into fashionable headwear. Read more

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