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I’m just going to do this review in full-on geezer mode. (For a female perspective on Cocktails HD, see our previous review of the iPhone version, Pocket Cocktails.)

Here’s how you make a martini. Five parts gin, one part vermouth, unless you want it dry. Then you just wave the vermouth bottle around in front of a glass. Use vodka if you want instead of gin, but there’s no such thing as an apple martini, a chocolate martini, or a goddam drink from a volcanic Greek island called a Santorinitini. It’s booze with a tiny bit of fake wine dammit. That’s what a martini is.

Try telling that to the guys at Pocket Cocktails, Inc. Their big beautiful Cocktails HD is all about “exploration.” You can pull up the drink you want by general category, like “classics” and “tropical.” You can pull up Christmas and Halloween drinks for your hoity-toity holidays with families that you wouldn’t have anymore if you really knew how to drink. You can tap your way through bartender school and learn which flags go on which drinks in joints where the health department still lets them put fruit on things. (…)
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Though there were some naysayers trying to sow discord around the time of the iPad’s launch, it seemed that most folks who actually bought the device were very satisfied with it. A new survey from ChangeWave shows that not only has the tablet made a good impression on a few owners, but rather the vast majority of adopters absolutely adore their device. In fact, 95 percent of iPad adopters have stated they are either “Very Satisfied” or “Somewhat Satisfied” with their purchase. Equally impressive, only one percent of responders claimed to be “Somewhat Unsatisfied, and not a single person was “Very Unsatisfied.”

These numbers are highly impressive, especially so because it’s positively unheard of for any product or service to be so beloved by nearly all people. Apparently the saying “You can’t please all the people all of the time” wasn’t meant for Apple’s tablet.

If you’re a pessimist and absolutely must find something negative to say about the numbers then you can point to the fact that the number of “Very Satisfied” consumers has dropped three percentage points, but all those folks still fell into the “Somewhat Satisfied” camp. It would seem there are a handful of adopters who took claims that the iPad can cure all known disease a little too seriously, and were mildly upset until they realized they could just play Bejeweled 2 instead.

The best news in all this for Apple is that the same survey determined that 26 percent of respondents plan to buy a tablet, and that four-in-five of those people are leaning toward the iPad. Granted, Apple has a bit of stranglehold on the market right now, but with the holidays approaching all that really matters is that there are going to be a lot of iPads handed out to eager new owners.

[via Fortune]

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Like Flash but can’t bear to part with your iPhone? You’re in luck. There is a new browser, set to launch Thursday, that converts Flash from websites into HTML5 without too much of a hassle.

Skyfire first debuted on Blackberry and Windows Mobile back in 2008, and then was updated and fixed up for the Android launch back in May. The app has been downloaded more than 4.5 million times across all of the platforms. Needless to say, the Skyfire browser has been popular, but never has it been so necessary as it is now for the iOS platform.

To get around the Apple wall of hate and agony, Skyfire takes the Flash image from your page, downloads it, fully renders it, and than shoots you back a thumbnail that allows you to stream the video from their servers.

“We will attack those pesky blue Flash error messages,” said Jeffrey Glueck, Skyfire’s CEO.

Unfortunately, even with the external server rendering, Skyfire will still not display Hulu movies or let you play the billions of Flash games that plague the web. Even still, the developers think that their app will open up millions of web pages to iPhone users who were previously in the dark.

One concern that many have had with Skyfire is online safety. Instead of working on its own, Skyfire somehow works on top of Safari to render the video. Because of this, many users were concerned that online banking done via Safari would potentially be shot up into the Skyfire servers, but the folks at Skyfire say not to worry. Skyfire ensures that the information they receive will not be sold and that secured sites, such as online banking sites, will not be rendered with their servers.

Be sure to check the App Store on Thursday at 9AM EST to get your hands on this Flash rendering app monster. How it got approval from Apple is beyond me, but after a rigorous two month approval period, it looks like it’s here to stay.

[Source: CNN Money]

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