Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010
Today in Techland: Steve chats with the amazing Ethan Hawke about the unwavering awesomeness of Gattaca, Gary brought us the new trailer from BioShock 2, and Peter and I ranted and raved about last night’s season premiere of LOST. Missed it? Watch it here on ABC.com and catch up.
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Apple couldn’t thwart Google’s presence on the iPhone forever.
The makers of Mac threw out the proposed Google Voice app for the iPhone a year ago, but apparently forgot to lock the backdoor as the new HTML 5 spec allows iPhoners use of Google Voice through mobile site google.com/voice/m.
The webapp works for any HTML5-supporting …
Monday, Jan. 25, 2010
Today in Techland: The Peter Ha has landed. In San Francisco. To see Apple’s new shiny, shiny tablet. Read more about it here and here. We’ve also got podcasts, apps and a disturbing look at the porn career of Spider-Man. Yeah…
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Ford unveiled its brand new plan to go-go-gadget your car, complete with a voice-activated dashboard, USB ports, an 8-in. touchscreen and thumb-wheel controls. (Basically, it’s a giant iPhone with wheels.)
The My Ford Touch system will replace the traditional car dashboard with two 4.2-in. color LCD screens that flank …
We recently learned about the upcoming Samuel L. Jackson-based iPhone/iPod Touch app called iSamJackson, which lets you bask in the actor’s “charm and attitude.”
Until it’s released sometime this winter though, developer Heatwave Interactive unleashed a new preview on the official website that let you look at the app a little bit …
Twitter founder Jack Dorsey previewed his new tech start up “Square” Wednesday in Paris – a device that allows iPhone and iPod Touch users to accept credit card payments.
Square is named after the small gadget that plugs into the bottom of the iPhone or iPod Touch – an inch-long card reader that can accept card payments …
We’ve gotten iPhone apps from Snoop Dogg, T-Pain and even MC Hammer. But there’s one celebrity iPhone app that will top them all… the Samuel L. Jackson iPhone app.
Today Heatwave Interactive announced that they will be bringing the “timeless wisdom” of Samuel L. “I-like-to-swear-a-lot-in-my-movies” Jackson to iPhones and iPod …
On the off chance that I manage to get out of the office at a reasonable hour, I like to partake in the consumption of a frosty beverage or two to calm the nerves. It might not help me sleep at night, but it’s a wonderful stress reliever. But the problem with living in NYC – and there aren’t very many – is that I never know which …
Twitter is a necessary evil. And so is the iPhone. (But that has nothing to do with this review at all.)
It’s an unholy amalgamation. But so much information is readily available on Twitter that it’s become an undeniable necessity amongst Internet junkies. Like everything else in Apple’s App Store there’s an absurd amount of …
The recession has been kind to movie theaters but rough on DVD retailers. As sales have slowed – with the exception of Blu-rays, which continue to be embraced and adopted at a rapid pace – studios have looked to increasingly creative ways of enhancing the home entertainment experience. That typically means more special features, more …
(*Sorry for that NY Post-style hed; I’ve been in NY all week.)
Apple just approved that Rhapsody app that everyone’s been so excited about. Now anyone with an iPhone or WiFI-connected iPod Touch can get virtually any music they want, streamed to them, wherever they are, whenever they want.
It’s the first time Apple has approved a …
One interesting thing Apple showed off at the Developers’ Conference today was parental controls. With the 3.0 version of iPhone’s OS, which will be disseminated next week, you’ll be able to set your iPhone so that your kid can’t download age-inappropriate content to it.
While I have always found the concept of parental controls …
