iOS

When the iPhone 5 ships on September 21, it will include iOS 6 and all of the features the new OS version offers — assuming you're in the United States. Since iOS 6's features are limited depending on what country you're in, Apple put together a Web page detailing where options like 3D Building view…

App Store Screenshot on iOS 6 Beta Chomp is a discovery service that promised users better searches on Apple’s App Store and on what used to be the Android Marketplace. Apple purchased Chomp in April of 2012 for a reported US$50 million—the company dropped support for Android search later that month. Chomp’s app discovery process…

Chess Deluxe for both OS X and iOS have been recently released. (OS X on August 14.) It’s a simple chess program without many features and is designed for casual players and beginners. Cast in that light, it does the job. If you’re looking for a serious chess app, like the kind I’ve reviewed before,…

Last week, Facebook debuted version 5.0 of its mobile app for iOS. The new app promised much faster performance, and a look behind the scenes finds that Facebook was able to achieve these performance gains by dropping HTML 5 and embracing Apple’s Objective-C in developing the app. Slow The app, which accounts for an increasingly…

My daughter is taking my grandson to the zoo tomorrow. He’s one and a half and gets a kick out of seeing all the birds, beasts, and bugs they have on display. He’s starting to talk more. He’s always gibber-jabbered, but now he’s using recognizable words to communicate what he likes and what he wants.…

When you’re confirming or rejecting Faces in iPhoto, you can actually select a big ol’ group of images to categorize instead of clicking on each individually. If you know how to do it, it’s simple, but it’s not easy to figure out how. So choose the Faces section of iPhoto to get started, and then…

TwistedWave Audio Editor is a perfect solution for podcasters, musicians, or anyone looking to add portability to their audio editing workflow. The range of input and output options will impress, as will the layout and functionality. Although, some users will undoubtedly be unimpressed with the lack of multi-track editing. _________________ Features TwistedWave has a solid…

After Mr. Honan indicated that his data, which was unfortunately not backed up, was likely lost for good, it got us wondering about what exactly happens when a remote wipe is triggered via iCloud. How does the process work? Does it wipe all drives connected to the Mac or just the system drive? Is the…

If you’ve upgraded to Mountain Lion, you may be seeing one of these screens every time you open Apple’s document-creation programs (such as Pages or TextEdit): The applications want you to confirm whether you’d like to store a new document in iCloud, keep the new file on your Mac, or open an existing file. I…

The Tiffen Company, developer of Photo fx Ultra, has over 70 years of association with professional and amateur photographers. It is with this long legacy of providing optical filters, that allows them to be perfectly suited to deliver digital optical filters to devices such as the iPhone, or in this case the iPad. However, one…

Desk Pets has just released a new member of their line of AppBotts. AppBotts are micro robotic toys that can be controlled with an iPhone. The latest release, the CarBot, also works with iPads and iPod touches. CarBot The free Desk Pets app needed to operate the CarBots can be downloaded here. The package includes an adapter…

The Walgreens iOS app is superbly conceived, easy to use, attractive, and very useful. Need to renew a prescription? Scan the bar code on the bottle, and wait for the text message that it’s ready for pickup. Want some photos printed? Pull them out of the camera roll, click, then pick up the prints at…

The 1.2 update also added the ability to search within in posts, assignments, notes and materials in any course where users have a subscription. The update also improved course sharing through Mail, Messages and Twitter. iTunes U is Apple’s iTunes-based service for viewing lectures and courses from educational institutions. The service offers more than 500,000 videos,…

 To Get Everything You’ll Need to Pay a Provider In the US, to watch absolutely everything on the Internet at NBCOlympics.com, you’ll need a cable or satellite provider which seems eminently unfair since anyone can get a local NBC affiliate with a digital antenna. I can see being prevented from seeing MSNBC or CNBC content, but…

The fix for now, according to Apple, is to follow the company’s best practices guidelines and to use receipt validation where developer’s servers verify through the App Store whether or not the receipt is legit.The developer behind the hack stated on In-AppStore.com,By examining last apple’s statement about in-app purchases in iOS 6, I can say,…

Clueful was developed to address the issue of iOS apps using personal data in ways unbeknownst to the user. Between “locationgate” and the uploading of Address Book data, knowing what your apps are doing with your data seemed like a good idea. Bitdefender rose to the challenge and developed Clueful to analyze your apps and…

Infinite Flight for the iPad is a flight simulator/game for iOS that offers several different kinds of aircraft and airport locations. While seemingly impressive, it has some serious problems compared to its competition. _______________ 30,000 ft. View Flight simulators on the iPad create a difficult proposition for the developer. While a full-blown simulator on the…

Gotta keep my secret identities secret using separate e-mail accounts, you know.So to avoid having to try to find your draft, just touch and hold on the Compose button from any window within the iOS Mail app.When you do, your last saved draft will pop back up, ready to be edited—no sleuthing required. Much better…

Nowadays you sit anywhere you want, first come – first seated. In some theaters the seats are more like a comfy reclining couch and less like a hardback stadium chair. Curtains are history and now we’re bombarded with commercials. But the biggest and, in my humble estimation, best change of all is the food that…

The in-app purchase hack comes from the Russian developer ZonD8o and doesn’t require jailbreaking. Instead, users install two certificates and change their DNS settings to access in-app purchases without paying.Aside from the fact that using the hack to get in-app content without paying is stealing, it also exposes some of your personal information to the…

 Jay Bacal has created an iPad/iPhone/iPod touch app that requires players to think quickly and match common words. Chain of Thought is a free association word chain game A player starts with a lead word and must build on that word until five additional words, from the list provided, have been properly matched.  As an…

That’s a lot of paper! Even so, consumers have reduced the amount of paper they use. In fact, people in North America consumed 20% less paper in 2009 than they did in 2005. A lot of factors could contribute to that decrease including the increased use of plastic, a non-renewable resource. Still, it can be…

I’m using iTunes as an example here, but if you’re on an iOS device, you can also download previously purchased books (from iBooks) or apps (from the App Store).Once you’ve looked through your list, though, you may notice that an item keeps appearing when you wish it wouldn’t. Maybe, for example, you don’t want anyone…