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…

A completely free turn-by-turn navigation app, skobbler,  has just been released for the iPhone. skobbler is powered and continually updated by CloudMade which uses User made maps to keep you from getting lost. What makes this app exciting, other than the fact that it is free, is that the maps provided by CloudMade are completely user made. Users are urged by the company to make maps of their own neighborhood, which joins the OpenStreetMap community. Users using the map can (if they find a mistake), send a report to the community stating that something is amiss or they can fix it themselves; these…

It looks like users will have to be willing to jailbreak their iPhones in order to experience the benefits of the WiFi Application. This really has come at no surprise, as it approaches boundaries that Apple is unwilling to cross. Many apps are rejected everyday but this one really deserves some special mention. The application would work in tandem with a helper app on your Mac and enable iTunes so that your iPhone or iPad could sync wirelessly over the local network. Apple representatives told the creator, while the app does not break any actually rules in  Apple’s Terms and Service agreement…

In a big surprise for iPhone users in search of choice, Apple has approved the third-party Opera Mini app for the iPhone. This version of Opera Mini has been developed specifically for the iPhone and is impressively fast. This is because it compresses data by up to 90 percent before fetching that data to the device, which has the effect of greatly accelerating page load speed (that’s particularly good if you’re on a slower EDGE network). It took Apple – known to reject apps which emulate those it provides – just three weeks to approve Opera Mini for the iPhone. The free Safari replacement is now available…

Skeptics who don’t believe people will use Apple’s iPad to read books may have to rethink their position today, after Amazon showed off a pretty impressive Kindle app for the iPad and other tablet computers. Kindle for tablets is both a reading app and a bookstore, allowing you to instantly purchase books as well providing a fancy-shmancy touch-screen interface for reading them….