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Grooveshark Disappears from the App Store

Grooveshark was at the top of our list of new iPhone and iPad apps released last week, but after a few short days of App Store residency, it has been removed from sale.  For those who aren’t familiar with Grooveshark, it’s a web-based streaming music service along the lines of Spotify. According to a Grooveshark blog [...]

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Nook for iPhone Released

As part of its rebranding program, Barnes & Noble have replaced their B&N eReader app for the iPhone with Nook for iPhone, a variation on the same application that’s available for the iPad.  The new software has several improvements over its predecessor, all of which has been added to the iPad version too. The app remains [...]

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Twentieth Century Small Arms iPhone App Review – Guns Galore

Guns, guns, guns!  Whether the Tigers are playing tonight or not, that’s what this app is all about: guns.  Published by Jourist, the app is listed as being written by Chris McNab, an author with some 20 books under his belt, all based around survival, guns and combat.  With this pedigree, Twentieth Century Small Arms [...]

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Is Sony Right, Is iPhone Gaming Not for ‘Big Boys’?

One of Sony’s latest advertising campaigns for the PSP features Marcus Rivers, a young man who is something on a PSP fan, and who’s job it is to highlight the many great games available for the portable games machine.  Previous ads have taken a dig at gaming on the phone, however the most recent brings [...]

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Looking to Invade Some Privacy? Call Recorder App Will Help You Out

Although the ability to record telephone conversations made with the iPhone has been around for a while, thanks to the likes of Recorder, the service wasn’t available outside of the USA.  This has now changed with the release of Call Recorder, a UK-only call record service. Developed by Sundial Telecom, a provider of ‘hosted telecom services’, [...]

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Montblanc iPhone Pouch is Pure, Understated Style

I have always used a pouch-style case for my iPhone, purely because I like the naked look but still require a degree of protection while the phone is in my pocket or bag.  My current pouch is a FoofPod, which has served me very well, but I often glance jealously at my wife’s official BlackBerry [...]

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O2 Announce iPhone 4 PAYG Tariffs

Just a short while back, Vodafone made their iPhone 4 Pay As You Go Tariffs public, but seeing as the iPhone 4 was out of stock at the time and new allocations disappeared very rapidly, its impact was small.  This hasn’t stopped O2 though, who have gone ahead and added their own PAYG price-plan to [...]

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No-Nudity Playboy HD is Exactly what Hugh and Steve Want, But Do You?

So, Playboy HD, the iPad edition of the world’s best known adult magazine, will be text rather than image driven.  The news that naked ladies won’t be the primary feature of Playboy on the iPad has become huge news around the world, with tech blogs and mainstream press all commenting on the situation.  The reason [...]

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id’s Rage Demoed on iPhone 4

QuakeCon may be known as a massive LAN party for players of Quake and other similar games to attend, but it’s also where id Software get the chance to have a chat with the players, demo their games and hopefully, announce some juicy new ones at the same time. We’re currently right in the middle of [...]

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Ghost in the Machine iPad App Review – You’ll Need Your Psychic Sense of Humor

It was Tawny Kitaen who first introduced me to the Ouija board.  Not her personally you understand, but by way of her role in the mid-80s horror Witchboard, where she rather stupidly decided to use the board on her own, opening herself up to all sorts of problems.  At the risk of sounding like I [...]

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