Or at least a cynical, funny look at the iPad. Apple takes themselves way too seriously, leaving themselves wide open to parody and merrymaking. The iPad is the latest target to be stripped naked and thrashed to within an inch of its life. The video says it all, so watch, enjoy, and go give your iPad a hug right afterwards. Source: YouTube…
Nothing smarts like losing your shiny, brand spanking new iPhone. You worked and saved to earn the money to buy Apple’s latest hot gadget, then you got wasted one night and it slipped out your pocket on the cab ride home. Well, now there’s a solution. Kind of. Apple has launched the new Find My Phone app (iTunes link), an iPhone app you can install to help find your lost iPhone. That’s right, when you’ve lost your iPhone, there’s an iPhone app for that. Of course, the idea is that you install the app on a friend’s iPhone and head off like Nancy Drew on the hunt for your missing, but more likely stolen iPhone….
Online stock media giant Getty Images is going mobile at last. The Getty Images iPad app is now available on the App Store (iTunes link). This is fantastic news for creative professionals who are most likely always in and out of client offices and previously have had to rely on their laptop or their clients computers for selecting stock artwork on the road. The app allows users to search Getty Images library of over 24 million images, compare images, view and share lightboxes and shake to view random search results. You can even add voice recordings to lightboxes. While the App Store gets filled with…
I used to be so good at Guitar Hero. Back in my day we were scoring our own tracks for GH2 to run on a hacked Playstation 2 and rewiring our controllers with extra strum buttons on the fretboards for wicked awesome two-handed solos. This is the most interested I’ve been in a Guitar Hero clone since then. Having little if anything to do with guitars (nor heroism), Street Orchestra is an app developed by Swedish devs HiQ in a tag team with equally-Swedish ad agency SCP, in an attempt to get the younger generation interested in classical music. Says SCP’s interactive producer Russel Clark: “The mission…
There’s so many fantastic games out there, and so many of these are custom-designed for you to touch and interact with as the action takes place all across the iPad’s lickable 10-inch screen. We’ve taken a little time gaming in our den, and here’s our pick of five great games for iPad. 1. Battle for Wesnoth HD $4.99 This huge strategy/turn-based role-playing game should appeal to Civilization players and has recently been updated for the fifth time. It is a huge sprawling adventure, featuring numerous creatures, monsters and players. The game’s extremely addictive, not least because…
In what is quickly becoming an extremely Apple-centric day, Apple has announced its own app to browse its online store. With a new Mac Mini out today and the iPhone 4 now available for pre-order, Apple is having a big day, although perhaps too big, if the “now you see it, now you don’t” availability of the online Apple Store is anything to go by. Apple’s Apple Store app will allow iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users to browse and make purchases from the Apple Store without negotiating the store online. I’ve always wondered why Apple had never made their own site more accessible to iPhone and iPad users….
Apple’s long suffering under-powered Mac Mini is a strange thing, to say the least. Possibly Apple’s most copied design by other PC manufacturers, true Mac users always saw the Mini as an attempt to offer an easy entry point for dubious Windows exiles. But today the Mini earns its stripes, no longer the Mac lineups only white brethren. The new Mini is thinner, gets its own aluminum unibody and loses the heavy power brick that trailed behind it like a ball and chain. The new Mini also gains an HDMI port, a nod to the many users who have adapted Apple’s smallest offering as a media server. It also gains an…
Oh, George Romero… what happened? On top of the world of horror at one moment with your groundbreaking films filled with the walking dead and social commentary, then you fell into this slump of ripping yourself off but doing it worse than many of those others riding off your success. Night of the [Living] Dead and Dawn of the Dead gave us nightmares for weeks. They still have us looking for all the possible exits of each place we enter just in case there is a sudden outbreak of zombies during our morning coffee. Then Day of the Dead and Land of the Dead came out and were merely OK, and we wont even mention…
The rock don’t stop. Remember the iCade? Of course you do, that’s a stupid question. Possibly one of the finest April Fool’s jokes of 2010, there was speculation that ThinkGeek may in fact go ahead with actually producing the iCade, if only to silence the ranks of howling fans it had garnered. Anyway, it seems while ThinkGeek is content to sit on its gold mine, fellow gamer Hideyoshi Moriya has gone ahead and built his own iCade-like iPad dock, using – what else – an Arduino board. Considering the thing is made of cardboard, it looks sturdy as hell. You best get moving, ThinkGeek. We really, really want…
Do we all remember the Tamagotchi craze in the 90s? Those annoying little digital playthings made up of only a few pixels made my life hell for a good week before I traded mine to a friend for a full tube of Pogs (we were all so cool back then). Well if you were one of those who missed the craze by either being too young or too old, there is another digital cry-box in town and this time its purpose really is just to annoy. The Durex Baby app for the Apple iPhone aims to annoy users, more specifically male users, into buying Durex condoms. It could work, it could not. It doesn’t help that the target market for the…
If you’re an iPhone gamer then you’ll be really, really excited to hear what Final Fantasy developer, Square Enix, has up its sleeve for introduction at next week’s E3 Expo. In development since last year expectation is high for the game, though we know almost nothing about it. Square Enix has already taken big steps into the iPhone arena, introducing nine titles for the platform, including ports of Final Fantasy I and II and Chaos Rings, but has been muttering about a tenth title to rule them all. The move to mobile makes absolute sense for a company whose CEO, Yoichi Wada, last year warned…
Have you ever been to a house and stated in your head “WTF were they thinking?” when judging their design choices? Now with the help of some docking speakers for your iPod/iPhone you can provoke your friends into thinking the same thoughts. The iCrystal by Speakal is a new innovative design as far as docking stations go; backlit Omni directional speakers with an illuminated teardrop giving off a gentle blue light around its rim. They have been compared to alien pods, and its hard not to see why. These orb-like speakers definitely give off the feeling of something that is not from our world. Of…
