Archive | December, 2008
AT&T sells refurbished iPhone for $99
Who needs Walmart when you can get a refurbished 8GB iPhone from AT&T for the low low price of 99 bucks. The 16GB iPhone is also part of the deal and can be purchased for $199 from AT&T’s refurbished cellphone page over here.
Continue reading...iPhone Nano knockoffs hit the streets of Thailand
26. December 2008
Wow. There are already iPhone Nano imitators hitting the streets of Southeast Asia, and it’s pretty ridiculous when you think about it – knocking off a product that hasn’t even been announced, and potentially might not even/ever exist. Check out the photos below courtesy of AppleInsider. AppleInsider has more on the story over here.
Continue reading...iTunes App Store – The top Technological Breakthrough of 2008
26. December 2008
Wired has a list of the top 10 technological breakthroughs of 2008 with the iTunes App Store coming in at #1. Until this year, mobile app developers lacked an easy way to get their software into the hands of consumers, forcing them to make deals with finicky and power-hungry carriers if they wanted to get any [...]
Continue reading...Obamafy yourself with Photo Booth
26. December 2008
If any of you left-leaning Mac users have some time to kill, check out this Photo Booth plugin that mimics Obama’s ‘Hope’ poster. The plugin was created by Dubi Kaufmann and can be downloaded (with instructions) from his website. And sorry Tiger/Panther users, the plugin only works with Leopard.
Continue reading...“What the death of VHS means to the Mac”
26. December 2008
AppleTell has a great article about the evolution of the Mac, and how Apple has constantly succeeded in staying relevant in the tech industry. It’s a great read, and highly recommended. Find some snippets below. Wireless networking, ripping CDs, editing movies—these are all ideas that were added to the computer; “Macintosh” is more of a [...]
Continue reading...Patent application suggest new multi-touch gestures for the iPhone
26. December 2008
MacRumors has the scoop on new patent filings by multi-touch guru Wayne Westerman that shed some light on what multi-touch gestures might soon be coming to your iPhone. The multi-touch gestures generally relate to making typing more efficient by giving often used characters and commands their own specific swipes. For example, a one finger swipe [...]
Continue reading...Apple, Microsoft, and Google sued over File Preview
25. December 2008
If you’re gonna go, go strong. That appears to be the strategy of Cygnus Systems, an Arizona company who on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against Apple, Microsoft, and Google. A trifecta of sorts. The lawsuit alleges that the above-named companies all have products that implement a file preview feature, which allows users to preview the [...]
Continue reading...Crayon Physics Drawing Game coming soon to the iPhone
24. December 2008
A cool physics based crayon drawing game is coming to the iPhone and iPod Touch sometime in the next week or two, and it’s called, surprise surprise, Crayon Physics. What is crayon physics exactly? Well, think of a more polished and full-featured version of Line Rider. Crayon Physics also has a decent pedigree to [...]
Continue reading...Walmart Ad’s for the iPhone begin to appear
24. December 2008
Just in time for Christmas! Oh wait, let me rephrase that.. Just in time for the Sunday after Christmas! $197 for a 8GB iPhone from Walmart and $297 for the 16GB model. I’m curious, though, as to where and how the 2 dollar Walmart discount came from.
Continue reading...iPhone tops BlackBerry Storm in user satisfaction
24. December 2008
In a recent customer satisfaction survey by ChangeWave, iPhone users were significantly more satisfied with their device than BlackBerry Storm users. MacWorld has more on the story over here.
Continue reading...iPhone fart app brings in $10,000 a day
24. December 2008
Unbelievable. VentureBeat has the full scoop over here. Developer InfoMedia (Joel Comm), which makes iFart Mobile [iTunes link], has been releasing the download statistics for the app each day since it launched. The $0.99 app has been in the top 100 paid apps everyday since its launch, and has seen great growth. In fact, yesterday [...]
Continue reading...iBoobs rejected from iTunes App Store
23. December 2008
In a move that should surprise no one, but disappoint many, Apple has rejected the iBoobs app from the App Store. Apple, which recently accepted a bevy of farting apps and even an app that simulates smoking, has clearly loosened up its stringent app store guidelines, but not so much so that iBoobs would able [...]
Continue reading...Possible iPhone Nano Renderings?
23. December 2008
There sure is a lot of iPhone Nano news coming down the pipeline these days. Most recently, someone just submitted (anonymously, of course) the above photo to MacRumors. Could this really be the much talked about, yet never before seen iPhone Nano? Does it really exist?! Well, we wouldn’t count on it. While a smaller [...]
Continue reading...Peeps is now live on the App Store
23. December 2008
Peeps is a great app that lets you organize your contacts in a slick coverflow-esque manner, and after a few missteps, it’s now available on the App Store for $1.99. If you recall, Peeps was initially banned from the App Store because Apple thought the developer used prohibited API’s in his implementation of CoverFlow. Alas, [...]
Continue reading...John Gruber takes on iPhone Jailbreak Goddess Erica Sadun
23. December 2008
John Gruber over at DaringFireball has an interesting post discussing the use of public vs. private API function calls in regards to iPhone development. In it, he chastises Jailbreaking guru Erica Sadun for taking what he deems to be a Laissez-faire attitude/approach when writing about and informing others about the risks developers might encounter when [...]
Continue reading...More hints of an iPhone Nano surface
22. December 2008
MacRumors is reporting that a case manufacturer named XSKN has a section on their website that makes reference to a an “iPhone Nano”. XSKN gained some notoriety earlier this year when it began selling cases for the then-unreleased iPhone 3G. The company again received headlines in September with case images of unreleased 4th Generation iPod [...]
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26. December 2008
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