ISKIN CELEBRATES THE YEAR OF THE DRAGON WITH A LIMITED EDITION AURA FOR IPHONE 4/4S   The aura Year of the Dragon for iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S honors the auspicious Chinese Year of the Water Dragon.   TORONTO, Canada - January 31, 2012 — iSkin, a premium brand for fashion and technology lifestyle accessories, announces today a limited edition of its aura line of iPhone 4/4S cases to celebrate the Year of the Dragon.   The Year of the Dragon edition features an intricate laser-etched engraving on an aircraft-grade aluminum fused onto a durable, lightweight, soft-coated...


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Before last week's Apple event introducing iBooks 2, there were interactive books for children that were apps. We have reviewed several here on Justanothergeeksite. Today we are looking at Porkchop and Mouse by Fiona Roberton. Porkchop and Mouse is a delightful story with beautiful pictures. You (or your child) can turn the pages forwards or backwards to move through the story just like a paper bound book. The story moves you through Porchop's hunt for the poor mouse who took up residency in his house. They go through a range of beautifully illustrated landscapes before landing back at home....


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Convertcast Episode 101 Sunday, January 15, 2012 MISC ICANN new domains - wtf?! Wasn't .xxx bad enough? thick whois system ICANN wants to indroduce - so no private whois and one needs to identify to registrars etc. the US embassy and terror alerts in Bangkok Was yours one of the disappearing 4Square accounts this week? SOPA samsung’s bada OS to merge with intel tizen OS (samsung is biggest maker of smarpthones globally!) http://www.forbes.com/sites/elizabethwoyke/2012/01/13/samsung-merging-its-bada-os-with-intel-backed-tizen-project/ Android CM lets you put ICS on HP Touchpad....


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  When you study languages in school, a popular method is through "thematic units." With this method, we pick a theme, and then study vocabulary and culture that fit within the theme. This can be particularly challenging at the intermediate levels, where students have the basic skills, but need to build their vocabulary. Using the app "7 Jours" can build on existing skills, improve vocabulary skills, and keep students "au courant" while having fun. Both vocabulary and listening skills are emphasized by using short news stories. Depending on your preference, you can begin by simply...


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It's that time of year, and how better to help you make all your holiday cookie needs than an iPhone app? My first thought, of course, is with an iPad app. And that's the one thing wrong with this app - it's not a universal binary, so to use your iPad in the kitchen, you'll have to supersize it. Let's look at the basics of the app, which is quite nice, albeit somewhat limited. (Then again, while cookies is a broad category, cookies for Christmas is, in itself, limiting.) The main screen contains categories of recipes. You can choose which way you view or search them. Once you have found recipes...


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This app at first glance is just another sound board but actually it can sample your voice/sound and you can adjust playback so it may be fun. You vary the sound by moving the finger on the board. And then the board lights up in the place where you touch it. You produces laughing sounds that you can record and share. You can record your own samples (for "Custom" type of laughing synth) and it's easy to crop the sound recording. It is also possible to adjust the effect of laugh synth. The info screen of this app has funny text about controlling universe. While...


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I kept seeing people in forums talk about the LifeProof case, and how much better it was than the Otterbox. What I hadn't seen, was a decent review on the LifeProof case. Hopefully, I'll be able to answer all the questions for you right now. I'm going to start with the obligatory comparison to the Otterbox. As most of us know, the two best known Otterbox cases are the Defender and the Commuter. The Defender is BIG. It makes your slender iPhone bulky. It never occurred to me to use one just for this reason. The Commuter, on the other hand, does not add considerable bulk, and with the available...


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If you would like to use Gmail as native app for your smartphone then you should buy Android. Of course, Gmail for iPhone (and iPad) is now available. There is no Gmail for Windows Phone, so no luck there. When the app opens for the first time, I was surprised to see website-like user interface. So I was thinking, I'm not joking, that this whole "app" is just a wrapper around the web app and in fact not much... but I was wrong! It works offline, and it can send photos as attachments and it can handle iOS notifications, so it is a full app and not merely a wrapper around a web app or web service. Splash...


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If you have an Android phone or tablet, then you may never get the latest version of Android operating system because Android is fragmented like crazy. If you have Windows Phone 7 point something then sure, you are getting new updates but they are coming in waves, so some users must wait months to get the latest update or must use tricks (like disconnecting Internet while Zune software on Windows 7 PC checks for update). However, if you have an iOS device - not only are you getting the latest update for rather old devices (latest iOS 5 is available even for 3 years old iPhone 3GS and for 2 years...


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WorldCard Mobile is the next entry into a category filled with apps. If you enter "business card reader" into the iTunes search bar, you'll find dozens of possibilities. So what sets WorldCard Mobile apart from the competitors? Let's take a look at the options. Unlike most of the competitors, WorldCard Mobile gives you more than one option of adding contacts. Most similar apps will have you take a picture of a business card, and then use OCR to recognize the contact information, which you can then save directly to your contacts. Of course, WorldCard Mobile can do that. Character recognition...


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