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Cooper City, Florida – allAware, the free mobile social network for nonprofit organizations, announced today the release of their new and improved iPhone and Android mobile apps. “The new apps are a complete rewrite from our first release,” said Jason Milgram, founder of Linxter, Inc., the creators of allAware. “We improved the mobile app user experience by creating a more streamlined interface, with more stability and increased functionality”. The allAware app, announced May 29th of this year has grown in use from 35 nonprofits to over 135. It’s a free app, designed to improve communication and member involvement. allAware allows organizations to jump into the mobile app world and engage with their membership in new ways, all without having to invest money in new technology. “A great part about working on a free app is the ease of getting it into the hands of customers,” stated Ryan Parsley, Director of UX at Linxter. “allAware was pretty rough and ready when we started asking people...

Inspired by one of Jay’s excellent Lumiappaday videos, this week’s App News is brought to you by AppVegas. I’m spinning the wheel and taking a look at where the journey takes me. So, having downloaded AppVegas, I was all set to go. Faced by the slot machine-inspired spinning wheels, I can see the following options on the third reel – ‘Paid, Trial, Free’ – and with the ability to lock down an option, I selected free, and got ready to spin (shake). Gym PocketGuide Cost: Free in the Marketplace Availability: Everywhere In a nutshell: Simple guide to your gym program First step of the journey is this handy little guide to your gym life. Not much more than a diary listing what exercises to do when, it’s well designed and seems to do exactly what it promises. I say seems because it is Day One, and I haven’t had a chance to test the results yet. Choose whether you are male or female and the aim of your gym visits (muscle building or fat loss), then follow the instructions. It has a clear, ...

Most amazing movies have amazing music. But which scores are the best of the bunch? Music has always been at the heart of the movie industry. Even at the Lumiere brothers’ first film screening in 1895, there was a pianist tinkling the ivories. Twenty years later, Fritz Lang’s classic silent film, Metropolis, was accompanied by an original full scale orchestral score. Now, thanks to the wonders of modern mobile tech, we can enjoy movies and their music, wherever and whenever we want. But if you had to choose a play list, which would you go for? The composer’s criteria We asked composer Douglas Black Heaton which scores he thought deserved the title of greatest ever. His criteria: They had to be popular, influential and a damn good listen. They had to be composed scores, rather than soundtracks of songs, and each composer had to be different. So without further ado, here’s his magnificent seven. Psycho 1960 Bernard Hermann’s unsettling string score for Hitchcock’s masterpiece is never ...

While America gets ready to celebrate Labor Day on September 3, you should get your wallet ready cause here comes another sale for games on iOS and Android. The following titles are on sale right now, with the sale lasting through the weekend till Monday. So make sure you take advantage of the offer as soon as you can. Do note that some of the discounts may not be available in all regions. For iPhone Madden 2012 Fight Night Champion The Sims 3 Risk Battlefield Bad Company 2 The Sims Medieval Dead Space FIFA 2012 Mass Effect Infiltrator Burnout Crash For iPad Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 Flight Control HD Mirrors Edge Sim City Deluxe Risk Shift 2 Unleashed Battleship HD Fifa Soccer 2012 Need for Speed Hot Pursuit HD Dead Space Battlefield Bad Company 2 HD Madden 2012 Real Racing 2 HD Monopoly NBA Jam Tetris Mass Effect Infiltrator Burnout Crash For Android There could also be some other discounted titles that I may have missed out on. Feel free to mention them in the comments below. Sourc...

A look at what you, our readers, have been creating Published by Joe Moring on August 31, 2012 Back in June we launched ‘Nokia Connects:Go’, the monthly competition that gives you the chance to WIN a Lumia 900 & Monster Headset by producing creative masterpieces on your Nokia phones. The community entries have flown into us by the bucket-load since the launch of the competition and both Nokia and non-Nokia trialists have sent in photos, feature films, music videos and blogs – to name but a few!  Today we want to champion and highlight some of this great stuff! Let us know what you think of the entries below in the comments section or tweet at us using #NokiaConnectsGo. At the bottom of this post you can find out how to take part yourself. Massive props go to Guido Baijense for this short video about a guy who has 60 minutes to make his life complete! It was all shot on the Lumia 900 (I recommend you watch it in 720p HD). Now, this next video shows off Paris in its best light! A t...

LG Electronics today introduced a new member of its Optimus lineup that called the LG Optimus L9. This L-series handset is larger than the LG Optimus L7 smartphone. The L9 has a 4.7-inch IPS touchscreen display (the resolution is not specified yet) and runs Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system. Heart of the LG Optimus L9 is a 1GHz dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM, 4GB of internal memory, and a high-density 2,150 mAh SiO+ battery. Other feature of the L9 phone is Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, a rear-facing 5-megapixel autofocus camera, a 0.3MP front camera, GPS, accelerometer, proximity and light sensor. Dimensions of LG Optimus L9 are 131.9 x 68.2 x 9.1 mm and weighs 125 grams. The smartphone is designed for use in GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz and UMTS 900/2100 MHz networks. Just 9.1mm thin, the handset is pre-loaded with QuickMemo and QTranslator. There is no word on pricing yet. View the original article here

Posted in: Android, Hands-on, Mobile phones , IFA 2012 August 31st, 2012, 17:53 by Kyle The LG Optimus L9, which was announced at the IFA, is a mid-ranger that aims to bring solid smartphone functionality, good styling and reasonable price tag in one package. The Optimus L9 fella is home to a 4.7-inch qHD IPS display, a 1GHz dual-core processor, a 5MP camera and 4GB internal storage. We find the screen to have pretty good image quality and sharpness even though it’s 234ppi density isn’t the best in class. The viewing angles are above average, too. The rest of the specs include 1GB of RAM, front-facing VGA camera for video chats and a standard connectivity package. It runs on Android 4.0 ICS skinned with LG’s custom Optimus UI. LG Optimus L9 In terms of controls the LG Optimus L9 is quite similar to the high-flying Optimus 4X HD – the form factor is the same and so are the keys at the front controls (except the Home key, which is now regular button rather than touch-sensitive one), th...

You got your brand new Nokia Lumia smartphone! You rush home, open the box, charge up the phone and it hits you… The feeling that you have to move all your contacts, calendars and apps over from your old phone to your new brand new Lumia. That looks like a tedious job! But, that was yesterday. Today, we have Welcome Home for Windows Phone: a truly innovative app from Markspace to help new Lumia owners migrate to their new phone. With Welcome Home, you just plug in your Lumia to your computer (Mac or PC, your choice) and the application handles moving your contacts and personal data – quickly and easily. Welcome Home works for new Lumia customers coming from iPhone, Android and BlackBerry phones and will move your contacts, calendars, pictures, songs and videos from your old phone to Microsoft Live. But what about all those apps you have on your old phone? No worries there, either. The Welcome Home application will scan your apps on your old phone and will produce a list of recommende...

Lenovo is offering several new tablets at this years’ IFA, and we’ve decided to give you the quick lowdown on each of them. The IdeaTab A2107, IdeaTab A2109, and IdeaTab S2110 are all Android ICS tablets designed for various market segments. The IdeaTab S2110 is Lenovo’s new premium 10-inch tablet, featuring a detachable keyboard dock. Inside, there’s a dual-core 1.2GHz processor, 32 GB of storage and 1 GB of RAM. There’s also connectivity for USB devices, a microHDMI port, 3G connectivity, and 5 MP rear-facing and 1.3 MP front-facing cameras. The build quality of the S2110 is definitely the best of the three, and the back is adequately grippy although not as smudge-resistant as the two other tablets. The device becomes significantly heavier when the keyboard is attached, but as a standalone tablet it weighs in pretty well. The 1280 x 800 display is by far the best of the three, and navigation the Android interface is very snappy with no lag in the animations or transitions. Lenovo Id...

  Conversations is just a small part of Nokia’s presence on the Internet. In fact, most of the credit and most of the work belongs to you! We know that your blogs and websites are an integral part of spreading the word, and the love, for all things Nokia. It also says a lot about your passion and enthusiasm for Nokia’s products that so many of you have taken the time and effort to create websites devoted to them. You could say that it’s humbling. We have compiled a list of some of our favourite Nokia fan websites and blogs. Some are focused on a particular device or aspect of Nokia, while others are more wide-ranging. We’ve sorted them into categories: GeneralLumia and Windows PhoneNokia 808 PureView and photographySymbian   My Nokia Blog http://mynokiablog.com/ The biggest compliment I can pay to ‘My Nokia Blog’ is that it could easily be mistaken for an official Nokia website. There is a wealth of content that covers everything from the latest news (and rumours), tutorials and acces...