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Apple’s App Store Marks Historic 50 Billionth Download (金, 17 5月 2013)
Apple has announced that customers have now downloaded over 50 billion apps from the App Store. The 50 billionth app — Say the Same Thing by Space Inch, LLC — was downloaded by Brandon Ashmore from Mentor, Ohio, who received a $10,000 App Store Gift Card to commemorate the milestone. “The App Store completely transformed how people use their mobile devices and created a thriving app ecosystem that has paid out over nine billion dollars to developers,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services. “We’re absolutely floored to cross this milestone in less than five years.”
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Ailing UK School Makes Dramatic Turnaround (金, 03 5月 2013)
A new video profiles Essa Academy, a once struggling school in one of the most disadvantaged areas of England. New principal Showkat Badat has reinvented the school as a hub of technology-assisted learning, and helped incorporate an ecosystem of Apple products, including iPad, Mac, and iTunes U, into the classrooms. The students’ excitement about the technology and direct access to information is reflected in dramatically improved test scores. Since adopting the technology, Essa went from a 28 percent pass rate to 100 percent. “I don’t see technology as an add-on, a nice option to have,” says Badat. “It’s what enables learning and creates an environment that sparks creativity.”
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Apple Is Tops When It Comes to Computer Tech Support (水, 01 5月 2013)
According to the latest Consumer Reports reader survey, Apple tops the list of brand-name computer manufacturers for the quality of its tech support, far surpassing other large companies. The report points to “ease of contacting staff, clarity of advice, technical knowledge, patience, and time for follow-up” in the phone and online support areas. Service at the Genius Bar rates equally highly. In addition, Apple improved on its own scores from last year’s survey.
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Apple Worldwide Developers Conference to Kick Off June 10 in San Francisco (木, 25 4月 2013)
Apple announced that it will hold its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) June 10 through June 14 at San Francisco’s Moscone West. At the five-day conference, developers from around the world will learn about the future of iOS and OS X. WWDC will also feature more than 100 technical sessions presented by over 1,000 Apple engineers and hands-on labs to help developers integrate new technologies. And the popular Apple Design Awards will showcase the most outstanding apps available through the App Store and Mac App Store. Tickets for this year’s WWDC go on sale Thursday, April 25, at 10 a.m. PDT.
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Apple Reports Second Quarter Results (水, 24 4月 2013)
Apple announced financial results for its fiscal 2013 second quarter ended March 30, 2013, posting revenue of $43.6 billion and quarterly net profit of $9.5 billion, or $10.09 per diluted share. During the quarter, Apple sold 37.4 million iPhones, compared to 35.1 million in the year-ago quarter. And it sold 19.5 million iPads during the quarter, compared to 11.8 million in 2012. “We are pleased to report record March quarter revenue thanks to continued strong performance of iPhone and iPad,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “Our teams are hard at work on some amazing new hardware, software, and services, and we are very excited about the products in our pipeline.”
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iTunes Store: Top Paid Apps

WhatsApp Messenger - WhatsApp Inc. (木, 23 5月 2013)
WhatsApp Messenger WhatsApp Inc. Genre: Social Networking Price: $0.99 Release Date: May 3, 2009 WhatsApp Messenger is a cross-platform smartphone messenger currently available for iPhone and all other smartphones. The application utilizes push notifications to instantly get messages from friends, colleagues and family. Switch from SMS to exchange messages, pictures, audio notes and video messages with WhatsApp users at no cost. All features are included without the need for extra in-application purchases. ********************************* WHY USE WHATSAPP: ********************************* * NO HIDDEN COST: Once you and your friends download the application, you can use it to chat as much as you want. Send a million messages a day to your friends for free! WhatsApp uses your Internet connection: 3G/EDGE or Wi-Fi when available. * MULTIMEDIA: Send Video, Images, and Voice notes to your friends and contacts. * GROUP CHAT: Enjoy group conversations with your contacts. Add or Remove group participants, change group subject and set a group icon. * PERSONAL: Set a profile photo which will be shown to all your contacts * NO INTERNATIONAL CHARGES: Just like there is no added cost to send an international email, there is no cost to send WhatsApp messages internationally. Chat with your friends all over the world as long as they have WhatsApp Messenger installed and avoid those pesky international SMS costs. * SAY NO TO PINS AND USERNAMES: Why even bother having to remember yet another PIN or username? WhatsApp works with your phone number, just like SMS would, and integrates flawlessly with your existing phone address book. * NO NEED TO LOG IN/OUT: No more confusion about getting logged off from another computer or device. With push notifications WhatsApp is ALWAYS ON and ALWAYS CONNECTED. * NO NEED TO ADD BUDDIES: Your Address Book is used to automatically connect you with your contacts. Your contacts who already have WhatsApp Messenger will be automatically displayed under Favorites, similar to a buddy list. * OFFLINE MESSAGES: Even if you miss your push notifications or turn off your iPhone, WhatsApp will save your messages offline until you retrieve them during the next application use. * AND MUCH MORE: Share location and places, Exchange contacts, Custom wallpaper, Custom notification sounds, Landscape mode, Message timestamps, Email chat history, Broadcast messages and media to many contacts at once, and much much more! --------------------------------------------------------- We’re always excited to hear from you! If you have any feedback, questions, or concerns, please email us at: iphone-support@whatsapp.com or visit http://www.whatsapp.com/faq/iphone or follow us on twitter: http://twitter.com/WhatsApp @WhatsApp --------------------------------------------------------- WhatsApp on iPhone works with virtually all carriers and networks but some carrier limitations may apply. If you are on an Apple unsupported wireless carrier, double check our FAQ for up to date information on our coverage. NOTE: WhatsApp is a telephony application and as such iPod or iPad are NOT supported devices. © © 2012 WhatsApp Inc.
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Heads Up! - Warner Bros. (木, 23 5月 2013)
Heads Up! Warner Bros. Genre: Games Price: $0.99 Release Date: May 2, 2013 Heads Up! is the fun and hilarious new game that Ellen DeGeneres plays on her show -- and now you can play it with your friends! From naming celebrities, to singing, to silly accents -- guess the word on the card that’s on your head from your friends’ clues before the timer runs out! Features: - Play with one friend, or one hundred at the same time. - Draw a new card simply by tilting your phone. - Keep videos of your hilarious game play for your own amusement, or share them right to Facebook. - Diverse categories let you challenge your smartypants friends, and entertain your kids for hours, all from one app! With 18 themed decks to choose from, each packed to the brim with exciting gameplay cards, the fun will never stop! Decks include: - Celebrities - Movies - Animals - Accents - Characters - And lots more! Your next party, road trip or wait at the bank will never be the same. © © 2013 Telepictures Productions Inc.
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A Beautiful Mess - Red Velvet Art LLC (木, 23 5月 2013)
A Beautiful Mess Red Velvet Art LLC Genre: Photo & Video Price: $0.99 Release Date: May 13, 2013 Your life is beautiful. Your photos should be, too. The photo app from A Beautiful Mess is the easiest way to make pretty photos and to share them with friends. Add new life to your favorite photos with custom filters, fun fonts, and hand-drawn doodles by Elsie and Emma, creators of the award-winning lifestyle blog, "A Beautiful Mess". Then share your creations with friends through email, or by publishing them directly to popular social networks — Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. Whether you're sharing personalized snapshots with friends and family or broadcasting your life's most beautiful moments through social media, the photo app from A Beautiful Mess makes it fun and easy. "A Beautiful Mess" is a lifestyle blog focused on creating a beautiful life. We share simple ways to create an inspired lifestyle. We believe in taking time each day to make something pretty. Most of all, we believe that life doesn't need to be perfect to be beautiful. Visit us at www.ABeautifulMess.com. © © Red Velvet Art LLC
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Minecraft – Pocket Edition - Mojang (木, 23 5月 2013)
Minecraft – Pocket Edition Mojang Genre: Games Price: $6.99 Release Date: November 17, 2011 Minecraft — Pocket Edition is a Universal App! Play on any iPhone and iPad. It’s constantly evolving thanks to our free updates. Minecraft is about placing blocks to build things and going on adventures! Pocket Edition includes randomly generated worlds, multiplayer over a local Wi-Fi network, and Survival and Creative modes. You can craft and create with your friends anywhere in the world so long as you have hands spare and battery to burn. Our most recent update added the iconic Creepers. They’re big, green, mean and explody. But it’s just one of many. Since Minecraft — Pocket Edition first appeared, we’re continuing to add loads of new features, including... - Support for the iPhone 5’s widescreen display - Food! Now you can cook and go hungry - Swords! Bows! TNT! Armor! - Chests - Skeletons - Spiders - Beds - Paintings - Lots more! But enough sales talk! Download it already! Have fun! © © Mojang AB
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NOAA Hi-Def Radar - WeatherSphere (木, 23 5月 2013)
NOAA Hi-Def Radar WeatherSphere Genre: Weather Price: $0.99 Release Date: September 1, 2011 LIMITED TIME SALE - 50% OFF - DOWNLOAD NOW! Simple yet powerful, this is the only app in the appstore that shows amazing real-time hi-def animated weather radar images in vivid color with lightning strikes on a highly responsive interactive map, along with weather forecast, severe weather warning boxes, storm direction arrows, hurricane forecast tracks, wildfires, current drought severity, and snowfall on the same map. 90% of our users who got it more than a year ago are still using it everyday! Plus this is the only app that automatically augments land-based radar images with latest images from NOAA satellites covering the Atlantic/Pacific oceans into one single screen. This lets you track and follow the upcoming hurricanes and storms all from the same map. Plus this is the only app where radar images will show up and start animating within 2 seconds of launching the app, even when on a slow 3G connection. This is also the only map based weather app that keeps up even when you are rapidly zooming in and out or just moving the map around, without any distracting flickering or other inconsistencies, and it will keep the animation going even as you are moving the map! Plus this is the only app that allows *you* to control the loop speed, and also choose the interval between individual frames from 5 minutes all the way to 1 hr, and also change the number of frames shown in animation. Plus easily bookmark multiple locations so you can do a quick radar + forecast check for all your important places in just a few seconds. - Install and go, no complex setup - Sharp images - Lightning Strikes on the map! - Check the current weather + forecast for any point on the map - Severe weather warning boxes on the map - Storm Tracks/arrows on the map with detailed storm information - Hurricane Forecast Tracks on the map - Wildfire locations on map with detailed information and firefighting updates - US Drought severity map - Fast Loading - Near real-time, shows the latest radar images within minutes of being gathered. - Bookmark multiple locations for quick access - Intuitive Play/pause/manual modes for moving between frames. - Always shows both time-stamp and "minutes ago" with each frame to prevent any confusion while viewing the loop. - Select opacity of radar images to your taste - Save/Share Radar Screenshot via email or social media - Send Weather Postcard via email or social media - Read Area Forecast Discussions issued by your nearest NWS forecast office. - Check your local radar site's hardware operational status from within the app - See images from upto 6 hours ago by increasing frame interval and number of frames to maximum - Portrait/Landscape/FullScreen - Get fast support from within the app If still not satisfied, then try our even more feature-packed app, "RadarCast Pro", currently 50% Off for $1.99. Besides everything in this app, key additions are hi-definition future-cast radar, push-notifications when its about to rain, lightning strikes in near real-time vs delayed by a few minutes, a cloud+radar layer, saving bookmarks across reinstalls, and more. Coverage Notes: If you live in a very-high-altitude town in Colorado (e.g. Fraser, Vail, Aspen), most likely this app will not meet your needs since radar beams get blocked by the tall mountains. Alaska coverage includes only the southern coastal areas, and does not include the Aleutian Chain. Also cloud coverage does not include Alaska and Guam. Notes: - This app is only useful for users in the US, including all 50 states and territories including Puerto Rico and Guam. Please follow our twitter stream at http://twitter.com/hidef_radar for news and updates. © © 2011 WeatherSphere
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Sleep Cycle alarm clock - Maciek Drejak Labs (木, 23 5月 2013)
Sleep Cycle alarm clock Maciek Drejak Labs Genre: Health & Fitness Price: $0.99 Release Date: July 23, 2009 Waking up made easy. An intelligent alarm clock that analyzes your sleep and wakes you in the lightest sleep phase – the natural way to wake up feeling rested and relaxed.  We now help more than a million people wake up rested! Featured in: CNN, Wired, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, BBC, The New York Times and many more. #1 Top Paid app in Japan  #1 Top Paid app in Germany  #1 Top Paid app in France  #1 Top Paid app in Russia  #1 Top Paid app in Netherlands  #1 Top Paid app in Taiwan  #1 Top Paid app in South Korea  #1 Top Paid app in Sweden  #1 Top Paid app in Norway  ...and many more.  "It just works. Period. It does exactly what it advertises which is absolutely amazing."  -- 5/5 stars on 148apps.com Sleep cycle is continuously rated as the best intelligent alarm clock, Sleep Cycle is now the worlds most used intelligent alarm clock. -------------------------------------------------------  * Sleep Cycle monitors your movement during sleep using the extremely sensitive accelerometer in your iPhone.  * Sleep Cycle then finds the optimal time to wake you up during a 30 minute window that ends at your set alarm time.  * Look at the screenshots for recommended iPhone placement.  -------------------------------------------------------  As you sleep you go through different phases, ranging from deep sleep to light sleep. The phase you are in when your alarm goes off is critical for how tired you will feel when you wake up.  Since you move differently in bed during the different phases, Sleep Cycle can use the accelerometer in your iPhone to monitor your movement and determine which sleep phase you are in.  Sleep Cycle wakes you when you are in your lightest sleep phase.  Sleep Cycle was developed using proven sleep science and years of research and development.  -------------------------------------------------------  MAIN FEATURES – Waking up made easy! Sleep Cycle analyzes your sleep and wakes you in your lightest sleep phase. – Detailed sleep statistics and sleep graphs for every night. – 15 carefully selected, high quality, alarm melodies. – Use iPod music as wake up sound – Snooze by shaking or tapping the phone lightly. – Customizable wake up window. From instant (regular alarm clock) up to 90 minutes. – Background mode - set your alarm and exit Sleep Cycle - sleep analysis will continue in the background – Sleep notes: see how events such as drinking coffee, eating too much or having a stressful day affect your sleep quality – Long term graphs: track sleep quality over time, see which days of the week you sleep best and much more – Export sleep data to Excel for detailed analysis -------------------------------------------------------  REQUIREMENTS  Ability to charge your phone by the bed Ability to place your iPhone according to the instructions (see screenshots) © © 2010 Maciek Drejak Labs AB
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Survivalcraft - Igor Kalicinski (木, 23 5月 2013)
Survivalcraft Igor Kalicinski Genre: Games Price: $3.99 Release Date: April 26, 2013 You are marooned on the shores of an infinite blocky world. Explore, mine resources, craft tools and weapons, hunt and make traps. Build a shelter to survive nights and share your worlds online. Ride horses or camels and herd cattle. Blast your way through the rock with explosives. Build complex electric devices. Possibilities are infinite in this sandbox survival and construction game. This is the twenty second release of Survivalcraft, and it adds horseriding! A large number of new animals have been introduced, such as sharks, rays, piranhas or camels, and their AI is much improved. There are new electric blocks that will make building electric devices easier. You can even drive cattle between pastures using just a whistle and a saddled horse. There are many different colors of horses roaming the lands. This is the biggest update yet, dwarfing even 1.19, and took over two months to put together. Enjoy! Website: http://kaalus.wordpress.com Updates history: - 1.0 (initial release, 16 Nov 2011) - 1.1 (screenshots, torches, lamps, tools, controls sensitivity, recipaedia) - 1.2 (sneaking, stairs, slabs, doors, ladders, snow, ice, christmas tree) - 1.3 (basalt, limestone, marble, furnace) - 1.4 (new world format, clay, bricks) - 1.5 (birds, weapons, throwing, food, eating) - 1.6 (emergency bugfix release) - 1.7 (trapdoors, water animations, snowballs, traps, wildboars, game modes) - 1.8 (buckets, water physics, magma, world properties, view angles) - 1.9 (Dropbox, fences, upside-down stairs and slabs) - 1.10 (optimizations, bulls, signs, sulphur, saltpeter, adventure mode) - 1.11 (explosives, fire, matches, magma as fluid) - 1.12 (wolves, cows, milk, diamonds, flat terrain, controls improvements) - 1.13 (creature spawners, eggs, saplings, compass, thermometer, grass spreading) - 1.14 (emergency bugfix release, hygrometer, sharper text) - 1.15 (big performance improvements, bears, machetes, adventure restart, cacti) - 1.16 (smoother framerate, polar bears, paint, falling blocks, environment modes) - 1.17 (3rd person view, 3d tools, creature shadows, physics optimizations) - 1.18 (rain, snow, thunderstorms, thawing/freezing, werewolves, pumpkins) - 1.19 (electricity, new UI, new recipaedia, new help, germanium + lots more) - 1.20 (community content, better caves, creative options, SD card) - 1.21 (fish, horseriding, electricity improvements, camels, leather + lots more) © © 2013 CandyRufusGames
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Sonic The Hedgehog - SEGA (木, 23 5月 2013)
Sonic The Hedgehog SEGA Genre: Games Price: $2.99 Release Date: May 21, 2009 The Sonic game which started it all is now optimized for mobile devices! Race at lightning speeds across seven classic zones as Sonic the Hedgehog. Run and spin through loop-de-loops as you collect rings and defeat enemies on your mission to save the world from the evil Dr. Eggman. This re-mastered mobile version of the SEGA Genesis classic features the full “Sonic The Hedgehog” game, plus these EXCLUSIVE features: NEW PLAYABLE CHARACTERS Play as Sonic’s friends Tails & Knuckles for the first time.  Use their unique abilities to fly, climb, and glide around levels offering exciting new ways to explore. OPTIMIZED FOR MOBILE Sonic The Hedgehog now plays in widescreen at a smooth 60FPS offering unrivalled performance and the game’s legendary soundtrack has been fully re-mastered. CHALLENGE YOUR FRIENDS Challenge your friends in the new Time Attack Mode and check out how you rank with Leaderboards and Achievements. Note: It's a new game! Your saved game files from previous versions will be incompatible with version 2.0. _________________________________________ CHECK OUT other great Sonic titles! - Sonic CD - Sonic Dash - Sonic Jump FOLLOW US at twitter.com/sega facebook.com/sega © © Copyright 2009 SEGA. All Rights Reserved.
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Plague Inc. - Ndemic Creations (木, 23 5月 2013)
Plague Inc. Ndemic Creations Genre: Games Price: $0.99 Release Date: May 25, 2012 ★★★★★ #1 top iPhone and iPad game globally with 200 million+ games played ★★★★★ Plague Inc. is a unique mix of high strategy and terrifyingly realistic simulation. Can you infect the world? Your pathogen has just infected 'Patient Zero'. Now you must bring about the end of human history by evolving a deadly, global Plague whilst adapting against everything humanity can do to defend itself. Brilliantly executed with innovative gameplay and built from the ground up for the iPhone & iPad, Plague Inc. evolves the strategy genre and pushes mobile gaming (and you) to new levels. It’s You vs. the world - only the strongest can survive! **** Plague Inc. is a global hit with over 250,000 5 star ratings and features in newspapers such as The Economist, New York Post, Boston Herald, The Guardian and London Metro! ▶ “Best Tablet Game of 2012” - New York Daily News ▶ “Plague Inc will snag your attention in all the right ways and keep it there” - Touch Arcade ▶ “No denying Plague Inc.'s high-level of quality” - Modojo ▶ “Plague Inc. should not be as much fun as it is” – London Metro ▶ “Will leave you hoping to destroy the world, all in the name of a bit of fun” – Pocket Lint ▶ “Plague Inc will bring out the evil side of any gamer with its goal of creating a super virus capable of wiping out the entire human population” – G4tv ▶ “Plague Inc.'s gameplay is infectious” - Slide to Play ▶ “Killing billions has never been so fun” – IGN **** Features: ✓ Stunning retina graphics with a highly polished interface (Contagion guaranteed) ✓ Highly detailed, hyper-realistic world with advanced AI (Outbreak management) ✓ Comprehensive in-game help and tutorial system (I am Legendarily helpful) ✓ 12 different disease types with radically different strategies to master (12 Monkeys?) ✓ Full Save/Load functionality (28 Saves Later!) ✓ 50+ countries to infect, hundreds of traits to evolve, thousands of world events to adapt to (Pandemic evolved) ✓ Game support for scoreboards and achievements Localised in English, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian and French. (more coming soon) P.S. Give yourself a pat on the back if you got all the themed literature references! ★★Special sale price to celebrate being the 15th most popular iPhone game of 2012!★★ **** Become a fan on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/PlagueInc Follow me on Twitter: www.twitter.com/NdemicCreations © © 2011, Ndemic Creations LTD
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AfterLight - Simon Filip (木, 23 5月 2013)
AfterLight Simon Filip Genre: Photo & Video Price: $0.99 Release Date: November 5, 2012 Formerly known as Afterglow, and changed to AfterLight for legal reasons. AfterLight is the perfect image editing app for quick and straight forward editing. Our simple design, paired with powerful and snappy tools, will give you the look you want in seconds. Download now and look forward to free content and app enhancements monthly! ≈ 15 Adjustment Tools ≈ Use any of our 15 uniquely made adjustment tools to enhance your images to perfection with ease. ≈ 40 Filters ≈ AfterLight has 27 fully adjustable "Original Filters". We're proud to show our 13 "Guest Filters" created by various Instagram users. Check the Info section of the app to see all of the creators. There will be more free Guest Filters in the coming updates! ≈ 50 Textures ≈ AfterLight includes a range of real and natural light leaks we created with 35mm film and instant film, to simplistic scratchy film textures. ≈ Cropping & Transforming Tools ≈ Crop your photos with our quick and easy cropping tool with 15 different presets. Transform your photos with our rotating tool, vertical and horizontal flipping tools, and even straightening! ≈ Frames ≈ We provide a list of 75 different simplistic and adjustable frames, paired perfectly with Instagram. Tag your photos on Instagram with #Afterlight Have any questions? Contact us! afterlight.us facebook.com/afterlightapp © © Simon Filip
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