You need to have a really good gimmick to get people to watch your music video these days, and the alternative rock band Death Cab for Cutie have come up with a fine one. Today (April 5), at 7 PM Eastern time, they’re shooting what appears to be a rather complicated music video, for their new single “You Are a Tourist.” The clever part …
Apps & Web
Is the US State Dept Making a Secret Pro-Democracy App for the Middle East?
Want to wipe your mobile device clean of any incriminating data while simultaneously sending messages to your allies in the struggle for emerging democracies? Turns out, there’ll soon be an app for that.
According to the British Daily Mail newspaper, the US State Department is working on a special app for use in developing democracies …
Facebook for iPhone Now Lets You Un-Friend People Anywhere
Facebook for iPhone just got more lethal. We already know how addicted you guys are to Facebook on the phone. Wanna add a new friend? That’s been around from some time, but now you can un-friend on the go. Imagine that.
The latest update to the app also adds several other features. You’re now able to check out where your friends …
Blocked Number? TrapCall Will Let You Find Out Who’s Calling
Chances are you haven’t been waiting 201 days to find out who was calling under a blocked number. TrapCall, an iPhone app that lets you do that, did spend that long waiting for Apple to approve the nifty functionality, though. World beware, the app’s been unleashed.
TrapCall is an app that lets phone users pretty much unmasks …
New Twitter App Puts Your Followers on the Chopping Block
Tired of sifting through endless droves of tweets that pop up on your feed? If you really don’t care to follow certain people, then let a new Twitter app get rid of them for you–on your Twitter account, that is.
The Grim Tweeper – created by Wesley Zhao, Tess Rinearson, Dan Shipper and Ajay Mehta – allows you to manage your …
Harry Potter Books to Get Digital Release Soon?
It’s taken…well, far too many years, actually, but Harry Potter might finally be getting around to entering the 21st century. The Scotsman newspaper reports that after years ignoring the format, JK Rowling is considering e-book versions of all seven installments of the series that made her name. The newspaper quotes Liz Thomson, editor …
Cablevision Launches iPad App Offering 300 Channels of Live TV
Suddenly, Time Warner Cable’s 32-channel iPad app seems much less controversial. Cablevision has launched a new iPad app called Optimum Live TV, which provides subscribers streaming access to around 300 live channels, with an additional 2000 VoD options available. Subscribers can register three separate iPads to each account, with two …
The New MoMA iPad App: Art Appreciation, Without All the Annoying Museum Stuff
Do you love modern art, but hate all the snobby, faux-intellectual posturing that comes with going to the museum? If you own an iPad, the new MoMA app just might be for you.
Developed in collaboration with noted design agency Rendermonkey (edit: turns out it was developed in-house with an assist from a nice little indie shop called …
Madden Developer Sues EA for Millions in Back Royalties
It’s been a weird year for football fans. The NFL lockout means Sunday’s regular pigskin battles may disappear entirely, or worse, that they’ll be waged by substitute players. It’s even getting strange on the video game front, where sports-play bigwig EA’s adding cautionary concussion mechanics to this year’s edition of their perennial …
Top Five Monday Tech Deals
It’s Monday! Time for some handpicked gadget deals.
Windows 7 Professional Upgrade: $30 for students at Microsoft
What can cost upwards of $200 in a retail store can be had for $30 if you’re a student. And by "student," that means you have a .edu e-mail address. Maybe you’re a teacher or have an alumni e-mail address that ends in
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Who’s Who in the New Green Lantern Trailer
A new trailer for the forthcoming Green Lantern movie debuted at this past weekend’s WonderCon, and it’s packed with Easter eggs for fans of the comics. Here’s a quick guide to the characters we see briefly.
0:18: The tall, skinny guy with red skin and black hair is Sinestro, created by John Broome and Gil Kane in Green Lantern #7 …
Photo Stream: Apple Photo Sharing Service Revealed?
Is Apple planning some sort of social photo sharing application in the next version of iOS?
The team at 9to5 Mac have uncovered evidence of something new called Photo Stream.
Does the name sound familiar? It might well do, if you’ve been using a Mac for a while. Years ago, Apple created a system called Photocast, built into its …