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I’ll admit I hadn’t heard of Shortcovers until just recently. However, after visiting their website, it quickly became apparent that they have a great selection of eBooks available in their store, and numerous ways to consume that media, as well. In fact, buying a book through this store allows you… Continue Reading »

Fluttr is a basic arcade action game with the seemingly gentle task of brushing away flowers, bees and such to save a butterfly “... from an explosive end ...” But you don’t control the butterfly; it does its own thing, slowly moving up and down the screen as the landscape… Continue Reading »

FourSquare is a social media application designed to bring people together in the real world, using geolocation and other social media apps. After you register (for free), you can “sign in” to locations around town and it’ll notify your friends (and other FourSquare users) where you are. If you register… Continue Reading »

There’s no shortage of iPhone apps available to keep kids occupied while you wait for your bloomin’ onion to be served. There’s also no shortage of apps available to explain why you shouldn’t be eating a bloomin’ onion. In this review, though, we’ll focus on the kids, and take a… Continue Reading »

You have a map for that, Verizon? Okay, well I see your map, and raise you an app. 100,000 apps, actually. Apple has announced that developers have created over 100,000 apps for the App Store (only a couple hundred of which have anything to do with farting). This is a… Continue Reading »

Apple’s iTunes App Store has reached a very important milestone: 100,000 available applications. In a marketplace where other companies are struggling to get 1,000 applications available for purchase and download, Apple and the developers with accounts have once again risen to the occasion. 100,000 certainly isn’t a small number, and… Continue Reading »

It’s true. There’s a sixth installment in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy. With the death of Douglas Adams in 2001, it seemed the landmark series had reached a less than impressive end with Mostly Harmless, a book which Douglas himself referred to as “bleak.” But is a bleak… Continue Reading »

Are you familiar with Habbo Hotel? The company behind the sensational virtual world, Sulake, Inc., has created a similar pocketsize virtual world for mobile devices known as Bobba (or Bobba Bar for the iPhone version). Bobba has already been out on various smartphones for a few months now, and the… Continue Reading »

The Viper SmartStart System, a new Best Buy exclusive hardware and software combination only available for the iPhone and iPod touch, allows you to do a number of cool things with your iDevice and your car, such as start your car with virtually unlimited range, warm it in winter and… Continue Reading »

The National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (a.k.a. NASDAQ) has surprised many with its new, free official iPhone app. The app, titled NASDAQ Portfolio Manager, allows users to look up various stocks and get access to data in real-time when the market is open. The main app screen features… Continue Reading »