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If taking vitamins doesn’t keep you healthy enough, try more laughter. – Nicholas-Sebastien Chamfort The Health Monitor Network has just announced the release of their fun and lighthearted app – “Laugh Out Loud for Health.” HMN is focusing this app on encouraging users to shake their iPads and “LOL” for health. Even better? The app is completely free to download! With this app, jokes are readily available so that users can get laughing right away. The “LOL” app also features a calorie counter in order to track how many you’re burning while you’re shaking and dancing all over the place. The more…

Tonight marks a new step for streaming live music with the iPad. Apple and Ustream have teamed up and will deliver Bon Jovi’s sold out Dallas show directly to the iPad. As it seems with all new Apple products, there always seems to be bugs with their first releases. I hope iPad users don’t get too upset if the feed cuts out right before the first chorus of Blaze Of Glory. Everyone will have to dust off their Young Guns 2 VHS tape and listen to that track on there. The thought of missing a Bon Jovi concert may be devastating for most but I can’t see the pleasure of viewing it on a 9.7 inch screen. Just like the newly…

After forking out upwards of $500 for an iPad, your wallet might harbour some resentment towards you, so when it comes to stocking up on accessories there’s at least one that might offer a little cash relief. Frank Hsueh is clearly a man’s man, and as such understands that shelling out upwards of $45 for an iPad case is just for rich suckers. With duct tape already filling so many niches in society, it was only a matter of time before someone used it to make an iPad case, so kudos to Frank. As if this manly stroke of genius were not enough, Frank goes one step further. Having used up an entire roll of duct tape…

With the announcement of iPhone OS 4.0 last week, the big question on the lips of older iPhone owners was “which devices will support multitasking”. The official answer at the time was that the iPhone 3GS is as far back as support will be offered, with the reason suggested by John Gruber that the 3GS has 256mb of RAM, while all previous devices have only 128mb. There is a small ray of hope for users of the older models however, in the predictable form of a jailbreak option. For users willing to take this risk and live outside Apple’s big brother-esque world, the optino to enable multitasking may be as simple…

As a Mac and iPhone twitter fan, I was personally thrilled to hear that Twitter has purchased Atebits, developer of Tweetie for Mac and iPhone. The Twitter blog provides more information on the story, noting that while Twitter is primarily a web app, there is definitely a need and want for desktop counterparts. “Careful analysis of the Twitter user experience in the iTunes AppStore revealed massive room for improvement. People are looking for an app from Twitter, and they’re not finding one. So, they get confused and give up. It’s important that we optimize for user benefit and create an awesome…

Within 24 hours of Apple’s announcement of the iPhone 4.0 OS beta, a hacker from the iPhone Dev Team who goes by the handle of MuscleNerd announced that he had jailbroken the OS. The process of “jailbreaking” allows users to run apps not authorized by Apple on their phone. Musclenerd advised that people should avoid installing the pre-release betas on their primary phones, as they are very buggy and can pose security concerns. Since this is a beta, Apple will likely plug up these holes before the official release of the iPhone 4.0 OS. Source: Apple Insider…

Lee Brimelow is a Flash evangelist and developer at Adobe, and the author of the Flash Blog. Needless to say, Brimelow is less than pleased at Apple’s decision to “slap developers in the face” by removing Flash support on the iPhone OS 4 update. While the blog was obviously changed at his employer’s request after the fact, before the redaction Brimelow had typed “What is clear is that Apple has timed this purposely to hurt sales of CS5.” What has remained on the blog is the resounding conclusion of “Go screw yourself Apple” and the fact that Brimelow refuses to purchase any Apple products under there…

ModiFace Inc. announced today that the company will be releasing picMD, the world’s first In-Phone Virtual Makeover feature that will be available for web, the iPad and iPhones. The innovative product allows users to makeover photos with only the touch of a few buttons. Need to make a decision about make-up colors or wondering what your hair would look like if you dyed it a different color? With picMD you can make yourself over anywhere, anytime. This product would be good for someone like me, who changes their mind a lot about what to wear, how to do my hair and which makeup to use with which outfit….

“Once upon a time, in a land that isn’t really that far away, there were a bunch of book publishers who lacked imagination and, when presented with new technologies like touchscreens, said ‘let’s make books exactly the same, only digital…’”. Well no more, kids! No more! See Here Studios have put together an interactive storybook for the iPhone and iPad called “The Wrong Side of the Bed” that has both 2D and 3D versions, the video of which is above. Young readers of the tale can pinch and zoom and have the app read the story to them. If you don’t have any old 3D glasses kicking around, you can also order…

I can definitely remember many mornings spent sitting in front of the t.v. It’s flickering glow keeping me warm and shows like ‘Sesame Street’ filling my brain with the alphabet and other things a small child should learn about. My mother was running around the house gathering extra sweaters, preparing lunches and signing field trip forms. She didn’t have time to entertain or educate us every single moment so she plopped us in front of the next best thing: the television. If I had been growing up now, you probably would’ve seen my brother and I, pyjama-clad, sitting in front of the warm glow of an iPad….