Dallas, Texas - April 12th, 2012 - Award winning indie developer MumboJumbo, LLC today announced the release on iPad of Pickers HD, a unique trash-or-treasure game in which players travel the back roads of America, looking for gold in an ultimate treasure hunt adventure. Inspired by the popularity of such television shows as American Pickers, Pawn Stars, Storage Wars, and American Restoration, Pickers HD provides a new twist on hidden-object games by putting YOU in charge. You not only choose what items you can pick, but also when, so you can sell your items when they aren't in high demand. Pick...


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Dallas, Texas - April 11, 2012 - Award-winning indie developer MumboJumbo, LLC today announced the release on iPad of Midnight Mysteries: Haunted Houdini, the fourth entry in the long running hidden-object adventure game series. The Midnight Mysteries series has become one of the most well known and most popular hidden-object adventure game series in the world since debuting on the casual gaming market in 2009, and has attracted millions of players across multiple gaming platforms,  Stirring scenes within the game, combined with a mysterious storyline surrounding the life and death...


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I wouldn't describe myself as a huge game player, but I like some games. I don't have a huge music collection, but it's enough to fill my 32 GB iPhone. So what do you do when that describes you? Play Guess Your Songs! Guess Your Songs is a great new game that pits you against your music library. The best way to play? On your iPhone or iPad. This, of course, suggests there are other ways to play, right? Right! You can also play online at guessyoursongs.com. And a little birdie tells me Guess Your Songs will soon be available on other mobile platforms as well. Let's go ahead and concentrate...


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Convertcast Episode 113 Sunday April 8, 2012   MISC  Instagram! EasyBib http://www.easybib.com/ thanks for the amazing info graphic, Mashable. http://mashable.com/2012/04/03/draw-something-is-taking-over-the-world/ DrawSomething! UK 800 numbers free to call from mobile phones http://thenextweb.com/uk/2012/04/04/at-last-uk-0800-numbers-could-soon-be-free-to-call-from-mobile-phones/ iPhone users twice as likely to use WiFi as Android users http://mashable.com/2012/04/03/iphone-android-wifi/ Save Money. Study Faster. Ace the Class. | Boundless http://www.boundless.com/ Can university...


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It's true. I regularly troll Kickstarter. Sometimes I send a recommendation your way if I'd like to see it succeed, and other times I find something that's already succeeding. This is one of those cases (no pun intended). The iPad Flex Kit was almost at its goal when I found it, so I backed it and sat back and waited to receive mine. Let me tell you all about it.   What you see here, is the skeleton of the Flex. A thin, but strong shell that clips to the back of your iPad (2 or "new") and offers you some comfortable alternatives for holding and carrying your tablet. In this photo,...


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Convertcast Episode 111 Sunday March 25, 2012 MISC  Also on NBC Nightly News - http://techland.time.com/2012/03/19/faa-rethinking-airplane-gadget-policy/ Various news sources this week stating that teenagers send an average of 60 text messages/day - girls tend to send way more In-App Ads Drain Up To 75% Of Your Phone’s Battery - http://www.cultofmac.com/154790/in-app-ads-drain-up-to-75-of-your-phones-battery/ iPhone and Android phones! South Carolina Teacher Suspended For Reading 'Ender's Game' To Middle School Students - http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/03/19/south-carolina-teacher-suspended-for-reading-enders-game-to-middle-school-students/ Some...


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The importance of Apple releasing iPhoto for iOS goes beyond a mere feature set: it's the final part of the iLife suite that has been ported from OS X to iOS and by far the most important one because it's the most widely used (most people take photos but only few people record videos, for example). Moreover iPhoto for iOS includes some spectacular (see screenshots below) and animated user controls that break from classic oldie theme of user controls of iOS, tries to use realism in presentation and indicates what Apple expects from 3rd party apps. A pessimist would say "it's just feature-poor...


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I have not purchased a new iPad (3rd generation) yet (I will do it later this year). But I was playing with many iPad 3 units in 2 Apple stores in Paris (one inside of the biggest museum in the world, the Louvre, as seen on photo above, and one near the French ministry of Music (sic!)), After looking at them, they were on my mind, so here are my impressions and thoughts! First off: it's great device apart from 2 tiny things: reports of overheating, and the fact that LTE (the true 4G) is working only in USA and Canada, not in any other country. This thing has a display of incredible resolution...


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Robots and iPads Sunday March 18, 2012   MISC  Khan Academy launches iPad app (http://9to5mac.com/2012/03/12/khan-academy-launches-ipad-app-with-complete-library-of-over-2700-educational-videos/) No ancillaries yet, but they are coming. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57393834-93/go-feds-e-books-are-way-overpriced/ Are e-books overpriced? There is certainly no reason for them to cost the same as a physical book requiring paper, binding, and printing costs. Hexbug  (http://hexbug.com) Little tiny robots - Cat vs Spider https://vimeo.com/38712809 4Square using Open Street Maps,...


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So there I was in the C-Spire store looking at Android phones. <yawn> Then I remembered that they now carried the iPhone, so I sauntered over to see what accessories they had. I looked at a display of brightly colored cases, and assumed at first they were Otterbox cases. But the colors were...different. I moved closer and saw that they were Trident cases. Bright blue, red, pink, and more - and they were bright and attractive. I'd never seen cases quite like them before, and never heard of the brand.            I took a pink one from the display, and went to find out the cost. $35 sounded...


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