LinkedIn App for iPad Now Available

Professional-oriented social network LinkedIn has introduced an iPad app version, aiming to encourage more users to engage with their free service.

“Our mobile platform is the fastest growing consumer service on LinkedIn,” wrote Manish Sharma, LinkedIn’s product manager. “We aspire to be the place where every professional comes throughout the day.”

Although LinkedIn brags about its 150 million members, making it one of the top social networks in the world, only a third of them check the website on a daily basis. Compare that to Facebook whose half of its total members use the site everyday.

The app–now available for download–works a bit different from its web-based counterpart, as the mobile version is designed to be a personal assistant of sorts. It has added features such as calendar integration and focus on LinkedIn’s personalized news feed, which displays articles that are popular among people within the user’s network.

Source: Times of India

Aurora Feint 3 iPad Game App Review

You have played Bejeweled on your desktop and mobile device thinking any game that try to copy its gameplay are bound to fail. Not so much in this case.

Aurora Feint 3 is a tile-matching game infused with RPG, kinda like Puzzle Quest for Nintendo DS. Unlike Bejeweled, however, this game only slides jewels horizontally and you can even tilt your iPad to shift gravity, giving it a more challenging play.

The RPG part of the game comes with raising your character with more power and health as his level goes up, which you dearly need in battling mystical enemies.

Developed by Openfeint Inc, Aurora Feint 3 is available to download for free in the iPad.

Shocker! Apple Planned to Add Physical Keyboard on iPhone

Back in the day when BlackBerrys were the coolest phones in the planet, Apple was struggling about what to do if they add mobile phone features on their iPod. One option, apparently, was to give the device a physical keyboard just like the BB phone.

Shocking, I know.

The revelation came from Tony Fadell, a former Apple engineer and founder of learning thermostat company Nest. In an interview with The Verge, he revealed that Apple had three design options with its iPod-phone, one of which involved adding a hardware keyboard. We can guess that it would have been a keyboard that slides out of the phone, much like many smartphones today.

The report sparked a lot of questions. What if Apple indeed added a keyboard on what would have been the first iPhone? Would another company becomes the first to create the first touch-screen smartphone? Would Apple have patented the hardware keyboard, even if other phones already have them, and sue everybody else including RIM (the maker of BlackBerry)? Would Apple’s fanboys diss other smartphones with full touch-screens simply because they do not have keyboards like the iPhone?

We could only imagine.

Source: The Verge, via CNET

Cube Lets You Play Using Google Maps

Google has just rolled out Cube, a 3D game that teaches players about the functions of Google Maps as you roll a blue ball through mazes of major cities.

There are eight levels in the game, each making use of features found on Maps such as cycling paths, traffic flow, and even sales within certain shopping establishments. The only rule here is to move the ball using your mouse cursor, weaving through streets and alleys until it reaches its destination.

The game culminates on the eighth and final level, where the cube maze switches maps as the ball reaches its goal until it settles on its fifth destination.

Cube is free-to-play and does not require downloading. Try beating its all-time fastest game, clocking in at around 2 minutes 15 seconds.

Source: Ubergizmo

Flick Kick Field Goal iPhone App Review

Image Source: Apple App Store

The National Football League just recently concluded its Annual Draft for new football players out of the different colleges and universities in the country. While the excitement may have somehow simmered down and the fans eagerly awaiting NFL’s next season this September, people can still enjoy football by playing games on their iPhone like the Flick Kick Field Goal iPhone Game App.

The Flick Kick Field Goal iPhone Game App is a simple yet engaging field goal kicking game. Players become the kickers for a football team. The same as the actual kickers in the game, the player has to consider factors like angles and wind speed and direction to make that perfect kick that sends the ball through and in between the goal posts and score.

Flick Kick Field Goal also features multiple game modes for a variety of challenges for the player. It comes with Sudden Death, Arcade, Time Attack and Practice Modes. With a realistic football  stadium setting and 3D graphics, the Flick Kick Field Goal iPhone Game app is a simple and yet addicting game for those who wish to get that football fever going up until the September season opening. This game app is available at the Apple App Store for a $1 download.