Beepocalypse: How Apple could improve multi-device reminders
May 17, 2012 – 8:00 pm | No Comment

Today, beloved leader Victor pointed me to this write-up over at Tidbits . Although Joe Kissel’s experience with quite so many devices (nine, I believe) falls a bit into the extremes of iOS/OS X use, the problem of dealing with distributed alarms …

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Orange UK to bundle iPad with iPhone contract
March 15, 2012 – 6:00 pm | No Comment
Orange UK to bundle iPad with iPhone contract

Want to get both a new iPad and an iPhone? If so, it’s time to move to the UK and take advantage of a new bundle offer that Orange UK has come up with . With the offer, customers buy an iPhone and associated contract and get …

Zombie GREE, Inc.
March 15, 2012 – 5:25 pm | No Comment
Zombie GREE, Inc.

Zombie Jombie GREE, Inc. Genre: Games Release Date: March 13, 2012 Save the world against evil humans…with the undead! Yes, they are zombies. Yes, they enjoy a steady diet of brains. And yes, …

Conan O’Brien pokes fun at iPad Retina display
March 12, 2012 – 8:00 pm | No Comment
Conan O’Brien pokes fun at iPad Retina display

Comedian and TBS late night fixture Conan O’Brien wasted no time last week in poking fun at the new iPad. In this short video piece — which borrows from the video shown during the Apple Event last week — O’Brien points out just how “stunning” the Retina display is …

Delivery date for all iPad pre-orders slips to March 19
March 9, 2012 – 9:30 pm | No Comment
Delivery date for all iPad pre-orders slips to March 19

If you’ve been waiting to pre-order the new iPad , you may have just missed the window to grab one that’ll arrive on the March 16 launch date. As of the writing of…

Steve Jobs memorial: A Dawn Redwood in Tompkins Square Park
March 9, 2012 – 6:30 pm | No Comment
Steve Jobs memorial: A Dawn Redwood in Tompkins Square Park

In November of 2011, a Dawn Redwood tree was planted in Tompkins Square Park in the East Village section of New York City in memorial to Steve Jobs. The planting was done by workers for Bette Midler’s New York Restoration Project , and a one-line memorial has…

Zuma’s Revenge! – PopCap
March 9, 2012 – 2:48 am | No Comment
Zuma’s Revenge! – PopCap

Zuma’s Revenge! PopCap Genre: Games Price: $1.99 Release Date: February 27, 2012 Take on the tikis in the ribbeting Zuma® sequel! Survive a newly evolved world of Zuma where evil spirits and tiki…

Intuit releases Lion-compatible Quicken 2007, as promised
March 9, 2012 – 1:05 am | No Comment
Intuit releases Lion-compatible Quicken 2007, as promised

It was late last year that Intuit offered a Christmas olive branch to frustrated Quicken 2007 for Mac customers. The finance software giant promised that it would find a way to make Quicken work on the latest version of OS X; today, it looks like that…

NimbleBit builds a tiny empire of quality freemium apps
March 8, 2012 – 6:00 pm | No Comment
NimbleBit builds a tiny empire of quality freemium apps

NimbleBit’s David Marsh kindly met with me at the Game Developers Conference this week. While he’s not interested in discussing the Zynga/Tiny Tower fiasco (a game he first …

iPad 2 remains in lineup with $399 price point
March 7, 2012 – 7:28 pm | No Comment
iPad 2 remains in lineup with $399 price point

For those wondering about the fate of the iPad 2 , it will be hanging along with its newer iPad sibling . The 32 GB, 64 GB and 3G models have been dropped, and you can get the iPad 2 16 GB Wi-Fi only for $399. New apps such as the just-announced…

Halfbrick working on new iOS game, 1.3 update for Jetpack Joyride
March 6, 2012 – 1:00 pm | No Comment
Halfbrick working on new iOS game, 1.3 update for Jetpack Joyride

Halfbrick Studios ‘ Phil Larsen is a happy guy. Not only has his company scored a huge hit with Fruit Ninja (with over a million copies sold on Xbox Kinect alone), but the studio’s Jetpack Joyride is a hit as …