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Thursday, May 28
OMG! Space Ace for iPhone!
GORMLEY, Ontario, Canada – May 28, 2009 – For the first time ever, you can experience Don Bluth's classic arcade game Space Ace, the follow up to the revolutionary Dragon's Lair, on your iPhone or iPod Touch! This release of Don Bluth's legendary ...
Friday, Dec 19
My favorite gadgets of 2008 (a psycho-erotic thriller)
RichardSolo Backup Battery for iPhone/iPod The 1200mAh lithium ion Richard Solo Backup Battery for iPhone/iPod has served me well as a very-pocketable extended battery solution for my iPod Touch. One of the best features is that the battery and the iPod can charge at the same time.
Thursday, Dec 18
Opinion: SimCity for iPhone/iPod Touch is worth $9.99
SimCity for iPhone/iPod Touch [opens iTunes] I downloaded, installed, and played SimCity on my first-generation iPod Touch earlier today and I can tell you that, yes, it’s worth $9.99 if you like the SimCity series of games. I’m a big fan of the franchise, especially SimCity 3000, and the i...
Thursday, Oct 23
Review: Sansa View 16GB
The Sansa View isn’t yet supported by RockBox firmware. This may only be a bummer to folks who have a large collect of music in Ogg Vorbis format, though. If you have an aversion to iTunes lock in, or don’t want to pay the Apple price premium, the Sansa View 16GB is a great digital audio and video...
Tuesday, Oct 14
Five reasons why an Apple netbook is a no-brainer
So why should Apple, in particular, get into netbooks? “Regular” people would probably do the same thing. They’d say, “Oh, this doesn’t have Windows but at least I’ve heard of Apple and I like how it looks.” Plenty of people have at least used a Mac before, too, even if they usually use Windows.
Monday, Oct 13
Apple to test WiBro-enabled devices in Korea?
Wireless provider Korean Telecom reportedly signed a “memorandum of understanding” with Apple to combine “WiBro, a third generation-based communications technology, with Apple’s hit products such as the MacBook laptops and iPod media players,” according to Unwired View.
Sunday, Oct 12
Review: Adrenaline Pool Online for iPhone/iPod Touch
Looking for a good time-waster? Check out Adrenaline Pool Online for the iPhone/iPod Touch. It’s just $4.99, easy to pick up, and features online play. You can play four different games: 8-ball, 9-ball, Straight, and Snooker. Adrenaline Pool Online [Link will open iTunes]
Tuesday, Sep 9
Opinion: Upgrade to the ‘new’ iPod Touch? Eh, not so much
Here’s a comparison chart for the two iPod Touch devices: New iPod Touch Old iPod Touch 802.11b/g Wi-Fi Nike +iPod Maps location-based service Battery Life: 802.11b/g Wi-Fi Maps location-based service Battery Life: Nike + iPod iTunes 8 Genius Compatibility Longer Battery Life
Saturday, Jul 5
Mini Review: ‘Aurora Feint’ for iPhone/iPod Touch
We got a request in last night from one of our readers to try out the free “Aurora Feint” game, available for the iPhone and iPod Touch in the new iTunes App Store. Hey, guess what? It’s an awesome game. It’s kind of like “Columns” meets your favorite RPG. Since I’ve only ever been hooked [...]
Friday, Jun 13
Opinion: AppleTV missing from WWDC; Are its days numbered, or will there be a glorious future?
At the WWDC keynote on Monday, where Jobs introduced the iPhone 3G, he said something similar, but the stool he spoke of only had three legs: Music (iPod+iTunes), iPhone, and Macs. But where’s Apple TV? It wouldn’t be a stretch for Apple to add a wireless controller to the Apple TV that mimic...
Tuesday, Jun 3
Review: Cygnett Unison i-X5 iPod speaker system
The i-X5 system features an iPod dock for charging and syncing, two audio inputs, a built-in 70-watt amp, and each speaker has a 5-inch woofer and 1-inch tweeter. There’s a little credit card-sized remote control and the iPod dock comes with A/V cables to not only feed into the speaker syst...
Wednesday, Apr 16
Review: DLO’s VentMount for iPhone, iPod Touch
The VentMount DLO is a company that makes its fortune manufacturing cool and useful accessories almost exclusively for Apple’s iPod. It makes every imaginable case, dock, cable, you name it. The VentMount is new. It’s a type of case for the iPhone and iPod Touch that clips into your car’s das...
Thursday, Mar 13
Help-Key: How to really jailbreak your 16 or 32GB iPod Touch for 1.1.4
If you’re really happy with your iPod as it is now, you may want to skip this jailbreak. In the Installer app, go to “sources” and install “community sources”, this loads links to the jailbreaking apps into Installer. If it comes up, you’re in 1.1.4, jailbroken, with all the iPod’s new apps, lik...
Tuesday, Mar 11
Review: Richard Solo Smart Backup Battery for iPod
My kingdom for a dead-ass simple way to squeeze a little more juice out of my iPod Touch while I’m gallivanting across the globe living the life of a high-profile technology blogger. I need all the battery life I can get while I’m flying in fancy airplanes to conventions in such exotic locale...
Monday, Mar 10
Review: Otterbox Armor Series iPod Touch case
The Otterbox Armor Series case protects an iPod Touch on all sides with impact-absorbing rubber while allowing use of the touch screen through a thin-but-tough membrane. There’s an external headphone jack that hooks into your iPod’s headphone jack, a rubberized main button, and a belt...
Friday, Feb 29
Patch: Ziphone brings one-touch Jailbreaking to iPhone 1.1.4; Not so much the Touch
When Apple released the 1.1.4 firmware to the iPhone and iPod Touch-owning public earlier in the week, there was much excitement over who was going to be the first to jailbreak it. Well, it turns out it was easy enough to tweak the 1.1.3 jailbreaking apps to do the job; Apple didn’t really make any...
Thursday, Feb 28
Hack the MacBook to have multi-touch, win an iPod Touch
My first impressions have been positive with the Penryn MacBook Pro, but I wonder about the trackpad and why it isn’t bigger. Why does the craptastic MacBook Air have the ginormous trackpad when the workhorse of the line is left with the same trackpad its had for years? And why can’t they mak...
Monday, Jan 14
Apple’s ‘08 Keynote leaked? Highly doubtful but check it out
One More Thing Been brewing for a while YouTube’s been in Apple TV and iPhone/iPod touch: now it’s in iTunes Download YouTube videos straight to iTunes or from iPhone/iPod Touch for later offline viewing (sync back to computer) Coming in iTunes 7.6 and iPhone/iPod Touch 1.3 updates
