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If you cross Indiana Jones with Spongebob Squarepants, you might get Rhema Press’ iPhone app, Andy Adventure. Andy travels to seven different locations to try to complete his adventures, in which you must help him by removing the least amount of objects (his friends) between him and the ground. Once Andy is safely [...]

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     AT&T has had its fair share of ads attacking the iPhone or their own networks inadequacies. Now they have a rival ad that does both. Verizon has been releasing quite a few ads that try and break down AT&T’s lack of 3G coverage as opposed to their own to try and combat the decrease in sales because of iPhone fever. With one of their most recent ads they play on the iPhone’s “app for that” routine by discussing what “maps for that” they had, which did not strike AT&T’s fancy.

     AT&T decided to make a statement regarding the…

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Harold “Dr. Andy” Hildebrand is credited for inventing auto-tune. Auto-tune is an audio plugin that is used to help correct the off-pitch vocals of a singer. Hildebrand used sound waves for locating oil reserves. Hildebrand discovered that these same sound waves can be used for music too.

One of the first users of vocal effects for auto-tune in entertainment was Cher’s producers. The song used was “Believe” by Cher. In 2005, T-Pain began using auto-tune for vocals in every single song he made. Soon many other artists started using auto-tune. Auto-tune became so overused that many parodies were made.

In the video above, there is an auto-tune parody added to a baby crying, a cat meowing, and Winston Churchill. Many unmusical things on the Internet had been given auto-tune. The report was put together by RocketBoom.

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Neil Patrick Harris (NPH) has joined Twitter [Twitter profile link]. Some of you know him as Doogie Howser M.D. and some of you know him as the car thief in Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle. NPH can also be spotted as Barney Stinson on How I Met Your Mother and as the main character on Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, an Internet musical.

On NPH’s first day on Twitter, he has gained over 67,000 followers. The number of people that are following him on Twitter is skyrocketing. Currently NPH is following Mr. Teller of Penn and Teller, Nathan Fillon, Felicia Day, Dodd Vickers, and Chris Hardwick.

Just like any new Twitter user, he seems to be struggling with the 140 character limit. His last tweet from two hours ago said “Prfkt. Thx 4 L th advyc evry1. This s a way ezr way 2 cmuNik8. Un42n8ly, itz takn me 3 hrz 2 ryt, but itz much pre4d 2 gtn cut off lyk i u.” Give him a follow if you haven’t done so yet.

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RockYou is a company that designs widgets and applications for social networks such as MySpace and Facebook. It is considered one of the most successful companies based on installations. The company has raised $50 million in Series D from Softbank recently.

The company launched in November 2005 and raised $119 million in total capital. The company has revenues of about $30 to $40 million per year. RockYou has about 10 million registered users and 150 million widget views per day. The company was founded by Lance Tokuda and Jia Shen.

Previous investors in the company include First Round Capital, Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Partech International, SK Telecom Ventures, and Doll Capital Management. RockYou makes revenues from virtual goods and advertising along with in-game offers.

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