The rumored iPhone 5C and 5S are real, folks. The 6 was a total false flag. Slightly more unexpected was the keeping in place of the iPhone 4S as the free option while the 5 was retired outright. While the 5 was, according to Apple, the most rapidly adopted iPhone, it’s clearly too high-end of […]
In this age of instant communication, where texting is replacing phone calls and now even Facebook private messaging has started to outpace email usage, there remains a small thrill at receiving a personal letter addressed to you through traditional mail. Felt, an app available for iPads, seeks to recapture that sentimental sensation by offering a […]
If Incandescent Workshop’s starship bridge simulator Artemis is an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Sleeping Beast Games’s Spaceteam is Galaxy Quest. While both games have the same premise, that the players are the bridge crew of a sci-fi movie-esque starship, the similarities end there. Spaceteam feels like a combination of the 1980s flashing light game […]
Waiting in line just got a whole lot more fun! The good folks at Cheezburger Network have released a new Android app to view I Can Has Cheezburger?, FAIL Blog, The Daily What, and 44 more of the humor juggernaut’s meme sites. While Cheezburger previously had dedicated apps for a couple of its biggest sites, […]
Roku users got a big surprise late last week when the company provided an unexpected update to its official iOS and Android applications. Previously, the free apps were mainly a secondary remote control for the streaming media player. With this update, announced on the official Roku blog, Roku has added the ability to stream music […]
Everyone and their mother was expecting Apple to release the iPhone 5 today. While that went down as expected, Apple had plenty of surprises. The iPhone 5 is taller and faster than previous models. You can now get a 4″ Retina display on your iPhone 5, running on the same A6 chip that powers the […]
Director Michael Rossato-Bennett of Ximotion Media has announced the release of a fascinating new documentary Alive Inside next week in New York. Alive Inside investigates these questions and the power music has to awaken deeply locked memories. The film follows Dan Cohen, a social worker, who decides on a whim to bring iPods to a […]
Every once in a while, a story comes along so monumentally stupid, so thoroughly and transparently an attention grab, it takes two people to whine about it properly. Such is the case with the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences giving Steve Jobs a special “Trustees Award” Grammy. For this one, it’s going to […]
Spotify, my favorite social music streaming service, announced a new app platform for its desktop client so that third parties can add in functionality. The core of this new platform is Spotify’s “app finder”, designed to bring more information to the fingertips of users, including concerts, lyrics for songs, and reviews of album. This service […]
Apple makes their iTunes Music Match service available to the general public today, after months of beta-testing by developers. Windows and Mac OS X users interested in trying out the subscription-based service need to download iTunes version 10.5.1 first, followed by parting with $25. The release is apparently slightly late, as developers initially saw this […]
