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iPhone/iPod/iPad apps for Aug. 3

iPhone/iPod/iPad apps for Aug. 3

Posted by | Aug 3, 2010 | |

Here are the latest iPhone/iPod touch/iPod/iPad apps announced. You can find ’em at the Apple App Store (http://www.itunes.com/appstore/).

Soupface has announced D Morph — Celebrity Visual Face Trivia 1.0, an US$0.99 for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. The objective of D Morph Game is to “d morph” the images of combined celebrity faces. It’s visual face trivia! Players have 30 seconds to “d morph” each of the countless images. The faster you answer correctly, the more points you receive.

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Mobile Edge makes checkpoint friendly laptop bags from corn

Mobile Edge makes checkpoint friendly laptop bags from corn

Posted by | Aug 3, 2010 | , |

It may sound corny (sorry, couldn’t stop myself) but Mobile Edge has teamed up with DuPont and incorporated their new polymeric material Sorona as the main material for their new ScanFast laptop cases. This pioneering material is produced partially with agricultural feedstock (corn stocks) that purportedly reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 63 percent when compared to typical petroleum based Nylon or Polyester production.

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Mac Restart for Mac OS X gets interface improvements

Posted by | Aug 3, 2010 | , |

Tension Software has updated Mac Restart X (http://pomola.com/products_macrestart/macrestart.html) — a Mac OS X app that can restart a Mac on a regular basis or one time only at a specific date and time or at launch using it via Apple iCal or other applications — to version 1.5.1. The upgrade sports some interface improvements and bug fixes.

Mac Restart uses the native Mac OS X Date Time Calendar control. It warns the user before a restart, showing a progress bar or jumping from the dock. And the software has a variable warning time interval adjustable in the preferences.

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