http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76EZWp58cIs

Zev and I are talking about the PhotoNinja iOS app. This is simply a family friendly – party friendly app. It’s costs only a few bucks you should check it out.

Price:

• $.99

ESRB/iTunes Rating:

• +4
• iTunes: No additional information from
• ESRB: EC (Early Childhood)
• …have content that may be suitable for ages 3 and older…

Description:

• What would you or your friends look like as a pirate? A ninja? Using this app, take a group photo and instantly make everyone into pirates, ninjas, or both!

Stats:

• One-touch, automatic pirate-ification or ninja-fication of your photos.
• Works with multiple faces, groups, and tilted heads
• No manual editing or positioning of faces, thanks to face-recognition technology
• Works with photos taken with your device, or photos from your camera roll
• Works on baby photos, group photos, etc.

Pros:

• Makes dull photos entertaining
• The touch interface makes editing easy (pinch-zoom)
• Send completed photos to other services (Facebook, Email, Tumblr)

Cons:

• Needs more flair
• occasionally crashes
• No share community like Photofunia

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Post Image Credit: GadgetSin.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyMuYtb7mEE

Ray and Zev discuss the Opena Case iPhone 4 bottle opener. It’s a case, it’s a bottle opener… what more do you need?

Price: $39.95 (from company)

Stats:

• iPhone4/4S
• Protective PC/ABS hard case
• Integrated slide out stainless steel bottle opener
• Fits GSM & CDMA iPhone 4 (AT&T and Verizon)
• Free standard shipping to USA, Canada and Australia

Pros:

• It’s a cool bottle opener
• It protects your entire iPhone (minus your screen)
• Well designed

Cons:

• Case makes it difficult to slide in your iPhone
• Case makes it difficult to pop you iPhone out

For those that feel the need for a keyboard/case/stand for their iPad, the Clamcase is a pretty cool option. For a limited time, they are offering a gift card that saves $20 of the price ($119 – $20).

Check it out and let us know what you think!

I love the “I am a Mac“ commercials and who doesn’t have a favorite or two. The chemistry between Justin Long — Mac and John Hodgman — PC is fantastic. Take180.com has done a wonderful parody of the “I am a Mac” commercials. Instead of Long and Hodgman it’s the iPad and Jersey Shore’s “The Situation.”

Take180.com posts 180 second (or less) web shows made by the community.

It’s a community where people come together to make awesome web shows. You power the episodes, by submitting stories, ideas, videos, photos and artwork — and/or commenting and voting on other people’s submissions. And hey — prizes happen. Episodes are never longer than 180 seconds and there are new ones all the time — just like TV.

Unfortunately, the Apple iPad will not be available for a few more months and I don’t think we will ever see an “I am an  iPad” commercial. Thanks to the folks at Take180.com we can at least get a good laugh.

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I find it curious that Amazon is taking the fight to Apple. In my professional opinion this is an unfair match — with Amazon being on the losing side. Perhaps therein lies the problem — Amazon is no longer the giant in this space. Yes, agreed Apple started the fight with the combination of price matching and service (iBook Store). Then to add insult to injury Macmillan gets cozy with Apple so I understand Amazon’s need to attack.

And Steve Jobs wasn’t being coy about it, saying this morning: “Amazon’s done a great job of pioneering this functionality with the Kindle. We’re going to stand on their shoulders and go a little further.”

-Jennifer Van Grove, Mashable

Read more at The Huffington Post….

Steve Jobs did not disappoint with today’s unveiling of the latest Apple product – the iPad.

The specs:

• Models: 16GB, 32GB and 64GB (flash storage)
• Price: $499, $599 and $699, respectively (add-on another $130 if you want both Wi-Fi and 3G)
• 1GHz Apple A4 chip
• Wireless: 802.11n, WiFi and Bluetooth 2.1
• 10 hours of battery life
• 1.5 pounds
• .5 inches thick
• 9.7 inch IPS display
• Fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating
• You can get full specs here

Unfortunately, for us the iPad will not be available for 60 or 90 days. Your wait is dependent on what model you wish to purchase. From today’s announcement, it seems that the 3G iPad’s will be shipping in April and the WiFi models will be shipping in late March. The good news is that a data plan is available for the 3G iPad’s – for 250MB per month the cost will be $14.99 a month. If you are a data hog, you can go for the unlimited plan that will run you $29.99 a month. The bad news is that AT&T will be servicing the data plan. The silver lining is that there will be no contract.

The iPad is service and feature rich we will be looking at an iBook Store, Maps, iPod, Notes, Contacts, Calendar, Spotlight Search, Safari, Mail, iWork, SDK for developers, YouTube (HD), Photos, iTunes and access to over 140, 000 apps from the App Store. As far as an input device – you can either use your index finger or the big beautiful on-screen keyboard.  In Apple fashion they already have the official iPad site up and running.

Below is the eight-minute video with Apple’s design and development team.

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Your living room TV is under assault!

I am not talking about your kids throwing Wii remotes at it, or spouses sabotaging your inputs just in time for Sunday football, or not having any juice left in your rechargeable Logitech Harmony Remote, or even those tiny little fingerprints on the screen that make you go coo coo for cocoa puffs.  I am talking about the endless barrage of hardware media devices.

Devices like the D-Link Boxee Box, the  Syabas Technology Popcorn Hour, the Roku Player, AppleTV, Blu-ray players, Microsoft XBox 360, Sony PS3, Nintendo Wii, audio systems, Sonos ZonePlayer, Tivo, and other Cable/Verizon Fios/Satellite appliances.  Whew!  I need an entire circuit breaker just for my TV, and I still have a problem getting all of my content the way I want.

Read the full post on zevmo.com

As every parent knows, finding ways to motivate kids to brush their teeth, go to bed on time, or make their beds in the morning can be a seemingly impossible task.  But if you have an iPhone, your job just got a little easier.  There is an iPhone application called, iRewardChart, from Got Clues Inc., and it is a really easy way to positively reinforce good behavior and complete their chores.

Read the entire review at zevmo.com

So we pick up 2010 right where we left off 2009 – speculating what Jobs will be announcing on January 26th at the Yerba Buena Center. The hopes are set rather high that Jobs will make the announcement we have all been waiting for – the Apple tablet. Unfortunately, the pricing rumors are a bit unsettling. It has been reported that the price point could be anywhere between $700 to $900. According, Pete Cashmore Apple is plaining on selling 10 million tablets in 2010. I don’t see Apple selling 10 million units in 2010 at a price point nearly $1000.

What we can report with certainty is that Apple has been in talks with various publishers, broadcasters and movie studios to bring subscription based services to iTunes. The Wall Street Journal has reported that CBS and Disney are interested in partnering with Apple to provide TV subscription services. It’s still unclear how much Apple will charge for the TV subscription service – some are saying $30 a month. Additionally, it is unclear if CBS and Disney will be making their entire portfolio of TV shows available. My first guess would be no – we would see the availability of only a handful of shows. Apple plans to launch the TV subscription service sometime in 2010.

With Apple cutting these content deals and the tablet rumored to be coming in at just under $1000, are we really talking about an iPhone on steroids? I think we are more looking at an Apple media tablet. I am not just talking about the content already available on iTunes, that is a given. I am talking about news papers, text books, magazines all updated in real time, living stories and Internet TV - all operating on a 3G or 4G network; even white-space is a strong possibility.

I believe that the success of the Apple tablet will depend on a fine balance of price and content. Too much of one and not enough of the other and Apple will not be selling 10 million units in 2010.

January starts off 2010 with much excitement and anticipation. January 7th is the start of the Computer Electronics Show (CES). This is where vendors like Nikon will present their CoolPix S1000pj. January 26th Apple will be making a significant product announcement. It has been greatly speculated that Jobs will be announcing the long anticipated iSlate. Lastly, it has just been reported by ComputerWorld that on January 5th, Google will be holding an Android, invitation-only, event. The event will consist of  a press conference, presentations and question and answer sessions.

Some in the industry are speculating if Schmidt is purposely holding the Google conference right before CES. This is a similar move to what Jobs did in 2007 – when he announced the iPhone right before CES. In essence, the iPhone became all the talk at CES 2007.  I think that Schmidt is a smart man. This very well calculated move worked for Jobs and Schmidt is hoping it will do the same for the Nexus One.

It is still uncertian what Google will be presenting on January 5th. The speculation runs their entire portfolio – from the Nexus One to the Android Market Place to the Google Chrome OS netbook. Whatever, happens on the 5th one thing is certain - it will be all the talk at CES 2010.