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iBalls: Steel Game Review

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

The iPhone’s and iTouch’s accelerometer have made for great advances in the world of portable gaming. Before, gamers had to depend on buttons,sticks and triggers to control what goes on in a game. But now we can really get into a game by using motion to get a hands on experience and feel like we’re

Apple Bookworms Rejoice Launch of iBooks

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

With the unveiling of the iPad in full flow, another rumor has been put to bed, Apple’s embrace of the eBook.  Steve Jobs returned to the stage at the event, following various presentations from App makers, to show off their latest application store this time dealing solely with eBooks. Named iBooks, it shares more than a

MyNewPlace App Review

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

With the housing market in crisis, it’s no surprise that hundreds upon thousands of Americans are being forced to move every week. And a lot of them are moving into smaller houses or even apartments. There are plenty of ways to search for apartments, but few ways to do so while disconnected from the computer.

SugarSync app gets an update, now at version 1.54

Sunday, January 24th, 2010

SugarSync is one of the favorite apps on my iPhone, partly because it acts as a backup for the files on my iMac and partly because it allows me to access those files (from my iPhone) while on the go. Sort of dual-featured in that respect. But that aside, the SugarSync team has been offering

Rumor: Apple will not be introducing a subscription music service, instead opting for a streaming service

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

Despite the fact that many have talked about, and long hoped for Apple to begin offering a music subscription service it seems that this upcoming Apple event will unveil cloud based streaming service based on the purchase of LaLa. Of course, as just about any Apple related story at this point — this is still in

ICOON App Review: Travel Talk Made Easy

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

Just about everyone in the world dreams of traveling to distant places, foreign streets and tantalizing new cultures. But the one of the big things that holds a good majority of us back is the dreaded language barrier. Sure, we all probably took a year or two of language in high school, but we remember

Have iPhone battery issues? Here is the solution, according to Woz

Monday, January 4th, 2010

There have been, and likely will continue to be complaints about the battery life with the iPhone. And while some, OK, many will choose to buy one of the many external battery solutions that are available it seems that Steve Wozniak has taken another approach. That approach — a second iPhone. Yup, during a recent interview

FantasyLens App Review: Replace the Face

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

Have you ever been somewhere you can get your picture taken and put it into another. Maybe you want to place your face on a bodybuilders figure? Or see what you’d look like as Mona Lisa? Or how about seeing what you’d look like as an astronaut? Well you don’t have to work out for

FingerPiano App Review: Commander of the Keys

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

Before Apple showed up on the mobile enertainment scene, you were forced to either decide between a work mobile device or a fun one. Well luckily, the iPhone and iTouch can be used as both. Not only can you get your business tasks done with all the various apps, but then you can have a

Apptizer Offers Personalized Recommendations for iPhone Applications, Now Open for Public Beta

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

As the list of applications in the App Store continues to grow, we’re going to see many services popping up that offer different ways to make sense of the clutter. Apptizer offers one potential solution to the problem: Personalized recommendations. The site has recently opened up for anyone to use (after testing the waters with