Macgasm

Birdbrain is an app that I was given the opportunity to review over the past few days. The app is not new by any stretch; however, it seems that many people don’t know of its features, how well it does tasks or what it does exactly, and that’s what us sexy people at Macgasm are here for.

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We’ve all used iSync at one time or another. In the days of oldness and wrinkly bags, we would use iSync to sync contacts and calendars, but now in Lion, Apple has progressively advanced from a separate application to do this bidding and moved to the cloud or rely on iTunes to sync everything to our iPhones, iPods or iPads.

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Yesterday, in TechCrunch Disrupt in New York City, Keith Rabois, the COO of Square, and TechCrunch’s Mike Arrington had a lot to say about future payments using Square and the mobile credit card payment process as a whole, including comments about Google’s NFC and PayPal.

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Apple is hoping to have all things worked out before WWDC so they have something to announce, something that’ll hold people over for the next couple of months, especially if the rumors of no iPhone 5 announcement are, in fact, true.

Apple has already inked deals with EMI Music, Warner Music, and Sony Music, and rumors of Universal Media jumping in are already being heard. The problem with this? Apple is still in need of publishing rights, and it looks like they’ll get them, but as with everything in technology, we have to see all angles of the coin.

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Seems like Notch, creator of Minecraft, is making sure that his brand is nicely presented and well groomed. There have been recent updates provided, new features added, and now, a near release date for Minecraft on iOS has been announced. We can expect to see the brain-shattering and wife-losing Minecraft game appear on iPhones, iPods, and iPads alike in the coming months, claims an articles from Gamesutra. The game, as said in the article, will first come to the Sony Xperia, and then to favorite Android and iOS device.

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Over the past few days, I’ve had the opportunity to review Plattan headphones from Urbanears, and I’ve come to a final conclusion on them fairly quickly. That said, I’m more than thrilled to tell you about my experience with them, and the Plattan and I now have a newfound love for one another.

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Movator has a new app out for those of us who care about dumb things affect our real life like health and fitness. The app essentially does something that other devices have yet to do: it sits in your pocket and based on your daily activities, it counts how many calories you’ve burned.

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Apple is taking a new approach in their Apple Store 2.0, and instead of focusing on iPads as innovative devices, they’re going to use them to make the store feel more comfortable. They hope to give the customer the feeling that the specialists are there to help and guide them around the store and show them how things are done at Apple.

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