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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Lockitize Your Lock Kuhlmanation, LLC
August 9, 2011 – 10:16 am | No Comment
Lockitize Your Lock Kuhlmanation, LLC

Lockitize Your Lock Screen Kuhlmanation, LLC Genre: Utilities Price: $0.99 Release Date: June 24, 2011 #1 in Utilities !!! #27 in Overall App Store !!! Statistics show that the illusion of security adds real security, especially against the annoying nosy casual snooper. Like placing a fake security sign outside your…

Instagram users have uploaded over 150 million photos
August 3, 2011 – 8:00 pm | No Comment
Instagram users have uploaded over 150 million photos

Instagram ‘s 4-person team has announced that the service’s users have posted over 150 million photos . Consider that the free, social photo-sharing service now receives about 1.3 million photos per day — that’s 15 shots …

Epical Funverse
July 28, 2011 – 11:23 am | No Comment
Epical Funverse

Epical Gladiators Funverse Genre: Games Release Date: July 19, 2011 Join the thousands of people who are playing Epic Gladiator every day! Experience the ancient Roman world like never before! Become a gladiatorial manager with epic…

Cool off with an "iPhone 4" fan
July 27, 2011 – 3:45 pm | No Comment
Cool off with an "iPhone 4" fan

Most fake Apple products make us roll our eyes, but this one is cute . Mostly because it’s not trying to be an iPhone. The “shockingly thick” device is actually a personal cooling device, or “fan.” To use it, slide off the real panel and remove the…

Face detection API found in iOS 5 (Updated)
July 26, 2011 – 3:10 pm | No Comment
Face detection API found in iOS 5 (Updated)

9to5 Mac has found references to face detection APIs in the current developer build of iOS 5. The iOS 5-exclusive APIs include CIFaceFeature for identifying a the mouth and eyes in an image of a face. Additionally, CIDetector is a resource within the …

Adobe issues ‘Correction regarding hardware acceleration of Flash Player on Mac OS X Lion’
July 22, 2011 – 3:05 pm | No Comment
Adobe issues ‘Correction regarding hardware acceleration of Flash Player on Mac OS X Lion’

Well it’s nice to see Adobe owning up to an error, even if the correction is buried on the Flash blog and issued as a midnight missive (OK, they’ve amended the tech note as well). Remember when Adobe issued a tech note saying…

Deadlock: Crescent Moon Games
July 22, 2011 – 2:28 pm | No Comment
Deadlock: Crescent Moon Games

Deadlock: Online Crescent Moon Games Genre: Games Release Date: July 21, 2011 From Crescent Moon, makers of the hit titles Aralon: Sword and Shadow and Gears, comes a new breed of Multiplayer…

Mac malware ‘explosion’ missing in action
July 21, 2011 – 11:00 pm | No Comment
Mac malware ‘explosion’ missing in action

The appearance of the MacDefender trojan back in May provoked a lot of back-and-forth between various tech writers (including your humble correspondent ). Was this a sign that the good times were ending? That the Mac platform would come under ever-fiercer attack…

5 Star Yuval Bennun
July 21, 2011 – 10:45 am | No Comment
5 Star Yuval Bennun

5 Star Poker Yuval Bennun Genre: Games Release Date: December 02, 2010 Looking for the best Texas Hold‘Em poker app? Want to play with real people wherever and whenever you want? 5 Star Poker is free today in association with AppAllStar. Download the AppAllStar mobile app and receive a…

OS X 10.7 Lion and Lion Server released. Available Now in Mac App Store
July 20, 2011 – 1:31 pm | No Comment
OS X 10.7 Lion and Lion Server released. Available Now in Mac App Store

If you had today marked off on your Lion release day lottery card, congratulations! Apple has finally released OS X 10.7 Lion and Lion Server. Before you do anything else, make sure you have a backup of your Mac; Time Machine is good, and…