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A quarter of U.S. parents say the most common reasons to use a high-tech gadget to babysit a child are travel, boredom and family functions, a survey indicates. A survey by CouponCodes4u.com found almost 6-in-10 U.S. parents said they have used a hightech gadget such as an iPad, smartphone or handheld game console to “babysit” or occupy their little one so they didn't have to, the New York Daily News reported. The parents surveyed all had at least one child ages 2-13. They said they also used a tech gadget to babysit a child - often to take a break from parenting, while others said it gave them some "me-time." Fifteen percent of the parents said they never used technology to babysit their kids. More than a quarter of this…

iOS #01 - Despicable Me: Minion Rush By Gameloft Category: Games Compatible with iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod touch (4th gen), iPod touch (5th gen), iPad 2, iPad (3rd gen), iPad (4th gen), and iPad mini. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #02 - Escape If You Can By Kaarel Kirsipuu Category: Games Compatible with iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation), iPod touch (5th generation) and iPad. Requires iOS 4.0 or later. #03-Candy Crush Saga® By King.com Limited Category: Games Compatible with iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod touch (3rd gen), iPod touch (4th gen), iPod touch (5th gen) and iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is…

ZombieBooth 2 4.0/5.0 Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. Price: $1.99 Category: Entertainment Released: Jul 03,2013 Version: 1.00 Size: 38.8 MB Languages: English, Japanese Seller: Tyffon Inc. TOKYO - TYFFON Inc. announced on July 3 that it will release “ZombieBooth 2”, as the sequel to “ZombieBooth/' which has been downloaded 15 million times, in the Apple App Store. “ZombieBooth 2” is an iPhone application that turns your face into a 3D animated zombie. In collaboration with the special makeup artist JIRO, this new title offers you zombie make-up that is like what Hollywood professionals use. You can create a unique zombie by combining realistic zombie parts with hundreds of thousands of combinations. The latest facial animation technology…

Genre: Drama Released: 2013 Price: $14.99 4.5/5.0 118 Ratings Jackie Robinson made history as he broke the color barrier in American baseball. He was discovered and signed to a contract if he promised to keep his temper in check. It was a necessary warning as Robinson faced criticism from all over, including fans, managers, and teammates. The film takes place during the season Robinson spent in the Minors and his first in the Majors for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Chadwick Boseman and garrison Ford star. FIVE FACTS: I Robinson's widow was involved with the film Ibecause, "I didn't want them to make him an [angry black man or some stereotype/7 2. A pivotal event in the film, Robinson breaking his bat in anger, never happened, but director Brian Helgeland believes no…

Genre: Action& Adventure Released: 2013 Price: $13.99 3.0/5.0 50 Ratings Based on the French graphic novel Du Plomb Dans La Tete by Alex Nolent, this Sylvester Stallone action film takes place in New Orleans. A hitman, Jimmy Bobo, and his partner off a corrupt cop, yet leave a witness. When his partner winds up dead as well, dirty dealings between the dead man and local mobsters come to light, leading to Bobo and a police detective to work together to bring down the man behind it all. Christian Slater costars. FIVE FACTS OM THE MOVIES: 1. Don't get this film confused with the John Woo film Bullet in the Head. 2. “Bullet to the Head” is the French translation of the novel's title, "Du Plomb, Dans La Tete.” 3. Originally…

INDIA. ARIE Genre: R&B/Soul Released: Jun 25,2013 By: Motown Records 20 Songs Price: $14.99 5.0/5.0 1101 Ratings With this latest alum, India. Arie says it's about "letting myself out into the world and letting the world touch me. “There are elements of Turkish music included, which she admits makes it sound more complicated than it is. She traveled to Turkey to get the music she wanted, and that's the SongVersation of the album. It's the name she has given to her performance style, seeing it as part speaking and part singing. FIVE FACTS: 1. India. Arie's mother was a Motown singer as a teen, and her dad played in the NBA. 2. While India. Arie learned many instruments, it was the guitar that spoke to her about songwriting and performing.…

U.S. technology giant Apple is stuck working with rival Samsung Electronics, despite a souring relationship, an industry analyst said. Apple has used Samsung as a supplier of critical components for years. At the same time, Samsung built up its own business that now ships more smartphones than Apple, The Wall Street Journal said Saturday. Apple and Samsung have sparred in court in recent years over ownership of the rights to various patents. In the meantime, Apple is till Samsung's largest customer for components. Industry analyst Mark Newman atSanford Bernstein in Hong Kong estimated Apple bought $10 billion worth of components from Samsung in 2012 - accounting for a major portion of Samsung's $59.13 billion components business. It also means Apple cannot easily walk away from Samsung to find replacement components,…

If you don't like Apple's latest TV ad, you aren't alone. This month the company launched a commercial dubbed “Designed by Apple in California” showing users with their Apple devices while an actor reads what is essentially a company manifesto. That ad premiered at the company's annual Worldwide Developers Conference.^ According to one consulting firm, it has been Apple's lowest rated ad in the last year. Ace Metrix Inc. gave the ad a score of 489 - way below the industry average of 542, according to Bloomberg Businessweek. And uncommonly low considering that Apple ads have often scored over 700. Ace Metrix bases its scores on surveys its conducts of at least 500 TV viewers. Apple has had a run of ads that have scored below the company norm. Its…

iOS #01– WhatsApp Messenger By WhatsApp Inc. Category: Social Networking / Price: $0.99 Compatible with iPhone. Requires iOS 3.1 or later. #02 – Where’s My Mickey? By Disney Category: Games / Price: $0.99 Compatible with iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod touch (4th gen), iPod touch (5th gen), iPad 2, iPad (3rd gen), iPad (4th gen) and iPad mini. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #03 – Minecraft – Pocket Edition By Mojang Category: Games / Price: $6.99 Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #04 – Heads Up! By Warner Bros. Category: Games / Price: $0.99 Compatible with iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod touch (3rd gen),…

METALSTORM: ACES Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. Price: Free Category: Games Released: Jun 27,2013 Version: 1.2.1 Size: 352 MB Languages: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese Seller: Z2Live, Inc Grab Your Flight Gear and Dog-fight with Your Friends in Real-Time in This Action-Packed Multiplayer Jet Combat Game SEATTLE, June 27, 2013/-Z2, creators of consolequality free-to-play mobile games such as Battle Nations(TM) and Trade Nations(TM), today announced the immediate availability of MetalStorm: Aces for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, an extension to the hit modern air combat game, Metalstorm: Online. MetalStorm: Aces v ' features an enhanced, epic adventure that includes 60 missions across 15 campaigns. Players will put their…

Genre: Drama Released: 1999 Price: $29.99 4.0/5.0 318 Ratings On June 19, 2013, James Gandolfini shocked the world by leaving it far too soon, succumbing to a heart attack. While an accomplished actor with Emmy Awards, three SAG Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards for Best Actor in a Drama Series, all were for his work in the HBO series The Sopranos. He also appeared in many films, with his last, Animal Rescue, due to be released next year. This first season of The Sopranos, as well as all other seasons, is available on iTunes. FIVE FACTS: 1. Gandolfini's Sopranos co-star Steven Van Zandt and the others in Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band dedicated a full album performance of Born to Run the day after his death. 2.…

Genre: R&B/Soul Released: Jun 21,2013 1-1 Songs Price: $9.99 4.0/5.0 114 Ratings ALICIA KEYS - V H1 STORYTELLERS (LIVE) ALICIA KEYS VHl Storytellers has been around since 1996, showing top artists performing their music live, while telling stories about themselves and the music. Alicia Keys appeared on the series in November 2012, joining the ranks of Sting, Elton John, and Stevie Nicks. She has now taken this appearance on Storytellers and turned it into a new album. It features eleven of her hits, including Girl on Fire and Fallin'. FIVE FACTS: 1. Keys was both the best-selling new artist and best-selling R&B artist in 2001. 2. That initial album earned her five Grammy Awards, becoming the second artist to win five in one night. 3. Along with Storytellers, Key also…

BOBMARLEYAND THE WAILERS Genre: Reggae Released: Jun 25, 2013 By: The Island Def Jam 17 Songs Price: $9.99 3.0/5.0 141 Ratings Bob Marley and the Wailer's album Legend, the world's best-selling reggae album, has been re-recorded and reimagined to create Legend: Remixed. Of the sixteen tracks, fifteen have been remixed by Stephen Marley (Bob Marley's son), RAC, Nickodemus, Jason Bentley, and others. The collection also includes a newly recorded remix of Redemption Song by Ziggy Marley, the album's producer and another of Bob Marley's sons. In the words of Bob's daughter Cedella, “He made his reggae music to uplift us, inform, entertain, inspire, and make change in the world.” FIVE FACTS: 1. The remixed Three Little Birds is used in a Hyundai commercial for their new Assurance Connected Care program.…

TOKYO - Apple Inc. has applied for a trademark in Japan for "iWatch," indicating it may be proceeding with rumored plans to produce a smart wristwatch. A document obtained Monday from the Japan Patent Office's website said the application was made June 3 and made public June 27. It was not immediately clear when the application might be approved. Patent office and Apple officials in Japan were not available for comment late Monday. Apple is rumored to be working on a smart watch that would run on a version of the operating system used by its iPhone and iPad. The company has not confirmed those rumors, but CEO Tim Cook has hinted that it may be developing a wearable computing device such as a wristwatch.…

On Sunday, June 23, Nik Wallenda stepped out onto a high wire without a harness, walking for a quarter of a mile atop a two-inch cable made of steel that was strung some 1,500 feet above the ground. However, the career daredevil from the Sunshine State did not cross the Grand Canyon as he had been promising for months. While Wallenda's tight-wire act was surely impressive, the 34-year-old had chosen the Little Colorado River Gorge as his newest territory to conquer, not bothering to point out the difference between that natural wonder and the other, more famous natural wonder to his avid followers, of which there are millions. Still, his was no small feat. In fact, this tightwire act turned into one precarious walk for the extreme athlete to undertake.…

Since the announcement of iOS 7 at this year's WWDC, developers have had a shot at trying out the new mobile operating software on their iPhones. Just a few weeks later, Apple is already announcing revisions with beta 2 of iOS and is now opening up the beta to iPads as well. Using iOS 7 on both my iPhone 5 and iPad has allowed me to get an even better feel for the software and solve aspects that were perplexing before. There are also still things that are missing, though others have shown up. Perhaps this can just be chalked up to the manner in which Apple is working on things. It's far from a stable system, as there are bugs, and it still shuts down on me intermittently. BETA…

Who said that Apple was being tardy in its attempts to show its innovation once more? Whereas those awaiting the more-thaneagerly-awaited iOS 7 and the possibly-onlyslightly-less-eagerly-awaited OSX Mavericks will both have to wait until "this fall" to get in on the action, one new Cupertino product that we are getting right now is the updated MacBook Air. We think it was worth waiting for, too, although you might not agree on first glance. For one thing, don't expect any drastic changes in the aesthetics, as we've seen on the iOS side of things. As a matter of fact, the exterior of the new MacBook Air features no changes whatsoever, with the exception of the addition of a second tiny hole for a two-mic setup, akin to that seen on the…

Genre: Documentary Released: 2013 Price: $14.99 4.5/5.0 164 Ratings Just in time for Wimbledon, this documentary takes a look at Venus and Serena, the Williams sisters who between the two of them, completely dominate women's tennis. The two young women beat the odds, overcoming certain racism in their sport. This film examines their careers and lives during 2011, when Venus dealt with autoimmune disease and Serena life-threatening pulmonary embolism. These athletes weren't held back, though, drawing strength from each other. FIVE FACTS: 1. Venus has won the Grand Slam title seven times and Serena seventeen, going up against each other eight times. 2. In 2002 Venus and Serena were ranked No. 1 and No. 2, and in 2010 they were coworld No. 1 in Doubles while again being No.l and…

SKILLET Genre: Rock Released: Jun 21,2013 By: Atlantic Recording 24 Songs Price: $10.99 5.0/5.0 902 Ratings John Cooper describes his Christian rock band Skillet's latest release, Rise, as "a roller coaster ride” with "aggressive tracks, artsy and musical tracks.” The album includes a few symphonic-classical rock tunes that Skillet is known for, as well as some heartland anthems and “absolute shredding solos by Seth.” The first single, Sick of It, was released in April of this year. Rise is Skillet's eighth studio album. FIVE FACTS: 1. The band formed in 1996 after members John Cooper and Ken Steorts' prior bands disbanded and their pastor encouraged them to strike out on their own. 2. John Cooper is the only original Skillet member left. 3. The name of the band comes from…

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