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App of the week: Flipboard

This week’s app of the week is Flipboard.

Flipboard is a fantastic app that lets you add whatever content you desire to a virtual ‘social magazine’. Complete with Facebook and Twitter integration, it is more than a conventional RSS reader as it corroborates your social feeds and go-to websites in one place with a beautiful flipping interface. A free account will sync your feeds across devices, and a recent update allowed the app to work on iPhone and iPod touch. Take a look at what Flipboard themselves have to say about it in the video below.

Flipboard is now my only source for news and social updates. The app is free and gloriously ad-free and I would recommend it to anyone with an iDevice. Even Apple love it, having made it their iPad app of the year. It might also be in the running for a more prestigious award from a certain website this weekend…

Flipboard, iOS, Free
Download from the App Store or visit the website

by Xavier Voigt-Hill

iOS AOTW: iTunes 12 Days of Christmas

This week’s iOS AOTW is a simple one – Apple’s own 12 Days of Christmas app.

It is the most wonderful time of the year and therefore Apple’s annual European promotion to give away a new free thing every day from December 26th to January 6th has returned. Grab the app now to get notifications of each gift, with something sure to take your fancy. Last year we got Mirror’s Edge, a Charlie Chaplin film and the amazing Father Ted Christmas special to go with the Kings of Leon and Kylie Minogue, so the good must surely balance out the bad this year as well. Although not all the gifts may be to your tastes, remember Apple don’t have to do this and something good will surely pop up.

Merry Christmas from all at Digixav

iTunes 12 Days of Christmas, iOS, Free

Download from the App Store

by Xavier Voigt-Hill

The Poll: Do you use Google+?

Google+ was meant to be a Facebook killer, but interest seems to have waned among early adopters and many others have never even heard of the network, despite Google’s best attempts. This made us wonder who actually uses Google+? Vote below and let us know about your experiences in the comments.

by Xavier Voigt-Hill

PPF: AMD say ‘touch my bottom’

Hello and welcome to PPF: Product Placement Fail. In this feature we will highlight failed bits of advertising by tech companies. Please feel free to send yours in to digixav at gmail dot com.

AMD, AMD, AMD. When will you learn? People will not buy your products if you creep them out.

We have come across this video on the AMD YouTube channel that is attempting to attract customers to their Vision chips that run up to 9.6 degrees fahrenheit cooler than body temperature. How do they do this? They get a laptop with a seductive voice to talk to you. Prepare to be freaked out by the minute long clip below.

by Xavier Voigt-Hill

Santa uses Siri according to new Apple ad

A new advert for the iPhone 4S has just hit Apple’s YouTube channel with a special celebrity guest. In the 30 second spot, Santa uses his iPhone’s virtual assistant Siri to guide him through his Christmas night. When asking how his day is, Santa gets reliably informed of his 3.7 billion appointments and is told not to eat too much by his wife. Watch the clip below or wait for it to hit your telly in the next week.

by Xavier Voigt-Hill

£1 million of BlackBerry PlayBooks stolen, proves somebody wants them

The Verge have reported that a shipment of 22 pallets of RIM’s underwhelming BlackBerry PlayBook has been stolen. The goods, valued at over £1 million, were in a truck that was taken from an Indiana truck stop while the driver took a shower last Thursday. The truck had no tracking equipment and as such the 5000 tablets that were intended for Ontario are currently lost. There is a possibility that the tablets may be hitting the black market in Miami, a hotbed for stolen goods. The FBI are investigating and it is believed that, of an alleged five suspects, police have the fingerprints of one. With RIM being forced into announcing that BlackBerry 10 powered devices will not hit the market until late 2012 and taking a $485 million hit on the tablet venture, things aren’t going too well for Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis. Even after numerous price cuts and multi-buy offers, the BlackBerry PlayBook is still a piece of crap that nobody is buying, but some consolation can be found in that at least 5000 have been taken off RIM’s hands.

by Xavier Voigt-Hill

Digixav around the web

The world is changing. Brands need to have large social presences these days and Digixav should be no exception. As such, I am reluctantly announcing that Digixav is now on the Book of Zuckerberg. There you may ‘Like’ us and get our posts and other insightful ramblings delivered straight to your news feed or something. Following us on Twitter will produce similar events but with random tangents from the mind of Henry and, more often, myself. Subscribing to our YouTube channel will let you see our videos before we embed them into exciting new posts and if you use Google+ then you can find us here. We might be heading to LinkedIn soon but who actually uses that?

Enjoy the social networking stuff!

The DX Team

by Xavier Voigt-Hill

webOS lives!

HP have announced that webOS will live on as an open source platform, much to the dismay of ousted idiot of a CEO Leo Apotheker. His replacement Meg Whitman announced the news last night, also confirming that hardware manufacture from HP will not be resuming but the OS will be developed by both HP and the community for OEMs that may want it. Rumours have said that HTC and RIM are among the interested parties and we will report on any news regarding this as we get it.

YEAH!

by Xavier Voigt-Hill

LG to announce new Prada Phone 3.0 on Wednesday

Engadget are reporting that LG and Prada have announced an event that will take place in London on Wednesday. The invite clearly states that the ‘Prada Phone by LG 3.0’ will be presented to the tech press of the world. The phone is rumoured to have the model number P940, an unannounced device that has already been benchmarked. The Antutu benchmarks say that the device will be running Android 2.3.7 and not Ice Cream Sandwich upon release and will come equipped with a 1GHz CPU. The FCC certifications for this phone say that it is 9mm thin and has a 4.3 inch display with ‘4G’ HSPA+ download speeds. Whether we see the same QWERTY keyboard as the Prada II remains unknown but we will all find out on Wednesday.

by Xavier Voigt-Hill

Box offer 50GB free to Xperia owners, ensure nobody feels left out (update: LIES!)

A new free storage promotion from Box leaked today, this time for users with Sony Ericsson Xperia phones. If you use the Box app on such a device, they will give you 50GB extra storage for no additional cost. Similar to the still-ongoing ‘Size Matters‘ campaign for iOS users, this 50GB will last for as long as you actually have your Box account, but you are still restricted to 100MB per file and the painful upload process. The lack of a Dropbox-esque desktop client may render it irrelevant for some, however if you have an HP TouchPad, iOS device, Xperia/HTC Sense 3.5 phone or even a BlackBerry PlayBook, head on over to the Box website to grab the relevent app and free storage for life.

Update: Sony and Box have apologised, and this promotion is not active at the time being. LG users however are getting 50GB free so head on over to the Box Android app with your Optimus Pad (!) to claim your free gigabytes.