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Is It That The Third-Party Apps Are Taking Over iOS – Learn How?

The third-party applications have now been marked as the best-in-class when it comes to iOS. This happens to be a great achievement for all the third-party users, developers and precisely Apple. It offers various other third-parties, such as Google, with additional revenue and exposure. Eventually, providing users with superior applications for iOS users. Moreover, it helps selling more of these iOS gadgets for Apple. This may be working for Apple in the short term, but in the long term, Apple perhaps has to suffer.

Mostly people fail to see the issues with these superior quality third-party apps. Such users are partially right – the applications are not problematic. Instead, Apple’s terms and policies towards these 3rd party apps as well as a lack of creativity and innovation of their very own applications create the issues.

Initially, Apple does not enable users to set 3rd party apps as default app in the iOS. When it is about it, the iOS devices are more like the computers. Just think that you have not been able to set a default 3rd party browser or mail app in OS X. This certainly is not acceptable at all in the iOS. The only reason it has not created much of an issue so far is for the reason that the apps by Apple have been enough for most of the users. Until now, there have not been much compelling substitutes. This leads us to another issue. With the release of Chrome, Google Maps, and Gmail, Google is there to offer superior iOS applications as compared to Apple itself. Various other applications like Fantastical or Sparrow are also powerful alternatives Apple has offered. The lack of the default settings actually make the user experience comparatively less than ideal for the users, with the iOS feature of pushing users to only use the iOS apps in particular scenarios.

Eventually, some people perhaps consider that it is more seamless and easier to use an Android gadget than using a bunch of 3rd party apps on iOS devices. Later on, Apple touts the incorporation of these apps into the iOS as a unique feature, which is unbelievable if you are using the 3rd party applications.

On the other hand, Apple is not without useful solutions. There could be several and ideally, both of them will take place. First and foremost, Apple needs to work on its core applications at a pace which is faster or at least equivalent to the 3rd party apps. Secondly, Apple should allow users to opt for the 3rd party apps as the default apps. If one or even both of these solutions do not happen to occur, and will make Apple eventually lose its customer base, as they will prefer using the 3rd party apps, like Google’s, in a more integrated, and seamless experience.

With pretty simple modifications to the the iOS platform and its policies, Apple can really turn the iOS devices into superior, more dominant and better mobile platform. Nevertheless, an inflexible stance could result in a poor and clunky user experience that is going to drive away even the most loyal customers.

iPad App’s For Cooking Recipes: Holiday Week Special Edition

The last time that we looked at the apps for cooking for the iPad it was a massive hit. There are many cooking apps out there but we are just doing a little roundup of some of the cooking apps that are thought to be quite famous. These apps will help you make a nice overwhelming meal for the holidays coming up in the upcoming weeks.

Not everybody is into traditional things that is why a variety of different apps have been provided in the article for you to take a look at. Read ahead to find out.

Cook’s Illustrated :

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This app itself is completely free but its components and content will definitely cost you money. You will have to pay $5.99 for every issue or $1.99 for every month. This means that you will only have to pay $19.99 for the whole year. This is not the kind of app that you should let go of because with every one of its issues you get an article with recipes attached to it. This app has a cooking mode which will provide you with step by step instructions with pictures to help you out. This feature is very helpful especially for those people who understand with the help of pictures. This app is perfect for those people who like magazines for cooking.

Source: Cook’s Illustrated App for iOS

Evernote Food 2.0 :

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This version of Evernote Food is free and was released just recently. This app is known all over the world. This app is perfect for those people who like to keep track of all the things that they have made. You can take pictures of the foods that you have made, you can share them with friends, attach places, dates, and so much more. If you are tired of searching for recipes on the internet, then this app is perfect for you. You can find many websites on this app.

Source: Evernote Food 2.0 App for iOS

Jamie’s Recipes :

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This app has been put together by Jamie Oliver, a fine chef. Jamie focuses mainly on his recipes. You have to purchase recipes in packs such as $0.99 packs for different kinds of recipes like Crowd Pleasers, Class Comfort Food, 10 Minute Meals, Holiday Feasts, and others. The price is perfect but if you do not feel right about spending a dollar on something the app has a “Taster Pack” which free of cost and has 3 videos and 10 recipes for you to use without paying. The Holiday Feasts pack has many delicious recipes for you to use during the holidays such as at Christmastime. It’s very difficult to get bored on this app because there are so many recipes to look through. You will have a hard time deciding which recipe you want to utilize. This app is perfect for all those food-lovers.

Source: Jamie’s Recipes App for iOS

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Kii Keyboard – An Android Beta App for a Fully Customizable Keyboard

Android developers always come up with interesting new apps for its users that make the android experience more enjoyable and exciting. There are tons of apps available on android serving different purposes. Android had previously release the virtual keyboard apps including swift key, swipe keyboard, jelly beans, TouchPal and a lot more apps, making typing experience on android more fun and interesting. Now android has released an updated beta version of the keyboard app which they have named as Kii Keyboard. This is the advanced application that combines all the unique features of the previously released keyboard apps making this application as an all in one package. Besides, it also offers its own new unique features.

It contains the best features so far providing room for maximum customization. This has even left behind the apple’s IOS keyboard. It is both unique in its function and looks. The features that it uses from previous apps include a perfect gesture typing similar to Swipe and the typing experience is like the stock android 4.2 input format. Similar to the swift key, the keyboard has the capability to guess words that you type and it will do it in the most efficient way. Like the thumb keyboard app, it has a split keyboard layout.

It also has the unmatchable unique features of its own. The app provides an enhanced multi-touch speedy typing. It comes with 8 integrated themes and the capability to support more themes. The keyboard layout is a lot more customizable in a way that you can modify the colors, fonts, images at the background and also the height of the key according to what suits your mood. The outlook is totally under your control. The app also features the customizable dictionaries. Moreover, it contains extra number and extra arrow key rows.

These all features in the app together have made the keyboard app much smarter and efficient than before. The app is suitable both for Smartphone and tablet. The beta version is accessible for free from the Google Play Store.

Source: Kii Keyboard for Android on Play Store

5 Best Android Tablets of the Year 2012

The year 2012 has been very very busy for the entire Android tablet vendors as a large number of slates running on the Google platform were announced. Not all of them turned out to be incredible, and not all of them have been affordable, so concluding on which one of these tablets have been the best is quite tough to decide on.

Google Nexus 7 :

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Google came up with a 7-inch tablet and was called as the Google Nexus 7. This gadget does all the key jobs a tablet could easily cater but without any inconveniences. The best thing related to this device is that it has an affordable price range, and it is accessible for only $199.

The gadget is well packed with a set of unique features. However, it does lack the functionality of a rear camera and only offers a front-facing camera of 1.2 Megapixels. The tablet runs on Android Jelly bean version and also with a quad-core processor offered from NVIDIA.

Google Nexus 10 :

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The Google Nexus 10 happens to be a 10-inch tablet packed with some amazing features. It offers a 2560x1600p display at 300ppi, which means a higher resolution that is more sharper in comparison to what the smart televisions have been offering on several appliances. The device weighs only 603 grams and is just 8.9mm thin. It empowers similar Google enhancements as well as Android’s Jelly Bean with a dual-core ARM Cortex A15 processor. It has been specifically designed to boost the connectivity of WiFi. The gadget has a 5MP camera with a strong 9000mAh battery.

ASUS Transformer Pad Infinity :

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Soon after the launch, it was rumored as the best Android tablet of the century. However, the ASUS Transformer Pad Infinity happens to be exceedingly luxurious for being a tablet. The gadget is offered for more than $600, with some exclusive accessories that you would love to have with this gadget.

This ASUS Transformer Pad Infinity 700 has been brilliantly designed with an extremely appealing metal finish, an extremely thin body, a 1080p display with the IPS technology for all-angle viewing, a harmonizing keyboard docking station with a lot more. It supports 1GB of RAM, quad-core NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor, 64GB internal flash memory, 8 Megapixel camera, and Android platform.

Amazon Kindle Fire :

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Amazon made an amazing entry to the tablet industry and offered something more than a simple e-book reader. The Kindle Fire HD has been a great addition to the industry and has been offered with a starting price of only $199.

The Kindle Fire HD offers its users with an extremely powerful and robust display with the dual-band, the dual antenna technology is useful in offering faster Wi-Fi connectivity and speed. The tablet has been integrated with a 1.2GHz dual-core processor.

Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 :

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The Galaxy Tab 7.7 by Samsung happens to be an extremely special addition to the Android tablet family as it offers a compact form and a great screen. This is the only gadget that utilizes a Super AMOLED Plus display. Moreover, this is the only tablet that features a screen of 7.7-inches.

Conclusion :

Wrapping it all, I really find the Google’s Nexus 7 as the ‘tablet of all times’, at least for the time being. It offers all the vital and imperative features that are needed by user today, and holds some innovative features such as the Google’s very own cloud feature. Moreover, it has a low price range, and I’m sure that it has some great and robust features, which users will prefer!

Google & Motorola to come up with ‘X Phone’ in 2013

The Wall Street Journal has reported that Google and Motorola are together working on a Smartphone device that is given a codename ‘X Phone’, which is to be launched next year. Google purchased Motorola for $12.5 in May to work on the X Phone. It has also been reported that the device will be a big hit with most advanced and amazing features developed in the partnership of Google and Motorola. Although, there is not much information revealed about the device specifications up till now but it is said that the device will give competition to the world’s largest Smartphone’s developers, the Apple and Samsung. The team working on the device comprises of many efficient people and is lead by Lion Ron who has worked on Google maps and he is now involved in the X Phone project. After the launch of X Phone,

Google and Motorola will also work on the X Tablet. X Phone will have revolutionary features with most significance given to the camera enhancement. Gesture and facial identification will be another great feature of the device. Year 2013 will see a revolution in the Smartphone after the launch of X Phone. Motorola engineers are striving hard to develop a device that is enhanced in performance and also has improved external body of the phone. They have used different materials like ceramic, in order to give a stronger external body to the phone that will be indestructible.

It’s now only a few days left in the New Year and shortly the time will unfold whether or not Google and Motorola will be able to give competition to the existing masters of Smartphone’s, the Apple and the Samsung. The world will see the revolution in the mobile technology in the coming year.