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The runaway hit app for the iPhone and iPad this year is undoubtedly Angry Birds. The app has been downloaded approximately a bazillion times and has killed productivity everywhere for the year 2010. Rovio has given us Christmas/holiday versions along with a creepy Halloween version of the avian-versus-swine game. Now, before the year is through,…
Path has been one slick photo-sharing app so far. It allows you to snap photos with your iPhone and share them with your closest friends rather than broadcasting to the entire planet. Its interface is clean and simple to use, and the app itself is fast and isn’t much of a battery hog. Now the…
Thanks in part to the success of the iPhone 4 and the iPad, Apple CEO Steve Jobs was named the Person of the Year by the Financial Times. When you look at the numbers, there’s no choice but to agree. Steve Jobs introduced the iPad in January and it single-handedly sparked off the tablet revolution…
One of my favorite games for the iPad has to be Stick Golf HD. I love to golf, and while the game isn’t a golf game in the classic sense, it is a super-fun side-scrolling golf game chock-full of goodness. That’s why, when I stumbled up on the very new Super Stick Golf for iPhone,…
Urbanspoon, the location-based restaurant-finding app cross-bred with a slot machine, has just added the ability to add pictures and reviews to individual menu items. That also means you can see what dishes look like at particular restaurants, and see if they taste as good as they look. The app’s also available for iPad, Android, and…
Remember that Infinity Blade update I was telling you about last week? Well, it’s here! That’s right, if you crack open the App Store, and flick through your updates tab, an updated version of Infinity Blade should be waiting for your install. For real. The update is dubbed ‘content pack #1’ by the developers, and…
The Apple TV is still considered a “hobby” by Steve Jobs but that hobby is on track to sell more than a million units by this week, the company said. The Apple TV was revamped in September to be a sleeker and, some would say, less advanced device. Gone is the ability to play local…
If you grew up going to your neighborhood arcade on a regular basis like I have in the 90s, then you’ll know there were two fighting game series that were fighting for dominance on a regular basis: Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat. Earlier this year, Capcom released an iPhone version of Street Fighter IV which…
Shaw Wu, an analyst with Kaufman Brothers, says that Verizon sees iPhone as “essential to its future success,” even though AT&T isn’t all that bothered about losing exclusivity. Wu also says that BlackBerry 6-enabled devices will be landing between January and March, which he speculates could be a CDMA version of the BlackBerry Torch (though…
Apple has finally rolled out a way for app makers and content providers to build their own specialized ads for apps and the iAd Producer could help boost its mobile advertising network. Apple rolled out its advertising network as part of iOS 4.0 and it promised to give ads all the functionality of the app…