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Camera+, my favorite photography app for the iPhone, announced yesterday that it has reached 2 million sales through the iTunes App Store. The app initially launched last summer, but was taken off the market and introduced again late in 2010 after some changes were made to suit Apple’s strict demands. The company behind the app,…
Canada’s General Election is coming up on May 2, 2011, and citizens of the true north strong and free owe it to themselves (and their country) to make an informed vote come election day. With that in mind, I stumbled across a new app from the folks at The Globe and Mail that is a…
When Google Books first came out it was rightly seen as not being quite as good as its competitors like the Amazon Kindle and the iBooks app because it lacked some basic features like having a landscape mode. Well, the Google Books iOS app has just received an update and this includes a few small,…
An Apple discussion board is on fire with issues regarding iOS 4.3.1 and the fact that it may be causing some iPhone handsets to overheat and suffer short battery life. Many users are saying that battery life on the smartphone has decreased dramatically, and that phones will occasionally overheat while in use. Here is what…
A recent survey by ChangeWave asked some 4,000 iPhone owners across AT&T and Verizon about dropped calls, and as you might expect, 4.8% reported dropped calls over the last 90 days on AT&T, while Verizon only reported 1.8%. Despite the difference in call quality, overall customer satisfaction is comparable: 82% of Verizon iPhone 4 owners…
There is currently a lot of speculation as to when the iPhone 5, the next iteration of the Apple smartphone, will be launching. When Apple announced its WWDC event for this year, it seemed like the focus would be primarily on software. This led many to speculate, incorrectly, I believe, that the next Apple smartphone…
With the 2011 Formula 1 season underway, I found myself doing some quick searching around the App Store this evening for some F1 goodness. What I turned up was a little bit of goodness from the folks at ESPN. The ESPN F1 iPhone app brings all the Formula 1 news you can handle… and best…
The Facebook iPhone app has just received a substantial update and the 3.4 version allows you to unfriend on the go, as well as adds improvements to the location-based check-in service known as Places. The updated Facebook iPhone app now lets you ditch your pals on the go. As you can see in the video…
Apple is reportedly mulling putting multiple cameras on the back of the iPhone 5 to enable users to shoot videos and pictures in 3D. The news comes from a patent filing dug up by AppleInsider and it shows that Apple is approaching stereoscopic 3D cameras in a different way. The company is trying to patent…
While Google Android is more closely associated with the hacking/tinkering community, the Apple jailbreak community is nothing to sneeze at. In fact, this is getting so big that Toyota has created a custom theme for Cydia in order to promote its Scion to the iPhone jailbreak community. The iPhone jailbreak community is difficult to quantify…