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Lenny Liang
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Lenny Liang

Thanks for reading. It is a great privilege to be here and to write for you. Please feel free to e-mail me at leonard@appadvice.com with comments, questions, or complaints, or if you wish to engage in some app conversation. If you want to learn more about me personally, you can check out my website at lennyliang.com or follow me @lsliang2001.
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Letris 2: An Addictive New Word Puzzle Game

Letris 2: An Addictive New Word Puzzle Game

Ivanovich Games has released Letris 2, a word puzzle game, which claims to be the offspring of Tetris and Scrabble. The game is simple to play: letter blocks fall onto the screen, and you make words to eliminate them. You need to eliminate all the letters before they pile up and reach the top of the screen, a la Tetris.

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Currently Technology News, The App That Tells You What's Hot

Currently Technology News, The App That Tells You What's Hot

Current Technology News is laid out to track the top 99 news headlines of either the past hour or day. You can swipe right on each headline to bring up an options menu, which will allow you to save the article in the "read later" tab, or post it to Facebook, Twitter, or another popular service like Instapaper.

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Underscore Notify Receives A Significant Update

Underscore Notify Receives A Significant Update

Notify by Underscore has received a significant update. Among the many features added to the update are a completely rewritten rendering pipeline, improved support of retina display devices, and a new user feedback website accessible from within the application.

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Pick-Up Sticks Gets A Digital Makeover

Pick-Up Sticks Gets A Digital Makeover

As suggested by its name, the recently updated Pick-Up Sticks is a virtual version of the classic game. The object of the game is simple: remove a stick from a pile, without disturbing the remaining sticks.

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Web App Allows You To Fake Siri Messages

Web App Allows You To Fake Siri Messages

There has been much fascination with the things that Siri says. Now, you can put words in Siri's virtual mouth. A Web app has been released on ifakesiri.com which allows users to create their own conversations with Siri.

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Christmas Comes To Make A Zombie

Christmas Comes To Make A Zombie

Make A Zombie does just what its name implies. You start with a naked figure, tinted with a shade of death. The columns of icons on the left and right allow you to scroll through different backgrounds, hair styles, facial features and wardrobe to create your zombie.

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PhotoPen Offers Free Photo Annotation And Sharing

PhotoPen Offers Free Photo Annotation And Sharing

PhotoPen has a simple concept: mark up your photos and share them on your iPhone. You can choose pictures from your library, or take snapshots with the camera. The photos can then be annotated freehand, or using a resizable cloud, square, or circle shape.

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AppToGift: Give A Device Makeover With Pimp Your Screen

AppToGift: Give A Device Makeover With Pimp Your Screen

Today is Black Friday. It traditionally marks the beginning of the holiday shopping season. For some, it is a day of bargain-hunting glee, while others find themselves in a stress-induced tizzy, as they fight the crowds for the perfect holiday gift. As noted by my colleague Bryan Wolfe, TiPb wrote an article yesterday about how to gift iOS apps.

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Apple Releases New iPad 2 TV Ad

Apple Releases New iPad 2 TV Ad

On its YouTube page, Apple has released a new iPad 2 ad, entitled "Love." As in other Apple ads, such as "Learn" and "Now," a golden-voiced narrator speaks over selected scenes of an iPad 2 being used in various scenes from life.

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Razoria: A New Name For A Popular Skin

Razoria: A New Name For A Popular Skin

RazorianFly is known for reporting Apple news. It is also known for its visually stunning wallpapers. Not long ago, the folks at RazorianFly also launched a company called iSKINZA, which produced vinyl skins for iOS devices. However, due to unforeseen circumstances, the company had to cease operations. It is now back, under a new name - RAZORIA.

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Filter Your Deals With The Yipit iPhone App

Filter Your Deals With The Yipit iPhone App

From Groupon to Living Social to Tippr to Yelp, there are many services (and apps associated with those services), which offer daily deals. The recent release of the Yipit iPhone app begs the question: What differentiates Yipit from the plethora of other daily deal sites out there?

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Superman Game Comes To iOS

Superman Game Comes To iOS

In many ways, I really did feel like the Man of Steel. I found myself quickly sucked into the appeal of using Superman's various abilities to accomplish a number of missions, be it smashing meteors, saving planes, or trampling bad guys with my super speed.

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AppTalk: Interview With InteraXon COO - Why Project Black Mirror Is A Hoax

Many sites, including this one, have reported on Project Black Mirror, which claimed to convert mere thought into an iPhone Siri command. Soon after, numerous scientists and engineers declared the project a fraud. One of the most outspoken naysayers, has been Trevor Coleman, a co-founder and chief operations officer at InteraXon, a thought-control computing company, which specializes in experience design for brain-computer interfaces. On his blog, Coleman writes a lengthy post entitled, "Why the Brainwave/Siri hack is a hoax, and why it's important that you know."

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The Music Path Updated With New Lessons

The Music Path Updated With New Lessons

The first thing that sets The Music Path apart from other music instruction apps is the quality of the instructors. These are not your ordinary, run-of-the-mill instructors. These are Grammy winners, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees, and musicians noted for being some of the best in their field. Imagine learning to play the "Cliffs of Dover" from the great Eric Johnson himself. Now you can.

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Project Black Mirror Uses Mind Control On Siri

Project Black Mirror Uses Mind Control On Siri

Technopathy is the ability to control machines with your mind. It is a superpower possessed by characters, such as Micah Sanders from the television show "Heroes," and Hank Henshaw, the Cyborg Superman. It isn't real, or it wasn't. The hackers at Project Black Mirror hope to turn this superhero fantasy into a reality.

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No Cars Here: Toyota Releases Calendar App

No Cars Here: Toyota Releases Calendar App

Toyota Motor Corporation is best known for making cars. What some people may not know is that Toyota is also involved in a number of non-automotive endeavors, such as: education, robotics, and biotechnology. Recently, Toyota's reach has also expanded into the area of making calendars.

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Free Magazine Charges Subscription Fee And Gives It To Charity

Free Magazine Charges Subscription Fee And Gives It To Charity

TRVL free Travel Magazine had a dilemma. It was a well-regarded iPad-exclusive magazine. Management knew that Apple Newsstand would do wonders for their readership. At the same time, due to its software partner, it could not get on Newsstand without offering a paid subscription, and they did not want to charge their readers.

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