Apple iPhone/iPod touch/iPad

10 essential drawing apps for the iPad

August 31, 2010

Digital finger painting while on the go got its start on the iPhone but with the arrival of the iPad, the idea has really taken off. Now, bunches of drawing apps live on the App Store’s shelves. There‘s almost no limit to what some of these apps can do, with features such as dozens of [...]

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Apple iBooks and Amazon Kindle iPad Apps Face-to-Face

June 23, 2010

Poor Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Almost from the day Apple’s iPad made its splashy debut, you just knew the e-book readers from the other guys were about to head down the path of extinction. To no one’s surprise, yesterday Amazon cut its Kindle reader’s price to $189 down from $259. At the same time, Barnes [...]

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10 tasty iPad apps for writers

May 28, 2010

If you’re a writer, the first iPad app you probably downloaded was Pages, Apple’s word processing app. Now, what else do you need? Here are 10 tasty treats you’ll want in your digital lunch box: 1. Adobe Ideas 1.0 for iPad – When inspiration strikes while you’re out and about, Adobe Ideas is a good [...]

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Tweet and be seen

December 1, 2009

I think augmented reality for smartphones like the iPhone 3GS is very, very cool. Now, comes Twitter 360, a new app that enables you to visualize your Twitter friends who are located near you using AR (it works in combination with the iPhone’s camera). It’s one of the first apps to use Twitter’s new geotagging [...]

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Pizza Hut tops list of brand apps with 1 million downloads, says Forbes Magazine

November 30, 2009

Forbes Magazine named the Pizza Hut iPhone app the #1 Branded Mobile Application of 2009 in an article released this week. In 2009, the Pizza Hut iPhone app also was named the winner of two MMA awards for Best Mobile Display Campaign and Best Emerging Technology Campaign in North America, as well as an OMMA [...]

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UrbanSpoon’s update augments reality

October 15, 2009

Add the popular (and free) UrbanSpoon restaurant finder to the list of iPhone apps to feature augmented reality. Pull up “Scope” to see nearby restaurants. Put an interesting eatery in the crosshairs and tap for details. Remember, augmented reality works only on the iPhone 3GS, which uses GPS, a compass and camera to find your [...]

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Pepsi apologizes, but doesn’t pull scorned app

October 14, 2009

Pepsi has taken fire for it’s AMP Up Before Your [sic] Score, a iPhone cobbled together to help losers who are “tired of looking forward to a night out with the ladies, only to wind up scuttling home clutching nothing more than [their] limp egos.” Although the pop-maker has apologized on Tweeter (#pepsifail)  for what [...]

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More About AR apps for iPhone and Android

October 4, 2009

Here’s a quick follow up to my post about mobile augmented reality: You can also check out Wikitude, from Mobilizy, which was released Oct. 2, the day of my post. Like Cyclopedia ($1.99), Wikitude overlays onscreen info pulled from Wikipedia. The app also permits you to add your own info. Best yet, it’s free. Wikitude [...]

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Underdog doubleTwist takes on the tyranny of Apple and iTunes

September 30, 2009

Apple intro’ed the Mac with an ad aimed squarely at IBM, typecast as a tyrant, during the 1984 Superbowl that even today seems audacious. Now, doubleTwist, a developer of software that gives users access to iTunes on several different devices, is taking on a tyrannical Apple with an equally audacious ad. Both ads take off [...]

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Don’t let your iPhone or iPod touch or the data stored on it get out of hand

September 16, 2009

Ifrequently get queries from iPhone and iPod touch owners looking for info on how to secure their devices. Personally, I wouldn’t store any info I couldn’t afford to lose on my handheld (or netbook or laptop, for that matter). However, if you insist on storing sensitive data on your iPhone/iPod touch, a number of companies [...]

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