Rio, a bird-centric animated film coming out this April has teamed with the Angry Birds development team to create a new app out this May. View the trailer and get hooked!
And for those of you who would like to see the movie RIO out this Easter starring the voices of Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway, Jamie Foxx, will.i.am, Tracy Morgan, George Lopez, Jane Lynch, Wanda Syke, check out the trailer here:
How many people actually realize the extent to which Google has penetrated our lives? I hadn't thought much about how deep it went until recently. And it goes way, way beyond web search. I will illustrate.
First of all, the first fundamental to accept is this: If Google has access to data, there's no reason to assume they aren't accessing, indexing, and profiling YOU using that data, especially since their Terms many times freely admit they are doing this. And even if you believe that they are not accessing and indexing, if faced with a subpoena, is there a doubt that the data will be handed over to someone who will? Last, remember that you'll notice a common thread with Google's products and services. The word *free* will keep popping up. You need to ask yourself: if Google is giving away free what others charge for, what do they expect from me in return?
USE CAUTION BEFORE ATTEMPTING THIS GAME, IT IS INSANELY ADDICTIVE.
Entanglement (entanglement.gopherwoodstudios.com), the goal of the game is to make the longest path using the 6 sided pieces provided. You get additional points if your path runs through multiple pieces. My high score is 145, lets see who can beat me. Credit to Alex Paskie for the find.
Javaria Iqbal, Creative Director and Susan Wu, Senior Designer at BlueSwitch have both joined the Sketchbook Project traveling art gallery created by the Art House Co-op of Brooklyn. The way it works, each year, the gallery invites artists to fill an empty sketchbook with drawings that depict their interpretation of a theme chosen from a provided list.
They range from...
Revenge
A day in the life
Starting March 2011, the gallery, featuring over 10,000 sketchbooks, will be traveling all across the country so keep a look out for Javaria and Su's!
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Congrats to our Creative Director Javaria, who got engaged over the weekend...
Her fiance', Khuram is obviously a man after her heart. He proposed with cupcakes...We expect her to be exploding with creativity now that she has updated her Facebook status to "Engaged"
There's a lot of talk about what the iPhone on Verizon means for the overall industry and for Verizon in general. Most notably, most pundits are discussing how this will impact Android device sales, and what this will mean for the Verizon owned brand of Android - DROID.
What I want to zero in on today right before the announcement is something slightly different: the AT&T factor.
It's well known that the cellphone companies are in a limited growth market. There are only so many people in the US that are eligible for phones, and once they have one, they aren't generally buying another for some time. That's why it's cutthroat between carriers for customer acquisition. That's also why the carriers try so hard to add features, markets, services, etc. They need to justify company and stock growth.
In a nutshell, yes. Increase a user’s shopping experience by adding this feature to your ecommerce site and watch your sales add up to what it should be.
Users have become accustomed to newer web practices that have helped them stop clicking into more pages than they need, preventing them from getting lost or sidetracked from what they really were looking for.
This ability will truly make your site, a one stop shop.
If you want a keyboard for your iPad, your best bet right now is the ZAGGmate Case with Keyboard from ZAGG.
It comes with a rechargeable battery that is charged via micro-usb. Pairing is quick, and once done the keyboard performs really well, and even has buttons to control many of the native iPad functions like volume, language, Spotlight, etc. It's quite thin and very light, and doesn't add much bulk or weight to the iPad.
Check out my video review below, or visit their site:
There are several "workarounds" for full-featured web browsing on the iPad. By full-featured I'm referring mostly to Adobe Flash support, especially for Flash Video. While it's true that many sites now support direct mobile video (via HTML5) there are still many that don't and there are some that charge specifically for the iPad and make their videos unavailable without paying (Hulu, NBC.)
Some of the past methods have been Cloud Browse, which essentially is an app that remotes into a Linux box running Firefox. It is subscription based, and not worth the money especially because video performance leaves much to be desired. Skyfire for iPad takes a different approach and instead transcodes Flash video so that it can play on the iPad. The problem with Skyfire among others for example is lack of compatibility with many sites.
Enter Splashtop.
This $1.99 app from the App Store allows you to remote into your desktop, but unlike other RDP, VNC, etc. apps, this one flawlessly streams even the audio and video content from your desktop seemingly effortlessly. So, wherever I am, I VPN into my office network and load up Splashtop. The resolution on my desktop is automatically changed to 1024x768 (by choice, this is a Splashtop option) and I am able to browse using Google Chrome, my preferred browser. Even better, using the Splashtop Beta features (made available by naming your computer "Splashtop Beta [Name]") makes available a menu that appears when touching the screen with 3 fingers. That menu allows you to switch between "Sharp" video mode and "Smooth" video mode. I've found using Smooth mode allows Hulu to play full-screen with no noticeable lag.
In my opinion, right now Splashtop offers *the best* browsing experience on the iPad, at almost no cost.
Check out my video review for the full experience, and go and buy Splashtop for your iPad.
We’d especially like to thank Tatyana,Ari & Susan on the BlueSwitch side and Rachel & Sari on the TOF side for all their dedicated and thorough work on this project.
BlueSwitch is always looking to meet new people that can inspire us to expand our creativity and help others reach their maximum potential on the web and through mobile.
On top of revamping our company for 2011, we’re updating our offices with more color, more games and of course, more candy.
So if you’re in the neighborhood and are looking to work with us, stop by and check us out!
Check out the What to Expect Pregnancy Blackberry app released by Everyday Health, developed by BlueSwitch. It allows all you moms to share advice and experiences on pregnancy through message boards and groups.
We’d especially like to thank Susan, Israel, David P. & Tatyana on the BlueSwitch side and Added Extras Team for all their dedicated and thorough work on this project.
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