Bogus Apps in App Store Promise Live Wallpapers, Deliver Crap & Demands For Refunds
Looks like a cool app, right? “Live Wallpapers – Living Animated Lock & Home Screen” is an app that promises to give iPhone and iPad users animated lock and home screens a’la Android. However, for your 99 cents [UPDATE – it’s been changed to $1.99 as of this afternoon], you …
iSource iPad mini Case Roundup
I think there’s far more reason to put the iPad mini in a case than there ever has been for the full-sized 9.7″ iPad. That reason has everything to do with weight and how I handle iPads. I’m far less likely to need any kind of drop protection because I …
Black Friday Deals for iOS and Mac Fans
Yay – Black Friday is here and we’ve all got an excuse to behave like crazed animals in the rush to acquire more stuff just 24 hours after offering thanks for how much we have. And of course there are a staggering amount of mega deals and sales for iOS …
The 99-Cent DanceGiving Sale
Three of the very best iOS music apps are on sale for $0.99 in celebration of Thanksgiving (and the Blackest of Fridays), and each of them has something different to offer. Groove 2 acts like a digital DJ for your local music library, Track 8 gives music the Metro treatment, …
Happy Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving to all of you in the US and all those who celebrate it. As iOS and Mac fans we’ve had lots to be thankful for this year. Macs with retina displays, a new iPad and a newer new iPad, a smaller iPad, a shiny new iPhone 5, a …
Yikes. Facebook Said to Be Working on Photo Sync for iOS
Here’s something scary to think about for iOS users, reported by Tim Barribeau at everythingiCafe: Facebook wants your photos. All of them. In fact, word is that they’re working on a feature for iOS that’ll do just that — upload each and every photograph you take automatically. It’s a feature …
The One-Handed Smart Cover Grip
I’ve been trying out a different way of holding my iPad mini by using the mini Smart Cover as a make-shift handle. Instead of simply folding the entire cover behind the iPad mini, I’m folding the Smart Cover back, and then collapsing it on top of itself, like an accordion. …
Blackberry 10 Reminds Me Of How Much I Want A Better iPhone Keyboard
Check out this video of the software keyboard on Blackberry 10 devices. You can swipe up to accept text-predicted words, you can swipe down to add numbers and symbols, and you can swipe to delete words. Time will tell if these are simply too many gestures to pack into one …
Cool Things: TwitterTicker for iOS Coming Soon & Looks Interesting
This promo video for the soon to be released TwitterTicker app for iOS is nicely done – and the app itself looks interesting even though the teaser doesn’t give too much away. Here’s a little more about it, from the developer: TwitterTicker is a beautiful passive Twitter client for iOS. …
BookBook for iPhone 5 Looks Like the Ultimate Wallet-Case Combo
That’s the BookBook for iPhone 5, and it’s now available to order for $60. I expected it to simply be taller and camera-holier than the BookBook I used on my iPhone 4S, but it looks like TwelveSouth took the time to optimize the case design for Apple’s newest smartphone. There’s …
Reliably Tether Your iPad to Your iPhone via Bluetooth Personal Hotspot
I wrote about how to reliably use your Personal Hotspot over Wi-Fi, and then found out in a number of subsequent tries that I hadn’t provided a bulletproof solution. Wi-Fi tethering works most of the time, but there are still very strange and very stupid little instances where my iPad …
