Developer: Felipe Freitas
Price: $.99
Version Reviewed: 1.0
Device Reviewed On: iPad
iPad Integration Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
User Interface Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars
Re-use Value Rating: 3.25 out of 5 stars
Overall Rating: 2.92 out of 5 stars
I have mixed emotions when it comes to magic tricks. One the one hand, I am almost always amazed and wowed by an illusion and its effect, and when given the opportunity to learn how to do it I’m chomping at the bit. On the other hand, once I learn the secret behind the trick, it always seems a bit petty and cheap, regardless of how impressive it appears to others. I suppose deep down I really want there to be more mysticism, or at least a more complicated mechanic, behind the trick, but there rarely is. This holds true for X-Card, the latest card trick app for the iPad. With it, you can perform one signature illusion fairly easily. Whether it impresses anyone is another matter.
With X-Card, you can have a random person pick a card from an ordinary deck of cards, reveal that card to everyone (including you) and then (after considerable concentration on your part) have it magically appear on your iPad screen. That’s the trick, and it’s all this app does. Generally, though, it delivers this effect quite well. My only gripe is that it was difficult at first to know where the tutorials were while in the app. I actually had to do a bit of digging, including going into the main settings menu on the iPad. Somehow, I just don’t think something this simple needs to require so many steps. The first thing you’re going to want to do is learn the secret to the trick, so hiding it from the person who is going to be performing it seems counterproductive.
I’m not going to reveal any of X-Card’s secrets here in this review. If the trick sounds interesting to you, pick up the app. It’s inexpensive and relatively easy to learn and perform – just don’t have any of your friends touch the screen while you’re performing the trick if you want it to work; believe me. X-Card probably isn’t going to blow anyone’s mind, but it might be a fun diversion among friends – as long as you can handle learning the ugly truth of how the trick actually works.
As many of you know, Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ:SBUX) introduced free WiFi this year finally. Starbucks is now integrating the Starbucks Digital Network across their 6,800 U.S. operated stores. SDN will showcase content from The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and The New York Times. There will be a News, Entertainment, Wellness, Business, and My Neighborhood section.
SDN was designed using HTML5 so that you can view the content on the iPhone and iPad also. Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) will be powering the search for SDN. If SDN users make a purchase from partners, then Starbucks will make money through a revenue sharing agreement. This is one way that Starbucks plans to make up for the cost of offering free WiFi to consumers.
“Tens of millions of customers are coming in to our stores and logging in to our Wi-Fi on a monthly basis anyways. They’re coming in because we provide this great experience — good music overhead, quality food and coffee and the opportunity to connect with your friends or the baristas … What we hope is that this is a nice complement to that experience,” said Starbucks in an interview.
You have to love the mind of the opportunist. Always lurking in the weeds just waiting to strike the opportunity at the chance of making some money. That’s exactly what’s going on over in Britain.
9 to 5 Mac reports that the folks across the pond are lining up to buy brand new iPhone 4s and then sell them back to China (where they are made), unlocked at a higher price. The same thing is happening in New York where the New York Times is quoted saying the following about the “grey” market back and forth: Read More
Wasn’t I just talking about the special edition R2-D2 Live Wallpaper? Yes, I was, just yesterday.
Perhaps you want a little more variety on your Google Live Wallpaper. In that case, you should probably get in this particular App known as Wallpaper Rotator.
Wallpaper Rotator is exactly what it says that it is: an App offers wallpaper swapping from a local directory or Flickr account. It can rotate it at a user-defined interval that ranges from every half-hour, hour, six hours, day, or even week.
The App is free, so enjoy it, all you Android users!
We all know that Android phones have Live Wallpapers, and we also know about the special R2-D2 editions. Someone has seen fit to combine the best of both worlds with this R2-D2 Edition Live Wallpaper.
They also come in the non-Live edition if you want to go that direction, and they come in designs ranging from Boba Fett, Yoda, to the man/droid himself.
Just a friendly reminder, the release date for the R2-D2 edition is still September 30th, as far as I know.
I have mixed emotions when it comes to magic tricks. One the one hand, I am almost always amazed and wowed by an illusion and its effect, and when given the opportunity to learn how to do it I’m chomping at the bit. On the other hand, once I learn the secret behind the trick, it always seems a bit petty and cheap, regardless of how impressive it appears to others. I suppose deep down I really want there to be more mysticism, or at least a more complicated mechanic, behind the trick, but there rarely is. This holds true for X-Card, the latest card trick app for the iPad. With it, you can perform one signature illusion fairly easily. Whether it impresses anyone is another matter.
Wasn’t I just talking about the special edition 
We all know that Android phones have 
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