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Appletell reviews Scholastic vocabulary apps for iPhone, iPod touch

by Kirk Hiner on Nov 5, 2009 at 11:59 AM

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 »

How Apple got to 100,000 apps, and why it won’t stop

by Kirk Hiner on Nov 5, 2009 at 10:47 AM

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 »

App Store now has more than 100,000 applications available

by Josh Holat on Nov 5, 2009 at 08:42 AM

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 »

Appletell reviews “And Another Thing…” H2G2 audio book for iPhone, iPod touch

by Kirk Hiner on Nov 2, 2009 at 09:21 AM

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 »

Bobba Bar is on its way to the iPhone and iPod touch

by Patrick Lutz on Oct 31, 2009 at 10:22 PM

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 »

Start your car and more from your iPhone with the Viper SmartStart System

by Patrick Lutz on Oct 27, 2009 at 08:49 AM

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 »

NASDAQ launches impressive iPhone app

by Patrick Lutz on Oct 26, 2009 at 10:33 AM

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 »

First iPhone firewall soon to be in Cydia

by Patrick Lutz on Oct 26, 2009 at 09:21 AM

A new iPhone development project has recently surfaced and begun to gain public interest as it is the first ever firewall for the iPhone and iPod touch. This firewall alerts users whenever an application requires use of the App Store (even if it is hidden), access to the internet, and… Continue Reading »

App it Up: Ping!

by Patrick Lutz on Oct 26, 2009 at 06:28 AM

Ping! is an iDevice to iDevice messaging application (similar to BlackBerry Messenger on Blackberry smartphones) that makes use of Apple’s Push Notification service, and is said to be a replacement for SMS or other IM clients. Ping! uses data from a 3G/EDGE or WiFi connection rather than SMS messages, and… Continue Reading »

NASA launches iPhone app

by Patrick Lutz on Oct 24, 2009 at 10:33 AM

Although I don’t really see this being a very useful app on my iPhone, and to most others, I am sure there are some out there who could get a lot of use out of NASA’s new iPhone app. It was developed by the New Media Team at NASA Ames… Continue Reading »

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