Nike+ GPS is a study in appropriate technology. The first upgrade that long-time users of the Nike+ GPS app will notice is that the iPhone is now doing what the iPhone has been able to do for a long time: tell where you are. Runners tend not to want things in their shoes other than their feet and socks. Nike initially ignored this, insisting that you have a gizmo in your shoe talking to satellites and then telling your iPhone about it second-hand. Now your iPhone talks to the satellites and then talks to you. Nike also allows your iPhone to convey motivational messages from celebrity jocks. Some users find this motivating, I suppose. Others feel that Lance Armstrong may not, in fact, be impressed in their newfound ability to run seven miles, and therefore find it annoying. Fortunately, you can also rely on a variety of computer voices to give you motivational messages. Well, that’s the twenty-first century for ya: anybody but someone you know is supposed to be your social network, right? (…) Read the rest of Nike+ GPS Brings Accurate Tracking and Social Media Bragging Rights AppCraver.com, 2010. | Nike+ GPS Brings Accurate Tracking and Social Media Bragging Rights | Best iPhone Apps | Best Free Apps

Seeing as it’s natural to hold the iPhone upright, it’s perfectly suited to the vertical shoot ‘em up genre.  We’re big fans of a good shmup and have put together a collection of ten examples available in the App Store.  Many have their own Lite version so you can give them a try first too. If

Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4 was Traveller’s Tales most recent Lego console game and a great addition to their collection of endlessly playable movie adaptations.  As the title suggests, this covered the first four years of Harry’s stay at Hogwarts and aside from a couple of irritations – those stupid monster books – played as

If you’ve not heard of Soundfreaq, don’t worry, as this is their first product release.  Named the SFQ-01A Sound Platform, it’s a speaker dock with Bluetooth for wireless audio playback and there is no denying it has a style all of its own!  It’s not going to be for everyone, but we love those retro

Was there a guy in your sixth-grade class who spent day after day drawing geometric shapes on graph paper, fascinated by the perfect symmetry that medium afforded him? Well, he’s made an app. It’s called Slice It! and it allows you to develop your own compulsive obsession for symmetry, even if you are otherwise healthy. To be fair, Slice It! is an upgrade from sixth grade graph paper. The game will draw the shapes onto the iPhone/iPad touchscreen for you. What you get to do is only slightly less entertaining: you get to slice the shapes into equal-sized bits. Simple enough, right? Slice It! draws a square, you bisect it. Slice It! draws a circle, you cut it into pizza slices. If it were only that easy, there would be no reason to become obsessed. No, this seemingly simple slice it and dice it game has a mean streak. (…) Read the rest of Slice It! This Precision Puzzle Could Become Your Next Obsession AppCraver.com, 2010. | Slice It! This Precision Puzzle Could Become Your Next Obsession | Best iPhone Apps | Best Free Apps

For the uninitiated, HDR photography is all the rage, supplanting tilt-shift photography as the trendiest way to manipulate your photos and earn your Flickr feed a little extra attention. Previously the domain of only high-end digital SLR cameras and pricey photo manipulation software, it has now come to the Apple iPhone, in the form of a handful of competing apps. Pro HDR is among the most popular of these and easily among the top iPhone photo apps , too. So, what is HDR photography anyway? HDR stands for “High Dynamic Range.” The “range” refers to the luminance of the photograph, specifically the difference between the lightest and the darkest parts of the picture. A typical photograph is at the mercy of the lighting conditions of the time and place at which it was taken. A skilled photographer might be able to reduce glare or squeeze a little more detail out of the shadows, but the result will rarely compare to the range of luminance recognized by the human eye. HDR photographs, on the other hand, more closely recreate the experience of being there. The way HDR photography accomplishes this is a bit of cheat: HDR photographs are actually the combination of three exposures. Each exposure will capture a different level of detail, and then the exposures will be combined with an algorithm designed to retain the greatest degree of detail in each photograph. It is a complicated process, so any reader who wonders whether an iPhone app will be capable of pulling it off is justifiably skeptical. Pro HDR, however, will make short work of that skepticism. (…) Read the rest of With Pro HDR Camera App, iPhone Photos Rival the Real Deal AppCraver.com, 2010. | With Pro HDR Camera App, iPhone Photos Rival the Real Deal | Best iPhone Apps | Best Free Apps

Although more will surely follow, here are three Apple iPhone accessories which have already been accepted as honorees of the CES Innovations 2011 Design and Engineering Awards.  All honorees will be featured in the Grand Lobby of the Las Vegas Convention Center and can use an Innovations logo on their packaging. The first is one we’ve

We love the cool, minimalist design of this Bang and Olufsen dock and believe it fits in perfectly with the simple, as-few-buttons-as-possible approach that Apple favors.  You know it’s going to be pricey – it’s made by B&O – but what you may not have guessed is that it’s made for docking the iPad. The tablet

RecipePad – The iPad continues to become a chef’s companion with an increasing number of apps dedicated to the culinary arts. Among the latest is RecipePad , which is usable for creating and saving recipes. You get the most out of RecipePad if you have a Mac and use MacGourmet or Yummy Soup . If so those files can be moved from your desktop to the iPad through iTunes. In many ways it is a pain to have to physically connect the device to a computer just to get files transferred. On the other hand, long-time users of MacGourmet and Yummy Soup will rejoice that they now have the ability to move their recipe collection to the iPad. The interface of RecipePad is very easy to follow and is an excellent way to view the details of a recipe. (…) Read the rest of RecipePad Lets iPad Users Rule the Kitchen, and Organize Recipes AppCraver.com, 2010. | RecipePad Lets iPad Users Rule the Kitchen, and Organize Recipes | Best iPhone Apps | Best Free Apps

The iPhone 4 takes great video, but to make really great video you need to keep the phone as steady as possible, which is never easy when shooting handheld.  Enter the XShot, an iPhone case that has an adapter to allow fitment of any standard tripod. Here is how it works,  The XShot is a hardshell