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Marware’s Eco-runner iPod nano caseThe case is compatible with the Nike + iPod receiver, includes an adjustable band for your arm or wrist, protects the iPod nano’s screen and Click Wheel with a clear vinyl cover, and is available in black, blue or pink.The Eco-runner is priced at US$34.99.

If Gameloft’s NFL 2010 is Rookie of the Year (reviewed separately), Electronic Arts’ Madden NFL 10 is the grizzled veteran, that guy who’s headed for the Hall of Fame on the first ballot but is still playing and having a blast. It’s the videogame football equivalent of Brett Favre, minus the two retirements and un-retirements.…

The current NFL season might be halfway over, but it’s never too late to take a look at the top two contenders for realistic football action on the iPhone: Gameloft’s NFL 2010 and Electronic Arts’ Madden NFL 10 (reviewed separately). Gameloft has done an admirable job of trying to steal some of Madden’s thunder, but…

Soon after I made the $19.99 in-app purchase from Navigon, things began to go awry. Not to worry. The story has a happy ending. First, a brief digression about MobileNavigator itself: When I last wrote about this GPS app, I gave it high marks. And that was before an upgrade that added text-to-speech for street…

Touch Pets Dogs is a free app that lets players choose from one of seven breeds of virtual puppies and nurture and play with their pet. They can also let their puppies interact with other players’ puppies from around the world, with the results of those play dates broadcast on the Touch Pets social network…

The artist involved is Tom Richmond, a MAD magazine contributor and the artist who behind the imagery of Super Capers. According to a blog post he wrote about the rejection, Mr. Richmond began developing the caricatures after Super Capers director Ray Griggs approached him with the idea to create the above-described database. “[Ray Griggs] wanted…

“With Reserve and Pick Up, you can make sure the top things on your list are definitely under the tree. Reserve an iPod or Mac online today and it will be waiting for you to pick up and purchase at an Apple Retail Store from December 15 to 24. You can even have many products…

Take the word ‘pour’ for instance. It lists typical synonyms like ‘flow’ and ‘stream’, and also more arcane words like ‘gush’ and ‘sluice’, and it also offers up the often vague differences. Pour means to bring forth, usually a liquid, the act of bringing forth or dispensing a liquid, as in, “Pour more coffee for…

So the lesson here is that when you take your prototype in and demo it to the big boys, better have lots of lawyers, an iron clad NDA, a pending patent, and maybe even a video of the session. So much for any illusions about Barnes & Noble innovating against Apple. European regulators are not…

Storm8 has some 39 free and paid games on the App Store, ranging from the free Zombies Live, to iMobsters for $19.99. Many of the company’s games have different levels of free versions and versions priced at multiple tiers. Mr. Turner’s attorney, Michael Aschenbrener of Kamber Edelson told MediaPost that the purpose of the lawsuit…

Add the Instapaper bookmarklet to your browser for quick tagging. To tag a Web page for later reading, just click the Read Later bookmarklet in your bookmark bar. The Web page will appear in your Instapaper Read Later list. To see your Instapaper Web page list, head back over to the Instapaper Web site. It’s…

RIM’s stock was hit by a selloff following its earnings report for the August quarter of 2009. The stock hit a high of $88.08 per share prior to its August quarter announcement in September, but those results were considered disappointing in terms of revenue and earnings, and RIM warned that pricing would be weaker in…

Programmers and sysadmins often use BBEdit to write code or scripts. As a result, it’s often handy to have a helpful integration between a GUI text editor and the UNIX shell. That kind of elegant pairing is what makes working with the Mac so much fun. Here are the the three commands that BBEdit can…

In an updated complaint filed in Florida, Psystar said “A declaration by this Court of the legal rights of Apple and Psystar with respect to Psystar computers running Mac OS X Snow Leopard would clarify, to put it bluntly, the legality of Psystar’s business — and would remove the substantial negative effect on Psystar’s business…

Microsoft has been battling declining revenues exacerbated by the economic downturn that manifested in 2008. The company recently reported results for the September quarter that were ahead of analyst expectations, but the company felt the need to further react to its current business levels. In a statement released to PaidContent.org, Microsoft sounded much like Apple…

Apple is also adding more older music-related titles to its catalog such as “The Song Remains the Same,” “U2: Rattle and Hum,” “Buena Vista Social Club,” “Don’t Look Back-Bob Dylan,” John Lennon Imagine,” “Neil Young: Heart of Gold,” “This Is Spinal Tap,” “Purple Rain,” and “The Doors.”The new iTunes Store section looks to be a…

“Apple’s recent 10K forecasts FY10 CapEx increasing a whopping ~70%Y/Y to US$1.9B from FY09’s $1.1B,” Mr. Cihra wrote. “And while we recognize this might just be typical Apple conservatism (e.g., FY09 capex originally seen +36% vs. ultimately reported +5%), we do believe Apply may be in motion on some strategic new infrastructure.” Mr. Cihra also…

Five Minutes to Kill (Yourself) (US$2.99) shines the harsh light of satire on office life, giving players to figure out how to kill themselves before the next boring meeting starts. Things found around the three-story office building include not just staplers and copy machines but also a shark tank, a pack of rabid weasels, and…

For users of Mac OS X 10.5 and above, you can download the binary (avoiding all the fun of compiling it yourself) for both the streaming server and the streaming proxy from the project page. For users of other operating systems, which includes Solaris, Redhat Linux, FreeBSD and others, you can download the source and…

The newspaper reported that fans of Microsoft and Mr. Bieber began lining up on Wednesday, the day before the store opened. Many of those people wanted to be sure they were in time to get their hands on some of those free Justin Bieber tickets – this included one Mac user who there as a…

By that time it’s usually Wednesday or Thursday, and I’m scrambling to write the article, format the photos, then put it all together in Dreamweaver before publishing it for edit and review. As Bryan or Jeff will attest, I often don’t get the article finished until late Friday afternoon. This Friday will be a bit…

Some claim to have seen this video before, but I never have. Imagine Steve Ballmer, back at the release of Windows 1.0, circa 1985, that’s Windows 1.0!, showing the Microsoft troops how to sell Windows. Warning: no matter how bad you think this is going to be, it’s far worse. Have your finger on the…

Almost every writer experiences a time when the essential seed of an idea is lacking, and the author can’t proceed. It’s a time of great frustration. The goal of Writer’s Block Buster is to carry the writer through the process of creating people, places and things and then let the app suggest interactions that might…

ICANN is the organization that’s responsible for managing identifying codes on the Internet including domains and country codes.”The coming introduction of non-Latin characters represents the biggest technical change to the Internet since it was created four decades ago,” commented ICANN chairman Peter Dengate Thrush. “Right now Internet address endings are limited to Latin characters –…