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Wired Product Reviews App: Spark Your Interest

Have you ever bought a crappy product? You know, you buy it, take it home all excited, then when you open it and start using it turns out it sucks. Whether it’s electronics, home appliances, sports equipment or anything else you shop for, chances are you want to know about it before you buy. Well [...]

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New Mobile Typing Method Swype Finally Coming Out, Video Comparison With iPhone Keyboard

I first heard about Swype a year ago when they debuted at the TechCrunch 50, and since then I’ve been eagerly awaiting to see the tech in action. Created by the inventor of the T9 predictive text found in cellphones, the technology was developed because he felt we needed a new text input technique for [...]

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Apple VP Phil Schiller Defends App Store Approval Methods

With the recent headlines of the Facebook iPhone application developer giving up on the app store, as well as beloved Mac developer Rogue Amoeba, we’ve heard little from Apple regarding their issues–until now. Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president for worldwide marketing, recently spoke to Business Week in defense of their app store approval process. He [...]

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Yet another iPhone worm makes the rounds, this one targeting Dutch ING bank users

And the damn that is holding back the worm floodgate seems to be giving way just a little bit. Of course for the vast majority of iPhone users there is still nothing to worry about, which means that yes, this latest threat is once again targeting those that jailbreak. This latest worm goes a little [...]

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Dexim P-Flip: a foldable power dock for the iPhone and iPod touch

While browsing around and checking the various feeds the I follow, I found what appears to be a pretty nice iPhone (or iPod touch) accessory. This little gadget is billed as the “world’s first foldable, portable, multi-functional and rechargeable power dock.” Now aside from that sounding like a mouthful, the P-Flip does appear to be [...]

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Apple releases two new iPhones ads, both taking aim at Verizon

It seems that Apple has followed up on their Song and Gift commercials with two more, except these latest seem to be taking direct aim at Verizon. Or more specifically they are taking aim at something that the Verizon network is not capable of doing — allowing the user to make a call and surf [...]

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Procreative Golf 09 App Review: Virtual Caddy

I’ll be the first to admit that I lack any skill in golf whatsoever. Yet there is still something extremely drawing about the game. Whether your hitting the greens for a business meeting, or just trying to relax, golf can be a gateway game to a good time. But if you’re someone who takes golf [...]

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Rumor: iPod Touch with Camera Coming This Spring?

According to The Examiner, an inside source has confirmed that an iPod Touch with camera will be released this spring. The mysterious source also confirmed that the camera-Touch was supposed to be released this past September, but Apple had to pull the camera at the last minute due to manufacturing defects. Apparently, it will contain [...]

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Karuki Game Review: Chalked Full of Fun

Occasionally, I’ll come by a game that’s so incredibly random yet enthralling that it must be played. Usually, the games are very odd in premise and game play but are still addicting. A great example of these types of games is Karuki. Karuki, by Portable Zoo, is hard to categorize under any one category, however [...]

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iGmail app returns to the app store, now at version 2.1 with support for push notifications

I mentioned the iGmail app a while back and received a pretty mixed bad of comments, but personally I liked it because it was not expensive, it offered an overlay that gave me some additional controls to move through my mail easier and because it ran in full screen which gave me a little more [...]

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