News
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Paperwork Hinders Airlifts of Ill Haitian Children9 February 2010, 8:13 am
Doctors and aid workers are wrestling with proving that they are not illegally transporting children, whose risk of dying is rising while the paperwork awaits.
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Iran Is Said to Begin Nuclear Enrichment9 February 2010, 8:10 am
Brushing aside international threats of stricter sanctions, Iran reportedly began enriching its uranium on Tuesday.
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On Health Bill, G.O.P.’s Road Is a New Map9 February 2010, 7:55 am
Republicans this month will bring President Obama a set of ideas and a more modest health care plan.
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As Data Flows In, the Dollars Flow Out9 February 2010, 7:54 am
The average American is expected to spend nearly $1,000 this year on services like cable, Internet and video games.
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Survey Raises Questions on Data-Driven Policy9 February 2010, 7:49 am
Results of a crime data survey have made critics and admirers of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg wonder about the reliability of data underpinning policy decisions on the budget, education and other issues.
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News Analysis: For Kremlin, an Election in Ukraine Cuts Two Ways9 February 2010, 7:48 am
Russia’s preferred candidate is the apparent winner, but the starkly contested presidential race contrasts sharply with Russia’s recent history.
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U.N. Climate Panel and Chief Face Credibility Siege9 February 2010, 7:46 am
Rajendra K. Pachauri and the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change face accusations of scientific sloppiness and potential financial conflicts of interest.
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McCain, Facing G.O.P. Foe in Primary, Tilts to the Right9 February 2010, 7:43 am
Challenged by J. D. Hayworth from the airwaves, and soon in a primary, John McCain has moved starkly, and often awkwardly, to the right.
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Toyota Details Recall of 2010 Prius for Brake Problems9 February 2010, 7:30 am
The worldwide recall will affect about 436,000 units of the 2010 Prius and other hybrid models, according to the company’s filing.
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Japanese Split on Exposing Secret Pacts With U.S.9 February 2010, 7:06 am
Agreements on U.S. bases and allowing nuclear-armed ships in Japanese ports date from the 1960s and 1970s.
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Toyota recalls more than 400,000 hybrid cars9 February 2010, 7:46 am
Toyota's president apologized Tuesday as he announced the global recall of more than 400,000 of the automaker's 2010 hybrid models, including the Prius.
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Father: Murray 'a fall guy' in MJ's death9 February 2010, 7:45 am
Michael Jackson's father suspects his son was murdered and that Dr. Conrad Murray is "just a fall guy" in a conspiracy.
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Jenny Sanford calls memoir 'cathartic'9 February 2010, 6:05 am
South Carolina's first lady, Jenny Sanford, said Monday that writing her much-anticipated memoir of her husband's affair was a "cathartic" and "cleansing" experience.
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3 shot during New Orleans celebration9 February 2010, 4:12 am
Three people were shot amid celebrations surrounding the New Orleans Saints' Super Bowl win, police said Monday.
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Police: Iraq vet abused daughter9 February 2010, 4:03 am
An Iraq war veteran has been charged with assault on suspicion of abusing his daughter, whose head he allegedly held in water to get her to recite the ABCs, according to police in Yelm, Washington.
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1,000 get mumps in N.Y. and N.J.9 February 2010, 3:00 am
More than 1,000 people in New Jersey and New York, many of them adolescent Orthodox Jews, have been sickened with mumps since August, health authorities said Monday.
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Up to 20 more inches of snow for D.C.9 February 2010, 2:15 am
A second round of snow is heading toward Washington, D.C., and surrounding cities, where residents are still digging out after a record-setting blizzard.
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Murtha dies after surgery complications9 February 2010, 1:21 am
Rep. John Murtha died as a result of recent gallbladder surgery complications that arose from doctors accidentally nicking Murtha's intestines, a source told CNN.
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Elizabeth Smart kidnapper pleads guilty8 February 2010, 9:44 pm
A woman convicted in the 2002 kidnapping of Utah teenager Elizabeth Smart pleaded guilty in the attempted kidnapping of Smart's cousin a month later, court officials said Monday.
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Ripples of Dubai killing spread8 February 2010, 9:18 pm
A man was murdered in his Dubai hotel room by a hit squad that operated with European passports, police say. Sounds like the plot of a novel, but this is reality and the hunt is on for the killers of top Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh.
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Top-ranked Kansas survives major test at Texas9 February 2010, 8:10 am
Marcus Morris scored 18 points to lead No. 1 Kansas to an 80-68 victory over No. 14 Texas on Monday night and the Jayhawks easily handled an opponent that a few weeks ago was supposed to challenge them for the Big 12 title.
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Toyota recalling Prius, other models, worldwide9 February 2010, 7:28 am
Toyota announced that it is recalling about 400,000 of its signature Prius green cars and other hybrids worldwide for braking problems.
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Michael Jackson’s doctor freed on bail9 February 2010, 3:04 am
The doctor who prosecutors say caused Michael Jackson’s death has been released from jail after posting $75,000 in bail, only a few hours after surrendering to authorities.
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Astronauts giving shuttle a post-launch scan9 February 2010, 2:22 am
Astronauts aboard the space shuttle Endeavour will scan their spacecraft overnight to search for any signs of heat shield damage from their early Monday launch.
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Scoop: Ellen, Simon ‘have locked horns’ on ‘Idol’9 February 2010, 2:21 am
Ellen DeGeneres and Simon Cowell reportedly got off on the wrong foot on their first day together behind the judges' table, and their relationship has not improved over time.
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Magnitude 5.7 quake rattles southern Mexico9 February 2010, 2:20 am
A magnitude 5.7-earthquake shook southern Mexico near the Oaxaca coast Monday, setting off evacuation alarms and swaying buildings as far away as Mexico City.
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Seats at premium on planes, trains out of D.C.9 February 2010, 1:17 am
Forecasters predict more snow for the Mid-Atlantic, starting Tuesday afternoon and continuing into Wednesday as airlines warn travelers more flights would be canceled.
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Hoarse Who Dat Nation savors Saints’ victory9 February 2010, 12:40 am
People lined up by the hundreds to buy Monday’s Times-Picayune, which hollered “AMEN!” from its front page. The Saints’ Super Bowl victory was a prayer answered in this struggling city, and New Orleans itself seemed different for it.
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Doritos’ ‘House Rules’ ad is tops with users9 February 2010, 12:39 am
For a second straight year Doritos let the public create its Super Bowl ads. And evidently the public knows what the public wants.
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Early Priuses may have braking issues8 February 2010, 11:59 pm
How far back do potential braking problems with the Toyota Prius go? The answer may be much further than believed, and could involve vehicles dating back to the 2005 model-year.
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9 February 2010, 8:13 am
Toyota Motor Corp President Akio Toyoda attends a news conference in Tokyo February 9, 2010. Toyoda wrote in an article published on Tuesday that he has promised the top U.S. transportation official the troubled automaker will be more vigilant in the future......
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9 February 2010, 8:05 am
Toyota Motor Corp President Akio Toyoda attends a news conference in Tokyo February 9, 2010. Toyoda wrote in an article published on Tuesday that he has promised the top U.S. transportation official the troubled automaker will be more vigilant in the future......
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9 February 2010, 8:01 am
Toyota Motor Corp President Akio Toyoda attends a news conference in Tokyo February 9, 2010. Toyoda wrote in an article published on Tuesday that he has promised the top U.S. transportation official the troubled automaker will be more vigilant in the future......
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9 February 2010, 7:59 am
Toyota Motor Corp President Akio Toyoda attends a news conference in Tokyo February 9, 2010. Toyoda wrote in an article published on Tuesday that he has promised the top U.S. transportation official the troubled automaker will be more vigilant in the future......
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9 February 2010, 7:56 am
Toyota Motor Corp President Akio Toyoda speaks during a news conference in Tokyo February 9, 2010. Toyoda wrote in an article published on Tuesday that he has promised the top U.S. transportation official the troubled automaker will be more vigilant in the......
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9 February 2010, 7:55 am
Toyota Motor Corp President Akio Toyoda attends a news conference in Tokyo February 9, 2010. Toyoda wrote in an article published on Tuesday that he has promised the top U.S. transportation official the troubled automaker will be more vigilant in the future......
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9 February 2010, 7:51 am
Toyota Motor Corp President Akio Toyoda attends a news conference in Tokyo February 9, 2010. Toyoda wrote in an article published on Tuesday that he has promised the top U.S. transportation official the troubled automaker will be more vigilant in the future......
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9 February 2010, 7:49 am
Toyota Motor Corp President Akio Toyoda speaks during a news conference in Tokyo February 9, 2010. Toyoda wrote in an article published on Tuesday that he has promised the top U.S. transportation official the troubled automaker will be more vigilant in the......
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9 February 2010, 7:47 am
Toyota Motor Corp President Akio Toyoda bows during a news conference in Tokyo February 9, 2010. Toyoda wrote in an article published on Tuesday that he has promised the top U.S. transportation official the troubled automaker will be more vigilant in the......
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9 February 2010, 7:43 am
Toyota Motor Corp President Akio Toyoda attends a news conference in Tokyo February 9, 2010. Toyoda wrote in an article published on Tuesday that he has promised the top U.S. transportation official the troubled automaker will be more vigilant in the future......
Gadgets
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Helium Digital HDBT-990 Bluetooth wristband gets reviewed, given 3.5 Jack Bauers9 February 2010, 9:24 am
Looking to get a Bluetooth earpiece without actually upping your tool factor by 40x or so? Good luck. Helium Digital's so-called alternative (that'd be the HDBT-990 Bluetooth wristband) was recently reviewed by our iPhone-lovin' pals in the Great White North, and while they found it to work well when it came to handling calls without actually using the speaker and microphone within the iPhone 3GS, everything else about it was ho hum at best. There's no inbuilt LCD for watching Caller ID streams...
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Nintendo's Miyamoto casually references new hardware, MotionPlus games9 February 2010, 8:37 am
Do you think non-disclosure agreements apply if you're one of the guys who built the company you represent? Probably not, as evidenced by Shigeru Miyamoto, who recently took the opportunity -- while receiving an award, no less -- to blab about forthcoming hardware and games based around the MotionPlus peripheral. There wasn't much content to his mentions, beyond us now knowing that he's actively engaged in the design of multiple games outside of the next Zelda iteration, but this is the firme...
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Panasonic TH-P54VT2 takes plasma HDTVs into 3D territory9 February 2010, 7:53 am
Finally making the transition from the trade show floor to retail shelving are Panasonic's famed Viera 3D plasma HDTVs. The company has just announced it will be launching two 1080p panels on April 23 in Japan, priced at ¥530,000 ($5,932) for the 54-inch P54VT2 and ¥430,000 ($4,813) for its smaller sibling, the P50VT2 (pictured after the break). For your money, you'll be getting those deep, deep blacks that ensure a ridiculous 5,000,000:1 native contrast ratio, a plethora of inputs high...
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Google starts live phone support for Nexus One owners9 February 2010, 7:14 am
Google readily admits that its Nexus One customer support at launch was lacking. However, the Goog says that it's committed to improving the experience as it blazes a path into the world of consumer handset sales. Today, more than a month since the launch of the Nexus One, Google is offering owners access to a real live person via 888-48NEXUS (63987). The new support line is operational from 07:00am to 10:00pm PST and augments Google's support forums, FAQs and email support. Unfortunately, Goog...
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Notion Ink to have competition to encourage development for Adam reader, might release two versions9 February 2010, 6:51 am
Back at CES, we were pretty excited to get our hands on Notion Ink's far out, Pixel Qi display-boasting reader, Adam. Well, Notion Ink is on the move, and encouraging development for the Tegra-powered little devil is apparently a top priority. The company has unveiled plans to hold an App Competition with one million dollars in prize money for the development of Adam-compatible software. There are no final details about the contest yet, but we think we'll probably be hearing more about it next...
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PrePeat rewritable printer lets you undo print jobs, no ink or toner used9 February 2010, 5:37 am
Inkless / tonerless printers aren't exactly new, but here's a more novel approach: inkless, tonerless, and completely reusable. The PrePeat rewritable printer is exactly that: using special paper made of PET plastic, you can make all the flowcharts and meeting notes you need, and when you want to start fresh, feed the paper back in to start fresh. Upfront cost is 500,000 yen (about $5,600 in US) for the printer and 300 yen for each sheet, in lots of 1,000 -- which we're taking to mean at least a...
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HTC Dragon and friends turn up on Dopod roadmap9 February 2010, 3:37 am
The HTC Dragon may not be quite the same mythical beast it once was now that the Nexus One has stolen some of its thunder, but it is still an actual device and, according to a recently leaked Dopod roadmap, it's headed for China in the second quarter of this year. Details are otherwise a bit light, but it is apparently an Android device (as expected) and packs a 3.6-inch WVGA display. Joining it over the course of the year are the 3.4-inch, Android-based A6388, the 4.3-inch Huashan (apparently ...
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Nokia Nuron spotted again, connection to 5230 cemented?9 February 2010, 2:42 am
Dear Nokia fan clinging on to all hope that the 5230 and Nuron were two separate entities, whereby you'd have even more Espoo devices to look forward to: you're wrong. TmoNews has picked up what's purported to be another internal T-Mobile documentation for the 5230 Nuron. Like the previously-rumored leak, it's said to be going on sale on March 17 with a 3.2-inch touchscreen, on-screen keyboard, and Ovi Store. Oh, and just in case you weren't sure if you fit the target audience, see if you quali...
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Current MacBook Pro SKU given mark of death in Best Buy database?9 February 2010, 2:02 am
We'll admit to not being leading the field of study in Best Buy-ology, but here comes a new quiz for us care of a tipster who sent TUAW a screenshot of the inventory screen that shows what looks to be the current MacBook Pro SKU with status: deleted. What that means is no new orders can be made for that unit, at least for that particular store. Sign of impending MBP refresh? Intel certainly had us riled up last month with that Core i5-infused flier, but we won't get fooled again. Don't hold you...
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JXD V3 handheld is confused, confusing and altogether interesting9 February 2010, 1:04 am
We won't front -- there's little chance we'd actually use JXD's V3 handheld, but it's not for lack of interest. This here PMP / game player hybrid isn't apt to leave the shores of Asia, but for those in that neck of the woods, this unit offers up emulators for a slew of game consoles, a 4.3-inch display, a 5 megapixel camera and plenty of file format support to handle your favorite music and video. Reportedly, the device even features an FM radio tuner, and in case you're curious as to why there...
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Software Bug Causes Toyota Recall of Almost Half a Million New Hybrid Cars [Cars]9 February 2010, 8:16 am
Toyota just announced a recall of its 2010 hybrid cars. Four hundred thousand worth. The reason? A change in "brake feeling" caused by faulty antilock braking software. There is no fix for cars on the road yet.
This problem, unrelated to the sticky gas pedal issue that other drivers complained about. But I'm still wondering what exactly is bothering our Prius-loving friend Woz, who claims he has a faulty cruise control issue that is software related, not mechanical.
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Some Good News, and Some Bad News, About Adobe Flash 10.1 [Flash]9 February 2010, 8:00 am
The good news first: Adobe's promising Flash 10.1 is going to hit smartphones—Android, WebOS, Windows Mobile—and desktops in the "first half" of this year, a slightly less squishy date. And it'll come over the air. The bad part?
Well it's bad for Android, anyway: You're gonna need Android 2.1. At least. Because it provides some access Adobe needs to make the Flash magic happen. So, sorry everything but the Droid and Nexus One, at least for the moment. The "over the air" thing is als...
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Publishers Tell Google and Their Ebook Plans to Get Bent [Rumor]9 February 2010, 7:13 am
The vision of ebooks Google has presented to publishers: allowing people to print copies, cut and paste portions, and paying publishers 63 percent of the revenue. The vision the publishers presented in return: Go eff yourself.
That's right, Google's finally getting around to opening an ebook store too—called Google Editions, and it's been in the works for a while—the idea being that people will be able to read the books on any internet-connected device.
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Parisian Oops: A More Realistic Google Ad [Google]9 February 2010, 4:00 am
Sure, Google's Superbowl ad was cute and left us giggling, but how would a French romance powered by Google really go? [UCB—Thanks, Mackenzie!]
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An HD Video Tour of the International Space Station [Space]9 February 2010, 3:20 am
If you're a huge space buff, you might not be surprised by anything in this video tour of the International Space Station. But it's still great to just get a simple walkthrough of this incredible project and all its corners.Anyone else get a bit bit light-headed watching all those twists and turns? [CrunchGear]
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Apple Job Posting Suggests Cameras in Future iPads [Rumors]9 February 2010, 3:05 am
Apple's hiring again and this time they're looking for "Performance QA Engineers" in their "iPad Media" department. Based on the description for the job, we might be seeing an increase in iPad camera rumors:
The Media Systems team is looking for a software quality engineer with a strong technical background to test still, video and audio capture and playback frameworks. Build on your QA experience and knowledge of digital camera technology (still and video) to develop and maintain testing framew...
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It May Be Creepy, But This Case's Ad Is Popcorn-Worthy [Wtf]9 February 2010, 2:40 am
I hate spiders, I hate horror movies, and I hate gimmicky computer cases. But I love the commercial for the Lian Li Mini-atx case. Maybe it's just because it reminded me of Steve Irwin.There aren't details on availability and pricing for this case, but who cares when the promo video alone is fun. [CrunchGear]
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Prepaid Cellphone Users Less Likely to Return Calls [Data]9 February 2010, 2:00 am
Some folks decided to study the calling habits of 5.3 million people over an 18-month period. 350 million phone calls later, they came to an almost obvious conclusion: Prepaid cellphone users make and return fewer calls than their postpaid counterparts.You can click on the image to take a closer look at the graphs.
Initially the study done at the Aalto University School of Science and Technology, Finland, was intended to analyze reciprocity—the likelihood of an individual receiving as many...
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Best Buy's MacBook Pro SKUs Go Missing, Might Mean Core i5 Refresh Soon [Rumor]9 February 2010, 1:46 am
The upcoming i5 MacBook Pro refresh might be closer than we thought, with TUAW discovering that Best Buy emptied their systems of the current version. Since they're not likely to go MacBook-less for long, that points to soon. [TUAW]
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The Scale That Thinks It's a Rug [Concepts]9 February 2010, 1:20 am
This concept scale that doubles as a decorative rug might—might—be the thing to finally get me taking better care of myself.
Designer Kwan Sunman's Rug With Scale project does away with the cold, judgmental form factors of your average bathroom scale, ensconcing it instead in a warm and inviting rug. The readout from the scale shows up on a small red tag that illuminates its user's current weight, previous weight, and goal weight to help chart progress.
The rug portion is also remova...
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feature: The lost souls of telecommunications history9 February 2010, 5:30 am
When Tim Berners-Lee arrived at CERN, Geneva's celebrated European Particle Physics Laboratory in 1980, he'd been hired to help replace the control systems for several of the lab's particle accelerators. Almost immediately, the inventor of the modern Web page noticed a problem: thousands of people were coming and going from the famous research institute, many of them temporary hires. "The big challenge for contract programmers was to try to understand the systems, both h...
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Wireless carriers want crackdown on cell phone boosters9 February 2010, 3:43 am
"This is 'Magic' and this is 'Jack'," the little girl says in the video ad, holding her two cute puppy dogs up to the camera. The girl's father, magicJack inventor Dan Borislow, then asks her, "Kylie, did you know that your dad is going to let everybody try a magicJack in the whole country for free?"
Free for 30 days, that is. magicJack is a popular service comparable to VoIP, except that after you hook its app into a USB port on your broadband connected computer, you plug t...
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Survey tries quantifying iPad hype, suggests interest waning9 February 2010, 2:40 am
"iPad hoopla" has passed, according to a survey by electronics shopping site Retrevo, and consumers have lost interest after the product's unveiling less than two weeks ago. More than twice as many respondents said they were uninterested after the iPad was announced compared to a week prior. Of course, there are lies, damned lies, and statistics—three times as many said they were confident they would buy one after finding out the product's details.
Retrevo did similar surve...
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Biofuel expansion would send cattle into the rain forest9 February 2010, 1:27 am
Biofuel production in the US has met with fairly mixed success, as the cost and fossil fuel use of corn-based ethanol has severely cut into the benefits provided by avoiding the use of fossil fuels. It's been a somewhat different story in Brazil, which has embraced ethanol derived from sugarcane and seen more promising results. The government has set aggressive targets for both ethanol and biodiesel production, but a study that will be published in the Proceedings of the Na...
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Mozilla dropping 10.4 support with next Firefox release9 February 2010, 12:11 am
The next major release of Firefox will not be compatible with Macs running Mac OS X 10.4, also known as Tiger. This comes from a mozilla.dev.planing discussion on Google Groups started by Josh Aas, a Mozilla-employed developer working on the project. The change will go into effect later this year when the browser's Gecko rendering engine makes the jump from 1.9.2 to 1.9.3.
The Mozilla Foundation estimates that there are currently about 1.4 million Tiger users using Firefox 3.5 every day a...
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Microsoft: your battery is the problem, not Windows 78 February 2010, 11:29 pm
Last week, Microsoft said it was investigating issues in Windows 7 that affect batteries on certain notebooks after hundreds of users reported they thought the OS was to blame. Steven Sinofsky, president of the Windows and Windows Live Division, has posted a lengthy response on the Engineering Windows 7 blog. "At this time we have no reason to believe there is any issue related to Windows 7 in this context," Sinofsky writes. Here's his explanation:
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Dante's Inferno interview: of marketing and Gods of War8 February 2010, 10:55 pm
Dante's Inferno has weathered its share of criticism for its aggressive marketing campaign, as well as its topical resemblance to the God of War titles. To be fair, much of that criticism came from us. Jonathan Knight, the game's executive producer, was kind enough to talk to Ars about the game before its release. We picked his brain on the marketing campaign, dealing with a property with as much history as Dante's Inferno, and why gaming can be a transitory art form.
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AMD reveals Fusion CPU+GPU, to challege Intel in laptops8 February 2010, 9:28 pm
SAN FRANCISCO—The "Llano" processor that AMD described today in an ISSCC session is not a CPU, and it's not a GPU—instead, it's a hybrid design that the chipmaker is calling an "application processor unit," or APU. Whatever you call it, it could well give Intel a run for its money in the laptop market, by combining a full DX11-compatible GPU with four out-of-order CPU cores on a single, 32nm processor die.
Details on the highly parallel vector hardware—t...
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All that user-generated content? 95% is malware, spam8 February 2010, 7:52 pm
The latest research from Websense Security Labs paints a dreary but familiar picture of the state of online security threats. Echoing the bad news of other such recent reports, it seems the vast majority of the Web consists of malware and spam. Worse yet, even legitimate, well-known sites are being used to pump malware, SEO poisoning, or phishing attacks.
Websense uses a global network of systems to scan and analyze over 40 billion websites every hour, tracking malware and o...
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Amazon puts out one e-book pricing fire as others flare up8 February 2010, 7:08 pm
Just as it looked like Amazon was about to achieve an iTunes-style lock on the e-book marketplace, the impending arrival of Apple's iPad seems to have emboldened book publishers. After a pricing dispute caused all Macmillan titles to disappear off Amazon's virtual shelves, other publishers joined the pricing revolt, demanding greater flexibility in setting prices on their wares. According to the Wall Street Journal, Amazon has apparently settled the first of these disputes by capitulati...
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28 January 2010, 1:20 am
The Apple "iPad", a new tablet computing device, is shown in this publicity photo from Apple released to Reuters January 27, 2010. Apple Inc CEO Steve Jobs took the wraps off a sleek tablet that it called the iPad, pitching the new gadget at a surprisingly......
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28 January 2010, 1:19 am
The Apple "iPad", a new tablet computing device, is shown in this publicity photo from Apple released to Reuters January 27, 2010. Apple Inc CEO Steve Jobs took the wraps off a sleek tablet that it called the iPad, pitching the new gadget at a surprisingly......
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10 January 2010, 12:44 am
LAS VEGAS - JANUARY 09: Television personality Dr. Gadget, also known as Dave Dettman, tees off at the 11th Annual National Center for Missing & Exploited Children Celebrity Golf Tournament sponsored by Canon U.S.A. at the TPC Las Vegas golf course on January......
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10 January 2010, 12:44 am
LAS VEGAS - JANUARY 09: Television personality Dr. Gadget, also known as Dave Dettman, clowns around with his club covers at the 11th Annual National Center for Missing & Exploited Children Celebrity Golf Tournament sponsored by Canon U.S.A. at the TPC......
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10 January 2010, 12:43 am
LAS VEGAS - JANUARY 09: Television personality Dr. Gadget, also known as Dave Dettman, checks the distance on the 12th hole at the 11th Annual National Center for Missing & Exploited Children Celebrity Golf Tournament sponsored by Canon U.S.A. at the TPC......
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8 January 2010, 10:18 pm
LAS VEGAS - JANUARY 08: CES attendees fill the halls during the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show at the Las Vegas Convention Center January 8, 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada. CES, the world's largest annual consumer technology tradeshow, runs through......
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8 January 2010, 10:18 pm
LAS VEGAS - JANUARY 08: The Regen ReNu solar iPhone and iPod charging dock is displayed in the Regen booth during the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show at the Las Vegas Convention Center January 8, 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada. CES, the world's largest......
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8 January 2010, 10:18 pm
LAS VEGAS - JANUARY 08: The Powertech Slim USB charger is displayed during the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show at the Las Vegas Convention Center January 8, 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada. CES, the world's largest annual consumer technology tradeshow,......
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8 January 2010, 10:18 pm
LAS VEGAS - JANUARY 08: The Powertech Slim USB charger is displayed during the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show at the Las Vegas Convention Center January 8, 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada. CES, the world's largest annual consumer technology tradeshow,......
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8 January 2010, 9:04 pm
LAS VEGAS - JANUARY 08: HTC CEO Peter Chou holds up the new HTC Smart Phone as he speaks during a keynote address by Qualcomm Chairman and CEO Paul E. Jacobs during the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show at the Las Vegas Hilton January 8, 2010......
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Android Ecosystem — This Week in Android9 February 2010, 1:50 am
This week I tested the 3G signal on my Nexus One in three different time zones. The results weren't great, nor were those of the poll asking readers about their 3G signal. And while folks keep suggesting great Android Twitter clients, my fave got an upgrade....
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Nexus One Double Capacity Battery from Seidio9 February 2010, 12:15 am
The smartphone of today hits the battery pretty hard, and some phone owners get second batteries to make sure they can get through a full day of use. Seidio has a double capacity battery for the Nexus One coming soon to help with the problem....
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George Costanza Needs Target’s New Mobile GiftCards8 February 2010, 10:45 pm
If your wallet is about to explode like George Costanza's did, take any Target Gift Cards out of it. Target now offers Mobile GiftCards with a scannable barcode right on your phone to pay for purchases....
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5 Must-have Apps for Palm Phones8 February 2010, 9:15 pm
Spending time with the new Palm phones have given me a renewed appreciation of webOS, and the way the phones multitask so well. The phones multitask very well, making it desirable to have good apps installed. Here are my 5 must-have apps for Palm phones....
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Nook Arrives in Stores This Week, Firmware Update Hits Now8 February 2010, 7:45 pm
Barnes & Noble ramps up production of the Nook e-Book reader so you can walk into their store to try and buy, starting this week. A firmware update also just hit and here's a video showing you what to expect in version 1.2 for the Nook....
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Why it Matters That Broadcom’s Newest Chip Boosts Mobile Uploads8 February 2010, 6:15 pm
With more people using smartphones to record video and create other shareable content, mobile upload speeds are gaining prominence. Broadcom's newest processor with support for 5.8 Mbps uploads helps do just that and more. The question is -- will handset makers choose to use it?...
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HTC’s Incredible Evolution of Nexus One for Verizon8 February 2010, 5:00 pm
We all know that Google's Nexus One isn't hitting Verizon Wireless until this spring. Wouldn't it be incredible if a comparable Android handset with Sense UI offered Verizon customers another option? Check out the pics of the HTC Incredible and see for yourself....
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Palm Mobile Hotspot Revisited8 February 2010, 4:00 pm
The Palm Mobile Hotspot feature can be a boon to the mobile worker if connection speeds are good. While my initial testing showed slow speeds, further testing has determined the cause is not the Palm technology. Read the post and help me with a fix....
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Tablet Thoughts: Why iPad Will Succeed7 February 2010, 3:39 pm
I didn't take a tablet on my recent business trip, and found myself continually wishing I had one with me. Tablets make it easier (and more fun) to jump online and get things done. I believe the iPad is going to be a big success....
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Google Nexus One 3G Issues Still Lurking7 February 2010, 12:45 am
Thanks to some travel woes, I got a chance to test the Nexus One 3G signal in three different time zones over three days. Each location was smack-dab in the middle of solid T-Mobile 3G coverage. Did that firmware update really fix the problem?...
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Electronic Arts shares dive on weak outlook9 February 2010, 4:43 am
A disappointing outlook from Electronic Arts Inc. sent shares of the video game publisher sharply lower Monday, a sign that significant cost-cuts and layoffs have not ended the company's slump....
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Astronauts giving shuttle a post-launch scan9 February 2010, 2:22 am
Astronauts aboard the space shuttle Endeavour will scan their spacecraft overnight to search for any signs of heat shield damage from their early Monday launch....
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Different colors describe happiness, depression9 February 2010, 1:17 am
Are you in a gray mood today? How about a blue funk? Maybe you're seeing red, because you're green with jealousy. The colors we use to describe emotions may be more useful than you think, according to new research....
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MySpace Music experiments with audio ads9 February 2010, 12:14 am
Hoping to boost revenue, MySpace Music has begun experimenting with audio advertisements that users must hear before listening to music for free online....
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Cosmic Log: Tour space, inside and out9 February 2010, 12:04 am
Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: The night launch of a space shuttle is a wonderful sight, and one we may never see again. But the view gets even better when you get to space ... virtually....
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Security expert cracks PC encryption chip8 February 2010, 9:25 pm
Deep inside millions of computers is a digital Fort Knox, a special chip with the locks to highly guarded secrets, including classified government reports and confidential business plans. Now a former U.S. Army computer-security specialist has devised a way to break those locks....
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Chinese-born spy gets 15 years in prison8 February 2010, 9:00 pm
A Chinese-born engineer convicted of espionage and other federal charges in California is sentenced to more than 15 years in prison....
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Microsoft: Pirated software still sold in Russia8 February 2010, 8:36 pm
One-quarter of Russian software outlets sell bootleg Microsoft programs, the company said Monday as it published the results of a survey intended to elbow authorities into taking more action....
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Advertised broadband speeds lag behind reality8 February 2010, 6:50 pm
Slower-than-advertised connection speeds caused by growing network congestion and artificial restrictions by some Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have left broadband consumers frustrated at times, and for good reason....
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Chinese police shut down hacker training op8 February 2010, 4:28 pm
Police in central China have shut down a hacker training operation that openly recruited thousands of members online and provided them with cyberattack lessons and malicious software, state media said Monday....
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Bleeding Edge TV 335: Sonos S5 at IWSIV Blogger Party4 February 2010, 10:16 pm
We are big fans of Sonos, and were glad to see them as a sponsor of the It Won’t Stay in Vegas blogger party at CES 2010. We stopped by their setup to chat with them about Sonos, and their latest releases, the Sonos S5 and their new CR200 Controller 200. Check the video out if you are interested in an all-in-one music device that can pull content from just about anywhere.
A big thank you to Bing for sponsoring Gear Live’s CES 2010 coverage....
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Onkyo’s 2010 receivers to support HDMI 1.44 February 2010, 10:08 pm
HDMI 1.4 is the next big thing, namely because it brings with it support for 3D television as well as the Audio Return Channel, and Onkyo seems to be leading the charge with getting it rolled into their products and into the hands of the public. In fact, Onkyo just announced that their 2010 receivers, scheduled to start shipping this spring, will support HDMI 1.4. That’s just in time for some of that 3D TV and Blu-ray content to appear.
“We are very supportive of the new standard,” said O...
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Fallout: New Vegas teaser trailer4 February 2010, 8:40 pm
We love Fallout, and poured hundreds of hours into Fallout 3, which explains the pain we feel in our chest knowing that we won’t be able to play through Fallout: New Vegas until the fall of this year. That said, Bethesda has released a teaser trailer for Fallout: New Vegas, which is just enough to whet the appetite. Who’s excited?...
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Unannounced Final Fantasy XIII Xbox 360 faceplate (custom console?) spotted!4 February 2010, 6:20 pm
Our friends over at Gamertag Radio just posted a video promoting their Community Vibes 5 event (which takes place this Saturday) with Major Nelson, and we couldn’t help but notice what appears to be a yet-to-be-announced Final Fantasy XIII Xbox 360 faceplate on Major’s desk! We haven’t seen or heard about this anywhere, so this may, in fact, be the first time it’s been seen in public. Even more interesting, though, is the fact that Microsoft has kind of forgotten about the whole faceplat...
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Comcast rebranding services as Xfinity4 February 2010, 1:01 am
In a puzzling move, Comcast announced today that they are going to be rebranding their broadband services under a new moniker: Xfinity. Seriously. Starting next week, Xfinity TV, Xfinity Internet, and Xfinity Voice will be rolled out to current Comcast customers in 11 markets, those being: Boston, Philly, Baltimore, DC, Chicago, Portland, Seattle, Hartford, Augusta, and Chatanooga, along with parts of the Bay area. Don’t expect any changes in the actual services you receive, this is just a nam...
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Iron Man MacBook decal is awesome4 February 2010, 12:12 am
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TiVo HD out of stock. TiVo Premiere imminent?3 February 2010, 11:15 pm
Looks like TiVo has run out of TiVo HD units, if their online store is any indication, which has us wondering if the newer TiVo Premiere is about to make it’s debut. We originally mentioned the TiVo Premiere when a customer accidentally received a manual for the device packed in with a TiVo HD purchase. You’d think that if TiVo was already printing instructions on how to use the device, it had to be near-ready to ship, and this was just over a month ago.
In the meantime, if you want a TiVo,...
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Newegg Deal: Sony 7.1 channel receiver3 February 2010, 2:17 am
Newegg has a great and inexpensive way for you to incorpate 7.1 surround sound into your home theater, with a great deal on the Sony STR-DN1000 7.1 channel receiver. It looks great with a piano black finish, and supports codecs like Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD MAster Audio, and lossless PCM. For visuals, you get 1080p playback with 24p support. The best part is that Newegg’s got it for $299.99. If you want to get in on it, head on over to the Newegg Sony STR-DN1000 page, add it to your cart, and use ...
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L33tsauce giving away free copy of Mass Effect 2, and I’m judging!2 February 2010, 9:20 pm
If you haven’t heard of Mass Effect 2, then you’re probably just waking up from cryogenic sleep. The sequel to one of the best selling Action RPGs hit the shelves this week and, for the most part, is bouncing right back off the shelves and into gamer’s 360’s and PCs.
We’re always keeping our eyes open for free stuff. Especially free video games. It looks like the brand new gaming site L33tsauce.com is celebrating their open beta by giving away a copy of Mass Effect 2 (any platform) t...
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iPhone OS 3.1.3 now available2 February 2010, 6:39 pm
Apple has just released an iPhone firmware update in iPhone OS 3.1.3. It’s basically a big fix release, focusing on:
Improving accuracy of reported battery level on iPhone 3GS
Resolves issues where third-party apps would not launch
Fixes bug that may cause an app to crash when using Japanese Kana keyboard
Doesn’t seem like a huge deal, but for those of you who like your iPhone to be fresh, there you have it....
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PwnageTool 3.1.5 Jailbreaks iPhone 3.1.38 February 2010, 7:30 pm
Mac OS X: Last week Apple pushed out a minor update to the iPhone OS, and, naturally, the update re-jailed any jailbroken devices. Yet again, the iPhone dev-team is back with a new version of PwnageTool that's compatible with the latest update.Take note that the dev-team's official stance on the iPhone 3.1.3 OS update is "skip it" unless you've had battery problems (the update offers little more). If you wanted to go ahead with the update anyway, this new version of the PwnageTool (3.1.5) will h...
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Top 10 Tools for Finding Cool Stuff Nearby6 February 2010, 5:00 pm
Sometimes the most interesting stuff in an unfamiliar city is hiding in plain sight. With the right location-aware and map-friendly web tools, you can find the best cheap eats, picture-worthy sights, and much more. Start with this list of in-the-know apps.Photo by epicharmus.
We've previously taken an example tour around Austin, TX with tools to find the best spots in new cities, some of which are detailed here, as well. For this list's sake, we'll assume you're familiar with the most popular lo...
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Siri Is a Personal Assistant that Fits in Your Pocket5 February 2010, 4:30 pm
iPhone: We can't think of a person who couldn't use a little help with everyday planning, research, and chores, but unfortunately we can't all afford a personal assistant. Siri is a smart voice-recognition virtual assistant for your iPhone.
Give the video above a look for an idea of how Siri works. Essentially, you speak your bidding, it interprets what you say, and it goes hunting for what it is that you want. Ask it to look up movie showtimes, make reservations, get a taxi, fetch flight info, ...
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SlingPlayer iPhone App Gets Go-Ahead to Stream Over 3G4 February 2010, 3:30 pm
If you've got a SlingBox and an iPhone, you could previously fork over another $30 to get the SlingPlayer app and watch your home TV and recordings ... over Wi-Fi, which kind of defeated the whole purpose of mobile watching (aren't you usually home already when you're on Wi-Fi?). But Sling and AT&T have reached an agreement on 3G streaming, so the SlingPlayer will get an upgrade to truly mobile TV streaming as soon as Apple approves the upgrade. Existing SlingPlayer owners will get the upgraded ...
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iTunes Provides Browser-Based iPhone App Previews4 February 2010, 2:00 pm
iTunes is letting more of its content out onto the open web these days, offering up song previews and, just recently, iPhone/iPod app details. You can check out screenshots, reviews, pricing, and most of the other details you'd get inside iTunes from your browser now when you click on a direct app link. Not every direct app link worked in a quick morning test, but over time, expect far fewer grumbles from those who don't have iTunes installed but want to see just a few things inside Apple's wall...
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TouchMouse Controls Your Computer's Mouse and Keyboard via iPhone or iPod touch3 February 2010, 1:00 am
iPhone/iPod touch: TouchMouse is a free application for the iPhone/iPod touch that, when paired with its accompanying control software on your Mac or Windows computer, turns your touchscreen into a mouse and keyboard.Once you download the software to your iPhone or iPod touch and pair it with the server software—Logitech has versions of the TouchMouse Server software available for Windows XP, Vista, and 7 as well as Mac OS X—you'll be able to use your device as a mouse for controllin...
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BackOff Shortens Long iPhone and iPod touch Sync Sessions2 February 2010, 11:00 pm
iPhone/iPod touch: If you carry a ton of stuff around on your iPhone or iPod touch, you know syncing it can take forever. BackOff turns off iTunes' automatic backup process so you can sync faster.Okay, before you go galloping off to download this slick free utility, let's go over the most important point one more time. BackOff prevents iTunes from making a backup of your iPhone or touch to speed up syncing. That may not be a big deal once in a while, but most of us may want to have a recent back...
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iPhone OS 3.1.3 Update Available for All iPhone and iPod touch Models2 February 2010, 6:30 pm
Apple just pushed out the iPhone OS 3.1.3 software update, featuring various minor bug fixes and improvements, including improved accuracy of reported battery level on iPhone 3GS and resolved issues with third-party apps not launching. None of what the release discusses sounds too exciting, but here's betting that iPad is in the dictionary now. Update: Huh, apparently it's not. To update your iPhone or iPod touch, plug it in, fire up iTunes, and hit the Check for Updates button....
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Fring Brings 3G VoIP and Video Calling to the iPhone29 January 2010, 10:00 pm
iPhone only: Fring, a VoIP and chat app for the iPhone, got a nice update this week that lets users make video and voice calls over a 3G connection. Best of all, it's still free.We've mentioned Fring before because it's a great way to turn your iPod touch into an iPhone, but until now the only way you could make calls with it was via Skype. The new update bypasses the need for Skype and lets you call or video chat with your contacts right from Fring using your iPhone's 3G connection (and, of cou...
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MenuPages Brings Restaurant Menus to Your iPhone29 January 2010, 8:30 pm
iPhone/iPod touch only: The next time you're debating trying out a new restaurant but want to check out the menu first, whip out your iPhone or iPod touch and take a look at MenuPages.MenuPages for the iPhone plugs you into the MenuPages web site's main database of menus. You can search for restaurants by type, location, or just call up the whole list of nearby eateries and skim it that way.
When you see a restaurant you want to try, tap it to bring up information on its hours of operation, addr...
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MacRumors: Claimed Fourth-Generation iPhone Parts Surface Revealing Taller Form Factor8 February 2010, 6:31 pm
iPhone 3GS on left, claimed fourth-generation iPhone on right
iPhone repair site iResQ has posted photos of what it claims are parts for the fourth-generation iPhone presumably due for launch later this year. Among the most notable fe......
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AT&T Rolls Out FamilyMap iPhone Application5 February 2010, 6:55 pm
AT&T today announced the release of AT&T FamilyMap, a new iPhone application that integrates with the company's existing FamilyMap service to allow families to keep track of each other while on the go.The AT&T FamilyMap app b......
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MacRumors: Sling Media Denies Collaboration With AT&T on 3G Streaming5 February 2010, 4:30 pm
Yesterday, AT&T announced that it had finally decided to allow Sling Media's SlingPlayer Mobile to stream video over the carrier's 3G network. As part of the announcement, AT&T claimed that it had "worked with" Sling Media to develop a version of th......
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Apple to iPhone Developers: Geolocation Not to Be Used Solely for Ads5 February 2010, 4:00 pm
In a posting on its news page for iPhone developers earlier this week, Apple encouraged developers to integrate the Core Location framework into their apps, offering the ability to deliver information to users based on their location. Perhaps more i......
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MacRumors: Apple's iPhone Continues to Outpace Smartphone Industry Growth4 February 2010, 4:32 pm
Research firm IDC today issued a report highlighting fourth quarter and full year worldwide sales numbers of "converged mobile devices", more commonly known as smartphones, revealing continuing outstanding growth for Apple's iPhone above the overall ......
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MacRumors: AT&T Approves 'SlingPlayer Mobile' Television Streaming Over 3G4 February 2010, 3:48 pm
AT&T today announced that it has decided to allow Sling Media's SlingPlayer Mobile iPhone application to stream video content over its 3G network. SlingPlayer Mobile allows users of Sling Media's "Slingbox" hardware to control and stream live and re......
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MacRumors: Apple Expands Browser-Based 'iTunes Preview' Functionality to Include App Store4 February 2010, 2:33 pm
TechCrunch reports that Apple has expanded its browser-based 'iTunes Preview' functionality to include pages for App Store applications.To see this for yourself, open any direct link to an iPhone app (example) in your favorit......
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MacRumors: More Details on Verizon's iPad and iPhone Negotiations Reportedly Surface3 February 2010, 6:32 pm
Earlier this week, a report briefly mentioned that Clayton Morris of FOXNews.com, who offered several reports about the iPad coming to Verizon in the weeks leading up to the device's introduction, had spoken to a Verizon source who claimed that Apple......
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MacRumors: Apple Receives Patent for Touch-Sensitive Bezel for Portable Devices3 February 2010, 4:47 pm
Patently Apple reported yesterday that Apple has been granted a patent regarding the use of touch-sensitive bezels in electronic devices, primarily focused on portable devices. While the content of the patent is not new, having been previous......
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MacRumors: Taiwanese Industry Sources: Next-Generation iPhone Manufacturing Deal, USB 3.0, iPad Suppliers3 February 2010, 2:45 pm
DigiTimes today offers a series of reports involving Apple, revealing a number of claims from industry sources in Taiwan regarding the next-generation iPhone, Apple's possible plans for USB 3.0, and iPad component suppliers.
One report......
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Top 25 iPhone Blogs8 February 2010, 4:00 pm
I’m often asked what I think is the best iPhone blog. It’s hard to tell because most iPhone blogs have their own specific topic or their own “voice”. While I do not have one favorite blog (except mine, hehe), there are few I read on a regular basis.
The following is my selection of what I think are top iPhone blogs.
Mac Rumors
Gizmodo
Just Another iPhone Blog
Simple Reviews
Apple Insider
The Unofficial Apple Weblog
iSmashPhone
Apple iPhone School
TiPB
iPhone Atlas
iPhone...
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How to Unlock iPhone 3.1.38 February 2010, 4:29 am
This guide and tutorial will show you how to unlock iPhone 3.1.3 using UltraSn0w or BlackSn0w, depending on your iPhone baseband.
The first step is to jailbreak your iPhone 3.1.3, either with RedSn0w or with PwnageTool. Note that PwnageTool is the preferred method as it helps preserve the baseband.
Now we have 2 options for unlocking, and it all depends on your baseband model:
If your baseband is still at 04.26.08, then you may use UltraSn0w.
If your baseband is at 05.11.07, you may use BlackSn...
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Jailbreak iPhone 3.1.3 with PwnageTool8 February 2010, 4:05 am
The Dev Team released PwnageTool 3.1.5 just a few hours ago. In this guide and tutorial, I will show you how to use PwnageTool to jailbreak iPhone 3.1.3.
Before we get into the details, please make sure you read this article by the Dev Team. It will explain to you what you can and cannot do. It is a very important piece of information that you should not overlook.
If at any point in time you updated your iPhone to firmware 3.1.3, then you also updated your baseband to 05.12.01. If that’s ....
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iPhone News You Missed This Week7 February 2010, 6:00 pm
In case you missed any of this week’s articles, here is a summary of what was posted on the blog within the last few days. As usual, if you like any of these articles, please share them, tweet them, email them or whatever’s clever.
RedSn0w 0.9 is out
Installous is dead
ContactFlow brings coverflow to your contacts
RedSn0w 0.9.3 jailbreak allows tethering of iPhone 3.1.2
499 reasons to buy an iPad
iPhone OS 3.1.3 is out
Traveling with an iPhone: my experience in Bali
Geohot not worki...
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How to Downgrade iPhone 3.1.3 to 3.1.27 February 2010, 4:00 pm
As always when a new firmware is being realeased, there is always a few unlucky people who “accidentally” update or restore to the latest firmware, thus losing their jailbreak and unlock.
In this case, you’d usually want to downgrade your iPhone from 3.1.3 to 3.1.2 simply by downloading 3.1.2 and SHIFT + Restore in iTunes so that you can choose your own firmware to restore to.
The problem is that Apple recently stopped signing all previous firmware versions making it impossible...
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Jailbreak & Unlock iPhone 3.1.3 with Sn0wBreeze? No, Thank You7 February 2010, 3:27 am
The almighty Sn0wBreeze has been recently updated to version 1.4 and although it claims to help jailbreak and unlock iPhone 3.1.3, I recommend to stay away from this tool.
The problem with Sn0wBreeze is that only a very small amount of people actually get it to work. It’s such a small amount that I’ve come to think that it’s the creator himself who leaves comments here and there to make people believe Sn0wBreeze actually works.
In a Sn0wBreeze tutorial I wrote about a week ago,...
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AndroidLock: A Better LockScreen to Protect Your iPhone6 February 2010, 4:00 pm
There are several ways to protect your iPhone by restricting access to it from the lockscreen. You can use the stock feature that allows you to set a password containing 4 numbers. You can use this hack to add an alphanumeric password, or you can use AndroidLock.
AndroidLock is a new application available in Cydia that brings Android’s lockscreen protection to the iPhone. After installing the app, you have to activate it in the Settings.app. To do so, you first have to create a pattern an...
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Adobe Flash and the iGeneration5 February 2010, 4:00 pm
This is a guest post by Polemicist, a loyal blog reader and commenter. If you’d like to guest post on the iPhone Download Blog, please see the guidelines.
What ever happened to this guy?
Developer Jonah Grant submitted an “Adobe Flash mobile” plug-in for the iPhone and iPod Touch’s Safari browser on Friday, April 24 2009.
Maybe Jonah’s plug-in was only an urban legend but I do recall Adobe saying they were working on a new version of Flash for the iPod and iPhone and no...
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My Thoughts About the iPad4 February 2010, 4:00 pm
After giving you 17 reasons why the iPad sucks and 499 why you should buy one, I wanted to share with you what I really think about the iPad.
Underwhelming is the word
All throughout Steve Jobs’ presentation of the iPad, I was waiting for the time I would be amazed and excited. Jobs always does a great job at giving me the chills for his products but this time, he failed to.
When the presentation was over, I really felt underwhelmed. I thought to myself: is this it? There had to be ......
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GeoHot Says “No Jailbreak For You”4 February 2010, 4:36 am
When GeoHot talks, you listen because you never know what he’s up to. Earlier today he gave some pretty disappointing news on Twitter by basically saying that there was no way to jailbreak the latest iPhone 3GS and iPod Touch models on OS 3.1.3, and that there was not much hope for an untethered jailbreak.
But we all know GeoHot and how he likes to be challenged. I’d bet you that he’s dissecting OS 3.1.3 as we speak and looking for some exploit. That’s what I think anyway...
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2 February 2010, 8:52 am
iSwing v2.0 - Golf Swing Analyzer for the iPhone....
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1 February 2010, 2:03 am
Cowbell2010, the premier iPhone App for fans of the Olympic Games, provides the full Vancouver event schedule, real-time medal count by country, live Twitter feed of more than 200 Olympians and, of course, a clanging, virtual cowbell draped in the country......
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1 February 2010, 1:56 am
To mark its 10 year anniversary, the popular Super Bowl ad rating site, ADBOWL, has introduced ADBOWL for iPhone to allow game-watchers to share their opinions more easily....
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27 January 2010, 9:22 pm
SAN FRANCISCO - JANUARY 27: Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs discuss the pricing structure for the new Apple iPad during an Apple Special Event at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts January 27, 2010 in San Francisco, California. CEO Steve Jobs and Apple Inc. introduced......
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27 January 2010, 8:55 pm
SAN FRANCISCO - JANUARY 27: Event guests play with the new Apple iPad during an Apple Special Event at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts January 27, 2010 in San Francisco, California. CEO Steve Jobs and Apple Inc. introduced its latest creation, the iPad,......
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27 January 2010, 6:28 pm
SAN FRANCISCO - JANUARY 27: (EDITORS NOTE: Retransmission with alternate crop. CEO Steve Jobs holds up the new iPad as he speaks during an Apple Special Event at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts January 27, 2010 in San Francisco, California. Apple introduced......
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27 January 2010, 6:27 pm
SAN FRANCISCO - JANUARY 27: Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs holds up the new iPad as he speaks during an Apple Special Event at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts January 27, 2010 in San Francisco, California. Apple introduced its latest creation, the iPad, a mobile......
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27 January 2010, 12:00 am
Inkling brings rich interactive learning content to iPhone, iPod touch and iPad....
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26 January 2010, 2:11 pm
In this Jan. 26, 2010 photo, AT&T products are displayed at a kiosk in San Francisco. AT&T said Thursday, Jan. 28, it added a near-record 2.7 million wireless customers in the last quarter, defying expectations of a slowdown as the iPhone maintained its allure......
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25 January 2010, 6:03 pm
Customers are seen at the Fifth Avenue Apple store in New York, January 25, 2010. The company releases quarterly results on Monday, but Wall Street is waiting for Wednesday, when Apple could unveil a new tablet computer that investors hope will be as huge......
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Some Good News, and Some Bad News, About Adobe Flash 10.19 February 2010, 8:00 am
The good news first: Adobe's promising Flash 10.1 is going to hit smartphones—Android, WebOS, Windows Mobile—and desktops in the "first half" of this year, a slightly less squishy date. And it'll come over the air. The bad part?
Well it's bad for Android, anyway: You're gonna need Android 2.1. At least. Because it provides some access Adobe needs to make the Flash magic happen. So, sorry everything but the Droid and Nexus One, at least for the moment. The "over the air" thing is als...
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BirdBox Wakes You Up With the Sound of Hungry Birds In Your iPhone8 February 2010, 10:46 pm
I love little birds. They are so cute. And they taste delicious and crunchy fried in beer batter. If you want them to wake you up, however, try BirdBox.
BirdBox is a $12.75 bedside bird home with a matching free application that turns your iPhone or iPod touch into a cuckoo alarm clock. You know, because nothing says good morning like "the sound and sight of nesting birds" eating regurgitated bugs and worms. [Luckybite via Boing Boing]...
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Rumored Spyshot: Will the Next iPhone Be Taller Than Its Predecessors?8 February 2010, 6:54 pm
An alleged leak of fourth-gen iPhone components claims to tell us two things about Apple's next creation. One, it's taller. Two, part of its surface is "reflective."What iResQ claims to be the next iPhone case sits on the right in our lead shot, alongside the iPhone 3GS' front assembly.
It's 1/4 of an inch taller. Boom?
(iPhone 3G, iPhone 3Gs, potential iPhone 4G)
Plus, the top lip of the case has a "reflective, mirror-like surface," which iResQ assumes is a rearrangement of the iPhone's proximi...
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Read SD Cards on Your iPhone With ZoomIt8 February 2010, 6:40 pm
Remember all those clever iPhone peripherals that we were supposed to see with firmware 3.0? Well ZoomIt is among the first. It's an SD card reader for the iPhone and iPod touch.Used in conjunction with the ZoomIt app, the dongle connects through the iPhone's dock connector to load photos, music and miscellaneous files (like PowerPoint, PDF and anything else supported by iPhone OS) from an SD card.
If nothing else, it's a handy way to extend your iPhone's storage in a pinch, or simply backup you...
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The Full Movie Theater iPhone Stand8 February 2010, 6:00 pm
Since not everyone has the space and pesos to build a full-size home theater, here's an option that only requires an iPhone and the space of a shoe box. Which—in New York—means half of your apartment. [Thanks Gary!]...
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Sky Siege Augmented Reality Warfare Game Turns iPhone Into Deadly Portal to the Heavens8 February 2010, 4:30 pm
Sky Siege ($3, available now) uses the iPhone 3GS' compass and accelerometers to turn the iPhone into a window rather than just a screen, resulting in startlingly immersive gameplay. Don't know what that means? Just watch this remarkable clip. [iTunes]...
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This Week's Best iPhone Apps6 February 2010, 1:00 am
In this week's world dominating iPhone app roundup: Your every whim, robotically indulged! Radio champagne, poured generously! Football stuff, assimilated! Your computers, turned into wirelessly controlled zombies! Death foods, avoided! And more..
If you'd rather view this roundup in a single page, click here.
Siri: Speech recognition apps recognize speech. Search apps search. Concierge apps consolidate services. Siri does all of the above:
To use the iPhone app, you just have to say aloud a co...
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iPhone Is Now More Popular than DS and PSP Among Game Developers5 February 2010, 10:40 pm
Game Developer Research says that Apple is winning the race among handheld game developers: 19 percent write now for the iPhone and iPod touch. That's more than double the amount of Nintendo DS and Sony PSP developers. Other interesting figures:
• Handheld games are now 25 percent of the whole gaming market, up from 12 percent before the iPhone/iPod touch phenomenon.
• During the last three quarters, all handheld game developers are writing for the Apple iPhone and iPod touch.
No wonder why ...
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Apple Plans Video Calling and Location Aware Social Networking For iPhone5 February 2010, 8:40 pm
Apple's sweeping "Device to Device Location Awareness" patent covers a lot of ground, not the least of which are a hint at iPhone video conferencing and the ability to locate whoever's on the receiving end of your call.
According to the technology proposed in the patent, a caller's phone would ping the mobile device it's communicating with to request location details. The second device determines its location and sends the information back to the originating cellphone, where it's automatically d...
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Nexus One Sales Continue to Lag: Just 80,000 in First Month5 February 2010, 8:37 pm
The early outlook on the Nexus One—just 20,000 sold in its first week—hasn't gotten any better. After a month on the market, Google's moved just 80,000 phones. Compare that to the original iPhone and Droid launches.
The relative sales results, shown above and using estimates by Flurry Analytics, aren't pretty for Google. Granted, it's not an entirely fair comparison. Droid and the iPhone were marketed within an inch of their lives, and had better carrier support than the Nexus One do...
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Found Footage: Charlie Rose hosts iPad chat club9 February 2010, 9:30 am
Filed under: Found Footage, iPad
In case you missed it last week, PBS top gab guy Charlie Rose (no relation) hosted a roundtable discussion about the latest product from Steve & co. on his show, featuring the NYT's David Carr, 'Uncle' Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal, and TechCrunch founder/would-be tablet impresario Michael Arrington. The segment is about 23 minutes long, but it's a good conversation.
Mossberg described the iPad as "wicked fast" and praised the software's grace no...
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The tweet that made Steve Jobs furious9 February 2010, 2:00 am
Filed under: Apple Corporate, Rumors, Steve Jobs
Apple doesn't have a huge social media presence. There's an iTunes Facebook page and what can arguably be called a MobileMe blog, but that's about it. However, they do monitor the likes of Twitter, like any self-respecting company would, and a recent tweet reportedly ticked off Steve Jobs but good.
While publicizing the iPad, Steve met with a number of tech writers in New York including Wall Street Journal editor Alan Murray, who sent the follow...
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Rumor: MacBook Pro refresh imminent, SKUs dropped from Best Buy systems9 February 2010, 12:30 am
Filed under: Hardware, Rumors, Macbook Pro
Update: Commenters point out that our tipster pulled the Best Buy inventory screen image from this thread on the MacRumors forums (he did provide independent confirmation of the SKU deletion). I was not aware of the forum thread at the time the post was written, and there was at the time no corresponding post on the main MacRumors site (although there is now). My apologies to the forum poster for the lack of credit for the image; I should have double-ve...
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Game developers on iPhone outnumber DS and PSP two-to-one9 February 2010, 12:00 am
Filed under: Gaming, Multimedia, Apple, iPhone, App Store, SDK, iPod touchGame Developer Research has published its 2009/10 survey of video game developers, and the results are pretty impressive for the still relatively fledgling iPhone platform: The number of developers who are working on mobile games increased by 12 percent, and there are actually twice as many developers working on iPhone games as are working on the Nintendo DS and Sony's PSP handheld consoles.
That's a pretty amazing number...
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Plants vs. Zombies coming to iPhone on February 15th8 February 2010, 11:00 pm
Filed under: Gaming, Software, Developer, iPhone, App Store
Yes, PopCap is at it again -- this time, their crazy addictive (just like all of their games) take on the tower defense genre, Plants vs. Zombies, is headed off to the iPhone. They just tweeted confirmation a little while ago, and released this trailer showing all of the flower vs. undead action that we enjoyed so much in the other versions of the game, squeezed into the smaller screen of the iPhone.
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Loopt teams with Mobile Spinach for check-in discounts, Booyah talks about MyTown8 February 2010, 10:00 pm
Filed under: Software, iPhone, App StoreIf the iPhone has a leading app genre, aside from gaming, I'd say the current surge of "check-in" apps is probably it. Sure, back when the App Store first opened up, Twitter apps were everywhere (and they're still being made daily, it seems), but in terms of a genre that can only exist on a location-aware device like the iPhone, "check-in" apps like Foursquare, Gowalla, and so on, are making their mark right now. Here's news on two such apps continuing to ...
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Microsoft still beats Apple in cash and investments, for now8 February 2010, 9:00 pm
Filed under: Apple Financial, Apple
Back during the earnings call a few weeks ago, it was mentioned that Apple has a jaw-dropping almost $40 billion just sitting around in cash. In the chat, we started talking about other companies that might have that much money in the hopper -- Google came up, but I don't think we were able to guess another one. But it turns out Apple isn't even the most flush company out there, and the name of the first might surprise you: According to this chart on Silicon A...
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Purported pics of next-gen iPhone front face surface8 February 2010, 8:00 pm
Filed under: Hardware, Rumors, iPhoneiResQ, the iPhone/iPod repair site, has posted pics of what they claim is the front faceplate of the next-gen iPhone. Two things about this piece of hardware are particularly interesting. First, the part is approximately 1/4 of an inch taller than the iPhone 3GS, indicative of a slightly taller form factor for the next-gen iPhone. Second, there's a small, reflective strip directly above the hole for the phone speaker. iResQ believes this is likely to be the n...
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Dev team releases PwnageTool 3.1.5 to jailbreak iPhone 3.1.3 firmware8 February 2010, 7:30 pm
Filed under: Hardware, iTunes, Apple, iPhone, SDK, Jailbreak/pwnage
Jailbreakers ahoy! Yesterday brought the release of the Dev Team's pwnage tool for jailbreaking and unlocking iPhones equipped with the new 3.1.3 firmware. As usual, though, there are a few catches: first, if you don't need to update to 3.1.3, the dev team says you shouldn't bother anyway -- it doesn't do much that the old versions of the firmware doesn't, so if you don't need to upgrade, just leave your jailbreak as is.
3G a...
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Could iPad prices drop the way the iPhone did after launch?8 February 2010, 7:00 pm
Filed under: Hardware, RetailLooks like they might. That's the opinion of a note out last night from Credit Suisse quoting meetings with Apple executives. The Wall Street Journal this morning quotes Senior Analyst Bill Shope as saying "While it remains to be seen how much traction the iPad gets initially, management noted that it will remain nimble (pricing could change if the company is not attracting as many customers as anticipated)."
This is a similar situation to the original iPhone launch...
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News: Hard Candy debuts line of cases for iPad8 February 2010, 8:58 pm
Hard Candy Cases has unveiled its new lineup of cases for the Apple iPad tablet. The line includes the Hard Case, a rigid EVA-foam case with specially fitted bumpers to keep the iPad in place, a soft interior lining, and a zippered closure. It sells for $45. A variant of the Hard Case, Hard Candy’s Bubble Sleeve offers similar protection, but adds a raised, bubbled outer surface for added shock protection, and sells for $45. The Smooth Skin…
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News: MrSun tracks the sun’s position8 February 2010, 7:06 pm
Amber Digital has released MrSun, a free app for iPhone and iPod touch users to determine the location of the sun at any given time, date or place. Using a slider control, users select the time of day and are shown the direction of the sun and angle over the horizon both numerically and visually. The application can also use the iPhone 3GS compass to display the direction of the sun relative to the user’s current position. Users can get information…
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News: Apple already considering iPad price reductions?8 February 2010, 7:01 pm
Apple executives, speaking in a meeting with Credit Suisse analysts, have suggested that the company is already considering price reductions for its yet-to-be-released iPad tablet should early sales of the device fail to live up to internal expectations. Citing Credit Suisse analyst Bill Shope, the Wall Street Journal reports that Apple wants the iPad to be the best device in several usage cases, including consuming media and browsing the Internet.…
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News: Gamevil debuts ink-styled historic action RPG8 February 2010, 6:41 pm
GAMEVIL has announced the release of VANQUISH: The Oath of Brothers, a new action RPG presented with a unique ink and wash painted graphic style. Based on the historical novel “Romance of the Three Kingdoms,” the game’s storyline follows the adventures of the hero Guan Yu as he journeys to reunite with his sworn brother, battling the generals of Cao Cao and their armies along the way. The game combines action and RPG elements, allowing…
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News: Loopt adds location-based offers and discounts8 February 2010, 6:23 pm
Loopt announced today that it has partnered with Mobile Spinach to integrate location-based advertising into its social networking service. The new feature provides Loopt users with access to offers, coupons and discounts from local neighbourhood retailers. Users are informed about nearby offers based on their current location and directions and contact details for the retailers. Offers can be redeemed directly from the phone or can be sent via SMS…
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Article: iPhone Gems: Drag Racer, GT Racing: Motor Academy, Parcel Panic + Riddim Ribbon: BEP8 February 2010, 5:03 pm
Welcome to this week’s first gaming edition of iPhone Gems. Today’s theme is “racing,” with four recent racing games of different types all competing for your dollars and attention. We’ve issued ratings to three of them, but are holding off on rating the fourth due to its considerable depth, which we’re still exploring, and plan to discuss more fully in a separate review in the next couple of days. For now, our…
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News: Chinese maker of iPad clone vows to sue Apple8 February 2010, 3:53 pm
Shenzhen Great Long Brother Industrial Co., which produces the P88, a Windows-based, multi-touch tablet computer, is vowing to sue Apple for patent infringement as soon as the company launches the iPad in China. Claiming that the P88, which was announced last October, is “identical” to the iPad, Wu Xiaolong, president of Shenzhen Great Long Brother Industrial Co., said, “I was very angry and flabbergasted when I saw the news of the…
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News: Bluetooth Helper improves iPhone AVRCP support8 February 2010, 3:14 pm
Eventual Innovations has released an application that aims to improve upon the limited AVRCP capabilities in the iPhone and iPod touch. Apple first introduced support for stereo A2DP Bluetooth accessories in iPhone OS 3.0, however AVRCP remote control capabilities over Bluetooth were limited to only starting and pausing playback. Bluetooth Helper is a third-party application that provides additional playback controls including next track, previous…
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News: zoomIt brings SD card access to iPhone, iPod touch8 February 2010, 3:05 pm
ZoomMediaPlus has announced its new zoomIt application-enabled accessory for the iPhone and iPod touch. Working in conjunction with the company’s free zoomIt app, the Works With iPhone- and Made For iPod-certified Dock-connecting accessory enables users to access a variety of content stored on any SD card mounted in the zoomIt’s SD card slot. Features include support for all iPhone OS 3.0 file types, including photos, videos, music, and…
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News: AT&T releases NBC Olympics App8 February 2010, 2:48 pm
AT&T has released the official NBC Olympics app, providing iPhone and iPod touch users with NBC’s coverage of the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Winter Games right on their devices. NBC Olympics on AT&T provides live, real-time updates on every event complete with video highlights, news stories, schedules, results and medal counts. Users can configure push notifications for their favorite events, view a TV schedule for NBC Olympics’ on-air…
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Windows Mobile 7 beats iPhone 3G for web browsing - Joy Online9 February 2010, 9:55 am
The Money TimesWindows Mobile 7 beats iPhone 3G for web browsingJoy OnlineWhile that all sounds impressive, we fully expect an iPhone 4 to be on the horizon by the time Windows Mobile 7 hits the streets. ...Windows Mobile 7 to kill multi-tasking?IntoMobile (blog)Is Windows Mobile 7 a DOA OS?Bright Side of News*Windows Mobile 7 Resembles the ZunephoneLatest Gadgets (blog)Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog) -Product Reviews (blog) -Brighthandall 76 news articles »...
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Apple Tells iPhone Devs to Carefully Specify Device Compatibility - Softpedia9 February 2010, 9:21 am
Best Mobile Contracts (blog)Apple Tells iPhone Devs to Carefully Specify Device CompatibilitySoftpediaVia the News and Announcements section of its iPhone Dev Center, Apple is now telling developers that it's polite to include all the necessary information ...Six Great iPhone Apps Flying Under the RadarSan Francisco ChronicleDoes the iPhone OS Need Multitasking?TidBITSKeep a Tab over Usage on your iPhone with OverMyMinutes.comiPhone Scoop (blog)iTech Report -Touch Arcade -Best Mobi...
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New iPhone 4G: Pictures claimed to be prototype parts - Only Kent (blog)9 February 2010, 8:25 am
The Business InsiderNew iPhone 4G: Pictures claimed to be prototype partsOnly Kent (blog)New pictures have emerged showing a prototype fourth-generation iPhone. The panel seems slightly taller than the current model, there also seems to be a few ...Purported 4th gen Apple iPhone parts show largely unchanged designApple InsideriPhone 4G to be Larger than its PredecessorsTechtree.comRumour: Photos: Is this the 4th generation iPhone, and how come it's 1/4 inch ...IntoMobile (blog)SlashGear (blo...
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PwnageTool for iPhone OS 3.1.3 Arrives - Techtree.com9 February 2010, 6:50 am
UberGizmo (blog)PwnageTool for iPhone OS 3.1.3 ArrivesTechtree.comThe iPhone Dev-Team has released the new version of its Mac-based jailbreaking tool. The all new PwnageTool 3.1.5 is meant for iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS ...iPhone OS 3.1.3 sees 14% adoption in 6 days, new hack releasedApple InsiderPwnage Tool 3.1.5 Adds iPhone OS 3.1.3 SupportThe Mac ObserveriPhone OS 3.1.3 gets jailbroken with PwnageTool 3.1.5IntoMobile (blog)iPhone-Codes -iPhone FAQ (blog) -Walyou (blog)all 59 news...
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Google Nexus One sales 'slower than iPhone': analysts - The Australian9 February 2010, 4:04 am
SlashGear (blog)Google Nexus One sales 'slower than iPhone': analystsThe AustralianBy contrast, Apple's iPhone got off to a very strong start when it debuted in mid-2007, selling an estimated 600000 units in its first month, according to ...10 Reasons Why the Linux Community Could Influence iPhone SaleseWeekNexus One takes a beating in Google behind-the-scenes videoCNETNexus One 80000 Units: No iPhone Beater in Smartphone WarsNewsolio (blog)TECH.BLORGE.com -ZDNet (blog) -PC...
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An SD memory card adapter for your iPhone - VentureBeat9 February 2010, 2:10 am
Unwired ViewAn SD memory card adapter for your iPhoneVentureBeatI don't normally blog about gadget hardware, but zoomMediaPlus' new zoomIt SD card adapter for iPhone and iPod Touch fills a gaping hole of utility. ...ZoomMediaPlus Loads Files onto iPhones, TouchesPC MagazineZoomMediaPlus intros new SD card reader for iPhoneipodnnExpand Your iPhone With an Apple-Certified SD Card ReaderiPhone FAQ (blog)UberGizmo (blog) -Mobile Magazine -The Gadgeteerall 18 news articles &raq...
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iPad pricing: How low can you go, Apple? - CNET9 February 2010, 1:30 am
Telegraph.co.ukiPad pricing: How low can you go, Apple?CNETCertainly, it calls to mind the company's decision to slash the price of the iPhone by $200 two months after it went on sale and the early-adopter rebate it ...Report: Apple Might Drop iPad PricePC MagazineCould iPad prices drop the way the iPhone did after launch?tuaw.com (blog)Three reasons the iPad will get a price dropChristian Science MonitorThe Auburn Plainsman -The Tech Herald -The Daily Titanall 198 news articles&nb...
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Adobe: Flash for Mac is Getting Better — Really! - All Things Digital (blog)8 February 2010, 11:56 pm
PC WorldAdobe: Flash for Mac is Getting Better — Really!All Things Digital (blog)We are ready to enable Flash in the browser on [the iPhone and iPad] if and when Apple chooses to allow that for its users, ...Wolverton: Why can't Apple and Adobe just get along?San Jose Mercury NewsApple iPhone Devices – Flash or HTML5?iPhone World (blog)Did Steve Jobs just kill Flash?; Flash isn't dying, but it has probably peakedKelowna.comMacVideo.tv -Downloadsquad (blog) -Minnesota Dailya...
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TeleNav Improves AT&T's Own iPhone Nav App - PC Magazine8 February 2010, 6:20 pm
ZDNet (blog)TeleNav Improves AT&T's Own iPhone Nav AppPC MagazineTeleNav has unveiled AT&T Navigator 1.5i for the iPhone. The latest revision to the popular turn-by-turn GPS app includes road speed limit ...AT&T Navigator 1.5i update adds speed limit alerts, shake-to-go, to iPhoneZDNet (blog)AT&T Claims Sling Made Changes To Get On The iPhone; Sling Has No Clue What ...TechdirtAT&T makes it easy to track family members on the iPhoneSlippery BrickLive 5 News -I4U ...
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BlackBerry Curve tops iPhone in Q4 smartphone sales - FierceWireless8 February 2010, 5:10 pm
MacVideo.tvBlackBerry Curve tops iPhone in Q4 smartphone salesFierceWirelessResearch In Motion's BlackBerry Curve was the top-selling smartphone in the fourth quarter, according to research firm IDC, beating out Apple's iPhone 3GS. ...Stat Shot: How the iPhone Changed the Handset MarketGigaOm (blog)Nokia Announces Job CutsInformationWeekComScore: Apple Gains US Smart Phone ShareABC NewsElectronista (blog) -Seeking Alpha (blog) -Erictricall 90 news articles »...
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iPhone OS 3.1.3 sees 14% adoption in 6 days, new hack released8 February 2010, 9:00 pm
A new study has found that 14 percent of iPhone users upgraded to iPhone OS 3.1.3 in less than a week of availability, while a new hack to exploit Apple's latest update has been released....
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Amazon rethinking Kindle in the wake of Apple iPad8 February 2010, 7:45 pm
Amazon is being forced to rethink many of the design decisions of its Kindle e-book reader after the introduction of Apple's iPad....
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Purported 4th gen Apple iPhone parts show largely unchanged design8 February 2010, 7:40 pm
New pictures claimed to be parts for a prototype fourth-generation iPhone show a front panel slightly taller than the current model, along with some other minor internal design tweaks....
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Execs say Apple could lower iPad price if market demands it - report8 February 2010, 5:25 pm
If the market does not respond well to the iPad and its price range of $499 to $829, Apple executives have reportedly said they could be "nimble" on its cost....
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Consumers lose interest in iPad after Apple's unveiling - survey8 February 2010, 3:15 pm
Despite a highly publicized public debut, potential customers lost a great deal of interest in Apple's new touchscreen iPad after it was unveiled, a new study has found....
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Higher Amazon e-book prices expected to coincide with iPad launch8 February 2010, 1:15 pm
Amazon and publisher Macmillan finalized their agreement for higher-priced e-books over the weekend. The deal is expected to serve as a template for other publishers, and the new prices should take effect in March, when Apple's iPad goes on sale....
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Inside Apple's iPad: VGA video output8 February 2010, 8:00 am
Apple's new iPad debuts a new VGA-style video output option, a first for the company's mobile device lineup....
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Unannounced Core i7 Apple MacBook Pro surfaces in benchmarks logs6 February 2010, 6:00 pm
A benchmark report for an unreleased Apple MacBook Pro sporting Intel's upcoming dual-core 2.66GHz Core i7 mobile processor was published online this week, suggesting a refresh to the professional notebook line may be imminent....
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Apple's new beta of Mac OS X 10.6.3 includes few changes6 February 2010, 5:50 pm
Apple on Friday evening equipped developers with yet another build of its upcoming maintenance and security update for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard that includes few changes from an earlier build distributed two weeks ago....
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One in five physicians likely to purchase Apple iPad - study5 February 2010, 8:30 pm
More than 60 percent of physicians who participated in a new survey have shown interest in Apple's recently announced iPad, and one in five already intend to purchase one....
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Wordpress updated to 2.2: edit and reply to comments right from your iPhone [iPhone App Updates]8 February 2010, 10:08 pm
Hrmm, this is interesting. I’m still a little skeptical about this great change from software that has routinely kicked my ass with its updates, but Wordpress 2.2 might just be…awesome. The change log is deceptively small, with three bullet points about how comments can now be edited, replied to, and even auto-highlighted when they’re pending [...]...
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Riddim Ribbon feat. The Black Eyed Peas – the iPhone’s Next Massive Music Game? [iPhone Games]8 February 2010, 9:40 pm
Tap Tap Revenge is a hell of a tough act to follow in terms of massive success in the iPhone App Store. Even if the latest new music game from Tap Tap’s makers – Tapulous – only achieves a fraction of its predecessor’s success, it will still be a big hit.
Riddim Ribbon feat. The [...]...
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Rock Your Phone, the better alternative to Cydia on your jailbroken iPhone [Jailbreak Apps]8 February 2010, 8:37 pm
Patrick recently wrote a piece on how slow and painful using Cydia can be, so I thought I’d offer a little bit of information on the other major jailbreak app portal, Rock Your Phone. In my experience Cydia is still the top dog in terms of new app releases and popularity, but Rock has been [...]...
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Classic Apogee title, Rise of the Triad, is being ported to iPhone [iPhone Apps]8 February 2010, 5:13 pm
For the duration of this news post I’ll be reverting to my eight year old self – you know, the one that sorta kinda remembers playing a demo of Rise of the Triad after it came out in 1994:
WOW! Rise of the Triad is suuuuuch a good shooting game! It looks like Doom but I [...]...
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Chomp, iPhone Apps Discovery App – Needs To Improve Lousy Recommendations8 February 2010, 4:10 pm
I like Chomp quite a bit as an iPhone apps discovery and recommendations app, but the more I use it the more I’m finding that its recommendations are utterly useless.
The parts of the app I like are the live reviews from users – seeing them and contributing my own. When I go to the [...]...
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A Homescreen Clean-up Experiment – Part Two [iPhone Tips and Tricks]7 February 2010, 11:13 pm
Last week I talked about an homescreen experiment I was going to do. I’m pretty happy with the result, but before I start to show it to you I’d like to make a recap of what it actually is, quoting Minimalmac:
See here is the deal, I have come to believe that the only icons that [...]...
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Review: Star Walk for iPhone, a personal planetarium [iPhone App Reviews]7 February 2010, 11:03 pm
Have you ever looked up at the night sky, seen a brighter-than-normal object and wondered, “hmm… is that a planet? Which one?” Given the curiosity of my kids and wife, it’s great to have a personal planetarium that can answer that, and much, much more. Vito Technology’s Star Walk takes a “stellar” approach by making [...]...
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Sprintboard: free minimalist iPhone mod for quickly selecting a home screen [Jailbreak Apps]7 February 2010, 10:58 pm
Here’s a free jailbreak mod you might want to check out if you’re tired of swiping through one home screen at a time. Sprintboard lets you swipe over the dotted area (right above your dock icons) to skip to any home screen you want. As developer Zmaster states, it’s a lot like the alphabet bar [...]...
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Why Does Using Cydia Have To Suck So Much?7 February 2010, 9:12 pm
As I’ve mentioned before, I have great respect for Saurik, who runs Cydia, for his huge and positive contributions to the iPhone jailbreak community. I’m sure running Cydia is no easy task, but on days like today I really just wonder does using Cydia really have to suck so much.
Cydia is, rightly, considered to [...]...
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New: Things Plugin for LockInfo [iPhone Jailbreak Apps]7 February 2010, 8:52 pm
Things has been my favorite task manager app on the iPhone and the desktop for a long while. It is one of my favorite and most-used apps, an every day essential.
Up until today, I’d never been too tempted to try the jailbreak LockInfo app. Today a Things plugin for LockInfo was released in [...]...
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SlingPlayer iPhone App to Work on AT&T 3G [Updated]5 February 2010, 2:34 pm
SlingPlayer fans can rejoice now. The SlingPlayer iPhone app when it came out was crippled by AT&T.
The SlingPlayer iPhone app ($29.99) so far could only work on WiFi and not on 3G data connection. AT&T has finally removed this restriction and you could stream your Sling Media to your iPhone over 3G network connection.
In fact, [...]...
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How to Speed Up iPhone and iPod Touch Sync?4 February 2010, 6:37 pm
Have you been getting annoyed by the insane amount of time your iPhone or iPod Touch takes to sync?
At most instances, it is the backup piece of the sync process that tends to take an inordinate amount of time. Also, if you had already synced once in the day and just want to sync some [...]...
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PasteFire 1.1 Gets Push Notifications3 February 2010, 1:00 pm
Pastefire is an iPhone app that lets you easily transfer content from your desktop to your iPhone.
If you haven’t already, read our PasteFire iPhone app review here.
Pastefire version 1.1 has gotten a few nice enhancements
Push notifications
New Settings section
Longer text
Unicode support
Auto-detection of certain URLs
Save to gallery with preview
Print with printmagic
Spot with Gowalla
Track with Suivissimo
Show in large [...]...
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iPad Complete iPhone Winterboard Theme1 February 2010, 8:01 pm
One of the big reasons to jailbreak your iPhone is the Winterboard themes that can make your iPhone your own!
Apple just recently announced the iPad last week. If you liked it’s look and feel there are a few iPad like Winterboard themes already.
I found the iPad Complete theme to be the one I liked the [...]...
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Best iPhone Podcast Client – RSS Player28 January 2010, 9:28 pm
Ever since I bought my iPhone 3GS, I started consuming information via a new medium. Podcasts.
If you are already a podcast listener, you might agree with me when I say this. Podcasts are very engaging as you get to hear people talking about the stuff you are interested in. It is way better than reading [...]...
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Apple Tablet aka iPad Revealed At Apple Event27 January 2010, 7:06 pm
Steve Jobs just announced the Apple iPad at the Apple Event! Here is what I gathered from listening to live stream of audio from the event and following the live blogs.
Apple iPad Features
Glossy black surface around the high resolution (?) screen
Mac OS X like dock
Huge virtual keypad just like the iPhone
iPhone like icons on home [...]...
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ProSwitcher Jailbreak App Updates to 1.127 January 2010, 3:09 pm
ProSwitcher is the free, deliciously awesome Palm-Pre style app switcher for jailbroken iPhones available in Cydia. You can read our ProSwitcher review here.
ProSwitcher has updated to version 1.1 with a few fixes
Many bugs fixed
Lock Springboard Card
Better LA support
Improved settings
Return of a few settings
ProSwitcher is a must have for jailbroken iPhones! For example, I just shake [...]...
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Apple Tablet To Be Unveiled Today? Live Blog Links27 January 2010, 2:17 pm
Today is the day when rumors and speculations are either going to come true making our jaws drop or get smashed to smithereens by Apple and have some run of the mill hardware upgrade announcements.
Apple’s event today starts at
08:00AM – Hawaii
10:00AM – Pacific
11:00AM – Mountain
12:00PM – Central
01:00PM – Eastern
06:00PM – London
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Google Voice is Here on iPhone. As a Web App!26 January 2010, 9:58 pm
Google Voice is making waves again in the iPhone world.
Apple rejected Google Voice iPhone app last summer. AT&T and Apple shifted blame on each other with even the FCC getting involved. But, as of today neither Apple or AT&T have budged to approve the Google Voice iPhone app in the App Store even though they [...]...
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Tax Refund Estimate TurboTax iPhone App25 January 2010, 1:08 pm
It’s tax time and the 2009 W2s have started going in the mail to millions of people in the US.
Traditionally, you might have used apps like TurboTax or TaxCut software to estimate your tax refund.
TaxCaster Mobile iPhone app lets you do this simply right from your iPhone.
TaxCaster Mobile is in fact from the [...]...
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Top 25 iPhone Blogs8 February 2010, 4:00 pm
I’m often asked what I think is the best iPhone blog. It’s hard to tell because most iPhone blogs have their own specific topic or their own “voice”. While I do not have one favorite blog (except mine, hehe), there are few I read on a regular basis.
The following is my selection of what I think are top iPhone blogs.
Mac Rumors
Gizmodo
Just Another iPhone Blog
Simple Reviews
Apple Insider
The Unofficial Apple Weblog
iSmashPhone
Apple iPhone School
TiPB
iPhone Atlas
iPhone...
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How to Unlock iPhone 3.1.38 February 2010, 4:29 am
This guide and tutorial will show you how to unlock iPhone 3.1.3 using UltraSn0w or BlackSn0w, depending on your iPhone baseband.
The first step is to jailbreak your iPhone 3.1.3, either with RedSn0w or with PwnageTool. Note that PwnageTool is the preferred method as it helps preserve the baseband.
Now we have 2 options for unlocking, and it all depends on your baseband model:
If your baseband is still at 04.26.08, then you may use UltraSn0w.
If your baseband is at 05.11.07, you may use BlackSn...
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Jailbreak iPhone 3.1.3 with PwnageTool8 February 2010, 4:05 am
The Dev Team released PwnageTool 3.1.5 just a few hours ago. In this guide and tutorial, I will show you how to use PwnageTool to jailbreak iPhone 3.1.3.
Before we get into the details, please make sure you read this article by the Dev Team. It will explain to you what you can and cannot do. It is a very important piece of information that you should not overlook.
If at any point in time you updated your iPhone to firmware 3.1.3, then you also updated your baseband to 05.12.01. If that’s ....
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iPhone News You Missed This Week7 February 2010, 6:00 pm
In case you missed any of this week’s articles, here is a summary of what was posted on the blog within the last few days. As usual, if you like any of these articles, please share them, tweet them, email them or whatever’s clever.
RedSn0w 0.9 is out
Installous is dead
ContactFlow brings coverflow to your contacts
RedSn0w 0.9.3 jailbreak allows tethering of iPhone 3.1.2
499 reasons to buy an iPad
iPhone OS 3.1.3 is out
Traveling with an iPhone: my experience in Bali
Geohot not worki...
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How to Downgrade iPhone 3.1.3 to 3.1.27 February 2010, 4:00 pm
As always when a new firmware is being realeased, there is always a few unlucky people who “accidentally” update or restore to the latest firmware, thus losing their jailbreak and unlock.
In this case, you’d usually want to downgrade your iPhone from 3.1.3 to 3.1.2 simply by downloading 3.1.2 and SHIFT + Restore in iTunes so that you can choose your own firmware to restore to.
The problem is that Apple recently stopped signing all previous firmware versions making it impossible...
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Jailbreak & Unlock iPhone 3.1.3 with Sn0wBreeze? No, Thank You7 February 2010, 3:27 am
The almighty Sn0wBreeze has been recently updated to version 1.4 and although it claims to help jailbreak and unlock iPhone 3.1.3, I recommend to stay away from this tool.
The problem with Sn0wBreeze is that only a very small amount of people actually get it to work. It’s such a small amount that I’ve come to think that it’s the creator himself who leaves comments here and there to make people believe Sn0wBreeze actually works.
In a Sn0wBreeze tutorial I wrote about a week ago,...
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AndroidLock: A Better LockScreen to Protect Your iPhone6 February 2010, 4:00 pm
There are several ways to protect your iPhone by restricting access to it from the lockscreen. You can use the stock feature that allows you to set a password containing 4 numbers. You can use this hack to add an alphanumeric password, or you can use AndroidLock.
AndroidLock is a new application available in Cydia that brings Android’s lockscreen protection to the iPhone. After installing the app, you have to activate it in the Settings.app. To do so, you first have to create a pattern an...
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Adobe Flash and the iGeneration5 February 2010, 4:00 pm
This is a guest post by Polemicist, a loyal blog reader and commenter. If you’d like to guest post on the iPhone Download Blog, please see the guidelines.
What ever happened to this guy?
Developer Jonah Grant submitted an “Adobe Flash mobile” plug-in for the iPhone and iPod Touch’s Safari browser on Friday, April 24 2009.
Maybe Jonah’s plug-in was only an urban legend but I do recall Adobe saying they were working on a new version of Flash for the iPod and iPhone and no...
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My Thoughts About the iPad4 February 2010, 4:00 pm
After giving you 17 reasons why the iPad sucks and 499 why you should buy one, I wanted to share with you what I really think about the iPad.
Underwhelming is the word
All throughout Steve Jobs’ presentation of the iPad, I was waiting for the time I would be amazed and excited. Jobs always does a great job at giving me the chills for his products but this time, he failed to.
When the presentation was over, I really felt underwhelmed. I thought to myself: is this it? There had to be ......
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GeoHot Says “No Jailbreak For You”4 February 2010, 4:36 am
When GeoHot talks, you listen because you never know what he’s up to. Earlier today he gave some pretty disappointing news on Twitter by basically saying that there was no way to jailbreak the latest iPhone 3GS and iPod Touch models on OS 3.1.3, and that there was not much hope for an untethered jailbreak.
But we all know GeoHot and how he likes to be challenged. I’d bet you that he’s dissecting OS 3.1.3 as we speak and looking for some exploit. That’s what I think anyway...
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iSlate, iPad or iTablet would be based on iPhone OS27 January 2010, 11:16 am
McGraw-Hill's CEO confirmed that the new Tablet device from Apple would be based on iPhone OS. That's a big relief for all developers on iPhone and iPod Touch who would be able to continue work on the SDK and release on both platforms.
Apparently, the iTablet will have the iPhone OS 3.2 as a start, let's see tonight for the official launch!!!...
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The Google Phone (Nexus One) is a f*ck you iPhone???6 January 2010, 11:24 pm
Nice parody for the iPhone and the Nexus One:
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7SzB58qHI0]...
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Good news for UK iPhone Customers with Tesco25 November 2009, 12:38 pm
Tesco Mobile (MVNO with O2) is entering the iPhone war, and certainly with attractive prices.
So watch the space and I hope the US will have soon the same competition as UK for the iPhone.
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Best iPhone Sandwich Man ever…26 October 2009, 1:13 pm
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIjBqFMwM08]...
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Apple is responding to Verizon Droid TV Ad…23 October 2009, 9:25 am
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTtEeTuc1Hw]
Original Ad from Verizon:
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPYM-XTqcec]...
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New iPhone Firmware 3.1.214 October 2009, 9:24 am
Well it's mostly bug fixing, so we will see, I actually experienced some bugs reported, so cross fingers now...
Official information about it:
"iPhone OS 3.1.2 Software Update
This update contains bug fixes and improvements, including the following:
• Resolves sporadic issue that may cause iPhone to not
wake from sleep
• Resolves intermittent issue that may interrupt cellular
network services until restart
• Fixes bug that could cause occasional crash during
video streaming
P...
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Finally Flash Animation on the iPhone, well kind of6 October 2009, 10:43 am
Adobe took a new strategy to put Flash animations on the iPhone, with the release later this year of Flash Pro CS5 Beta, Adobe will enable any Flash developer to create an iPhone application (.ipa file) and then the developer could send it to Apple for approval.
So it is definitely for Flash games on the iPhone, unfortunately, no Safari plugin to be able to see flash animations on web pages.
Quick video to explain it:
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3CI5GyNXoA]...
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Vodafone is ready for the iPhone as well in the United Kingdom29 September 2009, 1:22 pm
Big news today, Vodafone is also coming in the UK iPhone market later this yeat. So now I guess all American customers of AT&T are waiting to have the same kind of choice as in UK, because AT&T hasn't been known as being a good mobile operator with the iPhone.
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Orange in UK is going to sell finally the iPhone29 September 2009, 8:40 am
After being the partner of Apple in France, Orange will sell the iPhone later this year in UK.
That's very good news for customers, who were quite disappointed about the upgrade from iPhone 3G to iPhone 3GS for existing customers with O2.
The competition on prices could finally start!!!
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App Store has reached 2 Billion downloads!!!28 September 2009, 3:59 pm
It's going faster and faster with 85,000 Apps on board in the most successful Application marketplace so far.
It is incredibly successful, and will it slow down? Apparently, the numbers are quickly going up....
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New MobileMe Gallery App for iPhone14 January 2010, 6:00 pm
The MobileMe Gallery app provides a great new way to view published photos and movies directly on your iPhone or iPod touch. You can flick left or right to move through photos, pinch to zoom, or rotate your iPhone or iPod touch for a landscape view. The MobileMe Gallery app automatically stores photos you've viewed so you can quickly access them again, even without a network connection. And you can easily view friends' public galleries by selecting them from your iPhone contacts or entering th...
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Use Your Gallery as Holiday Central for Family and Friends23 December 2009, 6:00 pm
Your MobileMe gallery has a great way for your family and friends to view and share holiday photos in one place, whether they are celebrating under the same roof or in a different country. You simply set up a new album in your gallery and enable all of MobileMe's sharing features. Then everyone can participate right on the web.
Simply log in to me.com/gallery. Click the "+" button at the bottom to create an album and check all the options under Allow to enable others to download and upload pho...
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MobileMe iDisk App Updated16 December 2009, 5:00 pm
With Mobile iDisk 1.1 for iPhone, you can now copy and paste images in your iDisk to another application — Mail for instance — or save them to your camera roll. Simply view the image from your MobileMe iDisk, tap and hold it, and then select Save Image to save to your camera roll, or Copy so you can paste it later into another application. The update also adds email address auto-complete to make sharing files easier than ever. When sharing a file, just begin typing your recipient's ...
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Use MobileMe Gallery Albums as a Mac Screensaver25 November 2009, 5:00 pm
On any Mac running Snow Leopard, you can use MobileMe Gallery public albums (albums that aren't hidden or password-protected) as a screensaver — it's another great way to share albums with friends and family. Simply use the Desktop & Screen Saver tab in System Preferences, click the plus sign and choose Add MobileMe Gallery. Then enter your member name or the member name of a friend or family member, select the albums you want to use as a screen saver and the effects you'd like to apply, ...
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Mac OS X Snow Leopard Update Available10 November 2009, 6:00 pm
The newly released Mac OS X v10.6.2 update improves MobileMe iDisk and syncing performance and is recommended for all MobileMe members running Snow Leopard(Mac OS X v10.6 or v10.6.1). Click here for more details....
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iDisk Public Folder Updated9 October 2009, 4:10 pm
Your iDisk Public folder, a place where you can share files with friends, now matches the look of me.com and supports drag and drop for moving files between folders. You can manage your Public folder preferences at me.com including allowing visitors to upload, move, and delete files, and setting a password to protect your Public folder. To edit preferences simply click the Action button (gear icon) in the iDisk web application and select Preferences. You can then upload or move files to your Pub...
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Recent MobileMe Service Improvements9 October 2009, 4:00 pm
As part of an update to the MobileMe web applications, you can now access Find My iPhone directly from the MobileMe toolbar. This support article contains information about this and other service improvements.
A reminder: for the best MobileMe experience you should use the latest version of Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard (if you use a Mac), iTunes 9 and MobileMe Control Panel 1.5 (if you use a PC), and iPhone OS 3.1 (if you use an iPhone or iPod touch)....
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Software Updates Bring MobileMe Improvements10 September 2009, 11:00 pm
With the releases of iPhone OS 3.1 Software Update, Mac OS X Snow Leopard, and MobileMe Control Panel 1.5 for Windows we've made several improvements to the MobileMe service. For a summary of the changes, read this support article....
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Set a Passcode Lock with Find My iPhone9 September 2009, 7:05 pm
With Find My iPhone, you can help protect the information on a missing iPhone by remotely assigning a four-digit passcode lock. This is especially useful if you've never set a passcode before or if you want to set a new one.
To use this new feature, first install the iPhone OS 3.1 Software Update. Then if you want to remotely set a passcode lock, log in to your MobileMe Account, choose Find My iPhone in the column on the left, and click Remote Lock....
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New MobileMe Control Panel for Windows Improves Calendar and Bookmark Sync9 September 2009, 7:00 pm
With the new MobileMe Control Panel for Windows version 1.5 you can assign your primary MobileMe calendar to sync with the default calendar in Microsoft Outlook.
Any other MobileMe calendars you have will continue to sync with Outlook and appear as separate calendars. The new control panel also delivers improvements for syncing bookmarks between Internet Explorer and Safari, and provides compatibility withWindows 7.
If you are already using the MobileMe Control Panel, you can simply upgrade to...
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How to Use UITextField in iPhone Programming8 February 2010, 6:30 pm
Here is the standard way of getting user input and then using the input in your app.
UITextField works with the delegation pattern in Objective-C. That is, you need to designate an object to act “on behalf” of the text field object. In this video I show you how to use the UITextField to ask a [...]...
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iPood: What The iPad Means For Mobile Apps5 February 2010, 1:00 pm
In this week’s show I share my thoughts on Apple’s iPad announcement last week.
Show Notes
iPood
You may have wondered why I missed the last podcast… Well, the reason is that I was meeting my new daughter: Keira Ruby! Just want to welcome her as the newest member of the mobile app family (iPood: there is an [...]...
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Here is How You Use the Segmented Control [UISegmentedControl]4 February 2010, 6:29 pm
A segmented control displays a list of options that a user can choose from. Each segment sort of looks like a button; the segments remains “pressed” even after the user lifts his or her finger.
You can detect when a different segment is selected and also what corresponding value in an array (that you supply) is [...]...
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How To Use UIScrollView in Your iPhone App1 February 2010, 6:28 pm
Sometimes you would like to be able to display an image or view that is larger than the iPhone or iPod screen. UIScrollView gives you this ability plus the feature of zooming using the pinch gesture. This video will show you how to implement this in your own iPhone app. Source Code follows video.
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Examples of Objective-C Loops25 January 2010, 6:27 pm
Using loops to repeat actions in programming is a common task. Objective-C does this chore in more or less the same way as other programming languages. However, if you are still unfamiliar with the Objective-C syntax you may feel a little disoriented.
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How to Make Your iPhone App Send Email with Attachments21 January 2010, 6:25 pm
Would you like your users to be able to send email with attachments from your app?
In iPhone OS 3.0 you can easily send pictures and voice recordings from your app in an email. In fact, now your emails can be easily formated using HTML and once the user has finished the email control returns back [...]...
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How To Add A Nice Background Image To Your Grouped Table View18 January 2010, 6:24 pm
Are you tired of your table views having the standard, boring, gray and white striped background?
Adding a nice image or pattern to your table views is one way of putting a little extra gloss to your UI. This is important, because gloss sells… However, if you have tried to do this yourself you already know [...]...
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3 iPhone Programming Tutorials Unveiled14 January 2010, 6:24 pm
Here are three tutorials that will get you up to speed quickly with iPhone development. The first two are are regular articles that you can get over at our sister site.
The last is actually the first module in our upcoming ecourse, Getting Started With iPhone Development. This module not only shows you how to [...]...
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How Much Does it REALLY Cost to Become an iPhone Developer?11 January 2010, 5:30 pm
The short answer to this is $99. This is how much it technically cost to get a license from Apple that will let you put your iPhone apps on your phone. Lately, I’ve been thinking about what the overall cost of learning iPhone programming was for me. Maybe this is just because this is the [...]...
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Episode 6: Do You Have Your Business Firewall Installed?7 January 2010, 10:01 pm
In this week’s show I talk about my business goals for 2010, Nexus One and I answer a question from Andrew about Business …
BREAKING NEWS!!! I have just leaked the second secret bonus to the upcoming iPhone App Development Mastery ECourse (Silver Subscription). Read more here: Mobile App Mastery, Secret Feature #2 Unveiled!
…Entities (your [...]...
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Celebrate Self-Mutilation With The Rate My Piercing App9 February 2010, 8:54 am
Ok, let’s get one thing straight, KRAPPS is not a psychology site … nor do we pretend to be one on TV. But if you haven’t noticed, we’ve made some keen observations regarding human nature in many of our previous articles. Sex sells … farts are funny … shaking a baby to death is not [...]...
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Exclusive – Peyton Manning Seen Using iPhone App During Super Bowl8 February 2010, 8:59 am
The Indianapolis Colts and New Orleans Saints played in Super Bowl XLIV (that’s “44” for the Roman numerically challenged) yesterday and damn … what a helluv a football game. The Colts took a quick 10-0 lead, but ultimately it was the Saints who fought back and won in thrilling fashion, 31-17. Congrats to the Saints [...]...
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Recap: Week Of February 1 – plus Big Sale On These iPhone Games7 February 2010, 8:08 am
In case you missed any of our perfect iPhone chaos, quick links to this week’s articles.
February 1: Smell Like Ass? The iPhone Can Help!
February 2: I Just Made Love – Use The iPhone To Tell The World Where You’ve Had Sex
February 3: Dad Gives Baby His iPhone As A Teether – Why?
February 4: Sorority [...]...
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LED Football For iPhone – Flashing Blips Excite Us (free this weekend)6 February 2010, 8:44 am
(written by guest author Tim Giron. follow Tim on Twitter @timgiron)
Good evening sports fans and welcome to this, the LED Football 2 [iTunes $0.99] championship game. The blips are taking the field and we are anxiously anticipating the return of one of the brightest blips to ever grace this game: your quarterback. And what [...]...
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Lusting After Armpits? Satisfy Your Needs With The Pits App!5 February 2010, 10:01 am
Since it’s our job to report on the outer edges of the App Store, we come across a lot of really weird shit. And we’re not just talking farts, zits, vomit or boobs … those apps are totally tame compared to some of the subject matters we’ve seen. Got a fetish for old folks … [...]...
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Sorority Pillow Fights App – Must Resist!4 February 2010, 8:57 am
[must resist … must resist … must resist]
It saddens us to write this article because we know better … and yet, we failed. We know better than to fall for some cheap sleazy app featuring scantly clad smokin’ hot chicks with big boobs … and yet, we flopped. Exactly what caused our failure to [...]...
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Dad Gives Baby His iPhone As A Teether – Why?3 February 2010, 8:32 am
Meet Oliver. He’s so cute! He likes to chew things … shoes, bottle caps, books, the coffee table. You name it, he’ll chew it. Now you gotta give Oliver a break … he’s only six months old and like most rugrats, a human vacuum cleaner. If anything is within Oliver’s reach, it goes in the [...]...
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