Author Archive for Jake Wright

Top 10: Charity Apps to Help You Give For iPhone and iPod Touch

One great thing about the app store is there is no shortage of apps good and bad but this list is all good as it will help you help others. Here is my Top 10 list of charity apps that will help you give assistance to others and some wont cost you a penny but you will still be able to give. Apps like CauseWorld allow you to donate by just simply walking into a store that you normally shop at and with a few taps you have helped someone in need. As always please post your favorite apps in the comments section below.

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Five Unique iPhone Cases

There are tons of different cases on the market for the iPhone but most are about purpose and functionality rather than just about style or appearance. Well here are five cool cases that are different from your traditional everyday case.

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Impress Your Significant Other or Prank Your Friends for Free With iPhone Voice Control

Here is a simple way to show some affection or prank your friends for free all you need is an iPhone with OS 3.0 or greater. In order to do this all you need to is create a new contact and give them whatever name you want like “The most sexist woman alive”, “Best husband in the whole world”, “Biggest dork in the world” or whatever you can come up with to impress or prank someone.

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Free Apps of the Day: Earth Vs Moon, Kascade and Makeout Mania! for iPhone and iPod Touch

Today there is currently three apps that are free for today only. Take a look at the apps below and if any of them interest you be sure to download them before midnight when the price goes back up.

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“Overwhelming” Demand May Limit iPad In-store Pickup

MacDailyNews has reported that shoppers who have placed their pre order today are being told by Apple Store employees that the demand could possibly effect their plans for the very popular in-store pickup option.

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Apple Sells 50,000 iPads in Two Hours? No Camera Connection Kit?

According to Victor Castroll, an analyst with Valcent Financial Apple sold 51,000 iPads in its first two hours of sales. Castroll had predicted before sales were open that Apple would be selling approximately 20,000 iPads per hour. The number of iPads sold is based on two sales made within 30 minutes of each other that had order numbers 10,000 numbers apart.

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Newton’s Balls: Kinetic Physics Newton’s Cradle Simulator Review for iPhone and iPod Touch

Newton’s Balls features realistic physics, great sounds and multi touch functions to operate your Newtons Balls Simulator.

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Color Me! Review for iPhone and iPod Touch

Color Me! a iPhone coloring book at your child’s fingertips offering a unique color wheel and thirty different pictures to color. You can share your newly colored pictures via email or even facebook.

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iPhone OS 3.2 On its Way Soon?

Two updates were posted today for Flickr and Tweetie2 among many others. But there was a little something in these app updates that indicated that a 3.2 OS update is coming soon. Discovered by our very own Editorial Director Chris Duke the updates posted stated that they are both compatible and offered support for the yet to be released 3.2 firmware.

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Apple iPhone and Other Smartphone Makers Are Targeted in Lawsuit

In a recent lawsuit AT&T, Research in Motion and a number of other mobile companies are all the defendant in a patent suit that includes several smartphone related technologies that include email syncing and Bluetooth connectivity. This new lawsuit was filed earlier this month in US District Court in Texas by a company called SmartPhone Technologies LLC.

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Free Apps of the Day: Flaboo!, Bomb Master Physics Puzzler, Line Up 2, Fly-Flap and Spartacus: Blood and Sand for iPhone and iPod Touch (Updated)

The following three apps are on sale and currently free for today only.

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Apple Removes Rumored iPad Features?

A few weeks ago, some of you might remember hearing about a rumor that the iPad could have a front facing camera. This is a feature that a lot can agree should have been a stock option on the iPad and even on the iPhone. When iPhone 3.2 beta 3 SDK came out Macrumors did some digging around and was able to find that the SDK had a built in API support to test if the iPad had a front facing camera, zoom and a camera flash. This would also help quantify a rumor that the iPhone was soon to have video chat.

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Free Apps of the Day: Alexia Premium, Puzzero, and Reversi Online Tournament for iPhone and iPod Touch

There are three free apps today that are free for today only so take advantage now.

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Malware and Trojan Virus Found on HTC Android Phone From Vodafone

Researcher Pedro Bustamante an employee of Panda Security a Spanish antivirus firm stated they received a new Android based Vodafone that contained malware. When the phone was plugged into a PC with a USB, Panda Cloud Antivirus went off, detecting both an autorun.inf and autorun.exe files as malicious.

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Pocket God: New Update Submitted, PG Figures and a New Pygmy Toy

The boys over a Bolt Creative have just posted some cool stuff on their Pocket God Blog. According to a post from Allen Dye, they have just submitted the most recent update for the world famous PG app. The next episode is called “What’s the Story, Morning Gory?” and should be hitting our iPhones soon. Some hints about what this update will contain are; possible talking pygmy’s, a new story line has been added with the possibly to make your own story. They have also made the story mode editor free and it is no longer DLC but have added a new “Alien World” custom pack to the DLC shop.

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Steve Jobs Ranks 136th Place Among The World’s Billionaires

Steve Jobs CEO of Apple was just ranked in Forbes list of the world’s billionaires in 136th place. Jobs reportedly has an approximate net worth of $5.5 billion. His self made fortune comes from his early investments into Apple and Pixar. Pixar was purchased from George Lucas for only $10 Million, Jobs later sold Pixar to Disney in 2006 for $7.4 billion in stock.

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App Updates: Assassin’s Creed II: Multiplayer, BlueCam (Pro), OpenFeint: Free Game of The Day, CauseWorld and Cinq

The following apps just received an update:

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iPhone OS 4.0 Will Have Multitasking Capabilities

According to a post made today by AppleInsider the 4.0 OS update that is scheduled to come out later this year will silence critics and cater to one of the most requested demands of its iPhone users with the addition of multitasking. When the 4.0 software is released, it will finally support the running of several third party applications at the same time on the iPhone. No further specifics were given and no comment was made as to how this will affect battery life another top concern of iPhone users.

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Mulletizer Review for iPhone and iPod Touch

Mullet, that’s no stinking mullet, now this, this is a mullet. Wow that’s a lot of mullets in one sentence but it’s the theme of the new app Mulletizer. Take a photo or use one from your library to add a cig or maybe a trucker hat or why not a fancy new mullet to all your friends.

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Brothers In Arms 2: Global Front Review for iPhone and iPod Touch

This the second in the BIA series, Brothers in Arms 2: Global Front will take you on an adventure that most have never experienced on the iPhone and iPod Touch, you will drive different vehicles, shoot various weapons all the name of victory traveling the globe fighter enemies from around the world.

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