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Alexander Hoffmann


Alexander Hoffmann Besides his current full-time job as a student of Sinology and Marketing at the University of Trier, Germany, Alex likes to read about technology and the businesses behind it. He also has a personal blog.




May 7, 2012

Instacast 2.0 For The iPhone Available
This morning a major update to Vemedio's podcatcher Instacast has gone live on the App Store. Instacast, a Macgasm favourite (check out our interview with Martin Hering, Instacast's creator), is probably the single best iOS application to discover, download, organize, and most importantly, enjoy the podcasts you love. The ... more


April 10, 2012

Studio Neat’s Cosmonaut Stylus For The iPad Is Your Best Option
A few weeks ago I wrote a review of Remarks, a PDF-based note taking and markup application for the iPad. In the review I wrote that the software becomes really useful when using a stylus, because it allows for natural handwriting and that it's also very useful when ... more


March 27, 2012

“It’s how you use it” revisited
Last week my colleague Nic Lake wrote an article about the way he uses his Apple hardware and what tasks he delegates to certain devices. Like him, I've received similar questions about why and how I use the devices I own (pictured above), so with a courtesy nod to ... more


March 21, 2012

Clearly game splash screens in iOS need to die
If you’re a gamer, or just somebody who likes to play the occasional game on your iPhone, you’ve seen them; game splash screens. They tell you that, yes, your are indeed playing the game that you selected a few seconds ago on your iPhone home screen, and they tell ... more


March 19, 2012

Review: Remarks by Readdle
  A few weeks ago Readdle, the company behind apps like PDF Expert for iPad, released an app called Remarks, a highly flexible note taking app that stores your notes as PDF files. One feature that didn’t make it into version 1.0 of the application was the ability to ... more


March 15, 2012

Dealing with SPAM in OS X Mail and iCloud
Over the last few months I started receiving an increasing amount of spam mails through my iCloud addresses (*@me.com). Being very careful with those, determining the reasons for the increase was easy: Firstly the Gawker data breach. I was notified that my data had been compromised and ever since ... more


March 12, 2012

Nope, just ‘iPad’
Last week, my Editor-in-Chief Joshua Schnell wrote an article about the hubbub made regarding Apple’s decision to name the new iPad, just iPad, not attaching a number to it. He correctly observed that consumers don’t care what the iPad is called, as long as it does what it is ... more


March 9, 2012

Galaxy on Fire 2 HD: Valkyrie now available, adds even more detail to the game
Two days ago Fishlabs released an update to its award winning game Galaxy on Fire 2 HD. The update added two in app purchases: The long-awaited ‘Valkyrie’ extension and the ‘Kaamo Club’. After already having completely reworked the basic Galaxy on Fire 2 to take advantage of the iPad ... more


March 7, 2012

Epic Games teases Infinity Blade: Dungeons
Epic Games has just unveiled a teaser trailer for its upcoming game Infinity Blade: Dungeons. The company had gotten some stage time during today’s Apple keynote, showcasing the graphics capabilities of the 3rd generation iPad. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Rp-TTtpU0I] The game will serve as a prequel to the two existing Infinity Blade ... more



Apple increases over-the-air App Store download limit to 50MB
Today, with the introduction of the 3rd generation iPad, Apple has increased the file size that can be downloaded over 3G or 4G networks from 20 MB to 50 MB. Before if you wanted to download an app that was larger than 20 MB, you had to do so while ... more



The 3rd generation iPad — implications for gamers
A few hours ago Apple introduced the new iPad. Among all the improvements the device offers (check out our coverage here), the Retina display and the A5X processor have the biggest implications for gamers, game publishers and gaming hardware producers. The iPad now sports a display with 2048 ... more



iPad 3 rumor round-up
The day is upon us. Today we will most likely witness the introduction of the third generation of the iPad. Many rumors have been flying around the Internet; some of them make sense, and some are just batshit crazy. When reporting on these rumors, we usually try to reality ... more



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