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iTunes 10 is integrating Facebook for music. Steve Jobs proudly presented the feature on yesterday’s Apple fall 2010 event. I think that they will have a hit with ping. How cool it is to follow your favourite artists and see what they like for music. Also the exclusive photos they post are now in your pocket on the go. The iTunes app for the iPhone has automagically a new ping button in the bottom menu. So if you install iTunes 10 you can already use it on any iOS4 device. I wonder how they have updated the app? Anyone an idea?

Brussels, Robin Bollen, Aug 24 2010. I must admit something. I have bought my iPhone 4 in another country then where I live. I bought it in France via the Apple Store and I live in Belgium. Why? Because it was one month earlier on the market there. What about my warranty? iPhones in Belgium are exclusively sold through the mobile provider MOBISTAR. Let’s first check with Apple’s website if I have warranty because it is an Apple iPhone and not a Mobistar iPhone. I checked http://www.apple.com/benl/support. There I find the link “Check your Service and Support coverage”. Here you have to type your serial number. Continue reading

Sygic Aura Drive takes the navigation experience to a whole new level with its 3D presentation, extensive pre-installed travel information content and social networking abilities. It is a blend of full featured car navigation, pedestrian navigation with 3D landmark representation, pre-installed city guides, POIs, wiki info and images, and last but not least, a geo-aware social network, making it easy for people to drive, walk, explore & meet others without the hustle of many gadgets, apps or calls.

London - Sauce Digital’s renowned Killer Pool has reached the App Store in three new versions today.  Killer Pool HD for iPad, Killer Pool 1.2 for iPhone and Killer Pool Lite 1.2 for iPhone . Priced at $1.99 at launch, Killer Pool HD takes the original game and tailors it to the the iPad screen and hardware.  It uses the same pool physics engine, the most realistic on the iDevice, and the same popular control system.  It proves to be a fantastic experience on the bigger screen. Killer Pool HD also makes some great improvements on the previous iPhone iteration.  These are most obvious in the visuals of the game, which now features: * Rendering using an increased polygon count and larger texture sizes for higher detail in the models.  * Most effectively, due to their increases hardware power, Killer Pool HD implements polygon smoothing - so that usually jagged 3D edges are smoothed and anti-aliased. Continue reading