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Through the years, Apple products have gotten some fancy treatment from third-parties. We’ve seen gold-plated iPhones, diamond-encrusted iPods and sparkly iPads. This time we’re looking at a Gresso iPad, complete with 200-year-old African Blackwood and 18k gold. It used to be that running around with a fancy iPad was enough to induce envy from your…
Patents are a funny thing. Depending on how you view economic progress, they’re either essential for companies to even dare try to innovate, or lethal because they hold back any and all experimentation. I fall into the latter camp, and one of the latest patents out of Apple really take the cake. The California company…
If you’re like me, the Back to the Future Trilogy was well and truly part of your happy childhood. With fond memories of those movies clear as day in your head, chances are you will do anything to make time travel possible… and, if you know your facts about time travel like I do, you’ll…
I promised to keep all of you gamers up-to-date on the new ‘Back to the Future‘ title coming out for iOS… and over the holidays, there was some movement on this front. Just before Christmas, Telltale games released the PC and Mac version of Back to the Future: Episode 1… much to my delight. It’s…
The introduction of the Apple iPad and iBooks had some predicting that the Amazon Kindle and others e-readers were heading for a quick demise. That’s not the case, Amazon says, as many readers are purchasing an iPad and Kindle. “We’re seeing that many of the people who are buying Kindles also own an LCD tablet.…
T-Mobile is always cracking me up. In a recent commercial, the carrier pokes fun at the iPhone 4 and AT&T. Apparently, FaceTime – a video calling feature available only on the iPhone 4 – can’t be fully supported by AT&T’s network, hence its Wi-Fi only limitation. Fair enough, but wasn’t T-Mobile the one whining last…
What does it take to be a successful app? When it boils down to it, I think you just need to deliver what the people want in a technically proficient way. This is exemplified by the Bible.is app hitting more than 1 million downloads in about five months. The Bible app is available for the…
In a bit of a turnaround, Papa John’s has just released an iPhone app after previously saying it didn’t need to. While rivals like Pizza Hut had apps out years ago, Papa John’s previously called an iPhone app a “dud” and it instead focused on the mobile web. Now that there are more than 50…
Stuck on an older version of iOS because the latest and greatest isn’t supported by your favorite jailbreak method yet? Fret not as the iPhone Dev Team now has redsn0w for iOS 4.2.1 in the beta stage of an untethered jailbreak right now. The beta tester phase ought to iron out the kinks and bugs…
The world was in disbelief when Apple took the plunge into the mobile phone market in 2007. That year during WWDC, Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone, a wondrous little device that made phone calls, surfed the Internet and replaced the iPod – all in one. The initial reaction from competitors, or soon-to-be competitors since Apple…