AmpliTube IRIG: Virtual Guitar amplifier or as an alternative to earn their bread
AmpliTube IRIG is the combination of an adapter with a user-friendly interface devices available for iPhone, iPod Touch and mobile devices called IPAD AmpliTube for iPhone that lets you connect a guitar or bass electric. So that we can enjoy our expertise with the strings without disturbing anyone or carrying heavy amps annoying and slopes.
This curious application, from the country of the rising sun, just need to connect headphones to any of the aforementioned devices and fitted our particular mobile studio. This does not remove it, of course, that rather than use some old speakers and try to earn some extra money in these difficult times, if required by the occasion.
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The adapter can connect to all types of electric guitars and basses, making available to the users to control various effects pedals, amplifiers and microphones virtual. Which, on the other side and behold another line of business of the developer, can be extended with different additions to the original software application.
In fact, all parts of this compendium, which is marketed under the name of AmpliTube IRIG sold separately, so we'll have to resort to the calculator to make our numbers. On the one hand IRIG Interface Adapter Plug is available at a price of 29.99 euros.
The application for the iPhone AmpliTube we find, as expected, the App Store in three different versions: a free, one called LE at a price of 2.39 euros and finally the FULL version for a total of 15.99 euros. And all so the music can go elsewhere.
More info | IK Multimedia.
SPB Flash Cards for Android or learn languages easily and quickly
With the first warm and close and the summer break, more than one is considering a trip to a foreign country. With the firm purpose of that language barriers do not pose a major obstacle to enjoying well-deserved rest, I have found the interesting SPB Flash Cards and innovative approach to learning, which has now reached the terminals with Android at a price of life lessons.
Although tactile device was available for Windows Mobile, SPB is to increase the reach of their products to a growing public. Thus, more than 1,000 words divided into 65 categories corresponding with native phrases recorded facilitate rapid expansion of vocabulary learning and exploiting all aspects of visual memory, aural and textual, as we see in the video below.
The end of SPB Flash Cards is to turn the mobile device into a personal learning assistant, providing the traditional card equivalent word learning visual and auditory reinforcement, thanks to images or audio recordings associated with each word.
In addition, the program tracks the progress made in any of the five methods of learning detailed statistics also adapting the level according to them, ensuring a gradual assimilation of the different concepts. Something that was also an ease of drag-based interface and rotate the various cards.
SPB Flash Cards for terminals with Android operating system and below 1.5 in 15 languages other than appetizing price $ 4.95 (EUR 3.94 ).
More info | SPB.
Nokia Communicator Mobile and Microsoft Messanging, communication solutions between Nokia terminals
E-mail, instant messaging and access to social networks directly from the terminal, no matter where and in order to increase productivity at the corporate level, it also offers the possibility of a permanent connection optimizing response times to users. Something so simple yet so little innovative as Microsoft Communicator Mobile for Nokia, as a result of the Finnish company's alliance with Redmond in an attempt to cope with the powerful BlackBerry and the familiar Nokia Messanging available on Ovi Shop.
Not surprisingly, the market share held by Nokia in the United States is minimal compared to RIM's Canadian. However, the new platform facilitates real-time communication devices equipped with Symbian OS and S40, reaching offer such services to low-cost terminals.
Ignoring even the purpose of such an agreement, according to the release of the terminals KIN KIN Studio and the Microsoft platform, and the consequences that will bring for them, they shoot out of control in different directions can lead to a stone falling on his own roof.
The new tool allows the user to view the availability of colleagues and communicate with them through instant messaging, email, text messages and calls as well as update its state.
On the other hand, the function of instant messaging allows Nokia Messanging domestic users of chat conversations in different communities using Yahoo accounts, MSN Messenger, Google Talk and Ovi Contacts and known to interact with social networks like Facebook and up to ten email accounts from your mobile phone use.
Within the range of communication services is also included Nokia Mail for Exchange, but within the field of business itself, allowing the management of e-mail inbox, calendar and contacts through Microsoft Exchange for Nokia devices.
The Different solutions are available for different terminals Finnish manufacturer, Nokia being Nokia Messaging and Mail for Exchange which cover a greater number of terminals S60 and S40, leaving Microsoft Communicator Mobile limited to the last E-series models, with the firm intention to bring these services to more branded devices.
More info | Nokia.
Google Maps is updated to version 4.2 on Android: Maps Navigation is coming to Spain
You know what happened to the legendary Krakatoa volcano, right? Had an eruption so powerful that it uprooted the island where it was situated. Well may we remain a tad short with the comparison, but Google (and Co.) are rising magma both based on rumors and preparations, probably next week the "cracked" at the conference giving Google I / Or is greater than that of Krakatoa.
Since the Android Market round the brand new 4.2 update to its Google Maps application. The application incorporates interesting social developments and prepares the ground for what no doubt is to reach around the corner, will there be next week an update to 4.2.1
(# ) Google knows the importance of social networks today, so it implements the new search function to share information with name, location and phone information such as email, SMS, Google Buzz, Twitter and Facebook. It is also possible to share a position to organize a meeting or encounter with any of your contacts in a particular site.
Navigation Mode and biking, big news from Google Maps 4.2
This adds a couple of very interesting features, but for now only available outside our borders:
The first is a new icon that will give us access to GPS navigation. When pressed to access a list of options to dictate the direction we choose our own voice, using the screen enter or select the direction of our contacts, as well as the addresses visited recently. So now we have the expected GPS Navigation? Yes, but no.
The GPS navigation is only available in USA and UK. When you try to access from Spain will see a notice that will invite us to see the normal signs of Google Maps on the map itself, but evidently the new application makes us think that everything is ready to enable the child from Google at any time.
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And just talking about normal indications on the map, add the new bike mode, which appeared recently in the usual Google Maps. With the Bike mode can make the best routes to use the bike for our city, but unfortunately for now only be enjoyed by residents of USA. Below you have the video that appeared on his release.
The new Google Maps update may be enjoyed from Android 1.6 (Donut) in below.
Via | Google Mobile Blog
Images | PhotoBucket
The curiosities of the week in Engadget Mobile
Reached the last (for some) Placido Domingo, what better way to relax watching some of the technological curiosities that slip over the Internet? In this paper we have collected a small selection of curiosities, utilities and information on mobile phones has been jumping over a week across the network, all very interesting.
What we will see below, in summary , is a Motorola Droid solving Rubik's cubes in 25 seconds, an unboxing (and unarmed) very special Incredible Droid HTC, will know how to play in our Android using a Wiimando and we will check the quality of the camera from Samsung next Wave. Curious or not?
Motorola Droid also solves Rubik's Cube in 25 seconds
When Motorola launched the Droid in the USA was accompanied by a strong campaign Verizon labor advertising, which stated that the "Droid what others do not," and they were right.
The company ARM, creator of the ARM processor chip at 550MHz A8 riding the Droid, a robot created with Lego pieces called "Lego Mindstorms". The robot is a structure to house the Motorola Droid at the top and a mythical Rubik cube at the bottom.
The peculiarity of the matter is that ARM to show the power of its processor, has created a specific app to take pictures of the faces of the Rubik's Cube with your mobile and send clear instructions to the robot via Bluetooth, which settled with his arms at full speed. Attentive:
HTC Droid gets naked in Incredible Stop-Motion
The guys have done TechRestore an unboxing of the HTC Droid Incredible that will not leave anyone indifferent. In addition to a proper unboxing very choreographed, mobile shredding leaves as if it were a spaceship, and then receive a technical and reassemble it piece by piece and return to normal. This technique using the famous visual Stop-Motion. Here is the video worked:
Use your Wiimando in Android
Thanks to the freedom we Android provides day to day can be implemented more and more amazing improvements. Appears on the XDA Developers Forum (Where else?) An application that will allow us to simply add a Bluetooth Wiimando like a virtual keyboard more in question. This gives us the ability to control our games and emulators with the controller in the same way as into the gadget "Game Gripper" Milestone in Motorola / Droid, but wirelessly.
In the XDA Developers forum Developers can download the application and test it yourself, but for now is only supported in some phones like the Nexus One, the SE Xperia X10 or Motorola Milestrone / Droid, while the HTC Desire and Legend is not possible. For more information, please take a look at the list of devices in this view, where even specify compatibility with some cooked ROMs. Here you can see the invention in this video:
Samsung Wave and camera quality surprise hit
The first device from Samsung Bada operating system was unveiled last MWC Samsung named as Wave (S8500). A terminal technology-laden look at the angle you look at it, but today we're going to stop on your camera 5 Mpx.
Recall that the same, in addition to its 5-megapixel, LED flash and autofocus was by touch, plus software that allows face detection, various artistic and geopositioned images.
But what we have found really striking is its ability to record HD video at 720p. The video, in addition to being at 720p, also runs at 30 frames per second, but 30 actual frames, no duplicates as usual to see in other devices.
The guys from GSM Arena has taken a couple of videos and the quality is taken seriously, especially if we think it is a simple mobile
They have also taken a few pictures, but to enjoy them in detail with your application including zoom, We invite you to stop by the page itself GSM Arena.
Is as far as curiosity in today, what did you like most?
Vía | Gizmodo | MobileCrunch | PocketNow | GSMArena
Latitude Google has 3 million active users, but needs to be more social
Everyone likes to positive numbers, especially if we consider that the neighbor is not doing anything wrong business, and is a few days ago we informed you that the young man had Foursquare than one million users.
According to Google, its Latitude geolocation service has more than 3 million active users, and slightly more than 8 million users are those who have ever accessed the service. (# )
Do not talk about him does not mean that there is, is that as Google informs us, Latitude has been growing at a rate of 30% per month during the past year. The main reason for growth could not be other than the expansion of the Android platform in the world of mobile telephony, with a specially enhanced version as a widget on Google Maps.
Currently 10% of users use Android Latitude, in respect to the other major active platform, iPhone, Google is aware that Latitude does not have a good support for the Google phone, so that users have opted for social solutions as Foursquare or Mytown.
One of the important advantages of Android and their terminals is the possibility of leaving the service running in the background, an issue that until the arrival iPhone OS 4.0 and the subsequent updating of the applications will not be possible, so I'm sure Google will pay attention on this possibility.
However Latitude not emphasized in their social skills, people used to Foursquare mark the places where you are and share it with others, giving further places significant value on the social network that is generated. Google promises to work in this direction, but without forgetting the original model that we already have operating.
Other aspects Latitude are working on the history of locations as data layer, integration with Google Buzz, and privacy of our content. Reviewing Article I have the idea that all do very well, but not sleep because it comes Facebook.
Vía | TechCrunch.
Ovi App Wizard, create simple applications in minutes
I do not think the solution to give life to your application store, but at least if it funny how you can prepare an application for Ovi Store without writing a single line code.
Ovi App Wizard allows us to automatically generate applications on a pretty strict standard, because it really does is convert any RSS feed, Atom, or even Twitter and Facebook, in an application. A video in which we describe the process:
The process is fairly simple to publish it as you can see in the video, choose up to three sources, we got a couple of logos, one for the application, and one for Ovi Store, and choose the colors and name will look like our program. The funny thing is that we can even insert an advertising system.
Within 24 hours the "application" will be approved to appear on Ovi Store. Ovi App Wizard hope going to get more complex over time and allow us to make different applications, but it is clear that the idea is really good and help to swell the number of applications in the Ovi Store.
Official site | Ovi App Wizard.
Foursquare, its million users and its promising future
Foursquare I was wrong. I opened an account a while for that to feel an early adopter, but I dropped the same day. This has no future, I said, makes too much noise on Twitter, the ordinary people will have none of the geolocation and what is the point where I am at every moment?, Or that moved me so much! Now I use it every day.
Last week Foursquare reached one million users. The company has a dozen employees and is valued at 80 million dollars, is not without potential buyers. It is worthwhile to stop and review its application and get bet on whether or not revolutionize the way we use mobile phones.
What is Foursquare
For if there is any room clueless. Foursquare is a social network that presents the user as a game in which, mobile in hand, you have to go by check-in when you visit a site and want to share. The rewards are points and badges (such as leveling up) and grant you the mayor of a place if you have visited more than anyone.
The application exploits the location capability of any self-respecting smartphone and automatically offers a list of premises or public places near where you are, in this way, just do a few movements with the finger addictive take your points.
Now, that's just the food, which has engaged in a million geeks fans to share what they do and measured points. The most sensible user will find the nice and helpful when purchasing definitive Foursquare some experience. Yes, it does something. I have found that at least two things:
The tips. There are more than comments made by local users who visit, such as what is the best dish at a restaurant. This was already made, you will say, for example 11870.com. But can you imagine the utility moved to a massive platform used? Potente.La really location of your friends. No, not to harass, but to know who is in the same place as you, either spend to see them or avoid them (I laugh Marauder's Map Harry Potter). It may not be as interesting as the previous value, but you just happening, and when it happens you stay thinking. The location of your friends is something that Google failed to Latitude but Foursquare can get long-term (when all they have data rate). Pending majority User
In my circle of friends, each time using more Foursquare, which has led me to use it too. I'm definitely not engaged, but every time I see more clearly its promising future. You can have it as healthy competition or a social network, but surely is making people take more and more moving to do something that is not to call.
But Foursquare has several obstacles to reaching the great mass of "normal" users. The first is that it requires a data connection anywhere, and it will end up happening to ordinary people, but in the long term. There really is no hurry, because Twitter also remains the realm of geeks, and nothing is making faint while all others come. And with celebrities such as Arnold Scwarzenegger using it, are on track.
The second obstacle is less techie people still afraid of the geolocation, either because the robbers stalk their homes or psychosis. This is more tricky, but ultimately fizzle in the mentality of the majority, because the location is the future of advertising and therefore mobile in general.
Foursquare vs Gowalla
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to include Gowalla Finally, another application whose philosophy is exactly the same. Gowalla The advantage is that it has a better design, better structured and more users hooked to Foursquare. But I fear that this will happen as with Twitter: if the system ends up succeeding, the application that was first triumph, and Foursquare definitely has more users.
Last Image | Guardian
Twitter launches its official client for Android, but only for version 2.1
Twitter has just released the official implementation of its service for the Android operating system, if we consider that on the platform there are dozens of third party applications is certainly not welcomed by the competition. For us as users if your arrival is important because it represents the importance of Android for Twitter.
The problem is that the official client is only for terminals with Android OS 2.1, I do not know if they have deliberately taking into account the number of updates expected for the terminals on the market, but the reality is that now leaves many people outside the game without using it.
The application paints very well, we can see the tweets geolocated on the map, relate our phonebook contacts with Twitter, and integrate the application with other programs installed on your system. It is best to see a video of his performance made by the folks at Android Central:
Twitter for Android comes just two weeks after it was announced, and will be the third official client Twitter to market after the BlackBerry version on which he worked closely with RIM and the iPhone version, which will attempt to Tweetie, which will be placed in the Apple Store free after purchase of the developer.
Video | Android Central.
Official site | Twitter Blog.
Image of the week: the IPAD to complement the iPhone to play
Is one of the nicest pictures of the week and that made me think more. The iPhone is a very interesting platform to play away from home at short intervals, but most of the day was spent playing video games at home where no means cover third screen with our fingers. Is it possible then that the iPhone continues to have interest as a video game indoors?
Supplemented with an IPAD, think so. It is the philosophy of PadRacer, the most reliable way to transport a phone Scalextric. The iPhone is the remote control of the players, and the IPAD is the circuit (board game). Of course, this would be extrapolated to any smartphone tácil complemented with a large screen (this is where I stopped to think ).
Certainly not the cheapest solution is to play at home with a friend (children, not I buy some two and a IPAD iPhone for this), but at least curious. It is noteworthy that is not the first time we see the IPAD board applied as iPhone, might become commonplace:
Vía | SlashGear
