M.A.G. - Miko Action Game for Smartphones

"巫女 Miko" is a Japanese word describe a woman who can communucate with the spirit world of Gods, but in modern days, this word almost always means a woman who work at Shinto shirine, for example those girls who wear stunningly clean and beautiful traditional clothes, sit at the counter of shirine's office as a receptionist, sometimes help visiters buy goods. Exactly the girls you see in the blow picture.

Girls work at a shrine's store selling religious goods on New Years Eve

Not to mention, Miko is a famous object for Otaku's craving, because overlapping of sacred elements and esthetics of Japanese traditional attire stirs up something in their minds. Yes, you can guess it's a kind of forbidden adore.

"M.A.G", the title of this exciting simple scroll action shooting game, is an abbreviation of Miko Action Game.

M.A.G. for iOS

M.A.G. for Android

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Let's play Casino with Moe girls

Hello two dimension!! Oh you don't understand what I mean by two dimension? Basically it means cute girls in Anime or Game, which of course have two dimension body.
Anyway, whether you're a serious Otaku or just want to take a peek at Japanese modern culture or an early adopter who just want to try everything new in the market, this is my best recommendation of anime girls game which has a little eroge (Anime like porno game) flavor with high-quality graphic.

The maker of this app (Override Co.) is really famous for the quality of it's eroge games.

Anime Casino Beauty Dealers

In this game you play poker, blackjack and Indian poker with Moe characters, little cute girls. Not surprisingly the company's already released similar games as a series, and this is a second installment of this Anime Casino Dealers series.
So what the difference from the previous one?
Think about it. When you go to a strip club, though I'm quite unsure you've ever been, perhaps the most enjoyable moment there is when strippers are teasing you by taking off their cloths so too slowly, and you're watching it sipping a beer. Or... imagine there's a girl in revealing cloth in front of you, and you could make her take her cloth off, step by step, by beating her in poker..
This game or many other eroge are capturing those situations into the game screen. What matters is not you can enjoy poker itself but you can enjoy the process of girls getting naked.
The answer of the question is... no, there's no difference, except, tough this is a big exception, that girls are different.

all character has big tits in this game

This game has three characters. Madam Scarlet plays poker, Aoi, the girl in a nurse costume holding an injection needle, plays black jack, and Karen, the girl with bunny ears, plays Indian poker.

The system is just the classic way. As you win you get coins and with those coins you can take cards concealing girls' body off.

Can you see the left, second from the bottom card's price is only $1000, and the below that card is $16,000? These girls are really good at teasing you!!

$25,000!!!

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Simplicity > Usability ? - Talk About Apple's misleading message

I don't want to blame Apple. I have iPhone and I really love it. I can contact with my friends so easily with apps like WhatsApp or Skype without paying crazy amount of money to telecom companies. I listen to radio podcast, video podcast, I can take nice photos and editing them with Instagram or camera+. Most of all, without iPhone, more specifically Anki, Audiobook and NPR podcast, I would never be able to speak English fluently and never be able to get a job out here in U.S.

But come on Apple, you're like a family-run business on privacy issues, you can do it better.

This is totally a design fail, design of words. What the consequence? That makes Apple a deceiver if not a liar, or just so unprofessional, of course being unprofessional can make you a liar. Apple, You claim you're the most innovative company in the world, you're the most valuable company in the world, you want to be different from Google that you're more aesthetic, more responsible, more coherent, provide better user experience.

Please.. I really don't want to hear this kind of news.

Apple Loophole Gives Developers Access to Photos

Okay.. No wonder why this happened.

Basically this article says

Your address book is not safe
Some apps for iOS were taking people’s address book information without their knowledge.
  - But copying address book data is against Apple’s rules, and Apple is underway to fix this

Your Photos are also vulnerable
After a user allows iOS applications to have access to location information, the app can copy the user’s entire photo library, without any further notification or warning,
  - photo copying, is not specifically forbidden under Apple’s rules, so Apple did not respond yet.

The first time an application wants to use location data, for mapping
or any other purpose, Apple’s devices ask the user for permission

Why full access to Cameraroll is allowed?
On Apple devices, full access to the photo library was first permitted in 2010 when Apple released the fourth version of iOS. The change was intended to make photo apps more efficient. 

Once the data is off of the iOS device, Apple has virtually no ability to monitor or limit its use.

What developers is saying?
John Casasanta, owner of the successful iPhone app development studio Tap Tap Tap, which created the Camera+ app says,
“It’s very strange, because Apple is asking for location permission, but really what it is doing is accessing your entire photo library, The message the user is being presented with is very, very unclear.” 

What we believed Apple was doing
It was assumed that Apple would ensure that apps that inappropriately exploited it did not make it into the App Store.

Why Apple is doing wrong?
Apple and app makers should be making sure people understand what they are consenting to. It is pretty obvious that they aren’t doing a good enough job of that. 

What about Android Apps?
Google declined to comment on how its Android operating system for mobile devices handles this issue. - means copying is possible without any kinds of permissions, see here.

What happened this month?
This month, Apple allowed a fake 99-cent Pokémon app into the App Store. Even though it offered only a series of Pokémon images, it became one of the most popular paid apps before it was removed by Apple.
 - this sounds too cute after reading about possible danger of being stolen photos or contact data.

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Video Compressor - iPhone app

With regard to recording quality iPhone has now become a serious competitor of digital video cameras since the introduction of iPhone 4. But what still bother us is handling the huge video data gets iPhone very slow. Sometimes you can't send videos because their size is exceeding the limit, or even if you can, it takes time. In addition to that if you want to store a lot of video data you took in your iPhone, the storage space might not be enough.

Video Compressor (free) - iTunes

Here is the good app for you. This app simply reduce the size of full HD video contents you captured with Camera app by over 90%.

When you start the app, you'll see this screen where you select the level of compression from these three.
Of course HD 720p is higher quality and bigger size video format, so there's no way that compressing into HD reduce 90% while into VGA reduce 80% is correct description. (below image is taken from the app's preview page on iTunes, but the numbers are incorrect.)
After testing both, it turns out HD reduce about 80% and VGA is 90%, so the numbers are opposite.

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Now you selected a compression type, then you select a video you want to compress from CameraRoll and click 'Choose'.

HD quality compression has the best result reducing almost 80% of the data size without significantly compromising the image quality - think about it, HD 720p is the recording format of iPhone4.
VGA is the quality of front camera. If you don't need to keep tiny details clear, VGA is a nice option, but you 'd better avoid Low Quality. It would hurt your eyes.

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Celsius in a badge!!!!!

It's 25 degree Celsius NOW. This is totally a new idea until now.

Icon images on iPhone screen are fixed, they never change - think about it, Weather app icon, the number below sun image stuck on 73F or 23C, Clock, always 10:15, Map always locating on Apple HQ. The only app allowed to change is Calendar, this is a special app. But think about it, you always see something on the top-right of some icons, it's a number, but it is called a Badge. iPhone use these badges to display unread message counts or items on your to-do list. But very use these to covey other information.

This app "Celsius" and "Fahrenheit" use these Badges, pop-up numbers, to introduce the current temperature.

You can add cities of your choice into the list and select the city you want to display in Badges at 'Locations' menu.

To see today's 3-hourly forecast, tap Today. In the same screen, you also can check how thick the cloud is and share the whether information via Twitter or Facebook.

Once revealed this doesn't look new at all but this must be one of the breakthrough ideas on iOS apps developing. This is the app for some reason you must want to put on your home screen.

Celsius ($0.99 ) - iTunes

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The Fastest Way To Launch iPhone Camera

How do you react the moment you want to take a photo with your iPhone Camera. If iPhone is locked, click home button twice and tap camera button.

If you are using an another app, click home button and tap Camera app button. However, either way it takes too long, my iPhone takes 2~3 seconds, to launch Camera app, and you might miss the moment you want to capture.

In a Pre-GM build of upcoming iOS 5.1 update, it is said that the new way to launch Camera app has been added.

Source: Blog do iPhone (Portuguese)

Swiping the Camera button from bottom to top, that's the way. So far there's only a shot of locked screen - Camera button appears to the right of the unlock slider BY DEFAULT, and you can launch the app without fully unlock iPhone - but it is nice to have similar shortcut in home screen or while using other apps.

Another leaked update is Siri will speak Japanese as she herself admits.

But Siri, before learning other languages, you must improve your listening skill to understand some ignored English dialects such as Scottish, Icelander, Singaporean and of course foreign accents, your English need to be global.

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Photo collaging! with "PicFrame"

I found a nice app called PicFrame.

PicFrame - iTunes

You can make a photo collage by combining multiple photos with this app.

As it's name suggests, it is not that you can make a completely free form layout photo collage, but you can only put photos in predetermined rectangular frames.

You can move drag and move borders to resize individual photo areas.

You can change the size, round corners, rotate and mirror photo images.

In "Style" menu you can select color or pattern, and width of frame. But you can't change the color of patterns.

Completed photo collage can be saved in CameraRoll, or shared on Facebook, Flickr, Twitter and Tumblr.

There's Mac version of this app too, but basic function is same. The only difference, at least I could notice, is Mac version has more choices of frame aspects.

PicFrame - Mac App store

Here I made some examples. Hope you'll enjoy and give it a try, it's fun :)

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Vitalizing your photo with Camera+

Scenery & So Emo

What make iPhone a wonderful photography tool are a variety of line-ups of iOS Apps.

Camera Plus

I found an app called Camera+, and this very app has ended my endless journey searching for nice photo editing (mainly, effects) apps, at least for a while.

Its very easy to use as every iOS apps are.
Launch the app and take a photo or select a photo from Camera roll. Click Edit and you'll see 4 effects in the menu bar, Scenes, Adjust, Crop, FX effects, and Borders.

'FX effects' is a main feature of this App. There're 4 types of effects in the FX effects menu, Color, Retro, Special, and Analog. Each type has 9 unique effects.

original photos

Color

Retro

Special

I Love Analog (In App Purchase)

Change the intensity of effect by moving slider.

If you want more than one effect for one photo, you need to once save the photo and open it from Cameraroll.

'Scenes' is just like that familiar menu on your digital cameras. You select scene effects in accordance with the environment the photo was taken in.

Other things you can do with this app is 'Crop', 'Change angles' and add 'Borders' on photos.

You don't have to launch other apps to share edited photos. Flickr, twitter, facebook, SMS, and email are available so far.

The price of this app is only 2 USD. I think it's pretty cheap for the function of the app.

You need to pay extra money for Analog effect. If you unlock Analog effect option, you will have well-balanced analog-film-camera-like effects, and it's definitely worth the money.

It's like now you have a lot of different types of analog compact cameras with different types of films in one device which you always carry, the iPhone.

Flash, & Lo-Fi 30% 

How about giving it a try?

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