Addison Mel
Addison is an instructor of game design and multimedia developer in some technical college; he is also an active member of Microsoft gaming and app precincts.
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Elf Yourself iOS app – Enjoy Your Christmas
There are only a few days left behind for the big day celebrations, everybody wants to enjoy this Christmas in his/her own way. There are lots of things that you can do on your handsets making this big event more enthusiastic. We’ve come with an iOS app named Elf Yourself, unfortunately Android users can’t enjoy this app as it comes only to iOS devices.
Elf Yourself developed by OfficeMax lets you elf yourself and watch yourself dancing on a Christmas song. The idea first came in 2006 as a website but later on, it got a large popularity among users. Now, iPhone users can enjoy this fun on their devices.
This app will let you star in your favorite pop type video, but it’ll show you dressed up like an elf dancing in a funny way. So, you can have this fun with your friends to make them laugh. You can share this video on Facebook and other social media sites. Enjoy your holidays making fun of yourself with your friends.
Select your dance theme and then see yourself dancing in a video which can be stored in your computer. But Hip Hop is my favorite dance with any suitable theme like Classic, Charleston, Soul and 80’s.
If you want this app to be seen on your handset then you’ll need to have a device running Apple’s iOS 5.1 or later. Otherwise you can use website here.
Download Elf Yourself from App Store.
Get Your Devices Ready For New iOS Accessories
We’ve been very consistent providing new iOS accessories that keep you stay updated with the modern use of your device. Get your hands on our roundup of new iOS accessories.
Trends Audio
The TA 10.2 ($249) is an amplifier that allows you to hook your handset up to a pair of quality speakers. It’ll also allow you to enjoy top quality music.
USBFever
The 8-pin Lightning ($8) Data Sync Blocker allows your device to draw power off any nearby computer, but sidesteps inadvertent syncing by letting only power pass through the cable. For this, you only need to push Blocker button and the process of powering up your device can be done without any worry.
Qmadix
It is a small Bluetooth speaker with easy portability. The speaker sports 4 captivating color bands which can be changed according to your mood. You can enjoy music for up to 4 hours with a single charge.
Shapeways
The PadFoot ($20) is an clever little device: more than a clip, it can be snapped on iPad Mini or iPad Air and holds your iPad upright in the portrait or landscape orientation for hands free viewing.
Photojojo
The Bolt ($60) is a wall charger and backup battery in one. The powerful 3000mAh battery can power up your empty handset with fast speed, and it can carry its charge for a week.
Just Mobile
The AluBolt ($50) is a Lightning connector dock for iPad Mini and iPhone coming with a curved backrest and an aluminum base.
iPhone 5C Review: Old Women in a Colorful Dress
With some rumors prevailing around that new iPhone will be named as iPhone 5C, people were very quick in saying that it’ll be a cheaper phone. Indeed, that was just wannabe thinking for iPhone 5C.
Design
This is a colorful iPhone, Apple set ‘’C’’ in its name and stands for colorful. It is available in wide range of different colors, with white being the most moderate. That might be an issue for the people who want to see this iPhone without any riot of colors. For example, if I want it to be in black cover that doesn’t look possible as Apple haven’t made black one.
It is also super light and thin. iPhone 4 is my old device and this iPhone 5C is half of its thickness. It’s not that you are gonna have some irritating compliments from your fellows: your phone looks a bit cheap one, it doesn’t suit your personality etc. I must say the credit goes to Apple who did a superb job making such a unique phone out of plastic material. It has a solid feel, you can’t say it’s a plastic stuff unless you make a physical contact with it.
The external buttons for volume are now rhombus instead of circles in iPhone 5, which this iPhone is replacing. There are only 4 holes at the bottom instead of a speaker grille that can be found in earlier models.
Final Verdict
I must say that it is an iPhone 5 in a new colorful body.
Bump Up iOS 7 Speed on Your Handset
The new iOS 7 upgrade for iPhone 4 is said to be decreasing the device’s speed. Though, one can easily disable some features in the iPhone, that’ll help iPhone 4 users to bump up iOS 7 speed on their handsets.
Here are some steps that’ll help increase the speed of your device.
Disable Parallax effect or Animations
For disabling Parallax effects on your iPhone, go to the Settings – General – Accessibility and then turn on Reduce Motion.
Turn Off Translucencies
It’ll stop your iPhone from drawing translucencies that takes a little bit of your iPhone’s processor power.
Go to the Settings – General – Accessibility and then turn on the Increase Contrast.
Disable iCloud
Go to the Settings – iCloud – and then turn off anything the user thinks she/he do not need in the backup.
Turn Off Background App Refresh
Go to the Settings – General – Background App Refresh and then Turn off.
Turn off Airdrop/Wi-FI/Bluetooth When not in your use
Control Center – Turn OFF Wi-Fi – Turn OFF Airdrop – Turn OFF Bluetooth.
Disable the Automatic Updating
Stop the AppStore from updating apps automatically in the background.
Go to the Settings – iTunes & AppStore.
Turn Off Updates under the Automatic Downloads.
Remove Idle Apps
Home screen – tap & Hold On an application the user likes to remove, until they begin to wriggle.
Tap ‘’X’’ located in the corner of almost each application that needs to be eliminated.
Hands On With iPad Charging Cart
Here’s another thing comes out from Apple Locks named ‘’iPad Charging Cart’’ with sixteen charging security Modulars.
Specs
- Compact Design (18″ x 14″ x 14″)
- Light Weight Construction
- Weight: 25 Pounds
- Can secure 16 to 32 units
- Easy installation process
Free Shipping Service Over $99 on all U.S. Orders!
Perfect for education and healthcare environments where everyone seems to find a place to charge their devices. The iPad Charging Cart protects your device while being charged. The installation process is so simple as it assembles in just 10 minutes, and it charges & secures all Tablets / iPads / Macbooks up to 13-inch and Notebooks.
Price: $1,299.00
Special Offer for only Cafeios readers as they can save up to 10% of the whole amount.
4Videosoft Launches iOS Data Recovery
4Videosoft launches a brand new iOS Data Recovery so that the users can get their lost or deleted data from their iOS devices with great ease. The users now can get their lost data with only one click, no matter how your data got lost like iOS Jailbreak, upgrade, iOS device damage, factory settings restore and other unforeseen accident which caused data loss. Now this top class iOS Data Recovery supports iOS 7, iPad Air/Mini 2, and iPhone 5S/5C.
2 different recovery modes are now available for users, Recover from the iTunes Back File and Recover from an iOS device. While recovering from the iOS device, the users are able to recover up to 12 different types of data, 7 types of text content and 5 types of media content included.
The iOS user can recover seven types of text content data like Contacts, Messages, Calendar, Call History, Reminders, Notes and Safari Bookmark. Besides above-mentioned seven types of text content, the users can regain five types of media content like Photo Library, Camera Roll, Voice memos, Photo Stream and Message attachments.
While selecting Recover from the iTunes Backup Flie Mode, the users are also able to extract iTunes Backup file for all kinds of iOS devices, comprising iPad Air, iPad Mini 2, iPhone 5C/5S. The users can regain multiple lost data from the iTunes Backup file like Messages, Contacts, Calendar, Reminder, Notes, Call history, Safari bookmarks, Photo Stream, Camera Roll, Voice memos and Message attachments. Both existing data in Backup file and the lost data from iOS device before the users made backup can be regained.
Requirements
- 1G RAM
- 1.2GHz Intel (AMD CPU)
- Windows 7/ 8/ vista/ XP (SP2 or later)
For further info & free trial version, click here..
Great iOS Travel Apps Making Your Holiday Easier
People around your surroundings are gearing up to travel for Thanksgiving, but with some right applications on your handset, you can avoid the tiresome pain of holiday rush.
Traveling could be headache for someone particularly during some big holidays like the recent coming Thanksgiving. With lots of people traveling at the same time, you are faced with bad weather, packed airports, unexpected schedule changes, and irritable passengers trying to get home for this holiday.
To keep your stress level low, I selected some great iOS travel apps which will keep you on your organized schedule.
Just Landed
It isn’t exactly an application for the holiday traveler intrinsically, but uses your current flight schedules and GPS location to help you choose the exact to go and pick up your siblings from the airport.
Just Landed covers a well designed minimalist interface with some tools you want to pick up a particular person at the airport. Let’s move on its work-mechanism, once you’ve your fellow’s flight info, you may enter the flight number in this app to get the updated information about his/her flight on the travel day, comprising whether his/her flight was late or will reach early.
Though Just Landed is not for the holiday traveler, it’ll come in handy for those who’re picking up their friends or siblings at the airport.
TripIt
The Triplt allows you to set up an account, forward travel confirmation Emails to a particular Email address like (Plans@tripit.com) to set all your holiday info available on your handset. Everything from restaurants, car rentals, flight times, to hotels you wanna try, and lots of other things can be added to your holiday trip card, so you know your itinerary very well on your iPhone.
It is more than a list of info. Triplt takes your holiday plans, mapping data, uses flight data, and above all to give you a comprehensive schedule of particular events. For an example, when you reach at your endpoint, you can get directions to the restaurant, car rental location and can check the condition of the weather.
How to install iOS 7.1 Beta via Developer Account
Now the registered developers can install iOS 7.1 beta, that comes with the base firmware 11D5099e from the iOS Dev center. Download for iPhone 5S firmware weighs only 1.4GB according to the iClarified. This new beta brings a host of enhancements and bug fixes.
‘’Devices upgraded to the iOS 7.1 beta can’t be restored to the earlier versions of the iOS. Registered devices will be able to update to the future beta versions and final iOS software,’’ Apple advices with the iOS 7.1 beta release.
Only registered developers are able to get iOS 7.1 Beta. Presently, there’s no way to download or install iOS 7.1 Beta without registering your device with the Apple. This will set you back $99 (£60) as the annual fee. It delivers access to the iOS beta software and development tools.
Those who don’t like to pay $99 can use the 3rd party service to get registered for only $5 to $8. It should be taken in mind that these 3rd party services aren’t affiliated with the Apple.
This iOS 7.1 Beta can be downloaded on any kind of device running iOS 7, but one thing important before going for the installation process, your device should be registered.
Here are the compatible devices for iOS 7.1 beta
iPhone 5S iPhone 5 iPad Air iPad 3 iPad Mini iPod Touch 5G
iPhone 5C iPhone 4 iPad 4 iPad 2 iPad Mini 2
Samsung Upsetting The Sales of iPhone & iPad: Apple
San Jose; The blatant war between the Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics is everlasting, a new case appears in which a top executive of Apple Inc reportedly alleged that a South Korean Company was upsetting the sales of iPhone & iPad. That shows someone is taking the credit of someone’s else.
According to some authentic sources, Phil Schiller (marketing chief at the US tech giant) appearing before the federal court in the California, as a witness affirmed that the Samsung damaged the business, marketing efforts and reputation of Apple Inc by introducing devices which were copied from iPad and the iPhone.
Defending the release of iPad mini as a competition in tablet market, Phil Schiller said that the Apple was trying to make some better products and that it wasn’t in the competition. It’s very difficult to generate demand and people question our design and innovation skills like people never used to.
Phil Schiller also told the bench during the hearing on Friday, ‘’Samsung copied many features of Apple’s products like its design & attributes, the very essence of what the Apple is about’’.
‘’If we do not have that, we do no have the Apple’s business,’’ he added more.
3 Must Have Shopping Apps for iPhone & iPad
Going for shopping in a Mall could be tiresome as it takes time and your energy. We’ve come with some top-class shopping apps for iPad and iPhone users.
ShopSavvy
ShopSavvy is the best app for online shopping. With a rapid scan of barcode using your handset’s camera, you can go for price comparison which store is offering the best price rates for a same thing. ShopSavvy is a very helpful app especially when getting online stores to price match. This app also lets you see your historical pricing data when you think it is necessary. There’re also lots of social Built-In elements, comprising Facebook integration and commenting system where you may leave your tips on goods for the other ShopSavvy users, share wishlists, and add new friends.
eBay
eBay is a granddaddy of selling things online. You will find some individuals and full blown stores selling mainstream and obscure items, a securely integrated platform for payment (PayPal), and a verified Karma system to give both sellers and buyers with confidence.This app is fully featured, comprising some filters in the search results for price, model, and buying format with barcode to identify the product.
Amazon
Amazon is one of the biggest online retailers. With this app, you can browse lots of stuff comprising apps. It has all those sorting options and filters that you see in eBay app such as brand, price range and category. You can share them to the various channels, add them to your wishlist and check out high quality imagery.
