iPhone Apps
Lightning Review: Touchgrind for iPhone and iPod Touch [Review]
The App: A multitouch skateboarding game that uses your fingers as legs. It's like a Tony Hawk game, but you're looking straight down at the board and kickflipping with your index finger. It's got tut ....... read more
1 day ago
Dealzmodo Review: The $300 Sonos Rig [Review]
I love Sonos, the super synced-up wireless music home system, but have always been a little freaked out by the price, about $750 to start, including the increasingly old-school-looking $400 scroll-whe ....... read more
9 days ago
Google's iPhone Voice Search Mobile App Now Available [Google]
That Google Mobile for iPhone with talky talky search action is now up. Our own impressions of it are good. When you're not in a noisy place (or another phone is ringing in the background) it can pr ....... read more
15 days ago
Google Adding Advanced Voice Search to the iPhone [IPhone]
Google has created an app for the iPhone that will give the handset advanced voice recognition, reports John Markoff from the NY Times. The app can answer location related questions (Finding the neare ....... read more
18 days ago
Apple Rejects CastCatcher 1.3 App for "Transferring Excessive Volumes of Data" [Apple]
I think Apple's rejection of the latest update to CastCatcher—an internet radio app—is the first we've seen because it "transfer[s] excessive volumes of data over the cellular network." In ....... read more
22 days ago
Hey New York Times! Fix Your Stupid iPhone App [Whining]
If you'll allow me, I'd like to unleash a small personal diatribe. I promise it'll be brief. But I've been suffering through the buggy pile of crap that is the New York Times iPhone app for long enoug ....... read more
22 days ago
Apple Really Wants You to Rate Apps in iPhone 2.2 [Iphone 2.2]
Apple continues to try to make iPhone app ratings genuinely useful—first by making sure you own 'em before you slam 'em—and in the iPhone 2.2 update, apparently, by getting you to actually ....... read more
Tue,
28 Oct 2008
The iPhone Development Gag Order Is Dead [Bang, Bang]
After promising they would axe the beyond-draconian NDA preventing developers from discussing the details of their own applications, Apple has followed through and released a revise that allows the de ....... read more
Fri,
24 Oct 2008
Please Fix the iPhone Site Bugs Jobs About Your Biggest iPhone Complaints [IPhone]
Have problems with the iPhone? Who doesn't? Sure, it's an amazing piece of gadgetry, but countless bugs and glitches have plagued the Apple product from the beginning. Now networking company Fullsix ....... read more
Fri,
24 Oct 2008
iPhone-Backgrounder Hack Brings True Background Multitasking to iPhone Apps [IPhone]
iPhone-Backgrounder (available for jailbroken iPhones via Cydia) brings another much-desired functionality that Apple's not allowing for legit apps?the ability to run in the background. After installi ....... read more
Thu,
02 Oct 2008
iPhone Will Get Adobe Flash Soon, If Apple Says OK [Same As It Ever Was]
If you're still clamoring for Adobe Flash support to get Hulu on your iPhone, I've got good news and bad news. The good news is that Adobe Senior Director of Engineering Paul Betlem says that as soon ....... read more
Tue,
30 Sep 2008
Facebook 2.0 Now Available on iTunes [Facebook 2.0]
Hey social networking fans, Facebook 2.0 has been released and is now up for download at the iTunes app store. With the newest version, you can get notifications, friend requests full news feeds, new ....... read more
Mon,
29 Sep 2008
Nine Inch Nails Version of Tap Tap Revenge Coming to iTunes [Nin]
Tapulous—the creators of that Perfect Drug of an appl, Tap Tap Revenge?is partnering up with Nine Inch Nails to put over a dozen of the band's songs in the game. The alliance will be one of the ....... read more
Mon,
29 Sep 2008
Microsoft to Develop Voice-Recognition iPhone App Via Subsidiary Tellme [Worlds, Colliding]
Voice recognition is one if the iPhone gaping-est of holes, but it will soon be plugged by none other than Microsoft. But before you look forward to putting your multitouching fingers all over those g ....... read more
Mon,
29 Sep 2008
iPhone Coasters Convert Any Table into a Jobsonian Device [Art]
From Meninos, the same designers who brought you the Samuel L. Jackson hard drive cases, these iPhone coasters have harnessed fanboy obsession into practical functionality—to protect your table ....... read more
Mon,
29 Sep 2008
Fingers On: Pervy Japanese 'Boob Engineer's' Breast-Fondling App For iPhone [Of Course]
Not satisfied with the amount of boob-touching going on in real life (shocking!), a Japanese programmer after our own hearts created paiTouch (oh wit! pai = slang for boobs)?an iPhone touchscreen vers ....... read more
Wed,
24 Sep 2008
The iPhone Accelerometer is the Best Thing to Happen to Cheating Since the Konami Code [IPhone]
A Macenstein reader may have discovered the first instance of the accelerometer in the iPhone being used to enter a cheat code in a game. He claims that you can start on any level you like in Imagine ....... read more
Tue,
23 Sep 2008
App Store Blacklisting Now Comes With Gag Order [Apple]
Yesterday we reported that the iPhone app MailWrangler had been rejected because it "duplicates the functionality of the built-in iPhone application Mail." What we didn't find out about until today is ....... read more
Tue,
23 Sep 2008
Android's 10 Most Exciting Apps [Best Android Apps]
Amid the iPhone 3G launch hysteria, we made a pronouncement that, looking back now long after the dust has settled, pretty well nailed it: forget hardware, it's code that counts. Code via the jugger ....... read more
Mon,
22 Sep 2008
iPhone Breakout Knockoffs Being Nastygrammed By Atari [Breakout Clone]
Programmers who made knockoffs of the Atari game Breakout are getting nasty letters from the game developer to remove their apps from the iPhone App Store. So far touchArcade says BreakClassic, BreakT ....... read more
Thu,
18 Sep 2008