One iPhone is fine and dandy for keeping myself in order and offering a great way to procrastinate, but I can’t help but hunger for more – the next big update. Do you remember how excited I was about MMS finally coming to the device? Right now it happens to be OS 4.0. After the release of 4.0 it will�undoubtedly�be ...
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Apple Giving Away $10,000 iTunes Gift Card to Downloader of 10 Billionth Song
“It’s our way of saying thanks.” So says Apple of their newest competitive ruse, the $10,000 10 Billionth Song contest. If you happen to be the lucky fellow who purchases the 10 billionth download from the iTunes store, and you just happen to be over the age of 13 and live in country where iTunes is offered, you’ll be gifted ...
Read More »iPhone Icon Keychains Can’t Multitask Either
These iPhone Icon Keychains might not have any other use but looking cool, but whoever said you needed anything more than that? You won’t be any closer to multitasking and you’ll have a perpetual quartet of e-mail messages waiting for your attention, but the cuteness geeky factor is surely worth it. Yes, yes? A set of three iPhone Icon Keychains ...
Read More »Spelling Out Words with your Mac OS X Dock
Remember in school when you’d waste time by trying to make funny words with your calculator (lol, “boobs”)? We’ve grown up. We’re way past the days of trying to make naughty words on our tools of arithmetic. These days, we’ve turned to our Mac OS X docks for our creative word challenges. Check out some more words after the jump ...
Read More »App Growth: Palm vs Apple
Oh boy. This chart is just TOO GOOD not to post. It shows how long it took Apple to roll out 50,000 applications on its App Store (about 10 months) and compares that to Palm’s turtle-esque growth. After more than ten years, the Palm OS (not to be confused with the Pre’s WebOS) had only ~29,000 apps. What does that ...
Read More »HTC To Ship More Android Devices This Year
Good news for consumers who are looking for a hot cellphone that isn’t an iPhone. HTC is set to release “at least three” new Android devices in 2009. The report comes from a Merrill Lynch technology conference where CEO Peter Chou responded to a question about Android-based devices. This is a good move by HTC. While the T-Mobile G1 is ...
Read More »Apple iPhone OS 3.0 Coming Soon
Next week, on March 17th, Apple will invite several journalists to California to show off a new version of the iPhone OS. It’s rumored to be the 3.0 update, which would bring MMS, copy-and-paste and an improved SDK. Of course, these are all rumors but it’d make sense. Apple is really behind in the game of picture messaging and the ...
Read More »RIM Job: Blackberry App World Demands Your Money
So RIM has officially announced the Blackberry App World. Stupid name, yes, but it should be considered a serious competitor to Apple’s App Store. Similar to the App Store, App World will have some free apps for you to download. But as far as paid apps go, the minimum price a developer can set an app at is $2.99. To ...
Read More »Android Market Finally Gets Paid Apps
The T-Mobile G1 is really enjoying its time in the limelight thanks to it being the only available Android phone at the moment. With that said, it’s taken Google quite awhile to roll out paid apps on the Android Market. This is no good considering that Apple’s App Store is the undisputed king of application shopping. It’s good to see ...
Read More »Editing Sound With Photoshop
You may be used to making music with apps like GarageBand, Logic Pro and Pro Tools. But did you know, that you can use the world’s most popular photo-editing software to manipulate sound? Using a program called Photosounder, John Keston was able to save a piano recording as a bitmap image file. He then loaded it into Photoshop, added some ...
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