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Stop motion animation is fun to watch, especially if done right. If you have a minute or two to spare, perhaps this iOS stop motion animation is worth checking out. Put together by London-based university students, Carrie Bale, Doug Hindson, and Jooyoung Ryo, the animation has been dubbed “Skew”, an abbreviation of the term, “Skeuomorph”. Given that Apple, especially Jony Ive, made such a big deal about getting rid of skeuomorphism in iOS 7 in favor of a flatter and more minimalist theme, this particular video is rather ironic, although we suppose it would be harder to pull off if it were based on iOS 7. (more…)

iOS Gets Demonstrated Using Stop Motion Animation original content from Ubergizmo.

When it comes to iOS integration in vehicles, Honda seems to be pretty enthusiastic about the whole thing, having adopted Siri Eyes Free earlier this year, and just last week we heard that the car manufacturer had plans to introduce some sort of iOS mirroring feature in future car models as well. Turns out the reports were right as Honda has officially announced that the 2014 Honda Civic model and the 2015 Honda Fit model will be getting a new feature called Display Audio. (more…)

Honda Gets Deeper iOS Integration With Display Audio original content from Ubergizmo.

Google is developing Chrome apps support for iOS and Android. Chrome apps are Web apps that operate independently and offline. They use HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS, as well as Chrome-branded APIs. Currently, Chrome apps are only available for the desktop. But by January they may also be available for mobile devices, if The Next Web‘s […]

IBM recently released a report after tracking over 800 retail websites in the U.S. that iOS was far ahead of Android during the Thanksgiving and Black Friday shopping weekend. During the weekend, traffic generated by iOS devices accounted for 28.2 percent of all online traffic as opposed to 11.4 percent contributed by Android. It turns out that iOS did much better during Cyber Monday as well. A report released by IBM earlier today reveals that iOS lead Android in online shopping during Cyber Monday 2013.

Over 14.5 percent of all online sales this Cyber Monday are accounted for by iOS devices, whereas Android managed to generate just over 2.6 percent of all online sales. The percentages boil down to each iOS and Android user spending $120.29 and $106.70 per order, respectively. The report also reveals that 31.7 percent of all online traffic on Cyber Monday was generated by mobile devices, which equals to a 45 percent year-over-year increase. Of the entire web traffic on Cyber Monday, iOS managed to grab 22.4 percent while Android only managed to grab 9.1 percent. 19.7 percent of all online traffic was accounted for by smartphones while tablet users brought in 11.5 percent, but purchase volume from tablet users overtook those from smartphone users. It doesn’t come as a surprise that online sales on Cyber Monday this year increased 20.6 percent as opposed to the same time last year, even online spending on Black Friday 2013 surged to some $1.2 billion. No total figure of money spent on online purchases this Cyber Monday has emerged just yet.

iOS Leads Android In Cyber Monday Online Shopping original content from Ubergizmo.

You might not be able to write for a living for one reason or another, even if you wanted to, but that doesn’t mean you should stop writing. Let off some steam, talk about your dreams, share funny anecdotes – there are so many things you can do with words.

They don’t have to be extremely long. In fact, there’s an app that lets you write short blurbs and share them with friends and random people when you’re done with them. That app is called Spine.

It’s a neat little app that lets aspiring writers publish five-sentence stories. You can basically consider Spine as a social network for micro-stories where authors and readers can connect and share stories with one another.

Users can post and browse stories in nine different categories, which includes literary staples like action, horror, sci-fi, and mystery.

Users can rate stories and share the ones they love to others on their networks. In short, it’s a community of writers and readers doing something they love: reading and writing.

Spine is available free for iOS devices and can be downloaded here.

[via Laughing Squid]