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mumu Slide Case For iPhone 4 and 4s World Exclusive First Look.

It was purely by chance that whilst sipping on some brain juice in an attempt to get the grey matter firing I noticed a rather unique case that stuck out in the crowd of iPhones around me. Turns out I had stumbled onto a range of new wooden iPhone case from mumu* called the “Slide Case” which are coming soon and it looks like it’s going to be something rather special.

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Nuance Dragon TV The Apple iTV Competitor?
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Dragon TV Speech Controlled TV Coming In May Before Apple’s iTV

The race for smart TV gets more interesting, even before the release of Apple TV.  Nuance, the makers of dragon dictate products and LG have announced a speech controlled TV set to be released in early May.

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Essentialmac was there at the Nuance Wednesday press event hosted in London to get some idea of what Nuance have been up to the in the world of speech recognition and where they are heading.  One of the most exciting announcements came in the form ofDragon TV.

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Cupidtino dating
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Cupidtino App – Meet the Apple Fanboy or Fangirl of your dreams

Apple fanatics can rejoice as there is now Cupidtino dating is an app designed to help in the quest to meet someone with similar interests, even if it is just all things Apple. Cupidtino have released an App version of their website.

Cupidtino is the first ever “Mac-inspired” dating site. It’s goal is to bring Apple fans and lovers of beautiful hardware and software design together.

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What makes Cupidtino a little different to most other dating websites, rather than simply asking that hardest question of all on dating sites to “Tell us about yourself”. your profile consists of answering questions like;

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Onlive Service Full
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Online Game Service Currently Full. Struggling to cope at launch?

Just days after its launch it seems that the OnLive gaming service is showing signs of struggling to cope with demand.

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We’ve been testing this service over the last few days and so far have been remarkably impressed with what is on offer even if our bandwidth allowance is being thrashed to it within an inch of its life.

If you have the bandwidth capability then it seems that Mac gaming with decent high resolution graphics is finally on the horizon. During our testing on a mid-2009 MacBook Pro our CPU usage barely went above 50% whilst playing an intensive game such as Tom Clancy’s splinter cell.

The issue of the service being unavailable could just be down to peak demand for the initial launch period so we’re going to keep testing this and report back shortly in the next coming weeks.

Feel free to post any comments below.

Portal Now Free To Play
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Portal now free to play for Mac and PC

We don’t tend to have much coverage about Mac gaming purely because none of our rates are really up to the task of doing any decent gaming.

Portal Portal now free to play for Mac and PCWell our Hackintosh project did allow us to play games such as portal and Assassins Creed but, as anyone who reads this site knows, that rig bit the dust quite a few months ago.

It’s typical that we don’t have a rake to play any games on just as Steam announces that the standalone version of portal is no showing up with no price.

Portal is one of those rare games which isn’t showing its age just purely down to the great puzzles and compelling gameplay.

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iPhone 5 or 4s cases revealed?

Yup we are going to be amongst the bandwagon jumpers here on the net with this article. Apparently case manufacturer Case-Mate accidently…. leaks iPhone 5 case.

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The cases posted appear to have a curved silver aluminum back which suggests that either the iPhone 5 or 4S will have a similar looking back case of that of the iPad 2.  If it’s as nice to hold and feel as the 3gs is then i’ll be over the moon.  As much as I like the look of the iPhone 4 is gosh darn awful to hold and make a long phone call with.

The cases themselves look to be a shot in the dark with the cut away section for the camera and flash being so obvious, most cases tend to have carefully placed holes rather than a gaping cut away section.

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Adobe Flash Now Supported on iPads (sort of)

It’s here, finally the moment that some fanboys have been waiting for and for the apple haters to take a step back. Yes flash has arrived on the iPad…sort of..

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The folks over at Adobe have just released Adobe Flash Media Server 4.5.  It’s server side based so you are at the mercy of your flash based website to update their software but at last iPad owners can get in  on the flash video action.

As we keep saying “sort of’ you wont be playing flash games any time soon or watching animations but it will allow you to watch streaming video through Apple’s format, HTTP Live Streaming.

A definite step in the right direction.

Update – 15th September

So has anybody noticed any of their usual sites now suddenly working in Flash? Is anyone wondering how long the uptake will be before we see some of the more popular sites of updating their software.

Hulu Plus Supports HDMI
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Hulu Plus app adds HDMI output for iPad 2

Those of you in the states using Hulu Plus now have the extra added benefit of viewing shows on your tv via HDMI.

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Hulu Plus Supports HDMI

The Hulu Plus app itself is free, but of course requires a Hulu Plus subscription to access the content.

Those of you in the UK should be able to watch Hulu in the uk with the usage of the highly rated UnoTelly.  We’ll also have a guide for that soon as well.

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EyeTV Mobile, Watch live tv on your iPad 2

First the iPhone got it’s own tv tuner and now the iPad is getting the love as well with this dandy little box from Elgato.

 

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Elgato Eyetv Mobile

The EyeTV Mobile hooks up to the dock connector and grabs the TV signal from it’s ever so bendy antenna.  It’s freeview so you are reliant with the signal in your area (see our Elgato Tizi review for issues with this) and once again you can’t hook it up to a roof top aerial.

The software supports the over the air EPG that’s broadcast and the ability to record shows in their native format to your iPad

Steve Jobs Resigns
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OMG – Steve Jobs Resigns From Apple

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Shock Announcement - Steve Jobs Resigns

In an out of the blue announcement Apple have released this press statement

To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community:

I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come.

I hereby resign as CEO of Apple. I would like to serve, if the Board sees fit, as Chairman of the Board, director and Apple employee.

As far as my successor goes, I strongly recommend that we execute our succession plan and name Tim Cook as CEO of Apple.

I believe Apple’s brightest and most innovative days are ahead of it. And I look forward to watching and contributing to its success in a new role.

I have made some of the best friends of my life at Apple, and I thank you all for the many years of being able to work alongside you.

Steve

Wow,  WE hope that it;s not related to any health issues and we are genuinely surprised by this.