Windows App Store? I Swear I’ve Seen This Before…( Images )

With a tide rapidly shifting towards mobile and tablet devices, it should be no surprise that work is well already underway on Windows 8. An early build circulating apparently hints at a more unified OS to combat what Apple is doing with OS X/iOS and what HP is doing with Palm webOS. And some screenshots are starting to leak out. And a few appear to include, what else, an app store.

WinRumors posted the shots this morning while noting that they’re unverified. But actually, the shots in English were previously out there, what’s new are the ones in Chinese that Cnbeta found that seem to verify the design. And what a design it is — I swear this looks familiar…

Last year, we ripped Google for ripping off the design of Apple’s App Store for their Chrome Web Store. This actually might be worse. It looks almost as if Microsoft is ripping off Google ripping off Apple. Again, allegedly — the shots aren’t confirmed.

Let’s hope Microsoft isn’t actually doing such a lame copy job with their actual store. Rushing to release a store baked into the OS months after a competitor is bad enough. At least nail the design or bring something new to the table.

Stop me when these look familiar.

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Booyah Nightclub City DJ Rivals lands on Android

If you are a big fan of music and rhythm games, a new offering has landed on Android that has a RPG element to it as well. The game is called Booyah Nightclub City DJ Rivals. The game has been on the iPhone previously and this is the first time it has landed on Android.

The coolest thing about the game is that it allows players on the iPhone and Android devices to play against each other. The game uses GPS tech to use your location and the multiplayer mode is expansive. The location-based play lets you become the DJ at real stores and restaurants in your area to earn money in the game.

The game is a free download on the Android Market and on the App Store right now. “Following the success of MyTown on iOS and Nightclub City on Facebook, we are very excited about our first game on Android,” said Brian Cho, director of business development, Booyah. “Mobile is the new frontier for gaming and we see a tremendous opportunity for DJ Rivals on the rapidly growing Android platform.”

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New game app for iPhone Like You’re An Bartender [Download]

Tap Tap Bar is a new set of applications for iPhone, iPod touch and IPAD available for download on the iTunes App Store for free. If you ever wanted to be a waiter or ever wanted to serve a drink to someone special and not sure how I would! Tap Tap Bar is the right application for you.

Quick! Deliver drinks to the customers before time runs out!

Tap Tap Bar is a simple game to play on your iOS devices, as it name says, you just have to tap on different drinks to serve it to different customers.

Tap Tap bar is a brand new casual game that is highly recommended to all fans of fast paced puzzle games. This game is SIMPLE and FUN. You play a bartender as you race the clock to deliver drinks and collect tips.

Game Actions:

•  Serve customers with different drink combinations
•  Earn gold to unlock additional character and items
•  Tap to select/unselect drinks (up to 5 drinks)
• Tap on the customer to deliver the drinks you selected
• “Shake” to refresh your cocktail inventory
• Collect tips or special item from your customers
• Unlock features with the gold you earned

You can download Tap Tap Bar from the App Store for free.

Download Tap Tap Bar Game App for iPhone, iPod Touch & iPad [iTunes link]

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Download SoundHound Infinity free from the Amazon AppStore

Today, Amazon is giving away SoundHoud Infinity as its free premium app of the day download in the Amazon AppStore. The app usually sells for $4.99, but today, it can be yours free.

SoundHound Infinity is one of those music discovery apps, just like Shazam. There have been countless situations where I heard a song that I really liked and didn’t know who the artist was. Instead of just enjoying the sound and never knowing who the artists was, you can now use SoundHound.

In order to identify a song, simply let SoundHound Infinity hear a sample of the song, and in as little as 4 seconds, the name of the song and artist is returned to you.

What’s really sets SoundHound Infinity apart fro its competitors is that it also discovers music that you sing, whistle, and hum to it. This is a nice feature to have because sometimes when you want to remember the name of the song, you won’t have it blasting in the background.

Head on over the Amazon AppStore and download SoundHound Infinity free!

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Everyday: An App To Turn Your Face Into A Poignant Work Of Art

Remember that video “Noah takes a photo of himself every day for 6 years.“? You should — it has nearly 19 million views on YouTube. In it, you watch as photographer Noah Kalina’s face evolves over a yes, six year span. It’s a fascinating and oddly beautiful work of art. And now you can easily do it yourself.

Kalina has helped in the production of a new iPhone app called Everyday. Alongside Adam Lisagor (who you might know from his videos on the web as well — like this one and this one) and developers William Wilkinson and Oliver White, the team has created an app that allows you to take a picture of your face every single day.

Okay, big deal, right? But the genius is in the execution and the end result.

When you first load up Everyday, you’re asked to take a picture of your face. Once you do this, you’re asked to align a grid to where you nose, mouth, and eyes are. This means that for each picture you take, your face can be in the same position — a key ingredient in the original Kalina video. And there’s also an overlay photo mask of your original face picture (which can be switched on and off) to help you align your face. And the real key may be the alert system which allows you to set a time each day to get a Push Notification to take the picture of yourself, so you don’t forget.

Once you’ve compiled multiple pictures of your face, you can create your video with one click (including setting the video speed). And once you do that, you can save it to your camera roll, or send it to Facebook, Flickr, Tumblr, or Twitter for the world to see your mildly creepy transformation. It’s so simple and so awesome.

The idea for the app actually didn’t start with Kalina, instead it was Wilkinson who realized last July that the then-new iPhone 4 with the front-facing camera would be perfect for something like this. He mocked up the app he envisioned and showed it to Lisagor, who had coincidentally struck up a friendship with Kalina. The app quickly grew from there.


Naturally, Lisagor has made one of his trademark videos to celebrate the launch of the app. Find that below, and find Everyday in the App Store here — it’s $1.99.

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