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5 Essential iPhone Apps for Coupon Clippers

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Coupon Clipper

Apple’s flagship phone, the iPhone, is a wonderful device that not only keeps you connected to friends and family through calls but can keep you productive and organised. This is made possible by way of downloading apps from the iTunes App Store. For coupon clippers, there are excellent money saving apps that will help you to save money, and a good deal of them are free. If you are a frugal shopper, you should definitely take advantage of these apps.

Coupon Clipper – Local Coupons and DoubleTake Deals is a great free app that gives you tips on plenty of fantastic deals at stores right in your neighbourhood. It is easy to use and allows you to use a coupon at a store simply by displaying it on your iPhone’s screen so that a cashier can scan it directly from the phone. The app runs on GPS and also shows you the addresses of local stores in your area as well as their distance from your current location.

Coupon Cocktail – Coupon Cocktail is another free app that will help you in saving money. It allows you to sign up for a membership and gives you unlimited access to coupons from the top local businesses in your area. You will receive information on a weekly basis about all new deals, which is convenient and timely, freeing you from ever having to search for deals ever again. → Read More

Apple is Targeting the Wrong Students with iBooks 2

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Apple iBooks 2

With the recent launch of iBooks 2 for the iPad, Apple shook up the textbook industry. With the easy-to-use iBooks Author tool, creating highly interactive textbooks for the iPad is now a breeze. These digital textbooks not only feature traditional text and pictures, but they can also show videos, audio, and interactive widgets too. Best part of all, textbooks in the iBookstore cost less than $15 and can be stored on an iPad forever. Apple launched iBooks 2 the day of its announcement and chose to specifically target high school students for its textbooks endeavor. → Read More

Apple Developing Wearable Technology

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Wearable Technology

What’s great about Apple is its products are designed to fulfill the needs of the future. This is largely what makes new Apple products so revolutionary when they are finally revealed. In order to deter copycat products from being released shortly after, or even before, an Apple launch, Apple understandably must keep its new developments tightly under wraps. And, it’s no secret that this is Apple’s primary defensive strategy.

So, when a rumor of future Apple products makes its way across the internet, many get excited and gossip about what the products will be like. A new rumor speculates that Apple is secretly developing wearable technology, some of which would utilize Apple’s new successful, voice-controlled assistant Siri, and some would interact with other existing Apple devices.

Apple has already explored wearable technology somewhat with its clip-on iPod Shuffle and the clip-on 6th generation, touch-enabled iPod Nano. Additionally, with third-party cases, the touchscreen Nano could be transformed into a multi-functional watch. → Read More

Apple’s iPad to Rule the Tablet Market Till 2020?

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iPad 2

Released in April 2010, Apple iPad is creating waves in the market; about a million pieces have already been snapped up and the product has garnered a whopping 70% share of the tablet PC market the world over. The product became such a huge hit that others started to replicate the look and seem of the gizmo, everyone from Motorola to HTC is trying to emulate the style, and Apple has been left grousing about it all. With so many tablets PC’s entering the market one cannot help but wonder if iPad will emerge a winner in the end?

What sets it apart?

What makes the Apple iPad one of the most sought after gizmos are the wide array of applications and features slotted-in. The range of multimedia selections provided are absolutely astounding; watch movies, listen to music, surf the web, play games, chat with friends, and much more. But this is not the greatest thing about the hot selling product; Apple’s iPad is the first type of gizmo in its genre! There were no tablet PC’s around before iPad made a foray into the market; it was certainly the first mini-computer like gadget that people on the go could easily carry around. → Read More

The Difference In IPhone Performance Among The Big Three Carriers

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AT&T vs Sprint vs Verizon

Those who own an iPhone 4s do not always get the same use out of them. Now that this popular smartphone is on three networks it is not good to assume it works the same on every one. This is less a result of the hardware, and more a result of the network it is tied to. Read on to find out some interesting information on the iPhone and its support grid.

A Small Study Was Done On iPhones And Cell Networks

The AT&T, Verizon and Sprint networks are not exactly friends with each other but they have something in common; the iPhone 4. Verizon was the first carrier to experience the Apple effect outside of AT&T in the United States. Sprint came along later, but they were not considered big players like the first two networks. Who is right when one says they have the most coverage, when it pertains to the iPhone? Some have taken it upon themselves to do a small West Coast study to find out. → Read More

The Pros and Cons of Upgrading to the iPhone 4S

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iPhone 4S

Although many iPhone users were slightly disappointed to learn that Apple would be releasing an iPhone 4S instead of the 5 like many rumored, it didn’t stop the 4S from becoming the most popular iPhone ever, with millions flocking to purchase it on its first day. If you’re still deciding whether or not you want to upgrade your phone to the iPhone 4S, read the pros and cons below to see if it’s right for you.

Pros

Siri: the new voice-recognition program is pretty cool, and is especially helpful when driving. You can simply ask a question, whether you need directions or want a text read aloud to you, and Siri will perform the task.

Better camera: the camera has been upgraded to an 8 Megapixel camera which now has simple photo editing capabilities, such as red eye reduction and cropping. The new camera also enables you to shoot 1080p HD video, making the iPhone 4S camera comparable to many point-and-shoot cameras on the market.

Wireless sync: connect your Apple devices wirelessly. This means you’ll be able to update your iPhone without having to manually connect it to your computer. → Read More

Siri Not Coming to Older iPhones

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Siri

Siri has without a doubt been the most popular feature of the new iPhone 4S and, if some reports are to be believed, is probably the biggest selling point of Apple’s latest smartphone. Aside from a faster processor and improved camera the iPhone 4S does not offer a great deal more than the much cheaper iPhone 4. Most of the software improvements, of which there are many, can be obtained on older iPhones with an iOS 5 update.

Siri is the one feature that Apple had limited to just the iPhone 4S. Although a lot of iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS owners had been hoping for a Siri update at some point in the future it seems that now their hopes are dashed. An Apple spokesman has said that “Siri only works on iPhone 4S and we currently have no plans to support older devices.”

Apple has implied on a few occasions that the reason for this decision is that older iPhones lack the processing power to deal with Siri. This is obviously not the case as Siri was previously available for all iOS devices from the App Store – and there are people who have managed to get Siri working on jailbroken iPhone 4′s and iPhone 3GS’. → Read More

5 Reasons to Upgrade to OS X Lion

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OS X Lion

That is, if you haven’t already. For some people, the moment that the software became available, they said goodbye to Snow Leopard. As useful and as reliable that operating system is, Lion just posed so much potential. For others, even the low price of $30 has not yet swayed them to abandon Snow Leopard just yet. If you belong to this group, here are 5 compelling reasons that might just give you the push that you need to upgrade.

Never have to save again!

Remember that old anecdote where Jesus and Satan are working on important documents, and suddenly there was a power failure? Satan shouts “NO!” Jesus smiles and says, “Jesus saves!” Funny, but it highlights the importance of saving your documents. There is autosave, of course, but Lion has a built in feature that kicks the butt of autosave as you know it. No matter what happens, you will be able to retrieve what you have created. This is perfect if hitting save regularly is not second nature to you. → Read More

Slide to Unlock a New Round of Patent Lawsuits

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Slide to Unlock

Apple is currently in the midst of a huge patent war with rival smartphone manufacturers that use Google’s Android operating system. As revealed in the new Steve Jobs biography, the former Apple CEO felt that Android was a rip-off of his own company’s iPhone iOS, and was willing to spend every last penny Apple had in the bank to run it into the ground.

This war kicked off in 2010 when Apple sued HTC for its Desire smartphone. Right from the start many could see that this lawsuit was intended as a proxy war against Google – as HTC has been one of the biggest supporters of the Google OS. Also in Apple’s crosshairs are Motorola and Korean giant Samsung.

Samsung is the company that is currently taking most of the flak from the Apple lawsuits, with many Samsung products being pulled from sale in Australia, Germany and the Netherlands. Apple is aggressively seeking a similar outcome in other markets. While Apple insists that its disagreement with Samsung is due to the latter’s TouchWiz interface and the ‘look and feel’ of its Galaxy range of products, this is no doubt an intentional swipe at what is currently the most successful Android product of them all – the Samsung Galaxy S2. → Read More

5 Must Have iPad 2 Accessories This Christmas

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With Christmas just around the corner, millions of Apple fans are frantically scribbling and underlining the word ‘iPad 2′ at the top of their Christmas wish lists, pinning them excitedly to the side of fridge freezers around the globe. Most of you will probably have already read an iPad 2 review and know that quite simply, it’s the most technologically advanced and beautifully designed of all the tablet PC’s on the market, but it’s more than that. It’s a symbol of an entire generation and an indication of where the future of computing and entertainment is headed, all delicately located within an aluminium chassis. Style and reliability, an unrivalled combination.

For those that are already fortunate enough to already be experiencing Apple’s mobile dream machine, in true Apple fashion they will have one question in mind, ‘how do I make this experience even better?’. This is easy, as the success and innovation of the iPad 2 has been infectious and has spawned a range of iPad 2 accessories which will make ideal presents this Christmas. Now all we need to do is get Santa on FaceTime. → Read More