Get 50 gigs of free space from Box.net on your iOS device Wow, talk about the power and reach of iOS. Box.net is giving away 50 gigs of storage for iOS users. The promotion starts 12:01 AM PST on Friday Oct 14 and runs for 50 days. And its not limited to your iOS device wither, you can use it on your desktop as well. I tried… Read More
How to create custom tones for email alerts on the iPhone Did not think about this till I got the press release, but sounds like a must have. Set custom sounds (think ringtones) for email. The use case is pretty clear. If you get an email from an important client, you may want to have a more urgent ringtone. Friends and family something else, and set… Read More
RIP Steve Jobs. Your work was an exercise in grace. As you all know by now, Steve Jobs passed away today after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. Just as thousand of other tech writers have been doing all day, I felt the need to write something about how Steve and the work he did at Apple. Now I’m not going to gush about his… Read More
The low down on the iphone 4S iPhone 5 still in the works So its the iphone 4S. This is not news since its slipped out last week from an iTunes oversight. The outside is the same, but the internals have changed. The dual-core A5 is the big game changer… for games that is. ** Apple stock has now fallen 3.42 percent, while the NASDAQ is down only… Read More
MobileNoter updated to allow creating oneNote pages on iPhone Took long enough, but finally. You can create a oneNote page with mobileNoter. I have not tried it yet, but wanted to get the word out there. Here is the press release. Yes, it finally happened: we have released a long awaited update for the MobileNoter for iPhone, version 2.4. The most important changes in… Read More
Cool iphone case and wallet that looks like a book I have been using the same simple iphone case since the day I got my iphone4. Its a very think plastic 1 sided case; its gets the job done. Then on laughing squid I came across this Bookbook, an iphone case that doubles as a wallet and looks like a book. Pretty nice. The bookbook… Read More
WANT! iphone ipad controlled Helicopter for $40 with shipping Nice! You can get one of those micro helicopters for around $40 that you can control with your iphone/ipad/ipad. The only thing missing is the video display. I would LOVE to see someone put a small wifi camera on this. I would buy it right now. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/i-helicopter/id439500840?mt=8 http://www.dealextreme.com/p/iphone-ipod-touch-ipad-controlled-rechargeable- DealExtreme, the leading online electronics retailer, unveils… Read More
T-Mobile now has an iPhone friendly micro-Sim. Closer… Great, so now you can get a micro sim from T-Mobile. What does that mean? Well, you may know that over one million iphone are running on the T-Mobile network despite the fact that you cannot run 3G. However, what you may not know is that you have to take a pair of scissors (or… Read More
CoverJam. Semi random slide show on your iphone ipad set to music This will be a quick post. I’ll write up more later, but basically it’s this.. You play music, the app looks for public images in flickr and Instagram that match the title, album or band of the song, and play a slideshow for you. Most likely of the band you are playing. I decided to… Read More
The best replacement app for iphone’s ipod. PanAmp Its no secret I’m not a big fan of the itunes player on the iphone. Navigation is my biggest complaint. Seems someone agrees and created a far better ipod app. PanAmp. There are some many thing this does that its actually better to watch the video. Insert below. My favorite feature is the speed and… Read More
Create an iphone ipad app in a weekend at iOSDevCamp Its iOSDevCamp time again. If you do not know what it is, #iOSDevCamp is a weekend event where iOS devs from all over the country ( and some from outside the US ) come to meet up and try to build an iphone / ipad application in a weekend. This may sound impossible, but after… Read More
iPhone app to auto reply to your twitter and facebook account At first when I read this, I thought; ‘an auto reply for twitter and facebook? NOooooo!’ My worse thoughts was some putting an auto reply that they are eating a sandwich and will be back online in ah hour. Really? You are so locked into your SocMed addition that you have to let people know… Read More
Empire Builder. Kinda like Egyptian SimCity with a function thrown in I just saw this now come through the normal press release wires and thought I would toss it on the site. I have not tried Empire Builder and thus have no idea if its any good, but the graphics look nice and if your into Egyptian history at all, this could be pretty fun. Empire… Read More
20% discount on VentureBeat’s MobileBeat and GamesBeat 2011 MobileBeat 2011 — VentureBeat’s 4th annual flagship conference on the future of mobile — on July 12-13 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, is gathering the brightest minds in the industry to explore this year’s hottest macro trend: the arrival of true mobile computing now that 4G is here. There’s no doubt that 4G… Read More
Civilization Revolution for iPad tips, tricks and cheats Here are a collection of tips and tricks you can use to make Civilization Revolution easier to play and win at. Keep in mind there are not cheats for Civilization Revolution. I have looked.. None. Enjoy! I’ll update and add images later. When you first start, explore fast and always attack barbarians if you find… Read More
Serious challenge to Jailbreakers in iOS 5. Dont upgrade yet iOS 5 is still not official, but you may want to hold off even when it launches. Seems that there have been some major changes to iOS5 that will make jailbreaking much harder. Currently, when you jailbreak you phone, you are basically overriding the OS to allow access to certain API calls that are not… Read More
Stitcher is now my top digital radio app for iphone Android Stitcher has grown enough to be a good digital radio app. Use the desktop version to set up your stations.… Read More
Rage Faces for iPhone and Android for SMS and email in iOS5 I have only just started to see this with people I know, but rage faces are spreading via SMS chat. So I figured I should look up this up. Yes, apps are already in the Apple and Android store and ready to for download. They work well enough. Simply click on the rageface you are… Read More
Apple in-app subscriptions rules have been eased Read this in VB then macRumors. Seems Apple has changed it in-app subscriptions rules such that a subscription does not have to be the “same price or less than it is offered outside the app”. In fact, there are no rules for price period. Apple also removed the requirement that external subscriptions must be also… Read More
Interactive game from McDonald’s, I’m lovin’ it! I am not a fan of the Golden Arches, but I do have to give McDonald’s props for creating Pick ‘n Play. Pick ‘n Play is a Pong arcade game for the iPhone that allows visitors to Stockholm, Sweden to compete against a computer for coupons for McDonald’s menu items. Players connect to the billboard… Read More