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App Starter Kit – Ten Apps You Need to Download for Your New iPhone

So you’ve got your new iPhone, you’ve activated it with iTunes and now you’re keen to get started – but modern smartphone ownership is all about the apps, and without them there isn’t all that much to do.  But with the App Store brimming with more than 400,000 apps to download, how does a new [...]

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PDF Jailbreak Exploit Fixed with iOS 4.3.4 Update, Out Now

Apple made it quite clear they would be fixing the security hole discovered in Safari soon, and sure enough, here’s iOS 4.3.4 to close it up.  The so-called PDF exploit was recently, um, exploited by hackers to create the jailbreakme.com site, an untethered system which took just seconds to free your phone from Apple’s hold. Syncing [...]

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Top iPhone and iPad Apps Out This Week

Browsing the App Store this weekend?  If so, here are ten applications released recently. Spotify. You may have read about the popular UK music streaming service making its debut in the US, as just about every online source covered it.  You’ll need an invite for the service though.  Free. VirusBarrier. Scan files stored on remote locations or received through [...]

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Ten iOS Games for Nintendo Fans, Part Two

We continue our countdown of ten iOS apps which bear a considerable similarity to some of Nintendo’s famous titles, seeing as the company isn’t planning on releasing the real things any time soon!  You can find Part One of the list here, and the final five below: Want Star Wing? Try Star Battalion. Also known as Star [...]

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UK Apple Store Job Posting Hints at August iPhone 5, We Say It’ll Still Be September

There has been plenty of excitement over a job posting which appeared on a recruitment agency’s board this week, as it called for retail staff to join Apple outlets between the 16th August to the 29th October.  The exact wording made it even more interesting, as it specifically mentioned ‘iPhone sales staff’. Well, you don’t need [...]

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iTunes App Store Prices Shaken Up: UK Loses, Australia Wins

To cope with the fluctuating exchange rates and to keep its international pricing more-or-less inline across the board, Apple has taken the opportunity to adjust the pricing structure of applications inside the App Store. The US pricing remains the same, as does the Euro, however several other countries will see a slight difference in how much [...]

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The iPhone 4 is a 4G Device, at Least According to Some!

As if proof were needed that the promotion of so-called 4G networks in the US was nothing but a bad idea, a Retrevo survey has shown that 34% of iPhone owners think their device is a 4G phone!  It’s a similar story for BlackBerry owners too, of which 24% think their phone is 4G-capable. As both [...]

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Design Changes Coming for Project Magazine Issue 8

Issue number seven of Project Magazine has recently hit the shelves, bringing with it a few design and navigation tweaks, however this is only the beginning as from issue eight the original iPad magazine will be getting a more thorough work-over. Early issues of Project worked well on the iPad, however by the team’s own admission [...]

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Has Do@ Made Mobile Search Interesting?

Search, whether it’s on mobile or the desktop, isn’t very interesting.  I rarely bother with the Google app or the Bing app, and only use iOS’s built-in search to quickly find an app.  It’s not that the applications aren’t good; it’s just I don’t have cause to use them, or know where to find the [...]

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Bowers & Wilkins New C5 Headphones Could Encourage Budget-Stretching

We recently covered ten pairs of headphones suitable for using with your iPhone, most of which were sensibly priced, however Bowers & Wilkins has now entered the fray with these gorgeous but slightly more extravagant in-ear ‘phones. The C5 comes with a true ‘Made for iPhone’ cable with inline controls and a microphone for hands-free use, [...]

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