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We’ve already talked a great deal about the various trials and tribulations that Twitter’s Vine app is facing, but the epic tale of adult content on an otherwise family friendly app continues! When it launched, Vine had a 12+ rating, meaning that a user had to be twelve or older in order to use it. And then porn starting showing up on the app, creating all kinds of headlines and bad publicity. As of today, Vine is now rated 17+, meaning that you have to all-but-an-adult in order to use it. I’m not sure if this is the right choice. Like Twitter, the Vine experience is as good or as poor (or as clean or as filthy) as you make it. I’ve yet to encounter anything pornographic while using the app. If you want to avoid adult content on Vine, it’s easy. If you’re worried that your child will seek out porn on the app, you’d better take away his internet altogether — it’s sooo much easier to find sexy pics on Google than on Vine.

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Look, I know you didn’t click on over to Tapsauce to be reminded of your own mortality, but let’s face the facts: you’re going to die (but not me since I’m immortal). There are many important things that are going to transpire after your demise, but there’s one big question that our ancestors certainly didn’t have to address when taking care of their deceased: what happens to your social media? Who owns your Facebook page? Who has the rights to the photos on your Flickr profile? What becomes of your digital life?

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There are a lot of note-taking apps. Heck, your iPhone comes equipped with one right out of the box. However, there’s one thing missing from the countless apps that let you jot down your thoughts: personality. Rocksauce Studios is proud to present Quiller, an app that’s not about taking notes: it’s about keeping a journal. Unlike most apps of this type (which usually just turn into a place to keep grocery and to-do lists), Quiller is all about having a place to store your thoughts and personal stories. Quiller uses the iPad to recreate the experience of actually keeping a journal, replicating the feeling of ownership by letting you customize the experience and shooting inspiration straight into your brain by providing you with “thought prompts” for any situation. With Quiller, journaling is not only easy, but writer’s block is a thing of the past.

And since it’s designed by Rocksauce Studios, you can be assured that it’s a thing of absolute beauty to look at.

You can download Quiller right here. Scroll on down for the full list of features and the official press release!

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Since its inception, Tapsauce has been home to the world’s greatest terrible-mobile-app-themed four panel comic strip, Appetite For Destruction. For over a year, our own John Gholson has written and drawn a new comic every other Friday, creating a library of hilariously awful (and occasionally amazing) mobile app concepts, from iTeeth to Scroogr to Catnapp. Now, we want your help to pick the best of the best.

We don’t want to give away our Top Secret SXSW Plans quite yet, but we can tell you that Appetite For Destruction is a part of it. All we need you to do is head over our Facebook page and like or comment on your favorite comments! 

We’ll have more Appetite For Destruction (and more on our Super Stealthy Awesome Cool SXSW plans) very soon!

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One of the unexpected side effects of the rise of smartphones has been the slow decline of consumer cameras. Sure, there will always be fancy DSLR cameras with all kinds of lenses for professional photographers, but what’s the point in investing in a camera for casual photography when your iPhone can get the job done just as well? However, there’s still one major concern for amateur photographers: what if you need to use your smartphone camera in a situation where it could take a fall? You can’t go around risking your personal device, after all.

Enter the G-Form G90 smartphone case!

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The App: Vine

The Device: iPhone 4

The Price: Free

The Basics: You may have already heard of Vine because it’s a mobile app from the folks behind Twitter. You also may have heard of Vine because it’s been all over the news since people started finding porn on it. Well, in my experience with Vine, I didn’t see any pornography but I sure saw a lot of Twitter. Vine may perform a completely different service than everyone’s favorite mircoblogger, but it shares much of the same DNA, all the way down to the use of hashtags to categorize your posts. But while Twitter gives 140 characters to share your thoughts, Vine gives you six seconds of video to with what you please. In short: it’s a GIF generator.

The Review: When Vine works, it does exactly what it claims it does. But that’s, uh, when it works.

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Today, Research in Motion (RIM) officially unveiled their new operating system, BlackBerry 10, which will be arriving on a new slate of BlackBerry smartphones very soon. Little was this was actual news to tech aficionados (this was a very leaky ship, information-wise), but one of the biggest surprises of the event remained unspoiled: the company has changed its name to reflect its device and OS. RIM is no more…long live BlackBerry!

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You should shield your children’s eyes and cover their ears, because I’m about to let you in on a terrible little secret: the internet is full of pornography.

Shocking, I know.

People accidentally (or not so accidentally) stumbling across graphic content on the internet has been a problem for as long as we’ve been connected to the web and it was bound to become a problem in the world of mobile apps. Apple’s tight leash on its store has led to a dearth of pornography-themed apps, but let’s face it: where is there media, there will always be porn.

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Yesterday, we told you about the rumors circulating that Apple was poised to release a 128 GB iPad. Today, it was confirmed. It will not only have the biggest hard drive of any tablet on the market, it will be the most expensive. The Wi-Fi only version will set you back $799 and the Wi-Fi + LTE model will cost $929. We all knew it wasn’t going to be cheap, but there’s something almost shocking about those prices. Here’s Apple honcho Phillip Schiller: “With twice the storage capacity and an unparalleled selection of over 300,000 native iPad apps, enterprises, educators and artists have even more reasons to use iPad for all their business and personal needs.” It’ll be available on February 5th.

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If the rumor mill has any truth to it, 2013 is going to be an uncharacteristically weird year for Apple. We’ve heard the reports of  several new iPhones hitting shelves, but a new bit of gossip suggests that the Company That Steve Built also plans to expand the iPad line in a new direction in the coming eleven months. Is this the company staying ahead of the competition or playing a reactionary game in a field they’ve always led? We shall see.

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