National Geographic launches National Park guide app for iPhone | 0 Comments
By brian on 04-25-2012 03:27 PM
Just in time for all those summer travels, here’s an app that you’d better get on the way there – National Parks by National Geographic. The application is available for free on the App Store, but packs plenty of useful information. Along with it comes one free guide for a park of your choice, and additional guides will cost you from $0.99 to $1.99. Even without the guide, you get a set of basic features – Park info, camping and lodging information, maps, weather, stats, and a few photos. The guide brings much more details such as tips on what to do and see, park secrets, and plenty of additional photos.
The photographs are needless to say of great quality and annotated, and back in the main page of a park you get to see the weather conditions and stats that will tell you the number of visitors, size of the park and the local time.
But the most fascinating part of the application is the photo tips section. There, the photographer who snapped the picture shares all the details of how he shot, and exact GPS coordinates of the place.
The parks included in National Parks are Acadia, Arches, Bryce Canyon, Death Valley, Everglades, Glacier, Grand Canyon, Grand Teton, Great Smoky Mountains, Haleakala, Hawaii Volcanoes, Joshua Tree, Mount Rainier, Olympic, Rocky Mountain, Sequoia and Kings Canyon, Shenanadoah, Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Zion. Check out the free application at the link below and let us know how you like it.
Download National Parks by National Geographic on the App Store [iTunes link]
$3500 for the Windows 8 Tablet….really? | 0 Comments
By evp on 09-20-2011 07:48 PM
Today it was announced that you can an purchase the new Windows 8 Tablet for $3,500 on eBay (as of this afternoon). This is the only Windows 8 tablet in existence and the device was unveiled at Microsoft’s Build conference last week. 5,000 of the Tablets were given away to developers and for unknown reasons a few of those developers are now selling the devices on eBay.
You are probably wondering the same thing I was think, why so much? Most Tablets sell for $200-$300, $829 max for a iPad, but $3500 seems awful steep for a tablet. Peter Pachal from PC Mag writes “The tablet, officially called the Samsung Windows 8 Developer Preview PC, is unique among devices for being the only native Windows 8 tablet in existence. Windows 8, which is available now as a developer preview only (with no support), is the next major version of Windows, and it borrows heavily from the Windows Phone operating system, in particular the Metro-style interface that emphasizes touch-friendly tiles and full-screen apps. It’s tailor-made for tablets, though Microsoft claims Windows 8 works equally well with a keyboard and mouse.”
No word yet on if the eBay auction will continue or if Microsoft will pull the devices. Read More from PC Mag.
