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Pomaz, Hungary, April 20, 2012 –(PR.com)– DIRE Studio announces the immediate availability of version 2.7.1 of their highly acclaimed Viewfinder family of apps for iPhone and iPod touch.

This is a regular product update that brings support for newly released cameras, experimental support for the new (early 2012) iPad, as well as some minor bug fixes.

New features and fixes:?
- Added cameras: Canon EOS 5D Mark III, EOS 60Da; Nikon D800, D800E; Olympus OM-D E-M5; Pentax K-01; Sony SLT-A57.?
- Added support for the Nikon 1 system: the J1 and V1 cameras as well as Nikon 1 lenses.?
- Fixed a non-translated message in the French language localization.
- Experimental support for the new (early 2012) iPad. The app works in iPhone compatibility mode only.

New features for Pro edition and Pro Pack:?
- Added Phase One industrial cameras: iXA 160, iXA 180, iXR, iXR 140, iXR 160, iXR 180.

Fixes for Cine edition and Cine Pack:?
- ARRI 4:3 sensor cameras now use the unadjusted size for 1.3x anamorphic modes.

Device Requirements
Viewfinder is compatible with the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S and iPod touch 4th generation. Works with iPad 2 and the New iPad (early 2012) in iPhone compatibility mode. Requires iOS 4.3 or later.

Pricing and Availability
The Basic edition sells for $11.99, Pro edition for $19.99 and Cine edition for $23.99. All three are available from the iTunes App Store. Existing users can upgrade to this new version free of charge. Promo codes are available for qualified reviewers. Please specify the website or blog you represent when making your request.

About DIRE Studio
DIRE Studio’s aim is to help photographers to navigate through the digital revolution. They teach digital photography workshops as prominent as Epson Print Academy in Hungary. With 9 years of photographic experience and more than 15 years spent in the IT industry they entered the market of photographic tools in 2010. Their goal is to provide revolutionary tools made possible by digital technologies – be it software or hardware.

Company Contact
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Next week superhero fans with iPhone and iPod Touch devices will be able to grab the all-new Marvel vs Capcom 2 from the AppStore. There’s a robust 56-character roster, including Wolverine, Ryu, Iron Man, Mega Man and many, many others.

Similarly to the original Marvel vs Capcom, you can pit your favorite characters from the Marvel and Capcom universes against each other. Moreover, there’s the so called “Variable System” that allows you to tag in other team members at any time and, when needed, execute the most powerful attack – “Team Hyper Combo,” where all three members of a team combine their ultimate powers.

The release date, in case you wonder, is set at Wednesday, April 25. In the meantime, Capcom was kind enough to share a bunch of screenshots, which we’re showing you below. Enjoy!

About The Author

Dusan Belic

Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The “convergence” is what he’s most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do.

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Burbank, CA, April 20, 2012 –(PR.com)– Virtual Speech Center Inc., the provider of mobile applications for speech therapy, announced today the release of Auditory Workout, an iPad application available for download on Apple’s ITunes App store.

Auditory Workout was created by a certified speech and language pathologist for students ages 4–10 who exhibit auditory processing disorders or other related disorders (e.g., receptive language disorder or autism). Auditory Workout is research-based and focuses on improving auditory attention and memory and auditory processing of verbal directions.

This engaging, colorful app includes over 1,000 audio instructions. Children are welcomed by the basketball coach, who encourages them to work hard. Children earn a basketball for each correct response, and when they accumulate enough balls, they are rewarded with a game (a game of catch for younger children or/and basketball for older children).

Auditory Workout allows children to follow increasingly longer and more complex directions and includes more than 13 levels of difficulty. The directions are divided into four categories:

Basic and Spatial Directions
Quantitative directions
Temporal directions
Conditional Directions

Auditory Workout is easy to navigate and allows users to employ several tools, enabling them to perform the following tasks:

Enter multiple students
Change settings
Select levels of difficulty
Select auto-scoring
Select alternate counts for multiple students
Enable or disable background noise feature
Enable or disable rewards, the basketball, and/or the games
Enable or disable feedback sounds
Track correct and incorrect responses
E-mail results at the end of the game

To install the Auditory Workout application, please visit the Apple application store page below:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/auditory-workout/id518697520

To learn more about this application, please visit www.virtualspeechcenter.com website:

http://www.virtualspeechcenter.com/Resources/auditory_workout_app.aspx

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Food Network is out with a new iPad app, focused around cupcakes. As you can imagine, it comes with a bunch (more than 100) of cupcake recipes and ideas, plus “frosting recipes” from Food Network talent, kitchens and shows — all of which are browsable by categories like Cupcake Centerpieces, Cupcakes for Dinner, Hall of Fame and more. In addition, there are how-to videos, interactive decorating tips and tricks, and a number of original, high-res images of recipes and cupcakes that, as far as I can tell, look like the one you’ll find in magazines and cookbooks…

All in all you’re a fan of cupcakes (or have a child who loves ‘em), you may want to grab Food Network Cupcakes! and get some ideas. It costs 3 bucks, which is like nothing for all the benefit you can get in return — i.e. when you make your own cupcakes.

Food Network Cupcakes! ($2.99) [iTunes link]

About The Author

Dusan Belic

Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The “convergence” is what he’s most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do.

In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it’s an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he’s there to try it out. He admits though, he’s still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which “sings” perfectly with the mobile PIM application.

Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.

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SEOUL (AFP) – Hundreds of customers lined up Friday at Apple stores as the new iPad went on sale in tech-savvy South Korea, about one month after it made its international debut.

Four of Apple’s stores in Seoul opened early to sell the tablet computer, and there were also queues outside branches in the city of network providers KT and SK Telecom, the two distributors of iPhones and iPads.
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Arlington, TX, April 19, 2012 –(PR.com)– The $149.99 PKard solution lets people access web portals, collaboration sites and email directly from their iPads and iPhones with secure authentication to their personal smart cards. For example, a US military reservist can access educational or training materials on secure sites from his or her own iPad or iPhone. Security is maintained at all times whether playing music, or switching from app to app, preserving the Apple user experience. Importantly, no changes need to be requested for back-end servers making the solution easy to install for both individuals and organizations.

“The PKard Reader frees individuals from desktops and laptops to use their iPads and iPhones directly with the same smart card and PIN that they have always used,” explains Paul Nelson, Thursby’s Chief Technical Officer, “providing organizations for the first time with the strong two-factor security required to responsibly leverage consumer mobile and cloud technologies.” Almost five million Federal workers at hundreds of US government agencies and the Department of Defense (DoD) are issued smart cards for secure web access. Usage of smart cards is by no means limited to the government, or just the United States. Worldwide, almost one third of large corporations issue smart cards to their employees and last year alone over two hundred million healthcare smart cards were issued and over a billion in the financial sector.

The PKard Reader hardware plugs directly into the 30-pin connector on the bottom of an iPad, iPhone or iPod touch making for a simple, fast and secure plug’n’play solution that’s independent of the form factor of the particular i-device model. The solution supports industry and US government standards including ISO 7816, CAC, PIV, PIV-I, CIV, EMV level 1, NIST IR 6887, FCC class B part 15, CE, RoHS, HSPD-12, FIPS 140-2, and FIPS 201. It is the first of a family of software delivering secure enterprise functionality to Apple mobile devices, leveraging our own and third party readers and optionally partnered with third party apps and service providers.

Thursby is celebrating a quarter century

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Over the course of a day, we heard “confirmation” that the current crop of Windows Phone 7 devices will and won’t get the upgrade to Windows Phone 8 “Apollo”, leaving us with more questions than answers. Yet another source suggested that these phones may get a Windows Phone 8-lite, akin to the Windows 7 Starter made for netbook computers. For me, this whole issue of whether or not a device will get an upgrade brings up a discussion worth having in the mobile community; namely, should we expect that our phones will always be kept current with the latest version of the mobile operating system?

Ready the torches and pitchforks, people, as I’m going with a resounding NO! When we purchase a device, we purchase it because after exhaustive research, we’ve found a device that fits our mobile needs. When a software maker such as Google announces a new version of the operating system, sure we may lust after some of the features. After all, Android beam and face unlock are cool, but should we expect that our devices, which are now 6+ months old, mind you, are entitled to the latest version of the OS and all of the features found therein?

Generally, when a new version of a desktop OS is released, the hardware requirements are generally enhanced, as you need more processing power to handle some of the basic features of the OS. Some computers simply can’t run Windows 7 or Mac OSX Lion. If they were allowed to do so, performance and user experience could suffer dramatically. Similarly, I wouldn’t expect the Samsung Behold II, or even the original Galaxy S phones to be upgraded to a full version of Android 4. They simply wouldn’t really be able to handle it. And, before you yell at me for referencing the Behold II, I actually saw one being used out in the wild today. They’re still out there!

I don’t think the average customer cares (or even knows) what version of Android/iOS/Windows Phone they’re running, as long

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