About: Barbara is a long-time Apple fan who enjoys trying out gadgets just because they're new and learning about all the neat things technology can do even if she doesn't need to do it. You can often find her at a coffeehouse with her boyfriend — just look for the couple with "his and hers" Macbooks.
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Back when this article first hit the ‘net, Nine Inch Nails’ front man Trent Reznor had only recently assailed Apple for blocking an update to the band’s iPhone app because it used “objectionable words.” Apple had long maintained that only G-rated material would make it to the display windows of the App Store. A lot [...]
If you spend time with app community “old timers” you may hear stories about the iPhone gold rush, a time when anyone with an iPhone and a dream could make a million dollars. In fact, some people might tell you, back in the gold rush days you didn’t even need to know how to program [...]
This morning, Apple announced the stats for the Mac App Store’s opening day—drum roll please—over one million apps were downloaded in the first day. “We’re amazed at the incredible response the Mac App Store is getting,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “Developers have done a great job bringing apps to the store and users are [...]
According to the popular list-making website 43things.com, these are the Top 10 New Year’s resolutions of 2011: lose weight; try something new; save money; be happy; achieve an athletic goal; fall in love; take a photo every day; get a job; read more; and quit smoking. Compare it to the list of most popular resolutions [...]
Forget, for a moment, that this article is about finding the most expensive iPhone app and complete the following sentence: For $999, you can… Pay for five laptops for third-world children; Feed and intoxicate yourself and five friends at a decent restaurant; Buy a new wide-screen HDTV Pay rent or mortgage for a month in [...]
Switching from hard cover books to ebooks means more than just having to re-buy your entire collection of Nancy Drew mystery novels. For many bibliophiles it feels like the end of an era. Reading may be considered a brainy activity, but it’s also a tangible experience—from the feel of the paper and the weight in [...]
ESPN is a popular sports network. Pinball is that fun table game you play at bars and arcades. What do they have in common? Admittedly, it’s not a whole lot, but that hasn’t stopped the creation of ESPN Pinball, a colorful and fast-paced game for the iPhone and iPod Touch. ESPN Pinball offers users eye [...]
Apple posted an early-morning message on Monday teasing consumers with the promise of something new to come for the iTunes Store. “Tomorrow is just another day. That you’ll never forget,” reads the message on Apple’s home page. “Check back here tomorrow for an exciting announcement from iTunes.” This has already been a big year for [...]
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. [...]
Notes Plus is a full-featured note-taking application, complete with improvements on almost everything you can do with a pad of paper and a pen. I do have complaints, but they are utopian. Measured against the competition, Notes Plus seems ideal. Measured against the ideal? Well, as someone once said: a man’s reach should exceed his [...]
Lawn Mower Kids is a game where you control kids as they mow lawns around their neighborhood. Trust me: it’s a lot more fun than it sounds. Law Mower Kids is actually a twist on the classic “real-time strategy” gaming genre. Rather than ordering around tanks or legions of soldiers like in Command & Conquer: [...]
Now and then you happen across an app that gives you something mindbogglingly simple yet so functional that you soon wonder how you ever got along without it. Other times, you happen across an app that leaves out so many no-brainers that you find yourself shouting at your iPad screen like an overly immersed audience [...]
Given the interactive, high-resolution touch screen of the iPhone and our primal instinct to smash things that can be smashed, it seems only natural that developers build games to capitalize on this repressed aggression. So, in a sense, a game like Ant Smasher is as inevitable as it is disgusting and, infinitely fun to play. [...]
Okay people, I need your help on this one. Somebody please tell me how Powwownow makes money? The popular conferencing service is now available through this free app. Hurry up and download it before they realize they can’t make it up in volume sales! In all seriousness, what you get when you download the Powwownow app [...]
If you’re of a certain age—read: you’re a college student—you likely already know all about Texts From Last Night, or TFLN for short. TFLN is a Webby Award-winning website, a popular Facebook group, a book, a soon-to-be TV series on the Fox network, and, now, an iPhone app. The basics of the iPhone app are [...]
