Octopus Paul now iPhone

Brazilian company has created an interesting program iPhone uTouchLabs which Smartphone owners will be able to get a prediction of Octopus Paul.

Developers get the iPhone uTouchLabs offer own digital version of the famous Paul, famous for his accurate Octopus forecasts during the FIFA World Cup football team. To this end, they have developed a special application. The user enters two variants of answers that are rendered as transparent boxes in an aquarium. Digital Octopus chooses one of the vessels and, consequently, the correct version.

Image Octopus have already used in the chain of restaurants in South Africa. He became a symbol of one of the main dishes-seafood dishes. To advertise your product use Paul decided and Pepsi. Billboard from the young Octopus tentacle, which keeps the Bank with a drink. Slogan: “the clear choice”.

The producers of the TNT offered to Octopus to participate in the tenth season of TV program “psychic”. In addition, the Aquarium has a Zoo Madrid to buy Paul. Spaniards offered per pet 30 thousand euro.

Link to iTunes ($0.99)

Opera Mini 5.1 For Android Sheds Beta Tag

Early in March, Opera released its Opera Mini mobile browser, version 5.0 beta, for Android phones. The app has now been polished enough to reach version 5.1 and drop the beta tag it’s been carrying for so long.

The new version doesn’t bring too many major improvements, except overall better stability and improved page layout on those high-end Android phones with huge screens we’ve been seeing lately. For a list of improvements in version 5.0 beta, see here.

You can download Opera Mini 5.1 for Android from the Android market, or over at m.opera.com.

iPhone love, Nokia does not

Demand for smartphones, Nokia has reached an all time low in the UK have discovered analysts from the research company YouGov. According to experts, for example, the British market, you can track trends of development of the segment in Europe.

In comparison with December 2008 the number of persons wishing to buy Nokia phones in the UK has fallen from 19 per cent to 10 per cent in June. Potential buyers who looked in the direction of the Finnish manufacturer when you select “handset” also diminished from 46 per cent to 34 per cent.

Blackberry PDA phones are also becoming less popular. For half a year, 7% of Britons do not want to buy them, while 14% of respondents are ready to purchase. Thanks to the release of several top brand HTC became more attractive guglfonov on foggy Albion-10% of respondents are going to use devices, a Taiwanese manufacturer.

The iPhone remains the clear leader. Cult device from Apple is 41% of Britons are responding to the inquiry. In December, wishing there were 32%.

Using iPhone for fuel economy

Although the exclusive applications and unique features of the iPhone has been said quite a bit, we have never seen something like this. What do you think can help to save the number of iPhone gasoline consumed by your car?

Annex DriveGain, just introduced in store AppStore, created to perform this function. DriveGain uses GPS sensor and accelerometer built into the iPhone in order to determine the details of your car: location, speed, acceleration, braking, etc.

The application using the retrieved data, displays what speed it is better to choose and how you can save on the consumption of gasoline. In addition, DriveGain also displays information about the estimated fuel cost. Application developers assure that their product will allow you to save up to $ 205 per year.

DriveGain iTunes Link (6.99$)

Searching for information on barcode product

SHAPE Services Company:- which became popular thanks to the creation of applications IM +, released a new design — Barcode Finder for iPad, as well as updated the application of the barcode Reader.

Both application allow for barcode to find detailed information about the product. Using data services eBay, Amazon and Google results, you can learn interesting facts about the desired product, as well as the lowest cost. The results can be saved into your mobile phone or send them via email.

Barcode Reader allows you to use the camera in your iPhone 3GS or iPhone 4 to search for information about the product. Simply take pictures of barcode and you get all the information available on this product. In turn, because the camera in the Tablet PC from Apple, users can simply enter the iPad for bar code numbers and application Finder will also present a Barcode with detailed information about the desired product.

Application of the barcode Reader and barcode font Finder is already available in AppStore.

Version for the iPhone

Barcodes Reader — iTunes Link ( Free)

IPad Print version

Barcode font Finder — iTunes Link (1.99$)