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Boy Genius Report claims to have gotten its hands on Apple's Black Friday brochure . Although they had posted another brochure earlier that made less than credible claims of 30% iPod discounts and 25% Mac discounts, BGR claims this newest ad comes from "a pretty credible connect of ours." The ...
Hardware
Apple
It's a rather stunning number from AdMob in an October report . The firm reports on web requests from thousands of sites world wide. In the latest report, Apple has 55% of the domestic Smartphone traffic share, and Android has 20%. Interestingly, the Blackberry share dropped 2% to a 12 percent ...
Mobile
Android
iPhone
Windows Mobile
We've mentioned ScreenSteps from Blue Mango Learning Systems before. A few times, actually . Version 2.7 is coming up quickly, and it's going to have some great new features. There's also a sale this week that I thought was worth mentioning, check the end of the post for details on that.
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Last month a Dutch iPhone user demonstrated how careless jailbreaking can cause trouble. Namely, after finding users who enabled SSH with the phone's default password intact, he sent those phones a message that read, "Your iPhone's been hacked because it's really insecure! Please visit ...
iPhone
iPhone
In 1979, the Apple II Plus was a badass piece of hardware, and the Apple Graphics Tablet was a flashy accessory. At $650US, it let users sketch with a wired stylus. Measuring 3/4 in x 15 1/2 in x 15 3/4 in, the Graphics Tablet was eventually discontinued when the FCC discovered that it caused ...
Hardware
Apple
Apple Tablet
FCC
Mac
As usual for this time of year, Apple has announced a special one-day sale on November 27th, which is Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving). The page on Apple's online store reads:
"Come back to the Apple Online Store the day after Thanksgiving for a special one-day-only holiday ...
Hardware
Apple
Mac
Barcodescan Pro [ iTunes Link ] is an app that uses the autofocus camera of an iPhone running OS 3.1 or better to scan a bar code and provide a variety of information on the product including pictures, high and low prices and more depending upon how much information is in the Barcodescan ...
Online
iPhone
Amazon
This morning, Data Robotics doubled the size of their Drobo storage line with two new products equipped with the proprietary BeyondRAID technology -- the Drobo S and the Drobo Elite.
The Drobo S (at right) is a performance storage device designed to answer the question "Why isn't there a ...
Other
I don't know that I completely agree with this article over at Business Week (technically, last year was our first Christmas with the App Store), but I think the concept is fascinating. Lauren Sherman and her interviewee Retails Systems Research managing partner Paula Rosenblum reason that this ...
iPhone
iPhone
To iPhone or not to iPhone? That is the question on which a number of high-profile app developers are weighing-in. A couple of weeks ago it was Facebook app developer Joe Hewitt and software maker Rogue Amoeba saying they'd had enough of jumping through hoops to be on the iPhone and that ...
Gaming
Gameloft
Android
iPhone
App Store
If there's one thing I like better than pie, it's cake. And if there's a best kind of cake, it's definitely one that's shaped in the form of something geeky. Which means the video above , which shows what seems to be a tasty confection in the form of Apple's Finder icon, hits the spot ...
Software
iTunes
Mac
Zoowawa [US$0.99, iTunes Link ] is a cute app targeted for toddlers between the ages of two and three. Your child is presented with a split screen displaying two animals. Tapping on one of the animals plays the sound that the animal makes.
Each half of the screen can be swiped individually ...
iPhone
iPhone
iPod Touch
You can catch last week's show, the deep dive on the Psystar summary judgment with Lauren, via iTunes or Talkshoe. Granted, it was a bit single-minded compared to our usual attention deficit-driven topic hop, but I enjoyed it!
Tonight, we're going to cover the week in review as we often ...
Hardware
If an angry, perspiring Steve Ballmer took over control of my iPhone and said I could only have one third-party app on it, I know which app I'd keep. EA's Monopoly Here and Now: The World Edition [US$4.99, iTunes Link ] has been my favorite game on the iPhone since it first appeared. Just how ...
iPhone
iPhone
iPod Touch
Just days after receiving final approval from regulators, the iPhone will go on sale this week in South Korea. KT Corp, the country's second largest mobile carrier, began taking orders for the iPhone today, with plans to launch the phone on Saturday, November 28.
Apple has confirmed the KT ...
iPhone
iPhone
Apple
I had the opportunity to speak with the creators of Checkout : an excellent Point of Sale application for the Mac. I've been working with the app for several weeks now and have been thoroughly impressed by it, especially after the developers shared their perspectives. Many thanks to Ed and Dirk ...
Hardware
Mac
My wife and I are unabashed Disneyphiles, so the last two months have been a lot of fun. After my wife taught a tutorial in L.A. last month, we spent a few days at the West Coast properties -- Disneyland and California Adventure . This month, we had some Disney Vacation Club points left over, ...
iPhone
iPhone
Gerald Sinden of the Huffington Post writes that he was given the first production model of the iTablet and 24 hours to play with it. According to his post , its gesture based and sports a 10" screen along with being a phone, albeit a large one.
There will be two cameras in it, and an ...
Other
Apple
Software. It doesn't matter if it's for a Mac or for an iPhone . There are certain qualities we just love, that make an app really stand out to us. As a rough approximation, we call it "Attention to Detail" but there's a lot more going on than just looking at tiny details. It's about ...
Online
I have a couple of Gmail accounts set up with Google Apps , so that Google is hosting my email using my own domain names. While those accounts have been working flawlessly for quite a while, I suddenly ran into issues a few days ago where Apple Mail couldn't pull email from the server. I ...
