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Sunday, January 13, 2013
iMore Editors' Choice: IMBD, Noble Nutlings, Doctor Who Encyclopedia, and more
Every week, the editors and writers at iMore carefully select some of our favorite, most useful, most extraordinary apps, accessories, gadgets, and websites. This week's selections include a couple games, an app that pulls up information about movies and television shows, an iBook about productivity, customer relations, and general business best practices, something for Doctor Who fans, and an app for Wikipedia.
IMBD - Chris Oldroyd
This week I have chosen an old app but one of the very best. In my quest to catalogue my huge movie and TV show collection I have been looking for an app that can do just that. All I want is a list of my movies with write ups about the plot and a link to a trailer. There are a few good apps out there but they all seem to fail somewhere for me.
Another interesting aspect in my search was that the standard place where all of these apps pull their meta data from was IMDB, so I thought why not go to the source and see if that can do what I want and sure enough it can. I created a personal list after creating an IMDB account and started the huge job of adding my movies to that list.
I am now about halfway through cataloguing my collection but it is perfect now. The information that IMDB provides is awesome, I can scroll through my collection on my iPhone, iPad or online and it?s all in sync and I can see who is in the film and so much more. The trailer for the movie is just a click away and it makes choosing a movie to watch a perfect experience now.
I know IMDB has been chosen before but it deserves another mention now, if you love movies you will love the IMDB apps.
- Free - IMDB
Blueprint 3D - Ally Kazmucha
Blueprint 3D isn't in any way an advanced game but it's definitely a very cool one. The premise is that you import images or use existing ones in the app to unscramble what looks to be a lump of lines and clutter. You're essentially creating a blueprint of the underlying image. Once you've gotten it just right, the image reveals itself.
If you get stuck on a level or can't seem to get an image just right, you can tap the auto-solve button to see the solution. The best part is that you can use your own images and create blueprints of them which you can then save to your camera roll. While it isn't the most advanced game in the world, it's definitely great for killing time. If you like easier puzzle games, Blueprint 3D is definitely worth a look.
- Free - Download Now
Frictionless Freelancing - Rene Ritchie
Aaron Mahnke is a talented writer, designer, and podcaster who's not only figured out a thing or two about working freelance, but has figured out a way to concisely encapsulate what's he's learned into an understandable, relatable, actionable plan for others. Frictionless Freelancing is his Mahnke's new iBook, available for both iPhone and iPad, and in it he shares his methods for improving productivity, customer relations, and general business best practices.
If you're smart and savvy, you can figure a lot of this kind of stuff out on your own, but the cost in time and mistakes made will be far, far, far more than the cost of a book and the experience shared there in. You can find out more about Mahnke and his book at Frictionless Books and you can grab a copy of your own via the iBookstore.
- $13.99 - Download now
Doctor Who Encyclopedia - Chris Parsons
Are you a Doctor Who fan? If so, I've got an app you must add to your collection. The Doctor Who Encyclopedia. With over 3,000 entries the Doctor Who encyclopedia is a one stop shop for information. Interactive portals on all the characters, galleries of imagery and a complete list of available episodes on iTunes round the beautifully designed app. Recent updates to the app include support for the iPad mini and the removal of in-app purchases unlocking even more content for owners. It's a bit on the high priced side but it's a growing app with content continuously being added. Allons-y!
- $6.99 -Download now
Wikipanion Plus for iPad - Joseph Keller
Wikipanion Plus for iPad is a great app for anyone that uses not just Wikipedia, but multiple wikis. There are wikis for everything under the sun, from Apple to Battlestar Galactica, and Wikipanion Plus let?s you access them all in one app. In addition to that, Wikipanion Plus allows you to queue articles for more organized reading as well as save them for faster access and offline reading. It?s not the prettiest app, but content from all sources is well laid-out, and it?s hard to beat access to content from all of those sources. Wikipanion Plus for iPad is available for $4.99, but if you want to try before you buy, there is a free version as well that lacks features like the queue.
- $4.99 - Download Now
Noble Nutlings - Leanna Lofte
Noble Nutlings is a new, fun little game by the ex-Rovio/Angry Birds team where you build your dream car and drive it through each level while collecting nuts, doing tricks, and boosting into big jumps. To control you cart while it's in the air, you tilt your device, or you can use buttons (something I recommend if you're using an iPad). Syncing between devices isn't ideal, but you can do so if you connect to Facebook. Connecting to Facebook will also allow you to play with your friends and compare scores.
Noble Nutlings really is a great little game... especially since it's free!
- Free - Download now
Your choice?
Now that we've chosen our favorites for the week, we want to hear yours! Did you pick up a killer app, accessory, or game this week? Let us know in the comments below!
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Beaches, bombs and gangsters _ Corsica's dilemma
AJACCIO, Corsica (AP) ? The bombs exploded across hundreds of miles (kilometers) of Corsican coastline, gutting two dozen villas nearly simultaneously on some of Europe's most beautiful ? and valuable ? land. Elsewhere on the same French island off the Mediterranean coast, a young man was shot to death in his car, his stepson wounded beside him.
The night of violence in early December epitomized the problems of Napoleon's native island today: Organized crime is gaining ground, spreading beyond the usual vices on the mainland to real estate, tourism and politics back home. And separatists, who extinguished themselves in a spasm of deadly infighting in the late 1990s, have come back with a vengeance, as they wage a desperate battle to prevent mob-dominated mass tourism from dooming their dreams of self-rule.
Corsican coastal land prices have risen as much as five times in as many years, and the number of tourists also has shot up as a once-exclusive haven for the wealthy and their yachts and private vacation homes became a destination for cruise ships and budget flights. Corsican mobsters ? infamous in mainland France and the United States for their ties to gambling, nightclubs and drugs ? saw a killing to be made back home.
Gang warfare over Corsican spoils and the separatist bombing campaign have created a climate of lawlessness, although the combatants have been careful not to turn the violence on the tourists themselves.
"The state has completely failed," said Dominique Bianchi, a former nationalist leader who recently stepped down as mayor of the southern village of Villanova. "In this world, there's only one thing that counts: how to divide the loot."
Shaken by the bombings, and the recent assassinations of a defense lawyer and community leader, the Paris government is making new promises to clean things up on an island where separatist sentiment has simmered ever since France officially took charge in 1769. Corsica has emerged as a jewel of French mass tourism only recently: More than 4.2 million tourists visited the island last year, compared to 2.4 million in 1992. The 2013 Tour de France, the world's premier cycling competition, will begin here ? adding to the sense that Corsica has joined the big leagues as a top travel destination.
Complicating the challenge for France is what mainland officials describe as a code of silence ? known as "omerta" ? that also runs through areas of mafia-plagued southern Italy. Locals say it's fear, not omerta, that keeps people silent.
Of the 85 gangland killings and attempted assassinations in Corsica in the past eight years, only one case ? a plot against a former nationalist turned president of Corsica's biggest soccer team ? has ended in conviction.
Both the mob violence and the bombings claimed by militant nationalists have the same root, Corsicans say: the land.
Three-quarters of the coastline is untouched, the beaches and Mediterranean views achingly empty of a human presence just a 90-minute flight from Paris ? as developers were scared off by gangland warfare and separatist militancy. "Where else could you go and have this kind of virgin land? It doesn't exist anymore," said Dominique Yvon, who is part of an anti-corruption group on Corsica.
Through the 1990s, the island was rocked by more than 1,000 separatist bombings of vacation homes and construction sites. For mainstream investors, France's Cote d'Azur, much more stable despite its own mob presence, was the place to be.
Then the separatists imploded in the late 1990s. And organized crime came home, seeing an opening to make new profits laundering drug money, much of it during three decades of heroin sales in the United States ? spearheading the so-called "French Connection" drug ring ? and on the Cote d'Azur, according to Thierry Colombie, who has written a book about the Corsican mob.
Most of the tourists who stayed overnight on the island in 2012 stayed in villas, many of them suspected of links to mob money, that popped up on the coastline when the bombing wave of the 1980s and 1990s finally ended. The number of cruise ship day visitors has also risen from 298,000 in 2001 to 1.1 million in 2011; they spend money in stores, restaurants and clubs before returning to their ships.
Each summer, the population of Corsica doubles from its 300,000 residents. Visitors pay a premium for ocean views and spend money in restaurants and nightclubs. They fly in by plane or sail into harbors like Ajaccio, outfitted for yachts and cruise ships. They come despite a murder rate about eight times higher than the rest of France, largely thanks to the fact that no tourists have been killed in Corsican gangland or separatist violence.
For most of the 20th century, the French government's driving focus was on ending nationalist sentiment, even as Corsica's problem with feeding the global criminal underworld grew. The "French Connection" brought hundreds of millions of dollars worth of heroin into the United States. And Corsican mobsters dominated the gambling and prostitution houses of Paris.
When the latest wave of gangland killings started, in 2006, the French government looked the other way, hoping the criminals would implode the way the nationalists had.
Then, at the end of 2012, when score-settling reached beyond established criminals to Corsica's mainstream political class, the government began to pay serious attention. First, a prominent defense lawyer was killed as he made his usual stop at a gas station on his way to work in Ajaccio. Next, a former nationalist with a uniquely powerful post as head of the chamber of commerce was shot as he closed up shop.
As president of the chamber of commerce, Jacques Nacer was in charge of the air- and seaports that are the island's link to the outside world, and the government money that keeps both up and running. Authorities have not said why they think he was gunned down, beyond noting that it was a professional killing.
More than 15 years ago, the chamber's president used the airport as a helicopter base for drug running between Africa and Europe. His successor was convicted in a fraud scheme involving government contracts.
The slain defense lawyer, Antoine Sollacaro, was best known for representing the nationalist who killed the island's highest ranking official, prefect Claude Erignac, in 1998. Police have offered no theories on his death, beyond noting that it had the same professional hallmarks as all of Corsica's gangland murders.
These killings finally caught the attention of France's top security and justice officials, who stood before the cameras to vow that this time, things would be different. "In Corsica, those who give the orders are known. Everyone knows and no one speaks," said French Interior Minister Manuel Valls.
Of course they don't speak, counters Raphael Vallet, a police investigator in Corsica. Most people can offer only rumors, and those who might know more can't look to the state's shield in France ? which, unlike Italy and the United States, has no robust witness protection program for mobster turncoats.
"If you're dealing with someone who is capable of killing you at any moment and we say 'we can't protect you,' would you talk?" said Vallet. "Corsicans are no less brave than anyone else."
The Corsican city of Ajaccio was the birthplace of Napoleon Bonaparte, who left the island as a youth after deciding that greatness couldn't be attained there. Many others have made similar bets about their future on an island with few resources beyond its natural beauty. Among them, a preferred path has been criminal empire.
French government policy was ? and remains ? that Corsica is an integral part of the nation. Islanders, meanwhile, call the rest of France "the continent" and proudly speak their own Italian-inflected language that the Paris government once tried unsuccessfully to wipe out.
The bombings of Dec. 7 struck at 31 villas, all of them with absentee homeowners away on "the continent."
The nationalist FLNC, which announced its resurrection in a theatrical news conference in July complete with masks and guns, claimed responsibility on Dec. 19 and denied any collusion with organized crime, saying gangsters had "prospered in the shadow of the French state for decades."
The explosions appeared to have no links to the hit on the young man, whose death is believed to be the latest professional killing to go unsolved.
Bianchi, the former mayor, was once jailed for his links to the group and has since publicly renounced violence. But he, like many Corsicans, couldn't bring himself to condemn the bombings in a place they consider their homeland.
"Even if I don't approve, I understand. I understand because in the current climate of Corsica, where there is enormous land speculation, there is a revolt," he said. "We don't want their country ... to become a place just for rich retirees in the next 10 or 15 years. We don't want it to become another Cote d'Azur."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/beaches-bombs-gangsters-corsicas-dilemma-074622764.html
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Colin Powell: Undercurrent of 'intolerance' in GOP
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday that some of his colleagues in the Republican Party have used insulting racial code to attack President Obama ? and the comments have seriously damaged the party?s standing with minorities.
Mr. Powell, who served in the George W. Bush administration, singled out ? but did not mention by name ? former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and former New Hampshire Gov. John H. Sununu, who also served in the last Republican White House.
Mrs. Palin in October described Mr. Obama?s handling of the terror attack in Benghazi, Libya, as a ?shuck and jive shtick,? and Mr. Sununu raised eyebrows the same month when he described the president?s poor first debate performance as ?lazy.?
The comments came across as racially intolerant, said Mr. Powell, the nation?s first black secretary of state.
?I think what the Republican Party needs to do now is to take a very hard look at itself,? he said in an interview on ?Meet the Press.?
Despite backing Mr. Obama in the last two presidential elections, Mr. Powell said he still considers himself a Republican, but the party has drifted too far to the right, he said.
Appearing on the program to defend the White House?s nomination of another estranged Republican, former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel, as secretary of defense, Mr. Powell unloaded on the hawks in the GOP questioning Mr. Hagel?s qualifications.
Republican lawmakers, he said, should note that ?they?ve lost two elections. The American people have made it clear that they are not particularly interested in finding new conflicts to get into.?
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Saturday, January 12, 2013
This Web Browser For Galaxy Tab 2 Floats Over Apps And Is Resizable
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Although floating apps are an integral part of the desktop computing experience, their presence on mobile devices is a relatively new phenomenon. Still, an app commanding only a fraction of the total display, and which can be moved around at will, is infinitely more useful, and while the likes of Samsung and Sony have both shown signs of implementing floating apps to mobile space, XDA-Developers member pidio1 has swopped the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2?s native browser with a resizable, floating one.
Once installed, you can enjoy browsing the Web while also performing other tasks on your Galaxy Tab 2, and it appears as though the custom browser works just swimmingly with stock ROMs. Those running custom firmware may find installation a little trickier ? perhaps impossible ? so the advice is, currently, to only install if you?re running a stock ROM.
Should you install, only to decide the new browser isn?t to your taste, it?s not to difficult to revert back to your old setup; simply remove the PopupBrowser.apk from /system/app. If you encounter any issues, be sure to check out the original thread over at XDA. In the meantime, the link to the custom browser is linked at the end of this post, and if you have a Galaxy Tab 2, it?s worth trying out.
Personally, although the floating window idea should theoretically be a solid winner for tablet users, various examples in recent times have suggested this simply isn?t the case. Lest we forget, the touch interface is quite significantly different to that of the desktop, and while the process of dragging windows and application panes around? is second nature to all of us, using a stylus, S Pen, or the tips of our fingers to do so on a tablet is a completely different ball game entirely.
Before you hastily tap the download link provided below and begin installing on your Galaxy Tab 2, please also note that, naturally, you will need to be running Android 4.1.x or above in order to get started with the alternative browser.
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