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25 Billion App Contest Won by Some Foo Who?

The App contest was one by who? Fu. That’s who. Chunli Fu of Qingdao China downloaded the winning app, Where’s my Water Free by disney to win the competition. China seems to always be ahead of the US these days. This win for China is ironic considering the negative effects that the idevices have had on some Chinese workers. As for who Chunli is, we...

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5 Reasons To Use Opera Mini For ios

Image Courtesy of Opera Software Inc. Safari for iphone is a fantastic web browser, it works, it’s easy to use, and it has a nice set of features. So what reason could you possibly have use any different browser? Well, with Opera Mini- a speedy little web browser for ios I can think of several. It’s free. There’s no incentive not to download it. It...

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Snackr- I’m Loving It

Snakr Screen What was your 25 billion app attempt? Mine was Snackr (Free) which is a lovely little App which aggregates news, and gives you quick audio TTS(Text To Speech) blurbs from articles.  The Text to speech sounds great compared to many, and is completely understandable. The english voice of “Alfred” never gets old and I love the little audio wave display. The news selection is...

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Apple’s App Store Reaches 25 Billion App Downloads!

Well, the app store hit 25 billion downloads today at about 12:43 PM Eastern! The winner has yet to be announced but I’m hopeful. The count was slightly off on each browser according to my tests, but I did my best. In the end, people were downloading apps at the rate of 1,000+ a second! It was unbelievable. The clock was automatic, based on time,...