The 2012 Olympic Games begin in London, England on July 27th and run through August 12th, 2012.
Opening ceremony will start today at 9PM (London time) at the Stratford Olympic stadium, well-known director Danny Boyle is in charge of directing the show.
In order to follow all sport events with our beloved smartphones and tablets, here are the three official apps available for Android (being Samsung the London 2012 main sponsor), iOS, Blackberry and Windows Phone.
The Join In App is the official guide to all venues, places and stadiums as well a …

No parking? No fear!
Now there’s KurbKarma, the iOS app that will find a suitable parking near you!

(Right now it’s available just for NY and SF city areas but it’s quickly expanding to most other cities.)
Download it now for free on iTunes Store.

FontBook is the world’s most comprehensive reference on digital typography.
It documents the work of 118 renowned international type foundries, representing 1650 type designers, constituting 35,000 fonts from 8050 font families (status: April 2012).
The FontBook app presents this selection through 700,000 typeface samples which can be intuitively spread out, searched, layered, moved, scrolled and combined like a collection of maps.

Get FontBook for US$ 5.99 on iTunes.

As European Soccer 2012 Championship is approaching, get a grip on Blast Ball by Uncade LLC, a strange soccer game for iPhone and iPad where you’re supposed to score as much goals as possible with no care of what you’re throwin’ in!
You’ll be kicking not just regular soccer balls but a complete weird inventory of funny stuff, including bombs.
With a retro look and strange graphics, Blast Ball is definitely worth a try!
Blast Ball is available on iTunes Store by clicking here!

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As of today, nearly 25 billion apps have been downloaded worldwide.
Which is almost as amazing as the apps themselves.
So we want to say thanks.
Download the 25 billionth app, and you could win a US$10,000 App Store Gift Card.* Just visit the App Store and download your best app yet.
Check here for more info about the 25BN downloader prize!

{EAV:475f0ad9367c78fa}Avid has launched a new video editing iPad app, which it hopes will give Apple’s iMovie a run for its money, and is Avid’s first prosumer video editing app for the iPad.
Avid Studio for the iPad enables you to quickly arrange your clips in the Storyboard, make precision edits using the Timeline, and add high-quality transitions, effects, and soundtracks to your movie footage.
The Avid Studio app combines a storyboard and timeline interface, where users can arrange clips in the storyboard, then use the timeline for precise cuts. It also offers …

Karaoke comes to the iPad – so you can sing, record, share and have fun – all with the magical touch of your iPad!
With your iPad as your karaoke stage and studio, you can sound like a pro, record your stellar performances, and share your favorites with one touch!
Soulo’s innovative features get you inside the song like never before.
SING with built-in pitch enhancement so you’re always in key.
Turn the lead vocals up if you want to hear them or down if you’re ready to take the …

You may already know Box.net, the online simple file storage.
Box.net gives you from 5 GB (free) up to 1 TB (or unlimited, paid) storage space to enjoy team collaboration, cloud computing or just an easy way to backup files, photos and your stuff (check here for correct pricing and plans).
This kind of services seem the perfect companion to iPads and iPhones: without even using iTunes syncing (nor iCloud) you can have the same photos, videos, PDFs (on iBooks, for examples) wherever and whenever you want it!
Here at theiFile.com we use …

In July we wrote about Flipboard for iPad and this social media aggregator has become huge since then.
Today, Flipboard becomes available for iPhone and with a stable release too!
A new personalized-reading app for the iPhone is being launched by Flipboard, the design-centric company that led the customized-news charge with its app for iPad.
News can be rapidly browsed with a thumb flick from the hand holding the iPhone, like a digital Rolodex.
As you may expect, signing up a (free) account on Flipboard bring the same content, RSS-feeds and windows arrangements and …

Sting’s app: celebrating 25 years of solo career, Steve Jobs and… a “message in an iPad”?

iOS 5 release is upcoming, are you ready for the 200+ new features?

So what are we waiting for?
What are those features, seen by many as Steve’s latest legacy?
Better Notifications: iOS 5 will include the new Notification Center, which can be accessed by swiping your finger downward on any iPhone screen. You can customize which notifications appear, including emails, texts, Game Center updates and weather. The point is to make notifications less like that interrupting cow in your knock knock joke.
iMessage: The new messaging feature allows iOS users to communicate over …

Here we are, shortly after the iPad Skype app, Facebook has finally launched its official iPad app, after (literally) months of speculations and leaks.
Facebook for iPad, now available in the iOS App Store (update: it’s still rolling out), looks much like the version that leaked in July. The app is designed primarily as a consumption experience, which is why the app emphasizes photos. Photos take up the entire screen, and users can pinch to zoom in on them. Navigating through a photo album is done simply by swiping left or …

Skype for iPad?
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Having any problem?
Some users reported problems with it…
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When it was released, a long time ago, Skype for iPhone has turned on high expectations around a specifically-designed version for iPad which was announced and never released for a loooong time.
Now the wait is over! iPad owner can now download the very iPad-only Skype version on iTunes App Store!
Was it worth the wait? Let’s see.
Skype for iPad leverages the huge screen estate, enabling a completely different communication experience with the world-leading VoIP software, be it with video-calling features or in chat mode.
Some features have been customized for the …

This time may be the right time: the iPad (specifically the iPad 2) is getting an iPad-specific version of the beloved Skype app – with working cameras!
That’s cool for most users that still haven’t moved to the Facetime side of modern communication!
ZDNet has been able to preview the iPad-specific version of the Skype app and published several new pics along some pretty info.
Performance issues and worries?
Although Skype for iPad will work on both iPad versions, you’ll only be able to broadcast video from the iPad 2, since it has a …

You cannot have a multiuser iPad, but can definitely have a multiuser browser inside it.
Its name is Switch. Its multiuser capabilities are thought with security in mind, for the user and for the other users too!
There’s a guest account for extra privacy and the occasional friend that asks to have a look at the Internet.
Recurring users can use the same Switch and have each one their logins and passwords for every account on every site they visit, without other user being able to tamper with that (they are supposed to …

Universal Mind bills iBrainstorm, its free iPad app, as a “creative collaborative tool.” The productivity offering aims to replace the whiteboard—or at least move the whiteboard onto the iPad’s touchscreen. When iBrainstorm undergoes further upgrades, I might be able to get behind that vision. Until then, you’ll want to stick with a physical whiteboard.
Essentially, iBrainstorm turns an iPad screen into a drawing surface, one with a brownish hue. You use your finger as a black dry-erase felt-tip pen to make notes, draw, or scribble down whatever you want on the …

Moonchaser Software is announcing the release and immediate availability of Cartouche HD 1.0.1 for iPad.
Your mind will be challenged to arrange columns of hieroglyphs (glyphs) into lines of three or more.
Once completed, the lines of glyphs will disappear and the remaining glyphs will fall under gravity, and may create new lines. [If a three falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?—Ed.]
As the game progresses, the speed of descent for new columns increases.
Nothing new, many will think. Hieroglyphs are quite old, …

Signs Studios has released Surfwrite, an app that allows a web browser and a rich-text editor run side by side.
This is one of those apps I get addicted to: I’m now able to browse several web pages at once (with tabbed browsing) and, without exiting the app, I’m able to write down reviews, articles, notes or whatever.

The text I’m editing right now (this review!) can be used as a mail attachment (even with on-the-fly PDF conversion) or to update a Twitter or Facebook status.
Surfwrite, IMHO, is a dramatic improvement in …

Did you have a look at TouchUp for the iPad by RogueSheep lately?
For US$ 2.99 (€ 2.39) you can get one of the best retouching package currently on sale at the App Store.
Easy to use, and still ready for pros thanks to add-on packs of advanced effects, TouchUp applies over a dozen effects in layers to photos.
TouchUp is well conceived for the iPad interface, since you can brush any effect on or off with a tap and slide of your finger.
The app imports photos from Photo Library, or Flickr’s Photo …