#iphoneapps

This Week's Best iPhone Apps

In this week's afterglow-y app roundup: Navigation, given away for nothing! The world's most popular sporting event, parsed! Things, learned by rote! Drinking games, put to shame! Humans, zombified! And more... More »
06/11/10
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By John Herrman
#bp

BP, the Man

From the apparently fantastic Mike Mitchell, cropped for your (HVGA) smartphone wallpapering convenience. For your own crops, here's the full-size source image, in all its spewing glory. More »
06/11/10
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By John Herrman
#humor Click here to read How BP Deals With Office Coffee Spills

How BP Deals With Office Coffee Spills

For God's sake get these people some tippy cups! Then get them to engineer the oil rig equivalent of a tippy cup, and the world will be saved. [UCB via Cajun Boy] More »
Cousteau
06/10/10
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By John Herrman
#security

Should I Worry About the Apple iPad + AT&T Security Breach? (Probably Not.)

Click here to read Should I Worry About the Apple iPad + AT&T Security Breach? (Probably Not.)
AT&T accidentally exposed a whole bunch of iPad customers' email addresses. Oh dear! But wait, I'm an AT&T customer! And I have an iPad! Should I be worried? And what exactly was exposed here? Here's the rundown. Updated. More »
06/09/10
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By John Herrman
#apple Click here to read On Firing Steve Jobs From Apple, 25 Years Later

On Firing Steve Jobs From Apple, 25 Years Later

"I haven't spoken to Steve in 20-odd years," says John Sculley, the former Apple CEO who ejected Jobs from the company in 1985, in an illuminating, slightly painful Daily Beast interview. Hindsight is 20/20, yes, but also cruel. More »
06/09/10
57,85257,852 views on this post, 1,381 new visitors
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By John Herrman
#jailbreak Click here to read iOS 4 Jailbroken Within a Day of First Release

iOS 4 Jailbroken Within a Day of First Release

A Gold Master release of iOS 4 (née iPhone OS) was seeded to developers yesterday. And the next iPhone's software has been surprisingly accommodating to jailbreakers' attempts to crack it wide open. More »
06/08/10
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By John Herrman
#iphone4

Should I Buy an iPhone 4?

The one question Apple never answers at keynotes—their opinion is implicit—is always the most pertinent: Should I buy this new thing? Here's a simple guide: More »
Next Generation
06/07/10
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By John Herrman
#wwdc

What Is iPhone 4's FaceTime Video Chat?

Steve Jobs usually saves the meatiest bit of his keynotes for the end. But WWDC's "One More Thing" was a little tame: FaceTime, a video chat system for iPhone 4. So, what's special about FaceTime, and how does it work? More »
Next Generation
06/07/10
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By John Herrman
#cloud

How a Silly Phone for Teens Reveals Microsoft's Plan for Us All

Despite its mobile prowess, Apple sucks at the internet. But surprisingly it's Microsoft—not Google—that's best positioned for Our Future in the Cloud. Here's why. More »
Feature
06/05/10
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By John Herrman
#iphoneapps

This Week's 10 Best iPhone Apps

In this week's moderately anticipatory app roundup: Long distance charges, eliminated! Text messages, circumvented! Novelty zombie books, adapted! Free music, streamed! Consciousness, conveniently regained! Art, simulated! And much more... More »
06/04/10
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By John Herrman
#privacy

Are Cameras the New Guns? The LAPD Investigates!

06/03/10
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#microsoft

The PC Will Continue to Thrive, Because Everything Is a PC

The question implicit here would have meant something completely different five years ago. But things are changing: computers are shrinking; tablets are knocking; the clouds are forming. The PC will thrive, says Ballmer, because PCs apparently encompass all of this. [Bits] More »
06/03/10
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By John Herrman
#iphoneapps Click here to read Splinter Cell Conviction for iPhone: Stealth!

Splinter Cell Conviction for iPhone: Stealth!

There are games where you blast, and there are game where you sneak. The iPhone has a wide selection of the former, but real stealth games, not so much. Splinter Cell, then, is more than welcome to the App Store. More »
06/01/10
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By John Herrman
#iphoneapps

This Week's 10 Best iPhone Apps

In this week's peacemaking app roundup: Music, gleaned! Court adjourned! Lives, documented! Libraries, kept! Cities, terrorized! Scavenger hunts, organized! Stains, vaporized! And, well, Prince of freakin' Persia. More »
05/28/10
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By John Herrman
#diy

How One Russian Man Is Building His Own Personal Subway System

In a word: Persistence. Partly the traditional, inspiring, one man against all odds type of persistence, but more the obsessive, borderline insane persistence. But whatever, this dude's building his own metro, like a CITY, so I should probably shut up. More »
05/26/10
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By John Herrman
#ipadapps

I'm Still Waiting for a Great iPad Magazine

With the new Wired app, Conde Nast has built, unequivocally, the best magazine for the iPad. And yet I find myself asking, is this it? And will it cost this much? More »
05/26/10
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By John Herrman
#dyson Click here to read What Dyson Does With All Those Unsold Bladeless Fans

What Dyson Does With All Those Unsold Bladeless Fans

Maybe moving $300 fans is harder than Dyson expected, or perhaps Dyson's engineers are just flat out of things to do. Either way, this Rube Goldberg-ian balloon course, made from God knows how many Air Multiplier bladeless fans, is mesmerizing. More »
05/25/10
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By John Herrman
#ipadapps

Air Display: Use Your iPad as a Second Monitor, Without the Pain

The first app to pull this admittedly excellent trick was called iDisplay, but it was slow and buggy. Thankfully, Air Display takes the pain and frustration—and most importantly, the lag—out of using the iPad as a spare monitor. More »
05/25/10
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By John Herrman
#androidapps Click here to read Epicurious, <em>the</em> Recipe App, Finally Makes the Jump to Android

Epicurious, the Recipe App, Finally Makes the Jump to Android

Epicurious is a must-download on any platform its available for, and a sore exclusion on any platform it's not. Today, finally, Epicurious, and its thousands of recipes, is available for free on Android. More »
05/25/10
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By John Herrman
#iphoneapps

Oil Reporter App Makes Sure No Toxic Sludge Goes Unnoticed

Oil Reporter isn't a public shaming campaign for BP—no, that'll take care of itself just fine, thanks. This iPhone app, which lets Gulf Coast residents record every oily bird and patch of ruined swampland, is about fixing things. More »
05/24/10
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By John Herrman
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