Many have tried but all have failed to get an app approved that works with BitTorrent. All have failed, that is, until now. IS Drive by Derek Kepner likely made it through the screening process because it didn’t use the no-no word: “Torrent”. Instead, its description on the AppStore page is very innocent: This app allows you to check and manage the downloads in your ImageShack Drive account. For downloaded videos, you can even view thumbnails (if ImageShack is able to provide them). Reading between the lines, the idea is that it has capabilities that some people may use for illegal purposes, but…

Can’t decide what to wear for Halloween this year? Yeah, me neither, and if you’re anything like me, it’s probably because you need something that will also accommodate your phone. Hey, I’m not letting my phone any nearer to my sweaty bod than it needs to be. But, luckily for you, if you plan on being creatively vacant enough to go as Batman this year, has Universal Designs got one hell of a utility belt for you. Featuring a whole lot of places for your crap, the belt has one especially-interesting feature – a pouch that is downright suspiciously iPhone-sized. I suppose any phone will do, though. Besides,…

On any other day, I’d tell you I hate infographics. I’m really, really sick of seeing everything turned into a ‘clever’ set of pie charts. Remember that trend a couple years back where everything was an AfterEffects video where a guy would be talking really fast, and the words would be appearing and zooming around as he was saying them? Yeah, infographics are the new that. Ugh. That being said, this is still interesting data to see, and the little cartoon Steves are adorable. Just like the real thing. Courtesy of BillShrink, have a look at the iPhone’s popularity, why don’t you. Click on the image above…

Though the technology world is admittedly a bit obsessed with Apple, it’s hard to blame them. After all, the Cupertino-based company wouldn’t inspire so much chatter if their products and services were merely ordinary or everyday. Apple seem to have a knack for creating things – both technology and services – that provoke discussion. But why is it that their competitors – everyone from Google, Microsoft and Amazon to Sony and Samsung – fail to inspire the same sort of fevered adoration or initiate industry-changing shockwaves? What lessons are they failing to learn? Here are three things all…

Craft time! Got a spare $100 bill lying around? Of course you do, you’re made of money. Look at you, in your freshly-pressed leisure suit and Italian shoes. Well, don’t dawdle, go get your bill, and play along as designer Enrique Pardo guides you through the how-to of creating your very own origami iPhone stand. You can’t more disregard currency without burning it! Or, like, eating it, I guess. You could do this with a $1 bill, but who would care? Certainly not me, you cheapo….

Microsoft is pretty chuffed with Windows Phone 7 Series, now known as Windows Phone 7, and shortly to be known by everyone else as “that phone I tried before I bought an iPhone”. But wait. That’s premature. It’s unfair to judge Microsoft based on past experiences. Microsoft is pretty sure their product is revolutionary, but holding an internal event where a giant iPhone is carried by pallbearers, indicating that Microsoft believe their new release will bury the iPhone is pretty much the textbook definition of the word premature. Apparently these kinds of internal events are common a large companies,…

I had to poke around for more info on this for a minute, because I honestly didn’t believe it out of hand – Apple, unprecedentedly, is relaxing its application rules for App Store developers. Famously, developers from hither and yon have found themselves frustrated as their apps have been flippantly turned away from the App Store with little or no explanation. But apparently, Apple’s having no more of its own shenanigans. “For the first time we are publishing the App Store Review Guidelines to help developers understand how we review submitted apps,” explains Apple in the statement. “We hope…

Microsoft is bold. In this new ad for Windows Phone 7, a simple promise is made: ‘The revolution is coming’. I don’t want to knock Microsoft. I love Microsoft (…most of the time). Sure, they’re kinda boring and suit-y, but they more often than not make great products, and Windows Phone 7 is shaping up to be one of them, from what I’ve seen. That UI absolutely kills me in the best way. Gorgeously unique. Of course, that alone will not an iPhone-killing OS make (despite certainly helping – pay attention, RIM), so we’ll have to just sit tight and see where this goes. You’d better watch out, Microsoft. Might…

Courtesy of 9 to 5 Mac comes this screenshot which, according to them, is of  an iPad testing next-gen firmware. You’re looking at a ‘Video Call Debug’ screen. Of course, this news comes as a total nap until you remember the simple fact that the iPad doesn’t have a camera, making this (presumably legit) screenshot the first piece of hard – or at least ‘firm’ – evidence supporting the rumoured dual cameras to be included in the next iteration of the iPad. Surely, though, we knew it was destined to happen anyway. Even the iPod Touch (not to mention Apple’s tablet competitors) have cameras now. This screen…

On Thursday several rumor sites posted an article about Plex, a Mac-based media center solution, with some hype about an update on September 1st. Whether they knew it or not, they inadvertently built up some additional rumors about some kind of collaboration with Apple, since their big annual media event is also due September 1st. Well, it turns out that isn’t the case – Apple didn’t buy Plex, Plex didn’t buy Apple and Apple TV isn’t becoming Plex TV. It’s still exciting though – Plex Nine is the new version, rewritten for Mac and with a $4.99 version for iPhone and iPad. Plex sums up the new version…