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Apple shuns marijuana finder
Good news, potentially, for tourists visiting our fair capital. Martijn Wuite and friends have developed an iPhone app called Coffeeshopr that will let you find the nearest place in Amsterdam they will...
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Dutch railways still has no iPhone app
Way back in October 2008, we wrote about the NS (Dutch railways) not being happy about IT student Dennis Stevense kicking their butts and producing a quality iPhone application called Trein’ (‘Train’)...
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iPhone app can help you quit smoking
Who said trying to quit smoking couldn’t be fun? On 1 March, Lianne Sleebos of the Delft University of Technology will be launching My Stop Buddy, an app to help people stop smoking. For a mere 2,99...
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Popular Dutch DJ has dedicated iPhone app
Dutch house DJ and producer Fedde Le Grand has his own iPhone application, iFedde, available in the app store. “Anything you can do at Fedde’s website, you can do with the app. You can upload and...
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Charge your iPhone with wind power using the iFan
Dutch designer Tjeerd Veenhoven has come with an ‘iFan’, a way for him to charge his iPhone while cycling, I guess, to work and back, and around town. Smartphone batteries don’t last long in a day,...
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iPhone app for dog pooh and bike carcasses
The iPhone app ‘Opgeruimd’ (‘Cleaned up’) being tested in Amsterdam West, where my personal experience says many users still don’t have smart phones as the population is kinda poor, lets people tell...
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Smart phone takes bullet, saves man’s life
The life of a man from Rotterdam was spared, as the iPhone in his left breast pocket took a wayward bullet, saving his life. Four more bullets were shot at the man, but missed. The police are still...
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iPhone app helps against snoring
Pulmonologist Rob Janssen of Nijmegen’s Canisius-Wilhelmina hospital has developed an iPhone app called Snore Trainer available for 2.39 euro that helps train people to stop snoring. Janssen explains...
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Guys from Utrecht hook Apple’s Game of the Year 2013
Two guys from Utrecht, Rami Ismail (25) and Jan Willem Nijman (23), created the game app for iPhone and iPad Ridiculous Fishing that has been chosen as Game of the Year 2013 by Apple. The game was...
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Apple looking to hire native Dutch speaker
Always wanted to make your mark in the IT world? If you’re a native Dutch speaker, you could become the voice of Siri, Apple’s speech-powered personal app. For people like me who don’t use iPhones and...
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Bosch your photos, there’s an app for that
Making the rounds since last fall and distributed by Dutch company No Strings, the Bosch camera app lets you add some Hieronymus Bosch characters to your pictures. I gave it a quick spin with my paper...
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Dutch master has mobile phone in it
Apple’s CEO Tim Cook has been working in Amsterdam this week, and he also decided to soak up some culture by visiting the Rijksmuseum with former European Commissioner Neelie Kroes. Cook’s eye fell on...
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Phone insurance company insults local hero
The Netherlands has a lot of water near roads, and cars regularly fall into the water, something that is a fact of life. In Barendrecht three weeks ago Raymond Heijboer jumped into the water to save a...
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The sound at the beginning of the film is of a tram in Amsterdam, although this short graduation film by Anthony van der Meer entitled ‘Fine My Phone’ had support from the institution he graduated...
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