6 new iPhone and iPad Apps

1. TroubleMaker

Troublemaker

The legendary TB-303 has magical properties; it is filled to the brim with analog shimmer. Its output jack is a gateway to a parallel universe and when you twiddle the filter knobs an army of highly trained pixies chisel the square waves from freshly harvested unicorn souls. So if you want a TB-303, you should buy a TB-303. But if you're after *that sound* Troublemaker will give you everything you need in spades.

Troublemaker sports a carefully crafted diode filter emulation and among the available oscillators are the typical raspy, nasal sawtooth and rubbery squarewave with its oddball shape and shifting pulsewidth.

This is a recreation of the original Roland TB-303 synth — the go-to hardware if you want some dirty bass lines. Needless to say, iOS musicians will have a field day with this little app.

Price: $9.99

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2. VHS Video Cam

VHS cam

This app adds effects to your video camcorder, which might just invoke some heavy nostalgia if you are old enough.

Features:

• Share your cam footage straight to your camera roll for easy sharing

• Absolutely no ads

• Turn on the flash-light when you're chasing ghosts in the dark

• Take an 80's style selfie video with the front facing camera

• Choose between 4 handcrafted 80's filters to give your video the perfect vibe

• Edit the date to fake some footage to send to your annoying co-worker

Price: $2.99

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3.TxtBck

txtbk

This app makes it extremely easy to set reminders for a request, which you have received via iMessages. Say, if grandma sends you a "Can you pick up a bottle of milk on your way here?", you can just copy the text and paste it to TxtBck's reminders without leaving iMessage. Then, you can have the app notify you when you reach a specific location or at an exact time.

Price: $0.99

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4. Flashnote.

Flashnote

This is a "scanner" type app, which lets you take a photo of a document with your phone's camera and then crops it, tunes it to look like black-on-white text, and converts it to PDF.

Price: $0.99

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5. Conversation Starters

conversation starters

 

We live in the era when digital communication is the most often used channel and social awkwardness when face to face with a new person is a given. Who knew your phone might help you there as well? This app is full of nifty little conversation starters that should hopefully, maybe, spark a conversation. All we need to do now is remember how to speak proper... properly!

Price: $0.99

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6. Printed

Printed

Easily turn your photos into vintage printed art.

We've captured the classic look of mis-registered ink plates, over inked screens and hand selected authentic vintage papers to create a wildly exciting way for you to easily turn any photograph into a swell vintage matchbook cover, playbill or postcard to share.

• Printed transforms your photos into vintage printed art.

• Watch your photo get printed plate by plate as it transforms your images.

• Save your printed art and share them on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.

• Create beautiful, high res, frameable art for your home.

• Universal App for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

Price: $1.99

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Iphone 8 could come with long anticipated solution: Wireless Charging

Expected iphone 8

iPhone 8 is shaping up to be one of the most superb Apple smartphones to date if current rumors are to be believed.

According to the stream of leaks, the iPhone 8 will have glass panels on the front and rear of the device, with a small curve to the borderless OLED display.

Apple is also expected to drop its quintessential Home Button, hiding the fingerprint device technology underneath the glass display instead.

And now additional clues have emerged that Apple is planning to incorporate innovative wireless charging technology into its next smartphone.

Unlike rival devices from Google, Samsung, HTC, and Huawei, which mostly use the qi open interface standard to power their inductive charging – the technology enforced by Apple appears like a far higher solution.

Devices using the qi standard, just like the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge, are only capable of wireless charging over distances of up to four centimeters (1.6 inches).

Samsung wireless charging

For most users, that means positioning the phone on the charging selected pad, which means that the only advantage of the so-called wireless charging – is the reality you ought not to plug a cable into the device.

According to the current whispers from Cupertino, Apple has something rather more formidable planned.

The company is rumoured to be operating with wireless charging company Energous, that developed a wire-free charging solution dubbed WattUp capable of charging devices from up to four metres away (15-feet).

I cannot tell you who it's, however I will virtual guarantee that you just have merchandise from this company on your person, sitting on your table, or at home
Steve Rizzone, Energous chief executive officer

WattUp technology will be included during a wide range of electronics, including smartphones, tablets, wearables, cameras, wireless keyboard, computer mice, remote controls, and more, according to the company.

As long as any of these devices are within four metres of the transmitter, the device can charge its battery – as if it had been plugged into the electric outlet.

The radio frequency (RF) system uses an identical system to WiFi to deliver the safe wire-free charging solution.

Unlike the qi charging pads used for phones like the Galaxy S7 Edge, WattUp can still charge your phone while it's in motion – as long as it never moves more than four metres faraway from the transmitter, of course.

Although, Energous has never confirmed it's co-operating with Apple to implement the Inovative technology into the iPhone, it definitely hasn't done something to dispel the rumours.

Watt Technology can be added to different type of electronics

Energous this week made an appearance at the CES technology exposition in Las Vegas, showcasing new wireless charging pads.

The last time the company was at the exposition was back in 2015, when it promised to ship its long-distance WattUp RF technology.

However these plans were placed on hold when it signed a "key strategic partnership" resulting in a revived focus on miniaturising the charging technology before shipping it.

The deal made by Energous also allowed its mysterious partner to be the primary to ship the charging technology inside smartphones, laptops, tablets, and certain wearables and accessories. That meant the plans showcased by Energous at CES 2015 had to be placed on hold.

When pushed concerning the identity of the partner who will be first to market with the WattUp RF technology, Energous chief executive officer Steve Rizzone said the partnership is with "one of the biggest consumer electronic firms in the world. 

iPhone 8

"I cannot tell you who it is, however, I can virtual guarantee that you just have products from this company on your person, sitting on your table, or at home."

According to Energous, up to 12 completely different receiver devices will be juggled by the system at the same time.

So in theory, your Apple Watch, Apple Magic Keyboard and Mouse, iPhone 8 and iPad pro might all be at the same time charging whenever they're within the same area as a WattUp RF transmitter.

iPhone 8 without home button

So, while you are sitting at your table at work – your iPhone 8 are going to be charging within the background, making it very tough to find yourself low on battery.

Airports, coffee outlets, libraries, and more, might all implement the transmitters, which means your iPhone would forever be charged.

Fuelling the rumours that Energous signed an exclusivity deal with Apple, a brand new report from fast Company, Apple supplier Dialog has partnered with Energous.

As part of the new deal, Energous received a staggering $10 million investment from chipset maker Dialog Semiconductor last month.

Apple said to be seeking lower taxes as to start manufacturing in India

Company contacted the industry ministry last month asking for lower import and manufacturing duties, says sources.

New Delhi: Apple Inc. needs India to offer assessment concessions on iPhones that the organization plans to produce in the nation, a man with learning of the matter said.

The organization contacted the industry ministry a month ago looking for lower import and assembling obligations, the individual said, requesting that not be distinguished referring to rules on addressing the media. The concessions ought to proceed even after the government reveals its products and enterprises tax which is relied upon to subsume every current duty, the individual said.

The Cupertino, California-based maker of iPads and iPhones is quick to kick-begin operations on the planet's quickest developing telephone showcase as growth moderates in nations, for example, China. Apple trails rivals offering less expensive handsets in the $2 trillion (Dh7.34 trillion) Indian economy and delivering gadgets in the nation could quicken the take off of its notable retail locations to catch thriving interest on the planet's second-most populated country.

Apple's way toward a greater cut of Indian deals hasn't been smooth. Its application to open stores was dismisses as it fell foul of nearby decides that normally require no less than 30 for every penny of segments to be made locally before an outside organization can offer through their own particular outlets. Apple makes the vast majority of its items in China and doesn't at present meet that criteria. 

Apple's representative in India, and Mattu J.P. Singh, a representative at India's Commerce and Industry Ministry didn't instantly react to messages looking for input.

Apple Leak "Affirms" Massive New iPhone

New iPhones no longer have secrets facts. That much has been genuine as far back as the iPhone became so prominent, it got to be distinctly difficult to contain the all breaks from its enormous worldwide inventory network. Also, now another one is promising the greatest news of the cutting edge truly is measure... 


Moving down a few predictable leaks is yet another today from DigiTimes which "affirms" Apple AAPL - 0.72% will without a doubt supersize the iPhone in 2017. 


"Apple will dispatch 4.7-, 5.5-and 5.8-inch new iPhone models in second-half 2017, with TFT-LCD boards to be utilized as a part of the previous two models and AMOLED for the 5.8-inch one...Global shipments of the AMOLED iPhone in 2017 are assessed at 60-70 million units," the distribution notes, referring to its source.

It likewise claims Samsung will be the selective producer of OLED boards utilized as a part of the expanded iPhone, providing up to 20 million boards a month. 

In the first place things to begin with, for an organization which broadly ridiculed bigger telephone sizes hopping to a 5.8-inch board is to some degree astonishing. Particularly given adversaries like Google, Samsung and LG have all cut back from 5.7 to 6-inch boards in their premium cell phones to institutionalize on 5.5 inches as of late and Apple has done little to attempt and enhance the client involvement in iOS to exploit the bigger screen size of the iPhone Plus range contrasted with the standard model. 

All things considered, I speculate the 5.8-inch estimation may incorporate the edges considering the "all bend" show this new bigger model is required to have.

This could then make it a comparative size to the double bended 5.5-inch Galaxy S7 Edge and brief Galaxy Note 7 which measure 5.5-inches yet don't include the bends their estimations. Or if nothing else we should trust so given Apple perseveres with holding the back catch in the upper left corner of the UI.

Furthermore 60-70M units is a considerable measure for a solitary model and would demonstrate a record busting year ought to the next 2017 4.7-inch and 5.5-inch models additionally offer in numbers anyplace near late years. This would be an enormous inversion in fortunes for Apple which has seen iPhone deals decrease reliably as of late and will fabricate desire that this premium (and higher estimated) 'iPhone 8' (as it is being called) will be something to get hearts beating as the line praises its tenth commemoration. 

Obviously with Apple commonly just finishing iPhone outlines six months before their September release, a considerable measure could even now change. In any case, after three eras of incremental outline changes, expectations that 2017 will see the range reinvigorated are probably going to hit new highs…

How to Fix iPhone Bug that breaks Message App

Recently, another bug that handicaps the Messages application on any iPhone by sending a solitary instant message has been found. 

The imperfection renders iOS gadgets unequipped for opening the Message application, making it difficult to peruse writings or iMessages, and the application keeps on smashing notwithstanding when shutting it or on the off chance that you've rebooted the telephone. 

The bug includes sending a vCard - a transferable Address Book contact - with such a variety of lines of code that the Messages application can't handle it.

At the point when Messages opens the message it tries to open the vCard, which has a large number of lines of malevolent code contrasted with a few hundred on a customary contact, and stops the application with a white screen.

Since Messages dependably tries to open the latest instant message when it is stacked, it will continue attempting to open the malevolent message notwithstanding when the application is shut or the entire telephone is rebooted. 

The content, found by developer vincedes3, bears a similarity to the "Successful Power" content of a year ago that would crash telephones with a line of Arabic content and a video bug found a month ago. Apple normally settles these bugs rapidly in redesigns to iOS.

How to fix it

On the off chance that you've been influenced, all is not lost. You just need to utilize one of a few fixes to take the message off the highest point of your inbox. 

The most effortless path is to click on this link, which we have tried, to open the window for sending another message, squeezing wipe out and erasing the culpable message. 

On the other hand, you can send yourself a message in Siri, or ask another person to, which will permit you to open the new message rather than the pernicious one.

For devices (including iPad) where the fix link does not work, ask Siri to send a message to the victim and click on the text.

HTC Schedules Product Announcement for January 12; New Smartphone Expected

HTC has started sending media invites for an event on January 12 where the company says it will make its "next big announcement." The company has shared a teaser invite with "for U" as a tagline. Unfortunately, not many details about HTC's upcoming announcement are available right now.

It's worth noting that the January 12 launch date is just after the CES week which means HTC doesn't want its announcement to get lost in a host of launches during the event. The Taiwanese company has not dropped any hints in the invite for the launch event, however, recent rumours have pointed to the launch of the HTC X10 mid-range smartphone in January. The event could also see the launch of the company's next flagship or be about the company's recent virtual reality push, or both.

Starting with the HTC X10, the successor to the HTC One X9 is said to launch in January and cost around CNY 2,000 (roughly Rs. 19,500). It is said to sport a 5.5-inch full-HD (1080x1920) display, a 2GHz octa-core MediaTek Helio P10 processor (Cortex-A53 cores), Mali-T860 GPU, 3GB of RAM, and a 13-megapixel rear camera with OIS.

Another recent report claimed that HTC has been working on its next flagship, the HTC 11. According to initial rumours, HTC 11 may sport a 5.5-inch QHD (1440x2560) display and run on Android 7.0 Nougat customised with HTC's Sense 8 UI on top. The handset is rumoured to pack a dual-camera setup of 12-megapixel at the back while an 8-megapixel front-facing camera is also expected on board. Under the hood, the HTC 11 is expected to be powered by an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 CPU, along with Adreno 540 GPU for graphic performance. It is said to pack a whopping 8GB of RAM under the hood, with an inbuilt storage of 256GB. The device is said to be backed by a 3700mAh battery. According to rumours, HTC's next flagship will launched with a price tag of $691 (roughly Rs. 47,000). However, all these leaks should be taken with a pinch of salt as HTC has not mentioned anything about the upcoming device and the leaks legitimacy remains questionable.

Will the iPhone 8 ditch glass for PLASTIC? Rumours say Apple will use the material to create a curved screen

The iPhone 8 could come with a radical new design, according to the latest reports. 

Apple's upcoming handset could be set to ditch the current aluminium and glass design in favour of a plastic OLED screen that curves 'all over'.

The report also appears to confirm previous rumours that Apple will be introduced three phone models in 2017.  

iPhone 7

The OLED version of the new iPhone will all be curved as Apple ordered all plastic OLED - not glass - from Samsung Display. 'Samsung is capable of supplying a little less than 100 million units of curved OLED displays to Apple,' a source familiar with the matter told The Korea Herald.  The reports suggests that Apple will launch three designs - a flagship model with the curved screen and two that more closely resemble the current iPhone 7 and 7 Plus. Until now, Apple has relied on Corning's durable Gorilla Glass for its iPhone screens. It's not clear whether the plastic would be used alone, or whether it could be covered with a glass layer, notes 9to5mac.com.  Earlier this month, rumours emerged claiming that the iPhone 8 could feature a curved OLED.A curved display could enable Apple to produce a handset with an edge-to-edge screen with practically no bezels.  This was the latest in a series of reports claiming that Apple will feature a curved screen on its next handset, which is expected to launch in autumn 2017. 'Recent reports point to Interflex, BH, and Samsung Electro-Mechanics as suppliers of the components, which will be used by Samsung Display to manufacture the panels used in the iPhone 8,' reports ExtremeTech.