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Talk about a useful app for the New Year’s Eve – BreathalEYES will use the iPhone’s built-in camera to measure your (or your buddies’) Blood Alcohol Content (BAC). The software looks for the presence of Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus (HGN) in the eye to do its magic, returning accurate results between BAC 0.02%-0.17%. As I don’t…
In an attempt to rectify issues with Argentina’s economy, the South American country placed a temporary ban on imports of foreign-made electronics. Two of the most well-known of those electronics are the iPhone and BlackBerry devices. Apple and RIM collectively account for 60 percent of Argentina’s smartphone market, so the ban is going to have…
Hacker ‘chpwn’ introduced Spire a few days ago, his own unique hack to get Siri on older, jailbroken iPhones and unlike previous Siri ports, this one is completely legal and free of any copyrighted binaries. Unfortunately, it’s not very useful to most consumers, since it requires a bit of technical work. Here’s the process. Spire…
We know that many of you were asking for and may have received an iPhone for the holidays and even though it’s quite an intuitive experience, we thought we could provide a simple guide for setting up and getting the most out of your new Apple smartphone. This should be applicable to all iPhones but…
Things in Europe aren’t exactly going too well. Unemployment has become a serious issue in several of the bigger countries, the Euro is losing value against other currencies, and in some places there’s even riots taking place thanks to the steep tax hikes that governments are putting in place to reduce sovereign debt. Add all…
Are you happy with your iPad? If you said “yes,” you’re not alone, as a survey from the Software Usability Research Laboratory testing customer satisfaction for the Apple iPad, 83.65 percent of respondents indicated that they were satisfied with the tablet. The survey covered a range of other topics involving the iPad such as how user friendly…
Apple iPhone and iPod touch owners running the now antiquated iOS 3.1.3 are having trouble browsing through the App Store and worse, downloading any new apps. A thread on Apple Support Communities was started four days ago bringing the complaint to public attention and it still has not received an official confirmation from Apple. The…
After bringing the Timeline feature to its Android app and the mobile web, Facebook’s iPhone application is now getting the same treatment, too. Yep this means you’ll be able to keep up with your virtual and real-life buddies in real-time, presuming you enabled the feature on the web version. In addition, this release also gives…
Apple released a new build of iOS 5.0.1 a few days ago, but no one knew what differentiated it from the previous build until now. It was actually issued to fix SIM card errors that certain iPhone 4S owners have been experiencing, according to one Apple support page. Specifically, the phone would have trouble recognizing…
America’s insistence on being politically correct has gutted the once joyous holiday spirit. The new rules say that shouting “Merry Christmas” might offend people of other religions. Instead of acknowledging that America is the beautiful result of what happens when more than two centuries worth of immigration takes place, we’re forced to surrender any sort…