08 May 2009
Fanboys rejoice, because now there’s an application that will let you “blow, touch, and play” with your iPhone: MyBalloon, an almost-perfect balloon simulator. Let the bad puns begin. Like the really cool iSteam, MyBalloon is one of those nice iPhone toys that will let you do a silly thing for $0.99. It also uses every control [...]
08 May 2009
Straight from the twitter account of the man himself, the NIN iPhone app has been approved and will be available sometime later today “unchanged” from the version that Apple found objectionable. So, it appears that Apple has caved in to the criticism, further illustrating that their approval system is all kinds of messed up. All that [...]
08 May 2009
The gadget: Wazabee 3DeeShell, a screen filter that turns your iPhone screen into a 3D photo viewer. The price: $50 The price, again: $50 (seriously?) The verdict: My eyes are now all screwed up. Seriously. The Wazabee 3DeeShell is essentially an iPhone case built around one key feature: a 3D screen filter. Obviously it can’t turn the [...]
08 May 2009
The official script may have minimized it as a maintenance release, but some users are finding out that iPhone Beta 5 contains more than bugfixes. So far: YouTube’s improved, and hacked MMS is no more. The guys at winandmac say they’ve noticed a change in the YouTube app’s stream handling. Now, instead of defaulting to the [...]
05 May 2009
The New York Times (via Daring Fireball) reports that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is looking into whether the ties between Apple and Google’s respective Boards of Directors violate Section 8 of the Clayton Antitrust Act. The provision is designed to prevent two rival companies from acting in concert to reduce competition. While Google and Apple [...]
05 May 2009
Today AT&T’s very own application, myWireless, was released in the the App Store for all AT&T subscribers to download. myWireless [iTunes Link] is a crafty little app that lets iPhone users manage their AT&T accounts easily from the device itself. You can view your data and minutes usage, view and pay your bill, and you [...]
05 May 2009
FileMaker was gracious enough to provide TiPb with a walkthrough of their just-released Bento for iPhone and iPod touch ($4.99 - iTunes link). Coming as it does from a wholly-owned Apple subsidiary, Bento shows every bit as much polish as the built-in iPhone apps. Features include: 25 pre-designed, ready-to-use templates that can be quickly customized with [...]
05 May 2009
With all of the rejections in the App Store going on as of late it’s about time we have some good news for our pal Trent Reznor - see link above - and all of the developers out there. It seems that Apple has rejected a newspaper reading app, Newspaper(s) [iTunes Link], for containing [...]
05 May 2009
Yes, it’s true. Just like CrackBerry’s reporting. According to NPD (via Engadget), the oldest remaining version of the BlackBerry Curve, when heavily discounted and given away in two-for-one promo deals, briefly regained the #1 best seller position on the smartphone index from the iPhone 3G, which had to settle for a high-margin #2. Also, discounted [...]
05 May 2009
Around August of last year, Wired held a global survey in which iPhone 3G users around the world were asked to record the 3G network speeds on AT&T’s network. The data was then mapped out on a Google map, and the results were fascinating. Now they’re at it again, but this time it’s open to [...]
