The holidays put the kibosh on new apps for several days this week as the App Store was closed to new submissions, but here’s a special edition featuring the best new apps from before and since.
Archives for December 2011
Soon, Your iPhone May Recognize You
A newly uncovered Apple patent application for a new facial recognition technology might let you unlock your device or wake it up from sleep mode simply by putting your face in front of it.
New iPhone 5 Rumors Emerge
The iPhone 4S is just a couple of months old. After the oohs and aahs over Siri, the iPhone 4s is really not that much different from the iPhone 4 so the attention of iPhone fans has again shifted to the real next-gen iPhone, the iPhone 5. We’ve reported a lot about the iPhone 5 […]
Six iPad 3 Concepts
Nothing’s better than using brand new Apple products. But speculating on what the latest and greatest devices might look like and how they’ll work is a close second. From designs Steve Jobs would approve to futuristic technology, this collection of iPad 3 renders is sure to get you excited for Apple’s next big thing.
Review: BeatForge
There are so many apps out there, and iTunes does a terrible job of showing us all of the can’t-miss stuff. Today I’ve got a $.99 app you’ve probably never heard of, but which you every iOS user should own. Because it’s without a doubt one of the coolest apps I’ve ever seen.
A look into Josh Tucker’s Multitasking UI for iOS
Guess what I got for the holidays? An iPhone 4s. Went to the bar, nonchalantly and yeah showed it to friends. This is coming from an Android guy (I had owned an iPad 2 but was never into the iPhone craze) who always felt that a single hardware button wasn’t enough for a phone. I […]
Review: My New Mac, Lion Edition
Apple believes that Mac OS X Lion is the easiest-to-use version of Mac OS ever, so they opted not to create a user manual. Having brought OS X more in line with the intuitive user interface of iOS on the iPad, the theory was that users would already know what to do with Lion, and […]
InstaBG Turns Instagram Photos into Twitter Background
Apple’s iPhone has been largely instrumental in the smartphone explosion we are witnessing right now. It’s iPhone’s versatility that has been largely responsible in presenting us a radically different perspective about what a phone can do. The iPhone and social media go hand in hand. It truly brings the “social” in “social media”, making it […]
Getting Your Head Around the Patent Wars
Everybody knows Apple loves to patent their stuff. It was a way of life for Steve Jobs: create a new innovation in computing — anything from a hardware part to a user interface — and then register it with the government patents office, so (in theory) Apple gets the exclusive rights to use that particular […]
100+ EA Games On Sale for $.99 for Christmas
EA Games has been running a weeks-long promotion lately where a different game every day is sold for a one-day-only sale price of $.99 — or even free. Now they’ve upped the ante by reducing the price of EA’s (almost) every single iOS game to just a buck.
