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Remember Sleep Cycle for iPhone? You know, the iPhone app that helps you keep track and monitor your sleeping patterns? I’ve been using it for quite awhile now, and I’ve got to say, the app is still slick. However, in an effort to make the app slicker than ever, an update has been released, and…
More often than not, passionate people will find alternate uses for today’s technology. Case in point today, the iPad Protest Sign. For real. During a recent Lithuanian protest, an iPad was spotted in use as a vehicle to carry his message. Yes, a protest sign. Folks at the gathering noticed one person that had an…
Mark Papermaster is a man whose name is most commonly associated with the issues that plague the antenna in Apple’s fourth generation iPhone. The 49 year old was picked up by Apple after working at IBM for over 25 years where he was, among other things, Vice President of Microprocessor Technology Development. This guy was…
Ever download an app for your iPhone that was… well… just plain crap? Sure, we all have. Speaking from experience, I’ve gone through many a crappy app, and I end up grumbling to myself things like ‘piece of #$*!’, ‘I can’t believe I paid for this’, or ‘I want my money back’. Wait… I want…
As a youngster, I remember the game ‘Splatterhouse’ quite vividly. A neighbour and friend of mine had the good fortune of having a TurboGrafx 16, and as luck would have it… he invited me over to play ‘Splatterhouse’ one day. I clearly remember wondering if my parents would approve of such a game (they wouldn’t)……
iOS 4.2 is ready to land soon and developers, both official and unofficial, are preparing their wares for this upcoming release. Cydia, the de facto app store for jaibreakers, is reportedly ready for primetime and will be available once iOS 4.2 hits handsets and is promptly jailbroken. Due to the myriad of changes introduced with iOS 4.2, the upcoming…
Gorillaz is moving into the future and has recorded its latest album with the Apple iPad, and it’s set to be released before the holidays. We’ve seen all kinds of musical performances, recordings and the like with iOS devices before (most notably with my dear friend Rana Sobhany – the iPad DJ), but to see…
The Apple iPhone app Bump continues to get better, as the sharing application has just added the ability to share music by bumping devices. The Bump 2.2 version for the Apple iPhone and iOS devices now lets you show off your tunes by bumping. You don’t actually transfer the song itself, but the recipient will…
Apple said it will be handing the reigns over to Oracle for Java, as it will be contributing its key components of Java Mac OS X to the OpenJDK project. The move accomplishes a couple of things: it allows Apple to focus on its own software without having to preload Java and it could also…
iOS 4.2 may land November 16th, according to a rumor out of iPhoneHellas. This new information lines up with a report from German blog Macerkopf.de that suggests Apple has removed the November 12th date from carrier builds. The highly anticipated iOS build was expected to land on November 12th but that target date was reportedly pushed back due to an unexpected…