iPhone

Five years ago, a BART train rider would have still seen a lot of passengers with mobile devices. However, the specifics have shifted dramatically. Until the last year or so, I could divide most users into two groups. If they had headphones in their ears, they were using an iPod (either a nano or a…

A well thought out tablet and a good support system for delivering content would definitely change things. The leaders of the print industry seem to think so as they scramble to get in bed with nearly any technology that promises a path to the hearts and minds, and therefore wallets of the news reading public.…

This modest app is simplicity itself. Use a two-finger pinch gesture to open the cracker, then the fun begins. The answer to the riddles and anagram is there with a touch of a button, and it’s easy to go back and forth. There are over 50 variations.  The various Christmas music selections played in the background…

Photoshop may be a huge application, but that isn’t stopping Adobe from trying to pack some of that image editing horsepower into your pocket. Photoshop.com Mobile is Adobe’s photo editing app for the iPhone, and users looking for some casual image manipulation tools, it might be just enough. Photoshop.com Mobile doesn’t offer all of the…

Enter your DVD movie redemption code in iTunes.Here’s how to download digital movies that come with DVD and Blu-ray discs: Insert the DVD movie disc in your Mac. iTunes will launch and display a digital movie redemption page. Enter your movie’s digital copy authorization code. You can typically find it on an insert in the…

The Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin mini is a first class desktop speaker system that accepts a wide range of iPods or an iPhone. Two stereo speakers plus synthesized LFE port are included in a beautiful case. One can also connect it to a Mac or PC, via USB, to serve as a desktop speaker system.…

Apple currently boasts of having more than 100,000 apps on the App Store, making the tripling mark more than 300,000, a staggering number of apps. Taking simplistic calculations of 200,000 apps over 365 days (in reality, the App Store has already surpassed the 100,000 mark with most of December still to go), that would mean…

I looked at several of the customizable snow globes in iTunes. Snow Globe Maker allows you to design a static, 2D Snow Globe and, say, e-mail it to friends. Other snow globes got iffy reviews because they didn’t work well. Snow Globe Free is free because it’s laden with ads and pitches. However, this app…

iPhone2,1 identifies the current iPhone 3GS and began appearing in developer’s logs several months ahead of its release, too. The iPhone3,1 identifier first appeared in the iPhone’s firmware back in August, leading to speculation that it would be used with the fourth generation model.Apple isn’t saying what it plans to pack into the next generation…

IvySkin’s ZappakThe charger uses a 3000MA rechargable Smartbattery, includes LED status lights to show the battery’s remaining charge, and has its own built-in USB cable.The Zappak is priced at US$49.99 and is available at the IvySkin Web site. It will be available in retail locations in the coming weeks.

The regulation was waived for Apple after the government determined the impact on privacy would be limited since user identities couldn’t be singled out through the iPhone’s location based services.The process of bringing the iPhone to South Korea has been slow and Apple and KTC have been working for months to get the iPhone into…

iPhone Home button earringsThe earrings are made from actual Home buttons recycled from dead or damaged iPhones. Powerbook Medic says they aren’t shipping until November 23 because of high demand, but that still leaves time to get a set in time for your office holiday party.A set of iPhone Home button earrings costs US$14.95 and…

I am always pleased when I am asked to review products from UNIEA because their products consistently have two things in common with Apple products: they are beautifully designed and of very high quality. The two iPhone and one iPhone/iPod touch cases I am reviewing today did not disappoint. The UNIEA U-Suit Intrecciato Premium Leather…

Here are the questions we asked ourselves: What kind of iPhone and case do you have? Is the iPhone a separate but equal computer for you? If you use the iPhone in a fundamentally different way, how so? Do you try to use the same apps on the iPhone as your Mac — or do…

“A highly reliable source has informed me that Apple has built some prototypes of the next gen iPhone with an RFID reader built in and they have seen it in action,” Einar Rosenberg said in the Linkdin group. “So its not full NFC but its a start for real service discovery and I’m told that…

Apparently one of the phantom sources said that introducing a sub $100 iPhone 3GS is a move to compete with the new Droid smartphone launches.Apple currently offers 16GB and 32GB versions of the iPhone 3GS priced at $199 and $299, and an 8GB iPhone 3G priced at $99. The iPhone 3G includes a still camera…

SigFX Energy in Lewisville, TX sells a full line of cases for the iPhone 3G/3GS (and iPod touch) that have built-in batteries. I have been testing the X-type design which has a 1,200 mAh (milliamp-hour) smart battery. No power is drawn from the iPhone battery until the external battery is depleted. It’s a keeper. Recently,…

According to China Ontrade, it received the midboard part from Foxconn on November 1. Foxconn is one of the companies that builds products for Apple.China Ontrade is also claiming that it has the SIM card tray for the next generation iPhone in stock. The tray is slightly larger than the current version, and the company…

Adobe’s message to iPhone users says “Apple restricts use of technologies required by products like Flash Player. Until Apple eliminates these restrictions, Adobe cannot provide Flash Player for the iPhone or iPod Touch. [sic]”Apple has previously said that Adobe’s Flash Player provides an unacceptable user experience on portable devices because it’s feature limited, power hungry…

I get lost. Like when I was at my first Macworld Expo. My hotel was two blocks from the convention center, but I made a wrong turn somewhere and it took me over two hours to find my hotel. Like when I suddenly found myself at night on a country road in a town I…

Tap the Photos application. Select your Camera Roll or the photo album with the photos you want to share. Tap the Share icon in the lower left corner of your iPhone display. Tap the Share icon (left) to select multiple photos (right) Now tap the photos you want to email. Selected photos show a red…

Users shake their iPhone to activate the iPhone and then use the camera to “scan” the area around them. Fairy Trails App then reveals the fairies and butterflies that can’t be seen with the naked eye, and users tap them to collect them in a jar. The more collected, the more power your detector has…

Adrenalin Golf Online features 72 holes spread across four courses, a real-time physics engine, and three game modes: Classic; Star Hunter, in which players must collect stars before unlocking a hole; and Crazy Challenge, where players can’t exceed a certain number of strokes to complete a course. Online play is included, and players can affect…