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iPhone 3G S vs. iphone 3G: the new iPhone looks promising

iPhone 3G S vs. iphone 3G: the new iPhone looks promising

The competition in the mobile phone world will never stop. On June 6th Palm have published its new competitive phone Palm Pre. Then on June 8, Apple has unveiled new iPhone at WWDC – the iPhone 3G S. It announced that new iPhone 3G S will sell on June 19th. The price of iPhone 3G 3.0 has slow down to 99 dollars and the rumor said that new iPhone will sell at 199 dollars of 16GB and 299 dollars of 32GB. Besides the price strategy, the new iPhone will largely improve its function as well as bring many new features to compete with Palm Pre. Then let’s have a close look at the new iPhone 3G S: How does the new iPhone improved compare with the original iPhone 3G 3.0?

Appearance: unchanged

From the picture we can found that there is not much change on iPhone’s appearance.

Battery life: longer

The new iPhone battery life last longer than the original iPhone 3G: for talk time, iPhone 3G can last up to 10 hours on 2G and iPhone 3G S is 2 hours longer; On Internet use, iPhone 3G can last up to 6 hours on Wi-Fi, and iPhone 3G S can last 9 hours on Wi-Fi; For audio playback iPhone 3G S can last up to 30 hours while iPhone 3.0 24 hours, and for video playback, iPhone 3G S can last up to 10 hours, 3 hours longer than iPhone 3G.

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Tags: Battery Life, Internet Use, Talk Time

Maperture Pro 1,2, geolocalize your photos in Aperture

One of the interesting new features but of iPhoto ´09 was the inclusion of You please, which allows us to geolocalizar our photographic library.

Maperture Pro is Plug-in for Aperture 2 that allows the same exactly us. The combination of Aperture and Google Maps will allow us to locate in a map the places that we have visited and of that we have been engaged in a photographic memory.

Between the characteristics that are included in this plug-in they find:

• The possibility of adding or of publishing the global positioning of your photographic library.

• Also we will be able to include the altitude to which the photographies have been taken.

• Compatibility with the most common archives of data GPS (GPX, KML, LOG, NMEA or TCX)

• Possibility Of reviewing Geocoding, which allows to locate to a direction thanks to data like the length and latitude us.

If you are an enthusiastic one of the photography and use the professional solution of Apple for your photos, this plug-in it will allow to have perfectly located your albums you of trips.

Tags: Maperture Pro

Boinx Software announces BoinxTV 1.3

Munich, Germany – Boinx Software today announced the release of BoinxTV 1.3, an important update to its breakthrough live production software that turns a Mac into a TV studio.* BoinxTV 1.3 adds new features and workflow enhancements as well as further improvements in performance and stability.

Version 1.3 supports Veescope Key Softlyght, a high-quality chroma keying filter that is available separately for $49 (USD). By popular demand, the update also features an integrated configurable audio delay compensation and convenient settings to automatically create device sources. BoinxTV 1.3 is available as a free update and is highly recommended for any BoinxTV user

“We are very excited by the level of enthusiasm that BoinxTV has created since we shipped it about 6 months ago,” says Oliver Breidenbach, CEO of Boinx Software. “Partnerships like the one with DVDxDV are a sign of a blossoming ecosystem around the BoinxTV platform. We are happy to be able to offer customers more options through cooperations like this.”

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Top Friends 1.0 released – Brings Minority Report style GUI to iPhone

Christchurch, New Zealand – Top Friends, a new iPhone Application from Smudge Apps, integrates advanced multi-touch and graphics technology with making phone calls. Top Friends is a photo picture board that lets you speed dial your contacts. The advanced iPhone Application allows you to add photos of the people you call the most onto a pin board, and then manipulate the images in a “Minority Report” style interface, scaling, moving and rotating the images with your fingers into a design that works for you. To call, you simply double tap a picture.

This App leverages the full potential of the iPhones ground breaking technology, utilizing the widescreen Multi-Touch display to deliver a visually impressive experience on the go.

Feature Highlights:
* Amazing multi-touch interface
* Layout photos of your friends any way you can think of with different sizes, crops and rotations
* Double Tap the photo to call
* Use any photo on your iPhone, whether you just took it, synced it from your computer, or downloaded it from the internet
* Crop images any way you like to get the most out of the screen real estate
* Quick speed dialing solution that gives you instant access to the people you contact the most

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roobasoft releases rooSwitch 1.5 for Mac OS X – App Specific Profiles

Boise, Idaho – roobasoft, LLC today is delighted to announce rooSwitch 1.5, a significant update to their award winning profile manager for Mac OS X. With a focus on ease-of-use, rooSwitch can create and manage multiple profiles of any application’s data, allowing an unlimited number of profiles for virtually any OS X application, on an individual basis. It’s like a multi-user environment for just one application. Drop any app on rooSwitch and let it manage multiple versions of that applications preferences, settings and data files, and easily switch between them.

Particularly suited for developers, beta testers and support organizations alike, rooSwitch was originally developed to help test a new user experience and/or verify different canned scenarios, making it an excellent solution for quality testing software without losing preferences and application data. Profiles include preferences, caches, and the application data and are stored in a single .rooSwitch bundle, making it easy to backup application profiles and transfer them between machines or accounts.

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