After months of twiddling their thumbs awaiting the release of an app for the iPhone, Netflix subscribers have finally been rewarded. The alternative movie rental service released its iPhone app last week, bringing more than 17,000 titles in its catalog straight to the pockets of millions of iPhone … [Read more...]
Netflix Gets iPhone and iPod Touch Support
August 26, 2010 by 5 Comments
Netflix have just updated their streaming app, so now you can watch over your iPhone or iPod Touch. If you have Netflix Unlimited, you can watch all of their on-demand content from either you iPad or the smaller devices, manage your queue, and resume watching films where you left off on your TV or … [Read more...]
(i)Pawn: The First Step Toward iPhone Becoming Virtual Gameboard?
August 25, 2010 by 1 Comment
We're not quite sure how they've done it, but the developers of Volumique have created an app that turns your iPhone into a virtual gameboard, recognizing special game pieces when you place them on the screen. … [Read more...]
Faceplant App Lets You Know When it’s Time to Facetime
August 5, 2010 by Leave a Comment
An upcoming app for the iPhone4 will attempt to skirt around one of the slightly annoying hassles of Facetime, actually trying to track down someone who is on a wi-fi network to chat face-to-face. Faceplant works like an instant buddy list for Facetime to show you who's available to chat via a … [Read more...]
iPhone Apps From Your Favorite Game Shows
July 14, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Most of the fun involved with watching a game show comes from playing the game from your couch yourself—and yelling at the contestants for making the wrong move or giving the wrong answer. And thankfully for us couch potatoes, there are plenty of iPhone apps available to play your favorite game … [Read more...]
iPad App Previews Start To Pour In
March 28, 2010 by Leave a Comment
With less than a week to go before the iPad launches, previews of apps destined for the device are starting to pour in. Ambrosia Software (who made my favorite Mac shareware in the late 90s/early 00s) are bringing Aki Mahjong, Mondo Solitaire, and Mr. Sudoku to the iPad. [via TUAW] The … [Read more...]
Quick Guide: One iPhone, Multiple iTunes Accounts
March 25, 2010 by 33 Comments
Did your spouse just download a song you love using his or her own iTunes account and you want to load it on your iPhone? If you're in a household with multiple iTunes accounts and iPhones, it's possible to share content between them, even if they were purchased under different accounts. This … [Read more...]
iPhone Apps Slowly Dropping In Price
March 22, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Analytics group Distimo have released their most recent monthly results, and it looks like apps are slowly getting cheaper! Over the period from December 1 to February 28, the most popular applications dropped 15% on average, with Australia reaping the most benefits, with a 27% decline. They also … [Read more...]
John Gruber Weighs In On Missing iPad Apps
March 9, 2010 by Leave a Comment
We mentioned that Wired raised the point that the iPad seems to be missing some fairly basic apps, a situation that John Gruber of Daring Fireball weighed in on, citing well-informed sources. It's not that they're being recast as widgets, but being left out entirely, as they don't survive the … [Read more...]
iPad Apps
January 27, 2010 by Leave a Comment
The big news, is that all your iPhone apps will work out of the box. It can run in two ways, either at normal size, with the rest of the screen blanked out, or blown up to fill the entire screen. Apps can also be tweaked or made exclusively for the iPad, and to facilitate this, Apple has released … [Read more...]
